SeaElf - Lessia Cyanathan - guardian of the Bay

[myrtussa]

Full Name: Lessia Cyanathan
Age: 197
Classes: Rogue
(possible taking a few levels of Monk if adviceable?? - don´t understand your
multiclass policy - sorry -but if it involves cdq I would like this to be a possible step)

Race: Elf
Subrace: SeaElf
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Favoured Weapon: Throwing Daggers and Trident (throwing spear / throwing tridents??)
Deity: Shindaleria
Bio/Description:

Lessia Cyanathan
(almost: Lesiathaniela Cyanathanenrulla in original language)
Meaning: Lessley of the Guardians of the Cyan Bay

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(The quick Summary of the background

One of the prettiest girls who did not want to just become wife of some of the handsome surfer
boys of the Bay. An ultraquick, dexterious and slim SeaElf turning into an almost assasin like
fighter for the good, missing the oceans, her lover and her family. Original naive, stupid and
beautiful - going political, religious and extremist.
Slogan: "Let´s scrape out this Blood and his scum so we all can go home and live happily ever
after"
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Destiny
(stuff I would like to develope through play of this character also in coop with GM if possible)

Destiny Personal: To be so desillusioned by the too long and hard war against Sinthar that she
goes into seclusion for a long time, forgetting family, adventure companions AND lover.
Emerges afterwards as a nun of Shindaleria, teaching mankind the way of the ocaeans.
(this is the long story, meaning that I as a player will refrain from playing this character at least
for 3 months after reaching lvl10-15 somewhere).

Destiny Social: To meet a non-Sea lover that makes her want to stay closer to the mainland, and
come out of the seclusion. (I will try to slowly weave her into a few good men).

Destiny MainPlot (my idea for Gm-led Quest): To plan, quest and explore the nature of a large
waterbased creature, gather a large party of thrusty companions and kill it and regret it
afterwards - blame all the others and go into seclusion. (Leading up to the Non-Game time)


Lessia Cyanathan
(almost: Lesiathaniela Cyanathanenrulla in original language)
Meaning: Lessley of the Guardians of the Cyan Bay


Family
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Lessia is from an ordinary family, which loved her and brought her up.
They have not been killed by evil men nor dwarves, and have never heard about Blood or
Sinthar. She is an ordinary elfgirl, but she is a SeaElf, and her destiny was going to differ from
the rest of her siblings guarding the Bay of Cyan.


A girl of style, delicacy and humour
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Lessia began her young life as any other pretty and tough SeaElf girl,
- as a surfer.
She was enjoying life, learning the power of the deep Sea and meeting important contacts in the
Bay, like the most intelligent of the dolphins and whales.
She dated the most handsome of the male surfers. Although surfers might sound odd and
classy, it was not. It is an important activity for young elves to meet mates and establish a
relationship with the deep oceans, its inhabitants and its powers in their own way.
SeaElves do not surf on wooden boards or fletched plant-structures. It is a way to cross the bay
of Cyan together with a dolphin. It is done with style, and it is done with humour.
This encompasses Lessia up to this day. Everything, even talking or fighting, should be done
with style. She always tries to keep herself on top of the situation, both literally and more
tacticly speaking. This does not mean she needs to be the focus of any conversation or even
take part in a battle. For the more subtle and backdrawn SeaElves it is more a question of
listening, moving and enjoying.


The call of the Dragon
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There were no disaster, there were no killing of her family.
There were no demons and no Gods that brought Lessia to the continent of Men and
earthwalkers.
After 100 of years in the waves and the sea, she got more and more thoughtful,
was this it? was this the meaning of it all? she had heard of the problem of the Sharks, the
killing of the clerics, the "war of Mist" (as the SeaElves refer to it).

drawing close to her womanhood by elven standards, she knew she would not
become a family woman, bringing a lot of new guardians of the bay to the world.
she wanted something else. And she started her training..

She went to Shindaleria. She prayed. She dreamed. She almost drowned herself.
Wanting something to live for - something to die for

Then came the call of the Dragon, and she could see her faith.
A holy warrior, like fresh breeze, a volunteer, from the naked cliffs of the ocean
to the land of the airbreathers and iron clothes.

(The choice of the rogue class is more compatible with the feats, profiencies and interests as far
as I see a fighting follower of Shindaleria would need, knowing she was to go to the lands of the
airbreathers).

[myrtussa]

A more game-technical overview:
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I discovered that trident and spear is in conflict with the Rogue class.
That means I could settle for quarterstaff and daggers if this is a system-problem.
Personally I do not see the problem of using spear or trident, as long as Lessia is limited strictly to these 5 weapon types.

weapon profeciency advanced (you tell me):
dagger, throwing dagger, normal spear, trident, quarterstaff

weapon profeciency simple (you choose):
dagger, throwing dagger, quarterstaff

Lessia will focus (and I as player will limit) her Roguelike skills to these:
Heal, Hide, Move Silently, Parry, Lore (maybe limited?), (Use Magic Device)

These skills would be out of character (NOT used):
Pick Pocket, Set Trap, Disable Trap, Open Lock,

These skills would be difficult to do for a creature used to ocean environment:
(and therefore I would prefer NOT to be able to use them during the game)

Listen (maybe under water, but difficult to simulate)
Persuade (language barrier)
Search (difficult in alien environment)
Spot (difficult in alien environment)


I want to keep the class features:
Sneak Attack
Evasion
Uncanny Dodge

I recon I am going for the following skills/feats though the levels:
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Dodge
Mobility
Improved Initiative
Superior Initiative

Weapons
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Weapon Finesse
Weapon Focus (either throwing daggers, trident or quarterstaff)
Power Attack
Cleave
Improved Critical
Point Blank Shot (with the daggers? if this is appropriate)

Unarmed Combat
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unarmed strike
improved unarmed combat
deflect arrow

circle kick
spring attack
stealthy



Special Features would on first hand to include:
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Skill Mastery:
Slippery Mind (-"Mind like the ocean")

[myrtussa]

for the record here is names for the family of Cyanathan

father (sub-commander of the guardians of the bay): Camthalion Cir
mother (cleric of Shindaleria): Eldanára Fëfalas

elder twin sister (water ranger): Celebriän Carnesîr
elder twin sister (water ranger): Eärlindë Séregon
me (rogue) : Lessia is the third twin
of three sisters born on the same shining dawn of a summermorning.

younger twin brother (hunter): Lenwë AncalÃmon
younger twin brother (hunter): DÃnendal Melwasúl

younger sister (not youngest - no class as yet): Lúthien Calmcacil

youngest brother (maybe falling into the hands of followers of the mist): Lólindir Eluchan

(the twinthing is not a way to be able to make identical characters if this one dies, but just a funny idea that twins and three at a time is more common by SeaElves than others - like fish?)

[myrtussa]

The Bay of Cyan should be somewhere calm and quiet.
I was thinking of somewhere close to the Glittering Sea.

[Dezza]

Well you certainly have put a lot of thought into the build aspects of this character but I have a few things I would like to see and suggest:
We dont promote the build of a character here we focus on RP and let the character develop naturally. You seem to have planned this characters future already. I would suggest you dont worry so much about that but about how your character got to be where they are today. In line with this I would like to see a more clearly expressed bio telling us how you grew up and developed into the person the character is today about to begin their adventuring career.

Some of the things you have stated here appear contridictory and I cannot really see you as a rogue but from your descriptions more of a fighter.

If you are interested in multiclassing to a Monk in future you need to be aware once you go to Monk you can never return to your former class and you will need to show consistant development of your character towards this aspect.

[myrtussa]

about how your character got to be where they are today
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short:
a beautiful, selfcontent, materialistic young Seaelfmaiden
is wrecked by a potential lover and gets involved in renewal
through a tempeldancer course where she ended up training dexterious skills
in the tempel of Shindaleria and did various messenger mission for them
through this taste of travelling she discovered the truth about all the
evil in the world and started training to fight back also.
she is not a talker, but a mover (an emoter - playwise).
she very idealistic, but have no understanding of more weaker willed people.
a born terrorist. hopefully forever sneaking around hitting hard for Good in this world.


how you grew up and developed into the person the character is today
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(a more clearly expressed bio)

Lessie grew up in a big family.
She was seldom the focus of attention within the family,
a typical elder sister, but not the eldest, meaning that she
was to look after her little brothers and sisters, but not
involved in the family decisionmaking as her other 2 twin sisters.

this developed into reason 1 for her to become an adventurer:
decide for herself, and not ANYONE else in her community decide for her

outside in the SeaElven community of the Bay of Cyan
she was a sexy, slender, girl surfing the waves and getting a lot of
attention to her looks, and very little attention to her intellect
or opinions about the larger community and the tempels of Shindaleria.
She was fond of jewelry and her outward looks. That was were she
got to score social points and rise in her group.
But 1 day when she dated one of the intelligent SeaElven males,
named Jurathan, she wanted to mate, she realised everyone regarded
her as beautiful, materialistic and stupid.
(the night of Jurathan she now regard as the turning point)

reason 2 for her to become an adventurer:
be seen as someone wise, idealistic and intelligent.


first stop: the tempeldancers of Shindaleria
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a great slender beauty and an eager swimmer and diver,
she soon developed a special sense of movement,
like a dancer among the waves.
this interest in movement was what brought her first to
Shindaleria, as some of the tempelkeepers was organising
a dance in tribute of their Goddess.
She realised that dance was the essence of all movement,
and really of all types of communication.
Then she started noticing how people communicated also without words.
By bodylanguage, by facial expression, by small movements a keen watcher
will notice by the corner of her eye.

the inner truth
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from training dance in the tempel
she started her training of movement
and in the training, in the swirling and in the gentle waves of her hands
she found the true meaning of the Goddess in the peace of the endless ocean.

a messenger
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she was often sent out with messages to communities further away
the priestesses could sense that this girl was meant for something else
more often than not she would evade sharks, sneak into caves, both underwater and above
to give the scattered people of the SeaElves messages from their temple.
A messenger she started as.
A messenger of the oceans, of the peace and of the silence.

the discovery of evil in this world
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that seal of silence is long gone
slowly Lessie discovered that there exist greater danger than sneaking past swordfish
in the underwater caves or avoiding aligators in the oceanswamps.
little by little
her anger was awaken
and her inner peace was broken

then came the call of the Dragon
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she was ready
with all her grace, quickness and the vision of the ocean she started a journey
a journey she will walk to the bitter end
she is angry now. very angry. but silent.
like a storm. awakening in the horizon.
in the eyes they can see it. anyone who comes near her.
or when she talks about Good and about the goal of inner peace around
the fires at night with her comrades.

Lessie left the tempel, her community and her family.
She left to defend where she came from, and where she is going.
For her this war is just a middle stop.
She want it all. Career, Family, Homeland Security.

She is tired of being the beautiful, dexterious girl of the waves,
getting all the whistling and the looks from the boys.
She is angry, she has a mission and she is determent.

[Leanthar]

You have clearly spent a lot of time on this and I thank you for that. We do not have a Bay of Cyan defined yet but I think the location you stated could indeed have something like that. If you would like to work on a few paragraphs and send it to either myself or EdTheKet we will get it in to the handbook as a new area--providing what you send works within the world.

Please keep in mind you are CG--not a terrorist sort of character.....Make sure you RP that.

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[myrtussa]

Aaaaah.

Thanx!

After playing AD&D for a long while I know difference between chaotic good and the rest.
they are very idealistic and principal as I see it.
I never play for the fighting anyway.

1 question is how to play the language barrier of SeaElves compared to other elves and the Common tounge.
I think emotes will do for starters. but I might get tired after a few months.
and hope it will be possible to learn a decent amount of common tounge,
at least after awhile.

hugs
hurra !

erlend
(myrtussa)