Appearance

Body Features

Standing at a respectable 5'6", Ash's body is lithe with muscle acquired from combat training and construction projects. She's athletic but still maintains some supple curves.

Facial Features

Small, heart shaped with large almond eyes and and cupid's bow lips. She has high cheekbones and an aristocratic nose.

Identifying Characteristics

Small pointed ears, slate grey eyes, long auburn hair she keeps in a side-braid most of the time. She has one tattoo in black of a slim, serpentine dragon on her upper left arm, though it is mostly hidden by her gauntlet, and various scars all over her body obtained from fights and construction accidents.

Apparel & Accessories

Ash's curvy but lightly muscled frame is clothed most often in skin tight leather breeches and a soft brown linen slip over which is a lighter brown leather vest. Knee high black boots, a leather gauntlet, and numerous pieces of jewelry complete her everyday look. When traveling, she often wears a forest green cloak she brought with her from the Ukatae Realm, with its hood up.
 
More specifically, Ash wears four long gold earrings on her left ear to signify loved ones lost as is the way in Ukatae culture. The four small hoops above those stand for the family she has left and has swore to protect.

Specialized Equipment

Ash has an Amulet, carved with the Isperium crest, that she keeps on her person at all times. It has multiple enchantments woven into it by her father, a master Ukatae Sorcerer. The chain is carved with tiny runes for protection and location, so she can always be found if it is on her person.

Mentality

Personal history

The Life and Times of Ashtiroth Isperium

Education

Ash received most of her education from mentors in the criminal underworld of the Ukatae Realm. She didn't start any kind of formal learning until she came to Uthrandir, where she apprenticed herself under a Master Sorcerer to learn various magical skills.

Employment

Ash currently owns and runs a brothel called The Black Velvet, located in the Undercity Cove of Gandora. There she mainly works in a supervisory capacity, occasionally performing exotic dances on stage, but her own wares are not completely off the market for the right price.

Morality & Philosophy

Ash has a very complex moral code that even she, herself fails to understand at times. Morally she has no issue with things like murder, theft, prostitution, or torture. However, she does have a sense of right and wrong, of justice. She has an idea of how the world should be, and holds onto that while trying to make it somewhat better for those she cares about.
 
Her philosophy follows something like 'Amor Fati', which means 'love of fate' or more specifically 'love of one's fate'. It is characterized by an acceptance of events or situations that occur in one's life.

person.sexuality

Bisexual

person.gender_identity

Female, She/Her

Known Languages

• Common (English) - Fluent


• Ukatae - Fluent


• Elvish - Some

Personality

Quotes & Catchphrases

• "I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to be.." - Ashtiroth to Lord Sky of the Cobalt


• "The feelings that hurt the most, the emotions that sting the most, are those that are absurd. The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are..." - Ashtiroth to Cole Isperium


• "But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing - of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one's soul a reflection of the partner's moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does the pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing." - Ashtiroth to an anonymous client when asked her thoughts on love

Likes & Dislikes

• Likes: Architecture, sparring, the arts, jewelry (mainly gold), spending time with her brothers.


• Dislikes: Idiocy, arrogance, being ignored, alcohol, her mother or any matronly figure.

Vices & Personality flaws

Fears

• Absence of purpose. She fears having nothing to do and nowhere to go. Living for nothing more than existence terrifies her.


• Becoming like her mother. The way Ash was raised left a lot to be desired, and she is afraid of becoming like her mother. She views the woman as a failure in life because of her class, occupation, and reliance on Ash’s father. This fear is especially present in her mind due to her current occupation.


• The deaths of what family she has left. Abandonment is her biggest fear, as everyone she’s ever cared for has died or left her for one reason or another, so she has severe abandonment issues, and can become possessive and even aggressive with people she comes to care for.

• Ash has issues with impulse control. Her emotions run very strong, and when she desires something, she sees little reason to restrain herself from taking it. This sometimes lands her in more trouble than she can deal with, and makes for easy enemies.


• Ash is also severely touch-starved due to her upbringing, which causes her to crave the touch of others but also flinch away from it. This need can manifest in different small ways, but also in the form of small panic attacks.


• Overprotective of those she cares for, to the point where it can prove a detriment emotionally and physically. She can get emotionally overwrought for long periods if she fails to protect someone she has labeled in her heart as hers, and would seek their continued health even if it hurts her.

Hygiene

Ash is extremely fastidious. She has made it a habit to bathe every other day when possible, and likes to use a soap made from the oil of olives, the fresh scent of which lingers subtly about her person.

Social

Current Residence

Gandora's Undercity