Lady

Marina (a.k.a. Midnight)

Lady, also known as Midnight, was a Soulknife Rogue Changeling. She was a player character in the Smugglers of magic campaign, played by Zoe As a child, she and her little brother were sold into slavery by Orlon. She was also the antagonist of the Hunt the heartless one-shot.

Story

Lady was born as Marina, Orlon her biological father. When she was 4 and her brother Nero was an infant, Changelings took them and raised them as their own, becoming changelings themselves. When she was 10 and her Nero was 6, they had to be smuggled into Bersail as they hadn’t fully grasped shape changing. Either they only missed a couple copper pieces of their debt or the Smugglers of Magic saw more profit in selling them and sold them into slavery. Both of them were sold into prostitution where they were stripped of their names and had their human rights taken away. Her owners renamed her as Midnight. One night Nero sustained injuries that their owners refused to look after because a customer complained about him crying. Marina did her best to take care of him but he would eventually pass away due to medical neglect. From that day on she would repeat the names of the people that put her in that situation as a lullaby, knowing that the day she’d stop would be the day where she had killed them all. At age 13 her freedom was bought by someone, most likely by Vena, claiming that a lady shouldn’t have to endure all that. She renamed herself to be Lady and has from that day on lived to take revenge. She spent some time in Vena's service. Eventually she kind of left Vena's services as his personal dressing doll and was sent to take revenge on the smugglers who sold her into slavery in the first place. She spends some time stalking the orginizations leaders before confronting them.
Lady became a player character of the Smugglers of magiccampaign in its later half, starting from session 12 In short during the campaign Lady joined in on the fight against Orlon, as she tried to get her revenge. Orlon lived however. After finding out Lady and Orlon were blood related she even let him live, though he had to leave the city with his kids. Lady joined the smugglers but also tried to prove herself to Vena simultanously. Lady did eventually prove herself to him through tricking him (while she first got him high), managing to sneakily trick Vena (who underestimated her) into entering a bond magic contract with Lady, which effectively made Vena a slave to her (except for during the final witchhunter attack in the city). In the end Lady was also instrumental in the defeat and death of Vena, though she herself was heartbroken at his death, wishing him to have survived.
After the campaign Lady felt truly alone again. Vena was dead which hit her hard. For a while Lady followed Irial on his adventures, which didn't bring her satisfaction. After that she sought and found Orlon to slightly connect with him and mainly give him money, to give his kids the life she didn't have. Lady her mental state only gets worse over the years, as she never truly gets over the death of Vena. Eventually this grief and mental deterioratian evolves her natural magic. Forcing Lady to split herself in half, literally creating 2 bodies each with half her soul, though still deeply connected. Nero is 1 of the halves, a adult version of her brother who carries all the pain and emotion of their past. While the other half stayed lady, lost her feeling and became heartless. Instead the Heartless went on a everconsuming quest for power. The magic the Heartless possessed also allowed her to steal attributes from worthy opponents she fought, allowing her to gain more and more strength.
Lady went on a years long rampage throughout most of central Aedinia and the Stormrend isles. She traveled by foot causing rumours of her to be spread, she becamse somewhat of an urban legend.
After the events of Hunt the heartless the fused together Lady again sought out Orlon and his family. There she slowly healed the scars of her past a bit by spending time with what could have been her family on the farm they now run. Somewhere Lady also aided Jade in building a wizard's tower in the Demon lands

Character

Personality
Lady had an incredibly twisted youth, being sold into slavery and having to do sex acts from an early age. Lady is a vengeful person. Due to her upbringing, Lady quickly attaches herself to people that do show her even some positive attention. Lady has developed addictions to drugs in order to numb her feelings or have her feel artificially up for a short while.
After the events of the Hunt the heartless one-shot Lady became less angry overall and somewhat calmer. She did keep a lot of her edge, just expressed in a calmer manner.

Some things Lady likes

• Her little brother
• A home cooked meal
• Drugs(if only to just numb her feelings)

Important people

• Orlon, the person who sold Lady and her brother into slavery, and as such her target for revenge. To make things more complicated, Lady discovered that Orlon is also her father (before she got kidnapped and turned changeling). This made the relationship complicated. in the end Lady let Orlon live. He was allowed to leave the city with his children. Later in lie Lady did also Orlon and his children out again on the farm they now had.
• Nero, dead but still impacts her life so much. all her revenge motivations were for him. the thought of her younger brother will probably never leave Lady.
• Vena, Lady ended in Vena his service when she was sold. she developed an incredibly unhealthy relationship with Vena, desperatly trying to prove herself to him, but him simply seeing her as nothing but a little pet project. Eventually this led Lady to go against Vena while still hoping to prove herself. When Lady actually managed to trick and enslave Vena with a magic bond, only then did Vena acknowledge her, but this time more as a threat. In the end though they were enemies at that point, when Vena died Lady was still heartbroken by it.
• Irial, the person in the Smugglers who reached out for her, she was in such a bad spot at the time she immediatly attached to him. though Irial denied romantic feelings for Lady, the 2 did become good friends. though eventually Irial did leave on his own quest, which upset lady, yet again she was alone.

Appearance

Lady was a very short and underweight woman due to poor conditions in her childhood. She had extremely pale skin as changelings do. Lady being a changeling could change her appearance at will. Her clothes were most of the time unimportant, opting for something simple she'd steal for example.

Skills

Arobatic warrior
they are an incredibly dexterous fighter, using their speed and agility to be incredibly deadly. Additionaly she uses the same dexterity to also be incredibly stealthy when needed.
Shapechanging
Lady is skilled with her shapechanging. She not only can do it fast and precice, pushing it to its limits. Additionaly and mainly, Lady is skilled at using her shapechanging. She knows how to use it to her advantage, being a skilled actor and having practiced her voice intonations to be able to mimic people even better.
Magic items
Lady has collected a couple usefull magic items she collected

1. Dagger of venom. Next to the psionic daggers Lady commonly uses, shad also has a dagger which magically summons poison along its blade.
2. Cloak of many Fashions. To aid lady further in her shapechanging, she has a set of clothing which can morph alongside her.
3. Boots of speed. Lady wears a pair of boots which greatly increase her running speed while active.
4. Pouch of holding. A small pouch which carries a lot more than it appears.

Psionic magic
Lady her hardship through her life caused her to develop natural psionic magic, which she uses to fight. the primary application is to summon blades that don't hurt the body but rather strike the mind directly when hit by them. Another application of Lady her magic is to boost her own mind, temporarily increasing her general skill capabilities at the expense of her own mind.
After the Smugglers of Magic Lady her magic developed further. Things like being able to teleport to thrown blades and being able to tap into other people their minds (used initially to turn herself effectively invisible temporarily by making their brains not percieve her.)
More importantly her magic also developed in a negative way. The grief of everything caused Lady her natural magic to develop negatively at 1 point, the actual final event to this was unknown. Lady her magic split her own body and soul in 2 connected pieces. 1 person took her emotions and weak frail body, while the other took all her strength, physically and magically and is driven by nothing but a desire to grow that strength. The strong and heartless halve also developed the ability to take attributes like physical strength or magic from opponents. This ability only worked after Lady defeated an opponent she believed in her head to be a worthy challenge. After Lady her halves re-united she lost the ability to copy strength from opponents but retained all her copied powers.
Copied powers
While being split, Lady her Heartless halve accrued a variety of strengths through her ability to take from opponents. The magic allowed her to copy both magical abilities and physical attributes, changing her soul and body with each opponent. From strong opponents she gained their physical strength. Lady obtained great fortitude, dexterity and strength, magically fueled far beyond normal limits. Magically Lady also took from opponents greatly increasing her energy reserves existing magical strength and even gaining access to various innate combat spells copied from sorcerers and wizards. The wizards spells she copied instead became innate to her. It shoul be noted the spells she coppied were only combat spells as those were the ones her mind percieved as worthy at the time.

Lady around 18 years of age (year 655)

Current Status

Stalking

Species

Changeling

Date of Birth

5th of Wulf

Year of Birth

637 AC 26 Years old

Pronouns

Whatever

Gender

Woman

Presentation

Feminine

Eyes

White

Hair

White

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

White

Height

141 cm

Weight

Dangerously Underweight