Aranel Liadon

The Ghost in the Shadows

Phantom Aranel Elizabeth Liadon (a.k.a. Ari / Dagger)

Brown, platted hair slightly beside a stoic face. Glinting purple-grey eyes, set far within their sockets, watch quietly over the bustling city streets below. A blade has left a mark reaching from the top of the right eye, running towards thin lips and ending on her chin that leaves a grim reminder of hardships before. The is the face of Aranel Liadon, an expert among armatures when it comes to thieving, a blade in the dark, and a natural born leader . She stands high within the criminal organisations of Remonolith, despite her young age. There's something enigmatic about her, perhaps it's her unique looks or perhaps it's simply her disposition. But nonetheless, people tend to keep their distance when they see her, while spreading stories about her apparent adventures.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Aranel's training has helped her to become highly agile as well allowing her to move quickly to kill a target or traverse terrain. This also means is in a generally healthy condition although slightly underweight due to her still relatively poor lifestyle she keeps.

Body Features

She has pale skin, almost as white as snow, with light freckles across her arms and face. Moreover, her hair is light brown in colour and is often kept up in a plat to avoid it becoming an issue when working. Her most noticeable features would be the magnitude of scars displayed across her body when they are not covered by her clothing.

Identifying Characteristics

After a particularly hard fight during her younger years, Aranel acquired a long and ridged scar from her right eyebrow to just above chin. Following on from this, she developed several other scars over her life however most cannot be seen due to her outfit. She was also born with Heterochromia Iridis, a condition in which one of her eyes is a different colour to her other. This being her right eye being a dark yet almost glowing purple in comparison to her left eye which is a light grey.

Special abilities

Aranel's skills at being a professionally skilled assassin are furthered by the special abilities she was gifted with at birth. Although these are often hidden or used when people will take little notice, her "magic" is still speculated on by not only the public but by her associates as well. These include the ability to blend and become almost invisible in shadow and shade, if she chooses, and the power to teleport short distances. The use of her abilities cause both of her eyes to turn a brighter purple, causing her invisibility to be noticeable unless she closes her eyes; this is useful for inflicting fear within her targets. Overall, she has almost complete control of the shadows he dwells in.

Specialized Equipment

• Shadow glass daggers

• Shortbow

• Starshatter

• Arrows (Quiver of 40)

• Ball Bearings (bag of 1,000)

• Lantern, Hooded

• Pitons (bag of 10)

• Rations (10 days worth)

• Rope, Hempen (50 feet)

• Thieves' Tools

• Waterskin

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Abandoned at birth, Aranel learned to provide for herself; leading her to fight for the basic necessities one needs to live. Having no home, she was forced to sleep on rooftops and in alleyways, exposed to the elements, and endured sickness without the advantage of medicine or a place to recuperate. Due to her situation, she often found herself close to the grim world of criminals and murder. This lead to Aranel being introduced to Elaine Lorimer, an assassin who frequented Alderbridge, who during this fateful encounter, decided she would take her under her wing and teach her the art of death. With her already expansive knowledge of the city and her ever-growing instincts and skills, it did not take long until she was considered one of the criminal worlds most resourceful, and arguably dangerous, assassins the city had ever known. As her skills grew, she was contacted by "The order of the ethereal eye", a shadowy organisation that treads the already blurred line between the light and the dark; an organisation designed to balance the world within the shadows. By any means necessary.
With this invitation and the acknowledgement that her training under Elaine was complete, she parted ways from her mentor and joined the "Ethereal Eye" as one of their most trusted assassins. Her incredible stealth and ghost like abilities used during her partaken contracts earned her the title "Phantom", proving to other members and those in Remonolith that her abilities should be feared. Over the course of her life she has eared a great deal of respect from those within the organisation and those of whom she has come into contact with through other means. And it has been said that those who come into contact with her via deadly means never return.
The life of Aranel Liadon

Gender Identity

Female

Sexuality

Lesbian, Pollyamorous

Education

Due to her poverty and lack of family growing up, Aranel had no legal form of education, instead teaching herself how to read and write using books she had stolen and by associating words, phrases and even objects to those spoken in conversations of Alderbridge's streets. This later changed shortly after her eighteenth with the introduction of her mentor. Being taught under Elaine Lorimer allowed her to learn her own races language of elven and several teachings in murder, forgery, stealth and brief lessons in how to repair her own tools.

Employment

As a teen, Aranel had no real employment, due to her poor lifestyle and lack of real education, until she met Elaine Lorimer. She was then recruited and trained; working under Elaine to complete small heists and assassination targets in the form of merchants and simple civillians. And by doing so, increasing her reputation and employment opportunities as far as being tasked with targeting high members of society. It wasn't until she turned roughly two hundred and twenty that she was presented with the chance to join "The order of the ethereal eye". Currently, Aranel once again takes up the title of apprentice, this time under Grandmaster Katherine Wyverstone.

Accomplishments & Achievements

• As a team, both her and Elaine planned and succeeded in stealing one of the very first power cores ever created in the history of Remonolith; causing a set back in the creation of several technological inventions.

• Aranel managed to take down a small group of four using nothing but a metal cup by crushing the top against a stone wall and wielding at as one would use and wield a knife.

• Although minor in comparison to most, Aranel's biggest achievement is the completion of her training with her ex mentor that allowed her to become the assassin she is now. It was because of this that she learnt multiple techniques as well as several life lessons that aided her in constructing her identity. It was this training that also helped shape her morals.

Failures & Embarrassments

• During her very first week of training, Elaine had tasked her with stealing a Fabergé egg from a wealthy guild master in the city. due to her inexperience with heists such as this, she was caught causing aranel to flee the scene. This inevitably lead to her dropping and smashing the priceless artifact.

• While fixing her crossbow, she broke part of the mekenism that, in turn, caused her to shoot an arrow into her foot.

Intellectual Characteristics

Aranel is seen as a logical person, always having a plan and examining finer details others might miss in order to gain the upper had in a magnitude of situations. This extends to both people and new places in which she will often note the locations of anything valuable—or where such things could be hidden. Additionally, she can be incredibly slow to trust and sees that those who seem the fairest often have the most to hide. Due to her training and line of work, Aranel is an independent person.

Morality & Philosophy

Freedom. She believes in the ideals that chains are meant to be broken, as are those who would forge them and wish to maintain them. Moreover, she is also loyal to a fault to what few friends she has to the point that she would rather abandon her current work to aid them.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Determined to retrieve a sentimental gift from her close friend, Elaine Lorimer; a small but precious "Pocket galaxy" . In addition to this, Aranel is in the mist of paying off an old debt to a colleague of hers in the form of an assassination. The target being Reeve Jaquemin, the merchant guild leader in Carleon. Aside from these, she is also driven to find her birth parents in a need for closure as to why they abandoned her so young; even if it takes most of her life. Even though she is already highly skilled, her most ambitious desire is to become one of, if not the best, assassin in Remonolith's history.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

She is known to be highly experienced when it comes to any number of games involving playing cards. However, is inept when it comes to world knowledge.

Virtues & Personality perks

The vigorous training she was made to endure has aided Aranel in becoming a relatively patient person not only during jobs but in social situations as well. It has further increased her capability to quickly act when others might be to slow to or incapable to - leading her to have a high sense of determination.

Vices & Personality flaws

Aranel's determination also causes her to become sometimes reckless, especially when the task is one she is passionate about or is personal to her. Additionally, her often blunt nature of speaking can cause people to assume she is harsh in her nature. People who don't know her generally avoid her if they when they can. Her skill set and logical mind set also give people the impression that she is arrogant- although this cannot be further from the truth.

Hygiene

Irregular bathing schedule due to her line of work.

Social

Contacts & Relations

With her extensive knowledge of the criminal underworld, Aranel has a wide range of reliable and trustworthy contacts who act as liaisons to a network of other criminals and organisations she may need to work with. This allows her to get messages to and from different contacts, even over great distances; specifically, she knows the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and shady sailors who can deliver messages to where they need to go. Her most trusted and reliable contact also comes in the form of her old mentor, Elaine Lorimer, the two sharing a close bond with one another and are know to contact one another frequently whenever apart, whether it be for information on targets or idle conversation.

Social Aptitude

Comes across extremely charismatic and flirty once she is used to the company, or around those whom she's comfortable with. Is also sarcastic and will often tease others in an attempt to rile them up and goad a reaction from them. Will make herself comfortable in the corners of rooms or in the rafters; anywhere where she can see the entirety of the room.

Hobbies & Pets

Aranel has a pet dragon, by the name of Arronax, that is made entirely of clock work and complex mechanisms. Unlike most contraptions in the world however, it runs solely on magic and even had the ability to produce flames much like that of a real dragon. He was built by a master craftsman in Alderbridge itself however it was stolen by Aranel in a bid to reclaim a debt he owed to her contractor. It as also her reward for the same job.

Clockwork Steampunk Dragon by mbielaczyc

Wealth & Financial state

Aranel lives a relatively poor lifestyle, going without any of the comforts available to secure residents. Many of her lodgings range from dosshouses to common, and often cheap, rooms above taverns; or even the streets themselves. Although she still benefits from the city's mandatory legal protections, Aranel still has to contend with the same violence, crime, and disease that she has been brought up around.
Any clothes or tools that are frequently used are often stolen from merchants or unsuspecting residents. This included anything from gold to food to help her get through the another week. Due to her high status in "The Ethereal Eye", she does in fact have a large some of money, a wide variety of tools at her disposal, along with her own residence somewhere in Alderbridge. However, she chooses not to use them and instead relies on her own wealth and supplies through habit; this is only ignored when she travels to other towns or cities.

Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Current Location

Alderbridge

Honorary & Occupational Titles

• The Phantom of Alder

• Phantom

• The Ethereal Phantom

• ShadowBringer

Year of Birth

3020 250 Years old

Circumstances of Birth

Unknown

Birthplace

Unknown

Current Residence

Unknown

Gender

Female

Eyes

Right eye: Dark purple/ Left eye: Light grey

Hair

Light brown, Platted

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale white, Scarred

Height

5'3" (160 cm)

Weight

120 lbs

Quotes & Catchphrases

"I'd rather be alone than in the company of arrogance"

"Want you in which way darling? Don't get me wrong, both involve rope, but its an important distinction to make before we procced"

"I notice everything. I just like to act like don't"

Contrary to popular belief, I do know what the rules are. I just don't care.

Known Languages

Common, Elvish