Leonora

the Wraith-warrior

Leonora Tombborn

Tall, pale and strangely endeering Leonora isn't the typical elf, but a bone-elf the more avage cousins of the tall, bow-wielding carnivores, that stalk the forests. Having no recollection of her past, Leonora has been found by villagers at the edge of the nearby woods. After some time the villagers, in fear of he race, decided to give her to the only one living outside of the villages walls, Visandar.
Having run away from her home Leonora searched for her parents and made herself a living, surviving and becoming a rather competent warrior, armed in full-plate armor and a halberd.
Leonora is strong and determined, though she is still unsure about her origins, not knowing where she came from and what the future might hold for her.

Current teammates:

Visandar - Sonka - Meleran - Sulfuur

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

While seeming slender, Leonora is actually quite strong for an elf, but compared to other bone-elves she is not much more than average. Wearing her full-plate armor, she is trained to endure lots of weight put on her shoulders, especially since she wears her armor a lot. While she is rather slow in her armor, she is surprisingly agile and fast when in her casual clothing.

Body Features

Leonora stands tall, with a healthy bone-elven physique and skin tone, wich is a almost a greyish pale. Her natural bodymarkings are coloured a drak grey and almost remind of a skeleton just with the colours reversed. Her hair is matted and a dark brown and at some points of her body, like her forehead and elbows there are some pieces of bone naturally sticking out. Not to mention are also her natural clwas, wich are a pain to cut and therefore she just sharpens them for greater effect.

Facial Features

Leonora has two pieces of bone jutting out from places near her ear and almost resemble the beginnings of horns sprouting back over her head, of course they are too short for that and are in the ranged of 5 centimteres each.
Leonoras eyes are surrounded by dark patches, wich do not come from a lack of sleeep, but are part of her natural skin markings. These markings also make her cheeks appear rather hollow as they are patches, wich extend from either corner of her mouth. It also seems one of her extremely pronounced canines tents to stick out from her lips, giving her a certain aesthetic.
Her right, secondary ear has a rather large steel-piercing and comes from her time at the caravan, as a certain souvenier.

Identifying Characteristics

Her right, secondary ear has a rather large steel-ring-piercing and comes from her time at the caravan, as a certain souvenier. Her small tooth poking out, in combination with her hair and natural markings it would be hard to kistake her for another one.

Physical quirks

In public, Leonora makes sure to be almost completey covered and if in her fully-body armor she feels very confident and walks as if the world was hers, but if it is her casual clothing, she is rather timid and shy. Her body language changes with the amount of armor and exposure.

Special abilities

While Leonora doesn't exaclty have special abilities per se, she trained to take in her surroundings to a higher degree others would, meaning she concentrates very hard on hearing and smelling everything behind her to avoid incoming attacks. On top of that, once in her armor and with her weapon she is able to fully control the area she can cover with her weapon, hindering enemies and protecting allies. Her sturdiness is only propelled by her heavy armor, wich also benefits from her footwork and technique using the halberd.

Apparel & Accessories

Leonora has a necklace of wooden beads and one black pearl found on her person, after Visandar took her in, it is most likely an item from her parents, wich she keeps on her person all the time, selling it isn't even a question. The other very special accessory Leonora loves are sheets and bandages from wraith silk, most of wich she was found wrapped in as she was found and has accompanied her ever since.

Specialized Equipment

The equipment Leonora adorns herself with mainly consists of her casual clothing, her fully-body armor, her halberd, wich is as long as she is tall, made out of rather heavy metal. On top of that she also has a dagger for close range attacks and her casual safety, as well as a small repair kit for her weapons and armor, small scraps, a wet-stone, a small hammer, the ordinary.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Shortly after her birth, Leonora has been abandoned by her parents and left outside a village, where the local humans decided, that although she was a bone-elf, one of the most feared races in Milodia, it would ward away the bad spirits, that would haunt them, should they kill the child. Treated with distinct apathy, she was given to a family, wich promptly gave her off to the next one and the next. This went on, until the village came to the conclusion to let her lie outside the graveyard for a while to let the problem solve itself. And it surely solved itself. Crying in the night Leonora was found by her new adoptiv efather Visandar, who first, seemed to ponder, but ultimatly decided to take care of her, something nobody in the village would be fond of.
The first weeks and months were difficult, Visandar had to find out what his little banshee should eat and her crying was something that took up most of the day. Eventually a farmer sold some milk and the problem was solved, untile there were the sicknesses. Not about a few weeks after she was taken in, Leonora showed signs of a heavy cough, something that could end up deadly to little children. The mdeical atention given to her was only possible due to the undead nature of her caregiver.
In her childhood Leonora grew up to be a very timid and hurt kid, because noone would willingly deal with her. Learning with the other children and being teached by the village elders, who were also the teachers was something she could only dream of. Listening and eavesdropping at the lessons the others would recieve, Leonora would slowly learn how to read and expand her knowledge, even if it was rather minimal. What she also would do was to train with a stick and pretending to be a powerful warrior, commanding awe and respect in her fellow children.
At the age of 18 the curiosity about her heritage got the better of her and her plans of leaving this cursed village would finally come to fruition, even if it meant to leave her caregiver, one of the few ones who didn't care about her being different, behind. She prepared stealthfully and hid in a merchants caravan in the dead of night. When found she was lucky the merchants allowed her to travel with them in exchange for assistance. The work was hard, but that was worth it, since Leonora actually got some pointers in actual fighting from the caravan guard and devoured he rnew experiences ravenously.
With time she became a skilled fighter and found herself in the life of an adventurer in no time. Her new comrades, didn't reall ymind her being different and as long as she kept her prublic profile down, she was free for the first time to be as she pleased. What was strange were the black feathers she found almost periodically.

Gender Identity

Female, she

Education

Leonora has been teached in the art of guardmenship by her old friend the cravan guard, after she left the caravan she studied and specialized in guarding others, while taking full control of the area around her.

Employment

After Leonora has been an assistant for the caravan for about a year, she hopped off at the next city and started to try and take up jobs wherever she could. While she worked at bakeries, as an asisstant at a local blacksmith and the like, she started to take on jobs as a guard and later protecting small groups of traders, wich needed cheap protection.
After that Leonora searched for more of a challenge, seeking the membership at the local adventurersguild, where she was assigned to a group and ever since took up contracts with her new comrades.

Accomplishments & Achievements

After a lot of work, adventuring and fighting, Leonora has managed to buy herself a full set of tailor-made, fully-body armor. This was in no way cheap and is one of her proudest achievements.
After having been through all of her adventures and downs in her life, Leonora is proud of having made it and actually making herself a living, even a small reputation.

Failures & Embarrassments

Having run away from home Leonora still feels guilty, but she still wouldn't want to change a thing.

Mental Trauma

Leonora struggles with nightmares regarding her parents and her fear of them hating her and wanting nothing to do with their daughter.
From her early childhood Leonora has been axcluded by others and desperatly wants to avoid that in the future.

Intellectual Characteristics

While Leonora insn't as knowledgable as others, she does have more in store, than one would guess. She is quite curious and tries to find knowledge, that will either help her refine her technique and effectiveness, or give hints on her past and elven culture. Reading isn't her favorite thing to do and she would rather learn from first-hand-experiences.

Morality & Philosophy

Leonoras philosphy is, that if you want something you have to work for it. It won't just come to your doorstep and smack you in the face. She also knows how it feels to be ignored and sometimes even outright hated, wich makes her hesitant to do as well with others.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Leonora dreams to inspire awe and respect, while also showing, that race doesn't matter as much as some may think. Something that also drives her forward is her desire to discover her past and maybe ven reunite with her lost family.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Leonora is a highly skilled fighter and knows how to control enemies and help allies within range, opposing superiority upon others and guarding her allies is her main priority, should someone test her knowledge, though, she might be in for a hard time, since her fields of expertise do not tread far from fighting, or her search for her parents. What she is terible at though is to haggle and decieve, her voice starts to shiver and her eyes dart around, she is a terrible liar.

Likes & Dislikes

Leonora loves raw rabbit, some might find it disturbing, but other elves are actually known for pereferring raw meat, as they are in nature carnivores. She is actually a rather big fan of bards and their ability to perform, especially since she herself is a terrible singer, well mediocre, but not in her eyes. She also likes to know she is appreciated.
What she hates are the open discrimination of others and inexplicably, cabbage. There is something about its taste, that Leonora strongly despises.

Virtues & Personality perks

Leonora is a prime example of ambition, having earned herself everythig from the day she left her home, having made herself almost something of a name. She is patient, but doesn't wait for fate to do something for her, she is active and actually quite lovely when you get to know her.

Vices & Personality flaws

While she might look indifferent sometimes, Leonora tends to take the guilt for matters, that aren't hers to decide, she overworries and sometimes doesn't let herself rest. She also is rather dependant on her friends and those she recieves affection from, due to her childhood trauma. Not including her can be very upsetting for Leonora, more than for others in fact.

Personality Quirks

When she laughs, she has something quite childlike and will randomly make grimmaces as she sees fit. She also sometimes makes little drawings, or symbols into wooden furniture when she is bored, her claws are the ones to blame.

Hygiene

Leonora always heeps her armor and weapon in splendid shape,, huge amounts of time after battles is dedicated to restore their bauty once more. Her body hygiene is dependant on her circumstances, but she tries to herself daily, especially after a long day of training/fighting.

Social

Family Ties

Besides er caregiver Visandar, she also sees her friends, the members of her group as an extended family.

Religious Views

As Leonora doesn't know if the gods would even listen to her prayers, she just accepts their assistance and aspires to reach the realms of ancient heroes she has heard of.

Social Aptitude

While wearing her armor she can become quite impressive, confident and even a bit cocky, but as soon as she just wears clothing, or gets talked back to she starts to loose footing and becomes very quite, timid and even a bit afraid. This is mostly the case with open spaces, or large crowds, in small groups she is lovely, laughs around and even tries to joke a bit, wich is often not going so well, since she is rather inept with social interactions.

Mannerisms

While in her armor, Leonora tries to keep up the image of a respected warrior, noone to be messed around with, but as soon as the armor goves way to normal clothing she becomes humble, starts to fidget when nervous, is rather unsure about most things and just tries to be friendly and nice, wich seems like the complete opposite of her warrior-persona.

Hobbies & Pets

Leonora likes to spend her free time training, studying, or simply socializing with her friends. She tries to become better at acting like a heroine, singing and even blacksmithing, but these are more sidegoals.

Speech

As Leonora doesn't want to anger anyone without her armor on, she always tries to compliment rather than reprimand. Her small and sometimes very shy voice, hoever change to a metallic, imposing growl when in her armor, wich offers her protection.

Relationships

Visandar

Adoptive Father (Vital)

Towards Leonora

4

0

Honest

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Leonora

Adoptive Daughter (Important)

Towards Visandar

3

2

Honest

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History

After Leonora was found,the villagers obviously pondered wether to kill this small bone-elf, as they are feared far and wide, so obviously this had to be a sign. The villagers decided that this child should be cared for to avoid the anger of some deity, so they gave it to a nurse, wich quickly gave it to the next and to the next. This went along till noone in the villagers decided to lay it to the graveyard door to either leave it to die, or let someone else take it. Visandar found the little bundle and could already think what had happened and after a few seconds, that should decide the fate of this little girl, he decided to take care of her, no matter how hard this task should be.

Nicknames & Petnames

While Visandar is not very canny with nicknames he called her his "little banshee", while Leonora always called him an "old crow" due to his striking resemblance.

Commonalities & Shared Interests

Leonora has made bad impressions with the villagers and prefers to not converse with them more than neccessary, wich means she and her father had plnty of time to talk and think together.

Shared Secrets

While Leonora was still living with Visandar, she noticed strange people coming and going in the dead of night. After some time Visandar explained as much as neccessary and urged her to not let anyone know.

Wealth & Financial state

Leonora is not that wealthy, but knows how to safe money and tries to keep it safe as good as she can. She always tries to accumulate enough money for a backup set of gear for future emergencies, but tavern rooms and food still have to be paid.

Combat abilities

Heavily armored (passive):

User wears heavy armor and is trained in using to great effect, mobility is inhibited

Domain (passive, aura):

An aura dictated by the users melee range, is activated upon standing still and grants access to various techniques and abilities

Halberd (melee):

The user attacks with their melee weapon of choice, wich has no additional effects attached

Sentry (passive, attack):

Upon entering the active domain, an enemy can be attacked before they are able to respond due to honed reflexes and techniques focused on controlling domain, cannot be used without a short delay

Parry (control, defense)(3 times per short rest):

blocks the attack of an opponent, while also leaving them vulnerable to a follow-up attack

Brace for impact (defense):

With a short time to prepare the next attack hitting the user will greatly diminish in potency

Redirection (control, defense)(3 times per long rest):

allows the user to redirect an attack within domain in the direction of another creature in range, or the user themselves

Retribution (control attack)(6 times per long rest):

The user, upon taking a direct hit, is able to make an attack directed back at the attacker

Guardian (defense)(3 times per short rest):

should an ally be attacked by an enemy within domain, the user may can strike at them, in most cases foiling the initial attack

Alignment

Chaotic Good

Species

Bone-elves

Year of Birth

203 ND 32 Years old

Circumstances of Birth

The circumstances of her birth are still uncertain, but it seems, that shortly after her birth she has been discarded outside of the village.

Birthplace

unknown

Spouses

Siblings

Gender

Female

Eyes

Her eyes are dominated by a red-orange colour, that gently fades to a sunset pink.

Hair

She has short, matted, dark-brown hair, that has a few ornamentary beads inside it.

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Her skin, as with most elves is covored in patterns, skeletal patterns in her case, wich is quite common for her race. Th epatterns are a dark grey, whil ethe other skin tone is disticntly pale.

Height

1.95 m

Weight

73 kg

Known Languages

During her journeys, studies and even just her upbringing Leonora knows common, a bit of rough Elvish and very broken Shadowtongue from some things she overheard Visandar grumble to himself when agitated. During her time at the blacksmith and the caravan she also picked up common greetings and insults in Dwarvish.