Character Sketch
Major:
-Saylia- is the most hot-blooded member of the group, always
ready to fight, with a temper as volatile as her adrenaline.
Her parents had decided it best to channel her aggression into
something more useful than attacking annoying frying pans, so
they signed her up for military training. Saylia's actually
very intelligent and a brilliant tactician--once you get her
to think rationally. She's in charge of keeping the group calm.
-Happy- is a rather depressed dwarf-sized tramp with a very
favorable relationship with locks. This gives him a significant
advantage as a burglar and master escape artist. He also
manages to always escape public attention, so has never gained
himself a reputation--or many acquaintances. Aside from Saylia
and Murray, approximately three other people know of his
existence. (Anyone else who encountered him promptly forgot the
incident.)
-Murray- is a talented illusionist, one of the few able to cast
a full invisibility spell. Unfortunately, he accidentally cast
it permanently on himself, and so is forced to wear a
visibility ring at all times. Generally speaking, invisibility
can be a rather useful trait. Murray, however, has never been
known to not attract attention. He just can't seem to master
the art of moving semi-quietly (nevermind silently).
Minor:
-Antolan- is a theologian dedicated to converting everyone from
fantaticism. He's an old friend of Saylia's; they ran into each
other while she was studying at the military academy. Antolan
was running from an angry crowd of fanatics he'd tried to
convert. Unfortunately, their leader, a particularly bright (or
dim) diehard zealot who preached peace and practiced war,
considered himself and his followers the chosen ones and
everyone else damned for all eternity, and was not overly-
-pleased with Antolan's attempt to undermine his authority.
Saylia was, of course, late for class. Nonetheless, she
valiantly defended the hapless professor against attack from
four fuzzy-headed fanatics while he got back up. She dispersed
the rest with a threat, whereupon Antolan began expounding on
the advantages of toleration. Luckily, Saylia was open-minded
enough to have already accepted the doctrine of tolerating
anyone who wasn't opposed to her and thus avoided loosing
his head. She made it to class just in time to be reprimanded
for showing up at all, which only increased her annoyance at
the theologian. Not wanting Saylia angry at him, Antolan later
apologized and invited her for tea and some excellent homemade
chocolate cake.
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