Characters
Collecting some thoughts, I suppose.
Youngest daughter of Kyn'Elwynn and Amber, Sarine is not even a year old in "present" FFa time. I have, however, conceptualized and played some ahead.
Borrowing shamelessly from the Blades of Namara in the Fallen Blade series, I decided early on that Sarine would be brought up to be Mika's "Talon." The Blades are/were an order of assassins serving the goddess of justice, existing to serve as balance against high-level corruption. When an evil, abusive noble or ruler arises who'd beyond the reach of the law, Namara points one of her followers after him...
In the context of Furryfaire, it strikes me that the Horsemen serve a similar function, but 1) they have to be "hired" and 2) they adhere to a very specific set of guidelines for what makes a worthy target. Sometimes, it's useful to have someone who can act a little bit outside a framework like that, and it makes a certain amount of sense to me for a goddess of "balance" to be able to employ an agent who is neither Horseman nor priest. Who better than the high priestess' daughter (and hence the goddess' granddaughter) trained from an early age?
Of course, even in what I have played she's still unblooded as yet. How well she can wear the burden of being a divinity's chosen assassin remains to be seen, really. She's pretty fun-loving as a youth, but becoming a killer's going to have some level of impact on that, even if she can find a division between personal and professional lives. I suspect her close relationship with her sister will be the grounding to keep her going down the line.
She's been given a bloodstone sword - that serves as both a link to the family tower and a weapon. While thoroughly bespelled to function better than mundane steel, the edge is also a sort of planar portal - functionally it will teleport/disintegrate what it comes into contact with while being wielded, making the durability of the sword itself somewhat moot most of the time. Given the nature of that effect, it can carve through anything from "normal" to "magically tough" with virtually no resistance. "Unbreakable" items, magic barriers, and such things may resist it, but it's pretty darn effective against 99% of anything put in front of it. Of course, it means you can't really spar with it and it makes for a potentially odd combat style when you have to dodge flying metal because you parried someone's sword in half.
She's also been blessed by Mika with unnatural balance (something Sarine feels is a bit of a joke on the goddess' part, though it's perfectly useful). She can be knocked off balance, but in general her footing is always sound and bounding across narrow beams is easy. Combining that with family shadow magic and she'll be slinging around a quick rote spell that makes a taut line of shadowstuff between two points for easy transit whether to a balcony, across a chasm, or between rooftops. A few other magical buffs, and she can be a ridiculously acrobatic swordswoman. It almost makes me want to see that sort of style in Exalted or something.
Youngest daughter of Kyn'Elwynn and Amber, Sarine is not even a year old in "present" FFa time. I have, however, conceptualized and played some ahead.
Borrowing shamelessly from the Blades of Namara in the Fallen Blade series, I decided early on that Sarine would be brought up to be Mika's "Talon." The Blades are/were an order of assassins serving the goddess of justice, existing to serve as balance against high-level corruption. When an evil, abusive noble or ruler arises who'd beyond the reach of the law, Namara points one of her followers after him...
In the context of Furryfaire, it strikes me that the Horsemen serve a similar function, but 1) they have to be "hired" and 2) they adhere to a very specific set of guidelines for what makes a worthy target. Sometimes, it's useful to have someone who can act a little bit outside a framework like that, and it makes a certain amount of sense to me for a goddess of "balance" to be able to employ an agent who is neither Horseman nor priest. Who better than the high priestess' daughter (and hence the goddess' granddaughter) trained from an early age?
Of course, even in what I have played she's still unblooded as yet. How well she can wear the burden of being a divinity's chosen assassin remains to be seen, really. She's pretty fun-loving as a youth, but becoming a killer's going to have some level of impact on that, even if she can find a division between personal and professional lives. I suspect her close relationship with her sister will be the grounding to keep her going down the line.
She's been given a bloodstone sword - that serves as both a link to the family tower and a weapon. While thoroughly bespelled to function better than mundane steel, the edge is also a sort of planar portal - functionally it will teleport/disintegrate what it comes into contact with while being wielded, making the durability of the sword itself somewhat moot most of the time. Given the nature of that effect, it can carve through anything from "normal" to "magically tough" with virtually no resistance. "Unbreakable" items, magic barriers, and such things may resist it, but it's pretty darn effective against 99% of anything put in front of it. Of course, it means you can't really spar with it and it makes for a potentially odd combat style when you have to dodge flying metal because you parried someone's sword in half.
She's also been blessed by Mika with unnatural balance (something Sarine feels is a bit of a joke on the goddess' part, though it's perfectly useful). She can be knocked off balance, but in general her footing is always sound and bounding across narrow beams is easy. Combining that with family shadow magic and she'll be slinging around a quick rote spell that makes a taut line of shadowstuff between two points for easy transit whether to a balcony, across a chasm, or between rooftops. A few other magical buffs, and she can be a ridiculously acrobatic swordswoman. It almost makes me want to see that sort of style in Exalted or something.
I love these insights into your character's origins and motivations! :) As far as Exalted Martial arts, seems a little bit Five-Fold Shadow Hand, lil' bit Ebon Dragon, maybe a specialized charm or two of her own.
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