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onerthesIN CHARACTER
Character Name: Vira-Lorr
Canon: Record of Agarest War
Canon Point: The Death of Chaos, Crumbling of the world of Agarest (Storyline True End, Rex chooses Dyshana)
In-Game Tattoo Placement: The small of her back, framing her spinal column on both sides. She is initially unaware that the tattoo is there.
Current Health/Status: Having gone to sleep her first night in the new world after Chaos' death and the end of the false world he created.
Age: 315, appearing around 30.
Species: Oneltes, a race of very long-lived human-like creatures with a third eye in their forehead that is associated with magic and seeing the future.
History: http://agarest.wikia.com/wiki/Vira-Lorr
Vira-Lorr was, once upon a time, a powerful seer and sorceress in the frontier north of Gidramas. She plied her trade as a prophetess in the northern kingdom of Rigulus and with the Syrium elves of the far north, only occasionally traveling further south into Gidramas. During her travels, she became aware of military moves by a suddenly more aggressive Emperor of the southern kingdom, Hertzfeldt and his primary general, Melchior. Rumors abounded that the emperor sought an artifact of mystical power in the north and to eradicate the last vestiges of the high elves while claiming the seer's power for himself. She allied herself with the rogue general Leonhardt, the last of the high elves of the continent of Lucrellia named Ellis and her summoned companion Borgnine, along with their mysterious benefactor Dyshana in an effort to end the war and bring peace to the land.
Her journeys with Leonhardt brought her into contact with many other of the frontier and led to the discovery that a dark and foreboding evil was attempting to awaken in their world. On the behalf of corrupting agents known as the Gurg, servants of the king of monsters Summeril, sought the artifact of his power known as the Bracele of the Covenant. Bound to Winfield, a mortal fighter and rogue of the frontier who sought the same artifact to wreck vengeance on Gidramas, the Bracelet was no longer hidden and had to be destroyed.
The quest to destroy the Bracelet of the Covenant, defeat Summeril and ultimately put to death his true master, the fallen god Chaos and his divine lackeys led to a journey that continued for almost a full century. With each passing generation, she watched as Leonhardt and his descendants were born, grew to maturity, married their loves and then were bound with them into the spires to seal the darkness away in each of several continents. With each successive generation, the forces of darkness grew in strength on each new continent and the kingdoms of men were increasingly corrupted by the powerful influences of the gurg who served Summeril. Leonhardt's dutiful son Ladius gave rise to the whimsical and jovial Thoma, who bore the rebellious, troubled and empathetic Duran. Each of these she, along with many other long-lived traveling companions, helped to raise and nurture, watching as three women every generation began to revolve their lives around the heroes until one married him and they bore the next son of the line of Leonhardt, tied by an oath sworn decades prior to Dyshana, binding his soul to her in the fight against the forces of Summeril and Chaos.
Finally, alongside Leonhardt's great-great grandson Rex and all those who had survived to travel with them over the decades, she helped to reforge Hass Calinou's Hammer and destroy the Bracelet after the death of Summeril and Chaos, freeing Winfield from his curse and saving the world from the forces of darkness. The end result of the death of the fallen gods, however, ended the magic that kept their continents aloft and the world crashed into the planet far below, beginning a new world ruled by men and not gods.
CRAU History and Impact: N/A
Note on storyline choices that “matter” in so far as such things matter in the game – Leonhardt married Luana, Ladius married Yayoi, Thoma married Faina, Duran married Silvi and Rex chose to marry Dyshana.
Personality:
-Vira Lorr is, and has always been for as long as anyone in Lucrellia can remember, a self-confident, playful and eccentric woman. She has never been willing to conform to what the various people around her expect of her, and refuses ardently to hide who she is or what she is about. Though she is not always smiling, she is usually something of an optimist as is seen in the countless battles that she and her compatriots face, being one of the voices in favor of pushing ahead regardless of personal risk. What some take as a suicidal disregard for her own safety and the fact that many humans view the Oneltes people with enough distrust to seek to kill them as witches is probably better termed single-minded individuality. Vira-Lorr will do what Vira-Lorr wants to do, and god help the man, woman, child, elf, monster or even god who decides to tell her otherwise. We see this first when Leonhardt first meets her in a syrium village, where he returns Ellis safely. She, having lost her foresight and only seeing visions of Leonhardt and his children, basically invites herself along for his adventures and will not take no for an answer, whether it be from he or the shard of chaos Dyshana. When Dyshana, nearly a century later, finally asks her why she has remained for so long, Vira Lorr teases that maybe she's interested in Rex, but in the end she is simply there because it is where she wants to be. She is prone to whims and a somewhat fickle nature, but is more or less an individualist and creature of habit. She wants, more than anything, the freedom to be herself and for others to have the same.
-Vira-Lorr's humorous side has taken a pounding over a century of near constant warfare against corrupted or duped humans, monsters and demons. In Rex's generation, we see her frequently comisserating with her long time traveling companion Sharona, and the two of them (along with the now centuries old and emotionally exhausted Winfield) are frequent drinking partners during off hours, to while away the time and dull the pain of so many lives they have seen lost at the hands of Summeril's forces. She still teases and laughs easily, but there is a worn tiredness to her that shows. She is ready for the wars to end, for the fighting to cease. Everyone from Leonhardt and Ladius' generations shows the same weariness, one that isn't shared by the fresher companions of later generations, and Vira and Winfield perhaps show it more than most.
-She is a woman who likes her creature comforts. Having grown accustomed to 'roughing it' in makeshift army camps for close to a century, she looks for opportunities to pamper herself when she can get away with it. Saunas, hot springs, long and luxurious baths, along with copious amounts of alcohol are well known to be in her day to day living. Some of her companions even seem well aware of the excesses she indulges in, though as she has never caused much problem while drunk and seems to hold her alcohol well enough, they choose not to speak up. Her most regular drinking partner is probably the syrium Sharona.
-Beneath he occasionally hedonistic and indulgent individualism, Vira-Lorr has a particularly strong mothering instinct. Most of the women who have traveled with Leonhardt's family over the century developed patriarchal or matriarchal tendencies out of necessity. They were forced to raise each of his descendants without the father really being present for long. Each son barely remembered their father, and so each of them took on the role of standing in for the mising parents, now sealed away to hold back the darkness. She has seen rugged, stern Ladius grow to maturity and soften in the face of another's needs. She's watched Thoma grow up as an irresponsible playboy, flirting with every girl he meets to avoid getting too close to any of them for fear that they might be sealed with him like his father. She's even seen him finally cave in to the soft-spoken Faina, finally settling down (sort of. He's still an irrepressible horn-dog that has to be cuffed regularly by his wife.). She's watched Duran grow, resentful of the fate thrust on him and on people he hasn't even met, trying to keep them distant rather than drag them in. She's even seen the winged half-harpuia Rex grow, perhaps the most mature of them all, bringing with him a forgiveness that none of his kin could ever quite achieve. Growing with and raising four very different men to maturity alongside others has given her a fondness for children and caring for others, nurturing them, albeit in a frequently joking and round-about way.
-Vira-Lorr has no love for tyrants or those who put the people under her thumb. She has little kind to say for Hertzfeldt, or for the abusive nobles Ladius is forced to deal with early in his career, and she makes clear her intentions to fight those who unduly restrict the freedoms of others. She took particular offense at the larva Quadwas who plagued and abused Yayoi's home city of Musoi, claiming divinity to receive annual sacrifices. As such, she has little love lost for the demons who fall before her, as they are almost universally of the same sort, and only minimal sympathy for the fallen gods, and then only for Nemesis and Mercury, who are repentant of their original crimes which led to Chaos' rise to power against the god of good Lenion long ago. To those who betray her, though, she can be forgiving at least once, provided that they turn legitimately from their ways. She did so for both Vashtor and to an extent Dyshana for her not having revealed all that was planned or her ties to Chaos originally. She was never especially close to either, however, as both were rather aloof and she tended to only spend time with people who intentionally spent time with her (e.g. Sharona).
-Vira-Lorr's moral compass focuses heavily towards liberty and freedom. “Do what thou wilt” is probably an accurate description of her attitude. So long as no harm is coming to another, she is comfortable doing what she wants, and seeing others do what they want. Wanton irresponsibility annoys her, as with Thoma on many occasions (though she seems content to let Ellis handle most of the chastisement), but usually only if it inconveniences her in some way. Otherwise, she is content to leave people to their devices and prefers not to be judged herself. She is quite open that this may come off as hypocritical at times, but she does not seem to care (even saying as much when faced with the God of War Mayastia). Ultimately, she is a fairly selfish person, but will behave in a benign or egalitarian way towards other people often because it suits her moods and doesn't take much effort to do.
-She is not an especially romantic person, though she flirts somewhat easily. While every female member of the cast in the last generation expresses some interest in Rex (making all of them viable end-game marriage partners), her interest is detached when she mentions it to Dyshana. Even while drunk with Ellis and Sharona one night, she treats the idea of fighting over him as more or less a game, and one she seems comfortable losing to Ellis. Ellis and Dyshana, on the other hand, are shown to have very explicit, active reasons to be deeply entrenched in Rex's opinions of them (Ellis because he reminds her of her original crush on his great great grandfather, and a lot of emotional tie-ins there, while Dyshana gains her own humanity and begins to smile because of his care for her.). She rebuffs countless advances, though she is seen flirting with a few over the years (debatably both men and women, though her flirtations for women seem limited to Sharona and arguably more of a playful rivalry.). She seems open to the idea of a partnership, but is as comfortable just waiting to settle down until the war is over and she has time to relax, being in no hurry to tie herself down. In keeping with her freedom loving side, it seems likely that she would only couple with someone willing to pamper her free spirit on some level, a thing most in the cast do not appear willing to do other than Winfield, and while she does not rebuff him quite so clearly in the last generation as she did in the first, he hasn't been getting anywhere with her lately.
-Vira-Lorr views, by the end of the war against Summeril her seeing of the future to be a curse. She tells Dyshana that she actively prefers not to know what is coming, but instead to live in the here and now like humans do. People were not meant to know their fates, and it is better if destiny is unknown, or at most only known in vagueries. She seems pleased that, when it returns after Chaos' death, it does so only in vague and fuzzy ways, seeming to hope it will not fully return.
Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:
-Vira-Lorr is a skilled mage with a century of experience in the art of war. She has some experience in hand to hand fighting, but the bulk of her skills are in the use of magic. Her powers will be listed below:
-Healing Magic: Warped as per suggested rules. Healing self harms others nearby or doesn't work quite right. Healing others hurts them.
-Offensive Magic: Dark/Light/Arcane/Earth/Lightning spells of an offensive nature. Her weaker magic (single target effects) would likely not need warping or weakening. Powerful spells or 'combination spells' which draw upon multiple elements should be inconsistent, risky and unpredictable either in power level or effects, backfiring on occasion. Her most powerful offensive spell, the Six Realms Fall (which literally sends the target on a quick excursion to hell before dragging them back) is disabled entirely and doesn't seem to work.
-Seer: Her ability to see the future, which is just returning in canon, should remain muddied. At best, she can see “Things are getting lighter” or “I see darkness on the horizon,” assuming she's allowed to see anything at all. I am comfortable with her ability to see the future being completely blocked. She's been used to that for the last century. I think she can handle a couple more years. (She said as much in canon.)
-Martial Skill/Tactics: She is not superhuman in strength and is simply a skilled staff/sword fighter with years of experience in siege warfare. That won't need warping.
-Longevity: While she ages very slowly, she does age, and she's not immortal or especially invulnerable. Prick her, and she'll bleed like the rest of us.
Inventory:
- Weapon: “S. V. Rouge,” a rapier with a twisted, blood red guard on it. Anyone mystically attuned will get a very negative vibe from it, as if it somehow held a sinister or dark power to it. It serves as both a weapon and an aid in spellcasting
- Armor: "Pelops," A pristine, white cloak that was once worn by Arumana, the long deceased Goddess of mercy. Enchanted by her power, it is a protective armor on par with metal armors favored by knights.
- Her clothing: She dresses in a kimono, tight leggings and soft, comfortabl shoes along with a small amount of jewelry such as hair clips and bracelets. She favors off white, white and red colors and refuses to conceal her third eye.
- A backpack: A rustic backpack with basic overland travel gear (Sleeping roll, pitons and rope, flint and tinder, cooking pot, bowl, utensils, tin cup, compass, a waterskin, a week's worth of trail rations.)
- Tea Set in the Musoi Style (reminiscent of a Japanese Tea Ceremony set.), a gift from Yayoi she has carried with her for decades since. She sometimes uses tea-leaf readings to supplement her work as a “seer” of the future, since her sight is dulled.
- Sake Bottle and Cup: What? The girl likes to drink.
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OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Latroma
Player Age: Over 18
Player Contact: PM is preferred.
Other Characters In Game: N/A
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Vira Lorr: Record of Agarest War (Or Vira Lorr: Agarest if that's too long.)
Permissions for Character: Here (Player/Character Opt-Out is included)
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes, it's intrinsic to the setting, so I'm agreeing to it from the start.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Psychological horror, altered perception and hallucination, spiritual horror and existential threats are far more interesting to me than base, physical horror. While I don't mind the latter, it tends to be something I involve in non-horror settings, and many characters I play are less effected by it. Fight a hundred demons, and you yawn at number 101, but psychological threats are harder to immunize yourself to, allowing for more character development with fantasy characters like Vira-Lorr.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Very very little. I've found that anything related to birth/infancy is a trigger for me (Pedophilia, Unbirth, Abortion issues, stillborn, ectopic pregnancies, anything in that category). Scat/WS related things are a no go unless they are intentionally being done as torture. These are the few things it is best to avoid. Otherwise, there's no need for content warnings with me.
Additional Information: I traditionally maintain opt-outs as a rule on my permissions page. There are players who would prefer not to play opposite me, which I respect as a choice. Anyone with a pre-existing opt-out from another game will be assumed to continue to have an opt-out in the future unless they request specifically to have it ended.
Her Pets
Date: 2020-09-17 05:34 pm (UTC)Husky: "Winfield"
--A mangy, overly friendly and slightly on the large-side husky by the name of Winfield. She acquired it in the November 2018 Event.
Luijt: "Susan" - Reference Image
Something that looks a bit like a knee-high green chicken with a gem in its forehead (which I usually use a Cockatrice to represent visually), the Luijt is an extremely powerful Fae creature from her word. It is able to cast Earth, Wind, Water/Ice, Thunder spells with traditionally 'unpredictable' and 'draining' warping for any elemental caster within the game. It's usually too lazy to do more than defend her home from invasion and eat mixed nuts before hitting someone with a static charge if they annoy it.
Pokemon: (because they keep cropping up in game)
Absol ("Sharona") - Dark Type
--Ability: Super Luck (increases crit chances)
--Nature: Adamant (+Atk/-Sp Atk)
--Moves: Night Slash, Psycho Cut, Swords Dance and Slash
Litwick! - (Gained in September 2020 Event) - Ghost/Fire Type
--Ability: Shadow Tag (No Escaping!)
--Nature: Modest (+Sp Atk/-Atk)
--Moves: Curse, Hex, Minimize, Will-O-Wisp
Because it cannot stay in her room, Litwick frequently stays in the upstairs sauna and bathroom when Vira-Lorr is out or asleep, keeping it happily lit.