name: Raesha

race: half Petrian (dark elf), half Ouranian (winged elf)

appearant age: 15-17 years old

skin tone: dark grey

eye color: deep gold

hair: white--eyebrows, ect. too. Short--she cuts it herself with her dagger when it starts getting in her way so its pretty uneven.

body type: petit (5'2"-ish), very skinny--waif like--she only eats what she can catch, and she's a really crappy hunter! Pretty muscular considering frame. Almost no body fat so muscles look harsh and angular. Really flat-chested--tiny boobs...think training-bra size.

face: really long/tall pointy elf ears (that stand up at least to the top of her head). Lots of gold hoop earrings--were talkin like a dozen (give or take) on each ear--ear cuffs are cool too. Somewhat torn and tattered--like a cat's ears after getting in a fight.

wings: very large black feathery wings--theres not much left of them though (se history below). The large frame is still there, but only about 1/2 of the feathers are left. They look torn and clipped. Wings can NOT support her in flight, they are far much destroyed!

clothing: tattered, V-shaped, dark red loin cloth. Knee high boots in the same color, cords wrapped around crisscrossing all the way up. Chain mail tank-top style shirt--is way too large on her tiny frame so the neckline hangs really low and arm holes are huge and hang low on sides too. Bottom half of shirt was cut off, so even though the shirt is way too big, the [uneven] bottom only falls at her waistline. Chain mail links aren't very small so shirt is semi transparent, but this doesn't really matter because most of the time her chest is showing through the side arm holes anyways--she has asolutly no modesty.

weapons: Utility belt that is way to loose and hangs skewed down low on one hip. Pair of large daggers--very simple/plain in design. Medieval-style crossbow and quiver of arrows made with her own wing feathers as flights.

other accessories: black fingerless gloves, bandage-like arm wraps, black thigh belt.

personality/attitude: Angsty, moody, vengeful, disdainful, sarcastic. Absolutely no modesty. Dislikes all living creatures, also very self-loathing. Always scoweling, never smiles or looks happy. If she is not mad, she's depressed. Revenge driven.

Raesha in one line: A self-loathing orphened, bastard child--with murderous intentions, Raesha travels the land in search of her kin.

History/story:
Raesha's mother, Nafraeja was Ouranian (winged elf). Nafraeja was out one evening collecting herbs when she was attacked and raped by a Petrian (dark elf) from a scouting party visiting the surface. Being very shamed from the experience--doubly so because her attacker was a despised Petrian--Nafraeja never told anyone of the assault. It wasn't long however, before she discovered she was pregnant from the experience. Nafraeja had no children because her husband had died not long after their marriage and since the Ouranos mate for life, she could not choose a new mate and was thus be unable to have children. Nafraeja was desperate for a child though and decided in order to have the child she was carrying, she would leave the Ouranian city and become a recluse, knowing her half Petrian baby would never be accepted. The baby--Raesha--was born with the lovely wings of the mother's people, but with the coloring of the Petros. She had stark white hair and deep ashy grey skin, her wings were deep black in color. Nafraeja realized that she was right to exile herself from her peoples because she knew now that Raesha would have been killed at birth otherwise.

For many years Raesha and Nafraeja lived in seclusion, Raesha never being allowed to stray from the immediate vicinity of the house. But, as preteens often do, Raesha felt the need to break free from her mother's stifling and explore a little of this world she was never allowed to see for herself. So one day while Nafraeja was napping, Raesha snuck out for a short flight beyond her allowed perimeter. She ventured a bit too far however and was spotted unknowingly by an Ouranian patrol. The patrol followed her home and forced entry into the house. There they beat Raesha and destroyed her wings--ripping, slicing, and shredding them until only about a third of her feathers remained. Believed to be dead, she lay on the floor in her barely-conscious state and witnessed the patrol beat and murder her mother for sullying proud Ouranian blood and bringing such an abomination into the world. Raesha's body was thrown out of her lofty home because they felt a half-breed bastard child's body had no place in their sacred treetops.

Days later, Raesha woke up having barely survived, no longer able to fly with her destroyed wings. After regaining some wits, Raesha gathered up the feathers torn from her wings from where they fell around her and limped off out of the forest without any belongings, anxious to get some distance from the forest before the patrol came back. She swore to wreck vengeance upon all the Ouranos for killing her mother, and also upon the Petros for being responsible for her existence. The torn bits of her wings seem to be the perfect tool by which to serve her vengeance--she used her own torn feathers to fashion flights for a quiver full of arrows which she plans to use to kill her kin. Raesha fled initially to the other elven and human races of the land, but soon discovered exactly what her dark skin meant and found nothing but hostility and more attacks wherever she went. It was not long at all before Raesha began to hate all beings and even developed a deep self-loathing.

It has now been many years since her mothers tragic murder (she is now the equivalent of 15-17 human years), and Raesha travels around surviving on what she can hunt or steal--her top and belt have been stolen, that's why they are too big for her, also her weapons were stolen (probably off of bodies after she dispatched of their owners! *eep*). Raesha has never been trained in fighting and rather fights very much like a feral cat. She fights mostly out of anger and when she attacks it's in a wild-slashing, high-energy fit of rage. .

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