Lerissa

Description-

She has short horns that curl back and then turn upward. That are burrowed with in her layered shoulder length hair. She has bangs that sweep over her face and wears drow Dark leather armor most of the time but also wears long white sleeve shirts normally as well as a red shall and skirt casually. Her skin is a red and slightly scaled in appearance and reflective along her arms if looked at close enough. this being the main reason she wears long sleeves. She has glassy green eyes that brighten as she gets angrier with something. Normally they stay at a deep forest green though.

Background-

She is a young Teifling woman, her mother died when she was little. There was fighting in the town. They were the only family of Teiflings in the area and the people were very against them. They accused them of dark magics and plotting with necromancers that were in the woods not far away. Her mother continued to keep turning the other cheek for as long as she could. The day came when they no longer were taking that information. While Lerissa was in the market looking at dolls her mother was overtaken by a mob at their home where they sold homemade cures and potions for adventures. It was common for adventures to come and go through the town and the towns folk quickly blamed a group of rough looking adventures that came by saying that they must have raided the family’s home on their way in. Lerissa come home and found her mother dead, her father was unknown and was not spoke of before between her mother and her. She was only 13 years old. She gathered a meager bag that she knew would keep her afloat in the woods and took to the trees.

It was not long before she found a group of archers in the woods that were different then the druids she was familiar with. These had mutations, different eyes, and different looks to them. They saw her and one of the women of the group stepped forward and introduced herself as Aleice. They were a group of traveling blood hunters. Aleice saw that the girl had a bow, and her hands shook on the handle as she was approached. Aleice offered to teacher her their ways and could help protect her. The young girl accepted the offer and stuck with them for quite some time learned their arts and took to wearing a dark green broach of her mothers, little did she know that her mother had hidden her Angry spirit in the stone that night when she was killed.

The nightmares started, the fighting in her little house like she was her that was being beat, she quickly realized what was happening and pieced the story together. After realizing it started when she wore the broach. She took it to a nearby wizard on their adventures and he told her that there was a vengeful ghost in the stone and that if she meditated with it that it would overcome her and help her when she needed it. She put together that it was her mother and that she was going to get vengeance for her she vowed to that particular stone. She felt a power overcome her and she fell unconscious, standing before her was the ghost of her mother. They two of them made a pact bound in magic. The starts of a new warlock.

Over the next short while with Aleice, Lerissa grows her power and expands her ability with the bow and with the magics she has been given by her mother. The decay and rot at her fingers and ability to spell her weapons to mimic that ability and dives deeper into the arcane learning the basics of controlling the energy of her mother’s raging spirit within the stone through the mutagens in the Blood hunters tool boxes she begins to understand how to call it all forward on demand.

She returns to the city she came from with rage in toe. The family that killed hers still rulling over the city. She was now the rough looking party that came in. Aleice had died, left the group of ragtag blood hunters in Lerissa’s leadership. Given she was just turning 20. She was the leader of a new generation and they listened well they easily took out the noble family that caused so many issues for her and her mother for so many years. She then turned the city of Aless over to a new family. That family being the next in line for the crown a lovely older woman and man with a set of twins that her mother said were destined for a Godly path later in their lives. They would be the rulers of the Aless going forward. Lerissa chose to settle down in this city where she called home for so long. So much had changed in 7 years while she was gone. Tieflings were no longer a strange thing, people welcomed her and her people with open arms. The queen even suggested she start her own guild up; teach more blood hunters like she learned and keep the doors open to others that can help as well.

She wields two hand cross bows and only uses magic as a last resort. It usually ends up taking a lot out of her physically and has a long recuperation time afterwards. She no longer uses her mothers’ spirit in the same way, it has now become part of her and is keyed by her anger. Her eyes shift from a dull green to a bright and vibrant almost poisonous green when she keys into it. Now being a leader of the guild, she goes on missions still but much fewer and more of patrols around the city as a acting Royal guard instead of as a hunting party like before.

Personality-

He is a kind woman and willing to help most. Though when faced with someone who has done her wrong, she will harshly judge them and has no problem using violence if necessary. She is also always interested in new people and what their skill sets could do for the guild. She does have many enemys and usually uses cloaking abilities to take the form of another being so as to not be recognized. She is slow to trust people into her inner circle but does have a soft spot for warlocks and any one good with a bow.

Starter-

She sits at a large desk that is covered in papers. Those papers being the many many bounties that had been proposed and completed in that day. Somehow, they had found themselves mixed together in a mush of paperwork as she is slowing working her way through them. It was just the start of the day and so much to be done. Not to mention that there were also going to be new recruits coming in today. She was told by a couple of her other men that had followed her in from her time in the woods. It had been a year now since they had initiated the guild. They had just finalized the new building and had just started last week taking newcomers. Usually, the one that the Royals would turn away. More Rogues and darker magic users or even blood hunter initiates here as of resently there had been 3 already under training from her men, and they were sure a handful.

She had sat down at the desk in her leather armor in the beginning and stood up and started to strip it way, no longer being comfortable to wear while sitting for long periods of time. She always got comments that she looked like a librarian from the men when she didn't wear her armor. She worked the heal of her hands in to her deep green eyes for a moment and then ran her hand through her dark red hair and let out a stiff sigh as she continued working through her papers and organizing them and pulling them all together into their respective piles. She does this for the majority of the day and around lunch time she decided to take a break and finds herself walking down the hallway to go the dining hall and pulls herself up a stool at the bar and siting down running her hands though her shoulder length hair as the bar keep walks up and takes her order for a sandwich and some mead. She did this on purpose, that was to see the new recruits and the new people who had joined without them yet knowing who she was since she was not armor adorned and weapon holding. would be intresting to see what happens.