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The Sunken Altar

Basic Information

  • Anyone who wishes to better themselves is under my guard. (Soldier, Paladin)

  • Basic Info

    • Personality: Disciplined, dutiful, introspective, gentle, patient
    • Mannerisms: Perfect posture, soldier-like, stable
    • Likes: Training, Self-awareness and reflection, Effort, Potential
    • Dislikes: Those who blame others and do not take responsibility

  • Physical Stats

    • Age: Adult
    • Race: Half Elf
    • Class: Champion/Paladin
    • Alignment: LG
    • Deity: Irori (Pathfinder); God of Pursuit of Self-Perfection
    • Size: M
    • Bodytype: Athletic
    • Height: 6'5
    • Hair: Straight, black, waist length, braided and worn around her neck
    • Handedness: Right
    • Scars: Several

  • Background

    Irikah is a soldier through and through. She was trained as a samurai to serve a noble lord. The lord was not so honorable. When he ordered her to kill a political opponent, her brother, also a samurai for the same lord, murdered their lord to prevent her from following his orders without question. Although the noble houses secretly agreed with their actions, they were exiled (rather than executed) from their homeland. After years of traveling as ronin, they found their cause in leading a peasants revolt in a neighboring nation under enslavement of a fascist empire. They fought for and helped liberate a nation as generals in the war - but not without cost. When advised of an assassination attempt on the leader of the rebellion - by her brother - she confronted and killed her brother for the sake of ending the war.

    The war ended, but it would never end for her. No longer able to remain in the land where she murdered her own brother, she fled, traveling for the next decade or so, and being called to be a champion of the god of self-perfection. The war had exposed some very glaring weaknesses, that she couldn't reconcile. Irori gave her the opportunity to do better.

    Recently, she learned that she was dying of a terminal illness of the lungs. She's been magically healed, but it has always come back. She has delayed the deterioration of her health through her training, but she knows she is near the end of her life. She continues to confront the implications of her illness, as a champion of her deity, trying to reconcile her faith, her health, and her regrets.

  • Physical Description

    Irikah hails from Minkai (Pathfinder - fantasy analogue of Japan). She is a half-elf with long straight black hair, which is usually kept in a long braid, worn around her neck.

    She is tall, lean, and athletic. She looks like a champion of a god of self-perfection, but rarely uses her physical prowess to impose her will on others. She holds herself to the highest standard possible at all times, this includes her composure and posture. However, understanding that her height is often seen as a challenge, she would sit or lean against walls, tables, shelves to reduce her size when talking to friends and those who she hopes to connect with meaningfully.
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