Ziela "Skugga" Ta'ane

by **Skugga** on October 1st, 2011, 4:00 pm

"The secret side of me,
I feel it deep within,
it's just beneath my skin."

Basic Information

Race: Human
Birthday & Age: 89 of Winter 486 AV, 25
Gender: Female

Languages

Fluent: Common
Basic: Nari
Poor: Isurian

Physical Description:

Skugga is a tall beautiful woman standing at 5'10" and weighs 138 Ibs, she is slim and well shaped with black hair reaching past her shoulders and piercing light grey eyes. She is well trained, agile and fast, her strength lies in evasion and stealth. Her skin is pale though her face and hands is slightly more tanned after exposure to the sun. She is good at hand to hand combat despite her small frame and her punches pack a surprising power, though for her assassination missions she's had Skugga prefers her dagger and while she wouldn't stand a chance against a strong burly man though she could win by using her speed and agility.

Character Concept:

Skugga tends to be cold, calculating and completely void of sympathy for others, she believes in caring for herself and others are only worth her time if they have something to contribute to her. Despite that Skugga have never had any real reason to turn out like she did as her childhood was a safe, happy and loving, from the beginning she was a cheerful and outgoing child that only wanted to have fun, as she matured Skugga became aware of a darker part of herself consisting of all her darker desires, hatred, pain and fear, she ignored that side of her and as she grew so did her darker side and now she almost have what is called multiple personalities. When her family later found out what happened to their daughter that they believed dead they blamed her sickness, as they preferred to call it, on an uncle who is in jail for life in Syliras, charged with murder, and psychopathic great grand father long dead after spending his life in isolation, though it is unknown, though unlikely, whether Skugga would have became so called "normal" even if her uncle and grand father had been a normal citizens or not.

At first glance, or meeting, Skugga can be charming, kind, outgoing and fun but if she gets too bored or if something triggers her anger or any of her long since hidden feelings of fear and sadness then she turns to her so called evil side. She can kill without remorse, lie and deceive and care noting for others, though this is not really a double personality as she is fully aware of her two sides and she doesn't exactly switch either she can be a bit in between too, but her twisted tendencies may very well lead her deeper into darkness and into madness, that all depends on how she fairs in life. So far in her life she has no qualms about killing neither human nor animal but she isn't interested in killing just for fun, Skugga only kills if she needs to but also if she's annoyed, tricked or otherwise badly treated which makes it less likely that she would kill an animal.

Skugga values strength, whether it is physical or mental, and dedication to a cause, while she have no friends and detest her family she is loyal to none but if one would manage to survive long enough to get to know her and want to stay for as long as it takes to befriend her then that person have a deathly loyal friend in Skugga. Though she has humour in plenty it tends to lean towards the darker kind and she can easily find merriment in others failures, unhappiness and pain, though she is equally likely to find more "normal" humour funny too.

Character History:

Skugga was born into a rich merchant family in Zeltiva at the end of winter and some have called her an early spring blossom in reference to her beauty though that is only a facade she keeps up. The only thing her parents expected from her was to be soft spoken, proper and to marry a respectable man, so she was taught about politics, proper behaviour, history and all else a nice girl should know, Skugga was also given lessons in cooking. She learned early on in her life that she detested the life she was forced into but she was smart enough to hide it for the time being, in secret when she had free time she did all in her powers to learn about fighting, both with and without weapons, stealth and later on she studied poisons in the library. Certainly unusual interests for a young woman and Skugga never really tried to understand this side of her, she just enjoyed it. Though what she found boring she never really took the time to learn so much of her "proper" education was forgotten as soon as she'd passed the classes.

After having her 16 birthday Skugga's parents declared that they had found her a suitable husband, who was at least 10 years older than her, the betrothal was quickly arranged and the marriage was to be held barely a year into the future. Feeling like a caged animal Skugga's entire being fought against the chains of her birth though nothing of her panicked and frustrated feelings was never seen on her exterior. But she knew that she would never let herself be forced into that marriage and so on warm summer night she quietly gathered her belongings and a dagger that'd she had bought in secret and escaped into the night, not caring the slightest what the result of her action would cause.

Travelling to Sunberth Skugga had an amazing luck that survived that trial with her almost infinite knowledge of the real world. In Sunberth she stayed in an inn using money taken from her parents, practising her skills even further and gained a harder personality, the darker side that had always been present in her grew larger as she started taking on jobs that wasn't entirely legal. Skugga could easily play the role of a proper high class woman and in the next moment she could be a stone faced intimidating criminal.

Her travels took her to Syliras and eventually across the Suvan Sea and on towards Denval and Wind Reach before she decided that if she wanted a relatively steady place to live then it would be Alvadas, the city of illusions. As Skugga herself is fond of trickery and illusions she also found that she could find her way in Alvadas much easier than others though she also lost her way from time to time. After studying about the god/goddess of Illusion Ionu she has started to gain interest in religion, a first for her, and Skugga would love to one day be acknowledged by Ionu and gain at least one mark. In her work as a hired assassin she uses stealth and cunning but illusions, even on a lower level, could really help her in her profession. Love for beauty and music has stayed with her throughout her life and she prefers to have everything around her neatly in place, nicely decorated and she loves music. She has a decorated metal flute that she bought in Wind Reach, finding that she haven't forgotten her old skills on flute playing she has taken to always carry it with her so she can play a tune whenever she feels like it.

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Ziela "Skugga" Ta'ane

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