Sarah

Sarah

Vital Information

Gender Female Species Human (Runebearer) Source Suikoden-2 Faction Union Rank 3-Senior Ally Function Water Mage Groups Session 412

Other Information

Age (Appearance) 20-25 Age (Actual) 30 Still Aging? No Height 5'5" Weight 112lbs Hair Color Blonde Eye Color Blue

Quote

"This is what's meant to happen."

Profile

Sarah was born in a remote Harmonian village, in possession of a Flowing Rune and its great potential. For this she was shunned as a witch from a young age and taken to the capital, where she was used for her powers. Her story reached Luc, who rescued her and took her to the seer Leknaat. Here Sarah learned to harness her power, in gratitude devoting herself to serving Luc and Leknaat. Many may mistake Sarah's civility, modesty, and unassuming nature for meekness, but the depths of her inner strength can surprise even her. Her magic is honed to a razor's edge, and she possesses great skill in hydrokinesis, further augmented by her acquisition of the True Water Rune. She also knows the time-lost skills of illusion, summoning monsters from the World of Emptiness, and teleportation. Among the Stars of Destiny, she represents "Chizen," the Silent Star.

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Powers

• Equipment: Sarah has at her disposal a number of unique items, collected through the Multiverse or given to her as gifts. These items are all powerful, and in many cases possessed of unique properties. (+info Sarah/Equipment)

• Healing: With the True Water Rune, Sarah can mend wounds and ease fatigue. She can't restore mortal wounds nor ressurect the dead, but she can reduce the severity of wounds and pull the stricken back from death's door. (2 AID)

• Illusions: Sarah's primary focus is illusions. Under Leknaat's tutelage she learned to craft guises to fool every sense. She has honed it to exacting standards meant to fool even Elites, weaving anything imaginable so long as she can concentrate enough to maintain such guises. (Consent required where applicable. See +info Sarah/Illusions for more information.)

• Rune Lore: Sarah is well-educated in all to do with runes; more than many from her world. She knows ancient Sindar techniques for manipulating, storing, and seizing runes. She also has a number of runes at her disposal acquired from various sources. She was born with her Flowing Rune, later acquired the True Water Rune, and was given the Cyclone and Boyar Runes. (+info Sarah/Runes)

• Summoning: Sarah can summon monsters to fight for her. They vary in shape and technique, dependent on purpose. Bound to her will, they will die to protect her, and may not tell allies from enemies. (PL 30 warms, PL 32 bosses)

• Teleportation: Though unheard of for those from her world to teleport without the proper runes, Sarah's natural aptitude and training lets her do just that. Her precision is unmatched; she can teleport herself or a group of others, depending on how much energy she invests. She can't teleport into protected or factional territory. (Consent required where applicable.)

• True Water Rune: The True Water Rune represents the penultimate force of water in Sarah's world. It grants her incredible hydrokinesis rivaled only by Elites of similar specialization and talent. She can conjure or dismiss water, alter its state and temperature. Focused through the lens of the True Water Rune, her magic is a monstrous force to be reckoned with. True Runes also halt the aging process of their bearers. (OOC Note: If a True Rune goes out of control, it unleashes mass devastation on an enormous scale that cannot be triggered normally. This function of the +power requires Admin permission or a TP App.)

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Flaws

• Daemon: Sarah's daemon, an external part of her soul, is inherently vulnerable. Damage sustained in one manifests in the other. While it is possible for her to survive most injury, or even the destruction of her daemon, injuring or killing a daemon is unspeakably traumatising for both "halves."

• Down the Left-Hand Path: Sarah is both indebted to Luc and harbours strong feelings for him. When given a choice, she will always take that which supports or defends him, and will even throw away her life for him if, need be. Where he's concerned, she takes a narrow view.

• Illusions: The more convincing an illusion, the harder Sarah works to maintain it. They fall apart under scrutiny or without careful tending. She needs to stay in visual range of her creations, or they cease to be; she also must study carefully what she impersonates, so as not to mistake any details.

• Lightning Averse: Though strictly psychological, Sarah has a fairly powerful aversion to lightning and thunder. She dislikes both phenomena, and her composure tends to crack when exposed to either lightning or loud sounds akin to thunder. This could be used to shake her resolve in combat or social situations alike.

• Runic Limits: Though adept in using magic, Sarah does so with years of careful training. The use of runes is a demanding art and can wreak havoc on a mere mortal. If Sarah asks too much of her runes, they will tear her apart from within.

• Squishy Caster: Sarah is terrible at physical combat. Fragile and with horrid pain tolerance, it takes very little to incapacitate her. As a result, she avoids direct confrontations like the plague.

• Teleportation: Though she can travel far by magic, Sarah has to visit a destination once before teleporting there. Teleporting will fail if she takes too much mass with her or goes somewhere she hasn't studied. Lastly, if there are wardings over an area, she won't be able to bypass those defenses.

• True Water Rune: All power has a price. A semi-sentient entity, the True Water Rune contains every memory of previous bearers, sometimes causing Sarah to lose her sense of self. It haunts her with nightmares of the Ashen Future, a bleak and silent world of absolute order. More practically, the elemental True Runes strive to express themselves and leave their mark on the world. She must regularly pit her will against the rune's in an effort to contain its destructive tendencies. Even the smallest slip in control could be disastrous, and the constant struggle exhausts her.

• Scar of the World-Slayer: A mark laid on all of those who participated in the Union's campaign to kill the Confederate Emperor, Viridian Sunrise, in the year A.U. 20. Though successful, the campaign resulted in the destruction of his inner universe and the countless beings within it. The mark takes the form of a sun-shaped birthmark on the bodies of each of those who were present that day.
  Though not necessarily readily visible, it cannot be removed even if the individual should be obliterated and regenerated from component materials. It imposes upon the bearer a complete knowledge of every entity who died in the Union's crusade, from enemy soldiers down to newborn babes. Those who bear this mark will remember them always, from their names, to their faces, to their lives up to their deaths. This does not provide an opportunity to learn the skills of the deceased, though it does give the bearer an insight into the world and universe of Annu.

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Info Files

Equipment

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• Azure Sky's Argent Staff: An ornately carved staff made with complex inlays of silver and topped with a small sapphire. It seems to have an internal reservoir of water, visible through the clear sapphire, that can conduct relevant energies. Crafted by Loros in the confines of Session 412 through the wonders of alchemy. As it was created as a demonstration, Sarah asked to borrow it until the successful repair of Leknaat's Staff, which he and Arthur Lowell agreed to.

• Cane: Wrought of dark maple, with a knobbed silver handle and matching cap on the base, this cane was crafted or acquired by Luc and given to Sarah. Some of the silver was taken from Leknaat's Staff and reforged into the silver of the cane. Though it lacks the strength of Leknaat's Staff, it's still a useful tool in that regard, and not to be taken too lightly.

• Leknaat's Staff: A gift from Leknaat, the blind astrologist living on the Magician's Isle and the closest thing to a mother Sarah has. This staff is of tremendous magical potency, so strong it has its own magical "signature." Sarah uses it as a focus to amplify her power and direct her spells with extraordinary finesse. It is attuned to her, warming to her touch, and only she, Luc, or Leknaat can channel energy through it. Currently it is in splinters, sundering itself after the rigours of challenging The Emperor.

• Softseers Seerspecs: A pair of similarly glowy spectacles, capable of viewing the coursing leylines of magic more precisely than basic internal senses. It looks like, since the crystal ball was able to access the Pesterchum memo before, this can also do that as well! It's a full magical analysis suite and glowy-looking sorcerous chat client! After chucking the Softseer Silverlights at the Crystal Ball (Definitely Magical), out came the Softseers Seerspecs, which are infinitely superior (and a lot classier-looking, too).

• Undine's Blessing: A staff, forged of strong metals and embedded with sapphires along the full six-foot length. At the top is a larger sapphire, in a mount that is forged in a way to give the illusion of lapping waves. The metal itself is a lighter blue to contrast the dark gems, and, when gripped, radiates a soft light.

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Runes

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Sarah has at her disposal a number of unique runes, acquired from a variety of places within the confines of her world:

• Boyar Rune: A derivative of the Sovereign Rune, the Boyar Rune is a recently-discovered rune that imbues upon its bearer strong mental fortitude. It lends its bearer resistance to mental coercion, psychic invasion, and other attacks of a psionic nature. Sarah has chosen to use this rune as her front line of defense in the Multiverse; for if she were to lose control of herself, the powerful runes under her control would present a danger to both herself and others.
  Sarah discovered this unusual rune while exploring beneath Mt. Seifu with Luc, in the Toran Republic. It was found encased with a second example in a matrix of rock, but after breaking it free, she decided to use the available rune.

• Cyclone Rune: Somewhere between the might of the True Wind Rune and the lesser Wind Rune rests the Cyclone Rune, powerful enough for most magicians to get by with. These runes are versatile, able to summon up wind for a variety of uses or tamper with the air pressure of an area.
  With this rune, Sarah is capable of summoning small whirlwinds, directional winds, altering air pressure, creating cutting blades made of air, and altering the oxygen content in other entities or within other elements. This rune generally exists as a last resort, however; she prefers to rely on the element of water.

• Flowing Rune: Unlike many people of her world, Sarah was born with the Flowing Rune she bears already inscribed to her forehead. Such an occurance is unusual, at best; the power was there, but not the control. When she lost control of the Flowing Rune as a child, the girl was villified as a witch. It was Leknaat that taught her to control it, when she was rescued and taken to the Magician's Isle.
  Through the Flowing Rune she was taught other, more unusual talents as well; lost magic whose latent potential Leknaat saw in her. Sarah had an innate talent for teleportation, and the lost arts of illusion and summoning. Such abilities are singularly unique to her, though, and can be traced to Sarah's unique heritage.
  With the introduction of the True Water Rune, the Flowing Rune has gone largely silent, submissive to its natural superior.

• True Water Rune: Discovered in the midst of Sindar ruins, the True Water Rune overpowered Sarah's senses, essentially forcing her to take up the burden of a True Rune. As one of the twenty-seven progenitors of all other runes, its power is comparable to a god's, and though not sentient, it has its own will.
  The penultimate force of water in her world, it far outstrips other runes of its class. Sarah can use it as she would have used the Flowing Rune, though the effects of her magic are magnitudes greater. She has to be careful how much power she draws from it, lest a tiny waterspout inadvertantly turn into a disastrous hurricane.
  Everything has its price, though. True Runes want to be used, and the elemental runes want to leave their mark on the world. The True Water Rune is more docile than its bretheren, but it still pushes Sarah to let go of her careful control. Maintaining it is a constant effort.
  The True Water Rune also lends her visions of the Ashen Future: A world ordained by perfect order, devoid of warmth, life, sound, sight, or texture. These visions are bone-chilling in their sterility, implying that humanity has no future; they drive lesser minds to madness. Sarah struggles against them, but has determined not to let these nightmares break her.