Aurora the Ominae
Aurora the Ominae
Name: Aurora
Age: Old enough not to answer that question
Race: Human (summoner)
Sex: Female
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Varying shades of blue (based on mood)
Weight: 150lbs
Height: 5'4''
Strengths: Great stamina when using chi energy. Summon beast is a dragon. Able to channel her summon's abilities, increasing her speed and strength.
Weakness: Against the summoner's code to use a summon beast directly against a human in battle.
Skills/Magic: Extensive training in martial arts and chi magic. Can heal herself or allies using magic, but requires concentration and time, making it difficult to accomplish during battle under normal circumstances.
Weapon: Knowlegable in the use of several weapons, but doesn't carry any, prefering hand-to-hand and magic.
Summon: Valron, the ultimate dragon, as a rule cannot be hurt by magic, since he is a mergence of all the elements. He is long and snake-like, like a traditional Chinese dragon with long horns. He is a silvery white color that shimmers and changes colors in the sunlight like a white opal. When not battling, Valron is usually present (and about 12in long) coiled around Aurora's wrist. He also has a 20ft long size which he usually uses to fly his summoner to her destinations. In his full powered form, he measures closer to 300ft. (He has never been seen by any member of the BA in an actual RP, though he has brief parts in a few in his smaller forms.)
It should be noted that as Aurora's summon, Valron's lifeforce is tied directly to Aurora's. The ritual to obtain a summon ties the two inextricably together. A summon cannot survive on this plane without being tied to a summoner, and should a summon be destroyed, the fatality rate for the summoner is about 90%. If a summoner should manage to survive this rending of their soul, there is a 95% chance they will be rendered insane by the event. Most summoners who are abandoned or lose their summon but manage to survive the actual event commit suicide within the first week.
Update: Valron's dormant form is no longer an armband, but a lifelike silver tatoo in the same place.
Armor: None. They would hamper her agility, and are unnecessary anyway.
Personality: Driven by duty. Logical and insightful with a wry sense of humor. She is a complex personality, compartmentalizing her relationships to the point that each person who knows her, if asked, might give a very different description of her. She is confident, and has no issue with speaking her mind, but being an empath remains sensitive to the feelings of those around her. She can be flirtatious, but is very particular about who she will tease, often taking the view of "I didn't start it, but I can finish it." Once she accepts you into her innner circle, she is very affectionate, and highly protective. She often is adoptive in a big sister sort of way.
Appearance: Long, curly blond hair, always worn up, coiled into a large bun at the back of her head. Wears either gray summoner's robes, or traveling clothes consisting of a loose-fitting white shirt, blue jeans, and high, fawn-colored suede boots.
Update: Her hair is now short, just long enough to brush her shoulders, and layered causing her hair to move in a carefree sort of way, framing her face with tight, golden curls. She no longer wears her summoner's robes, sticking with her blue jeans and boots, with button front shirts in varying colors, though usually white or some shade of blue. She travels with a durable, but well-used leather pack which she usually keeps slung over one shoulder. It contains a couple of very large, very old books, and a lengthy scroll. She has enchanted the pack to ensure it will fit anything she wishes to carry inside, otherwise neither of the books would fit at all, let alone all three. She also keeps her grey summoner's robes inside though she rarely wears them anymore.
History:
It was a dark time of fear and unrest. The four Temples of the Elements (Water, Wind, Fire and Earth) were practrically at war and the two Great Temples (Light and Dark) could (or would) do little to contain the fighting. Summoners to opposing elements battled almost constantly, with the people caught in the middle.
Aurora was born in this time of conflict to a small, loving clan of travelling entertainers. Her father was a clan leader and reknowned fighter. Aurora lost her mother as she gave birth to twin sons which their father named Daeon and Rae. So upon her mother's death, Aurora took it upon herself at the tender age of ten to take care of her father and brothers.
Over the next ten years, rumors began to arise concerning a prophecy. It said that a great summoner would arise, one who could create and tame the ultimate dragon summon, and bring peace and balance to the six temples.
One night, Aurora's father took a job providing an evening of entertainment for a band of nomads (which they would soon discover to be bandits). Daeon and Rae performed acrobatics and Aurora performed traditional dances as their father played lively music. As the evening wore on, the leader of the nomadic tribe found himself enchanted by Aurora's grace and beauty. When Aurora's father went to accept payment for their work, the nomadic leader expressed desire to make Aurora his wife, offering her father a large amount of gold for her.
When he flat out refused the generous offer, the bandit leader threatened to take her anyway. In the ensuing fight, Aurora's father was brutally murdered along with Rae. Daeon managed to escape (unknown to her). Aurora was kept alive and taken to the leader's tent. When the murderer of her family approached her, an explosion of rage awakened her chi ability and threw the bandit leader violently from the tent. She had no idea how she had done this, so she could not use that defense again. Not only this, but her suden outburst left her completely exhausted and unable to put up much of a fight when the bandit leader regained his senses and ordered her beaten to death.
She was cruelly whipped and left for dead outside the camp along with the bodies of her father and brother. The bandits moved on that morning. Later in the day, she was happened upon by a summoner from the Light temple named Mage Silverhawk. He took her back to the temple and nursed her back to health. She decided to stay at the Temple and train in the magical arts. As her training continued, Mage noticed a remarkable ability growing in her. Eventually, he became convinced she was the summoner spoken of in prophecy. He convinced her to take the summoner's ceremony where she earned the right to wield the one of a kind light dragon Valron. This merging caused her aging process to stop, leaving her forever appearing to be in her mid-twenties.
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After much coaxing and encouragement, Mage convinced Aurora to take the pilgrimage necessary to become the legendary summoner, also known as the Ominae. She began her journey to each of the other temples taking the summoner's challenge there earning each element's dragon summon, which fused with Valron, making him stronger and more powerful. Her final test was at the Dark temple where she earned the Dark dragon and Valron transformed into the Ultimate dragon of prophecy.
Not long after her pilgrimage, the Dark temple, led by its new high summoner, a man named Raedium, launched an overt insurrection against the other temples seeking to establish dominance over the other elements. In the coming war she discovers that Raedium is actually her brother Daeon whom she had assumed dead many years before, but has now become a powerful summoner, also seeking to become the Ominae. Now, under her teacher's advice, Aurora journeyed to gain help from each of the other temple's summoners in order to prevent the Dark temple from rising to power.
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After the 'Temple Wars' as they later became called, Aurora disappeared from the public eye, retreating to the mountains for meditation, seeking to become more in sync with her fully-fledged powers. It was during this time she entered the Dome and had many adventures. Her first teacher was a man-lion named Kisian. It became clear very early in her stay that the Dome had plans for Aurora that didn't involve being a student, and she quickly took on a slew of students, many of which she has kept in touch with to this very day. After years of training many fighters, which she learned to hold dear, such as Tokumaru Kyo, Blitz Keir, and Chetarren Caesar, each in their own way. Eventually, she was called away from the Dome to continue her own story.
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Strangely, she was not sent to her own world after leaving the Dome, but sent on a sort of pilgrimage by it. The summoner saw many different worlds and met many people, some of whom became very close to her heart like Adrien, the vampire, and Synneschal Creed. Eventually, she was brought back to the Dome to meet with a new danger...
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Raedium, who had led the Insurrection of the Dark Temple many decades before, had infiltrated the Dome, siezing control of it's magic, wreaking havoc among its inhabitants. She teamed up with such notables as Sileya, the elven dragon summoner, Blitz, Cain the gunslinger, and many others to combat this threat. In the final battle, Aurora succeeded in defeating her brother, sending him back to their homeworld, freeing the soul of his twin Rae whom Daeon had bound to himself, but not without great cost.
In striking down her brother, Aurora herself was mortally wounded. The great dragon Valron sacrificed his ties to his beloved summoner, giving up his life force to save her, disappearing from this plane and into the next. Aurora went nearly insane with grief at Valron's loss, despite the friends surrounding her, she could see nothing but the loss of part of her own soul. Eventually she grew tired of thier efforts to heal her heart and she left the Dome, once again wandering the worlds aimlessly, consumed by the physical and spiritual pain within her. She wandered in this dark state for months, losing more and more of her will to live until ultimately, the Dome sent her to the home of a friend...
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In the city of Miiazu, Aurora was found by her friend and former student, Tokumaru Kyo. In the midst of a great festival, the two visited and drank, and the samurai watched his teacher grow more and more despondent until she finally left him in the tavern, having decided that there remained nothing to hold her to this plane.
She left the confines of the city and on the surrounding plains proceeded to give up her lifeforce to the earth and the four winds, scattering her energy so that she could follow her beloved summon to the next plane. She was stopped by the fire elemental who refused to allow her to end her own life, and not knowing of her loss or understanding it, did not understand her desire to end her life. A battle ensued, and ultimately Aurora dispersed her energies and went to the next plane to find her beloved summon, the other half of her soul.
No one knows what happened to her on that other plane, though she might speak of it if asked.
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After some time, she returned from that other place with her summon linked even more closely to her than before, now his dormant form is tatooed into her flesh. She has found new purpose, and embraces her life and her destiny more fully than she ever has, chosing to live each day to its fullest, not hesitating in her decisions or her affections, not knowing how long she has left before she must fulfill her ultimate destiny and leave this plane permanently.
Last edited by Ryorinin-san; 03-02-2008 at 12:34 AM.