My second char here. Hope everyone likes her. :cool:
Name: Ilyena (pronounced “Il-yay-nah”).
Age: 51.
Race: Unicorn.
Sex: Female.
Fur: A silver mane and tail, with pure white fur.
Eyes: Liquid brown.
Weight: 417 kg.
Height: 6’5”, horn included.
Weapon: Her horn, harder-than-diamond hooves, and magic.
Armour:
Strengths: As a reasonably young unicorn, Ilyena is fast, agile, and has an incredible amount of stamina. She also has the use of the magical ability inherent in her Race, which focuses more on illusion and healing than anything else. Besides this, all but the most evil creatures will think twice before causing serious harm to a unicorn.
Weakness: While Ilyena is not a pacifist, as the vast majority of her kind are, she still does not relish the prospect of battling others. As such, she is likely to seek out a way to avoid fights, even past the point where it would be obvious to another that a fight is inevitable. Furthermore, none of her magic is offensive, and so she can only harm her opponents through trickery or physically attacking them.
Skills/Magic: Ilyena knows three magical techniques that are of use in combat, although, like all her Race, she knows many others besides.
Illusion – Ilyena can send out one or more illusions to confuse or deceive her foe. Under normal circumstances, the illusion can be of anything she desires, but the stress of battle or flight limits her to things she knows intimately, such as her own body, or what she can see nearby.
Lord of Nature – As a unicorn, Ilyena is able to call on local wildlife or sometimes plants to aid her. Birds will distract her foes, while trees will heave their roots out of the ground to bar their paths or trip them up. Still, being a unicorn, she will
never use this to inflict direct harm, but only to distract or hinder. Besides this, it takes up most of Ilyena’s concentration, and so she can only keep it up for a brief space of time.
Healing – This is exactly as the name implies. Ilyena can heal herself or those around her, but it is a great deal less effective on herself than on others.
Appearance: While her body does resemble that of a horse, Ilyena’s pure white coat and spiralled horn leave no doubt that she is not. Her horn extends two feet from the centre of her forehead, just above her eyes. She is possessed of an unearthly beauty that captivates most mortals. The silver mane and tail that runs down Ilyena’s back is always moving, apparently stirred by a light breeze even when the air is at it’s calmest.
Personality: Ilyena, like all unicorns, does not enjoy fighting. She prefers enjoying life to trying to take it. Her sense of humour is a very prominent trait, which often leads her to play jokes on those it would perhaps be best not to play jokes on. Ilyena is generally kind-hearted and optimistic, and doesn’t like causing others pain of any sort, but she will fight when she has no other choice left to her.
Biography: Born deep in the heart of an ancient forest, not too far from where the oldest living creatures reside, Ilyena spent her early years by her mother’s side, as all young unicorns do. Her days were mostly spent dancing with her mother and any other unicorn in the area among the great trees of her home and learning how to harness her innate abilities, both physical and magical. Her strength and endurance grew almost daily, moving hand-in-hand with her magical power almost until the day that she attained full growth.
At the end of her childhood, Ilyena left her mother with a promise that the two of them would meet each other occasionally. Neither one wished to see the other go, but knew that they had their own lives to live. Ilyena’s mother remained within the forest, where she had dwelt for over a century before her beloved daughter’s birth, while Ilyena herself travelled out into other lands and places.
Staying for a time with the centaurs in another of the three most ancient forests, the young unicorn learnt more about the gods in the heavens that her more secluded mother had been unable to teach her, but chose to follow none. Ilyena was also horrified to learn about the many wars that other Races fought amongst themselves over land and resources prised from the Mother Goddess’ bosom. Her mother had tried to teach her about these things, but the older unicorn had been unable to find the words or thoughts necessary to convey the sheer horror of it.
Upon leaving the centaurs in their ancient forest, Ilyena travelled for a time among the lands of the human Race. Here, her abilities with illusionary magic flourished, as she used it to lead many of them, peasant and lord alike, on swift-footed chases through the many small forests and mountain passes in her path. Those that were injured while pursuing the lovely creature, she tended and returned home, often in better health than before they left, while those who saw the chase through to the end were allowed to find her, waiting, before she melted into the shadows again and continued on her way.
Ilyena has lived this way for many years, and greatly enjoys her life. Now, the beautiful unicorn ventures into lands that are unknown to her, eager to see what she will find.
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Ilyena's Training
None
Battles
A Chase Beneath the Trees (abandoned)
Pokéball, Go! (abandoned)
Out of their World (abandoned)
Night Painted Blood (abandoned)