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User name: Shallan Davar
Have you read the rules? Yes
Character Name: Shallan Davar
Character Source: Stormlight Archive (taking her from about halfway through book 3)
Starting Location: Mesa Roja
Character Behavior:
Shallan is a Frenetic Novice. Her childhood in a deeply disturbed noble family left her with some deep-seated issues that she has struggled to overcome, and only recently has she had the autonomy to begin to discover who she is. While Shallan is a curious scholarly type by nature, her desperation often leads her to take rash actions, adapting to failures more quickly than she makes plans to avoid them. Too often her path has been one of reactions or chosen for her, and she sometimes struggles with actualizing her own goals as a result.
Shallan isn’t a warrior. Despite possessing an incredibly powerful shardblade and being able to use stormlight to heal otherwise mortal injuries, she has no experience on the battlefield, and only rudimentary training from her betrothed Adolin. This lack of training means that her fighting style is decidedly function over form, and she is willing to use somewhat underhanded techniques if they will end the fight quickly. Though a novice swordswoman, she knows that a shardblade is an incredibly dangerous weapon to use without training, so she is hesitant to wield it if she does not need to.
Physical Description:
A young Vedan woman of seventeen, Shallan has long red hair and faded freckles. Her homeland has very strict gender roles, which Shallan has been steadily growing to question as she accumulates experience. However, she still follows Vedan fashion, where women keep their left hand, their “safe hand” covered when in public. If needed she does so with a glove, but the preferred method is a long-sleeved dress; the left sleeve being a longer closed off “pouch” which can also be used for storing valuable things such as her coin. She frequently carries her sketchpad and belongings in an over-the-shoulder satchel.
Character History:
The youngest of five in a mid-tier noble family, Shallan’s youth was quite sheltered, affording her much time for studies, but little experience with the world. Dark events led Shallan to kill both her mother and father, the first in self-defense at a young age, the second to save her brothers years later. She was briefly the ward of Jasnah Kholin one of the foremost minds of the era, where she first began developing her abilities as a Surgebinder, before her mentor’s apparent assassination left Shallan stranded in the wilderness. She developed Veil as a disguise first to avoid being targeted for ransom, but later expanded her usefulness as the more confident commoner personality could achieve things that an anxious young lady of clear nobility could not.
Shallan was instrumental to the Kholin family’s saving the war camps from the arrival of the Everstorm and was the one who both found and activated the portal to the lost city of Urithiru. Now publicly one of the legendary Knights Radiant, Shallan struggled with the expectations of helping solve a world-wide crisis. She created a more idealized version of herself, Brightness Radiant, who she sometimes adopted to help meet those expectations. As time has progressed, Shallan has come to depend on these two personas, and it has become harder and harder to keep them separate from herself. when her mission to the besieged capital city of Kholinar fell into disarray, she and her companions fled to the city's Oathgate, only to find the portal had been trapped when she attempted to activate it, sending her somewhere else entirely, the crossroads.
What starting Affinity does your character have? Gifted
Abilities/Skills:
Illumination
Illusion (sight/hearing) 4 (1000)
-Ongoing (400)
-Limited (blurs and dissolves with distance from Shallan) (-200)
-Finite (requires Stormlight to use) (-200)
Total = 1000 + 400 – 200 – 200 = 1000
As a Lightweaver, one of Shallan’s abilities is to manifest Stormlight as hologram-like illusions. Her preferred use for this ability is as a disguise for herself or others but she can create other small illusions as well. The clarity and definition of her illusions reflects the quality of her mental image when she creates them, to this end she frequently sketches portraits of her intended images, helping her mental image and therefore the illusion to be more lifelike.
Shallan has been able to modify her own voice while using this surge as well as create sounds from other illusions. Though her illusions do not require her direct concentration to maintain, they do dissolve over time without the investment of more stormlight and will begin to blur and breakdown if they get too far from Shallan.
Imaging
Sense (Sight & Supernatural) 5 (1000)
-Concentration (-250)
-Activation (-250)
Total = 1000 – 250 – 250 = 500
By focusing on a scene for a moment and blinking, Shallan is able to take what she calls an “image” of what she sees. Though she does not remember the scene consciously any different from normal, she is later able to draw it with near perfect accuracy. In addition, these drawings will sometimes reveal details that Shallan did not consciously notice at the time, including beings or things that do not exist in the normal world as we see it. She can have multiple images that she has not drawn, but once she draws the image, she would to take another one to draw it again.
Artistic talent
Craft(Sketching) 6 (300)
Craft(Painting) 6 (0)
Craft(Portraiture) 6 (0)
Craft(Scientific Drawings/Annotations) 6 (0)
Shallan is an accomplished artist, rarely without her sketchbook and charcoal. Drawing is a much needed stress relief for Shallan, and she loves nothing better than finding something new and interesting, often doing brief sketches on the spot or taking an “image” for later if she does not have the time at the moment.
How much Essence did you spend? 1800
How much Essence do you have left? 200
Were you referred by an existing member? I am secretly Roy Mustang, Shhhh don't tell anyone
Have you read the rules? Yes
Character Name: Shallan Davar
Character Source: Stormlight Archive (taking her from about halfway through book 3)
Starting Location: Mesa Roja
Character Behavior:
Shallan is a Frenetic Novice. Her childhood in a deeply disturbed noble family left her with some deep-seated issues that she has struggled to overcome, and only recently has she had the autonomy to begin to discover who she is. While Shallan is a curious scholarly type by nature, her desperation often leads her to take rash actions, adapting to failures more quickly than she makes plans to avoid them. Too often her path has been one of reactions or chosen for her, and she sometimes struggles with actualizing her own goals as a result.
Shallan isn’t a warrior. Despite possessing an incredibly powerful shardblade and being able to use stormlight to heal otherwise mortal injuries, she has no experience on the battlefield, and only rudimentary training from her betrothed Adolin. This lack of training means that her fighting style is decidedly function over form, and she is willing to use somewhat underhanded techniques if they will end the fight quickly. Though a novice swordswoman, she knows that a shardblade is an incredibly dangerous weapon to use without training, so she is hesitant to wield it if she does not need to.
Physical Description:
A young Vedan woman of seventeen, Shallan has long red hair and faded freckles. Her homeland has very strict gender roles, which Shallan has been steadily growing to question as she accumulates experience. However, she still follows Vedan fashion, where women keep their left hand, their “safe hand” covered when in public. If needed she does so with a glove, but the preferred method is a long-sleeved dress; the left sleeve being a longer closed off “pouch” which can also be used for storing valuable things such as her coin. She frequently carries her sketchpad and belongings in an over-the-shoulder satchel.
Character History:
The youngest of five in a mid-tier noble family, Shallan’s youth was quite sheltered, affording her much time for studies, but little experience with the world. Dark events led Shallan to kill both her mother and father, the first in self-defense at a young age, the second to save her brothers years later. She was briefly the ward of Jasnah Kholin one of the foremost minds of the era, where she first began developing her abilities as a Surgebinder, before her mentor’s apparent assassination left Shallan stranded in the wilderness. She developed Veil as a disguise first to avoid being targeted for ransom, but later expanded her usefulness as the more confident commoner personality could achieve things that an anxious young lady of clear nobility could not.
Shallan was instrumental to the Kholin family’s saving the war camps from the arrival of the Everstorm and was the one who both found and activated the portal to the lost city of Urithiru. Now publicly one of the legendary Knights Radiant, Shallan struggled with the expectations of helping solve a world-wide crisis. She created a more idealized version of herself, Brightness Radiant, who she sometimes adopted to help meet those expectations. As time has progressed, Shallan has come to depend on these two personas, and it has become harder and harder to keep them separate from herself. when her mission to the besieged capital city of Kholinar fell into disarray, she and her companions fled to the city's Oathgate, only to find the portal had been trapped when she attempted to activate it, sending her somewhere else entirely, the crossroads.
What starting Affinity does your character have? Gifted
Abilities/Skills:
Illumination
Illusion (sight/hearing) 4 (1000)
-Ongoing (400)
-Limited (blurs and dissolves with distance from Shallan) (-200)
-Finite (requires Stormlight to use) (-200)
Total = 1000 + 400 – 200 – 200 = 1000
As a Lightweaver, one of Shallan’s abilities is to manifest Stormlight as hologram-like illusions. Her preferred use for this ability is as a disguise for herself or others but she can create other small illusions as well. The clarity and definition of her illusions reflects the quality of her mental image when she creates them, to this end she frequently sketches portraits of her intended images, helping her mental image and therefore the illusion to be more lifelike.
Shallan has been able to modify her own voice while using this surge as well as create sounds from other illusions. Though her illusions do not require her direct concentration to maintain, they do dissolve over time without the investment of more stormlight and will begin to blur and breakdown if they get too far from Shallan.
Imaging
Sense (Sight & Supernatural) 5 (1000)
-Concentration (-250)
-Activation (-250)
Total = 1000 – 250 – 250 = 500
By focusing on a scene for a moment and blinking, Shallan is able to take what she calls an “image” of what she sees. Though she does not remember the scene consciously any different from normal, she is later able to draw it with near perfect accuracy. In addition, these drawings will sometimes reveal details that Shallan did not consciously notice at the time, including beings or things that do not exist in the normal world as we see it. She can have multiple images that she has not drawn, but once she draws the image, she would to take another one to draw it again.
Artistic talent
Craft(Sketching) 6 (300)
Craft(Painting) 6 (0)
Craft(Portraiture) 6 (0)
Craft(Scientific Drawings/Annotations) 6 (0)
Shallan is an accomplished artist, rarely without her sketchbook and charcoal. Drawing is a much needed stress relief for Shallan, and she loves nothing better than finding something new and interesting, often doing brief sketches on the spot or taking an “image” for later if she does not have the time at the moment.
How much Essence did you spend? 1800
How much Essence do you have left? 200
Were you referred by an existing member? I am secretly Roy Mustang, Shhhh don't tell anyone
