1) Name: Elith Be'lige
2) Gender: Male
3) Age: Adolescence ((I'm not sure of a specific number. I would like some help with that))
4) Race: Dark elf
5) Job/Class: Elith is an assassin, though a different kind. Artemis is an assassin who works for a secret organization who seeks out people who are of great political power and have lives of evil, hidden in secrecy. His job is to wait until one is found, then kill them. It takes awhile for the organization he works for to find one, for it is easy for these people to cover up their evil deeds. So he is usually just relaxing or training, and you'd never suspect one such as Elith to be an assassin.
6) Power: As elves usually are, Elith is skilled with a blade or a bow. It is said that his skills are exceptional, even more than most of his kin. However, by looking at him, you could never really tell.
Elith, like all males who go to the Academy, is trained in every melee weapon and ranged weapon they have. He chose, however, to be proficient with rapier and dagger, which is a choice all swordsmen go through in the Academy.
Elith is a master of stealth and infiltration. The darkness is his friend, his home, and his greatest ally.
As most elves go, Elith is extremely quick. He has a high dexterity and this is helpful in his ability to fight enemies. It keeps him coordinated at all time.
7) Appearance:
8) Weaknesses: Elith, like all dark elves, is sensitive to light and heat. If he is walking during the day, chances are he is walking with impaired vision. This condition impairs his fighting ability a little.
When Elith was young, he had had a nasty run in with magic. His brother, Malkaris, was studying magic and was trying to control a spell of fire, the most basic of spells. Unfortunately, he hadn't gained full control, and since Elith was practicing with his rapier, the fire ball flew and hit him instead. He nearly died that day, but he sort of forgave Malkaris for it. But from then on, Elith has been scared of magic.
9) Biography: Elith was born in a city of drow deep in the earth under Arken. From a young age, his family knew that Elith would one day be a formidable foe to anyone, even them. He was very handy with a blade, but preferred the rapier for it's light weight. He could dual-wield his rapier and a dagger, which was what he would always do during a sparing match.
For the time he lived in the city, Elith was just as cruel and malicious if not more so than his family. He was also very clever, for they knew that when a sister or a brother went missing ((for there was many of them)) that Elith had something to do with it. However, they could never prove it, for he seemed to have a reason he couldn't have done it, which was verified by others who positions in the political chain were quite high.
However, they still knew, and they decided to somehow get rid of him. The problem was how to do it. Elith was the most clever out of them all, and could kill any one of them if he wanted to, as it had been proved many times before. Their luck held out, for Elith and his brother, Malkaris, were personally invited on a raid of a nearby human settlement.
Elith was, to say the least, excited about the prospect. He had wanted to see the surface world, but never knew exactly how he'd get there. Now was his opportunity. The raiding party made it to the surface in the cover of night, shadows among shadows in the darkness.
Elith's first look on a human was odd for him. He saw some children at play, though the others didn't seem to notice. The humans seemed so different from them. Though they didn't live in conditions anywhere near the drows, they all seemed happy and cheerful. Elith thought of what it'd be like to be like them for a brief moment.
Before he could finish, however, the two children were shot by arrows from his kin, and Malkaris burned the buildings, forcing the people out. There was mass slaughter, and though Elith had seen it before, and had even taken part in killing many times, something didn't seem right in his heart about this. In fact, none of it seemed right.
Elith was pondering about the humans who were until recently living happy lives. Of course, he was distracted while he was thinking. Malkaris took this opportunity to go ahead and kill off his brother before he could get back. As they walked towards the cave, Malkaris caused some rocks of the cave they used to get on the surface to collapse, hopefully on Elith
Well, it didn't. Malkaris had timed it too early, and Elith was unscathed. However, he was trapped out here, in a world he didn't even know. That was like condemning him to a slow and painful death. Dejected, Elith went to sleep, wondering what would become of him in this world he didn't know.
Elith spent the next few years trying to find out about the races of the surface world. He did observations always from afar, but sometimes had gotten caught and had to flee, which he always escaped from them. From his observations, he learned that all the races pretty much hated his, but the elves and the dwarves seemed to be the most willing to kill him, even if he was younger.
It was a year after this that he found a friend, by the name of Odion. He seemed to trust Elith even though he was a drow. Elith, over the years, had softened his heart, even though he had been chased away so many times. All these people seemed to know something that he had never seen in the underground city. Odion told him it was friendship, and offered it to him, which Elith accepted.
After a few weeks, they had gained each other's trust and friendship and Odion felt safe telling him a secret. He worked for an organization that specialized in dealing with evil in a different manner. There were people of high politcal power that supported evil for on the inside they themselves were evil. This organization made sure to find them and kill them, weakening the grips of evil guilds that worked in secrecy.
Elith was familiar with such a task, for that's how he had grown up, except noone was really a good house. He wasn't even sure that this organization was exactly good, but they seemed to have a good cause, and there for, he agreed to help them. Now he works as their assassin, and is very good at it.
10) Personality: Elith is a kind and generous elf on the outside, though most don't take the time to notice. He will offer aid to those in need at no cost to them.
When it comes to killing someone, however, Elith is very professional, and can be ruthless. He will most likely kill anyone standing between him and his target, though one day it might be a friend. This he fears.
11) Extras: Namara (Neversleep): This rapier dazes the targets when you do enough damage, such as a stab or a gash. It will daze them for a short time, maybe 40 seconds at the most, depending on the damage caused.
Ancestral Dagger: The dagger is much nastier, for when you stab someone and cause enough damage, it causes acid damage added to it, such as burning away of certain skin and organs around it. Of course, because it's a small weapon, it will only melt away a partial amount of skin and organs. It just hurts a lot.
Ancestral Bow:
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Elith Be'lige
Elith Be'lige
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- Soran Nightblade
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Noob, I hate to say this, but your character bears too much resemblance to an existing character in popular fantasy fiction. Please adjust your profile to make him more original. Also, please either explain (well) how he can know ALL melee and ranged weapons at an adolescent age, or make his weapon proficiency more realistic. I'd also appreciate it if you elaborate on his weakness to make it more impairing, or add another weakness. Thanks.
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I approve of this character.
Just a quick note though. Before it wasn't required to have a written description, however, after a little discussion, it is required from now on to give one. Though a picture does convey appearance well, there are things that one cannot get through a picture alone. You can still base a character off of a picture and even post it as a visual aid. But it must be backed up with a text description.
Out of curiosity, I am wondering why you didn't do it this time though. I cannot vouch that for the two new members, who may be used to forums where a picture is enough, but you have written them on previous characters, so I know you are at least familiar with writing descriptions.
Just a quick note though. Before it wasn't required to have a written description, however, after a little discussion, it is required from now on to give one. Though a picture does convey appearance well, there are things that one cannot get through a picture alone. You can still base a character off of a picture and even post it as a visual aid. But it must be backed up with a text description.
Out of curiosity, I am wondering why you didn't do it this time though. I cannot vouch that for the two new members, who may be used to forums where a picture is enough, but you have written them on previous characters, so I know you are at least familiar with writing descriptions.