Erza - Aiel/Channeler/Gaidin

[Jehlal]

Biography: 

Name: Erza
Age: 44
Place of birth: Cold Rocks Hold

 

Physical:

Erza is 5’8, athletic and well muscled. Her hair is fiery red that she has allowed to grow out ever since leaving the Maidens. Her skin is fair and she has blue eyes, like many Aiel.

Her face can be best described as fierce and intimidating.

 

Mental & Emotional: 
At her core, Erza is a typical maiden; sarcastic, cynical, fun-loving, and able to switch to being serious at a moments notice. She protects her friends and allies at any cost, and will not hesitate to throw herself into harms way for any of them.

However, learning the truth of the Aiel’s past affected her greatly. She became solitary, joyless, and distant to everyone. Finding her new purpose has allowed her to begin to overcome this.

 

Character History:

·         When the news spread about who the Aiel really were, many Aiel couldn’t handle it. Although women tended to fair better with the news than men did, they were not wholly immune, and neither was Erza. She was a very young Maiden of the Spear, only 17 when the news reached her. She had been in only a handful of battles, the largest being assault on the Stone of Tear. Of course, that one turned out to be her last.

·         To Erza, honor and toh were everything. Her father was a Red Shield and her mother was a Wise One, and she had had the ideals of the Aiel instilled in her from the moment she could talk. To learn that she, along with every Aiel in existence, was an oathbreaker was beyond her ability to handle.

·         She wanted to, and she tried very hard to stay with her sisters. She asked the older ones for guidance on how they dealt with it. She tried to throw herself into their new duty to carry the honor of the car’acarn. But it wasn’t enough.

·         When they reached Cairhien, she almost slit her own throat but was stopped by her sisters. They persuaded her to stay, citing that they had new oaths and new obligations to see through, and those were to protect the car’a’carn. And so she stayed; she fought the Shaido Aiel at Cairhien, and then again at Dumai Wells, helping to save the car’a’carn in the process.

·         But it wasn’t meant to be. Her heart just wasn’t in it anymore. After seeing so much destruction and gore caused by Asha’men against the Shaido, enough to unnerve even the most hardened of Aiel, Erza gave up. She dropped her spears unceremoniously and disappeared into the fog of war, never to be seen by her fellow Maidens again. She was Aiel no longer.

 

·         After wandering around living off the land, Erza eventually found her way to Tar Valon. There was something about the city of the Aes Sedai that drew her in. The Aes Sedai were the ones that gave her people their oaths to begin with, and maybe, she thought, just maybe there might be salvation in serving them again.

·         And so she walked through the gates, wearing a dress gifted to her by a farmers wife a few weeks earlier over her the tight leggings and top that had made up the small clothes of her candin’sor, and up to the Tower. The sight of a lone fiery haired woman was enough to raise some eyebrows, but not cause any alarm as she made her way towards the sound of steel and wood clanging against one another.

·         Arriving in the Warder training yard, she looked down and there laid a common iron sword, left there by one of the trainees, likely.

·         I was forbidden from taking a sword in defense of my own life. She thought to herself as her hand reached toward it and grasped the blade at the hilt.

·         But perhaps a sword of the Aes Sedai may yet find redemption.

 

Sometime after they fled the Tower's destruction, they discovered that she could be taught to channel. Alexa taught her ever since, but she had embraced her role as Gaidin and did not wish to formally become an Aes Sedai, as her purpose was to protect Aes Sedai.

 

Character Reputation:

She is certainly odd amongst the Gaidin, being the one and only woman who trained with them before the founding of Merrilor. Yet doubters did not last long, as she quickly proved to be more than capable of handling herself in combat. So fascinated by her the Master of Arms was that he let her stay and train for free.

She eventually became known through rumors as that red-haired female warder.

 

Connections: (optional)

Erza knows some Maidens of the Spear, but has forfeited all connections as of The Bleakness.

After the Tower was made whole, she befriended Alexa Kaden and became her companion, and eventually her Warder.

 

Character Goals: (optional)

Only one, and that is to protect Aes Sedai, most importantly Alexa.

 

Group: Aiel - Channeler

Special Requests: I am intending her to be a companion character with Alexa, I will roleplay them both together. Her strength in the One Power would be the same as Alexa's, 15+, with no talents. I would be assigning her a 7 in Swords and 3 in Spears.

Edited February 5 by Jehlal

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Edited February 4 by Arie

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I like the concept, I'd suggest her skill with the spears should probably be higher though if she was a maiden.  Even if she stopped using them in favour of the sword, residual skill.  On a sidenote, story wise it might be interesting if her strength was lower than Alexa's.  That sets Alexa up more as the big One Power worker, but if Erza were trainable in the power but had lower capacity for it, she'd have to be far more economic with her use of the power to balance out.  For example, wrap a weave of fire around her weapon rather than just setting an opponent on fire, or throwing the wind in a person's face to blind them rather than just tying them up with hardened air.

 

I'm not admin though, just a thought. 🙂  The core concept of a maiden whose faith was broken and is finding a new life is an interesting one.  Look forward to playing with you when you finish up your bios.