Body 6 Health 55 Shock 11 Mind 4 Energy 45 Soul 5 CV: 6/4 Character Points: 41 (1 BP for background) Name: Niles Race: Kirdun Elf Occupation: Blademaster Attributes Skills Animal Friendship 1 Acrobatics 1 (Jumps) Combat Mastery 1 Archery 2 (Bows) Extra Attacks 1 Melee Attack 3 (Polearms, Swords) Features 2 (Longevity, Melee Defense 3 (Polearms, Swords) Night Vision) Unarmed Attack 1 (Strikes) Highly SKilled 4 Unarmed Defense 1 (Strikes) Item of Power 2 Wilderness Survival 2 (Forest) (Blademaster's Sword) Wilderness Tracking 1 (Forest) Kensei 3 (Chanbara Master, Katanaspace, Two Weapons) Lightning Reflexes! 1 Magic 1 (Kensei Magic) Personal Gear 2 Servant 3 (Green Diatramy, Mitsuko) Sixth Sense 2 (Sense Magic, Sense Spirits) Speed 1 Defects Attack Restriction 1 (Kirdan) Magical Restrictions 1 Marked 2 (Tribal Tattoos) Phobia 1 (Vampires) Recurring Nightmares 1 (Pit Fighter) Wanted 1 (Sidun) Personal Gear Fighting Pole (Naginata) Fire Crystal Longbow (Dai-Kyu) and arrows Light Crystal (major) Diatramy-modified cart (major) Kensei Magic Powers Mind Shield 3 Regeneration 1 Super Strength 1 Background Niles is an elven Blademaster of the Uzuki Kensei School, recently graduated and sent out to find his fortune. A Kirdun elf, he was captured by Sidun slavers at the age of ten, and forced into the brutal pit fights for the enjoyment of the Noble Vampires and their favorites. In the pits, Niles learned that survival was all, he sought out others of his tribe between fights, and continued the ritual tattooing and scarrification of his people, to give him strength and to intimidate his opponents. The vampires allowed this, as Kurdan and Kirdun pit fighters were the most popular at the time. He spent twenty long, brutal years in the pits, escaping only by dumb luck during a cross-country transport to a new arena. The armored wagon he was being transported in was suddenly dumped into a river by a bridge collapse. Out of the six other fighters in the transport with him, only Niles survived, the others drowned still in their shackles. To this day, he doesn't remember how he escaped from his own restraints, there is a blank between the sudden rush of water and his arrival, gasping, on shore alone. Afterwards, he ran for the border, not stopping until he felt the warm touch of sunlight once more. He found a small cache of weaponry near the border, and armed himself. Several weeks later, lost and hungry, he attacked a lone human man traveling in the woods. Instead of counterattacking the elf's furious strikes, the man dodged the blows, and, in a single motion, snapped Nile's sword in half with his bare hands. Enraged beyond reason, Niles grabbed the man's own sword from its sheath. The man smiled at him, then danced back, away from him. Niles pressed the attack, but the man dodged easily, almost effortlessly. At no did the man make a sound, skimming silently above the ground as he danced back and forth. Eventually Niles got lucky, his stolen sword carved an effortless arc through his opponent's head. However, the sword's blade passed through with no effect! "Excellent. You live up to your reputation, Niles." The man said, then knocked him out with a single punch. When he came to again, he learned that the man was Brand Uzuki, and he was being offered the chance to join the Uzuki Kensei school. Niles gladly accepted a chance to use his skills for good, instead of for some immortal's amusement. Over the next six years, Niles mastered carious weapons unlocked his own Kensei powers. Other Kirdun Blademasters gifted him with the marks of an adult upon his graduation, including his own forest Diatramy, named Mitsuko. Description Niles shaves his head everyday to keep his tattoos visible. He typically goes shirtless as well, wearing only pantaloons, and sandals during the winter. The marks of his shackles remain, and twenty ridges of scarred flesh run across his back from the whips and other less wholesome devices. If asked politely, he will don a coat for formal occaisons. Niles is lean, tall, and covered in angular tattoos all over his body and face, only the palms of his hands remain untouched above the waist. Mitsuko: Body 5, Mind 3, Soul 4, Health 45, Energy 35, CV 5/3, Shock 9 Attributes Appearance 1 (Cute) Combat Mastery 1 Extra Capacity 1 Ground Speed 1 Natural Weapons 2 (Beak, Talons) Defects Awkward Size 1 Cannot Talk 1 Rudimentary Manipulation 1 Unskilled 2