Post by Ariana Hrothgar on May 19, 2008 13:43:36 GMT -5
Hidden behind the mask
See Mistress of the Art of Death
The Mask
Name: Ariana Hrothgar
Age: 24
Place of birth: Copper Isles
Gender: Female
Home: The Dancing Dove, Corus.
Position: The Rogue Queen, also called: The Mistress of the Rogue.
Cannon or original: Original
Face claim: Li Bing Bing
Appearance: Ariana is tall, standing at a striking 5'10. Her lanky body has been made into a fighting, dangerous machine over the years, and it is very evident. Her arms are strong, and well muscled, trained in all weaponry, though she prefers knives and hand-to-hand combat. She does many crunches a day to keep her stomach tight and strong, and she runs to keep her legs and cardio in shape. All around, a very intimidating person.
However, all this hard work has given her some problems. Her hair has prematurely gone white by the time she was 17. Her own mother was shocked by this herself, and still is. Her skin is perfect, the hard work daily keeps her skin well sweated out and prevents pimples. Her eyes have taken on the Yamani shape, and her eyes, the dark of the Carthaki. Her lips have taken on a sort of shape of both. Longer, but plumper at the same time.
Her attire is a little odd. She has chosen to mix the her two cultures. She wears the low neckline and corsets of her Carthaki heritage, but she also wears the long sleeved coats and sashes of her Yamani heritage. It makes an interesting mix, and makes it hard to identify her, for all her attire never looks the same.
She also has a habit of braiding her hair and attaching a large jade ring to the end of it.
Personality: Ariana is a hard person to live with. Though she is calm, it is easy to disturb the internal balance of her being. Which is what makes her intimidating. It is impossible to know what she is thinking until she voices her thoughts. It's impossible whether to know if you are in her good books or in her "Soon to Die" books.
The only person she trusts are her chosen few, and her fellow monarch, Jarren. It took her a long time to understand and trust him, but now she accepts that he could make a good King.
History:To understand Ariana, we must start way back with her mother. Elena was part of the legendary Black Hearts, a assassin society in the Yamani Islands. She was a right hand of the Master of the Art of Death. Then one day, she was accused of treason. A crime againds her Master of the Art of Death that she would never dream of commiting. the Master gave her a choice: Leave the Yamani Islands and never return or face a Cruel Death.
Seeing as she herself had done these cruel deaths herself, she chose to leave, and never return. She caught the first ship out of the Isles, and parading as a boy, went to the Carthaki Islands. There she was sold as a slave to a very rich man. This is when Elena's luck was given to her on a platter.
Her new employer, a man by the name Tyan Hrothgar, was a Commander in His Royal Highness of Carthaki's army. He saw Elena's beauty, which was why he bought her. he did not want her as a slave to clean... he had other ideas. Elena did not like these ideas, and fought for them, which only made Tyan laugh and fight her back. He tried every night to subdue her, and found over the months that he could not.
Then, a most amazing thing happened. Instead of trying to win her one day, she came to find him kneeling down on the floor. Tyan had slowly began to like her, and then slowly began to fall in love with her. he asked for her hand in marriage at that time. Elena said yes... for she felt the same. It was an odd marriage, and an odd love.
And out of this love... came Ariana, their only child.
Ariana was the light of both parent's eyes. They taught her everything they knew about combat strategies, and customs. Ariana grew up knowing how to please all Carthaki and Yamani relations by the time she was twelve, and was quiet a party favorite.
This did not mean she liked it. Though yes, she was a fighting machine, even had some fire gift, she could not use it. You could say her life was fairly boring. She lived as a courtier should. As she grew older and taller, the boys attended to her more prominently in a different way then they used to, and she felt on display. She wished to leave this life. She became a rogue.
She was quiet good at what she did. she would listen to the courtier's talk with her father and mother about certan artifacts that they found and had in their house. Her mother or father would want it immediatly, and Ariana could see that.
So, she would steal it, and put it in her parents secret money chamber. Her mother saw her in the act of this once, and was automatically proud of her daughter. Her daughter... their secret benefactor.
Once she was nearly caught by a friend of the family. This friend accused her openly to the Carthaki court. Ariana and her family played the horrified family.
Ariana knew she could not stay. Luckily, her hair had not turned completly white yet. Only a few strands. She killed a look - a - like of hers that she found on the street, and put her near a window in Ariana's room. She left a note in her mother's clothing for the next day, and caught the next boat to the one place where she knew she would be inconspicious... Tortall.
She became good friends with the Captain of the Ship... a man named Ishmael. She learned in a rather awkward way, that they were pirates, and they learned in a fairly awkward way that she could beat the crap out of any of them easily. She decided to stay with them for a while. To learn the art of pillaging. She sent 10% of her findings to her mother with a letter. At somepoint during this, all her hair went white, and she turned 17.
She left the pirates when she turned 20, saying that she needed to be on land, though her love of the sea was great. She went to Corus, and met the rogues almost immediatly. She became a great asset to them. She was an assassin and a theif rolled into one, everything they had dreamed of.
It did not take her long to become the right hand of the Rogue Queen. In fact, it was rather easy. She played the good little theif until one day when Ariana was 22, she thought the Queen had been on her throne long enough... and waited for the next outing with her Queen. Just them girls.
Ariana killed her in cold blood not a week later. She was automatically up graded to the Rogue Queen, and no one has questioned her since, except for Jarren on the odd occasion, but that was to be expected.
Rp sample: See The Mistress of the Art of Death.
Secret word: Lioness
