“Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.” ― A.S. Byatt [/size}[/center]
[size=200]BASICS[/color]
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
Full Name: River Wayland
Nicknames: NA
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Mage: Caster
Magic Type: Active Ice Make
Rank:
Height: 5' 10"
Crest Location: Between her shoulder blades
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Purple
Eye Color: Grey
APPEARANCE
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”― Patrick Rothfuss
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”― Patrick Rothfuss
Style: River is generally always wearing as little clothing as possible in any given situation.
Distinct Markings: River has a tattoo of a black rose on her left ankle.
MENTALITY
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”― Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”― Robert Frost
Personality: River much like the ice she controls is a very cold person, she does not trust or open up to others and prefers to keep a lot of what she is feeling hidden. River doesn't talk about her past or what she was doing before she joined the guild and those that are smart don't ask her to. She enjoys solitude and has lived and survived with the mentality of taking care of herself before first before taking care of others, despite this she does have a soft spot for children, especially orphans.
Weaknesses/Fears: River's weakness lies in the fact that she does not trust others nor will she ask for help unless there is no other option. The only things River fears are her father and the people of her home village.
[list]Likes:
[*]Solitude
[*]Children
[*]Stargazing
[*] Sweet sugary food
[list]Dislikes:
[*]Opening up to others
[*]People who annoy her
[*]People who constantly ask questions
[*]Spicy food
Magic
"The ice is nowhere near as cold as I am."
"The ice is nowhere near as cold as I am."
[color=purple"Active Ice Make"[/color]: A type of magic that allows the caster to create and bring to life sculptures or weapons made out ice and control their movements. The stronger the visualization the stronger the construct, if you don't have a clear image of what you want to create in your mind the construct becomes unstable and easy to destroy. The ice itself generally takes on a color that reflects the casters personality or background, in River's case the ice is purple.
[color=purpleStrengths and Special Attributes[/color]: It is a very versatile form of magic, the limit to what you can create is set only by how much and how quickly you can form an image in your mind.
[list]Equipment and Personal Artifacts:The only personal affect River has on her at all times is a wooden staff topped with a ice lacrima that can be removed if necessary.
LIFE[/color]
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”― Mitch Albom
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”― Mitch Albom
History: River was born in a small mountain village that was very anti-magic, any mages that were found near the village were caught, executed and had their bones hung from the village gates. Despite that River's childhood was fairly peaceful until she turned six, that was when she first started to show traits consistent with that of being a mage. At first she was terrified, then she found out her mother was a mage capable of using what she called Active Ice Make. No one in the village, not even River's own father was aware of her mother's talents, so they went high into the mountains to train in secret where her mother was sure no one would find them.
They managed to keep their secret for about a year before it all fell apart around them, River's father followed them and watched them train. Her mother begged him not to turn them in and asked for another two years of safety in the village to train River before they would be gone forever. That was the first night River's father went out drinking and subsequently met his mistress.
The next two years were very similar to that day, River and her mother would train, her father would get drunk and bed his mistress. It became normal, it became routine for her father to look at her with the same disdain one would show a parasite. At first River didn't understand why her father hated her and her mother so much but she gradually came to accept it.
On the day of River's ninth birthday, and also the day of her and mother's departure from the village River was in the forest close to her house fetching her mothers staff and the rest of the supplies for their journey when she heard her mother screaming. She hid behind a tree and watched her father drag her mother out of the house and throw her at the feet of the village headman. He then went onto explain that his mistress was pregnant and he was going to marry her once the witch was dead. He claimed that her mother had cast magic that prevented him from telling anyone she was a mage. River watched as her father and the other village men beat her mother to death before hanging her body from the village gates. She then did what any child would have done, she ran.
River spent a few months surviving in the wilderness before coming across a large town, where she started her career as a thief for hire. Her small stature made it easy to slip in and out of places unseen and unheard. She hid her mothers staff in a small shelter she built for herself deep in the forest outside the town so she could fetch it and make a quick escape if necessary.
As River go older she started to travel from place to place offering her skills to whoever had the most money and only using magic when it was absolutely necessary. Overtime she found that some of the things she was hired to steal were magical artifacts, knowing that they would be destroyed she built herself a more permanent hideout in the form of an ice cave located in the mountain range that was once her home. River stashed all of her more valuable items or items connected to magic in the cave.
River was on her way to another job when she met Alexander and the others, she never expected to join their guild, but she doesn't regret the fact that she has. River hopes that being a part of this guild will allow to finally retrieve her mothers bones and lay them to rest in a more dignified manner.