Liron Aldaine
Role
Spymaster
Type of Changer
Aveis - āLarger Aveisā
Nicknames
Shir, Lark, Shadow, Feather, Kestrel
Gender
Male
Age
22
Personality
Liron is most of the time a quiet individual who stays in the background of everything that he does. He would prefer not to be noticed, especially by any other Changer - mostly due to his fear that they will end up eating him. This tied in quite nicely with his role as the Spymaster. When people are paying attention to him, especially when it deals with those that are supposedly under his role, he ends up being far too concerned with an image of easy confidence in his own power - even when he knows that everything he says is extremely bogus. In a world when almost everyone possesses the power to kill him, or to make his life miserable at best, he has to persuade them through his posturing and self-confidence that attacking him would be a bad idea.
Due to this, he is much to prone to think about his actions as an outsider, making sure that each of his motions displays his power over the others. Well, except for the leader, that is. He doesnāt really know how to relate to other Changers, as he has spent the majority of his past away from society itself, so heāll have a hard time making friends of people. Anyways, heās happier with a superior-inferior relationship with many of the people of the Army, just to refrain them from thinking that they could one day take over from his position. He possesses a sort of quiet sureness in every one of his actions, as well as a charisma that draws people to him when he decides to talk - but he says that it comes from his voice, as it is more fluid than that of most Changers.
He is, in the best of times, soft-spoken and pliant, and in the worst of situations, weak-willed and dependent. He would rather not be in any situation where he places his life on the line. That was the first reason in picking an āeasierā job as the Spymaster. When encountering a large threat, he will freeze with terror, being unable to move. At times, he will unconsciously change into a kestrel, in order to flee more quickly. In terms of physical battle, he knows that there is no way that he will win - unless itās something like a Murin. As a kestrel, his speed and agility are fast enough, and at least he can perform more complicated aerial maneuvers with ease. Miaos and Lupus terrify him, as they eat birds, and so do Spinners, due to their venom.
He usually ends up hiding behind his weaknesses. His dedication to the Army is also something to be noted, his innate cowardliness is pushed to the side when the Leader is in trouble - not that he would ever be. He joined the Leader a long time back when Liron was trying to get away from the normal humans, who seemed set on destroying him. All he wants is a place where he can live as Aveis without problemsā¦ and thus, he has put his allegiance in his hands. He plays a supporting role because he wants to. Heāll work with his co-workers, the Interrogator and others of the higher echelon of the Army. However, other than the Leader himself, he wonāt trust them with the majority of his information, treating them as helpers. But when doing so, heāll end up being quite uncomfortable around them, as he knows that itās unfair of him to do so.
Due to his poor balance, he prefers not to be seen stumbling around awkwardly. He takes to his kestrel form much better, and can be seen commuting for long and short distances in his kestrel form. Liron dislikes to change in front of other people, and will first check that he is unwatched. Itās strange to watch others change as well, and he will be one of the few people that will completely avert his eyes for a long period of time.
He is a firm believer that information is one of the most important things. After all, if they could only find out where the Pack was hidden, then with their superior weapons and manpower, they can actually remove that one threat there is to achieving their goal of creating a perfect society, one without humans and their inability to accept who they were. Somewhere in his heart, he blames humans for their closed-mindedness for the current situation in the world today. If they could just get rid of that, which he believes exists in humans and mostly humans, then the world would be a lot better than it is currently. Liron will sometimes collect information on any topic that shares even the smallest connection to their enemies. He can be single-minded at times and will follow any lead he has as far as it will lead him. At times, this makes him slightly foolish and weak to false leads, but with persistence, heāll probably stumble on the right answer.
Brief Description of Human Form
Liron has dark brown hair that reaches the bottom of his earlobes. A few brown specked feathers are entwined along with the individual strands of hair, and fall in front of his eyes. These eyes are a hazel color and specked with a darker brown. They are naturally gentle, and slightly large compared to others, but when provoked harden almost imperceptibly. As he is a Feather, heās gifted with a graceful stance, as well as an inhuman weight. However, upon moving, he seems to be awkward on ground. Heās lighter than most of his height, and reaches about 179 centimeters in height (5ā 10ā). However, his bones are all thin and fragile - easily seen through the thinness of his wrists and arms. With a blow, they will easily snap. His features can be described aquiline in form - a sharp nose and sharp cheekbones. There are also feathers in the nape of his neck, but these are far more downy, and also barred. Following these feathers downward, there is also a few clumps of brown feathers on his shoulders, but nowhere else. His legs are also thin, but not to the extent that his arms are. He prefers to wear clothes of simple make and natural colors, such as brown, green, or blue. But when undercover, heāll be more likely to wear various other things.
Brief Description of Animal Form
Liron turns into a Common Kestrel. He is one of the larger birds of his gender, with a wingspan of 83 cm (about 32 in) and a head to tail length of 40 cm (15 in). He weighs about 253 grams (9 oz) - making him bigger than most songbirds. His plumage is a light chestnut brown with small black spots, if you look at him from above, and a paler brown with black streaks from the bottom. His wings are about the same color as most of his plumage, but the tips are a black. His head is a grey-blue color, as is his tail. The tip of his tail is also black, but there is a tad bit of white as well. Liron has striking black eyes ringed with a bright yellow that seem to be studying everything that happens around him. During the fall, he molts, and it can be seen through a gradual losing of the feathers, usually a few at a time. This causes more difficulty in flying, but after the molt, he can be seen wearing his most brilliant plumage of the entire year.
Human Skills/Abilities
Liron possesses extraordinarily good eyesight that allows him to see details from quite far away. He has fast reaction speed that comes from years of swooping down and picking up a meal. His voice is lyrical, and is said that his song can bring even the hardest-hearted person to tears, but no one has ever heard him sing yet. He possesses a skill with rhythm and pitch, and can whistle quite well. He enjoys creating code, and has quite a few of his own creation. Also, tying into his role as the spymaster, he possesses a sort of quiet sureness. Also, as a last resort, he is quite a master at disguise, being able to change his mannerisms - except when under high stress and he can never get rid of his awkward state on the ground. And as every spymaster knows, he also serves as an anti-intelligence person, and much of his time is dedicated to finding the spy or spies of The Pack.
Animal Skills/Abilities
As Liron has taken to his transformed state quite well, he can fly much better than he can walk. As a kestrel, he is the one bird of prey that can hover in midair provided that there is a headwind that he can use. He has lightweight bones, which makes him light enough to be carried around. He can also see ultraviolet light and the entire spectrum of colors, which comes in handy when trying to follow someone from the air. He can easily swoop down and capture smaller Aveis and Murin, as he is a predator. The kestrel-version of him is also possesses more efficient breathing, where he can get more oxygen to his brain (through a birdās ability to breath in oxygen when either breathing in and out.)
Weaknesses
Despite the strengths he has with his mind, his body is anything but. His bones are brittle and easily broken, causing him to be more of a liability than anything else in battle. He is also unable to concentrate on more than one thing at one time, and therefore, can be easily distracted. Venom/poison works on him a little too much, as his heart beats faster than most humans. His coordination on the ground isnāt the best either, as he has spent much of his life up to now as a kestrel. He cannot lie very well - even if he tries his hardest, facts tend to slip out. He has a muted sense of smell and taste, and without his eyesight, he is quite useless. When stressed, he has a trouble thinking of what to do next, and will blurt out whatever he thinks of off the top of his head. Liron also needs to eat more than most, and as a kestrelās normal prey is hard to findā¦ at least when theyāre not Murin, he is forced to eat much more than most others. In his avian form, by clipping his wings, you cause him to be completely dependent and unable to move very far, quickly - when he transforms into a human, itās the equivalent of cutting his Achilles tendon.
History
He was only about two years old when small obvious feathers started to dot his body. They had been since birth, but his parents didnāt want to be known to have conceived a monster, and attempted to hide it. For the next year, they tried to pluck the feathers as they grew, but gave up when they only served to grow larger and larger. Liron was lucky enough to be taught how to speak nowā¦ or who knows how long he would have stayed without speech. He was also lucky that it was spring. Changing into a fledgling kestrel on pure circumstance, he managed to get the attention of a pair of nesting kestrels, who, not knowing that he was not a part of their brood, ended up feeding him and taking care of him.
However, when he became an adult form of his bird only a two years later, his āparentsā kicked him out of the nest, and he started to live off the land himself, usually staying in kestrel-form only. It went alright, but he started to lose many of the social skills that he had learned so far. He learned to take care of himself, butā¦ somehow, one day in his teens, he ended up straying too close to the human villages in his human form. They, knowing who he wasā¦ attacked him trying to get rid of the demon.
It was then that he met the leader of the Army. The Army's leader seemed like the right person to follow at that time - to the then heartbroken Liron, who had recognized the faces of his parents, whom he had still loved, in those that attacked him, it seemed like a paradise that the Skinwalkers would be able to have their only little land. He started out as a normal spy, but soon got better at his duties, and became the Spymaster himself. At this point in time, heās working on trying to get his spies planted throughout the city and create a way for them to communicate to each other through long distances. Heās currently playing with lights and mirrors, but as they are quite rare themselves, it seems like a hopeless task. Still, he has to continue trying.
Rumors:
As for rumors about him, little is known about him - from his real appearance to his name - but strangely enough, his kestrel-form is pretty much known to all. He attempts to refrain from changing in front of others in a little part due to this - if he can keep his allies oblivious then his enemies should also not know. However, the fact that he can be anywhere at anytime as a human, led to his nickname āShadā, a short for shadow. He has been seen circling the city at strange intervals of time, and no one knows whyā¦ but all heās doing is testing out his communication techniques and doing something to flush out his enemies from where they are hiding.
Attitudes:
Tenko Kieran - ...
Lorelai Kieran - ...
Farren Leinfelder - ...
Kora Neverwinter - ...
Atra Von Galbri - ...
Kiarna Elmm - ...
Sevrin Massengale - ...
Kuril Mindon - ...
Hiibel Talcen - ...
Allaron - ...
Other
It takes him a less than average time to transform - about 2.5 seconds.