Name: Lisaana “Lisa” Kurran
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Ethnicity: D’homani
Place of Birth: Dostathi, a small village slightly inland from the Syakh coast.
Physical Appearance:
Lisa shares some physical traits with her fraternal twin, but ultimately they are not identical as the word ‘fraternal’ would imply. They stand at the same height of 5’11, but Lisa’s hair is a deep shade of red with a less accentuated bone structure allowing for a softer looking face and presenting her as the more caring of the two sisters. In terms of physicality, she’s slightly bigger than her sister as her bulk is meant to carry the heavy armor and claymore that she favors. As such, while she comes across as a caring soul, she often has a bigger intimidation bonus working for her.

Once again, unlike her sister, Lisa likes to look good in generally everything she does, often accenting her golden brown eyes with any tasteful makeup she can get her hands on. She isn’t above spending too much time in front of a mirror to make sure her hair is perfect, even if she’s walking into a fight. Her body is also marked with scars, and despite not seeing most of them due to her armor, is actually more marred than her sister due to her tendency to leap to someone’s defense. Her armor currently is a high quality steel forged by competent blacksmiths to provide more than adequate protection has been forged with the idea of taking a hit in mind. While it may look small in comparison to some of the armors worn by men, her strength and stature as a woman has been taken into account in order to provide the best overall protection for someone her size.

Outside of her combat gear, she is fairly vain about her appearance and hates wearing anything that doesn’t “Look Nice” on her. She’ll wear flowery dresses, finely pressed shirts, and abhors cloth anything. If she had her way, she would have a different dress for every day of the year. If you asked anyone who knew her, they would say it was her one shortcoming. Others see it as a good sign, that she always wants to look her best. Others are simply tired of waiting an hour for Lisa to finish in front of a mirror.
Eye Color: Golden Brown
Hair Color: Dirty Red
Skin Tone/Complexion: Slightly Tanned.
Height: 5’11
Weight: 195 lbs

Combat Skills:
Much like her sister, Lisa is well versed in the art of combat. Where their paths start to diverge is in their aggression levels. Saskia went full offensive in her style whereas Lisa found herself near the back line, protecting the more vulnerable to the fight through an offensive defense style. This method has earned her more than her fair share of nicks, scars and scratches, but it’s what she chose. As such, she actually has a higher pain tolerance than her entire family combined, and more than enough strength to push back should she get the opportunity. Her weapon of choice is a claymore. Nearly the size of her and strapped to her back, she is more than capable of cleaving a man in two if given the right amount of force. While slower than a typical sword, she is versed in the use of the weapon and knows the weight of her particular sword down to the gram, allowing for some tricky maneuvers that catch many would-be killers off guard.

Once again, she wasn’t specifically trained in hand to hand combat, but has taken to it quite easily and is more of a brawler style than people would take her for with grapples and grabs to limit opponent’s movements being her default setting. She’s highly adaptable, but her first and foremost priority is to protect people, and will often hold back all that she has if there’s a chance it would draw her into a position where she couldn’t help people. As such, it can be easy to push her into a corner if pressed but she would never go down easy.

Magic Mastery Level:
None
Magic Resistance Level:
Primary
Flow Mastery Level:
None
Weapons and Equipment:
Thorn: The official name given to her claymore by her brother, Mace. The reason behind it being that she always tries so hard to look her best for anyone that might see her, her beauty could be seen as a rose...the claymore being the thorn that pricks the finger that would dare pluck her from her proper place. With it, she can become a dominating force on the battlefield, and the blade itself has a history all of its own etched into the metal with nicks and scars.

Fitted Steel Armor: When she originally started the trek with Mace and Saskia, Lisa was adorned in some heavy leather armor due to a metal shortage in their village that restricted its use to weapons and important armor pieces such as helmets. As she travelled with Mace, she eventually found a blacksmith who was skilled enough to fit her with a suit of armor that wouldn’t force her to essentially be a walking wall. Over the past years, it too has earned more than its fair share of stories written in blade strikes, arrow deflections, and magical scorch marks. She added a red hood to the ensemble because “It looked cute”.

Point Maker: To be clear, Lisa doesn’t like having to be scary. Most of the time she can leave that up to Saskia and her aggressive ways. When the time comes though, and pulling her claymore out isn’t an option, she has a trusty dagger at her hip which her brother has lovingly nicknamed the ‘Point Maker’. She’s used it more than once to threaten someone who would have gotten in their way or tried to hurt them, and more than once it has gotten blood on it. The world is a dangerous place, and it never hurts to keep something like a dagger nearby.

Medicinal Pouch: Due to Mace’s condition, Lisa always carries remedies with her at all times to deal with Mace’s multiple ailments as a result of his advanced age. She takes care to keep it stocked as much as possible.

Miscellaneous Items:
-A bag of books, particularly on magical curses and holy magic.
-Pouch of coins
-Drawn pictures of home, her family, and her spouse

Personality Description: Lisa has always been a caring and kind soul, even from the moment she sprung from the womb of her mother. From a young age, Lisa sought to help those around her and probably spent more time trying to make sure people around her were smiling than she did herself. As a child, she did chores without being asked, consoled kids her age, and did her best to act ‘cute’ while in the presence of elders and parents in order to make them happy. She spent so much time doing this that you could say she didn’t even have a childhood. Everything she did was calculated to bring joy and aid to those around her, and more often than not she was exhausted and trying to find a place to nap.

She has an undying need to see people around her happy, and it physically pains her to see anyone having trouble with something or crying. With that comes a very deep sense of protection and will not hesitate to put herself between someone and danger, and despite numerous injuries due to this mindset, she keeps doing it. One of the few things she does share with her sister is an aggressive switch that she can turn on at any moment. While she tends to fight more defensively, if she wants to, she can become a whirlwind of destruction and a very intimidating fighter on the battlefield.

She’s not above the act of killing if it involves protecting or saving another person. She doesn’t like the act of violence, but her lifestyle doesn’t allow her to be a non-violent person. She will resort to fighting and killing when there are no other options left, and she happens to be very good at it.

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Religious Beliefs: The Great Creator

Education: Lisa has spent a good portion of her time hitting the books and learning a lot about the world at large. She knows how to read, write, minor weapons repairs, political affairs, etc. You could say she was somewhat of a nerd when she was younger, getting her hands on any knowledge she could grab.

History: The older of fraternal twins, much of Lisa’s life was spent as the golden girl of her parent’s eyes. Her attitude helped with this quite a bit, and having someone like Saskia as your twin makes you automatically look better by comparison. She spent most of her early years, once she had learned basic motor skills, essentially being an angel child with a heart of gold. None of this was just natural though, she worked at being that way. She fought, in her own way, to be the best person she could be. She helped kids her age with their homework, comforted people when they were sad...and was the most patient person with Saskia.

As her life went on, she only became known throughout the village as the kid to emulate. She was smart, fit, and more than capable of holding her own in a fight early on when Saskia was more than a handful. She would often step between Saskia and her current target to take the beating herself until Saskia calmed down. Despite her rather calm and happy manner, her village was not a place where a peaceful life was allowed. So as she came into her teenage years, she took to fighting like a bird to flight. It was actually during this time when Lisa and Saskia got into their first real fight, one that left both of them bleeding and slightly broken. Saskia saw fighting as her thing, and when Lisa became extremely good at it she saw it as her one thing being taken from her. Lisa tried her best to calm her down, but Saskia was the only one that Lisa couldn’t help and it hit her hard.

She channeled that frustration from not being able to help Saskia into her fighting style, where she quickly found out she had the ability to do great harm. She took to weight training and ended up developing an affinity for the two handed sword. Due to her weapon choice, she bulked up fairly quickly and with her inclination to step between fights, earned more than her fair share of scars and callouses. It became evident that while Saskia was quicker, more agile and more prone to all out offensive moves, Lisa was better suited to taking on a more defensive role. When she started her job as a hunter, she more than pulled her weight with her claymore and generally tough exterior.

It was actually through this job that she met her future husband. Branson Lissen, older than her by a couple of years and having spent more than that out in the wastes. He was impressed with her combat ability, and slicing a couple of desert wolves in half...literally in half right before they could leap on him also helped with the first impression. They courted for awhile, and they were married by the time Lisa was 21 years of age.

They haven’t had any children together though, with Lisa’s reasoning of them both being desert hunters and never around the house anyways. She didn’t want to risk having a child while both of them had such a dangerous job. She and Branson branched off of the rest of the hunters and became a partnership out in the dunes. Lisa was happy doing what she did, she loved her husband and her family...including Saskia. They fought together for a number of years...until Mace’s incident.

Needless to say it devastated her and her vision of her life. Mace was a cornerstone of their family, the one that had managed to help Saskia calmed down and while she and Mace weren’t necessarily that close, he was still family. When Mace decided that he wanted to go on an adventure and Saskia immediately offered to help him with this for an undetermined amount of time, she was caught in a hard place. On one hand, she wanted to help her brother with everything she was capable of doing, on the other hand, she had a husband who, at some point, would like to start a family. She had no idea how long she would be away if she did so, and ended up struggling with the decision for quite some time as signs of extreme stress started to appear on her face. It was actually her husband who told her to go with Mace, stating that he had many years yet to live, while her brother might only get a few more. He wouldn’t blame her for wanting to spend what little time Mace had left with him. So with little more than a few goodbyes, she was off to see the world with her siblings.