Weaver of the Woods
Full Name: Natalia Casmirre
Aliases: Weaver of the Wood.
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Sphere & Abilities:
Gifted with the Sphere of Geomancy at an early age, she has spent many years exploring its powers and building upon them.
[x] Shaping: Natalia is able to manipulate the elemental forces of the earth, allowing her to shape metal, gemstones and wood to her preference; as well as being able to affect the earth beneath her feet. This usually has a small effect and allows her to raise up the land or grow fauna faster and healthier than otherwise.
[x] Moving: This is similar to Shaping Earth but on a larger scale, allowing her to raise hills and mountains as well as lowering the land into chasms. This does not violently break the surface of the ground. Instead, it creates wavelike crests and troughs, with the earth reacting with glacial fluidity until the desired result is achieved. Trees, structures, rock formations, and such are mostly unaffected except for changes in elevation and relative topography.
[x] Living Constructs: Natalia is capable of forming earth, stone and metal into the shape of constructs, which take on the appearance of whatever she wishes to design. These she imparts simple commands too in a manner similar to that of the mythic Golems. She has experimented with giving them intelligence and awareness of their existence as well but the success varies as the level of self, increases. Some are stable at lower levels while others are not.
For the most part she simply commands them as an extension of herself, with a few exceptions. Though she has found it much easier to grant limited animal natures to some of them.
[x] Generate Earth: It is possible for Natalia to create elemental forces from herself, while much more taxing that simply altering existing earth it does not stop her from doing so. Once she has created sufficient amounts, or drawn on existing earth she can cause it to increase and generate more, resulting in an almost limitless supply of material. In addition to this it is possible for her to create armour, weapons and tools through this in order to protect and defend herself should she need too.
Tools/Weapons:
Natalia has made a living for herself as an artistic blacksmith, following on from her Father and Grandfather and as such possesses a wide range of tools to help her in the trade. Admittedly, while much of what she needs to do she is able to achieve through her powers she prefers to do the majority using her more mundane skills, believing that if it isn’t worth doing it the hard way then the result isn’t as valuable.
She has also spent much of her free time designing and forging weapons from different cultures, some for profit and others simply for her own use. Due to this, her home is rather cluttered with a multitude of weaponry, ranging from wooden practice arms to swords to rival master craftsmen.
In addition to the tools and weapons she’s crafted for herself she has also made several Golem’s to assist her, mostly for manual labour or working the forge, and thus simple creatures of limited scope. Though she has built three with an intelligence all their own, who are the closest things to friends that she has now.
Strengths:
[♦] Natalia believes in balance in all things
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Weaknesses and Fears:
[♣] When a person’s life is taken from them violently, and unwillingly by another’s force and will, the vibrations left in the world echo’s outward, like a stone into a pool of water. These ripples cause Natalia to suffer a faint aspect of the pain that the origin did. This can vary drastically depending on the manner of the person’s death. Though in contrast to the weakening of her life fa natural death does not result in this torment, since it is part of the cycle of all things.
[♣] Her ability to heal living creatures takes its toll on both her and all life around her. While the healing primarily drains her own life force it can be possible, especially if her focus is disrupted for it to also draw it from all sources nearby, this can be done willingly or unwillingly. The latter causes her considerable pain due to it not only weakening her to save another, but forcibly draining others. The drawing from another human willingly does not require touch but is limited, whereas forcing it from a unknowing or unwilling subject needs physical contact, and is much more taxing.
[♣] She is scared of being too long removed from the natural world around her, primarily in cases where she is lifted from it or disconnected. This usually requires her to have her feet resting on the earth at all times or she will begin to panic and become irrational and unreasonable. She has been able to bypass any long distance travel by using transport across water for the most part. This is primarily due to it not removing her as much, and her loss of control being much more delayed than it would have been otherwise.
[♣] After her powers began to manifest and slowly increase in potency over the years she became concerned for the ramifications and what it meant. Due to this she became more and more withdrawn and closed off from others to the point of falling off the grid. Due to this she has very few, if any close friends or family who speak with her or even know where she is. One of the factors towards this was the fear in people’s eyes when she’d healed those they knew, and lead to her changing her name as well as hiding her true one to avoid discovery and others hold over her.
[♣] Since her powers are rather intricate and in-depth, usually requiring the vast majority of her attention to shape the world around her she tends to fade out of reality somewhat, becoming completely oblivious of almost all sound and movement nearby. This is mostly the case when utilising the powers of Life rather than Earth, since when in tune with the latter she becomes more aware of the world around her.
Height: 172.5cm / 5’8”
Weight: 68kg / 150lbs
Appearance:
Natalia is easily described as svelte but somewhat stocky due to her constant exercise and outdoorsmanship, as well as taking up her father’s career in part. Her body is well toned and slightly muscular, but not overly so, simply the body of a woman who’s spent many hours firing up a forge and working hard. She stands at reasonable height and weight; some would say average, with fair skin and almost pure white hair. Her skin is decorated with faint tribal tattoos, most of which lightly ring her arms and legs with a little curving around her neck; simple designs that contrast well with her skin as well as a couple of faint floral patterns around her eyes.
Personality:
Natalia is a quiet woman, usually to be found wandering the hiking trails and hidden paths of the land. She rarely seeks out the company of others, preferring the contemplation of her own thoughts to those of anyone else. She can be rather rough at first, preferring to keep her distance but for those she trusts she is unmoving in their support and friendship. Reasonably stubborn she has been known to defend her values with a fierce fire, since while she may be reserved she is in no way timid. She doesn’t speak much but when she has cause to act she prefers it to have weight.
Likes:
[♥] Solitude
[♥] Working at the forge
[♥] Outdoors
[♥] Wine
[♥] Archery
[♥] Hiking
[♥] Moonlight
[♥] Reading
Dislikes:
[♠] Violence
[♠] Flying
[♠] Forest Fires
[♠] Lack of control
[♠] Social Situations
[♠] Family
[♠] Half hearted/inactive people
Backstory:
Natalia and her twin, Nadia were born in a slightly remote part of Iceland to an unusual couple; their Father, Regis Casmirre was an artistic blacksmith who’d worked his entire life in the pursuit of beauty through metal and woodwork, as well as the shaping of glass and cutting of gemstones; while their Mother, Kristina was medical doctor who’d stepped down from the pharmaceutical world due to feeling that they were harming more than helping. They married and settled down together before removing themselves slightly from the community, living alone save for their father’s work which resulted in them being reasonably well off.
Natalia is more grounded, sensible and logic. Always one to think things through before acting on them but her sister tended to bring out a slightly reckless side of her when they were younger. With the two of them usually getting into trouble and Natalia trying to talk them out of it, or when neither of them could attempt to reason for lesser punishment. Together they used to play and learned simple skills of fire and forge from their father as well as how to hunt in the forest. Admittedly their mother instilled a strong sense of value from this, explaining never to take more than you need and not to waste what you take.
When the girls were twelve a man attacked them while they were out with their aunt at a local fair, who killed her when she tried to protect the girls. Since the man was never caught, despite him being covered in blood and screaming for their deaths, the mother decided she was leaving, taking Nadia with her; much to their distress since neither had much say in the matter. Over the next few years they spoke little but managed to see each other for a while, till they finally ceased speaking all together.
Natalia has always wondered if the mother blamed her for what happened, and began to withdraw more as time went on. When she was twenty she left home and has since settled in the south of France where she was able to utilize her gifts to cultivate her own little domain away from prying eyes and start up a small but reasonably productive vineyard. Due to her father teaching her during her youth how to use the forge and helping her develop her skills of creation with hammer and tongs, and showing her the subtle skills needed to temper metal as well as to craft simple jewelry to the finer details of cutting gemstones; she'd always had a love of working with the elements of the craft. To her it spoke of a union between conflicting ideals to form a singular form, and eventually she succeeded her father when he stepped back to retire and cease his craft, thus taking over the family business at the age of twenty-three, rather than working alongside him.
Other: Nothing, as of yet. Other than it being roughly ten years, or more since Natalia and Nadia have actually spoken or seen each other.
