Post by Dustin on Jan 2, 2013 17:48:41 GMT -7
Subject to change in the near future as I hammer details out!
Birth Name: Delphina Alivestraea
Stage Name: Coral, Mermaid Princess of the Inner Sea
Race: Merfolk
Gender: F
Profession: (Sorceror) Unemployed Musician, formerly a circus attraction
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Deity: Shelyn
Age: 21
Hair/Eye color: Indigo-purplish hair, green eyes
Height: 6'7" long head to tail
Weight: 270 lbs?
Description: Coral's indigo-purple hair is currently in a short pixie cut - she cut the rest of it off to get rid of the dyed parts. Her skin is a medium brown bronze tone, and she typically wears a linen vest on her human chest.
She is a bit vain of her fishy lower half, with cobalt blue scales, and bemoans how dirty they get when she crawls or rides anywhere. Her tail has the elaborate gauziness of an exotic fish, and occasionally she stops to fret over it while on land.
Bio: Delphina grew up an orphaned urchin in the undersea city of Tol Bathys, singing for alms before the temples of Shelyn and Gozreh. Begging became difficult for her as she reached adolescence: a poor helpless minnow of a girl had received sympathy (and copper) from passersby, but a healthy, unemployed young mermaid was more likely simply to receive scornful looks or jeers of "Get a real job!" With no one to teach her the traditional Merfolk crafts of underwater basket weaving, fish herding, or clam farming, Delphina turned to scavenging. It wasn't long before the young mermaid discovered that the wrecks of ships sailed by humans and other land dwellers sometimes contained gold and other valuables that the people of Tol Bathys were more interested in purchasing than they wanted to admit.
Eventually Delphina had exhausted the local shipwrecks and, defying the traditional warnings all Merfolk whispered to their children, she made her way to the surface, curious what the ships might be like before they sank. The sailors of ships passing above Tol Bathys were surprised to see Merfolk at all, much less a young mermaid offering to sing for coins. Delphina enjoyed a few pleasant months of peculiar celebrity as rumors of the singing mermaid spread among sailors, but inevitably the warnings of her people were shown to be justified when a group of mercenaries came and captured her in an immense net, took her back to land, and sold her to a circus the same way they would have sold a captured lion.
The circus decided Delphina was a silly name and called her Coral, Mermaid Princess of the Inner Sea. They dressed her up and dyed her hair, and had her perform songs about distant waters (in which she had never swum) and of mysterious sea creatures (she had never seen). Her years in the circus were more fun than her life in the sea, but also rather uncomfortable for an aquatic creature like herself. As she found herself developing sorcerous powers, she began to dream of traveling to some of the places mentioned in her songs. Sad to leave some of her circus friends behind, but glad to swim in the sea once again, Coral made a break for freedom during a show in a port town, and made her way along the coast to Varisia.
Birth Name: Delphina Alivestraea
Stage Name: Coral, Mermaid Princess of the Inner Sea
Race: Merfolk
Gender: F
Profession: (Sorceror) Unemployed Musician, formerly a circus attraction
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Deity: Shelyn
Age: 21
Hair/Eye color: Indigo-purplish hair, green eyes
Height: 6'7" long head to tail
Weight: 270 lbs?
Description: Coral's indigo-purple hair is currently in a short pixie cut - she cut the rest of it off to get rid of the dyed parts. Her skin is a medium brown bronze tone, and she typically wears a linen vest on her human chest.
She is a bit vain of her fishy lower half, with cobalt blue scales, and bemoans how dirty they get when she crawls or rides anywhere. Her tail has the elaborate gauziness of an exotic fish, and occasionally she stops to fret over it while on land.
Bio: Delphina grew up an orphaned urchin in the undersea city of Tol Bathys, singing for alms before the temples of Shelyn and Gozreh. Begging became difficult for her as she reached adolescence: a poor helpless minnow of a girl had received sympathy (and copper) from passersby, but a healthy, unemployed young mermaid was more likely simply to receive scornful looks or jeers of "Get a real job!" With no one to teach her the traditional Merfolk crafts of underwater basket weaving, fish herding, or clam farming, Delphina turned to scavenging. It wasn't long before the young mermaid discovered that the wrecks of ships sailed by humans and other land dwellers sometimes contained gold and other valuables that the people of Tol Bathys were more interested in purchasing than they wanted to admit.
Eventually Delphina had exhausted the local shipwrecks and, defying the traditional warnings all Merfolk whispered to their children, she made her way to the surface, curious what the ships might be like before they sank. The sailors of ships passing above Tol Bathys were surprised to see Merfolk at all, much less a young mermaid offering to sing for coins. Delphina enjoyed a few pleasant months of peculiar celebrity as rumors of the singing mermaid spread among sailors, but inevitably the warnings of her people were shown to be justified when a group of mercenaries came and captured her in an immense net, took her back to land, and sold her to a circus the same way they would have sold a captured lion.
The circus decided Delphina was a silly name and called her Coral, Mermaid Princess of the Inner Sea. They dressed her up and dyed her hair, and had her perform songs about distant waters (in which she had never swum) and of mysterious sea creatures (she had never seen). Her years in the circus were more fun than her life in the sea, but also rather uncomfortable for an aquatic creature like herself. As she found herself developing sorcerous powers, she began to dream of traveling to some of the places mentioned in her songs. Sad to leave some of her circus friends behind, but glad to swim in the sea once again, Coral made a break for freedom during a show in a port town, and made her way along the coast to Varisia.
