Name: Kalley Ashford
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Nationality: Hipereon/Sky Pirate Mercenary
Faith: Anti-theistic
Magic: Class E Elementalist
Abilities / Talents: While she has a low magical aptitude she has mastered a difficult tome that allows the user to generate heat equivalent to that made by an arc welder with her hand, she uses this to conduct repairs in the field that would normally need to be done in a work shop and uses it that much that she has committed the incantation to memory (She still requires the tome but can resite it quite quickly). This supports her high technical aptitude and allows her to create new inventions and tinker quite easily, as well as be an effective field mechanic.
Weapons:
The standard sidearm of the Hipereon enlisted soldiers, modified with a more ergonomic handle and to fire .44 cal rounds. Kalley isn't a fighter so the weapon rarely gets used; it's more of a remanent of her days in the Hipereon High Guard.
Armor: None
Equipment:
On top of her specialised magical ability she carries a high quality multi tool given to her by her father when she was conscripted as a mechanical apprentice. It hangs from a hook on her belt.
Kalley carries a tome with the incantations for an array of fire spells. She can use a few of them but casting them drains her very quickly. However, she is able to cast one of the more powerful ones that produces a lot of concentrated heat through her hands which almost turns her into a walking forge.
She carries a normal smithing hammer for emergency repairs
Kalley would sometimes work on the Barro-cycles for the Hipereon military. Over the course of her tour of service she collected parts of decommissioned cycles. Once she had enough scrap and parts she built her own vehicle which she uses to get around the sky ports and tinkers with when she needs an anchor. She has named "him" Axel" and has been known to anthropomorphise "him" to the point that some of her companions think she gave it a machine soul.
Appearance: Kalley has short red hair, green eyes and a fair complexion. She is 5' 6? tall and has a light build. She is normally seen wearing a beige overall with the top half hanging off a belt around her waist and a white blouse with the sleeves rolled up, normally covered with spots of engine grease and ash. Her hammer, multi tool and a set of leather forging gloves hang off her left hip and a small zip bag full of small common spare parts and a pouch for her tome on her right. Her pistol is in a leather holster strapped to her left leg. On her head she has a set of biker's goggles, these have a set of flip-down covers so she can weld. She always wears a pair of riding boots with buckles that go all the way up. When she goes out on her chopper she wears a brown leather trench coat, a cream scarf and black leather pants. The coat has a corprals insignia on the left arm and the engineering corps' insignia on the right.
Personality: Kalley spends most of her free time sleeping in a hammock hanging above her workbench; she comes across as lazy and aloof, but wave anything as small as a broken watch and she will jump at the chance to fix it. Her time with the Hipereon military has left her cynical and she is quick to dismiss those who disagree with her. No one can enter her workshop that she doesn't want to enter as she has set a myriad of traps to take care of encroachers.
Bio: Kalley Ashford was born to a farmer family in the Northern Provence of the Hipereon Empire. Her homestead was close to a military scrapyard and as a child she would often sneak away and play in there; much to the dismay of her parents. She noticed how her family toiled in the farms and eventually decided to craft machinery to help them out. At first they were stupid little contraptions that were composed on a mess of cogs and pipes that simply happened to fit together. However as she continued to rip apart old machines she gained a working knowledge. When she was twelve she built a rudimentary tractor, reducing the cost of feeding work horses. After this she started her making her own designs, but found that she lacked the required equipment, so she learned a powerful tome. Many unintentional explosions and lost hair later she perfected the spell's incantation and essentially had arc welder hands. At fourteen she completed an ?auto harvester? that would attach to the back of the now heavily modified tractor, reducing the amount of man hours to harvest a field and allowing her family to expand their farm.
Their land lord, impressed, used them as an example for the other tenants of his holds. When a certain noble general was touring the Ashfords farm he noticed the equipment used decommissioned military spare parts. The family was arrested for theft of state property. When they found out that the inventor was a fourteen year old girl a general in the High Guard offered her family freedom in exchange for custody of Kalley, who explained that she would be apprenticed to one of the best Mechans in Lightwatch. The parting was bitter sweet; Kalley loved the idea of mastering her trade but hated leaving her family
She apprenticed under him for four years, during which time she improved her forging. After that time she was conscripted; working as part of the engineering corps in the High Guard. She had no emotions on this, to her it was just another place to practice her trade. As the Republic began their initial campaign against the Hipereon boarder she was assigned to the recovery effort and AA defence. As her rank steadily increased she found meaning in her service, but also had increasing contact with the higher echelons of the military. She became disillusioned as the royalists make it more and more difficult to source supplies for repairs, all the while her comrades were getting killed because the defence cannons weren't able to get the correct spare parts.
During this time she considered the subtext of the conflict; that she and her friends were pawns in this game that the gods were playing. She began to question the laws preventing the modification of the Heaven Schematics and had engaged in long arguments with her superiors about conducting experiments to find out why the Steam Men could only be safely constructed based on the Schematics. Her direct superiors put up with this until a theoretical schematic of a Combat Steam Man that she had designed was discovered. She was arrested and to be put on trial for violating the Heaven Schematics. As she was about to be carted away she managed to disassemble the lock and open the cell. She then made her way back to the base, collected her gear and left. There is a moderate bounty on her head.
She made her way to an airport where she came across Rez Tereth. She noticed his weapon had some structural damage and asked if she could fix it in exchange for some money. After a lot of convincing she did so right there on the spot. Tereth, impressed, gave Kalley the money and offered her a position aboard his ship, the proposition taking an equal amount of effort on Tereth's part.
Upon finding out he was an ex-royalist (after she asked "why do they call him Duke?") Kalley developed no small amount of mistrust towards the Tereth, unsure as to whether or not he was just an over pampered royalist playing pirate or was simply a man born out of his element and found it later in life. While she doubts his motivations, she doesn't doubt his abilities and follows orders without question.
When she was introduced to Marc she noticed the coldness beneath his eyes instantly, it was the same coldness that she had begun to feel and she hadn't seen a tenth of what he'd seen. She sensed this, but she never spoke of it, rather used him as an inspiration. She was determined not to become like him, though she didn't think any less of him for being the way he is.
Evangeline greeted her warmly and subsequently seemed to have made it her sole mission in life to protect Kalley from everything. This act occasionally annoys the hell out of Kalley, but she tolerates as she feels it comes from a genuine place. Kalley also enjoys explaining her creations to Evangeline, even though she's not completely sure if Evangeline understands it all.
Finally Zeke, the wise cracking ace pilot who can't hold his own in a fist fight. Zeke has been quite kind to Kalley and has occasionally got her to enjoy something aside from ripping apart machines. More than once they've been the last one's up; Kalley droning on drunkenly about a new contraption or her personal war against the gods, often incoherently, whilst he listens intently. She often berates him by calling him a fool, though normally while laughing.
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Nationality: Hipereon/Sky Pirate Mercenary
Faith: Anti-theistic
Magic: Class E Elementalist
Abilities / Talents: While she has a low magical aptitude she has mastered a difficult tome that allows the user to generate heat equivalent to that made by an arc welder with her hand, she uses this to conduct repairs in the field that would normally need to be done in a work shop and uses it that much that she has committed the incantation to memory (She still requires the tome but can resite it quite quickly). This supports her high technical aptitude and allows her to create new inventions and tinker quite easily, as well as be an effective field mechanic.
Weapons:
The standard sidearm of the Hipereon enlisted soldiers, modified with a more ergonomic handle and to fire .44 cal rounds. Kalley isn't a fighter so the weapon rarely gets used; it's more of a remanent of her days in the Hipereon High Guard.
Armor: None
Equipment:
On top of her specialised magical ability she carries a high quality multi tool given to her by her father when she was conscripted as a mechanical apprentice. It hangs from a hook on her belt.
Kalley carries a tome with the incantations for an array of fire spells. She can use a few of them but casting them drains her very quickly. However, she is able to cast one of the more powerful ones that produces a lot of concentrated heat through her hands which almost turns her into a walking forge.
She carries a normal smithing hammer for emergency repairs
Kalley would sometimes work on the Barro-cycles for the Hipereon military. Over the course of her tour of service she collected parts of decommissioned cycles. Once she had enough scrap and parts she built her own vehicle which she uses to get around the sky ports and tinkers with when she needs an anchor. She has named "him" Axel" and has been known to anthropomorphise "him" to the point that some of her companions think she gave it a machine soul.
Appearance: Kalley has short red hair, green eyes and a fair complexion. She is 5' 6? tall and has a light build. She is normally seen wearing a beige overall with the top half hanging off a belt around her waist and a white blouse with the sleeves rolled up, normally covered with spots of engine grease and ash. Her hammer, multi tool and a set of leather forging gloves hang off her left hip and a small zip bag full of small common spare parts and a pouch for her tome on her right. Her pistol is in a leather holster strapped to her left leg. On her head she has a set of biker's goggles, these have a set of flip-down covers so she can weld. She always wears a pair of riding boots with buckles that go all the way up. When she goes out on her chopper she wears a brown leather trench coat, a cream scarf and black leather pants. The coat has a corprals insignia on the left arm and the engineering corps' insignia on the right.
Personality: Kalley spends most of her free time sleeping in a hammock hanging above her workbench; she comes across as lazy and aloof, but wave anything as small as a broken watch and she will jump at the chance to fix it. Her time with the Hipereon military has left her cynical and she is quick to dismiss those who disagree with her. No one can enter her workshop that she doesn't want to enter as she has set a myriad of traps to take care of encroachers.
Bio: Kalley Ashford was born to a farmer family in the Northern Provence of the Hipereon Empire. Her homestead was close to a military scrapyard and as a child she would often sneak away and play in there; much to the dismay of her parents. She noticed how her family toiled in the farms and eventually decided to craft machinery to help them out. At first they were stupid little contraptions that were composed on a mess of cogs and pipes that simply happened to fit together. However as she continued to rip apart old machines she gained a working knowledge. When she was twelve she built a rudimentary tractor, reducing the cost of feeding work horses. After this she started her making her own designs, but found that she lacked the required equipment, so she learned a powerful tome. Many unintentional explosions and lost hair later she perfected the spell's incantation and essentially had arc welder hands. At fourteen she completed an ?auto harvester? that would attach to the back of the now heavily modified tractor, reducing the amount of man hours to harvest a field and allowing her family to expand their farm.
Their land lord, impressed, used them as an example for the other tenants of his holds. When a certain noble general was touring the Ashfords farm he noticed the equipment used decommissioned military spare parts. The family was arrested for theft of state property. When they found out that the inventor was a fourteen year old girl a general in the High Guard offered her family freedom in exchange for custody of Kalley, who explained that she would be apprenticed to one of the best Mechans in Lightwatch. The parting was bitter sweet; Kalley loved the idea of mastering her trade but hated leaving her family
She apprenticed under him for four years, during which time she improved her forging. After that time she was conscripted; working as part of the engineering corps in the High Guard. She had no emotions on this, to her it was just another place to practice her trade. As the Republic began their initial campaign against the Hipereon boarder she was assigned to the recovery effort and AA defence. As her rank steadily increased she found meaning in her service, but also had increasing contact with the higher echelons of the military. She became disillusioned as the royalists make it more and more difficult to source supplies for repairs, all the while her comrades were getting killed because the defence cannons weren't able to get the correct spare parts.
During this time she considered the subtext of the conflict; that she and her friends were pawns in this game that the gods were playing. She began to question the laws preventing the modification of the Heaven Schematics and had engaged in long arguments with her superiors about conducting experiments to find out why the Steam Men could only be safely constructed based on the Schematics. Her direct superiors put up with this until a theoretical schematic of a Combat Steam Man that she had designed was discovered. She was arrested and to be put on trial for violating the Heaven Schematics. As she was about to be carted away she managed to disassemble the lock and open the cell. She then made her way back to the base, collected her gear and left. There is a moderate bounty on her head.
She made her way to an airport where she came across Rez Tereth. She noticed his weapon had some structural damage and asked if she could fix it in exchange for some money. After a lot of convincing she did so right there on the spot. Tereth, impressed, gave Kalley the money and offered her a position aboard his ship, the proposition taking an equal amount of effort on Tereth's part.
Upon finding out he was an ex-royalist (after she asked "why do they call him Duke?") Kalley developed no small amount of mistrust towards the Tereth, unsure as to whether or not he was just an over pampered royalist playing pirate or was simply a man born out of his element and found it later in life. While she doubts his motivations, she doesn't doubt his abilities and follows orders without question.
When she was introduced to Marc she noticed the coldness beneath his eyes instantly, it was the same coldness that she had begun to feel and she hadn't seen a tenth of what he'd seen. She sensed this, but she never spoke of it, rather used him as an inspiration. She was determined not to become like him, though she didn't think any less of him for being the way he is.
Evangeline greeted her warmly and subsequently seemed to have made it her sole mission in life to protect Kalley from everything. This act occasionally annoys the hell out of Kalley, but she tolerates as she feels it comes from a genuine place. Kalley also enjoys explaining her creations to Evangeline, even though she's not completely sure if Evangeline understands it all.
Finally Zeke, the wise cracking ace pilot who can't hold his own in a fist fight. Zeke has been quite kind to Kalley and has occasionally got her to enjoy something aside from ripping apart machines. More than once they've been the last one's up; Kalley droning on drunkenly about a new contraption or her personal war against the gods, often incoherently, whilst he listens intently. She often berates him by calling him a fool, though normally while laughing.
The main thing I changed was the fact that she has to use a tome now; I was considering it and there were a few situations that might arise that would mean the issue was instantly solved ("Oh we're in prison, I'll just melt the bars off!"), and added some mention to the other Sky Pirates.
so; @Viking, @Athol, @Fishtie, @Dogmatic99, We good? You think I got the character dynamics down?
Can't wait to get rolling.. or flying s the case may be.
