Articus
Tigulf Extraordinaire
Violet Robbins
- The Roadside Ranger -
- The Roadside Ranger -
Posting Color: None
Name: Violet Robbins
Race: Shadow Elf
Sex: Female
Age: 33
Hair: White / Shoulder Length
Eyes: Grey
Height: 5'9 (175 cm)
Weight: 145 lb (65 kg)
Languages: Elven, Common, Dwarven (basic)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Vigor: 50
Arcana: 0
Strength: 40
Melee Warfare: 60
Ranged Warfare: 75
Speed: 30 ft
This character has no arcane abilities.
RIGHT WEAPON
• Ancient Hellguard Straightsword
LEFT WEAPON
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ADDITIONAL WEAPON
• Elven Longbow
AMMUNITION
• Iron Arrow x24/24
SHORT WEAPONS
• Elven Steel Dagger
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HEAD GEAR
• Black Hood
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UPPER GEAR
• Black Leather Armour
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LOWER GEAR
• Black Leather Armour
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FOOT GEAR
• Black Leather Boots
RIGHT HAND
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LEFT HAND
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• Flask (full of water)
• Flask (full of water)
• Map of Asgard
• Rations
• Rope (30ft)
• Quill
• Ink Bottle
• Paper x5
• Morse device and code table
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• 21 gp
• 5 sp
• 5 cp
Violet is often described as the epitome of a commanding officer. Able to keep calm in even the most hectic situations, she displays a maturity beyond her years and often plays the voice of reason. To those who meet her for the first time, she may seem rough and demanding, with her tomboyish tendencies and her innate desire to outperform those around her. She is slow to place her trust in others, expecting it to be earned and not given. Only her friends know that beneath the gruff exterior resides a kind and gentle person. Violet acts as a caring older sister towards her fellow Resistance members, always trying to bring out the best in people.
Violet never knew her parents, having been barely more than an infant when she was found on the front steps of an orphanage in Alicante. It was in that orphanage, as well as the streets of the city, that she spent her childhood years. Unsurprisingly, she did not like life in the orphanage, or the treatment she got from most of the other children there. The exceptions were two boys whom she had befriended: Daniel and Arnar. The three of them became inseparable, and would soon go on to escape the orphanage together.
But young, inexperienced, and abandoned as they were, they had traded one harsh reality for another. The streets of the great capital city of Asgard were not kind to them, pushing them into a life of petty crime. They became a rag-tag gang of thieves, bent on doing whatever it took to survive. This is where Violet's qualities first started to shine. Able to stay calm under pressure and come up with winning strategies, Violet became the leader of the group, despite being the youngest and the only girl in it. Under her leadership, the three of them went from pastry-stealing delinquents to proper thieves skilled enough to target merchants and nobles alike. They soon became one of the most infamous small-time gangs in the city, garnering more and more attention from the City Watch as complaints piled up for a stop to be put to their criminal activity. Daniel and Arnar were just out of their teens, with Violet trailing a couple years behind, when she decided that Alicante had become too dangerous for them to stay. Rather than risk being captured and imprisoned, she led them out into the countryside.
Within the first week of roaming through Hyerald, Violet realized that petty thievery was not a viable solution for their long-term survival. It was her idea to turn to mercenary work, but one that both Daniel and Arnar supported. Like most of Violet's ideas, it proved a good one. At first they had to settle for the worst contracts, doing work that none of the other mercenary groups wanted, but bit by bit the trio started making a name for themselves. Each of them specialized for a different role - Daniel became a skilled swordsman and silver-tongued negotiator, Arnar a bodyguard with a reputation that earned him the moniker of "Stonewall", and Violet herself evolved into a skilled marksman and talented sneak. In the next ten years or so, their company, named "The Roadside Rangers" attained such fame and success that people were actually signing up to join them.
Like most mercenary groups, Violet's Rangers joined the war effort as well, participating in both solo guerrilla attacks on Ilhirel's forces as well as cooperating with the Royal Army at some battlefields. Despite losing many of their men, Violet, Daniel, and Arnar somehow managed to come out of the Great War alive. Violet could not forgive those losses, however, and neither could the remaining members of the Rangers. It was decided that they would keep fighting against the usurper, if only out of revenge, becoming outlaws in their own kingdom. They proceeded to do as many others had done; wage a guerrilla warfare aimed at disrupting and weakening Ilhirel's control over Asgard, attacking shipments of weapons and gold, assassinating important individuals. It was groups such as the Rangers who would later go on to unite and form the Resistance with the remnants of the old Royal Army, but the Rangers would not live to be among them.
Violet had simply returned to her encampment in Hyerald one day to find that the place had been razed to the ground in her absence. She nearly fainted when she found Daniel, torn to pieces in the middle of the carnage. She found Arnar a little ways further, dying under a scorched tree. Alive for just long enough to tell her of the surprise attack, of how the enemy somehow learned their position, surrounded them, and slaughtered them to a man. Niara Shadowleaf, Ilhirel's high general, had led the attack herself, it seemed. The Roadside Rangers never stood a chance. Despite knowing that there was nothing she could have done if she had been there, Violet still blamed herself; still wished that she had died alongside her comrades, wished it for what seemed like a long time.
But Violet was a survivor. Even though she was considered barely of age among her people, at thirty years old she was already more experienced than most. She did not let her grief and pain break her, nor vengeance blind her. Instead, she cleared her head and sought a new way to get back into the fight. And eventually she found it - in the newly formed Resistance. Violet's rise through the rebel ranks was so swift that within a year she became a respected officer and trusted tactician, charged with the most important missions there were.
Violet's company was returning home from one such mission, successful, when they were ambushed by an elite unit commanded by none other than General Niara Shadowleaf. Again. It was like the slaughter of the Roadside Rangers all over again, except this time Violet was among the fallen. She received a near-fatal wound, passing out and laying there on the battlefield until the dust had settled. She would have bled out and died alongside her comrades, if she had not been discovered by a young girl by the name of Dina, who saw that she was brought to her mother's hut in the forest for treatment. By a stroke of luck, or perhaps divine intervention, Dina and her mother were both healers, and with their intervention Violet survived, if only barely. It took weeks for her to recover, and during that time she made a life-long bond with Dina - learning in the process that the young girl was a royal bastard, and thus probably the last living heir to the throne of Asgard.
Promising to come back for Dina, Violet journeyed north to rejoin the Resistance and continue the fight. She would not rest until Ilhirel was defeated and the old kingdom restored. And as for Niara Shadowleaf, who had cost her everything twice already, Violet swore that there wouldn't be a third time.
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