Normally this is where I’d have a character bio up but... I really don’t have one for this one. I have an idea but she’s not completed in my mind yet.
Here’s what I got figured so far:
Her name is Caelia Redgrip, a necromancer from the Blood Legion. She gets her last name from the simple fact that she’s primarily a Blood-Magic necromancer, so her claws and ‘grip’ are typically stained red with the blood she’s used. Whether it’s her own...or someone else’s. Symbolically, she keeps her gloves or whatever she wears on her hands red for that reason. (It’s kinda like the Crimson Fists thing).
As a character, I had this idea that she started out a serious, and dour person, weighted down with the power over death. It’s a serious business ya know? But somewhere along the line, she had an epiphany; she actually has power over LIFE and Death. She can decide who around her will live or die...within reason. In a fight, she uses her blood magic to heal the wounds of allies and to strip enemies bare (and probably rendered to beef jerky.)
That realization softened her mentality, and now she’s kind of Zen about things. If there’s any Reaper you’d want coming for your soul, it’d probably be her. Enemy or ally, she holds no true grudge in combat. That has led to some...confusing moments when she’s decided to spare an opponent for one obscure reason or another. She’s a gentle soul, but not one who is blind or innocent to suffering and pain. After all...she IS a Reaper of souls.
I recently got her converted to Reaper, so I could give her the Eclipse greatsword (thank you Anet for making that so pleasantly easy to get!), which caused me to give her a full makeover from what she USED to look like. (She had the triple-topknot in a ‘this is battle efficient’ look, and her armor color scheme was typical green red and black).
I’ll write up an actual bio for her with some better pics later, when I figure out how she fits into my current story-world. At the moment she’s kinda.... a free agent in a way. Not connected to either of my usual teams and not with my other rogue characters (who are connected to my teams).
As an afterthought, I haven’t decided how her name is pronounced; I drew name inspiration from Caer Xhan from Breath of Fire 3... which I pronounced as “Care Zahn”... making her name “Cay-lia” but Google Translate reads her name as “See-lia”. So... I dunno. I think the second one sounds better?
