Xayah Aureèl

Full birth name: Xayah Aureèl
Pronunciation: zai-ah
Aliases: Blood lotus blade
Birth date: unknown she cant remember due to the age she was taken from her family
Sex: female
Physical age: 60s
Mental age: over 100
How old do they look? In her 20s
Mortality: elf longevity
Species: high elf
World (timeset, universe, …): Skyrim/similar fantasy worlds

Body

Body type: tall and slim as all elves are she keeps herself in excellent physical condition
Height: 6ft 5in
Weight: 150lb
Breasts: small c cup breasts that sit perfectly on her body.

Skin color: pale elven skin

Freckles/spots: she has few freckles due to living nocturnally most of her life.

Body hair: kept cut short
Body hair colour: black
Scars: a large scar on her face from a whip she was hit with as a child in a slave pit.

Tattoos: a black lotus flower, with a red scorpion on it(her personal crest) on her lower back that she keeps hidden

Piercings: 3 earrings on both sides of her ears located in different areas on her ears on each side.

Scent/body smell: she has a heavy, sultry scent that draws people in due to one thing she eats that makes her natural scent more alluring to them. Her natural scent is a light flowery scent that has been likened to honeysuckle.

Face and head

Eye shape: large intelligent elf eyes
Iris color: purple
Eyebrows: thin, angular lines
Eye lashes: thick, even lashes, naturally black

Make-up: depends on her mood eye-shadow is most of what she uses though if she needs to hide who she is she will cover her scar.

Lips: her thin, elven lips are known for the slight pout in the bottom lip

Mouth: her mouth though thinly lined, opens wide and her tongue can easily touch the tip of her nose, being long and pointed.


Hairstyle: depending on her situation she wears it up to get it out of the way or down to help her hide her scar.

Hair length: halfway down her back

Hair texture: medium thickness, smooth and soft

Natural hair color: raven black, looking a purplish/blue in the right light.

Clothes and accessories

Normal outfit: a long elven robe in black and red with bones for hair decorations

Underwear: thin, soft garments that hold her breasts in place and keep her nethers from soaking her pants or being exposed if she is wearing a skirt/dress

Sleepwear: nothing if she feels safe (in one of her safehouses)

Fighting outfit: she doesn't fight directly often due to her trade involving stealth, at which she has a near unmatched skill, when she knows she may need it she sometimes wears a set of light, thieve's guild armor she modified and that has her personal crest/seal on it

Formal outfit: she always sticks to her main colors of red and black, with white as an accessory color, so she has gowns and party dresses made for her in her own colors when she makes an appearance.

Other outfits: she likes to travel around Tamriel and has many native disguises to draw less attention to herself in each country.

Weapon(s): she uses a multitude of blades and secret weapons, she poisons 90% of her blades with a neurotoxin that shuts down the body in less than a minute at average bpm. She has a set of bladed fans she uses in her primary offensive fighting style. She uses illusion magic to distract and confuse her enemies when she needs to escape. Her primary killing weapon are tiny quills from the porkupig found in the desert of Elsweyr.

Physical strengths: her animal mind and reflexes are honed and sharpened to be under control at all times due to her Ayerin persona not being a fighter.
Mental strengths: her mind is fast and usually focused no matter the circumstances, if she gets flustered it can falter
Learned skills: multiple fighting styles, non violent/lethal means of taking down an opponent, psychological manipulation and coercion methods as well as physical ones. She knows alot about plants and loves flowers in particular.
Talents: she has always had naturally high stamina, and has conditioned herself further to near superelf capabilities as far as her speed, endurance, and flexibility.

weaknesses: rare but painful twinges of pain in her head from where the whip hit her as a kid, when she is posed as Ayerin she plays it off as a headache and goes to lie down, though usually she just drinks to forget the past if she can.
Unskilled at: cooking, cleaning beyond wiping down a surface and throwing out old food.

Voice: she speaks with a soft, occasionally stuttering tone in Ayerin's form and her natural, louder and proud almost defiant voice in Xayah's form



Combat and magic

Aggressive or passive fighting style? Depends on the situation she doesn't jump to conclusions and stalks her prey like a jungle cat, waiting for an opening to strike
Do they keep up honour or follow some code? She doesn't follow laws but is a good and kind person to the less fortunate and lives to serve them and her mistress, more than herself.
Can they fight on their own? She prefers to live, work, and fight on her own. She hasnt wanted to get close to anyone aside from those she calls family, though they mostly know her as her alter ego.
Can they fight in group? She could coordinate her movements with someone who's fighting style she has observed, otherwise it would be hard and she would be more prone to missteps or swings.
Can they take on multiple enemies of their own strength? Yes, she has taken on a dozen men and won, though they were all just city guards and she had snagged a blade from one of her victims as a trophy.


Physical fighting skills: she trained in hand to hand combat in three countries and observed combat techniques from far more than that to learn how to defend against them.
Physical fighting style: she uses her flexibility and speed to her advantage, fighting like a skydancer khajiit, cartwheeling and spinning around with kicks and jabs that break furniture and sometimes walls without difficulty.
(she keeps her feet and especially her ankles wrapped thickly and walks on her toes normally. She trained with monks of the Black lotus brotherhood[at 25y/o] who live on peaks in Bruma, the colovian highland mountains, to learn the ways of strengthening one's body so they could take hits and use their body like a weapon, making the need for actual blades or otherwise unnecessary.
Weapon(s) they’re skilled with: shortswords, bladed fans, daggers, needles(she knows 6 lethal or paralyzing pressure points on the human body and keeps needles half pierced into the skin of her legs, unpoisoned just waiting to be used)
Specific attack(s)/weapon(s): she is a stealth killer and escape artist, she rarely shows her hidden talents for bladework and hand to hand combat but does flaunt an impressive range of Capoeira moves that are all potentially lethal if she has a blade in her hand.
Signature weapon/attack: tiny quills from a porcupig found in the Elsweyr desert that she fires from a reed tube that can fit in her mouth as well for a time before it becomes painful, the back edge digging into her throat when she swallows.


Magic type: innate magic
Magic element: she does best with electricity
Magic fighting skill: she barely uses magic in combat and mostly just uses illusion to distract or electricity if she wants to knock out someone or bbq them
Magic healing skill: she has very minimal healing ability and can only use it to stop bleeding and mend broken bones, though it takes alot of time and alot of energy.
Magic shielding skill: she doesn't use shield spells
Any other type of magic: she has two magic boons of power, one for keeping her from being locked up anywhere, and a sec9nd keeping her from being poisoned
Signature spell(s): she uses an illusion spell that creates a replica of her to escape

Political stance: she doesn't care for the actual political state of any country and it rarely affects her due to her position with the dominion and all of its allies. As well as her own personal connections in each country and hold.
Political party: her Ayerin disguise is a dignitary who travels between countries and keeps commerce open as much as possible.
Personal agenda: uses her influence to make money off the wealthy which she uses to fund the less fortunate communities she finds.

Current faith/religion: she never knew who to follow as far as gods as a child but when nocturnal answered her prayers for someone to help her, free her, she found her faith drawn to the beautiful mistress of the crows.
Effect on their life: she has innate abilities that made her flexible and smart before her gifts and after they freed her from slavery she honed the new gifts and her other abilities to a razor edge
Devotion: she is thankful to nocturnal for the gifts the goddess gave her but also finds her a bit of a bore as she never calls on her "daughter" to kill anyone difficult.

Background

(She has a secret identity as a noblewoman due to her high elf blood)

Born to a low class high elf family that ran a simple farm. She was 3 when the raiding party took her and her mother as slaves and killed her father. She lived as a slave for 12 years and during that time watched and learned from the rogues who held her captive.
Xayah had been 5 when she ran away the first time, goaded by her mother when she first learned of her gift for opening locks. Her shackles fell off as if they hadn't been locked in the first place while she was picking berries in a field. She had been rubbing her wrists cus the shackles hurt when she moved them, when they opened and fell off. Her mother had seen and told her to run in a hushed voice. She had done as her mother asked but had no idea where to go and she ended up back at the main camp she had been living at for 2 years. She got whipped for that attempted escape, and the clumsy new punisher hit her face with a wild swing and she still bears the mark of that day. When the slavers who held her chains found out she was a natural lockpick due to her chains never staying on after her first attempted escape, they decided to make her their helpful little sneakthief. She was taught what to grab and how to remain undetected using her small body. She absorbed all they could teach her and anything they didn't teach her but let her watch. By the time she turned 15 her mother had died of being overworked and underfed for too long, and her only friend had died during a flood a year earlier.
The second time she made it out because she had been chosen by nocturnal to be her personal assassin and giving her two boons of power. The first is the ability to never be locked in anything, shackles, cages, cells, etc. The second is an immunity to poisons so she can use them without worrying about dying to them.
She trained her skills further under the thieve's guild and the Black brotherhood once she escaped, though she doesn't serve anyone and has an understanding with their leaders to work and profit independently.
She created an alter ego when she gathered enough coin in her travels of the Sommerset isles, Elsweyr, and blackmarsh. She had papers drawn up by a former court vizier and then spent years with two identities, building up her Ayerin disguise until she was well known and liked by all in most of Tamriel.