Zul.
"The one who failed to become a hero."
Profile:
Name: Zul (Born as Zulandi Ukwanda)
Race: Air genasi (Djinni bloodline + Chultan peninsula human bloodline)
Age: Unknown
From: Unknown
Height: 1.62 m (5.3 ft)
Weight: 40 kg (88 lbs)
Eyes: Crimson
Skin: Dark brown
Hair: Dark brown, stiff
Bodytype: Athletic and graceful
Notable features: Long pointed ears, unnaturally powerful breath capable of sending forth gusts of wind, persistent breeze aura surrounding her — it is very light and might be hard to feel on a distance, but, depending on her mood, it can become stronger, change the temperature and pressure of surrounding air and even make it sparkle.
Initial Alignment: Chaotic neutral
Physical scores: Average strength, High agility and constitution
Mental scores: Low wisdom and charisma, Very high intelligence
Class archetype: Rogue/Fighter
Weapons of choice: Rapier, Combat knife, Bare fists
Deity: Unknown
Background:
Will be disclosed much later (to prevent metagaming, since she, herself, keeps it in a strict secret).
Personality:
At the first glance, Zul would likely look like a goofy fool with razor sharp tongue. She is impulsive, bizarre, and eloquent, she usually speaks her mind and stutters in a rush of emotions. She is always up to interesting ideas and loves fooling around. In Zul's vision of the world, things and actions are divided into "fair" and "unfair", and her understanding of what is fair and what is not often doesn't match the public opinion and even common idea of good and evil concepts, thus her enthusiastic, non-comformist personality often conflicts with other, more traditional, mindsets. Zul is a hot-head, and she tends to speak what she thinks without caring about consequences, especially when angered. The factors described above make her unpopular. Despite this, she is not evil. She will ferociously fight against what she thinks is unfair and protect those few she considers friends with her life.
For someone who constantly goofs around and speaks the things she regrets later about, Zul is surprisingly intelligent, and this can be witnessed not only in her astonishing, original eloquence. She is a swift learner, she can easily memorize small details, names, numbers, people, her analytical and tactical abilities are truly outstanding. Alas, few people treat her seriously due to her specific temper, but those who do see this sharp-minded woman as a threat rather than an ally, so most of the time her strategical mastermind is of no use. Even Zul herself doesn't use her brain's potential fully, and the main stopping factor here is her ridicolously low wisdom. Zul with her intelligence can be compared to a monkey who found a King's Tear diamond — she will likely crack nuts with it instead of selling and becoming rich. On the other hand, Zul is not arrogant and rarely boasts about her intellect which gives her a strong advantage.
Zul speaks truly a lot and might look like a people's person at first. Those who know her better, though, can attest she is very suspicious and reclusive, she doesn't trust people and tends to keep distance from them. She is an unhappy person who has too many old wounds that still hurt, but she usually hides them. Being a mythomaniac, she tends to tell different tales of her past — none of them true. She keeps her true name and true homeland in a strict secret, and there is only one person at the Coast she revealed it to — a sign of great trust. Zul is afraid to make friends and even much more afraid to be loved. She can easily start a romance with a man, yet she'll by no means agree to formally be his partner, girlfriend or wife. Somewhere deep inside, she probably wants to have friends and family, but she keep convincing herself this will never happen, her fears restrict her actions, her inner contradictions fueled by scars on her soul tear her apart from inside.
Unlike many genasi, Zul is not proud of her heritage. She hates it and considers herself a monster, the main reason of it (the reason she won't tell anyone) is the fact that she was an unwanted child whose life was ruined due to djinni blood filling her veins, she knows her birth was a mistake and this fact still has a heavy imprint on all her actions and thoughts. Despite boasting around a lot and acting all brave and smug, Zul secretly despices herself and dreams she could turn back time and become another person. Zul is infantile and sentimental, and there's no challenge to drown her in tears.
Notwithstanding good qualities described above, Zul has many negative perks which actually make her Chaotic Neutral (not Chaotic Good). She is impulsive, and given her outstanding combat skills this can make her dangerous sometimes. Boredom is a deadly condition for her, since it often turns Zul into emotional sadist who uses other people as target practices for her blade-sharp wit. Despite being childish and romantic at heart, Zul is also very cynical thanks to the harsh life she lived and things she witnessed. She sees no harm in joking about others' misfortune or mocking others' beliefs and convictions. In heated discussions, Zul can speak horrible things she doesn't mean, like wishing someone to wake up hanging on the gallows or such. Zul is an alcoholic (which she clearly doesn't see as something negative), and she is even less predictable when drunk.
Zul likes honest people who are not afraid to be themselves, she highly values intelligence and creativity — especially when combined, she even uses "uncle" and "aunt" titles for those rare persons she admits are smarter than her. She doesn't like conformists and arrogant people who have nothing to back their huge ego up with. In Zul's opinion, respect should be earned by deeds, not given by default. She despices hypocrites, and a terrible person acting like a scum with some and then warmly smiling and politely talking to others is the best candidate for her enemie's role.
Misc Facts:
— Zul is a mythomaniac and is constantly making various facts about her past up. She can tell stories about her luskanite pirate crew that wrecked on the islands one day and then about her being a stonemason at Purple Dragons castle another. Still, she never, with no possible exceptions, reveals her real homeland and full name.
— Zul is a polyglot, the languages she was heard speaking include common, undercommon, chultan, tashalan, chondathan, illuskan, auran, jannti, celestial, abyssal, elven, cant, and the actual ammount of languages she knows remains a huge mystery. She learned them all during her life (likely out of boredom) except auran and jannti — she intuitively speaks them due to her genie heritage.
— Zul is a huge fan of erotic (she prefers "adventure" term) novels about men x men relations, sometimes she makes up similar stories about the men she knows, she claims she is working on an "adventure" book, but so far nobody has seen any progress.
— Zul's behaviour has changed during her time on the Coast. Particularly, she stopped hiding her true heritage she is ashamed of and became more mature and less obsessive. She stopped emotionally torturing people for her own entertainment (well, she hopes so...).
— Given right incentive, Zul turns her intelligence into a dangerous weapon with no visible limit, becoming a flawless liar and genius detective who thinks ahead of time and analyzes information with lightning speed. Despite this, her elemental heritage treacherously gives away her emotions. When she's uncofmortable or angry, the air sparkles. Shame, guilt and fear make the surrounding air heavy, tense and nasty. In rare moments she feels herself happy, the air around her turns into a pleasant morning breeze. Sometimes she emanates powerful wind waves when experiencing strong emotions.
— Zul's hair always have the same shape, it never changes no matter what. Even when changed by force, they quickly return to their normal bizarre condition.
— Zul uses an extremely rare technique she calls "Aspid style". She claims it to be a fencing style, while in fact it is also heavily influenced by assasin skillset. She usually uses a custom rapier called "Adder". Travelers from Chultan peninsula might have a serious suspicion Zul in fact uses yuan-ti infiltrator fighting style. This is not the only technique Zul uses, though. She is a deadly streetfighter, potent with knife and bare fists alike.
— Zul was seen using wizard spells many times, she often calls herself a wizardress. The highest circle spell she used publicly is fourth, although it is unknown how advanced her magical powers indeed are.
Links:
— Zul's first adventures on the Coast.
— Zul's inglorious return.