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Name: Skadi
Age: 20
Title: Either "The Demon in the Cave by the River" or "Invincible Sword Princess" depending on whether you ask humans or if you ask her.
Form: Rabanashi
Personal Quote: "Good, evil, I'm the Invincible Sword Princess, get the hell out of my way or draw your sword."
Appearance:
http://qvi.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-Half-lady-31387503
Her scales are a bright azure, with spots of black. The cloth is brown.
Weapons: Various parts of her body, Swords(Note: Multiple Swords), Shadows
Goals: Prove herself to be the best swordsman in both worlds.
Fighting Style: In a duel she wields only as many blades as her opponent, however when it's time to cut a path through a horde she can wield two blades in her hands and up to ten other swords float around her, which she can control as though she had ten more arms. Now this does not mean she won't have the ten blades floating around her in a duel, but she'll only use it as a way to switch out weapons quickly. If she is fighting an opponent she deems not worth her time she'll fight bare clawed. And if her opponent is being a coward and staying far away and pelting arrows or something at Skadi, she will call on what little demon magic she remembers and choke them to death with their own shadows. Also, she can use shadows to move around quickly, which she uses almost exclusively for long distance travel, in combat she feels it makes the fight unfair and thus not a representation of her skills, also she can keep her collection of swords within her own shadow although she always carries at least one in a sheathe. If for whatever reason somebody pushes her emotional buttons enough she can go into a berserker rage that makes her much more powerful, but as that involves no skill whatsoever she does not use it.
Bio: Skadi was a powerful demon swordswoman years ago, however she got bored of facing the demons of Radiata and took a portal into Radi, however something went wrong and she came out in Radi as an egg. After some time she hatched, she remembered only bits and pieces of her past life. However, one thing she did remember is that she was the Invincible Sword Princess.
She's been trying to strengthen her body once more so that she can begin challenging the knights and angels of Radi. Of course, even if she's not at where she would like to be she accepts any challengers. And has killed three knights and several others that have tried to slay her.
Skadi lives out of a cave with an underwater entrance on a river. Some people discovered her presence about a year back when she fished a drowning boy out of the river. They of course did the logical thing and attacked her. None of the men were proper swordsmen so she just pimp slapped one and ignored the rest. Since then three knights have come, two in the past six months, and have been generous enough to give Skadi their blades, bringing her collection up to five good swords and a few other crappy ones.
Current collection of good swords: Her favorite is a stonecrafted single edged arming sword, a broadsword, a pair of twin shortswords, a scimitar, a dagger smithed by an angel that is hidden within a wooden cross she wears on a necklace, and a fullblade as well. The stone one is the only one she carries visibly at all times. The dagger has special properties that will reveal themselves later on, but the simplest function is one that wards the bearer from nightmares.
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Skadi awoke in her cave to fish nudging her feet. She thought the little mackerels had learned by now that it was best not to disturb her. She waited for one to swim close to her hand and she snatched it up. She quickly bit off the fish's head, there was no reason to make it suffer more than it had to. She floated over to the steps and walked out of the water, she glanced at her makeshift mirror(an exceptionally shiny pitcher) as she put on her favorite raven lipstick and combed her hair with her brush(a wooden fork), she could just tell today was going to be exceptional. Satisfied and fed she plunged back into the water and swam outside. With her head just below the surface she now saw what had the fish so riled up, there were travelers resting on the bank. None of them looked particularly handy with any of the weapons they had, much less a sword so she paid them little heed and began swimming upstream. She was nearly ready to head out in search of swordsmen to challenge, she just needed to repay one debt.
A few miles upstream was a traveler's house, and was once her house until she found her present cavern. In spite of her appearance and the reactions of several of his patrons the man who ran the house, Gadot, had given her room and board for quite some time. Provided of course that she did not disturb the other guests, especially the swordsmen. Gadot's wife had even made a dress for Skadi, she'd outgrown it years ago and it had become quite tattered as well, but she has modified the remains and still wears them. She came up for air about a mile away and smelled burning flesh and blood. She immediately flew out of the water and sprinted for the shadow of a nearby tree, she melded into it and reappeared at the back of what was left of the burning building. She dove into the inferno and began shouting for Gadot or any survivors really. She managed to find one, a large man with a dagger plunged into his back. She wrapped him in her wings and burst out the front door. She set him down against the well and returned to the building she searched for nearly an hour before she gave up and went back outside. The man was alive, but only just. If he didn't get to a physician soon he was done for. She looked back at the building and closed her eyes. "As a favor to you, I'll help him. And to fully repay my debt I'll slay whoever did this." She knelt down and picked the man up as best she could, she couldn't carry anyone with her through the shadows, so she did the next best thing. She took to the sky. There was a town several miles away by land, but by air it would only take her at most half an hour. She just hoped the man would last that long.
The town had the expected reaction, panic, screams, a few arrows, but she just flew to the town square, taking several arrows in the process. She set the man down and backed away. "I will harm none here, I give you my word as Skadi the Invincible Sword Princess. But this man is in grave danger, he has a dagger in his back and I perhaps other injuries as well." She withdrew her favorite sword from it's sheathe and tossed it into a cart, it was made of a strange stone. About as strong as steel, but it was never in danger of rusting. "And why should we save this man? Just so you can continue to torture him?" Came a voice from behind one of the houses. Skadi was finding it very difficult to keep her anger in check right now, but she was managing, for now. "I do not torture. The only human lives I've taken have been in self-defense thus far and none from this town. However, if it would make you feel better I could change that right now." Silence but for hushed whispers as people argued. "He doesn't have a whole lot of time." At long last a woman of at least 60 walked forward and checked on the man. She began shouting orders and people began moving. Except to extract an arrow from her thigh Skadi did not move for a long time, she simply stood arms crossed, arrows poised ready to fly toward her. Not that they were a threat now that she was no longer trying to save a man's life. One child somehow got away from it's mother and began tugging on her wing, much as it pained her Skadi simply stood there. If she reacted at all she may never find out who attacked Gadot.
