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==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
Nerrhavia appears to be Human, with parts of String-folk. Her skin is alabaster, with tattoos of magic. She is described | Nerrhavia appears to be Human, with parts of String-folk. Her skin is alabaster, with tattoos of magic. She is described to be perfect by [[Cawe]].<ref>[[Chapter 8.32]]</ref> She bore a wound from an axe buried halfway in her neck moments before her death.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/02/9-04/ Chapter 9.04]</ref> | ||
Later in life, she wore a death's mask in her likeness, stained with blood. She wore flowing robes cut from a cloth like blood, woven with heartstring and malice.<ref>[[Chapter 8.78 F]]</ref> At the time of her death, she wore a sheer white dress that revealed her shoulders and upper arms, and her lips and nails were painted red. Her hair was braided in the shape of a stinger.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Her revived body has bronze skin with a faint pattern of black stitches.<ref name=":1" /> | Her revived body has bronze skin with a faint pattern of black stitches.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
Haughty and imperious, Nerrhavia was said to have commited acts of tyranny and evil so terrible, she is still reviled in the present day, thousands of years after her death | Haughty and imperious, Nerrhavia was said to have commited acts of tyranny and evil so terrible, she is still reviled in the present day, thousands of years after her death. However, her empire was a "nation ruled by laws," and instituted a number of reforms, such as seatbelts on all flying carpets.<ref name=":2" /> Furthermore, she ensured that anyone could rise to a position of power based on worth and merit, rather than the basis of birth or the cloth of their skin. At the height of its power, her empire was pronounced to be "safe and rich beyond belief."<ref name=":3">{{VERef|10.17}}</ref> | ||
Nerrhavia is adept at getting into people's heads, and can get what she wants from them while knowing just how far she can push them. She stayed in power because she knew how to manage her courts, manipulating her enemies against each other and spotting treason.<ref name=":0" /> She is accomplished at rhetoric, being able to verbally outwit [[Az’kerash]] even while powerless at a ghost and technically at his mercy.<ref name=":0" /> | Nerrhavia is adept at getting into people's heads, and can get what she wants from them while knowing just how far she can push them. She stayed in power because she knew how to manage her courts, manipulating her enemies against each other and spotting treason.<ref name=":0" /> She is accomplished at rhetoric, being able to verbally outwit [[Az’kerash]] even while powerless at a ghost and technically at his mercy.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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Eventually, she became bored with the state of affairs and pushed for world domination, which failed and resulted in a rebellion to depose her. When her enemies came for her, she fled the final siege and chose to spite them rather than be brought to justice through trial and execution. She chose to kill herself in a final blaze that also destroyed the palace and her attackers.<ref name=":0" /> She had lived for exactly one thousand years. As a fitting end, her tomb had thusly been buried beneath the capital’s sewers and other infrastructure.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/08/15/8-36-h/ Chapter 8.36 H]</ref> | Eventually, she became bored with the state of affairs and pushed for world domination, which failed and resulted in a rebellion to depose her. When her enemies came for her, she fled the final siege and chose to spite them rather than be brought to justice through trial and execution. She chose to kill herself in a final blaze that also destroyed the palace and her attackers.<ref name=":0" /> She had lived for exactly one thousand years. As a fitting end, her tomb had thusly been buried beneath the capital’s sewers and other infrastructure.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/08/15/8-36-h/ Chapter 8.36 H]</ref> | ||
The | The remnent of her empire was renamed to Nerrhavia’s Fallen, and the capital to [[Tyrant’s Rest]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/10/24/8-48-h/ Chapter 8.48 H]</ref> | ||
==Chronology== | ==Chronology== | ||
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==Powers and Abilities== | ==Powers and Abilities== | ||
As a ghost, Nerrhavia is capable of casting Tier 4 or 5 spells. She taught herself magic that doesn't require levels or Skills.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/16/interlude-death-and-stitches/ Interlude - Death and Stitches]</ref> | As a ghost, Nerrhavia is capable of casting Tier 4 or 5 spells. She taught herself magic that doesn't require levels or Skills.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/16/interlude-death-and-stitches/ Interlude - Death and Stitches]</ref> | ||
===Classes/Levels:=== | ===Classes/Levels:=== | ||
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* ??? - Slap someone with great force, and simultaneously sends a piercing slap across their entire living family line.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/05/03/8-85/ Chapter 8.85]</ref> | * ??? - Slap someone with great force, and simultaneously sends a piercing slap across their entire living family line.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/05/03/8-85/ Chapter 8.85]</ref> | ||
* ??? - Becomes intangible like a ghost. | * ??? - Becomes intangible like a ghost. | ||
* ??? - | * ??? - returns the Skill taken by [Give It To Me] and empowers it threefold.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/26/9-67-pt-1/ Chapter 9.67 (Pt. 1)]</ref> | ||
=== Quests: === | === Quests: === | ||