Lorae

Lorae (pronunciation: ​[loɾae ])  is a 30 years old elven swordswoman hiding her past. She survived by being a bounty hunter, only wanting to prepare for a peaceful life she wished to have, and which she did.

Her mother died with the king of the kingdom she once lived in, because of traditions — which made her the princess of the lands. Yet, she had to flee, causing her to live alone in wilderness, in poverty. After finding a new kingdom far away from her old one, she became a bounty hunter to survive.

At 24 years old, she stopped working as a bounty hunter. She had more than enough money to survive for at least a few years. She decided to take such a crucial choice after meeting, and living with Xue Hanying, her partner. She has her own home, living near Nehve. At 26 years old, she started working as a teacher, making people learn about the dangers and how to survive as bounty hunters.

Lorae is quite an independent woman, but she only wants to live and enjoy life to its fullest. Her dream would only be to have a family.

Background
Lorae was born in Ehran by both elven parents. Her father was always drunk, abusive which led to Lorae's mother leaving the place, to live in a kingdom which welcomed both humans and elves not so far away, yet outside of the forest. The mother, now taking care of Lorae became one of the most important women in the kingdom as a merchant. Even as an elf, she was highly respected, being a strong willed woman.

She wanted Lorae to be important as well, yet couldn't properly take care of her daughter as she was always busy. She decided to offer the child to the human church, to make her a priest at such a young age. Religion was awfully important in the kingdom, as the king himself was considered as an half god in his lands as he always took the greatest decisions. The priests made her learn everything, but especially religion and be better with her magic, such as wind magic and shapeshifting. Yet, around seven years old, she already wanted to master a sword. Her wind magic allowed her to be very swift and awfully precise in all of her movements, and at eight years old was offered her first rapier.

As time went by, Lorae was already great at everything, since she only trained and had no actual time for herself. She was no child like the others, as she constantly helped so many people in the kingdom, with religious, magic, or fighting help. People treated her almost like a prodigy.

For Lorae's mother, she always came at least 5 times a week to see Lorae. And as years passed, it became four, then three... until it was basically one time per week. At one point, Lorae had trouble recognizing her mother. That woman, being more and more important managed to get a place close to the ruler of the kingdom... too close, in fact. No one knew it except the king and his servants — also Lorae, yet she did not knew what it meant — but that woman was literally the king's sugar baby. He paid for everything, took care of her, yet no one knew as it would have ruined the king's reputation. She was obligated to please the majesty every day, as she wasn't a merchant anymore.

And one day, the king's wife died, and he decided to make Lorae's mother her new wife. Yet, nothing changed for Lorae. She kept working at the church, forgotten by her own mother.

Until one day, when the king died. An important tradition in the kingdom was that, if the king died... he'd get burned with his most precious item— and his wife. It pained Lorae so much, as she always saw her own mother like a strong woman, as her mother not as the queen... until she was told, that she was the one having to be on the throne.. at 14 years old. For the second time in her life, she wasn't able to choose her fate.

She became the princess of the kingdom — since she was too young to be called queen. A lot of people respected her, as like said before, was considered a prodigy in the church; but people always wanted to baby her. She was obligated to have advisors, who decided at her place. She was just a puppet used to make the wrong choices. People started to revolt, and realize how much of a fraud Lorae was. She was a forest elf, who learnt everything in a human church. She was an elf, who was forced to reject the elven religion. She was an elf... on the throne.

Until a civil war exploded, a year later.

Even at one point, the doors of the castle were broken down... and Lorae couldn't help it but to defend herself, which she did. She had to kill people of her kingdom, with the royalty's weapon: a rapier; until she was helped by a servant who died for her, showing her a way to flee from the castle.

Lorae was living in poverty, alone with the most precious item of the kingdom being the royal rapier, a journal, and everything she could loot on some adventurer's corpses in her journey. She was alone, without any map, without anything to help her. She mostly lived as her spirit animal, a wolf — a lone wolf in the forests. Sometimes, she had to approach humans to be fed while shapeshifted; her pride was gone.

A year passed, until she was able to find a city that was far away enough from her childhood's one, where she wouldn't be recognized, where she could find peace. The only thing she knew was how to defend herself, and religion... and religion wouldn't help a single fucking bit. She decided to be a bounty hunter after finding the quests building.

She had nothing else to do, except surviving, which was difficult, especially when you do not know how strong you are. Lorae took a quest which was to simply defeat an orc that was causing trouble next to an important road towards a village. . . yet, she was too weak— but she survived... unlike her virginity, as life taught her one of the roughest lesson... which happened another time.

Two other times.

Three times.

She was only 17 at that time.

She would have preferred to die, yet she was unable to. Her mental health was deteriorating, to the point that she wasn't able to take quests anymore. Lorae wasn't able to fight but still needed money... badly. And how do you earn money with such a nice, petite yet voluptuous body? She hated herself for such a thing, but it payed so well.

At one point, she was able to buy enough equipment to be back on her feet and go back to take quests. Lorae (re)started slowly, with easy quests. It made her be more and more comfortable against all kinds of creatures, getting better and better. It took literal years for her to be better, but at 20 years old, she was able to defeat her first giant, one of the strongest creatures— excluding dragons.

And until that day, Lorae never took a single quest that was not paying enough. She took only the ones that paid the most, and gained quite a lot of money. At one point, at 23 years old, she was even able to buy everything needed to build a home... a home big enough for a partner, and perhaps children. Which she did, without hesitation. A part of her dream was complete.

Two years later, she met a wonderful woman named Xue, who became her partner.

It meant so much for Lorae, after years of trying to find someone that could handle her feelings and financially stable enough to handle the bounty hunter stopping her work, she found someone. Fighting for her life was never something she wished for, and if she could stop quickly, she would. And Xue did all that, making Lorae free from her past.

A contrario, Xue loved her job, which was the same as Lorae. Fighting was her core, her essence. The blonde was always there to heal her, take care of her... until her partner was gone. Suddenly, without any warning. It made Lorae worried, unable to find even a single note telling where she has gone. For years.

Today, Lorae is 30 years old. She never got any news from Xue... yet, she knows she'll come back one day. Lorae has been living alone for five years now. In those five years, she started working as a bounty hunter again, then stopped for the second time. Instead, she actually taught people how to survive in the wild, as bounty hunters or not on her own, going from cities to cities. It was a full time job for almost 4 years, but started to work half time before turning 30.

Personality
Lorae has been very afraid of everyone before, acting cold and distant just like an emotional barrier. As an elf, she is used to being insulted for nothing.

She used to hate befriending people, because she was scared that her enemies would attack them to emotionally hurt the woman. But today, she knows she wouldn't be able to defend herself as much as she used to. She is more vulnerable, but could still put up a good fight.

Today, she still acts a bit coldly, but is much nicer at first glance. With people she knows, she can be very nice, soft and warm. She's even able to crack some jokes here and there! She'd do anything to protect them even if they're already able to, and do anything to make them happy as well. Lorae doesn't want people to be as sad as she was. Her voice actually got softer, more relaxing, almost sensual in a way.

Appearance
Lorae is an awfully short yet voluptuous woman. What she doesn't have in height, she mostly has it in her chest. It is quite annoying for her to have such a large bosom, but has gotten used to it. When she was a bounty hunter, she used to wrap exceedingly tight bandages around her chest, which pained her. Today, she still has some pains in her breasts because of it.

She has blonde hair that only reaches the top of her shoulders that she cuts quite often. Her body doesn't produce any body hair at all though. Her eyes are beautiful, being a quite deep blue, the same as her mother's.

Elven genes makes it nearly impossible for her to get muscle, but she still works out everyday. She used to work out more when her life depended on it, and now her body got a little softer, visible because of her abs that have completely disappeared.

Equipment
Lorae usually dresses with very light clothing, just like she used to when she was a bounty hunter. She wears a lot of different styles, from tight almost revealing clothing, to dresses, to wearing a leather jacket with jeans. One thing is certain, she usually has high heeled boots because of her short height.

As a bounty hunter, she used to always have her large backpack on her back that's as heavy as her body, filled with food, healing stuff, things to repair her rapier, etc.

Her rapier is a royal treasure, made with the finest of metals. It is so strong and so well made, it can cut trees in half with enough precision, focus and strength. It is also possible to withstand intense heats, allowing Lorae to use her fire magic to heat the blade up. It is barely used now, but would still be usable with a bit of polishing. It's on the wall of her bedroom, which she sees everyday remembering her past.

Abilities
Lorae mostly fights with a rapier, where she surely is the most skilled. She bets everything on speed and precision, even though Lorae is still very strong by training for at least three hours every morning.

Her second best ability is her wind magic. Lorae has full control of the wind around her, being able to focus it in mere millimetres to make it sharp and deadly, allowing her to slash anything with it and with high precision. A passive also allows her to be much lighter, making her only 30kg (65lbs.) Being such a lightweight can make the wind carry her body, and literally fly or float like she wishes. It also allows her to have all of her movements followed by wind, making all of them much faster.

Lorae also knows the basics of fire magic. She is able to control fire a bit, and create fireballs made from burning and hardened mana — and able to heat anything, like her rapier's blade to pierce in some things more easily.

Lorae is also a shapeshifter, able to change into her spirit animal being a gray lone wolf, a white mare, or a black cat other than her original elven form.

She also has a "checkpoint" mechanic which happens everytime she dies. The checkpoints happens in important parts of her day, which will make her reappear. She'll forget everything that happened, and will go back to her life like nothing happened. Yet, it hurts her mental health pretty badly — but she is unable to die unless it is of old age. Doing it herself does not actually work.

Ship
Lorae is singleship.

Xue Hanying
Lorae loves to call her "dumbass" because of how active she is, and keeps going everywhere without thinking. But she is such a gentle soul, and Lorae would die for her— unless Xue dies first because of how reckless she is.

Trivia

 * Her parents did not have a last name. Yet, since Lorae's mother was in fact married with the king, she would have a last name — but it would make some people realize she'd be from royalty, and she absolutely despises it.
 * She's awfully short, but will still keep growing until she dies. She approximately takes an inch every year in her twenties.
 * Lorae hasn't only killed monsters as a bounty hunter, but did kill criminals. It caused her to have people looking for her head, in addition to those from her old kingdom.
 * Lorae also speaks Elven. (I use Dragon Age Elven. To translate: https://lingojam.com/ElvenDAI)