Ariella Negri's Vault

Personality: Ariella is bouncy and tends to be loud. She has a short fuse, but her temper tends to fade as fast as it was triggered. She enjoys helping people but also loves causing destruction and mayhem. This has resulted in a rather unique problem as she is often seen as more of a hindrance than a help in situations. She relies heavily on herself, as she doesn’t like disappointing people. She seems very carefree but tends to take criticism to heart. She has a short attention span and has difficulty focusing beyond what she is doing at the moment, making long-term plans a struggle for her. The only place she retains focus is in her magic studies and she works very hard to improve them at every opportunity. She holds no strong feelings on slavery and her family had several servants, many of which she was friends with. She holds very little interest in politics and tends to remain clueless about other countries’ hierarchies. At events, she is often seen as the life of the party, though to her parents’ displeasure, she often behaved inappropriately for more sophisticated events. She detests anyone trying to tell her what to do and much prefers to do things in her own way and in her own time.

Likes: Ariella likes animals. Growing up, she could often be found trying to tame wild creatures or bringing home stray cats. Ariella also enjoys stargazing. When she was younger, she and her father would go out and stare at the sky at night and he would smile at her attempts to draw pictures with the stars.

Dislikes: Ariella dislikes fish, the smell and feel of the slimy scales disgusting her and the taste of it making her stomach turn. She also dislikes sand, as it managed to find its way in places it should not be and took ages to remove from her hair.

Phobias: Ariella is terrified of frogs. When she was younger, her brother, Adius, had thrown her in a pit and dumped several buckets of frogs on top of her. To this day, she still shuddered in the presence of frogs, able to feel their slimy skin sliding over her. She also has an irrational fear of quicksand and is convinced that any sandy terrain holds nothing but terror for her. Ariella is also scared of pure darkness. Under the night sky, the moon and stars were there to guide her, but if a room is utterly dark, she fears that some unknown monster will devour her. Adius had often tortured her by locking her in a closet beneath the stairs in their home and taunted that the Darkness would devour her.

Aspirations: Ariella is driven by the desire to become the best magician ever. Her parents often made their disproval of her behavior quite apparent and showed favor to her brother, who had quickly raised through the Kodor in the Academy. Ariella wanted nothing more than to best him, as it was the arena that her parents were most focused on. She strives to prove to her parents that she can focus enough to become a better magician than Adius and maybe one day run the Academy. Though her childhood desire was to become a magi, she had since become old enough to try for a more achievable goal of simply being an outstanding magician.

History: Ariella grew up in the shadow of her older brother, Adius, and was often brushed off by her parents because she had not shown the same amount of promise as he had at a young age. Adius often went out of his way to torture her, as older brothers do but also did occasionally try to help her with her studies. As she got older, her skills improved, but her parents had already given up hope that she would ever be more than just a shade of what her brother was. Her childhood was not lonely, as she often befriended the servants and their children. She was also fairly popular with several of the local children due to her destructive and daring ways. She could often be found leading “adventures” through the yards and fields, the other children racing behind her. As she grew older, she asked about joining the academy, but her parents were afraid she would be an embarrassment. When she was 15, her parents insisted it was time for her to “grow up” and begin taking her studies more seriously. After several tutors quit due to her stubbornness regarding what she wanted to learn and how, her parents told her that if she were so restless, she should go out in the world and see what it could teach her. After what she perceived the ultimate rejection from her parents, Ariella vowed that she would go out into the world to find less restrictive means of learning magic and she would not return until she had become worthy of her parents’ affection and of entrance to Academy City. Her parents seemed supportive in their own way, providing her with plenty of money and a list of places she might visit before dismissing her off hand. While Adius had come home to see his sister off on her journey of discovery, her parents were conspicuously absent and she rode away from her childhood home with a heavy heart filled with rejection and determination. For months, she was bitter at her parents rejection, but soon the desire for their acceptance made her bury that rejection and throw herself into finding out all she could about magic from anyone she could, carefully avoiding Magnostadt to ensure that she would not tarnish her family name if she were to fail.

Name: Electric Field
Tier: D
Cost: 10/5
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive
Range: 10m
Duration: Sustained
Cool-Down: 2 posts or sustain+1
Description: Ariella casts a 5 meter wide sphere of electric magic at 10m/s up to 10m away, dealing D-tier damage each turn to anything within the sphere. This spell can be sustained.

Name: Electric Whip
Tier: D
Cost: 10
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive
Range: 10m
Duration: 1 post
Cool-Down: 2 posts
Description: Ariella gathers rukh into a whip of electrical charge and strikes at an enemy up to 10m away at 10m/s, dealing D-tier damage.

Name: Chain Lightning
Tier: D
Cost: 10
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive
Range: 10m
Duration: 1 post
Cool-Down: 2 posts
Description: Ariella directs the rukh to strike at an enemy up to 10 m away, moving up to 10 m/s and dealing D-tier lightning damage. If another person is within 5m of the original target, Ariella can direct the rukh to arc to them, dealing up to D-tier damage. The charge can arc to a total of 5 targets.

Name: Numbing Spheres
Tier: D
Cost: 10
Element: Lightning
Class: Supplementary
Range: 10m
Duration: 1 post
Cool-Down: 2 posts
Description: Ariella directs the rukh to form 5 spheres of lightning and launches them at up to 5 enemies at 10 m/s up to 10m away, numbing 1 limb for up to 2 posts and reducing movement speed of the target by 5 m/s.

Name: Electric Cage I
Tier: D
Cost: 10 magoi/5 magoi
Element: Lightning
Class: Supplementary
Range: 10 meters
Duration: Sustained
Cool-Down: 2 posts or sustain+1
Description: Ariella casts a hollow sphere of electricity up to 5 meters across with a 3 cm wall that can form at 10 m/s within 10 meters of herself, capable of trapping opponents inside. If any edge of the sphere is touched, the person will have a limb numbed for up to 2 posts, reducing their movement speed by 5 m/s. This spell can be sustained.

Name: Shock Ball
Tier: C
Cost: 20
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive/Supplementary
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 post
Cool-Down: 3 posts
Description: Ariella gathers rukh into a 1 meter wide ball of lightning, launching it at 15 m/s at an enemy up to 20 meters away, dealing D-tier damage and numbing a limb for 2 posts, reducing the targets movement speed by 5 m/s.

Name: Electric Cage II
Tier: C
Cost: 20/10
Element: Lightning
Class: Supplementary
Range: 20 meters
Duration: Sustained
Cool-Down: 3 posts or Sustain+1
Description: Ariella casts a hollow sphere of electricity up to 10 meters across with a 3 cm wall that can form at 15 m/s within 20 meters of herself, capable of trapping opponents inside. If any edge of the sphere is touched, the opponents will have 1 limbs paralyzed for up to 3 posts, reducing movement speed by 5 m/s. This spell can be sustained.

Name: Electric Chains
Tier: C
Cost: 20/10
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive
Range: 20m
Duration: Sustained
Cool-Down: 3 posts or Sustain+1
Description: Ariella directs the rukh into a chain of lightning approximately 2 cm thick that travels at 15 m/s within 20 meters of herself which can deal C-tier damage. This spell can be sustained.

Name: Electric Field II
Tier: C
Cost: 20/10
Element: Lightning
Class: Offensive
Range: 20m
Duration: Sustained
Cool-Down: 3 posts or Sustain+1
Description: Ariella casts a 10 meter wide sphere of electric magic at 15m/s up to 20 meters away, dealing C-tier damage to anything within the sphere This spell can be sustained.

Name: Electric Wall
Tier: B
Cost: 30
Element: Lightning
Class: Supplementary
Range: 30m
Duration: 1 post
Cool-Down: 5 posts
Description: Ariella casts a wall of electricity up to 15 meters wide and tall and one meter thick which can move up to 20 m/s up to 30 meters away from her. If anything touches the wall, it will take paralyze two limbs for three posts, reducing movement speed by 10 m/s.