Alias: Lady Soushui
Gender: Female
Personality:
Lady Soushui is a cunning middle aged woman possessing a fountain of wisdom and life experience. She has lived life from the perspective of a traveling merchant, a lone child surviving harsh wilderness, a budding magician in foreign lands, a slave, an assassin, a noblewoman, and a diplomat. The many different paths she has walked in her life grant her a perception about her surroundings that can be considered nigh supernatural at times. She holds great insight into those who she has known and met on several occasions and can navigate almost any situation with tact and grace.
It is hard to catch this sly woman off guard and conversely she inflicts such positions upon others almost as if by second nature. Lady Soushui is naturally seductive in her movement and speech and yet maintains a modesty and innocent appeal expected only of naive girls not yet savvy to the ways of the world. It is an unusual contradictory balance that is maintained through careful social subtleties.
At her heart, the woman is kind and empathetic to the struggles of those in positions of less power than herself. Having been in the shoes of the downtrodden, Lady Soushui is intimately aware of the pains and hardships the common man suffers. She often uses her status and clout to improve the lives of others where possible and will avoid making unnecessary sacrifices out of people when within her capabilities.
Beyond her mastery over public appearances, political skill, and humanitarian interests, Lady Soushui is truly a researcher. She is always pushing the boundaries of her magical capabilities and spends extensive amounts of her free time devoted to advancing one theory or another. Her past experimentation in magic has developed several breakthroughs and new spells unique to herself. As an assassin, most of these magics were designed to bring an end to her targets lives, but since leaving that life behind her, Soushui's research has taken a far more benevolent turn. Her accomplishments lie in the fields of barrier magics, clairvoyance magics, life magics and chimera creation, as well as magic pertaining to the generation and promotion of crops.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Green
Height: 157cm
Weight: 54kg
Appearance:
Lady Soushui appears to be a young woman at a glance, but careful inspection from a well trained eye might be able to spot a few lingering features which mark her as a middle aged woman. Most of these features have been hidden or altered with magic, but not all signs of her true age have been wiped clean.
She usually wears elaborate and flashy dresses in the fashion of her nation, Kou. But sometimes she can be found donning slightly more unorthodox outfits. Regardless, all of her clothing is custom made and tailored to fit her generous curves quite well. Maintaining a look of seduction and nobility at the same time, her dresses offer just enough flesh revealed to the eye that Soushui's charms can be used to their full effect whilst still retaining a healthy degree of modesty.
Rukh Alignment: White
Special Traits: N/A
History:
Lady Soushui was born to parents who traveled for a living and lived a simple life during her youngest years. But tragedy struck when her family was traveling through the northern seas as a great storm blew in from nowhere. Their ship capsized and Soushui's parents were lost at sea never to be heard from again. The girl herself, almost died from exposure to the arctic waters and found herself losing consciousness.
When she awoke, Soushui found herself by a warm fire wrapped in pelts. An Imuchakk magician who had been exiled from his tribe happened to find her and rescued the human on a whim. When she recovered from the ordeal, Soushui asked the man to teach her magic. He staunchly refused at first and tried to hit the girl to kick her out of his tent when she insisted, but her borg activated revealing that she had the talent for it. The Imuchakk had never left his ice cap and others like him were rare among his people and so he did not know how common a Borg was for magicians. Seeing this as a sign that she was a prodigy of sorts much like he thought himself to be, the Imuchakk reconsidered.
After spending two years of tutelage with the Imuchakk, Soushui left out into the world as an apprentice madoushi to try and find her parents. Her travels would take her to Kou where a wealthy nobleman, cousin to the emperor, noticed the girl from a crowd and found her pleasant to the eyes. The nobleman approached Soushui and tricked her into committing a crime which held the death penalty. He then arrived to "save" her from such a fate by offering to take her in as a slave.
Under this man's control, Soushui was forced to learn new magics and was instructed to find a way to use them in order to take lives. She was pushed into training in the arts of seduction, espionage, and assassination. The next fifteen years of Soushui's were spent as a tool used by the nobleman to execute political enemies and dissenters.
There was no escape from this fate even as her master died for she was simply inherited by the emperor himself and further employed in similar ways. She spent only three months as an imperial assassin before being awarded her freedom and a place of minor nobility. In this time she snuffed out several rogue elements within the empire and put stopped a potential civil war before it could truly begin.
With her new freedom and title came a new perspective on life. Soushui traveled to the western edges of Reim to a province that was being run by a corrupt official rather sour about his lot in life. He had been left magistrate of a relatively sizeable plot of land, and yet sadly almost none of it was fertile. Dry weather patterns made harvesting crops difficult and there were no valuable resources within his territory. To make matters worse, the citizens living there were a recently conquered and forcefully relocated group of former nomad tribes.
Soushui used her position and magic to expose the official's abuse of tax collection and ousted him from his position. She requested to be given temporary claim on the lands as its magistrate on the promise that she could improve its production in a short amount of time. Using her skills in persuasion and talent in magic, Soushui convinced the various tribe elders to work together with her as she revitalized the land. In a mere year, its ability to produce food, wines, and silk sprung to life. The province is now one of the largest suppliers of food for the surrounding provinces and is even vital to the capital's comfort during winter months and times of famine.
These accomplishments earned Soushui a greater noble title ranking her up to middle class nobility and marked her as having use to the empire beyond her previous profession. Soushui was approached by an envoy asking her to serve as an ambassador under the emperor's orders. While she almost never meets the man, she has served him as a political scalpel over the past several years. While she still doesn't hold his trust, she does hold his ear and has made numerous suggestions to pacify several tribes without conflict allowing the empire to expand without unneeded bloodshed and gain willing citizens as opposed to disgruntled ones.
