Post by Ailith Rayner on Aug 28, 2007 10:23:03 GMT
Name: Ailith Rayner
Age: 16
Physical Description: 5'0", robust but sinewy, short, dark honey coloured hair, green eyes and a few lasting scars.
Clothing Description: Ailith brought only the basics. Shirts and trousers are hard wearing and warm or light and easily torn almost all dull in colour but only 2 black items. Climbing slippers, assault boots and a pair of trainers. Long coat and a cloak. A balaclava and a plain watery-green skull cap. There is also a light chain mail body armour, a full-face helmet with wide visor and a penknife and a dagger given to her by friends. In short, an Assassin’s kit with a Policeman’s twist. That’s what she called it.
Personality: Ailith is extremely fair and very reserved. She takes in everything and gives out nothing. Her sense of true justice comes from her father and her unforthcoming nature from her past. Ailith is a thinker and a strategist and goes about her day-to-day life with logic and care. This does not mean to say she doesn’t have a sense of humour. Quite the contrary. However, the temperament in which she expresses it makes it hard for people to tell whether they should laugh or not. Underneath this however burned a passion for people and their personalities and she could judge a character within three minutes of watching them. Another skill she inherited.
History: Ailith’s father was a Captain of the City Watch, and a good one at that. So good in fact that his superiors were reluctant to promote him any further as the next stop for him would be ruler of the city. He was able to manipulate people, but in the nicest and most genuine way, to reach down to the very bottom and finish of whatever case lay in front of him. As well as being committed to his job he always found time for his daughter who after school would walk round to the Watch House and hang about until the end of her father’s working day. As a result, Ailith was almost considered as a member of the Watch and often she talked to the men about their cases and views and discussed with them what they could do to solve the problem.
Needless to say, Ailith’s father was extremely proud of his daughter and Ailith of him. This was her life until the age of 7. One evening, on an October night, a dirty crime had been done. A man of average height, medium build and short dark hair (with a criminal record of “vicious tendencies”) did murder a woman aged 27 while she walked home from her workplace. The woman suffered deep stab wounds running the length of her back and was left to bleed to death. The woman was a new wife to Cpl. Linnens, who had arrested the man's wife five years before for nearly murdering their young son, and she was pregnant.
Obviously this enraged Ailith’s father. He hated to, firstly, see one of his men being hurt, physically or emotionally, and secondly murder done to an innocent person. So did Ailith. So, Captain Rayner took on the case personally and made it public knowledge that he did so. Thing is, the man he was searching for wasn’t sane. In any way. And he had no qualms about murdering to save his own skin or to get revenge. Men like that are the most dangerous criminals there is. Rayner knew that, but not that he was hunting one.
After a week of scouring the city, with Watchmen and security men manning all exits from the city to eliminate escape from the murderer’s list of options, Captain Rayner got his chance. He was walking home and there the murdering, son of a dog was watching him! But there was no saving either of them. Both drew a gun, one aimed to kill, one to bring to justice. Both shot, both missed by inches. It was a slow death and Ailith was there for all of it.
That was when she shut herself off. She remained the same person just really deep down. She didn’t have any other family and she had no Godparents, so the Watchmen cleared out an office and Ailith was given a bedroom. They all treated her as one of their own and made her feel safe, loved and - despite all – happy, in her own quiet way. She became more and more involved in Watch activities and she found she had a talent for policing and was made an unofficial consultant. And then, (unofficially of course) she became almost an undercover by finding an assassin’s school. The Watchmen evidently found it disturbing that children as young as 6 were being taught how to kill with perfect skill in a boarding school. But there was little they could do. Except … Ailith came up with the idea herself and the Watchmen were impressed at her bravery but were unwilling to let her admit herself to a school like that. It happened anyway. She became a spy in an assassin’s school to the City Watch at the age of 10. Officially. She reported every week.
She actually learned a lot; techniques, strategies, how to use weapons, how to fight unarmed, how to disarm, how to get in and get out, how to seem to melt away into the background (which Ailith could do extraordinary ease and perfection) and most importantly the Assassin’s Code. And the Watch knew everything.
One Monday she and her fellow students were brought underground and each handed a gun. They had been taught how to use firearms but had never experienced anything practical. The rest of the week was spent aiming and shooting and everyone was doing alarmingly well. One of the students beside Ailith got cocky and span his handgun by the trigger-guard like a cowboy. But, like all hormone-crazed teenage boys, forgot about safety and, just as Ailith gasped and made a grab to stop him, there was a loud bang. The boy yelled and dropped the gun. It was bent totally out of shape as if a 10 ton truck had run over it and the bullet was half-way out the barrel. A woman grabbed Ailith and took her into the deserted little medic’s room. Ailith had never seen the woman before and judging by her stance and facial expression and her firm manner, she had something urgent and honest to tell or ask Ailith. What happened in that room was unknown to everyone except Ailith, the mysterious woman, Sergeants Hoard and Stibbs Cpl. Linnens and Capt. Alar in the Watch. Well she had to tell someone where she was going.
Gifts: She can bend metal like it’s play-dough and appears to disappear more literally than anyone else.
Pets: None
Other: Not a lot that you should know.
Group: Spies
Age: 16
Physical Description: 5'0", robust but sinewy, short, dark honey coloured hair, green eyes and a few lasting scars.
Clothing Description: Ailith brought only the basics. Shirts and trousers are hard wearing and warm or light and easily torn almost all dull in colour but only 2 black items. Climbing slippers, assault boots and a pair of trainers. Long coat and a cloak. A balaclava and a plain watery-green skull cap. There is also a light chain mail body armour, a full-face helmet with wide visor and a penknife and a dagger given to her by friends. In short, an Assassin’s kit with a Policeman’s twist. That’s what she called it.
Personality: Ailith is extremely fair and very reserved. She takes in everything and gives out nothing. Her sense of true justice comes from her father and her unforthcoming nature from her past. Ailith is a thinker and a strategist and goes about her day-to-day life with logic and care. This does not mean to say she doesn’t have a sense of humour. Quite the contrary. However, the temperament in which she expresses it makes it hard for people to tell whether they should laugh or not. Underneath this however burned a passion for people and their personalities and she could judge a character within three minutes of watching them. Another skill she inherited.
History: Ailith’s father was a Captain of the City Watch, and a good one at that. So good in fact that his superiors were reluctant to promote him any further as the next stop for him would be ruler of the city. He was able to manipulate people, but in the nicest and most genuine way, to reach down to the very bottom and finish of whatever case lay in front of him. As well as being committed to his job he always found time for his daughter who after school would walk round to the Watch House and hang about until the end of her father’s working day. As a result, Ailith was almost considered as a member of the Watch and often she talked to the men about their cases and views and discussed with them what they could do to solve the problem.
Needless to say, Ailith’s father was extremely proud of his daughter and Ailith of him. This was her life until the age of 7. One evening, on an October night, a dirty crime had been done. A man of average height, medium build and short dark hair (with a criminal record of “vicious tendencies”) did murder a woman aged 27 while she walked home from her workplace. The woman suffered deep stab wounds running the length of her back and was left to bleed to death. The woman was a new wife to Cpl. Linnens, who had arrested the man's wife five years before for nearly murdering their young son, and she was pregnant.
Obviously this enraged Ailith’s father. He hated to, firstly, see one of his men being hurt, physically or emotionally, and secondly murder done to an innocent person. So did Ailith. So, Captain Rayner took on the case personally and made it public knowledge that he did so. Thing is, the man he was searching for wasn’t sane. In any way. And he had no qualms about murdering to save his own skin or to get revenge. Men like that are the most dangerous criminals there is. Rayner knew that, but not that he was hunting one.
After a week of scouring the city, with Watchmen and security men manning all exits from the city to eliminate escape from the murderer’s list of options, Captain Rayner got his chance. He was walking home and there the murdering, son of a dog was watching him! But there was no saving either of them. Both drew a gun, one aimed to kill, one to bring to justice. Both shot, both missed by inches. It was a slow death and Ailith was there for all of it.
That was when she shut herself off. She remained the same person just really deep down. She didn’t have any other family and she had no Godparents, so the Watchmen cleared out an office and Ailith was given a bedroom. They all treated her as one of their own and made her feel safe, loved and - despite all – happy, in her own quiet way. She became more and more involved in Watch activities and she found she had a talent for policing and was made an unofficial consultant. And then, (unofficially of course) she became almost an undercover by finding an assassin’s school. The Watchmen evidently found it disturbing that children as young as 6 were being taught how to kill with perfect skill in a boarding school. But there was little they could do. Except … Ailith came up with the idea herself and the Watchmen were impressed at her bravery but were unwilling to let her admit herself to a school like that. It happened anyway. She became a spy in an assassin’s school to the City Watch at the age of 10. Officially. She reported every week.
She actually learned a lot; techniques, strategies, how to use weapons, how to fight unarmed, how to disarm, how to get in and get out, how to seem to melt away into the background (which Ailith could do extraordinary ease and perfection) and most importantly the Assassin’s Code. And the Watch knew everything.
One Monday she and her fellow students were brought underground and each handed a gun. They had been taught how to use firearms but had never experienced anything practical. The rest of the week was spent aiming and shooting and everyone was doing alarmingly well. One of the students beside Ailith got cocky and span his handgun by the trigger-guard like a cowboy. But, like all hormone-crazed teenage boys, forgot about safety and, just as Ailith gasped and made a grab to stop him, there was a loud bang. The boy yelled and dropped the gun. It was bent totally out of shape as if a 10 ton truck had run over it and the bullet was half-way out the barrel. A woman grabbed Ailith and took her into the deserted little medic’s room. Ailith had never seen the woman before and judging by her stance and facial expression and her firm manner, she had something urgent and honest to tell or ask Ailith. What happened in that room was unknown to everyone except Ailith, the mysterious woman, Sergeants Hoard and Stibbs Cpl. Linnens and Capt. Alar in the Watch. Well she had to tell someone where she was going.
Gifts: She can bend metal like it’s play-dough and appears to disappear more literally than anyone else.
Pets: None
Other: Not a lot that you should know.
Group: Spies
