[Rime]

- Player -
Name: Emilia Ferraro
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Sexuality: Heterosexual

- Character -
Name: Rime
Gender: Female
Apparent Age: 29
Face Claim: Tio Plato, Trails of Cold Steel III
Played By: Koop
Faction: Adventurer

- Appearance -

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Source: www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/64905717

While the basis of race and name is based on Emilia's pet cat, Rime, the rest of her appearance was made in her image, save for a few major differences. Long hair is a colossal pain to manage, so while Emilia has short haired, Rime's hair falls all the way down to her waist. Then, of course, there are the racial features which include her always perked up cat ears and her very long tail that matches her hair color. Rime stands slightly below average height, at five foot two inches tall and has a fairly average body shape with no real unique markings or features. Those that observe her would note that she is highly dexterous, but not otherwise strong physically.

Rime tends to always be looking around as if taking in the sights for the first time but lacks showing much emotion beyond that. She could be described as looking like a calm tourist in that sense. She is rarely rushing to do anything and appears to be an infinite source of patience.

Attire is also quite important to Rime, and while she almost took up the Tailor crafting talent to let her customize and create millions of outfits, she settled on Artisan to satisfy her desire to work with glass in real life, something she was never good at. That said, she still has plenty of outfits available and changes them out regularly.

- Personality -

Rime's personality matches her player's personality. She's an introvert through and through and is rarely one to initiate conversations unless she feels she has to. That is not to say that she is shy, however. She is quite friendly when engaged and does enjoy talking to people; she simply tires out easily from prolonged conversations or large groups of people. Bringing up a topic she's greatly interested in, such as the massive plethora of outfits available in Gaia Reborn is a great way to get her talking for long periods. She also selected the Artisan talent due to a great interest in glasswork. Its never been something she's been able to do in real life, however, so she's taken to using the game to fulfill that fantasy.

Attentive, observant, and analytical are a couple of words that have been used to describe Rime. She seems like she's always paying attention to her surroundings, and she uses logic in almost all conversations and thoughts she has. Because of this, however, she's been told that she is hard to approach sometimes because she is quite terrible at showing much emotion in conversation, let alone in general.

One thing that most people appreciate is when others tell the truth. Rime especially--with her highly logical way of thinking--appreciates this, and has an aversion to lying herself. After all, accurate information is the basis for forming solid hypotheses and lying creates inaccurate information, making logical decision making harder. Something that can be both a virtue and a flaw is that she tends to trust people inherently so she is quite gullible at times. Not so much that she can't see through obvious tricks and deceptions though.

When in a crowd, Rime tends to become quite distant from conversations. She'll retain her constant attention to her surroundings, but it usually turns into people watching when there's so many. She struggles to engage with large groups of people and is downright uncomfortable when the spotlight shines on her. One-on-one conversations are the best.

- Biography -

Emilia has a pretty standard life as far as being in a military family goes. While she was born in Sicily, Italy, she spent her early years traveling from base to base across the globe. When her mother finally retired, her family moved back to Sicily to live near her father's side of the family. This didn't happen until she was 14 years old, however, so she had struggled for quite a bit of her early life in regards to making friends, due to the constant moving. She survived it by playing video games and making friends online instead.

When she discovered Gaia Reborn, she became addicted. She loved the concept of the Half-Gaia Project and found herself spending significantly more time immersed in that game than in her real life. She made several close friends including Maeve, one of the first people she ran into while trying to gather some random plant. She got attacked by some low-level enemies and while fleeing in terror, spotted a heavily armored character and quickly dragged the monsters into them. With the player being a much higher level, they easily dispatched the enemies and saved Rime, and she was eternally grateful, but kind of annoying because she instantly saw this person as someone who would help her. Rime basically decided that this person was her new friend, and while it worked out in the end and they both became long time friends, it's unclear how annoying she was with her constant questioning about the game.

Emilia eventually married at the age of 35, however, which helped bring her back to reality. She stopped playing Gaia Reborn for a couple of years, but when the new expansion pack was announced, she had to check it out. She had no idea that her prior immersion in the world would pale to what was coming next.

- Extra -

While Rime generally has a limited amount of expressiveness, she notably seems quite happy when summoning terrible amounts of fire or other elements to rain down upon her enemies. Or the squirrels in the local forest. That never happens though. According to Rime, at least.

- Statistics -

Race: Cat Faunri
Class: Sorcerer
Class EXP: 0
Talent: Pathfinder
Talent Level 1
Talent EXP: 0
Crafting Talent: Artisan
Crafting Talent Level 1
Crafting Talent EXP: 0
Skill Points: 1
Ability Points: 0

- Ability Levels -

Unarmed: 0
One-Handed Melee: 0
Two-Handed Melee: 0
Ranged: 0
Magic: 7
Shield: 0
Light Armor: 3
Medium Armor: 0
Heavy Armor: 0


- Skills -

- Class -

- Beginner -

Auto Attack:
A skill that controls the user's body and allows them to automatically target a monster and attempt to basic attack. Auto-attack will do a constant chain of attacks so that the total DPS is roughly the same as dealing minor damage once a second. For example, a heavy weapon will do slower but stronger attacks, while a player wielding two daggers will do faster, less damaging attacks.
Any skills or movements that the user may manually perform will take priority over this skill, but the system will generally try to aim for an accurate hit.

It was a staple among players in the original Gaia Reborn game, but since the Apocalypse, its use has taken a drastic drop. Manual basic attacks allow for much more fluid and precise control of attacks, and as such, the skill has barely been used by Adventurers since then. It does, however, allow for people who are not proficient with their weapon of choice to be able to reliably hit their target.
Passively, the player can also delay their next attack to increase the basic attack’s power by performing what’s known as an “empowered attack”. Each second used to charge an attack increases the damage dealt by 20%, up to a maximum of 100% at 5 seconds.
Toggle, No cooldown. No cost.

Roads to Romalia
A skill that can be found prominently on the player’s interface. Roads to Romalia allows a player to teleport back to Romalia from any city or town with a cathedral. Activating it causes the user to channel for five seconds, restricting them from doing anything until this cast time is done. If they choose to make any other action or are hit by an attack, Roads to Romalia is interrupted and put on a 1 minute cooldown. Because teleporting in this way to one’s home city essentially breaks them down into raw energy, it is extremely taxing to players after the Apocalypse, and repeated use in a short span can inflict mental and physical strains.
5s cast time, No cooldown. No cost.

Interface Control:
Even after the Apocalypse, players have kept the ability to use their interfaces. When mentally called upon, the interface hovers slightly in front of them, visible only to themselves and is slightly transparent. It can be interacted with by touch of the fingertips or mentally. The interface allows players to access their party list, friend list, guild settings, crafting list and many other menus. Friend invites can only be sent in a face-to-face meeting, and the same goes for party invites. However, a friend can be added to a party regardless of where they are. Additionally, an Adventurer can talk to friends or party members through telepathy, by pressing one finger to their ear after dialing them. This causes words said to be spoken into their mind rather than out loud.
Passive.

Aetherial Desperation:
As spells are cast and mana is spent, residual magic essence begins to permeate the Sorcerer's body. Starting at 60% mana, the Sorcerer receives a minor Magic Attack and Magic Defense Up. This buff grows linearly as the Sorcerer’s mana drops, up to tripling to average at zero mana.
Passive skill.

- Rank I -

Energy Salvo:
Conjure forth a salvo of 5 non elemental magic darts fanned out above the Sorcerer before launching them at a target within 10m. They travel fast and home lazily. Each dart deals very minor damage, dealing average non-elemental magical damage in total if all darts connect.
1s cast time, 6s cooldown. Low mana cost.

Rose of Rime
Conjure a rose-patterned circle with a 4m radius at a designated area within 20 meters. It inflicts an average Movement Down to all enemies as long as they stand in it and lasts for 5 seconds. After one second, spears of clear ice shoot upwards to impale enemies and deal average magical Ice damage. Enemies impaled are Chilled for low damage over 20s.
2s cast time, 15s cooldown. Average mana cost.

Lightning Coil:
Call forth a purple bolt of lightning from one’s staff that instantly strikes a targeted enemy within 20 meters, dealing above-average magical Air damage and inflicting a weak Paralysis for 3s. The bolt of lightning will instantly jump between up to 4 more enemies within 5 meters of each other at random, only striking each enemy once. The bolt’s power reduces by a minor amount with every jump, but applies the Paralysis debuff without any penalties.
2s cast time, 15s cooldown. Average mana cost.

Windrose:
Displays a simple 16-point compass rose which hovers in front of the user. With skillful navigation, this allows parties to not get lost in winding dungeons or in the more densely forested areas. More importantly, this compass rose is unaffected by magic puzzles or disorienting traps.
Toggle. No cooldown. Very minor mana drain

- Rank II -

- Rank III -

- Racial & Talents -

Animal Instincts:
While their appearance is primarily humanoid, the Faunri benefit from improved perception, their eyesight and hearing amplified by their animal eyes and ears. The senses of a Faunri are more powerful than those of the other races, granting them improved eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell. Faunri do not receive any further bonuses from the animal they are; such as gills, wings, cold resistance, and so on.
Passive skill.

Eye for Quality:
Artisans are skilled in many forms of art, and have quite an eye for discerning quality materials. When they roll on any table in a gathering thread, they are granted a +2 bonus to their roll. This bonus can’t cause the roll to exceed 85. This bonus increases to +4 once the Artisan hits level 21, and +6 once they hit level 51.
Passive skill.

Pathfinding Aptitude:
The Pathfinder starts with the Windrose Beginner Skill for free. They also have an aptitude for the Trekking skill, so it only costs 2SP to learn instead of 5SP.
Passive skill.

- Equipment -
Armor: Novice Shirt
Left Hand: Novice Staff(Two-Handed)
Right Hand: Novice Staff
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- Vanity Gear -
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- Inventory -
None. Yet.

[Calcifer]

Approved, Welcome to Gaia Reborn! Feel free to stop by the Introductions board and introduce yourself if you haven't already; we'd love to get to know you! If you're looking for people to RP with, feel free to drop by the RP Discussion board or take a peak at the Looking-for-Players channel in the discord.