Your Gaia Name: NoiseInTheShadows
Character's name: Isolda Volpe
Status: Student
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Race: Isolda is a shapeshifter and can turn into a falcon at will. She has three forms: fully human, a demi form with human body and wings, and the full falcon form.
Appearance: Isolda is tall and slender, and has long, white hair with a few black streaks, which she usually keeps in a thick braid which reaches the small of her back. She has pale skin and black eyes. Her features are sharp yet delicate at the same time, and are slightly birdlike. When in her demi form, Isolda has white wings with black flecks and black feathers along the lower edges that are attached to her shoulder blades and halfway down her back. As a bird, she is an almost pure white gyrfalcon, with only a few black flecks on her wings and body, as well as black feathers at the points and along part of the bottom of her wings. As a falcon, her wingspan is a little over five feet, and her body is over two. As for clothes, Isolda usually wears a comfortable black tunic made of light, warm material with very little back to allow for her wings. The tunic is belted at the waist with a grey sash that can hold her knife and can also be used to carry some supplies, like a small amount of food and water. She also wears black pants made of the same material as the tunic, and lightweight deerskin boots lined with lemming fur.
IsoldaFully falconDemiNOTE: This is NOT Isolda. This is just to give an idea of the proportions and positioning of the wings in the demi form
Height: 5’ 10” or 11”
Weight: 110 lbs. when fully human. The wings in her demi form add ten pounds. When in her falcon form, she weighs between 4.5 and 5 lbs.
Strengths: Her shapeshifting ability allows her to fly out of tight spaces if necessary. She also has excellent eyesight and hearing, though her other senses are rather underdeveloped. Her light weight means that she is agile enough for close combat, and she has a great amount of physical stamina. She has better muscle strength than one might expect for one as thin as she is, and she also thinks well on her feet.
Weaknesses: Isolda’s bones are hollow like a bird’s to allow for flight in her demi form, so it doesn’t take much to break them. She is also light, and can be easily unbalanced in close combat. If she makes a mistake, she is very easily frustrated with herself, which can hurt her focus. This further frustrates her, because she knows that she has a short attention span in the first place, so if she is distracted in combat for any reason, the result could be disastrous.
Weapon: She has a knife that is a cross between a Bowie knife and a stiletto, similar to a US Marine’s KA-BAR knife, but the handle is wood bound with leather strings for grip. The blade is 7” long, and the handle is 5”. She also has a yew
longbow that is 6’ long with a 50 lb./28” draw.
Personality: Isolda likes things to be a certain way. If she’s used to something being somewhere and somebody other than herself moves it, she will silently move it back. She’s not controlling by any means, just slightly OCD. Since she has always known that she would end up at House of Bricks, she was very careful not to make any attachments at home, even to her family, and will continue the habit here, since she knows that she will eventually have to leave. She is also a bit of a know-it-all as well as prone to making sarcastic remarks, if only to give herself a chuckle.
Bio: Isolda comes from a small clan of shapeshifters like herself that lives near the outskirts of Serbin, in Kardenia. Her own family is rich due to a long family history of trade with both Serbin and Czena. As family tradition dating back several generations goes, the eldest child of the eldest child will learn the family trade business, and all of the younger children are schooled in weaponry and eventually become highly prized as bodyguards or mercenaries, etc. Each child that leaves home is sent to a different school to ensure that each is treated as an individual rather than someone’s little brother or sister. The second oldest child (that is, the eldest of those who leave home)
has been sent to House of Bricks since Isolda's great-aunt Lorelai was the first in the family to attend, based on the school's excellent reputation aquired during its first twenty years. Lorelai's experience as well as that of Isolda's uncle Andreas, have ensured House of Bricks' favor among the Volpes. Each younger sibling attends another school. This means that Isolda is the second child in her family, and has, since the moment she was conceived, been destined to attend House of Bricks. She has been resigned to leaving since she learned at around the age of seven that she would be, and since then, many have thought her to be cold and unfeeling because she has refused to make any new or special attachments. Much of her time was spent in her family’s library reading. She would also take long flights by herself, ranging as far north as Guren. Once, when she was fifteen, she even circled the House of Bricks just to see the place where she would end up in three short years. At the time, she was impressed with the sheer size of the building, having never been into town simply because it was not required of her, so she never saw mansions or castles or anything of the kind.
As a matter of necessity, she, her older brother, and her two younger sisters have trained in basic hand-to hand combat, including some knife fighting. By no means, however is she proficient at anything. To start out with, Isolda has decided that she would like to learn archery as well as further her close combat and knife skills.
Extra:As the climate in Kardenia is cold, the falcon clan, and therefore Isolda, is used to being in their demi forms to keep their uncovered backs from freezing (see note in appearance on her clothing). As a result of the warmer climate around House of Bricks, Isolda will not have to wear her wings and she will be slightly off-balance while she adjusts.
Kills: 0
Wins/Losses/Ties: 0/0/0
Unique/Acquired attributes: Shapeshifting ability.
Weapons: Knife and longbow and arrows.
Update Extra:
Notable Character Info:
Day 10: Arrives at House of Bricks. Goes dress shopping. tags along on the dungeoncrawl.
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