Fern the Siegemaster

Fern the Siegemaster (called Donghai Fern when visiting Millisymph) was a female fox-like humanoid "fox-person" student inventor at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth in Delctra's Cauldron Borough of Trynser City in 1742. Aside from inventing, she also did various different simple craft like carpentry, glassblowing, smithing and similar. (She was a player character created and played by Rail Runner in the Citadel's Shadow II campaign).
== Skills and abilities ==
Being an inventor, Fern had a large amount of loosely-related knowledge, mostly in technical and scientific fields. This allowed her to do most simple craft, some of the more complex craft, and potentially even invent new things. She was also capable of basic self-defense while unarmed or with a knife, but for actual combat, she'd bring a rifle if she could. She also had an extraordinary sense of smell, like that of dogs, and could hear ultrasounds. Her senses other than smell were quite keen too, and she had quite a lot of willpower.
She was a little stronger than an average fox-person, being just as strong as an average human. Her coordination was slightly above that of an average human, which was considered average by those who knew fox-people. Fern's physical endurance was also quite good; she could run longer than the average human, and very rarely got sick. Her joints were noticeably more flexible than the average human's.
She was very smart, which would become obvious to anyone talking to her for a few minutes. This mostly manifested in being good at on-place decisions. Surprisingly, her wandering from one classroom to another while studying, not being able to decide what she was best at, resulted in her knowing a little bit of knowledge in many technical and scientific fields.
Being "half-animal," Fern could communicate with other animals on a basic level.
== Difficulties ==
As was true for most canines, chocolate, coffee and some other foods consumed by humans were toxic for Fern. The same foods that were toxic to a domestic dog were toxic to Fern.
Her ears and tail tended to give her away whenever she tried to lie, bluff, hide emotions or similar.
She was always a bit awkward in conversation, often have no respect at all for manners, not getting most jokes, assuming something that the person actually didn't say, and similar. She claimed she was just trying to keep conversation "efficient." Fern was strongly disliked by some teachers for that, and for showing up in the middle of class and asking difficult questions. 
== Physical appearance ==
Fern was a young-looking female humanoid with fox-like features, including ears, muzzle, fur, claws on hands and feet, and a tail. With a slim build, she weighed about 60 kg (132 lb.) and stood 168 cm tall (5 ft 6 in) on digitigrade feet, standing and walking on her toes. Her fur was primarily ginger-colored, with lower face, front neck, front human-shaped torso and groin colored white. Her fur covered all skin except for nose, palms and bottoms of the feet on which she walked. Her skin was light-colored.
Her eyes were yellow, with vertical black pupils. On her head she has some hair-like ginger-colored fur. it grew short by human hair standards, but grew longer than the fur on the rest of her body. She was right-handed, with short blunt claws on both hands and feet, of the natural color.
Her teeth were sharp and fit for a carnivore diet; all were in perfect condition. Overall, she appeared to be in good physical health.
=== Dress ===
When she didn't have to wear anything specific (such as a school uniform), she usually wore a black long-sleeve cloth shirt, a black hooded cloth cloak with sleeves, a pair of black finger-less gloves made from thin leather, a pair of black cloth pants with pockets, and foot wraps.
== Personal life ==
Fern was created when Grandmaster Alchemist Donghai Ping was experimenting with transformative alchemy and animals, particularly foxes, in Trynser City. She was taken to St. Bassard's after creation. Her official "birthday" is Heris 9, 1726.
Having been artificially created, Fern never had any family as such.
As of the beginning of 1742, her associates were Master Ping and his wife Donghai Xiang and son Donghai Chang; Ping's employee Juan de Fulmando and Juan's wards Fuylu de Fulmando and Heva de Fulmando; Thaddeus Young; and a new associate early in the year, Jinxi. She had three roommates at St. Bassard's who were Princess Alarra Gormann, Sister Henna Brenefar, and Rajzhela Carnelian. Alarra was the daughter of a late enemy warlord who rampaged and laid waste and had an attitude to match. Henna, who had a fencing boyfriend named Asric Nehonin, was a peacemaker and acolyte for the Divine Circle church, majoring in theistic studies. Rajzhela, who was part Thalosian, was quiet and shy and didn't get into trouble, although she did sometimes disappear after class for long hours at a time.
== Personality and behavior ==
* Fern never consumed any substances she considered to be addictive (specifically, alcohol)
* Fern didn't want a monopoly on her own creations, and so would readily briefly explain how one would make them (though her personality didn't really let her do the actual teaching well)
* Fern recognized the existence and power of deities, but didn't bother with doing anything to get their attention.
* Fern often put items where they shouldn't be (things like shoes on table and similar)
* Fern often tried to find a scientific explanation for unknown things that she encountered
* Fern always helped her friends and companions in the best way she could, and wouldn't betray them or let them suffer needlessly
* Fern always tried to do a "crafting" job to the best of her ability, and supported related guilds
* Fern was quite curious, and would usually try to investigate any unusual situation, even if it could be dangerous
* Under stress, Fern might temporarily regress into a more animal-like mental state when she would have trouble speaking, understanding what others said, and might act on instincts
* Fern was very forgetful and absent-minded, and could easily forget anything she was not focused on at that moment.
* Fern didn't seem to care about the feelings of others
* Fern prefers mostly-carnivore diet despite actually being omnivore.
Category:Citadel's Shadow II
Category:St. Bassard
Category:Player Characters
Category:Delctra's Cauldron Borough Residents