Nualia Tobyn

Nualia Tobyn is the daughter of Ezakien Tobyn, the ecclesiastical father of Sandpoint. Her upbringing was marred by her eldritch appearance and abilities that caused the simple folk of Sandpoint to revere and fear her. Shortly after her twentieth birthday, she left Sandpoint by her own devices yet in truth was manipulated by Yuki. She briefly started her own faction known as The Scarlet Hand, however it was destroyed by Ex Nobis. She died in battle against Sellfrid Oric.
===Appearance===
Nualia is regarded as a beautiful woman by many. She has long hair the color of deep wool, unsettling golden eyes, and pale, unblemished skin. The girl is slender, graceful, and taller than most men. Nualia has full breasts, a narrow waist, and a heart-shaped face. She has a deep voice which sounds melodic and might make a listener envision anise, nutmeg, and cloves. Initially she was dressed often in the ceremonial garments of The Seven, much like a nun. However upon her initiation by Yuki, she instead took a more combative approach to her attire and wore her former ceremonial robes in a mockery of her former faith. 
===Personality===
A woman filled with scorn and malice, Nualia seldom smiled yet often laughed. Quick to judge and even quicker to anger, it was said that the once innocent girl turned her back on the world around her. Only truly opening up to those closest, it was only them who got to see the scared, hurt and despondent little girl who was wronged so many years back. She often spoke in a dramatic and bombastic manner in order to portray an illusion of power that she so desired.
===Biography===
When Nualia was born, she did not cry. She did not weep, she did not wail, and she did not breathe. This is where her story would have ended were it not for the intervention of a passing maleficar who gave no name. Only life back into the quiet babe. 
Shortly after she spent her youth as a foundling raised by Sandpoint’s previous religious leader, a man named Ezakien Tobyn. Nualia’s childhood was lonely and sad. Her unearthly beauty made the other children either jealous or shy, and many of them took to playing cruel jokes on her. The adults in town weren’t much better—many of the superstitious Varisians viewed Nualia as blessed by the Seven, a sort of “reverse deformity.” Rumors that her touch or proximity could cure warts and rashes, that locks of her hair brewed into tea could increase fertility, and that her voice could drive out evil spirits led to endless awkward and humiliating requests over the years. Poor Nualia felt more like a freak than a young girl by the time she came of age, so when Abilio Viskanta, a local Varisian youth, began to court her, she practically fell into his arms in gratitude.
Knowing that her father wouldn’t approve of a relationship as he wanted her to remain pure so that she could join one of the prestigious convents, they kept the affair secret. They met many times in hidden places, a favorite being an abandoned smuggler’s tunnel under town that Abilio had discovered as a child. Before long, Nualia realized she was pregnant. When she told Abilio, he was overjoyed at first, yet his emotions were betrayed by the actions of his father, as Abilio was forced to leave Sandpoint after his family had discovered his shameful affair. Nualia’s shock quickly turned to rage, yet she had nowhere to vent her anger. She bottled it up, and when her father discovered her delicate condition, his reaction to her indescretions only furthered her shame and anger. He forbade her to leave the church, lectured her nightly, and made her pray to The Seven for forgiveness. In so doing, he unknowingly nurtured her growing hate.
When the runewell in the Catacombs of Wrath flared to life, Nualia’s own anger was a magnet to its magic. Seven months pregnant, the wrathful energies suffused her mind and she flew into a frenzy. She miscarried her child later that night, a child whose monstrously deformed shape she only glimpsed before blanching midwives stole it away to burn it in secret. As the child had been concieved in the smuggler’s tunnels below town, in close proximity to a hidden shrine to Xōchiquetzal (another name for The Runelord of Lust), the child itself was deformed and horrific. The double shock of losing a child and the realization she had been carrying a fiend in her belly for seven months was too much. Nualia fell into a coma.
As Nualia slept, she dreamed unhealthy dreams. Fueled by the wrath from below and the taint of Xōchiquetzal, Nualia became further obsessed with the image of a cruel demon goddess and the conviction that her wretched life was inflicted on her by those around her. She came to see her mutation as a curse, and the dark dreams showed her how to expunge this taint from her body and soul, replacing it with a purity of sin. However, her condition would not change. It wasn't until a hooded figure appeared on the night of a storm that Nualia would undergo any physical change. Claiming themselves to be a healer of sorts, the stranger asked of her father, time alone with Nualia in which the stranger tied the knots of insanity into Nualia's mind, finally allowing her to awaken from her coma. The stranger left and Nualia was someone new, someone who didn’t flinch at what was asked of her. She jammed her father’s door shut as he slept, lit the church on fire, and fled Sandpoint.
The locals assumed Nualia had burned in the fire, a tragedy made all the worse by the death of Father Tobyn as well. Yet Nualia lived. She fled to Magnimar, where she encountered the stranger who saved her, the stranger unlike any that she had met, informed her of a group who would be of great assistance to her in her quest that the stranger himself led. Within the first week of Magnimar, he had "'allowed" her to enlist the aid of his followers. The Skinsaw Men. With their help, she tracked down Abilio and murdered him. Yet his death did not fill her need for revenge. Sandpoint and its hated citizens still lived.
Seeing a kindred spirit in the tortured woman, the mysterious leader of the Skinsaw Men gave Nualia a medallion bearing a carving of a seven-pointed star called a “Sihedron medallion.” Nualia learned that she had a larger role to play, and that her dreams were a map to her destiny. Taking the advice to heart, Nualia returned to Sandpoint, and found herself drawn to the brick wall in the smuggler’s tunnels where she and Abilio had conceived her deformed child. Nualia bashed down the wall, and in so doing, discovered the Catacombs of Wrath. She returned to Magnimar with the news and informed the leader who took the news with great delight. For many months, Nualia studied under this figure’s tutelage, during this time, Nualia soon realised that in order to achieve her revenge on those who wronged her, she would require a force, a force much like her mentors. She turned to recruitment by means of indoctrination and propaganda, even hiring a mercenary who cared not for morality and instead for coin, it was during this time she met Tuno Callierte, the mutt child of a Noble from Sandpoint who had a trist with her Elven servant years ago. It did not take long for Tuno to swiftly fall for Nualia; a feeling that was not mutual.
With her forces gathering, she encountered something unexpected. In the cold of winter 1101, Nualia who was travelling with Tuno and two fellow soldiers to her cause encountered a figure gaunt and broken in the wilds, with hair as white as hers and eyes like an animal. Nualia found herself somehow smitten with this "monster" and took her to her side, nurturing him and bringing him back to health. Her actions paid off in loyalty as the monster she found turned out to be a valuable asset, with an intellect that bewildered her and a cruelty that surpassed her own, she anoited her new companion as her right hand. Something that Tuno never got over.
== Abilities ==
Although born a normal girl, the mixture of "Divine Blood" has altered the properties of Nualia's biology to the point that she far outclasses even Orc warlords in both strength and durability.
Lacking any magic talent whatsoever from birth, Nualia was 'awakened' to the ability of magecraft unlike natural born mages. Although not uncommon in the world, it is still stigmatised in Circles due to the lack of control that the user displays. Despite this however, Nualia has done well to understand the fundamental basics of witchcraft and has gone so far as to adapt and even learn methods that improve the quality of her magic.
Where Nualia truly shines is in her 'Divine Body' which in truth, is simply one of the gene seeds plucked from Kumani Date's body and implanted into Nualia's own in her youth. Although unable to fully take advantage of the power that the seed grants, a majority of it is directly empowering her arm which allows her to tear through steel as though it were wet tissue.
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|-|Powers=
*Image of Sin: Crimson Red Claw (D Rank): - A manifestation of Kumani Date's own magically enhanced biology. Crimson Red Claw is Nualia's primary weapon in combat against those she believes to be dangerous. It is a deep red appendage with four digits all sharpened to impossible standards. It is often bound in a weave of Moonsilk in order to negate its magical aura of Necromancy.
*Divine Blood (E Rank): - An ability belonging only to 'mythology'. It is in truth simply the ichor of Kumani Date after exposure to the Gene-Seeds of Thassilon. This divine blood takes a deep golden colour and allows Nualia's body to withstand magical enhancements that would snuff out the life of a lesser-man. 
*Divine Body(E+ Rank): - A subset of Divine Blood, as magical energy often enhances the atomic structure of that which it resonates through, Nualia is able to maintain a constant performance boost into her muscles and bone density, granting her superior speed, reflexes, and strength. This increase places her strength on par with entirely different species, including beasts of the animal kingdom. 
*Charisma(C Rank): - Perhaps due to her proximity to divinity or perhaps due to her own metamorphesis and trials, Nualia has developed an innate talent to sway people to her reason and ideals. She used this ability to maintain complete control over The Scarlet Hand, eliciting no betrayal until Raiden who's own Charisma surpassed hers. 
|-|Skills=
*Weapon Proficiency (D+ Rank): - Often preferring to use others to do her dirty work, or even not resorting to violence at the outset, Nualia neglects the art of war often and will rely instead on her superior strength and magecraft. 
**Swords(D Rank): - When provoked into using weapons, a blade is the first thing Nualia often reaches for. Her prowess however is amateur at best, with Sellfrid Oric besting her through his own skill and intellect.
|-|Magecraft=
*True Magic (C Rank): - 
**Abjuration (D Rank): - 
**Transmutation (D+ Rank): - 
**Divination (D+ Rank): - 
**Charm (C+ Rank): - 
**Necromancy (C+ Rank): - 
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==Role==
===Burnt Offerings===
Goblin slayer
===Sins of the Saviours===
==Relationships==
Nualia's past made it so that her heart was closed off, only opening up to those who could understand her or those who she was enraptured by, anyone else simply became nothing more than pawns to her game of revenge, something that she was very clear about.
;Ezakien Tobyn
:Nualia's relationship with her father was always strained, a pious man who was gifted a daughter who held all the Lady's features and a voice that made the birds in the Cathedral garden sway and dance to its tune, yet to Nualia her father was nothing more than a delusional man who pretended to see what he wanted to see and couldn't see the emotional abuse and physical abuse that Nualia was forced to endure for the sake of faith. By the time of Ezakien's death, Nualia felt nothing but contempt for the man who helped sow the seeds of her dark rebirth.
;Tuno Callierte
:A man who had fallen for her like she once fell for another, Nualia found Tuno to be an interesting male, albeit lacking in some regards he nevertheless had a loyalty that she did not ever question, a loyalty that she rewarded with kindness, yet a rift between them grew as Nualia grew closer to her right-hand, due to her time primarily being focused on people other than Tuno, their relationship remained a simple working one. A fact that Tuno burned with anger over.
;Yuki
:The woman who both saved and delivered Yuki to her dark rebirth, Yuki was both a mother and a sister to Nualia. Although she did not learn much of her, Nualia trusted Yuki with her life and soul entirely, considering Yuki to be one of the only two who could understand who she was. However their relationship soured briefly when Yuki learned of her right-hand and whom exactly it was, ordering Nualia not to interact with them. Something that Nualia was quick to object to, despite her refusal of the order, Yuki's act did not change and she remained a close confidant of Nualia up until her demise.
;Raiden
:
:A monster who's insanity burned almost as bright as her own, she met Raiden as one would meet a wild animal but when he revealed his deranged mind to her, she became smitten with the darkness that was buried inside the youth, soon teaching Raiden things that would help him on his journey, she became a mentor and a companion to the boy, she soon found herself attracted to the primal nature of the boy and before long, they soon became bedfellows and Nualia allowed Raiden intimate access to her body, her mind and her soul, believing that she had found someone to share in misery with. 
:This relationship would be her catalyst for redemeption as following her near death at the hands of Selfrid Oric, she travelled eastwards in search of Raiden so that she may offer her blade and services to him. Although now a very different man, her irrational care for the Weiss boy is the only thing holding her together.
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