Nara

**Nara** is a girl with ties to all manners of wicked forces, with deathly cold black blood and loose eldritch abomination heritage. It is unknown if she can even really be called human, but she seems close enough to the title. She weaponizes the potent powers of her blood to cast spells and enter a rage state. She is incredibly capable with her black blade, which appeared before her as she realized a fundamental truth; that this isn't the first time she's been alive. She has the power to remember everything that has ever happened to her, across iterations and even extending to before her character was conceptualized as "Nara". She wants to destroy this world and recreate her old life using her granted abilities.

## Personality

It is entirely possible that Nara was a fairly ordinary girl in her childhood, even though she was being undermined by her strange eldritch physiology. However, when she reached her epiphany, she reassumed some traits of her older incarnations, particularly the dedication and iron will of "X!Nara". She is fairly polite and sweet, but often suspicious of strangers.

She has an interest in the occult and the arcane, and practices her powers extensively. She likes playing the drums and the piano. She trusts in Mystra's guidance. Her mother tongue is Aklo and Dark Folk, both languages she knows intuitively, so she commonly makes strange mistakes when speaking Japanese.

## History

She was likely born to fairly ordinary parents in 1995, although they could have also displayed some traits of her curse, particularly the black blood. She attended an ordinary school, and met her best friend Candace in her 9th year. They did music together. Being such close friends with Candace, Nara was noticed by the College of the Silver Silk for her great potential and taught her what they knew. She did not take these talents and become a bard, but instead studied arcane magic and became more of a magus. With the intuitive nature of her blood magic, she makes for a Bloodrager//Magus, combining eldritch savagery and a skillful blending of swordplay and spellcraft.

She was present for most of Candace's life, and almost all of Candace's closest memories involve Nara in some way. Unfortunately, I haven't fleshed either of them out enough to tell you what any of those memories are.

At some point, she started talking to Charry, a powerful quori from Dal Quor. Since they had the same ability and in the past were allies, they started working together towards the common goal of recreating their old lives.

## Relationships

### Candace

Candace and Nara are best friends. They talk to each other almost daily, exchange favors, fight together, do almost everything together. They sometimes go out for food together. Candace isn't aware of Nara's plan, nor her ability. They are close enough to be like siblings, or perhaps moirails.

### Charry

Charry and Nara are close allies. As two people who remember a shared past in a world full of people who don't, Charry helps in making Nara feel like she isn't alone and/or insane, and vice versa. They are often scheming together, and frequently converse whenever Nara is asleep.

## Abilities & Skills

Nara is quite intelligent and charismatic, along with being rather strong and tough, and decently fast. Her common sense and awareness are the only things she's really lacking in. She is deeply knowledgeable in spellcraft and arcana, as well as local wildlife, information and landmarks concerning her place of residence, and engineering. She has some knowledge of extraplanar matters. Although deadly, her physical appearance is not very menacing, but she can manipulate others to be afraid of her with some difficulty, as well as lie and talk her way out of almost any situation. Some of her other skills include stealth and sharp senses, or using magical devices. She can dance quite well, and play the drums and piano pretty good too. She can sing.

As a being made of whatever, she has strange powers; powers like those employed by noble drow, which manipulate light and darkness, detect magic, and slow her speed of descent; powers like those employed by duergar, which make her bigger. She is incredibly mildly psionic.

As a bladebound magus, she wields her black blade with expertise. She is skilled in defending herself while wielding the sword in one hand. She can cast some of her spells without requiring material components. Her sword deals deadly critical hits with shocking ease, and they cause horrific bleeding. She has access to a wide range of metamagic techniques to alter her spells, and her favorite spell is *shocking grasp*, the typical magus spell. She can cast spells through her sword, or cast spells and strike with her sword in the same movement. Like a bard, her light armor does not hinder her spellcasting. She has access to an arcane pool that she can use to empower her spells, her sword attacks and some of her techniques. Her sword has its own arcane pool, which is smaller and does different things.

As a bloodrager, on top of having extra spells which come from her eldritch heritage, she has the ability to tap into a bloodrage which increases her strength and fortitude and transforms her to receive several benefits related to her bloodline. She can fight until death without passing out, but her morale is generally to run away in dire situations. She has sharp reflexes that prevent her from being flanked, and the ability to shrug off damage from physical attacks. When she is transformed, her arms can dislocate to extend her reach further, her injuries spray black blood on opponents in close range, which deals cold damage. She can infuse the blood into her sword to "poison" it, or infuse it into the wounds of her enemies to prevent them from a dose of positive energy healing.

As a blessing from Mystra, she has access to silver fire, and can do all of the funny things that silver fire does.

### Equipment

Her weapon of choice is her black blade, an enchanted silver sword that can store spells and attack with raw haste. She is equipped with the highest ranked garb of her college, which is enchanted and provides her freedom from filth, the ability to store spells, and the ability to revive from the brink of death once per day. It is only kind of effective as armor, but it doesn't hinder her movement in any way, as it was designed to dance in.

## Spell Cards

Spell Cards

 銀の火 「真実の上書き」

## Trivia

* Nara was made on November 7, 2019. Prior to this event, she was a crossover of Tiara from Petscop, which is kind of a running gag.
* Her pre-scratch counterparts are Nara Kaneshiro (pre-Scratch) and Xeno Nara (pre-Scratch). Silver!Nara is based off of X!Nara, which is what Xeno Nara is based off of, and Xeno Nara has the sword that would "become" Nara's black blade. She "is", in a metaphysical sense, Nara Kaneshiro, and Xeno Nara is no longer a separate entity.
* Nara only opens her eyes when she is exceedingly close to victory. Her eyes used to be hazel in her older designs, but Silver!Nara's eyes are pitch black as a result of her blood color.
* Game statistics wise, she is a half-elf with the drow heritage trait, and so counts as human and drow. This is also the source of her drow abilities via the drow magic trait, which she enhances with the drow nobility feat chain. This doesn't have much bearing on the lore, but maybe she is like, quarter elf? Secret drow ancestor who used funny illusion magic to hide out in human civilization? Maybe? Maybe?
* Like Choko having purple blood, Nara's blood is pitch black. This also affects the color of her skin and flesh, so her insides are black, and her irises are pitch black, and so forth.
* "A Reminder" is a reference to the Radiohead song of the same name. To Nara, this is a very nostalgic tune that reminds her of her childhood, as she would listen to OK Computer a lot back then. The song holds a meaning to her and her friendship with Candace, as well as her plan to recreate her old life.