Illiya

## *The Fox.... and The Hound*

Illiya was born as the Phoenix Fox with superior intellect in the forests of Kalima just outside of M.D's borders. She is a fox who has harnessed an immense amount of magical control. So much so that she is even able to change her very body into that of a Kitsune Beastkin. This puts a lot of tax on her body and mind but she as grown so accustomed to it that she is almost always in her Beastkin form.

In both her Beastkin and Fox forms she has arctic white hair/fur. She is quite short but is very strong due to her mastery of body magic and combat experience. Her eyes are a beautiful orange. In her Beastkin form she dresses however she feels like. She doesn't care if it matches or looks good. She claims "I'm a fox, I don't need a sense of fashion"

During her long life Illiya has learned all she could of The Guardians and their powers. Somewhere along the way she began to worship them as if they were her personal gods. She now goes around spreading her version of their tales and heroics, becoming some what of a priest/preacher.

Illiya has been roaming the lands of Agate for almost 300 years and has been a sort of agent for the True King and Queen. Scouting the land and finding traitors and those who would commit treason. She hunts them down using her superior senses and does as they King and Queen command. While it is rare, she has on occasion had to kill her target.

She travels with her husband Vincent and her daughter Max. They consider themselves nomads or homeless wanderers, but they actually have quite an impressive manor in the heart of Agate, Solaris. The manor belongs solely to Vincent, the heir of his family. When they do decide to return there, they usually end up staying for years before the leave again. If you are traveling in Agate and you have heard legends of the White Fox, they are certainly talking about Illiya.

## Combat

At an early age Illiya was forced to fight almost every day. Granted this was all in her fox form. She was able to transfer almost all of her skills there into her Beastkin body and use them just as effectively.

Illiya is incredibly adept at defensive body magic, using it to harden her bones or dodge a hit. But she is equally as deadly turning that magic offensively against her target. Her most powerful technique is the Mana Punch. A move where she dumps all but enough mana to maintain her beastkin form. She focuses it all into her fist and delivers in into her target in an explosive release.

She in very fast, utilizing her fox-like speed and stamina she can stay in a fight for a long time without breaking a sweat. Her advanced senses makes it hard for her to be up on surprised or caught off guard. If she stays quiet and listens intently, she can even here an enemies heartbeat from up to 100 feet away.

Using a small bit of Alteration magic, she can make her already sharp claws even longer and sharper. She uses these with ease to shred through her foes and leave them bleeding or to go in for the killing blow.

She never turns her back on her foe in a fight, or she exposes her weaknesses. The first person to ever own her was a terribly insane mage who would abuse her physically and discipline her by pulling on her ears or yanking on her tail as hard as he could. While it doesn't hurt her now, if you were to manage to do it, it would send her into a psychological breakdown rendering her defenseless.

## Career

Illiya has made a substantial living for herself and her family acting as a wandering bounty hunter, person tracker, scout, and occasionally a mercenary.

She started her career when she was fairly young when she arrived in Gilda. She was taken in by a merchant/mafia boss named Astor. He ran both the merchant and thieves guild in Gilda and this gave Illiya plenty of connections and jobs. Although she was offered many better jobs and partners, she stayed loyal to Astor. The man who took her in. After she had earned his trust by beating him in combat, he made her his right hand man. If he needed something done, he had Illiya for it. It took a long time but he eventually earn her trust in return. She had showed him that she was truly just a fox. He laughed and told her that he didn't care.

She eventually moved on from Gilda and travel to the capital of Agate. A city named Allius in Solaris. As soon as she arrived in the capital she was contacted by a messenger from the Queen. The Queen herself had heard of Illiya's tales and wanted her to serve under her. Illiya took the offer and has ever since been under loyal service to the Queen.

One of her earliest mission was to find and remove a vampire living in the city by any means. When Illiya found and broke into the home of the vampire she found but one man. He approached her with swagger and instead of fighting her, he simply asked her to dinner. This is how she ended up meeting and falling in love with Vincent Barlow.

After that, he and Vincent traveled together for decades. Receiving and following orders giving by the Queen. Many years after she had started her service to the Queen, she found out that she had passed away and her successor Lumina had taken over in her place. Illiya did not like this new Queen and promptly left her service and since then has been independent of any organization or alliances that wasn't to her husband or daughter.

## Personal Life

Illiya is a laid back person who is often considered too kind. But this is just her outward attitude. She is actually more uptight and mean than you might think.

She is almost always serious. She doesn't like to mess around or make jokes. What she says is what she means. She doesn't always grasp sarcasm and is oblivious to slang.

Living for as many years as she has has made her very wise. She has traveled so much, making her very knowledgeable about Agate's history and locations. She frequently likes to boast about this.

Her only true loves in the world are her family and would skin you alive with her bare hands (fox form or not) if you so much as looked at them the wrong way.