Ruby

Ruby is a Lop Alchemical Artificer (Level 4),. She's the current champion of Tyrvar the Deathlord, and a field agent for the Astral Vanguard.

Stats
 STR
 15
 INT
 16

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Ruby is a 15 year old girl with rather short, soft frame with pink skin dappled with black splotches. Up her neck are dark, vein-like bulges, resulting from the presence of her symbiote. Sometimes they'll move and shift, when the symbiote is agitated or talking to her. She has blue eyes, and small tufts of brown hair growing from the top of her head, as well as the ears and snout of a pig, as well as cloven hooves. She wears mostly natural, earth tones, with a green shirt and scarf, and a heavy brown cloak. She carries around a large wooden club, and a pistol.

#### **Symbiote**

Ruby has a symbiote living under her skin, named Amalgamation (Mal for short). It is currently unknown how the two became bonded, but it is known that Mal can both speak to Ruby, and alter her form in different ways. So far, the only instance of this that has been seen is her Symbiotic Bite, where Mal envelops her head to give it a much more monstrous appearance, ready to bite apart her foes.

### **Personality**

Ruby seems to be a very friendly and outgoing person, despite having little practical experience speaking with people. She maintains an outwardly optimistic outlook despite all the new, weird occurrences happening around her, and tries to get along with the people she meets. In fights she tends to remain more of a midline or backline fighter, shooting with her pistol or spells rather than getting up close and personal.

## **Backstory**

Pretty much nothing is canonically known about Ruby's past, where she came from or what her goals are within the group right now. She has mentioned a couple times that her father is a pig, suggesting questionable things about her past.

We know that she has an unknown caretaker, as mentioned in Session 11 when she found some of their notes in Iresca's laboratory, and it isn't clear whether said caretaker is one of Ruby's parents, or a different person entirely. It is known that she was told to seek out Artair and the Astral Vanguard when she gained her godly boon, The Mark of Tyrvar, suggesting her caregiver had knowledge of the secret organisation beforehand.

## **Relationships**

### **Mal**

Ruby maintains a close relationship with the symbiote that lives under her skin, Amalgamation. The two will talk occassionally, and Mal will sometimes emerge to assist Ruby when she's in danger, such as combat or threatening situations.

### **Rusty Sideris-Matsouka**

Rusty seems to be the member Ruby has grown closest to over her time with the party, with the two bonding over their shared love of food. Ruby was also the only person to go off and find Rusty when she was discovered missing in Session 12, while the rest of the party ran off to interrogate Iresca. She rode Rusty's steel defender down to Iresca's lair, and was the first to find her there.

### **Unknown Caregiver**

Ruby seems to have a connection to an unnamed guardian, after finding their notes down in Iresca's lair.

## Trivia

* Ruby probably has the weirdest collection of items in her inventory out of the current Elderfey champions, a jar full of teeth, a jar full of fingernails, a jar of pee, a vial of body fluids, a preserved rat, another jar of pee, specifically expired, a jar of 'Feywild Discharge' , a fist-sized ball of glass (that she threw up), a jar of necrotic mush (that she also threw up) a jar of luminous rainbow slime (that she somehow also threw up), and a jar of maturing Ruby clone.
* Due to her pig features, Ruby physically can’t chew with her mouth shut due to the way her jaw is shaped. She'll also eat almost anything without fear.
* Another one of her pig features is that she can't sweat, and will roll in mud or other cool substances to lower her body temperature.
* Sometimes she snuffles when she breathes, and it sounds like a pig snort