Karina Maliketh

*"The fatal flaw with everyone is that they assume they always know more their enemy. That's why I'm here, my Lord."*

## Professional Status

### Affiliation(s)

The Dark Lord

Karina Maliketh is an advisor to the Dark Lord, specializing in matters pertaining to intelligence, secrets, and espionage. She has the title of **Mistress of Whispers**, gathering information with her extensive spy network and committing acts of espionage, if the Dark Lord requires it.

## Appearance

Karina has a somewhat... unsettling appearance. Nothing in particular seems to stand out to unsettle people, but it's her general appearance. She has long black hair, which she typically keeps down. She has piercing blue eyes, which seem to look into people, like she's reading them. She typically keeps a brown coat on her, with black clothes underneath. She usually has black boots on, though she seems to make no noise when she walks despite it all.

## Personality

Cunning, sly, and playful, Karina is a strange person. A skilled liar and manipulator, and is capable of building a web of lies super easily. She enjoys playing around, and has no problem revealing the secrets of others. Her exact motives seem to be unknown, as not even the Dark Lord himself knows. She is usually quiet, typically observing people, conversations, and how most people act in order to gather information on them. She seems to have little qualms about getting her hands dirty, not showing mercy, nor compassion, to those she kills.

## Powers and Abilities

**Shadows and Secrets**: Karina Maliketh has very strange power, mostly relating to the shadows.

**Shade Walk**: She is capable of seemingly melting into shadows, capable of turning into one herself. She is able to follow people as their shadow, though she projects a second one herself.

**Shadow Portal**: Maliketh is capable of traveling large distances, across countries and continents even, but only to a few select places. She is capable of placing a shadow, in which she is able to transport to. The shadow itself is a circle on the ground. It will not disappear if light is shined on it, though it is capable of being destroyed with magic. It gives off very little magic, making it hard to detect unless a person is actively looking for magic nearby.

**Unnerving Presence**: Whether it's a power that she has, something she projects, or simply her presence itself, it makes a noticeable difference. Rooms, and the area around her, seem to get noticeably colder, like light and warmth itself seems to get sucked out of it.

**Shade Weapons:** Though Karina typically carries hard steel knives and a sword on her, she is capable of making weapons out of shadow.

Obviously, her powers are lessened the brighter the day are. During the night, her powers are at their height.

## Equipment

Karina carries several things on her.

**Sword:** Karina carries a longsword on her, for obvious reasons. She doesn't seem to always carry it with her.

**Blades:** Karina always carries two blades on her, using them for more covert reasons.

## Trivia

* Karina, though she works for the Dark Lord, will work with or for other people, depending on the motivations. She is typically not motivated by money, and it seems like she values information or her own personal motives more than anything.

## Quotes

*"The Gods fight on the side who knows the most, my Lord."*

*"Why butcher an army when you can slash a single throat for the same result."*

*"Few truly dark hiding spaces remain, even in the dead of night."*