Blaizhe

* Normal
* Rage

Blaizhe is a member of the Bleak Bonfire campaign group, joining the party after they arrived at Black Bay in exchange for a chance to meet the Oceanwalker. She is afterwards hired by Mina to protect the party by assisting in the crafting of a more powerful weapon for Blaizhe, though its forging was imperfect. Should the weapon break, the payment is considered void and Blaizhe's loyalties are up for hire once more.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Blaizhe is a half-Tabaxi warrior of a tall and powerful stature.

She has two cat ears and a tail, sharp red glowing eyes with cat-like pupils and strange red markings or tattoos all over her body. Upon looking closer, these markings softly shimmer and emit a subtle heat as if there is a fire underneath them.

#### **Normal**

In her normal appearance, Blaizhe sports long untamed grey hair, which betrays an unusual texture on closer inspection, being more similar to dust or ash clung together to somehow form hair.

The tattoos glow and dim softly, emitting only a subtle heat.

When coming out of her Rage, the fire in her hair dies down and the black hair, acting as charcoal, shatters into ashes. As the ashes fall down her head, they cling together and form countless strands of grey hair, returning Blaizhe to her usual appearance.

#### **Rage**

In her Rage appearance, Blaizhe sports a much more feral and wild infernal look compared to her normal appearance.

Her ashen hair crumblins as it blows away in the windless air, revealing short black hair as heat and smoke start to permeate from all over her body. Her hair seemingly acting like charcoal for a hidden fire burning underneath, her teeth transform into sharp fangs, her pupils sharpen even more and her face seems to almost be stuck in a manic murderous hunger. Her hands, feet and tail almost seem to transform into magma.

The markings on her body intensify, releasing oven-like heat and even smoke into the environment. The illusion of the markings being some kind of engraving in her body acting as air vents for the fire blazing within becomes stronger.

### **Personality**

Blaizhe is generally a very stoic and seemingly uncaring person, responding in very curt answers. Below the surface, however, Blaizhe tends to pay more attention and thought to her actions than one would think. Her past taught her to use a dumb brute façade and she has trouble snapping out of that even amongst those she trusts.

During her Rage however, Blaizhe's personality becomes more straightforward and a lot less restricted. Excitement and a burning desire for battle take over her mind, though she fights hard to stay in some sort of control.

### **Combat**

Blaizhe is a self-trained warrior and prefers to rely on her natural strengths and self-procured weaponry and armor in battle, taking scrap pieces of defeated enemies to continually improve what she uses.

Wearing neither heavy armor nor relying on pure reflexes, Blaizhe's fighting style combines wild savage swings with surprisingly flexible dodges focusing on soft deflection and combat awareness of the immediate area. She also incorporates her tail while fighting, using a special chain added to the handle of her greatsword to catch and guide her sword around her as she releases the sword mid-swing.

When in Rage, Blaizhe's fighting style becomes a lot more brutal and feral, trading soft deflections and dodging for parries, blocking and contests of strength. She starts to incorporate height and unconventional angles into her attacks more often: crouching down, jumping up or leaping past an enemy as she strikes, forcing them to adjust mid-fight to an ever increasing inferno of blows.

## **History**

### **Background**

Blaizhe's backstory is largely unknown so far. All that she mentions when asked is that she is a mercenary, and has been for a while.

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She was born in Pyrnes, her earliest memory as a young child is awakening alone and forsaken, climbing out the ashes of a giant fire pit in the middle of a large temple, long overgrown and abandoned. As she crawled out, the fire ashes inside clung to her head, covering whatever hair lied underneath.

Disoriented and confused, she spent the following nights in the temple, haunted by nightmares of despair and dreams of destiny. Each morning, she would wake up finding herself clutching a peculiar old necklace.

Realizing that nobody was coming to find her, the young girl gathered her thoughts and eventually set out to the nearest sign of civilization, a mostly-Tabaxian town where she grew up as an unnamed street urchin, dragged into the street gangs, picking fights and scrounging whatever she could to live on.

As the years passed, she decided to try and break out of her poor situation by offering her services as a muscle and sell-sword.
During one of her contracts as part of a larger mercenary force, she ended up fighting through a battle of ice and fire, shadow and light fighting for supremacy overhead as magic devastated the battlefield. As her sense of self started to get drowned out in the chaos of a lost battle, her senses suddenly exploded into clarity as she herself burst into flames. With newfound strength, she blazed through the remaining enemy forces and, as she looked over the battlefield, finally claimed her name to be ***Blaizhe, The Fire That Defied Fate.***

### **Bleak Bonfire (B.B.)**

The part of Bleak Bonfire, freshly dropped out of a portal onto a ship in Black Bay, find themselves in an unfamiliar territory with a member short. After speaking to the ship's captain, Blaizhe was convinced to watch over the newcomers as one of their goals aligned with hers: meeting the de-facto leader of this place, the Oceanwalker.

Following the party through its adventures of Black Bay, including but not limited to: fighting an Eliot transformed into a Balor, a hidden Bread Dimension, fighting several Titanic-sized Sea King Leviathans and beating some members of Aether, Blaizhe finally met the Oceanwalker and retrieved her personal belonging that had been in the hands of Tea Man.

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