Kurumi Feriso

## History

Born to a group of elves in the wilds, Kurumi was enamored with magic and bladework from an early age. A quick learner, she rather easily surpassed all the mages in her village, and decided to travel to another town to continue her education. This was redoubled in that as she was preparing, her home village was attacked in an orc raid, her family getting slaughtered. With not much left for her in the village, she spent a period of mourning, before heading out. She had heard much of the amazing magics of Serira, and sought to gain acclaim and notoriety in one of their magical academies. Traveling there, she sought to enroll in an academy and climb to have some of the conversations of magical nature with their professors that would help her to learn the most she could about the world.

When she arrived, she was hard pressed to get any college to accept her. With no pedigree or connections in the country, she didn't possess the means or ability to prove her worth. She eventually finally joined an arcane college, and thought this would be where her life picked up. Instead, she was ridiculed ceaselessly and treated like a fool at every corner. Even when she managed to consistently pull some of the highest marks in the academy and submit some of the greatest written papers of all the pupils, her work was discredited and demerited. Not possessing the elemental blood, the other top-tier students looked down on her, and the students below her rating viewed her as pompous and arrogant for trying. Some of the students got particularly nasty about this, destroying her things and treating her like utter garbage.

Where most people would give up, however, Kurumi did not. But rather than this being a story of success, it became a story of shadows, rage, persecution, and death. She bit back against these tirades of poor treatment, and began to react vindictively. Each time she felt wronged, she would find a way of getting back at the person. Disproving thesis and ruining their works was where it started, but as she started to realize this was near impossible due to her "only" being an elf... No matter what proofs she brought against them, it was waved and she was told she had no idea what she was talking about.

So instead, she started making it more personal. It started with sneaking into people's places and screwing with their findings to delegitimize them. Then it became destroying their work... But finally, when one of the ifrits took umbrage with her for her attitude- which was steadily growing more vitirolic and disdainful- he decided to burn all of her books, papers, and research materials. Flying into a rage, she killed the ifrit outright, going out of her way to sneak into his study and assassinate him. When brought to trial, it was found that the ifrit had not done anything, the individuals involved saying that she had framed him to try to take out a competitor. She would be clasped in irons and sold as a slave.

Refusing this fate, she ran, using the last of her research notes as payment with a wizard to get somewhere-anywhere... And teleported away. She had lost her family to orcs, her ambition to elementals, and her place to fate... And at this point, she was angry.

## Appearance

Kurumi is a rather notable person as far as appearance goes. Stunningly beautiful, she is rather aware of her physical appearance and enjoys keeping it physically observable. This is for multiple reasons, but she does find the distraction it causes to others in combat is a rather welcome addition to those reasons. Her overwhelmingly long blond hair often gives her a stunning look of a curtain wrapping around her as she moves, constantly staying in motion and rotating around her enemies. Her armor is light and easy to move in, while being revealing and showing off her creamy skin. She has emerald green eyes that seem to sparkle whenever she sees something interesting, and dull when she's bored.

Notably, however, is the effects of her ears. The long, tapered aural visages twitch and droop expressively, often being the most immediately observable signs of her current mood. As they twitch, they sometimes make a slight jingling sound as they do, due to the jewelry She seems rather fond of jewelry, wearing multiple pieces of gold with ruby or emerald adornments that add to her appearance.

## Personality

Kurumi is a mixed bag. She can be a very loving person to those who earn her respect or do not give her reason to act otherwise, often trying to act nicely if she does not see any reason to act in any other way. However, the second someone seems to spurn her or go against her, she seems to suddenly flip a switch, becoming a very vindictive and disdainful person. It's possible to flip her back, but it usually takes a while once you get to that point. Undoing her ire usually requires you to either placate her in some way... Or for one to prove themselves the better in some way.

She is a very prideful individual that knows her skills and talents, and tends to showcase them to the best of her ability. She dances, often, without even having any interest in performing, simply because she enjoys it, and knows she is good at it. She uses her magic often and frequently. She is proud of her bladework, and very proud of her physical form.

At the end of the day, however, so long as people do not devalue her skills and treat her poorly, she has no problem with falling in line behind those that prove to be her superiors. She is vindictive, but she is not against working with others that do not mistreat her. Really, she only brings these feelings to bare against those who have earned it. Otherwise, she is typically a very passionate and loving person- often too passionate and loving by far to those who have earned such from her.

She feels things strongly, both positive and negative, and tends to show these emotions far too readily and easily. In fact, sometimes controlling her emotions proves difficult- but not impossible. The real issue is her lack of ability to trust. With how much things have gone poorly for her while working at the academy, she quickly started to lose faith in others. People were often out for their own, so why shouldn't she? Unless people proved they actually cared about her interests... Then, well, who was to blame her for looking out for herself, when the rest of the world seemed so intent on not caring?

## Loves

Kurumi has a great love for beauty and pleasure. She enjoys jewelry, and dancing. She has a great love of following her own heart no matter the cost, especially when so many tried to push her down when doing so. Beyond that, however, she doesn't really have people she loves. Most of the people she had experienced during her academy years were far from those she would even consider this with.

## Fears

She has a strong fear of inadequacy. She dislikes the idea of being proven to be inconsequential to others, and goes to great lengths to prove herself both to herself and to others. This often leads to rather rash behavior. it also is part of why she is so vitriolic in terms of reactivity to those who look down on her or treat her poorly, and why when individuals treat her like she matters, she tends to almost cling to them.

## Hobbies

She is a dancer, and greatly enjoys the art. For multiple reasons, dancing is something she has always had a level of love for, and as she developed her view of the world it caused her to develop more love of her dancing as a tribute to her gooddess, as well as a part of her combat style. She also has a particular love of learning new magic, even if she isn't going to be using the spells. To some degree, this also leads to gathering arcane and magical reagents for study and use.

## Family

Kurumi has not returned to her village in the wilds since leaving for the arcane college. She didn't have much of a family left after some raids that left her home destroyed by some local orcs. In truth, this may have been one of the large parts of her building resentment for others, and will to grow grudges the way she does.

## Friends

As of now, Kurumi has no friends to really note. Mostly enemies, as her previous academy hardly viewed her in a positive light at this point. She has met a few people since her teleportation- arriving in Tel'Narrum- however so far she doesn't consider any of them friends.

## Enemies

At this time, due to her current status, she is very much wanted in Serira and considers most of the country to be her enemies. More specifically, however, she has a number of grudges. While she doesn't just hold grudges against her enemies, her enemies tend to have significantly larger, longer lists. This includes many of the students, professors, and even staff at the academy she was in.

## Aspirations

Mostly, comfort, security, and knowledge. Kurumi yearns for many things, however much of it can be bubbled down to these three main categories. She wants to have the comfort to live her life the way she wishes, and enjoy that which she had garnered. She wants the security to know that her life is no longer in danger, and that she can enjoy the things she does without fear of slavery or death. She wants the knowledge she craves as a magus, both in blade and spell, and the ability to utilize these things on the world at large.