Wuyi

**"Most powerful thing to do to your enemies, iz make them your friends"**

*- Wuyi*

## Description

Wuyi is a darker skinned wood elf most notably identified by her feline characteristics. Sporting a pair of feline ears, fangs and a jaguar tail, Wuyi has embraced her unconventional characteristics, developing some catlike mannerisms and behaviors.

### Armor

Utilitarian by nature, Wuyi forgoes ornate outfits and capes in favor of gear suited for the activity and surroundings. In her present desert abode, she keeps it simple most days with a subligar and bustier of Nemedian design, combined with work gloves and boots.

### Arms

Wuyi defaults to her bow when she enters the fray, able to rain arrows with deathly accuracy. When her quarry does get up close and personal, she carries a two handed hammer Elegance Beyond.

## History

Before Astoria, Wuyi was a boatswain on several fishing and trade ships, keeping the rigging and hull of ships upright and above the waterline. Her odd appearance among the elves was seen to be a sign from their deities of good fortune, and she often carried surprising luck with her through perilous trade runs and voyages. She dreamed of captaining her own vessel, however her luck wasn't to last. Knocked from the deck in a severe storm, Wuyi was left for dead by her crew mates in the sea below, eventually passing from drowning and hypothermia.

### Skills

Wuyi is a skillful boatswain, which requires a little bit of a lot of skills keeping all the systems running aboard a ship. Wuyi has especially excelled in carpentry and blacksmithing. Now land-bound for the most part on Astoria, Wuyi has put her talents to other uses, developing her skill in engineering and siege weaponry. If you need into a fortress, castle or redoubt, Wuyi's your kitty. Conversely, she also excels at devising defenses and intricate traps to destroy your enemies before they ever reach your walls.

### Vices / Flaws:

Wuyi defaults to a high level of trust of others, which sometimes comes back to bite her as people take advantage of her naivete. Wuyi is also only semi-literate, having learned her skills through experience and trials. She has difficulty with any complicated texts, and her speech is often simplistic and crude.

## Personality

Wuyi is relatively quiet and gentle, letting others steer a group until she has little tidbits of information and wisdom to add. However, once you to get to know her, Wuyi can be very affectionate. She can be a bit clingy though, as she is saddened anytime her friends are upset or hurt.

### Beliefs

Wuyi has developed some interesting beliefs in her long time in Astoria. having known several of the current Celestials when they were just Astari like herself. She claims ability to sense and summon attention of these Celestials, though there is mixed evidence of her actual ability to do so.

### Relationships

#### Clan Goresplatter

The clan of orcs headed by warchief Druuna were one of the first groups to welcome Wuyi upon her drifting onto Astoria's shores. This was the group who named her Wuyi, meaning "vulture" : This was chosen after finding her on Astoria's shore hiding from feral dogs perched atop the mast of a shipwreck. What they thought was a vulture was actually a scared felinid elf, who very quickly latched onto her rescuers. Despite not being an orc, Wuyi developed many of their customs and speech patterns, eager to fit in with her newfound clan. Her mighty warcry still needs a little work though...

#### Stormriders

After the long sleep leading into the most recent awakening of the Astari on Astoria, Wuyi found herself no longer accompanied by her longtime clan. Were they off fighting among other worlds? Were they ascended to the Celestials above, did they get slain by the hostile Astorian wildlife? Wuyi has no way to know for sure. She has in the mean time fallen in with a group of specialized mages called the Storm riders. Despite not being of magic ability herself, she looks after the settlement and helps to keep all the mystics there supplied and fed.