Princess Shi/Character Information
Name: Unknown (I fail at coming up with names)
Also Known As: Princess Shi (Princess of Death)
Age: Appears to be in her early 20’s, but in fact is older than the second planet (over 2000 years old).
Species: Cat (Leaning towards leopard)
Birthplace: Earth, European area
Likes: She does not appear to show any favor towards anything. The only real thing that she seems to like is to be left alone, or does she.
Dislikes: Making any sort of connection with people, everyone she has ever known or met has either died in war or of old age. She on the other hand is near immortal.
Clothing: Normally seen wearing a large dark cloak that covers her whole body. She tries very hard to be unseen, but usually fails when she starts watching people. The main reason is generally when someone sees her death is not far behind. She also carries a wooden mask with the Kanji for Shi written on it with blood, although she rarely wears the mask due to the pain she has caused while wearing it. While wearing the mask she gains incredible strength and magical abilities. Under her cloak she tends to wear tight fitting clothing that does not impair her ability to fight. Her clothing is generally fairly ragged due to the fact that she can’t just wander in to town and buy new clothing, but she does try and keep it fairly well repaired.
Weapon: She will normally fight with a small short sword, but does have a large sword that weighs about 200lbs. She usually does not fight with that weapon unless she is wearing her mask. She is able to wield the sword without the mask, but it slows her down a lot. When she wears her mask, she tends to forget that her sword is a two handed weapon. Her fighting style is based around making quick fast attacks; most enemies do not see her move to attack before they are already dead.
Body build: She looks to be average if not a little weak. Most people underestimate her strength. Without the aid of her mask she is probably one of the strongest people on the planet. With the mask there is no doubt.
Magic Affinity: She refuses to use magic of any form, since it was her magic that brought on the destruction of her people. She has a very strong affinity towards enhancement magic. When she was a girl she used her magic to enhance masks like the one she carries with her. Just the base mask could double the wearers magical and combat abilities.
Parents: Her parents where the Queen and King of her race during the time of separation (when the magical species left earth). They believed in equality and cooperation between the different races. They encouraged their daughter to create the masks to help defend all of the races.
Siblings: She has one brother; he also has a strong affinity towards enhancement magic, and helped her sister create the spirit masks. Although she feels that she caused the destruction of her race, he is the one who actually is to blame. He took the masks that she created and twisted them with dark magic. By binding the soul of a fairy to the mask he doubled the power increase of the mask. With these new masks he overthrew his parents and attempted to take over the planet. His reign of terror was stopped when “Princess Shi” was born when she made a pact with the princess of the fairies and they both bound their souls to a spirit mask. By doing this she gained a strength increase of about 10x. Although she was able to eventually stop her brother, most of her species was destroyed, many of which was by her hand.
Pre-Separation: She was born on earth, in a time of war and fighting. Her earliest memories are of her playing games with her brother. For them it was a carefree time. They where sheltered from the horrors of war that surrounded them daily.
Post-Separation: On the day of separation she vowed to do everything in her power to make the new world a peaceful place to live. Now in her early teens, she had seen a few glimpses of the suffering caused by war, but had still been sheltered from the blunt of the truth. Using her strong enhancement magic and keen mind she designed a magical system to create a mask to enhance the power and abilities of the wearer. Until then magic was only used in its direct form by weaving different magical energies together or through magic enhanced runes placed on objects. The process that she invented served more as a prebuilt conduit that the user’s magic could flow through and would be amplified by the mask itself. The mask would draw its energy off of the wearer when not in combat and would store the magic until it was needed. With the help of these masks, she helped usher in an age of peace never seen before. Her brother did not share the beliefs of his family and saw the masks as a tool to rule the whole world. He modified the mask so that instead of relying on the stored magic of the wearer, it would feed off the power of a fairy that was stripped of its soul and placed in to the mask. Although the fairies did not have any real control once infused in to the mask, they would at times cause small malfunctions in the magic to hurt the wearer at key times. Once her brother created the first masks, her people where split between those who wanted peace and those who wanted to rule. Her race was created to be protectors of all, but many felt that the sacrifices that where made should be repaid. Try as she may, she was unable to defeat her brother with his new found strength. Her failure cost her parents their lives. She was able to flee to the fairy capital and lived there for about a year, while her people where subjugated and killed. Upon the suggestion of the fairy princess Shi, she reluctantly agreed to make a mask and bound both of their souls to it. The new mask was much stronger than the ones created by her brother, since there where two souls bound to it and neither was bound with hatred in their hearts. In order to get to her brother they had to fight through many of her people. They were determined to not only stop her brother but destroy anyone who had sided with him. They were able to make it to her brother, and his powers were no match for their combined strength. Although he had caused much death and suffering she could not bring herself to kill him, instead he was able to escape and take refuge on the third planet.
Pre-Present: She spends her time trying to find the one spoken of in prophecy, who would be “the harbinger of a new age of peace”. She would always appear right before a major battle in hopes of finding the one who would bring an end to her suffering. She never intervenes in the battles in fear that her tampering would affect the prophecy and ruin her hopes of peace. Many stories are told throughout the ages of a woman in a cloak appearing before a major battle or a slaughter. It was later believed that if you saw her your death would not be far behind. Over the years she never made any effort to make friends or settle down, mainly due to the fact that due to the mask she ages at an extremely slow rate. While most people live one hundred to two hundred years, in the two thousand years since binding her soul to the mask she has only aged a few years. Also she believes that death follows her and that anyone who gets close to her will die a tragic death.
Present: Her days are like the rest, constant searching for the one spoken of in prophecy, until one day she stumbles upon a young man who is surrounded and about to be killed. The first thing that she notices about him is his scent, for some reason it reminds her of her childhood. He seems to be sick and has no chance of surviving the monsters that surround him. Although she is intrigued by what she senses in him, she decides to leave him to the fate that is obviously before him. When she is a ways away she sees a flash of light and hears screams in the distance. She is surprised when a few days later she sees the young man in a small town being sold as a slave. She figures that he must have been rescued at the last minute by the slave traders. Although slavery is frowned upon throughout most of the world small backwater towns like this one still use slaves. Most slaves are either criminals or prisoners of war and are controlled by a magical collar around their necks. She is still intrigued by the man and watches him from a distance. It is not long before she notices an army of the enemy preparing to ransack the village. She prepares for the inevitable fact that they are all about to die, but still cannot shake the fact that there is something different about the man. As the battle rages on she notices that the man has very little experience in fighting but is giving everything that he has in order to survive. But then as he is drawn in to a corner and is about to be killed, she feels something she has not felt in years. Confused, she decides reluctantly to save the man. Right as he passes out from the strain of fighting she attacks and quickly kills off the enemies that would have taken his life. Instead of rushing to his aid, she decides that something must be done about the army that for the most part is still outside the gates. She fights with all of the strength and is able to drive back the enemy. But the cost of such an effort leaves her severely injured, last minute she manages to flee. But due to her injuries she passes out on the road leading back to the town. She awakens in a small tent next to a silver haired fox girl. She realizes right away who she is. Confused, she tries to leave before death follows her to the one who saved her. But due to her injuries she is unable to leave. She wakes up a while later, noticing that she is being carried on the back of the man that she left in the village. This marks the beginning of her journey with the man that smells of her past, and the girl who she knows will one day rule all.
As time goes on: She struggles with who she is and her past. It takes a long time for her two open up with her two traveling companions but eventually decides that it is time to stop running from her past and do everything in her power to protect both the present and the future. She eventually comes to terms with what she has done.
