[ooc: PROFILE/INFO]
Name: Shaela
Age: Approx. 70-ish. Looks about 20.
About.
Shae's skills are quite limited, given her young (for her species) age. She is completely mute (and half-blind); however, she can communicate with others telepathically. This by no means makes her a telepath: she cannot read thoughts but if someone speaks to her she can convey her response to them mentally.
While not a telepath, she is an empath. She feels the emotions of others extremely easily. This skill comes in handy as she can typically pick up when someone is lying to her (not always, but usually, be it through noticing their nervousness, anxiousness, or even their relief when they think they've fooled her).
Beyond that, Shaela's skills run along the lines of healing. She has an extensively healing touch and even being near her can often times revitalize a person and make them feel a bit more energized and soothe frazzled nerves and upset. Given that Shea draws her power from the land (trees, grass, water, sunlight/moonlight, etc), she will get tired rather quickly in the lower level of Purgatorium due to the poor state of things. She's also likely to feel sick a good deal of the time because of this, although it's unlikely to be noticeable for a long period of time so long as she rests and eats properly.
She also possesses, like all of her species, a special knack with dealing with animals and plants.
Shae's strengths lie mostly in mental abilities. Telepaths will be unable to read her mind or otherwise affect it. Sealed completely tight. However, on the down side, she's useless at physical fighting and couldn't even swing a sword if her life depended on it.
Personality.
Calm, quiet. Shae's not one to ruffle feathers unintentionally and she enjoys the company of others (although large groups tend to give her headaches, what with the influx of so many emotions). She's polite and friendly, often times prying a bit out of curiosity without any intent to offend.
History.
Thousands of years ago, unicorns roamed freely over the world. Through the passing of time, these unicorns adapted as more and more humans began appearing on the land until they could take on human form and switch at will. Regardless of their tricks to fit in, human hunters and other factors caused their numbers to continually decrease, even as the land began to die from wars, misuse, and famine. Eventually the unicorns were forced to live amongst the humans in hiding, letting very few know who and what they were.
As is the natural course of things, they also began breeding with the humans. Previously powerful bloodlines began to thin out as the generations wore on. Magically capabilities and strength drastically declined, the ability to shape-shift also began to vanished until only a human form was maintained. A few defects seemed to run rampant (blindness, muteness, deafness, etc).
Shaela was no different. Her mother came from a long line of unicorns having bred with humans, while her father was as human as could be oblivious to it all. Shae was born mute and mostly blind, only able to see clearly about a foot in front of her. (Beyond that, things get extremely dark and blurry.) She had a happy, relatively normal upbringing and childhood, but unfortunately, as was prone to happening from time to time in similar situations, people in the town eventually began to suspect something odd, seeing how very slowly Shaela's mother aged. It was said that she had killed her husband and drained the life from him to remain young, and she was burned for being a witch. Shaela managed to escape, finding refuge in the forests and mountains near her childhood home.
Purgatorium History.
3/27/08
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PB/Icons: Emilie de Ravin