Nila le Mage Bleu
Quelque part entre l'aréna et les bidonvilles
Tandis qu'une grande partie des habitants de Thorne étaient attirés par les batailles menées dans l'arène, ou peut-être écrasés dans leur taverne de choix, Nila avait attiré un petit public à elle. Ce ne serait sans doute pas une surprise pour ceux qui connaissent le mage qui manie l'épée, étant donné qu'elle a tendance à souligner ses paroles de façon spectaculaire avec des gestes éblouissants, et à sauter d'un endroit à l'autre comme si elle essayait de jouer tous les personnages impliqués dans son conte. Cette petite bizarrerie était probablement la raison pour laquelle le trio d'enfants l'écoutait encore parler de l'activité quotidienne typique d'un goblin.
"...En gros, ils errent sans but pendant dix heures par jour, et se battent l'un avec l'autre s'il n'y a personne pour ennuyer!" Nila a résumé dix minutes de temps d'histoire dans une phrase simple qui n'a totalement pas fait les événements appropriés justice. L'un des jeunes garçons leva la main curieusement, et recula quand Nila pointa vers lui d'une manière presque agressive, « oui, petit? ».
-- Eh bien... regarda-t-il ses amis comme pour le soutien, et continua, pourquoi as-tu passé trois jours entiers à suivre les gobelins?
"N'ai-je pas dit? Recherche!" Nila a déclaré fièrement, laissant les enfants aussi confus qu'ils l'avaient été de toute évidence.
"Mais ce sont des monstres..."
"Ouais!"
Les enfants ont essayé d'apprendre pourquoi l'étrange dame en bleu était si heureuse de suivre un tas de monstres autour pour aucune raison facilement apparente, et que ce soit délibérément ou non, Nila se révélait frustrantment obtus. En effet, les actions de Nila avaient tendance à avoir peu de sens quand des monstres étaient impliqués. Son bestiaire avait besoin d'être rempli. Tout était bien et bien d'apprendre à frapper quelqu'un si fort que leur armure est devenue inutile, mais sûrement l'histoire derrière le besoin des gobelins d'apprendre une telle capacité était tout aussi important, n'est-ce pas?
Elle avait fait son chemin vers l'aréna pour regarder certains des mages le duke dans une guerre magique géniale, quand ces enfants qu'elle passait avaient demandé un peu de gil. Ils vivaient probablement dans les bidonvilles et n'avaient pas les fonds nécessaires pour participer correctement aux festivités. C'était vraiment nul, et Nila elle-même était à peu près cassée - elle pourrait travailler plus tard quand plus de gens ont décidé de boire - donc pour l'instant tout ce qu'elle pouvait offrir à ces enfants étaient des histoires de ses exploits. Ce n'était pas tout à fait "nourrir la faim" sur la liste de Good Deed, mais ses options étaient limitées.
Le mage a continué à discuter un peu avec les enfants. Elle n'était pas pressée après tout, les combats n'allaient nulle part.
Name: Nila Daana
Title: The Bluest Of All Mages
Race: Hume
Job: Blue Mage
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Warrior of Light: No
Appearance Information
Physical Features:
Nila stands at five-foot-five, with a thin build suited more for manouverability than heavy lifting. As such, her measurements are also on the shorter side, much to her complete indifference. Nila's skin is lightly tanned, with thick, pitch-black hair that falls wildly onto her shoulders, where it's generally left to lie - aside from a blue ribbon tied around a lock of hair. Her eyes are a super unique and brilliant hazel.
A scar lies underneath Nila's left eye, a nasty cut from childhood, following a terrible run-in with a grouchy goblin that had figured out "Goblin Punch + Pointy Object = more damage". This scar hasn't healed the most gracefully, but is generally hidden under the domino mask Nila likes to wear, however. Not that she has an issue showing the scar, the mask is just too awesome to not wear.
Clothing/Armor/Weapons:
Rare is the occasion that Nila is not decked out in her 'work clothes'. With a standard white undershirt, and blue, poofy trousers as her base, Nila also dons an equally blue cape that travels midway down her back, and neatly wraps around her shoulders. In addition, Nila wears black, travel-worn boots that have served her well in her travels.
And of course, a domino mask. Covering most of the upper half of her face, Nila tends to wear this when being overly-theatrical. The rims of the mask extend slightly beyond her face, with the upper corners tipped with a light teal gradient and stretching upward slightly.
In battle, Nila would wear light, leather armour - anything heavier she finds too cumbersome or detrimental to her spellcasting and evasive action. As such, she generally won't wear anything more complicated than a cuirass, and maybe a leather helmet, if she's going to fight a monster known for throwing projectiles.
At her hip, Nila wields her trusty sabre, a small, curved sword that can be wielded with one hand. It's a rather bog-standard sword, as far as materials go, and has seen it's fair share of fights. Luckily, it's still got plenty of usage left in it. Probably helps that Nila isn't exactly a frontline fighter, making its maintenance much easier.
Psychological Information
Personality Traits:
Outgoing | Cheerful | Impulsive | Curious | Theatrical
Nila's pretty darn showy a lot of the time, seemingly unaware of the art of subtlety. She expresses great confidence in her skills, knowledge and presentation, but lacks restraint and tact in certain situations, which can draw some unwanted attention. She's a friendly and helpful gal with an optimistic mindset about things, but loses sight of her surroundings when a chance to expand her personal bestiary occurs - no matter what, she needs to know how behemoths react to getting poked with a stick.
Nila has a great love for magic of all forms, and naturally loves her brand most of all. When she learned that most places outside of Dahlgren seemed disdainful at best towards magic, it blew her mind. What was the problem? They were acting like magic nearly destroyed the world or something! Nila often overlooks a particular black spot in history when defending magic.
Likes:
Monsters | Moogles | Theatres
Even compared to other Blue Mages, Nila seems to hold a great admiration for the creatures that like to randomly ambush travellers. Part of this may just be because of the possibility she can acquire new techniques to mess around with, but even beyond that, she speaks of monters' chaarcteristics with great fondness and passion. Well, with a particular exception...
The poor moogles, cursed with infinite cuteness, are also Nila's prey. She cannot stop herself from hugging them tightly, wishing to keep them as companions, and touching their pom-poms. It's probably safe to say she is not popular amongst moogles.
And of course, Nila holds great fondness for the theatrical and grandiose. Anyone with an affinity for the extravagant shall earn her much-coveted admiration.
Dislikes:
Malboros | Anti-magic bias | Large bodies of water
...Bad Breath was not worth the effort to learn. That's all Nila will say regarding Malboros.
'Baseless and unfounded' fears about magic are a given for someone that practices an admittedly-unusual school of magic, but regardless, Nila cannot fathom why anyone would consider magic to be a bad thing. It's nothing but beneficial, right?!
Nila, unfortunately, is not a particularly strong swimmer. This probably stems from another monster-related incident, though it's not exactly as trauamtic as the Malboro Incident. Still, she hasn't exactly done much to rectify this issue. The aquatic creatures of her bestiary are going to be neglected for a while, it seems.
Personal History
Hometown:
Dahlgren
Current Residence:
Thorne, The Great Outdoors/Some Inn
Occupation:
Monster Hunter: Nila mainly earns her keep by snatching up bounties on troublesome monsters. Not only does this let her eat for the day, she's practically getting paid to study potentially new monsters! Though on a slow day with no monsters to hunt, she'll ask around for any day-jobs cleaning tables or something.
Backstory:
Born in Dahlgren to a family that heavily favoured Blue Magic, Nila is the youngest of five siblings - the second-eldest sadly deceased at this point in time. While Nila isn't exactly a prodigy, her great love of blue magic, and fascination with monsters in general, has inspired some promising results for her.
Nila has taken every chance possible to encounter a wide variety of monsters, expanding her knowledge of any and all genus recorded in her personal bestiary. Not just their looks or abilities, but even their habitats, habits, typical diet... anything she can observe. Having only just begun her travels though, there are stil lso many fascinating creatures to find...
Growing up, Nila wasn't quite as outgoing and boisterous as she is now. Having a few unlucky encounters with monsters certainly did little to boost her confidence. Fortunately, Nila's family are a rather supportive lot: with their encouragement, Nila stuck with her studies of Blue Magic, and her passion bloomed when she was officially enrolled as a student. Seeing more of the world, a wider variety of monsters with interesting lifestyles, and of course, learning more and more monster-based spells had sparked a desire to master the school of magic.
Other:
Her favourite colour is actually green. Go figure.
Oddly enough, despite getting scarred in this incident, Nila quickly got over the incident. It got her to start wearing a stylish mask, so no point in moping over it, right?