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"Chuckles, faites votre chemin vers la forêt et essayez votre... herm, griffe à couper plus d'arbres pour nous." Alberich dit à la bête qui l'a suivi autour du camping comme un canard suit sa mère. Alors que Chuckles partait pour faire ses offres, le bûcheron ne pouvait s'empêcher de se sentir maladroit. Le shambler faisait ses offres, et il était presque incapable de parler, à l'exclusion des différents grognements et gémissements que Chuckles ferait. Cependant, Alberich, autant qu'il se sentait mal à l'aise, se demandait si Ysran avait les capacités d'enseigner à son animal comment parler. L'être avait montré des signes d'intelligence, donc Chuckles avait certainement la capacité d'apprendre.
Puis, un cri a été entendu. Elyria criait pour qu'Alberich l'aide, mais Alberich était loin du camping. Il regarda dans la direction de la panique, et sprinta rapidement vers la commotion. Au moment où le bûcheron avait atteint le lac, Kathryn était revenue et avait essayé de sauver Elyria aussi, mais avant qu'elle ne puisse tout faire, la femme s'était évanouie dans l'eau. "Curses..." Alberich murmura alors qu'il jeta son champ de bataille à l'écart, et se prosterna dans le lac. Il y avait quelque chose sous l'eau, et il tirait sur les deux femmes pendant que le bûcheron essayait de sortir les femmes de l'eau. Les femmes étaient devenues la corde dans un remorqueur de match de guerre, et Alberich était déterminé à les garder en vie.
Avec un grognement, Alberich s'envole en arrière sur son cul avec l'elfe et l'humain dans ses bras. Il n'avait pas le temps de se reposer, et la bête savait que, pourtant le bûcheron ne laisserait pas le monstre une autre chance. Alors qu'il grimpait aux pieds dans l'eau boueuse, Alberich luttait jusqu'au rivage avant d'assiéger les femmes à côté du feu. "Elyria, ça va? Et toi, Kathryn?" Alberich a demandé, son corps inférieur trempé dans la boue et l'eau. En regardant les deux femmes, Elyria avait certainement la capacité de répondre, alors que Kathryn semblait encore en dehors. "Kathryn? Vous êtes là? Réveille-toi, soldat." Alberich répondit à la femme évanouie, le bûcheron giflant légèrement ses joues pour aider Kathryn à revenir à ses sens.
Name: Chione Rhi
 Titles: Captain, the Hallowed
 Age: 1118, Appears to be 18
 Gender: Female
 Race: Archangel (formerly Human)

Theme


Personality
Devout and deeply religious, Chione Rhi takes the fight to the Dark Lord in the name of her god, known as the Emperor. Chione feels as if the Emperor has blessed her to be the messiah in the light, and she will show no mercy to those seen aiding the Dark Lord and his forces. As such, Chione is straightforward with her words, and will rarely, if at all, beat around the bush, even when speaking to the scoundrels she so brazenly despises. This feverish hatred tends to give outsiders a rough and overworked appearance of Chione, yet those extremely close to her know that inside the harsh shell Chione puts around herself is just a kind and spiritual girl that wants to do the world of Aeos right and save everyone that she possibly can from the evils of the Dark Lord and his underlings.

Weapons
Out of all the weaponry in Aeos, Chione has practiced with many, but she tends to keep herself armed with a few weapons that she has spent countless hours training with over others. Since being armed to the teeth would look out of place in a city, Chione wears bladed sandals with her casual attire to avoid attracting unwanted attention, but also to aid in her superior knowledge of pugilism. Whenever Chione is off fighting the good fight against the Dark Lord, she wields a steam-powered contraption with two pistol-like devices connected to the machine on her back. Sucking in moisture from the outside, the machine, aided by Chione's fiery magical aptitude, heats up the moisture, and with a pull of the trigger, expels hot and burning steam at Chione's foes. 

Skills and Magic
During the years Chione could be considered alive, she had lived a life in darkness. However, thanks to the teachings of her adoptive father, Chione was able to study many books and texts with the tip of her fingers, feeling the words with her hands through the use of braille. She is capable of recalling many events, as well factual information about various topics, especially about history relating to events that has have forgotten and lost to time.
Thanks to the Emperor's blessings, her time on Aeos has shaped Chione into a leader, both in the church and on the battlefield. Many warriors have praised her and the Emperor together, and the very sight of her has known to restore morale as Chione charges into battle to aid her comrades. Those whose faith lies with the Emperor refuse to challenge Chione's authority, and will do anything she says without question.
The powers the Emperor had blessed Chione with are without equal, and many paladins and clerics have admired the magic that Chione can summon. A mix of fire and holy magic, Chione uses her powers to crucify her foes, forcing them to suffer as they repay their sins and ultimately perish underneath her might. However, when Chione desires to blend in, despite it nearly being impossible to do, she can hide her magic from observers and make herself appear weaker.

Chione has immerse magic power, and as an ancient among men, she knows many spells learned and taught over a period of thousand years. Below is a list of some of the most important spells that she knows.

Blesses regular water into holy water, which can be splashed on demons and other evil creatures to burn them. Has no effect on anyone with a good alignment.


With this spell, Chione summons a shield that envelops herself or someone of her choosing. This shield protects someone for a few seconds, and normal means can not harm anyone blessed with the shield. Unholy energy at first can not get through, but if the shield takes too much damage from unholy means, it weakens before ultimately disappearing.


Like mortal healing spells, this spell heals injuries at an alarming rate. However, the target must either be apart of the faith of the Emperor, or willing to accept the god as their own. If those healed by this spell change their belief to another god, terrible events will happen to them until they repent. In the case that Chione casts the spell on a corpse, their body is burnt and the soul is either sent to the heavens or allowed to fight with her until dusk as long as the previous requirements are met.


Summons a spectral guardian from the Emperor's holdings. The guardian is extremely powerful, and can't be killed by normal means. The summoning ritual, however, requires a catalyst, artifacts taken from ancient or deadly evils and then blessed by Chione or the Emperor himself to rid the object of the unholy energy. Once the ritual is completed, Chione is able to summon the guardian at will until the being is killed by unholy means.


Chione transforms into her archangel appearance, shedding her human form in aura of awe-inspiring yet blinding light. In this form, herself and any companions grow extremely resistant to any unholy energy, any weak-willed creatures flee from the battlefield. However, this form is short-lived, as Chione easily tires from showing her actual appearance outside of the heavens, and will eventually give in as she falters under the stress. Additionally, using this form on unholy ground is extremely painful to Chione as she struggles to walk, weakened by the unholy magic.



History
Born long ago in the capital city of a long forgotten kingdom, Chione was cursed from the very second she left her mother's womb. Deaf, blind and mute, Chione was lost alone in the darkness, and her noble parents thought their daughter to be an empty husk of a person. Shortly after her birth, they disposed of Chione in the woods near their estate, angered that their daughter had turned out hardly a working person. Her parents had hoped that the wolves would feast on the child they left behind, while they cursed the gods for bringing them a dysfunctional child.
However, for Chione, it seemed lady luck was willing to aid her. A poacher, hunting deer and other animals in her parents' forest, had heard Chione's deformed attempt at crying in the distance. The poacher was taken aback that a child was left behind in the woods, and he quickly wrapped Chione in a blanket to keep the child from death's door. Sneaking out of the forest to avoid being caught, the poacher brought Chione to one of the numerous churches that dotted the landscape of Aeos. Sitting the basket Chione resided in, the poacher left her on the doorstep of the church and was never seen again, not even by the priest who shortly later found Chione and brought the child inside the church.
The religious men and women were at a loss to do with Chione, but eventually a kind monk was willing to take the girl in as his own offspring. Given a name, the monk raised Chione as if she was his own daughter, but difficulties arose from her peculiar traits. Thankfully, her new father had known a form of braille, and he set out to teach Chione the ways of the church that was dedicated to the Emperor. The other priests and nuns would help the monk translate books and scriptures, allowing Chione the chance to read as she grew older and had a better understanding of life as a whole.
By Chione's eighteenth birthday, the world of Aeos began to suffer through a period of dark times, where powerful demon lords reigned supreme over the lands and waters. Doom had seemed to set on the kingdom of her birth, and Chione soon became no stranger to the despair and suffering that had taken the realm. Soldiers that had flown the banner of Kazimir, the Demon Lord of Light, had attacked the church and pillaged the nearby villages. The monk had fought with his quarterstaff to defend Chione and the rest of the servants of the Emperor, but the battle had taken a toll on him, and ultimately, the monk had fallen in battle.
Clueless to what was happening, Chione was easily taken prisoner and marched towards the soldiers' encampment. Their leader and a few other soldiers had noticed that Chione was awkward, different from the other prisoners they had captured. They were interested in Chione, and as ruthless as they were, they raped, beat and tortured Chione until she could barely hang on to life itself. Barely able to stay conscious, their leader ordered his soldiers to leave Chione behind, allowing the creatures of the night to feast on her body.
Yet, as before, life always had another plan for Chione. She awoke in a golden room, as if nothing had happened,
but everything was different at the same time. Chione looked around, and realized that, somehow, she could see for the first time, which caused her to scream in panic. Once again, Chione was surprised when she heard her voice loud and clear, instead of the deformed moans of a silent person that could be barely heard by Chione herself. Lost and clueless once more, Chione crawled out of the bed she woke up in and explored her surroundings.
Eventually, Chione had come to a massive throne room, filled with many other people from races feasting away at the tables below the throne. No one in the room had bothered to pay attention to Chione except one person, and when she had heard his calming yet booming voice, Chione was left speechless. The being she had praised all her life had saved her, and Chione couldn't help but to fall on her knees and praise the Emperor, yet she quickly covered her mouth when she heard herself speak. Everything was different for Chione, and she was introduced to many new experiences faster than a rampaging boar.
The Emperor had simply smiled at Chione, and began to explain her predicament. Chione had died, like the rest of the people feasting at the tables, yet her soul hadn't passed on. The Emperor had taken her soul, and brought Chione to his massive holdings in the realm of gods, as she deserved for her constant reverence of the spiritual being until the end of her days. He had welcomed Chione to act as one of his attendants in his palace, but the Emperor gave Chione another option, to be blessed with powers unknown to man and return to Aeos, working for him to assist heroes in the battle against the Demon Lords.
So began the tale of Chione as she accepted the latter of his offer, wishing to bring the same peace the Emperor gave her to those who had protected her for years on end. Given powerful tools for her use, Chione became a hero in the war against the Demon Lord, although she is less known compared to legends such as Miernes or Oonar. As the final Demon Lord had fallen, Chione felt that her service was no longer required, and returned back to the Emperor to live on in peace with old friends, yet the arrival of the Dark Lord had forced Chione to return to Aeos once more, fighting for the realm's survival and the destruction of the Dark Lord.

Other
Chione's powers have transformed her body, although she still appears human. If she revealed her chest, a glowing light could be seen where her heart once was, almost as if the light was a virus consuming Chione from the inside. Additionally, the powers have warped Chione's eyes from a blue to a red, and whenever she uses the magic she was bless with they glow brightly.
Additionally, Chione was gifted a magical airship by the Emperor himself to aid her in the battle against the Dark Lord. The Aetherwing is powered by an artifact known only as the Aether, and is crewed by a number of religious zealots and spectral creatures consisting of holy energy. The airship has both steam and magic weaponry to defend itself, as well several serpents with riders that aid in the offense and defense of the ship. As the Aetherwing is blessed, with the blessing comes charms, and no unholy creature from a zombie to a vampire can step foot on the ship. The charms also are able to detect those with evil ideals in their heart, and the Aether can refuse to allow them on the ship as well.