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Name: Diana Macbeth of House Macbeth
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Position: Lady of the Spire, Mistress of the Twain between Earth and Sky. Informally known as "The Jezebel of Craghold," but never to her face.
Her crest is that of an emerald serpent entwined up a gray pillar into white butts.
Physical Appearance: Diana is a snowdrop, a graceful curve of white silk and elegant, airy material. She is small compared to the ruddy, handsome men in Craghold, who tower over the Lady like the face of the mountain. Yet she holds them trembling in her gossamer hands like prey wrapped around the anaconda. She wears expensive garments that flow naturally behind her like a river of color, a serpentine ribbon that whispers about where she's just been or which direction the wind is blowing. Her beauty lies beneath the skin, her expression communicating a passion that shines through the eyes with cold fire. Her lust for power is dangerously beautiful, like a striking snake,
Armor: Diana’s armor is designed for agility, sacrificing protection for several desirable traits. There is no location on her armor where physically denting the armor will prevent her from removing the armor or allowing at least a limited range of movement, but as a consequence it is thinner and lighter than armor designed with protection in mind. In fact, the armor enhances her movement by strengthening and stabilizing certain areas that would be weaker due to her sex. The armor seems very masculine in appearance, but it would be impossible for a man to wear the armor due to internal construction.
In appearance, the armor is slim, with no skin exposed. The helmet is designed similarly to the head of a cobra, hood flared, with the visage depicted on the hood corresponding to the face of the wearer. A slim band of emerald winds down in curious patterns around the armor, for purely aesthetic reasons. Upon the birth of the dragon, Lady Macbeth had the armor altered to be more similar to the dragon, offering her limited grasp of draconic magic in the construction of the armor. Telescoping, in a similar design to her dragon’s wings, from the backs of her arms are two wings which allow her to glide, magically lightened with the rest of the armor to allow this feat. A tail, telescoping, was designed to act as a rudder in tandem with these wings to control her glides. Unfortunately, at this time, sustained flight is impossible, and the wings are useless on the ground. The tail is barbed with a hallucinogenic poison at its tip, allowing very surprising maneuvers of shooting out the tail as a means of offense. She does not at this time have prehensile control over the tail.
Weapon(s): Lady Macbeth seeks utility and secrecy in her weapons, prizing these qualities far above lethality...though certainly a weapon is useless if it cannot kill. If she has brought something with her, it is likely a disguised dagger of some kind, or poisonous. She disdains direct combat. This makes the whip an excellent choice of weapon for her, alongside her daggers. She conceals two whips in the arms of her armor, with a third coiled around her hip.
Skills and Abilities: Political mastermind and strong-willed ruler. Desires power at any cost; distinctly Machiavellian to her enemies, though a fair, honest, and benevolent ruler to those she has already conquered. She has no small amount of charm, though most lies in elegance, grace, poise, and words, rather than direct emotional or physical appeal.
Hold: Craghold
Dragon: Lady Macbeth and her dragon, Claudius, are a match made in hell. Crafty and viciously ambitious, both have the personalities of cold, hard, killers in a deadly combination with their stunning social graces and mannerly dispositions. Sneaky and intelligent, Claudius perfectly complements Lady Macbeth's strengths, even if the two of them together do not particularly cover any of their respective weaknesses.
The following should be in the future tense but I'm sick and want to get this over with. After a while the tensing will be correct anyway. As a baby, Claudius has no special abilities (other than his contraction), though his existence is enough to grant Lady Macbeth the rudimentary magical aptitude necessary for her armor to function.
In appearance, Claudius is vaguely serpentine, with the remarkable ability to condense himself into small spaces very easily. He is by far the largest dragon fully extended, with a wingspan of almost 150 feet (45m) but also the smallest fully compacted, at just over human height at the shoulder, and there isn't much volume to him even at his largest due to his long, thin body when at full size. He is stockier and more substantial when compacted, however. This remarkable ability is achieved by the remarkable telescoping which his biology has decided to grant him. His wings are a mess of jagged plates which retract and connect to press flat against his body. With everything in, he becomes a snake about 8m in length with a diameter of about 3m. Having arms or legs doesn’t affect these numbers much, but he can become rather spidery if he chooses to lengthen them, and can impede his entrance to confined spaces (which he does enjoy a great deal) at any length.
In terms of magic, Claudius has an affinity for the major elements of Earth and Wind and a magnificent aptitude for the lesser element Poison. He is capable of manifesting elemental energy in raw form, distilling and refining energy to project in various manners. It is a curious quirk of Lore that lethal toxins are rare and difficult to come by. Many have effects that could lead to Death's cool embrace, but the very worst of them rots the body and the very least of them turns the body against itself, simulating disease or allergy. The Lady and her dragon have accepted this in stride - why would they not? - and prefer to use the poisons Claudius manufactures as tools to incapacitate threats rather than eliminate them.
Family: The Lord Macbeth is the titular ruler of Craghold, even though everyone knows that Lady Macbeth has coiled her grip around Castle Elsinore. He relinquished the dragon’s egg on Diana’s heartfelt plea and does not seem to regret this decision considering the obvious happiness Diana and Claudius have with each other. Sometimes he can’t help but wonder if things might have been a little different. Still, the two have a wonderful relationship and have been through a great deal getting to this point. If it cost him a kingdom and a dragon, it has been worth it with a caring wife and a legitimately good ruler of the kingdom.
Lady Macbeth’s father and mother were invited to take over Inverness, considering the couple had no use for it anymore; its location made it a terrible military stronghold, and with war brewing over the land, resources were funneled to more important locations and found Inverness leaderless. Iago and Emilia live quite happily in the castle and are very proud of their daughter.
Personality: Diana is, in a word, heartless. Manipulative and strong-willed, she established a dominance over the castles of Craghold in a way that simply can't be believed.
History: The Lady Macbeth was born in a small village in Craghold territory, but knew nothing of the world at large and nothing of Craghold itself. By the age of 14, it was natural for her to control the supplies and work output of the entire village; it happened slowly, but surely. The Craghold army passed through one day and demanded amounts of food and supplies. When Diana explained she could not meet obligations, they knocked her out, grabbed her, and returned to the castle of Inverness.
There, Diana was introduced to the largest crowd of people she had ever encountered in her life. It was a terrifying experience, and she immediately covered her face and hid from them, certain they were another army sent to kill her and take her to some fresh hell. When nothing happened, her mind grew cold. Straightening up, she put on a wide smile and began to socialize.
Within a month, she was the Lady Macbeth, married to the Lord of the castle. Not even that was enough for her; she controlled the army, the kingdom…and the dragon. And she wanted more. The whole continent, she decided, would be a better place under her control. To be perfectly fair to her, it would be. However, the path to world domination is long, slow, and bloody, and it might be better to pass over the best ruler to avoid total war amongst the nobility. After all, what is Diana Macbeth but a peasant who fancies herself a queen?
< Message edited by Starstruck -- 2/27/2014 20:26:36 >
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