Post by Kasagami Araki-Steiner on Feb 3, 2023 1:19:50 GMT
Name: Kasagami Araki-Steiner
Full Name: Countess Palatine-Apparent Kasagami Emilia-Lina Araki-Steiner XIV
Origin: Techmage
Class: Knight
Age: 17
Faction: Hexhammer
Gender: Female
Height / Weight: 6'1" 145 lbs
Appearance:
Motivations: Prove herself worthy as the heir to the Great House Steiner, keep the natives and general proles safe from Witches and other monsters, grow in skill and valor as a Techmage.
Personality: Kasagami Araki-Steiner very much fits into the stereotype of her Great House lineage: fond of cheer and humor in the face of adversity, violently outgoing to all but her worst enemies, obsessed with chivalry and honor and solving conflict through honor duels, and being absolutely ruthless and brilliant in matters of finances, merchantry, and heavy industry. She is loud, proud of her House, and generally tries to be the biggest personality in the room despite how often that tends to make her come off as either bluntly charming or absolutely obnoxious. She openly loves people, especially the common person, even if her belief in nobility being the cream of society can have her come off as condescending. She's an adrenaline junkie and a gloryhound, seeking to show her own and her House's honor by performing dangerous acts of valor - even if some might call it reckless disregard for her own life. There is some truth to that. The loss of her parents and the push to claim rulership of her House from her Uncle by glorious service in such a dangerous operation as the Hexhammer is an attempt to run from her own loss and trauma that she's never properly acknowledged. Subtlety, as well, is something completely lost on Kasagami outside of the realm of finances.
Backstory: Kasagami grew up on the Administered World of Tharkad as the sole heir to the Great House Steiner. The Araki-Steiner Family is old and entirely wrapped up in the Belkan Empire, retaining old customs and ways from that (to them) golden era of power with only moderate cultural drift. The Steiner line was originally a merchant house that specialized in heavy industries and Arms manufacturing enough to compete with well-known companies such as Caledfwlch in notoriety. Their products in general are top of the line, extremely well engineered, and for being astronomically expensive for those not directly involved with the House or otherwise under their care. Through shrewd business deals, several political marriages and acts of valor on the battlefield by some of its' techmages under the Belkan Empire, and using their obscene wealth to tip the scales in their favor, they would eventually be given the title of Great House as well as acting as one of the primary arms dealers to the Belkan Empire as well as their own private fiefdom on Tharkad as well as most of the local system.
After the fall of the Empire, not much changed. They quickly found other clients, rebuilt parts of their industrial base that had been wounded, and happily and greedily bought into the Administration Bureau despite their previous affiliation. Military service within the Bureau soon became a requirement for its' children to obtain their titles. Kasagami Araki is no exception. Given the best tutors in magitek, swordplay, mercantile affairs, and general schooling, she showed to be highly adept in them, particularly with two-handed swords and closing deals. Her uncle, Saito Araki-Steiner would however always hate the girl for her - even for a Steiner - overly outgoing nature as well as the threat to his power she represented. And so he arranged an accident. A house fire in the Araki-Steiner palace resulted in the deaths of her parents and her own severe burning over half of her body and the loss of one of her eyes.
Her failure to die made Saito hate her more. Her parents' loss made Kasagami put them on an impossible pedestal that she hopes to outshine. Suspicious of her Uncle, she and her Armed Device Schwarzer Phönix volunteered to the dangerous mission to a backwater world in need of Steiner-style aggressive protecting to prove herself worthy of taking up her title as ruler of House Steiner as well as being able to face her Uncle for the crimes against her parents.
Call to Action: To prove herself worthy of her House and to gain glory and skill as an honorable noble!
BODY: 15
MIND: 0
SOUL: 0
HP: 65
Accuracy:1d100 + 15/0/0
Defence: 65
Resistance: 1d10+ 0
Mana/EP: 100
Gauge/Grief: 100-0
Damage Tiers:Tier 3, Tier 0, Tier 0
Name: Tanzender Phönix
Description: Sheathing her device and entering an iaijutsu stance, Mana is converted into increasing amounts of fire-aspected magic and heat. Charging her enemy, Kassie unleashes a single sword-draw that unleashes said heat and fire into a burning explosion against whatever it contacts before ending the attack with a flourish of her weapon.
Type: Gauge Spell
Activate: Action
Damage Base: Melee
Major Effect: Slash: Has a Critical Range of 15, allowing you to score Critical Hits on a natural Accuracy roll of 85. Stacks with other sources of additional Critical Range. +5 additional Critical Range for Melee type.
Minor Effect: Burn
Accuracy: 1d100+15
Damage:2d8
Cost: 5 mana, 25% gauge
Zeughaus
Action: None (Passive)
Effect: You gain a special inventory slot containing the item “Belkan Cartridges”. This item does not take up any of the regular inventory slots.
Uses: Indefinite
Requirement: None
Armed Device Schwarzer Phönix
Cost: ₡30,000
Action: None (Passive)
Effect: As a passive effect, increase the Critical Range of your attacks by ten (10). (For example, if you normally trigger a Critical Hit at a natural roll of 95, it will now trigger at 85.) Stacks with other Critical Range bonuses. If equipped with Belkan Cartridges, their total number of uses is increased by three (+3), for a maximum of six (6).
Uses: Indefinite
Description: A long nodachi with accompanying sheath, Schwarzer Phönix is an aggressive Device bordering on bloodthirsty. Fire aspected, Kasagami wields it using family-preserved and Church-taught methods of Belkan longblade fighting as well as iaijutsu-style rushes. Takes the form of a switchblade emblazoned with a phoenix when not activated.
Full Name: Countess Palatine-Apparent Kasagami Emilia-Lina Araki-Steiner XIV
Origin: Techmage
Class: Knight
Age: 17
Faction: Hexhammer
Gender: Female
Height / Weight: 6'1" 145 lbs
Appearance:
Motivations: Prove herself worthy as the heir to the Great House Steiner, keep the natives and general proles safe from Witches and other monsters, grow in skill and valor as a Techmage.
Personality: Kasagami Araki-Steiner very much fits into the stereotype of her Great House lineage: fond of cheer and humor in the face of adversity, violently outgoing to all but her worst enemies, obsessed with chivalry and honor and solving conflict through honor duels, and being absolutely ruthless and brilliant in matters of finances, merchantry, and heavy industry. She is loud, proud of her House, and generally tries to be the biggest personality in the room despite how often that tends to make her come off as either bluntly charming or absolutely obnoxious. She openly loves people, especially the common person, even if her belief in nobility being the cream of society can have her come off as condescending. She's an adrenaline junkie and a gloryhound, seeking to show her own and her House's honor by performing dangerous acts of valor - even if some might call it reckless disregard for her own life. There is some truth to that. The loss of her parents and the push to claim rulership of her House from her Uncle by glorious service in such a dangerous operation as the Hexhammer is an attempt to run from her own loss and trauma that she's never properly acknowledged. Subtlety, as well, is something completely lost on Kasagami outside of the realm of finances.
Backstory: Kasagami grew up on the Administered World of Tharkad as the sole heir to the Great House Steiner. The Araki-Steiner Family is old and entirely wrapped up in the Belkan Empire, retaining old customs and ways from that (to them) golden era of power with only moderate cultural drift. The Steiner line was originally a merchant house that specialized in heavy industries and Arms manufacturing enough to compete with well-known companies such as Caledfwlch in notoriety. Their products in general are top of the line, extremely well engineered, and for being astronomically expensive for those not directly involved with the House or otherwise under their care. Through shrewd business deals, several political marriages and acts of valor on the battlefield by some of its' techmages under the Belkan Empire, and using their obscene wealth to tip the scales in their favor, they would eventually be given the title of Great House as well as acting as one of the primary arms dealers to the Belkan Empire as well as their own private fiefdom on Tharkad as well as most of the local system.
After the fall of the Empire, not much changed. They quickly found other clients, rebuilt parts of their industrial base that had been wounded, and happily and greedily bought into the Administration Bureau despite their previous affiliation. Military service within the Bureau soon became a requirement for its' children to obtain their titles. Kasagami Araki is no exception. Given the best tutors in magitek, swordplay, mercantile affairs, and general schooling, she showed to be highly adept in them, particularly with two-handed swords and closing deals. Her uncle, Saito Araki-Steiner would however always hate the girl for her - even for a Steiner - overly outgoing nature as well as the threat to his power she represented. And so he arranged an accident. A house fire in the Araki-Steiner palace resulted in the deaths of her parents and her own severe burning over half of her body and the loss of one of her eyes.
Her failure to die made Saito hate her more. Her parents' loss made Kasagami put them on an impossible pedestal that she hopes to outshine. Suspicious of her Uncle, she and her Armed Device Schwarzer Phönix volunteered to the dangerous mission to a backwater world in need of Steiner-style aggressive protecting to prove herself worthy of taking up her title as ruler of House Steiner as well as being able to face her Uncle for the crimes against her parents.
Call to Action: To prove herself worthy of her House and to gain glory and skill as an honorable noble!
STARTING STATS
BODY: 15
MIND: 0
SOUL: 0
STARTING ATTRIBUTES
HP: 65
Accuracy:1d100 + 15/0/0
Defence: 65
Resistance: 1d10+ 0
Mana/EP: 100
Gauge/Grief: 100-0
Damage Tiers:Tier 3, Tier 0, Tier 0
STARTING SPELL
Name: Tanzender Phönix
Description: Sheathing her device and entering an iaijutsu stance, Mana is converted into increasing amounts of fire-aspected magic and heat. Charging her enemy, Kassie unleashes a single sword-draw that unleashes said heat and fire into a burning explosion against whatever it contacts before ending the attack with a flourish of her weapon.
Type: Gauge Spell
Activate: Action
Damage Base: Melee
Major Effect: Slash: Has a Critical Range of 15, allowing you to score Critical Hits on a natural Accuracy roll of 85. Stacks with other sources of additional Critical Range. +5 additional Critical Range for Melee type.
Minor Effect: Burn
Accuracy: 1d100+15
Damage:2d8
Cost: 5 mana, 25% gauge
STARTING SKILL
Zeughaus
Action: None (Passive)
Effect: You gain a special inventory slot containing the item “Belkan Cartridges”. This item does not take up any of the regular inventory slots.
Uses: Indefinite
Requirement: None
STARTING ITEM(s)
Armed Device Schwarzer Phönix
Cost: ₡30,000
Action: None (Passive)
Effect: As a passive effect, increase the Critical Range of your attacks by ten (10). (For example, if you normally trigger a Critical Hit at a natural roll of 95, it will now trigger at 85.) Stacks with other Critical Range bonuses. If equipped with Belkan Cartridges, their total number of uses is increased by three (+3), for a maximum of six (6).
Uses: Indefinite
Description: A long nodachi with accompanying sheath, Schwarzer Phönix is an aggressive Device bordering on bloodthirsty. Fire aspected, Kasagami wields it using family-preserved and Church-taught methods of Belkan longblade fighting as well as iaijutsu-style rushes. Takes the form of a switchblade emblazoned with a phoenix when not activated.