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A-V Profile: Tuora-Rasvim

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Name: Tuora-Rasvim wer Yowethilti Woari, Svataril di Thatheo (Tuora-Rasvim is her given name, the rest are honorifics awarded for significant accomplishments. The literal translation would be "Coveted Treasure the Highest Wanderer, Acolyte of Destiny"). She will condescendingly tell humans that they can call her Treasure since they are incapable of speaking the Supreme Speech.

Age: 46 GSY

Gender, Preferred Pronoun: Female, She

Species: Vykladei


---Physical Appearance---
Height: 6' 10"

Weight: 398 lbs

Build: Streamlined muscle on torso and arms, heavier muscle on lower body and flanks.

Skin: Variegated purple and black scales.

Hair: None

Eyes: Blue, with vertical slitted pupils. Vykladei can see UV.

Other defining features/anatomy: Large, muscular tail extended straight behind the body. Retractable claws on hands and feet (feet are basically a second pair of hands in that they also have an opposable thumb). Unhinge-able jaw.

Gait/Posture: Vykladei naturally assume a predatory-looking (to humans) forward leaning posture due to their natural body balance. They move with an easy, smooth lope.

Voice/Speech Patterns: The Vykladei  language, known as "wer Cuin Ukris", the Supreme Speech, is mostly hisses and harsh, grating syllables. When speaking other languages, Tuora-Rasvim generally speaks with a breathy, hissing whisper. There is no correlation between gender and voice range in the Vykladei, so her actual pitch can range from bass to soprano depending on what she is saying.

When a Vykladei speaks Terran, a lot of the emotional nuance is lost. This, combined with their lack of conventional facial expression, can make reading their feeling quite hard.

Clothing and Accessories:  Tuora-Rasvim wears typical Vykladei clothing – that is, beautiful yet functional armor. Crafted to her exacting specifications, the metal is polished to a mirror sheen and on par with standard issue military gear in terms of defensive ability. It consists of overlapping plates that start small at the neck and increase in size as they run down the chest and belly, under the legs, and partway along the underside of the tail. The armor is held in place by a series of fine chainmail straps that connect to metal rings, which are fitted over the spikes that run down her spine. Her back is unarmored except for the mail because the scales in that area are much thicker and stronger. Armor is also fitted at the shoulder and along the arms, and along the thighs and legs.

All of the armor is inscribed with swirling gold inlay that describes her lineage and all current and former members of her harem in the written form of wer Cuin Ukris.

As courtesy to the aliens around her, she wears metal caps on all of her spines to prevent anyone from accidentally poisoning themselves..

She also wears a silver circlet that fits to her head and covers her ear pits. It incorporates one of the two pieces of technology on her person – a general translator. The other is built in to the gauntlet that covers her left hand, which is a small but fairly powerful computer with a holograph projector. When she holds out her palm, the screen hovers above it so she can poke at it with her right claws.

---Personality---
Likes/Dislikes: [Anything your character likes or dislikes. Be sure to distinguish between categories]

Fears: Tuora-Rasvim fears deep water. On their homeworld, the ocean is the only place that the Vykladei have been unable to conquer, because it is home to bigger and nastier predators than they are. Vykladei also cannot swim.

Strengths: Confidence.  Tuora-Rasvim is unlikely to get disheartened or to give up because she believes that it is her destiny to overcome every trial set for her and it is impossible for her to completely fail at anything. Any failure will be viewed, at most, as a "temporary setback". She is also very intelligent and  can think quickly on her feet.

Weaknesses:  Tuora-Rasvim is overwhelmingly arrogant. She regards any and all aliens as lower beings and believes them incapable of harming her or her plans in any significant fashion. As you can probably guess, she will underestimate anyone that is not a Vykladei. She also disdains physical activity or any menial labor – those are things for slaves and males to take care of.

She loves to watch duels and will focus on a one-on-one fight to the exclusion of other, more important things.

Vykladei in general have a very sensitive sense of smell, which can at times be a drawback, though they don't consider a lot of things (such as the smell of decay) to be 'bad' like humans do.

Hobbies:  Tuora-Rasvim is a relentless schemer and is constantly gathering data on potential slave races. Left to her own devices, she will play nice and chat up the aliens around her, gradually guiding the conversation toward cultural habits and and other details that she doesn't know yet.

In the past, her 'job' was commanding her flagship "Kapraliv's'Vrelvel" (Empress's Talon) on piracy missions. She has delegated this task to her First Male, however, and now focuses on learning about alien genetics.

Quirks: She often quickly checks the status of her ship and investments using her gauntlet. Tuora-Rasvim loves to eat and will buy any meaty stall food that she can find. Vykladei believe that avoiding eye contact is a sign of weakness, so when she walks, she will meet the eyes of every single person that she passes, and when having a conversation, she will stare straight into your eyes the entire time. She will never deliberately bare her teeth or front claws because to do so represents a direct invitation to a duel, though she understands that aliens have different customs involving teeth. When waiting, she will absently flex the claws on her feet, often eventually destroying the patch of floor that she is standing on unless it is made of something fairly strong.


---Background Information---
Planet: Vyklade

Occupation/Social Class: Tuora-Rasvim is a 3rd tier noble back on First Nest. She earned the name Highest Wanderer for her brilliant career as a freelance privateer and explorer, and the Empress's Talon is known and feared in the space around the Vykladei galaxy. Recently she has scaled back on actually piloting herself, and has instead devoted her time to various genetic engineering and information gathering projects, progress in which earned her the title of Acolyte (which is the first rank in the Destiny hierarchy).

Relationship to Secondary Character: Sooth-Champion is her Second Male in the harem. She chose him when he was 13 years old, and has had three hatchlings from him, all of them male.

History: [A summary of the major events in your character's life up to this point. This should be at least 2 paragraphs long and no more than one page at most. We don't need to know every detail, just the main facts]


---Combat---
Fighting Style: Tuora-Rasvim will not fight. That is why she has a Champion.

Weapons and Gear: None.

Unusual Abilities:
Enchanced endurance, strength and speed, as well as very sharp natural weapons [4].
Natural chameleon-esque camoflauge [2]
Pheromones [3]: Vykladei release pheromones that communicate their emotional state and can incite that emotion in others (depending on biology). The stronger the emotion, the stronger the release.

The males use this as a combat tactic, channeling their natural fear and aggression to disorient the enemy and force them in to making errors (I.E. it is hard for your average foot soldier to make team decisions when they are being flooded with adrenaline).

The females use it in a more social way, either to keep things on an even keel when they are feeling good, or as a clear way of broadcasting their displeasure.

---Star Games Specific---
Reason for Joining the Competition: Gain recognition for the Vyklade's'Vraki as a race, plus she figures that the prize must be some awesome weapon. What else would make a worthy prize?

Life Goals: Advance to 1st tier noble status by gaining two more names. In the long term, gain dominion over all the nearby star systems.

Final Notes: Arrogance, intelligence, and ambition.
The female Vykladei for A-V.
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