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lookbeforeleiping) wrote2035-08-26 10:34 pm
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[OOC] Character Background Information
Name: Leipmora Faelitt
Age: 21
Birthdate: Etenbar 25th, 1691
Height: 5’6” (to the top of her head), 6’6” (to top of ears)
Weight: 120lbs (including horns)
Designation: Earth Mage
Country: Kismat
Native Village: Juni
Defining Physical Characteristics: Leipa is a Lagos with some features that do look more Ancestral. She has long, wide ears like a jackrabbit, the nose of a jackrabbit, and a set of antlers that grow out of her head near her ears. It’s a medical condition that also leads her to having patches of hardened skin on her legs and back, but she has a special oil she uses to keep them from cracking and bleeding (think of extreme eczema).
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Background:
The Faelitt family has a long, often infamous history in their region of Kismat. A long line of sons and daughters who have served the nation and worked in the Holy Army and Band of the Blessed. The Band of the Blessed are a group of Holy Knights ordained by the Church to hunt down and deal with those who perverted the Song of Eternity and broke the laws of the Mystic Arts. These people are often called the Corruptors. For the use the Mystic Arts in a way that goes against its intent and disrupt the flow of the Song in the world. But the Faelitt’s fell into infamy as death and bad luck rained down on the family generation after generation. Whole lines would die in a epidemic, others would lose their fortunes to gambling or natural disasters, fluke mistakes would ruin their reputations among the Blessed until they were banned from enlisting altogether.
And then there is Leipmora’s family. Her father died during the Mourning Floods—a terrible natural disaster that saw the deaths of thousands of people as an unexpected dry season lead to two weeks straight of rain with all the major rivers overflowing—while working as a volunteer rescue personnel. He saved the lives of a little boy and his dog, who the boy has chased after when they were being evacuated and been swept up by the flooding river, but was caught in the undertow himself and died trapped by debris. Leipa was eight when he died. This did afford some sympathy/pity to her family, despite them being seen as a bad luck line in a very superstitious village.
Her mother, Roe (nee Waer), worked hard raising three children, two of which had special needs. Leipa’s older sister Kitali was born with a weak immune system and brittle bones. Her parents spent a lot of money on healers and potions in the first few years of her life to mend what they could and make her as healthy as possible. To the point they didn’t have another child until Kitali was five (it is typical in Kismat to have your children in quick succession and then no more). Leipa grew up constantly being told that she had to be gentle with her sister and treat her carefully, but Kitali was her best friend and she knew more than anyone how much she hated being seen as weak and incapable. She struggled and persevered and wasn’t going to allow anyone to tell her what she could and couldn’t do with her life. She lived and thrived, but would catch ill easily and had to wear a brace on her leg for walking. Her dream was to get a medal in the Marathon of Life, which is held every year during the Festival of Rebirth. She even saved up money to commission a specialized brace for her leg that moved a lot easier with her body while maintaining its support. The top 20 runners each year would get a ribbon while the top 3 would get medals and monetary rewards. She had managed to be number 19 in 1711, which no one thought she could do. Kitali is Leipa’s hero.
Then there is Leipa’s youger brother by four years, Thoddeus Faelitt VI (but they just call him Little Todd), who was too young to remember their father and was pretty much raised in a home of three women and his great-uncle, Dee. He’s a quiet kid, very thoughtful and inquisitive, always looking to learn more. He’s smart, to the point that his mother worked two jobs to make sure he could afford to go to one of the higher end Academies by the time he was ten. Of course, then his great-uncle stepped in and sold part of his ownership in a very lucrative bookshop (being the only bookstore in the entire village) to help pay for it.
Originally, Roe refused, but Thoddeus IV refused to back down until she gave in, because he wanted his great-nephew to have the best education possible. He would have done the same for either of his great-nieces had they shown the inclination, but Leipa wasn’t much of a student and didn’t care to be, and Kitali had refused his offers in favor of doing things her own way. She only asked him for help in finding the best blacksmith to make her brace. So Todd became the scholar of the family, while Kitali’s taking a healer apprenticeship (she may not have the energy reserves to be a high-level healer, but she did have a lot of control, pin-point accuracy, and long-standing knowledge of the human body because she liked to stay informed of her own conditions), and Leipa left school as soon as she did all her required courses to take on an Earth Mage apprenticeship because there is always a need for Earth Mages in their region (she originally thought to try water magestry, but she just didn’t have the patience for number of years the apprenticeship would take). Besides, water mages often work in barely any clothing to avoid friction with the water itself, and Leipa is not someone who likes to go about limitedly clothed.
Because Leipa has suffered from severe eczema and psoriasis her entire life. As a child, it would be so painful and stiff that moving would make her skin tear open and bleed and wearing certain types of materials would rub her skin raw within a matter of hours, especially on her legs and back. The only time she felt any relief was when she was floating in the water. She came to truly love water because of it. As she got older there was finally development of a special medicinal oil that she would put on her skin that would maintain its smoothness for an entire day, except that it would wash off with too much contact to water. So she went from spending hours of her day in the water, to avoiding it so that she could do other things, such as go to school, or help out in her Uncle Dee’s store, or do anything that wasn’t sitting in water all the time. Her mother would set aside a few hours once a week for Leipa to swim, but that was it.
As a child, Leipa had always had these very stiff, circular spots on her head, near her ears. The healers told them it was likely they were just particularly bad spots where the plaques and eczema had thickened to the point they wouldn’t heal as the rest of them. So Leipa just made sure to cover the spots with her hair. But around the age of eleven, the spots turned to lumps and the lumps grew into stumps, and continued growing. Within months she had actual stem-like antlers protruding from her head and no one knew where they had come from. People stared, even more than they had before, and there was talk about whether or not Leipa was actually some Cervidaeus’s child. It was a lowkey scandal all over town and her mother dealt with a lot of negative, backhanded comments because of it. Because if she wasn’t actually a Cervidaeus, then it meant she was an abomination for having the traits of two Ancestral Species. She was bullied in school, picked on by other children around the village and the older she got, the worse it god, as the antlers became more pronounced.
But Leipa is not someone who lets others get to her that easily either. If her sister Kitali could go through all of that and stay strong in the face of ridicule, patronization, and her own body working against her, then by the damned, she would too. She changed her style of clothes to suit the fact her horns were too long for most shirts and only wore button-ups. When she was old enough, she left school and started up a mage apprenticeship. She did everything she could to prove that she didn’t give a damn what people think and that she would live life her own way.
But one day she was helping Uncle Dee out at the bookshop when a crate of papers was knocked over that turned out to be old family papers of the Faelitt line. Those papers included a birth certificate that was attached to what turned out to be an adoption form from the Church. She took the crate to her great-uncle and he pointed out it was his own adoption papers. That completely threw her. She hadn’t realized he was adopted as he was not only the eldest child of her great-grandparents, but also he and her father shared one of the family names. He explained to her that he had been adopted because her great-grandparents had struggled to have children and so they asked the Church for help and they had found them a child. The Faelitts had managed to have a son years later, but Thoddeus was the one who received the family name because no other children had been expected.
“It was like the family was cursed, they thought, but they wanted a child so badly. So they broke their bad luck by adopting me.”
It wasn’t as if she hadn’t heard the line before. That their family was cursed, that they had been struck by nothing but bad luck for years and years, that the Gods were somehow angry with them enough to punish the entire bloodline. They were dumb, mean things children had said to her all the time. But after the talk with her uncle, she started to wonder about it.
And then came the Harvest Festival and the traveling bards who would sing throughout the village, offering blessings, prayers, and songs of celebration for the changing season and bountiful fields. One of the bards was a man named Symon and he sang to Leipa and Kitali as they walked down the road, but stopped, staring at them for a long time before moving on and singing to a different potential patron. It was out of character for a bard to end a song so abruptly, but Leipa assumed he could tell they wouldn’t be giving him money, no matter how easily swayed Kitali could be. That was, until the same bard came across her again two days later at the height of the festival when they would be lighting the gourd lanterns in the village square to set outside their homes as a sign of thankfulness to the Daety Ilassa.
“It is true,” he said to her. “You bear the taint of corruption.” She of course punched him in the face for this. Then he immediately began to apologize and explained himself. “That is to say, you have been cursed. But it is not a recent one, no, it is something deep and old and cutting deep into the marrow of your bones. It’s in your blood.”
It turned out that not only was he a bard, but he was a natural sensor. He could see energy around people and when he sang the energy vibrated and changed colors in tune with the song, depending on how deeply they were moved by it. But with Leipa and Kitali he saw stains, deep stains that tainted their natural colors. Kitali had other, more faded stains to her energy, caused by the various healers who had worked to heal her and improve her health and a child, but overall the stains were nowhere near as dark as Leipa’s. He warned her that the red stain he saw looked as if it were growing, which meant that it was not only an old curse, but an active one that would continue to feed on her and eventually swallow her until she died. Like he assumed it had done and would continue to do to everyone of her bloodline.
Just as it had likely done her father, grandfather, and every other Faelitt before.
She didn’t want to believe it, but it made far too much sense. The curse was real. And it was killing her family. Had been killing her family for who knew how long. How many generations had been affected by this? She asked Symon what to do, how was she supposed to fight a curse that old and so strong it could be felt through generations of her family? He told her the only way the curse could still be active was if there was something keeping it alive. Whether it be the person who cast the curse, an artifact they used to bind the spell, or something else. But he didn’t see how the person who cast the spell could still be alive if the curse was truly as old as it felt. So that left an artifact and she could either find the artifact and destroy it, or find another damned mage who would be powerful enough to break the curse. Because for mystical energy that dark and tainted, only someone of equal power could possibly cancel it out.
She asked him why he was telling her all of this. Why would he trying to help her when they had only met days before? Symon explained that after seeing them he couldn’t not speak up. The sight of them went against everything he thought good of the world and he had to find some way to right it. If that meant helping her break the curse, then he would do it. Which is how the two ended up traveling together as soon as the Harvest Festival ended. To avoid worrying her mother, she told her that she would be going to Daerosa to visit her brother Todd as the Academy. It wasn’t exactly a lie, since she would take the train to the city which was the largest in the region and also the headquarters for the regional base for the Holy Army and Band of the Blessed. Because if there was a reason to curse her family, it most likely had to do with when the Faelitts were still respected soldiers and knights. At least, that is the logic Leipa used and her best option for any kind of direction to go in.
Personality:
Leipmora has the personality of a shounen anime protagonist. She’s stubborn, aggressive and at times impulsive and can jump to conclusions about people when she shouldn’t. But she also never gives up, is extremely loyal, and if she believes there is a chance that she can turn an enemy into a friend, she’s not afraid to take it. She doesn’t hate people, but she doesn’t trust people either. She knows the world can be cruel and unforgiving, doesn’t handle the weak kindly, so she chooses to not be weak. But to Leipa, strength doesn’t only come from punching jerks and bullies, it also comes from being willing to be yourself and laugh in the face of doubt and derision. She learned that from watching her older sister, Kitali, growing up. She was the strongest person Leipa had ever met and continues to be.
Leipa believes very strongly in tough love. She doesn’t believe that a person benefits from being coddled or babied or shielded from the hard parts of life. People have to learn to deal with pain, rejection, disappointment, and failure. Because growing up and moving beyond setbacks and life just generally kicking you in the face is how you become a better person. Pain and struggle also makes you compassionate toward others and recognize that all struggles may be different, but they are valid and important to the person experiencing them. At the same time, she has no patience for spoiled brats. She may have sympathy in a way for how their sheltered lives have made them ill-equipped to handle the true facts of life, but she expects them to work on a learning curve then and get their shit together. If they don’t know how, then ask for help. If you aren’t willing to learn on your own nor are you willing to ask others for help in learning, then Leipa has no time for you, fuck off.
Even though she left school as early as possible, Leipa is not someone who hates learning or who even hates schooling. She hated the people at her school, because they were jerks who bullied her and talked trash about her family regularly. There were only so many fights she could get into without causing her mother to get ill from the stress of it, Leipa knew, so she did what she could to get out of the situation. Whatever else she needed to learn, she could study herself, since her great-uncle did own the largest (and only) bookstore in town. She could learn about anything she wanted through reading. And when she took on her Earth mage apprenticeship, she was focused, driven, and showed up all the other students regularly because she wasn’t going to let them think she wasn’t good enough to be there, despite being younger than the other two apprentices. She also acts like she’s got something to prove while not caring whatsoever about what other people think, because she’s really trying to prove it more to herself than to anyone else.
Abilities:
Leipa is an Earth Mage with a high reservoir of mystical energy inside of her. It means that she can before larger, more dangerous spells on her own without additional help from other mages, but also has the stamina to use the magic for longer than most, as well. Still, she’s not one for fancy mystical displays and keeps most of her spells and techniques simple and efficient. Just because she hasn’t found the bottom of her well, doesn’t mean she sees it as something limitless she can overuse until she gets there. Earth Mages are those who use the highest percentage of their own mystical energy when manipulating their Elemental craft as the amount needed for moving Earth or manipulating the cycles of nature takes more direction and force from the Mage.
Miscellaneous: Leipmora did not actually like the nickname “Leipa” when she was younger. She thought it was childish and immature and insisted on being called “Lei,” but her mother called her Leipa anyway and after a year or so she stopped insisted and left it alone.
Age: 21
Birthdate: Etenbar 25th, 1691
Height: 5’6” (to the top of her head), 6’6” (to top of ears)
Weight: 120lbs (including horns)
Designation: Earth Mage
Country: Kismat
Native Village: Juni
Defining Physical Characteristics: Leipa is a Lagos with some features that do look more Ancestral. She has long, wide ears like a jackrabbit, the nose of a jackrabbit, and a set of antlers that grow out of her head near her ears. It’s a medical condition that also leads her to having patches of hardened skin on her legs and back, but she has a special oil she uses to keep them from cracking and bleeding (think of extreme eczema).
Full Body Pic | Face Profile
Background:
The Faelitt family has a long, often infamous history in their region of Kismat. A long line of sons and daughters who have served the nation and worked in the Holy Army and Band of the Blessed. The Band of the Blessed are a group of Holy Knights ordained by the Church to hunt down and deal with those who perverted the Song of Eternity and broke the laws of the Mystic Arts. These people are often called the Corruptors. For the use the Mystic Arts in a way that goes against its intent and disrupt the flow of the Song in the world. But the Faelitt’s fell into infamy as death and bad luck rained down on the family generation after generation. Whole lines would die in a epidemic, others would lose their fortunes to gambling or natural disasters, fluke mistakes would ruin their reputations among the Blessed until they were banned from enlisting altogether.
And then there is Leipmora’s family. Her father died during the Mourning Floods—a terrible natural disaster that saw the deaths of thousands of people as an unexpected dry season lead to two weeks straight of rain with all the major rivers overflowing—while working as a volunteer rescue personnel. He saved the lives of a little boy and his dog, who the boy has chased after when they were being evacuated and been swept up by the flooding river, but was caught in the undertow himself and died trapped by debris. Leipa was eight when he died. This did afford some sympathy/pity to her family, despite them being seen as a bad luck line in a very superstitious village.
Her mother, Roe (nee Waer), worked hard raising three children, two of which had special needs. Leipa’s older sister Kitali was born with a weak immune system and brittle bones. Her parents spent a lot of money on healers and potions in the first few years of her life to mend what they could and make her as healthy as possible. To the point they didn’t have another child until Kitali was five (it is typical in Kismat to have your children in quick succession and then no more). Leipa grew up constantly being told that she had to be gentle with her sister and treat her carefully, but Kitali was her best friend and she knew more than anyone how much she hated being seen as weak and incapable. She struggled and persevered and wasn’t going to allow anyone to tell her what she could and couldn’t do with her life. She lived and thrived, but would catch ill easily and had to wear a brace on her leg for walking. Her dream was to get a medal in the Marathon of Life, which is held every year during the Festival of Rebirth. She even saved up money to commission a specialized brace for her leg that moved a lot easier with her body while maintaining its support. The top 20 runners each year would get a ribbon while the top 3 would get medals and monetary rewards. She had managed to be number 19 in 1711, which no one thought she could do. Kitali is Leipa’s hero.
Then there is Leipa’s youger brother by four years, Thoddeus Faelitt VI (but they just call him Little Todd), who was too young to remember their father and was pretty much raised in a home of three women and his great-uncle, Dee. He’s a quiet kid, very thoughtful and inquisitive, always looking to learn more. He’s smart, to the point that his mother worked two jobs to make sure he could afford to go to one of the higher end Academies by the time he was ten. Of course, then his great-uncle stepped in and sold part of his ownership in a very lucrative bookshop (being the only bookstore in the entire village) to help pay for it.
Originally, Roe refused, but Thoddeus IV refused to back down until she gave in, because he wanted his great-nephew to have the best education possible. He would have done the same for either of his great-nieces had they shown the inclination, but Leipa wasn’t much of a student and didn’t care to be, and Kitali had refused his offers in favor of doing things her own way. She only asked him for help in finding the best blacksmith to make her brace. So Todd became the scholar of the family, while Kitali’s taking a healer apprenticeship (she may not have the energy reserves to be a high-level healer, but she did have a lot of control, pin-point accuracy, and long-standing knowledge of the human body because she liked to stay informed of her own conditions), and Leipa left school as soon as she did all her required courses to take on an Earth Mage apprenticeship because there is always a need for Earth Mages in their region (she originally thought to try water magestry, but she just didn’t have the patience for number of years the apprenticeship would take). Besides, water mages often work in barely any clothing to avoid friction with the water itself, and Leipa is not someone who likes to go about limitedly clothed.
Because Leipa has suffered from severe eczema and psoriasis her entire life. As a child, it would be so painful and stiff that moving would make her skin tear open and bleed and wearing certain types of materials would rub her skin raw within a matter of hours, especially on her legs and back. The only time she felt any relief was when she was floating in the water. She came to truly love water because of it. As she got older there was finally development of a special medicinal oil that she would put on her skin that would maintain its smoothness for an entire day, except that it would wash off with too much contact to water. So she went from spending hours of her day in the water, to avoiding it so that she could do other things, such as go to school, or help out in her Uncle Dee’s store, or do anything that wasn’t sitting in water all the time. Her mother would set aside a few hours once a week for Leipa to swim, but that was it.
As a child, Leipa had always had these very stiff, circular spots on her head, near her ears. The healers told them it was likely they were just particularly bad spots where the plaques and eczema had thickened to the point they wouldn’t heal as the rest of them. So Leipa just made sure to cover the spots with her hair. But around the age of eleven, the spots turned to lumps and the lumps grew into stumps, and continued growing. Within months she had actual stem-like antlers protruding from her head and no one knew where they had come from. People stared, even more than they had before, and there was talk about whether or not Leipa was actually some Cervidaeus’s child. It was a lowkey scandal all over town and her mother dealt with a lot of negative, backhanded comments because of it. Because if she wasn’t actually a Cervidaeus, then it meant she was an abomination for having the traits of two Ancestral Species. She was bullied in school, picked on by other children around the village and the older she got, the worse it god, as the antlers became more pronounced.
But Leipa is not someone who lets others get to her that easily either. If her sister Kitali could go through all of that and stay strong in the face of ridicule, patronization, and her own body working against her, then by the damned, she would too. She changed her style of clothes to suit the fact her horns were too long for most shirts and only wore button-ups. When she was old enough, she left school and started up a mage apprenticeship. She did everything she could to prove that she didn’t give a damn what people think and that she would live life her own way.
But one day she was helping Uncle Dee out at the bookshop when a crate of papers was knocked over that turned out to be old family papers of the Faelitt line. Those papers included a birth certificate that was attached to what turned out to be an adoption form from the Church. She took the crate to her great-uncle and he pointed out it was his own adoption papers. That completely threw her. She hadn’t realized he was adopted as he was not only the eldest child of her great-grandparents, but also he and her father shared one of the family names. He explained to her that he had been adopted because her great-grandparents had struggled to have children and so they asked the Church for help and they had found them a child. The Faelitts had managed to have a son years later, but Thoddeus was the one who received the family name because no other children had been expected.
“It was like the family was cursed, they thought, but they wanted a child so badly. So they broke their bad luck by adopting me.”
It wasn’t as if she hadn’t heard the line before. That their family was cursed, that they had been struck by nothing but bad luck for years and years, that the Gods were somehow angry with them enough to punish the entire bloodline. They were dumb, mean things children had said to her all the time. But after the talk with her uncle, she started to wonder about it.
And then came the Harvest Festival and the traveling bards who would sing throughout the village, offering blessings, prayers, and songs of celebration for the changing season and bountiful fields. One of the bards was a man named Symon and he sang to Leipa and Kitali as they walked down the road, but stopped, staring at them for a long time before moving on and singing to a different potential patron. It was out of character for a bard to end a song so abruptly, but Leipa assumed he could tell they wouldn’t be giving him money, no matter how easily swayed Kitali could be. That was, until the same bard came across her again two days later at the height of the festival when they would be lighting the gourd lanterns in the village square to set outside their homes as a sign of thankfulness to the Daety Ilassa.
“It is true,” he said to her. “You bear the taint of corruption.” She of course punched him in the face for this. Then he immediately began to apologize and explained himself. “That is to say, you have been cursed. But it is not a recent one, no, it is something deep and old and cutting deep into the marrow of your bones. It’s in your blood.”
It turned out that not only was he a bard, but he was a natural sensor. He could see energy around people and when he sang the energy vibrated and changed colors in tune with the song, depending on how deeply they were moved by it. But with Leipa and Kitali he saw stains, deep stains that tainted their natural colors. Kitali had other, more faded stains to her energy, caused by the various healers who had worked to heal her and improve her health and a child, but overall the stains were nowhere near as dark as Leipa’s. He warned her that the red stain he saw looked as if it were growing, which meant that it was not only an old curse, but an active one that would continue to feed on her and eventually swallow her until she died. Like he assumed it had done and would continue to do to everyone of her bloodline.
Just as it had likely done her father, grandfather, and every other Faelitt before.
She didn’t want to believe it, but it made far too much sense. The curse was real. And it was killing her family. Had been killing her family for who knew how long. How many generations had been affected by this? She asked Symon what to do, how was she supposed to fight a curse that old and so strong it could be felt through generations of her family? He told her the only way the curse could still be active was if there was something keeping it alive. Whether it be the person who cast the curse, an artifact they used to bind the spell, or something else. But he didn’t see how the person who cast the spell could still be alive if the curse was truly as old as it felt. So that left an artifact and she could either find the artifact and destroy it, or find another damned mage who would be powerful enough to break the curse. Because for mystical energy that dark and tainted, only someone of equal power could possibly cancel it out.
She asked him why he was telling her all of this. Why would he trying to help her when they had only met days before? Symon explained that after seeing them he couldn’t not speak up. The sight of them went against everything he thought good of the world and he had to find some way to right it. If that meant helping her break the curse, then he would do it. Which is how the two ended up traveling together as soon as the Harvest Festival ended. To avoid worrying her mother, she told her that she would be going to Daerosa to visit her brother Todd as the Academy. It wasn’t exactly a lie, since she would take the train to the city which was the largest in the region and also the headquarters for the regional base for the Holy Army and Band of the Blessed. Because if there was a reason to curse her family, it most likely had to do with when the Faelitts were still respected soldiers and knights. At least, that is the logic Leipa used and her best option for any kind of direction to go in.
Personality:
Leipmora has the personality of a shounen anime protagonist. She’s stubborn, aggressive and at times impulsive and can jump to conclusions about people when she shouldn’t. But she also never gives up, is extremely loyal, and if she believes there is a chance that she can turn an enemy into a friend, she’s not afraid to take it. She doesn’t hate people, but she doesn’t trust people either. She knows the world can be cruel and unforgiving, doesn’t handle the weak kindly, so she chooses to not be weak. But to Leipa, strength doesn’t only come from punching jerks and bullies, it also comes from being willing to be yourself and laugh in the face of doubt and derision. She learned that from watching her older sister, Kitali, growing up. She was the strongest person Leipa had ever met and continues to be.
Leipa believes very strongly in tough love. She doesn’t believe that a person benefits from being coddled or babied or shielded from the hard parts of life. People have to learn to deal with pain, rejection, disappointment, and failure. Because growing up and moving beyond setbacks and life just generally kicking you in the face is how you become a better person. Pain and struggle also makes you compassionate toward others and recognize that all struggles may be different, but they are valid and important to the person experiencing them. At the same time, she has no patience for spoiled brats. She may have sympathy in a way for how their sheltered lives have made them ill-equipped to handle the true facts of life, but she expects them to work on a learning curve then and get their shit together. If they don’t know how, then ask for help. If you aren’t willing to learn on your own nor are you willing to ask others for help in learning, then Leipa has no time for you, fuck off.
Even though she left school as early as possible, Leipa is not someone who hates learning or who even hates schooling. She hated the people at her school, because they were jerks who bullied her and talked trash about her family regularly. There were only so many fights she could get into without causing her mother to get ill from the stress of it, Leipa knew, so she did what she could to get out of the situation. Whatever else she needed to learn, she could study herself, since her great-uncle did own the largest (and only) bookstore in town. She could learn about anything she wanted through reading. And when she took on her Earth mage apprenticeship, she was focused, driven, and showed up all the other students regularly because she wasn’t going to let them think she wasn’t good enough to be there, despite being younger than the other two apprentices. She also acts like she’s got something to prove while not caring whatsoever about what other people think, because she’s really trying to prove it more to herself than to anyone else.
Abilities:
Leipa is an Earth Mage with a high reservoir of mystical energy inside of her. It means that she can before larger, more dangerous spells on her own without additional help from other mages, but also has the stamina to use the magic for longer than most, as well. Still, she’s not one for fancy mystical displays and keeps most of her spells and techniques simple and efficient. Just because she hasn’t found the bottom of her well, doesn’t mean she sees it as something limitless she can overuse until she gets there. Earth Mages are those who use the highest percentage of their own mystical energy when manipulating their Elemental craft as the amount needed for moving Earth or manipulating the cycles of nature takes more direction and force from the Mage.
Miscellaneous: Leipmora did not actually like the nickname “Leipa” when she was younger. She thought it was childish and immature and insisted on being called “Lei,” but her mother called her Leipa anyway and after a year or so she stopped insisted and left it alone.