The War Mother (Azalea)

by **Azalea** Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:12 pm

The Basics

Name: She had translated her birth name loosely into the modern tongue. It meant "the flower that blooms in the death of winter." As such, she uses the name Azalea Algaliarept

English Translation: The Flower that Blooms in the Death of Winter.

Species: Azalea is a Dragon.

Race: Azalea is a Dragon.

Gender: She was born female, and identifies as such. However, her limited shapeshifting ability makes her actual gender... ambiguous.

Date of Birth: Azalea was born some time during an early winter. The date wasn't ever marked. She celebrated her years on the first snowfall when she was in the Living World.

Appearance Age: In her default form, Azalea appears to be a woman in her late twenties or thirties. However, in her true form, Azalea's age is indiscernible due to the golden armor coating her body and how she changes drastically.

Actual Age: Azalea has existed for over fifteen thousand years.

Organization and Rank: Azalea's loyalty is only to herself and her companions.

Height: In her default state, Azalea is four feet and nine inches tall, or one point four meters. Her tails in this form each are a similar length. In her true form, she is slightly taller, at five feet even, or one and a half meters. Her tails are much longer, however, at five feet and seven inches, or one point seven meters.

Weight: Azalea's body is impossibly dense, regardless of her form. This is due to the sheer mass of her multitude of tails, each weighing four hundred and forty-four pounds, or two hundred and one kilograms a piece. As her true form possesses forty-two tails, and her own body weighs eighty five pounds, this brings her total weight to eighteen thousand, seven hundred and thirty-three pounds, or eight thousand, four hundred and ninety-seven point one kilograms. Her weight does not vary depending on form, however.

Hair color: Azalea has thick, black hair, including a tuft of fur where her tails emerge from.

Eye color: Azalea's eyes all look identical. She has yellow sclera, with red irises. She is missing the right eye on her face.

General Appearance: Azalea is a relatively short woman, with a shapely figure under her loosely fitting clothes.

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The Psyche

Redeeming Qualities: Azalea has a strict moral policy. She believes a person is only worth their spoken word, and as such she refuses to break a promise. She will not lie, nor will she betray an ally. Azalea is a strong believer in meritocracy, and despite her rather extremist views, will do anything for someone she considers a true friend. Azalea constantly pushes those around her to do better, to improve, to reach their full potentials. However, Azalea is also rather friendly and amicable, with a boundless curiosity that is best described as 'childlike wonder.'

Negative Qualities: Azalea's desire for absolute war is constant. Every action she takes is carefully planned to sow chaos. And while she can be affectionate to her comrades, she displays great cruelty to her enemies, delighting in their fear and mass death. She has a bad habit of talking down to others, and rejoices over making others squirm; either via teasing or torture. She also speaks almost exclusively in a cutesy voice, which causes a great deal of resentment in those she actively mocks.

Likes: Azalea loves violence. She fights for the sake of fighting. She is endlessly fascinated by Humans, who overcome their inherent weakness by constantly building stronger and stronger weapons. Azalea, despite being obsessed with the Final Battle, also has other things she cares about. For example, she enjoys sour food, listening to her companions tell stories, as well as simple nature watching. She is constantly finding new things to fascinate herself with, as everything in this modern world is new to her.

Dislikes: Azalea hates people who do nothing to better themselves. People who are content with their lot in life, or who simply wail about their suffering without taking strides to change. She views these people as worse than garbage, below even the smallest of insects. In fact, she can view something as so insignificant that she erases it from her perception, psychologically making it so she cannot even see them or hear their voice.

Personal Habits: Azalea constantly tries to improve others. She frequently will correct wastefulness in her friends and enemies alike, pointing out the areas they need to improve.

Azalea also has severe weakness; her hatred of pathetic people is so great that she subconsciously erases them from her perception. If someone so thoroughly disappoints her, she cannot see nor hear them. It goes beyond ignoring them, as she isn't even aware of their continued existence.

Perhaps worse of all is her insistence on using a fake 'ultra cutesy' voice. Her singsong voice is higher pitched than her real voice.

Goals: Azalea is truly omnicidal; her main goal is a war between all the Races. In her words, 'One Great Final War.' Her ideal war would result in the total collapse of the current power structure, the death of multiple deities, and only a handful of survivors. She wants the strong to rebuild the world, as one all powerful clan. However, whom ascends to this throne she cares not. Even if the Gods and Shinigami are victorious, she would not mind as long as they proved their victory completely.

Before that, however, she wishes to find a way to rescue her companions from Hell.

General Personality: Azalea at first comes across as friendly and amicable, willing to help others and support strangers with the flimsiest of reasoning. She speaks in a sing-song voice, and other than her strange appearance, comes across as a sweet young woman acting younger than her years. She is endlessly curious about all manner of subjects, from foods and sweets, to animals and plants, and all sorts of science and technology. However, the moment the topic changes to anything related to violence, she begins to show her true colors.

Her knowledge of weapons and tools of violence is extensive beyond measure. She can seemingly master anything presented to her after moments, understanding tactics, weaponry, and even unique powers. She seems to crave this information, wanting to study everything she can get her eye on.

But, looking deeper, her heart is found to be twisted and black. Despite her lovable personality and general friendliness, she is actively pushing others into struggle, seeking out any flaws and exploitable weaknesses in their psyche, anything to push them down a path of violence and strife.

Those few she can truly bond with are those who she deems 'pure.' To the ancient dragon, purity means just that- they must be truly honorable and incorruptible. Strong without giving into that strength; strong enough to live up to their own ideals without being used. These pure beings are her closest confidants.

Something Special: Azalea has a limit shapeshifting ability, able to draw her tails within her body to hide them, or alter parts of her physiology provided she has a visual example of what she wants to look like. She can also assume her 'true' form when releasing her full fighting strength, taking on a form of ambiguous gender with golden hide and forty two tails. Despite being physically different in appearance, her weight and actual body composition never changes; she always weighs the same amount and is soft and warm to the touch despite the golden appearance. However, all of her abilities are drastically weaker in her 'default' form, as she has to use an impressive amount of energy to constantly maintain it.

The Power

True Dragons

Breath: Azalea's Breath attack takes the form of a golden fog that billows from her lips. This fog damages everything it comes in contact with, causing wood to rot, iron to rust, water to taint, and forms lesions on flesh. Azalea refers to her Breath as the "Ravages of War"

Draconic Magic: Azalea's Draconic Magic is the Magic of "Conflict." Conflict allows Azalea to manifest weapons that she's familiar with, as well as slightly alter her physical appearance.

Draconic Focus: Azalea has the Draconic Focus of "Warfare." Despite creating the concept itself, Azalea is endlessly fascinated by how Humans had revolutionized her idea. Her focus gives her an innate understanding of tools of battle, military tactics and power structures.

The Past

Major Events Timeline:

13000 BCE- Birth in Eden
12000 BCE- Destruction of Eden, stranded in the New World
11500 BCE- Revenca and Azalea become accepted among the Humans as a pair of deities and clan leaders.
11450 BCE- Revenca is killed under mysterious circumstances. Azalea takes over the Ngluic tribe.
11445 BCE- Azalea leads the Ngluic to battle against another nomadic tribe. The Ngluic take spare nobody. Several members of the tribe protest the violence. Azalea has them silenced for the betterment of the tribe.
11380 BCE- The Ngluic tribe has dominated from what would become Eastern Canada through Russia across the land bridge. The Shinigami God visits to find out the source of the global disturbance in the balance of souls. She explains her concepts of taking hunting tactics and applying it in a series of raids against other villages, and she calls the Ngluic tribe her 'captains,' leaders of a great number of people.
11304 BCE- The Ngluic lose control of their territory across the landbridge as their territory expands ever westward. The tribes in the region that would become Canada have gone two generations without knowing of their fearsome violence and begin to forget their fear of the Ngluic. This causes a ripple effect across the globe of tribes killing the Ngluic in charge of each region of the territory. Due to lack of communications, Azalea and the main tribe, her Army, are unaware of the impending disaster.
11282 BCE- The main Army is defeated by a series of unfortunate revolts and subterfuge, collapsing entirely in what would one day become known as Egypt. Azalea and her second, Comandir, barely escape with their lives from an unexpected ambush. The Ngluic are wiped out entirely, and tribes the globe over refuse to speak of the events, making the name of the tribe fall into obscurity.
11147 BCE- Azalea comes across a Giant woman, a hunter who happened to protect her tribe from a viscous cave lion. Azalea gives her some further instruction on how to better use her spear before disappearing once more.
11134 BCE- A great battle erupts between Gods, as one intends to wipe out all of creation. Azalea provides the mortals and sibling Gods with her tutelage on how to use their numbers and weapons to fight. She also ends up providing the lone God with information on where their attacks and barriers will be, causing the War to last far longer than it should have. Somehow, she keeps the two sides from learning of her deceptions, though she notices the Werewolf had a distinct dislike of her from their first meeting.
9748 BCE- Azalea is shoved through a Hell Gate while watching Shinigami go about their duties. Though she does not see the face of her assaulter, Azalea sees their white hair and black clothing, as well as their sword.
9746 BCE- Azalea maintains a constant vigilance, waiting for her chance to escape this prison the next time a Hell Gate opens. But the prison's impossible geometries prove too difficult to navigate, and the guardians of the prison seem intent on killing her and preventing her from leaving.
9658 BCE- Azalea comes face to face with the ruler of this land, the fallen God Tanua. He offers her a seat at his side, among his 7 assistants, the Virtues who rule each level of Hell. She declines it, but the god extends his thanks to her for creating such a wonderful tool of destruction. His praise leaves her with chills as she flees his castle.
9613 BCE- Azalea and her Disciples, a trio of poor souls who came to Hell due to unfortunate events rather than actual evil, witness the opening of a Hell Gate. They arrive too slowly for them all to cross, leaving only Azalea and her second Disciple to flee Hell, the other two being trapped behind. But because of the evil taint in Azalea's Disciple, the Kushinada try to drag Mephistopheles back. Azalea gives up a large portion of her life energy to remake Mephistopheles, completely reforging their very soul into a Goat Shapeshifter. However, while Azalea is recovering from the ritual, Mephistopheles turns on her with a blade from Hell, trying to kill her after she freed him. After a struggle, Azalea cuts off the Shapeshifter's head, sending him back to Hell. Shaken by the betrayal, Azalea is too afraid to rescue her other two Disciples, and vows to never return to Hell for them lest they turn on her like Mephistopheles.
2334 BCE- Azaleas constant wandering brings her to Akkad, where she aligns herself with their leaders. She heavily encourages expansion of their territory, leading to what would eventually become the Akkadian Empire. However, she was only in Akkad for a few years, leaving before the Empire truly forms.
1550 BCE- Azalea finds herself drawn to Egypt, where her first empire had fallen. Seeing the Egyptians begin to flourish, she encourages them and provides advice to the common people, which trickles upwards to the Pharaoh.
Various time periods- Azalea during this time was a wanderer, and frequently fell asleep for decades or hundreds of years at a time. During her periods of rest, kingdoms and empires would rise up around her nests, her radiating spiritual energy instilling bloodlust and tactical genius on mankind. However, Azalea claims no part in these empires or kingdoms, claiming she only heightens what is already there in mankind.
28-1470 CE- Azalea awakens in what she discovers is called the Roman Empire. She begins to wander the World of the Living and decides to take an active part in world politics, encouraging the various nations of mankind to fight. She spends these centuries moving from place to place, leaving bloody wars and kingdoms rising and falling in her wake. Typically, the most violent country in the world is regarded as where to find her.
1471 CE- Azalea digs herself a nest in the New World, burying herself underground and falls asleep for centuries.
2017 CE- Azalea digs and blasts her way out of her nest. She find that some building called a 'pentagon' had been built over her nest, and she flees the location before she can be apprehended. She is dismayed to find her speed is the only one of her abilities that hasn't been deteriorated by her long hibernation.

by **Azalea** Sun Mar 22, 2020 9:39 pm

by **Lanying Baozhai** Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:57 pm

Approved for Advanced Lieutenant Tier

by **Azalea** Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:50 pm

Advanced Lt. are awarded 6 skills at Intermediate baseline. Dragon bonus results in no skill caps.

Armed Combat- Beginner
Hoho- Divine
Breath- Beginner
Draconic Magic- Advanced

by **Azalea** Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:39 am

Azalea's Techniques

Racial Skills

Recruit: Shapeshifting- See Figura virtutis Dei

Officer: Unvollkommen- Long ago, Azalea gained the power to grant Schrifts, however its an ability she frequently forgets she has.

Lieutenant: Aspect of the World (Weaponry)- Azalea has the ability to see and speak to the Souls of any weapon. However, for the definition of this Technique, weapons are strictly tools designed for the intention of combat and killing (A War Scythe is a weapon, but a Harvest Scythe is not).

Advanced Lieutenant: Kendo- Azalea's mastery of weapons, of course, includes practice in Kendo and other formal arts.

Draconic Magic Skills-

Figura virtutis Dei (Latin for 'Shape of Power')- Azalea has the ability to assume multiple forms based on the number of tails she currently has. Azalea can pull her tails into her body, hiding them from view, while lowering the amount of Spiritual Energy she radiates. If she has no tails visible, she assumes a child-like form. With one to five tails, she assumes the shape of a teenager. With six to ten tails, she appears as an adult. Finally, if she summons more than twenty tails, her body becomes covered in a golden carapace, which resembles a knight's armor.

Stances- Azalea uses sets of physical skills called 'Stances,' which provide different abilities and techniques. These Stances provide simple passive effects, based on how she walks, stands, or observes her surroundings, but due to their nature, can be taught to anyone of any Race. If Azalea has at least one Rank in the associated Skill, she may use the Stance's Techniques regardless of what Stance she is maintaining.

Kali Stance- A stance focused on brutality, Kali is an unarmed-focused fighting method that seeks to disable the opponents. While maintaining this Stance, Azalea treats her Unarmed Combat as Beginner.

Bulldoze- Azalea throws her weight behind her attacks, as well as precision. She can make concentrated attacks to disable her opponents by breaking joints, or hitting pressure points.

Takemikazuchi Stance- A more generic, fluid stance that allows Azalea to adjust to a variety of abilities or weapons. While maintaining this Stance, Azalea focuses on the abilities and weapons themselves, treating her Armed Combat as Beginner if it is untrained.

Weapon Mastery- Azalea has a keen mind for battle. She may observe a tool or weapon for a few moments to learn how to properly use it for combat. While she can use Racial Weapons in this way, it does not unlock their powers for her- she merely can learn what they are if she witnesses them.

Thanatos Stance- Focused on Spiritual Energy, Thanatos treats Azalea's Spiritual Combat as Beginner. Using this Stance has Azalea study the way energy is manipulated, and she calms her breathing to better attune herself to it.

Dragon Eye: While using this technique, Azalea can see Spiritual Energy, overlaid upon the rest of her vision.

Pazuzu Stance- Relying on mobility, Pazuzu treats an Untrained Hoho as Beginner while maintained. This Stance is centered of reacting to threats or retreating.

Redirection- Azalea can use her speed to redirect an attack, provided her Hoho is at least two Ranks higher than the attack's.

Astraea Stance- This stance heightens Azalea's perception, making her innately more attuned to subtle changes around herself. She treats her Reiatsu Perception as Beginner while in this stance.

Perfect Study- Azalea can learn any ability she witnesses provided she knows the name of the ability, and her Skill has the same number of Ranks in it that the user has. However, this requires her to see the skill to study it- invisible or passive techniques cannot be learned this way.

Golden Siege Stance- A unique stance, that relates to Azalea specifically. This Stance focuses on a barrage of high speed movements and combo attacks that build up damage over time, or weaken defenses. She considers this her strongest Stance, and is her default. While in this Stance, Azalea is prepared for most anything.

Perfect Speed: Absolute Defense- A passive technique Azalea maintains while in Golden Siege. This technique allows Azalea to instantly dodge any single attack that would hit her if its speed is Grandmaster or lower, as her body dodges on its own. Azalea does not need to be aware of the attack for this to occur, but she can only dodge a single attack per day (or per thread, whichever is longer).

First Dance: Single Claw of Recreance- Azalea makes a single attack against an enemy at rapid speed, dealing exactly 1 damage if it connects. Azalea's speed and precision with this attack is great enough that all successive strikes with First Dance Techniques reduce the enemy's Hierro or similar abilities as if they were one attack, rather than multiple, as she repeatedly hits the same exact location. If she hits a different spot, she must begin wearing down their defenses again.

First Dance: Second Claw of Recreance- Azalea makes two attacks against an enemy, dealing exactly 2 damage if they connect. This attack may only be used if she had previously hit with Single Claw of Recreance. If Azalea misses her target, or is hit, before landing this attack she must begin again from First Claw of Recreance.

First Dance: Fourth Claw of Recreance- Azalea attacks her target four times in succession, dealing exactly four damage if they connect. This attack may only be used if she had previously hit with Second Claw of Recreance. If Azalea misses her target, or is hit, before landing this attack she must begin again from First Claw of Recreance.

First Dance: Sixteenth Claw of Recreance- Azalea makes sixteen attacks against her target, dealing exactly 16 damage. This attack must be used after Fourth Claw of Recreance. If Azalea misses her target, or is hit, before landing this attack she must begin again from First Claw of Recreance.

First Dance: Two-hundred-and-Fifty-Sixth Claw of Recreance- Azalea makes two hundred and fifty six attacks against her target. This attack does 256 damage if it connects. Azalea can only use this attack after using Sixteenth Claw of Recreance. If Azalea misses her target, or is hit, before landing this attack she must begin again from First Claw of Recreance.

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