Lore & About me
Lore
Born a blind girl to a lesser noble family in the kingdom of Ethyra on a star now lost to the void. Rivvianne's life was spent in the shadow of war; her people always the vanguard for the slowly encroaching calamity.Rivvi's parents Priscilla and Hector The Baroness and Baron de Rubillenne earning their nobility through courage and acts of heroism in war held a legacy rooted in valor and militaristic tradition with her older sister Rosalie following in their footsteps becoming Baroness after their parents fell in battle during Rivvi's youth.Rivvianne spent years striving to become a warrior like her sister and mother before despite her blindness always leaving her at a disadvantage but her father, a gifted mage, saw Rivvianne's potential and as the years passed he had helped her develop an acute sense of aether able to perceive even more than most people could see, her precision a marvel to behold. After their parents passing Rivvianne had decided she would use her skills to become a healer, to protect her sister and everything she held dear.Years later in their adult life Rosalie and Rivvianne de Rubillenne would see that the encroaching dark had drawn ever closer to home. Murmurs of a "calamity" of "the end of times" had become more and more commonplace, and with each battle they fought to protect their people Rivvi and her sister held on to the hope that the rumors were just that; Until one night.. screams in the dark, a rumbling unlike any heard before, beasts akin to waking nightmares had beset Ethyra. The beasts ferocity and speed were beyond any their world had ever seen as if the very dark itself had begun to swallow them all; by the time House del Rubillenne had moved in force the kingdom was already lost; death and tragedy were in the streets and all they could do was gather as many of their people they could and try to escape the coming tide.Further and faster.. Rivvianne and her people fled with the beasts biting at their heels the rumbling and screams of those too slow to keep pace followed their desperate escape. Upon reaching the border of a neighboring citystate Rosalie and her knights had gathered to hold the line that their people might see the next morning; against her sisters pleas Rivvianne had stayed to fight and protect all she held dear.
Bloody but unbroken they fought on their forces falling one by one the sound was all too much as her ears began to ring Rivvianne was knocked to the ground, and as she scrambled to get to her feet, their knights fighting and dying all around she sensed it, what sounded like a maw of unimaginable size with row upon row of gnashing teeth as it descended upon Rosalie and before she could scream, before she could ready a spell to protect her sister.
...it all went dark...
Twisting, churning black and blues clouded her minds eye endless whispers of warriors and light of the rejoining of going back home and then nothing.As Rivvianne woke, she was somewhere else... as she rose to her feet and gathered herself, still bloody and battered she realized everything was - different - the very aether itself felt unfamiliar.As the days turned to weeks, and weeks to months she had managed her way through a vast forest where the very trees felt alive and had found a peaceful citystate "Gridania" as the locals called it, and with much difficulty, having finally gained some sense of stability in this strange place she had begun her search for answers and her journey back home.
Traits, Skills & Personality
Personality -
Rivvi is a kind and gentle soul very much a bleeding heart often easily intimidated and drawn to the quiet peaceful parts of life, though like her family, she also has the spirit of a heroine and a strong will!
• Shy but with a quiet strength.
• Anxious but with a resolute heart.
• Kind but tenacious.
Rivvi is unfortunately rather poor and has to work hard to get by in this new world..
as a result in addition to her adventuring and working odd jobs from the adventurers board, she works part-time at the gold saucer!
also as a result of her lower income she has developed a love for fried potatoes and ale as they are a cheap but delicious treat she can splurge her precious few extra gil on although her favorite food remains a really good egg sandwich!
Very friendly albeit shy
Skills -
• Blind from birth Rivvi's weapon of choice as well has her primary tools are her sage nouliths and aetherially sensitive metals on her person by pulsing small amounts of aether through them she can "see" the world around her akin to echo location as the aether reverberates off of the world surrounding her.
• A trained healer and combat medic Rivvi is adept at both traditional medicine and aetherial healing as a sage
and with those skills she is an adept combat support who prefers to stay at a moderate distance to watch her teams back as well as remain very elusive and on the move, constantly barraging her enemies with efficient spellshots.
• Born with a relatively small pool of aether through years of training with her father Rivvi has learned to both expand her aether-pool through trained endurance and has mastered expertly precise control over her spellcasting.
• Rivvi's older sister Rosalie being ever the protective one taught her decent hand-to-hand skills to make sure she stays safe, while not a master by any means, and preferring to stay at a distance, Rivvi does know how to handle herself just in case!
Traits -
• Very precise hearing and a wide range of "vision" when pulsing aether through her nouliths. Rivvi is able to perceive nearly anything within roughly a 30 ft range of her using these skills.
• Expert aetherial control.
• Very fleet of foot and elusive especially when using her nouliths to dart around.
• Loves quiet places in nature and especially libraries with braille books as well as playing gentle music.
• Not a fan of loud places.
• Favorite foods are: a good egg sandwich, a cold beer and fried potatoes!
• She also has a very particular love for a certain smoking herb~
• Has a surprisingly high tolerance to alchohol.
• Is a very excitable and energetic drunk contrary to her usual shy quiet nature.• Rather clumsy despite her cautious nature (or most likely as a result of being so clumsy)