Mateja Koshka [WIP]

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◦ Delver's Garb ◦ On the Road ◦

General Information wrote:: Full Name: Mateja sa Koshka-vol
Nickname(s): 'Magpie'
- Mateja's penchant for nicking shiny oddities and treasures earned her the title. With age she adopted the name as a her new identity.

Gender: Female (♀)
Age: 27 Years Old
Race: Half-Elf
- Commonly mistaken for human, only Mateja's pale skin, shaped ears, and colorless black hair betray her Elven blood.

Languages: Euriski (Fluent), Common (Broken)
- Being relatively new to the modern world Mateja is only just grasping the basics of common.

Birthplace: Lyukovosk, Eurisko
Occupation: Delver & Guild Associate
- A pathfinder by nature, Mateja quickly grew obsessed with exploring old dilapidated ruins and making off with the riches hidden within. One part cartographer, one half treasure hunter, the Magpie has made a business out of mapping her travels and appraising ancient artifacts and trinkets. Recently she has been employed by the Adventurer's Guild.

Physical Description wrote:: Hair Color: Charcoal Black
- A stark contrast worn against pallid flesh. Her hair is lacking in any color, simply black.

Hair Style: Short, Unkempt
- Worn mostly as a chopped mess, Mateja keeps her hair relatively short and disheveled.

Eye Color: Brown
Skin Tone: White, Pallid
Height: 5'6'' ft.
Weight: 112 lbs.

Body Type: Lean, Androgynous
- Mateja's shape and form would do just as well on any man her age. Modest, flat, and lacking in femininity.

Distinguishing Features:
Mateja's waxen skin is flush with a mess of tattoos. These painted maps, scripts, and ancient texts coil around her arms and torso in haphazard spirals. All this coupled with an array of murals, and ritualistic patterns make for an interesting clash of color scoured over her entire body. Her carelessly chopped hair is decorated in a few sparse braids, with thicker strands ending in odd baubles and trinkets. Scars on her face house a collection of different piercings. Most of them are simple studs dotted around her face, the rest a mix of rings wrapped around her lips, ears, and nose. The materials differ greatly between them with most of them simple metals, but some ancient gemstones with others age-old frippery fashioned into new bits of jewelry.

Skills & Talents wrote:: Talents:

‣ Combat Ability: Mateja's strength does not lie in her ability to duel, but rather in evading combat entirely. In the event that she is unable to sneak herself out of a dire situation, she is able to wield her shortbow with decent efficiency. In the heat of battle Mateja begins to crack, panic consumes her and she will do everything in power to retreat if it means to dive another day. She has only drawn her sword a handful of times, with each time having been only a disaster as her swings are clumsy and weak.

‣ Dungeoneering: At home diving through dungeons and crypts, Mateja is nigh-unmatched in her ability to pick through the ruins of old unscathed. A mixed skill set of evasive maneuvers, trap finding, acrobatics, and scrutiny. The Magpie prides herself most on this as her life work is dedicated to scouring through the old to bring back treasures for the new.

‣ Stealth: Magpie makes it a point to always be silent on her approach. A skill self taught and mastered in the Savage Lands, her natural ability to remain quiet and hidden kept her alive where so many others had fallen. She continues to hone her ability to sneak about with every trip back into the Savage Lands, and she prides herself on this above all else.

‣ Appraise: Mateja knows just what to pick on her trips, and she has made a business out of this same intuition. Despite her fragmented common-speak she is able to barter with most merchants for her wares and tends to find a good price for all of her old baubles. Some artifacts are more helpful then other, but even the most useless gadgets find a home in someone's inventory thank to her ability to convince and deceive the market.

‣ Magic Devices: The delver supplements her inability to weave magic by utilizing ancient artifacts picked up on her travels. These gadgets simply tend to work in her hands, a phenomenon she has had observed since she was young. Curiosity drives her finger presses and she somehow always finds a way her trinkets working. She is also able to read and process scrolls efficiently, and at her best emulate the formulas stored on them. She has tried writing her own scrolls but she simply cannot harness the mana to activate them. With a talented mage on hand her archaic formulas may just be the key to a few powerful spells. She has the ability to cast spells so long as they are through a scroll, an art she has only just begin training in the field. The entire casting process is still wholly unfamiliar to her, and she is a novice at her best.

Personality & Beliefs wrote:: Alignment: Neutral Good
Deity: Sylandra
- Mateja respects the Pantheon in whole but feels a peculiar connection with Sylandra, the patron god of her home country.

Personality:
At her best Mateja is a curious oddity at home dodging about the fringe of most social events. At her worst she regresses and falls prey to a deep seeded paranoia, only complimented by her inability to trust anyone for too long. The only semblance of a social life she has is kept bottled up in her trade dealings. Beyond that, she rarely frequents the tavern or town, and instead keeps to herself mulling over ancient tomes and scripts she will never quite understand. The occasional twitch and fidget would suggest some degree of addiction, whether or not it's to her work or the old mana at work in her artifacts is still up to debate.

History wrote:: Biography:

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