Lamb
Lieutenant Lambhu
Lamb is a Visperus Lieutenant, leader of the Visperus cell stationed in the eastern bounds of Pageneid. As most Visperus Lieutenants are, she's iron-fisted and wields a venomous glare. Beneath it all, however, she holds doubts and regrets that have softened her in her later years. She still fights loyally for her group's cause, but she sometimes wonders how much the spilled blood is really worth.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
She is in excellent health and in peak condition, although her middle age is starting to catch up with her. Brute force is still her greatest asset, along with a strong voice, but she finds her knees lock and crack in the morning, and old injuries ache in warning of a coming storm.
Body Features
She has a sturdy, broad-shouldered build with thick arms and legs. She is comparable to an oxen, although she has twice the temper. There is little soft physicality to her, save for the padding she has gained in her age. Her hands are large and scarred from bowstrings and knife cuts, and they are so well-calloused that dirt is ground into the swirls and buried beneath her fingernails.
Facial Features
Much like the rest of her, Lamb's face bears the markings of countless battles. Her nose sits a little crooked on her face, and her cheeks are wind burnt and speckled with sunspots. Like most of those with médōnai blood, her features are high and arching, but the gentle elegance clashes oddly with the brutalism that years of fighting left behind.
Identifying Characteristics
Her back is crisscrossed with white lash marks, a constant memory of a whip. Her entire left arm is sleeved in tattoos; the tell a fantastical story of her life and her people's history.
Physical quirks
She is naturally left handed, but training left her ambidextrous. Before a big storm rolls in, she limps with her right leg (although she does well to hide it).
Apparel & Accessories
Most of Lamb's clothes are Visperus Lieutenant issued or a simple gray-brown leather. The only personal accessories she owns are a black bastaloe leather belt etched with a serpent and a collection of golden hair beads etched with runes. She decorates her serpentine crown with the beads before a fight, looping each serpent through them until each one reads a different story. Whoever kills her, in the end, deserves a reward and a story to tell for it.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
When Lamb was born, she was immediately sequestered away into the plains of Pageneid. Had she stayed in her village of birth, she would have been put to death because of the serpentine crown she bears. Her parents left her in the hands of the nearest Visperus cell. They returned to their unassuming village life, and Lamb was raised as a brutal agent of Visperus. She was strong and fast and smart, and she wasted little time in climbing the ranks of her adopted cell. Eventually, she was named a Lieutenant and given control of her own cell. She has commanded the East Pageneid cell, also known as the Blackfang cell, for over fifteen years.
Education
She was trained to fight in both ranged and hand-to-hand by her adopted Visperus family, and from them she also learned the art of diplomacy and war. Subterfuge has never really been her strong suit, though.
Employment
She first rank she got was as a Captain in her original cell. Repeated successes in battle brought her to the attention of the Princes. When they saw her talent, she was assigned as Lieutenant of the Blackfang cell: the cell closest to the heart of the enemy, Pianti and Norteferro.
Failures & Embarrassments
Lamb has won countless battles, but she's only lost a few. The hardest loss was a few weeks into her fresh rank of Captain. She made the wrong call during a purposed ambush, and the tables were quickly turned. Her phalanx was all but wiped out, and she herself was captured. She endured two weeks of harsh punishment in a Marganelca prison. Her reward was a head full of bad memories and a back covered in whipping scars, but she never sold Visperus' secrets.
At the end of the second week, her escape came at the hands of an unwitting servant who made the mistake of getting too close with a carving knife when making the food rounds.
Mental Trauma
Although she comes off as an unflappable, stubborn warrior, she still has nightmares about her torture and the devastating fight that lead to it. She's never been able to fully let go of the guilt of leading her phalanx to their deaths.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Originally, Lamb followed the philosophy of Visperus: drive out the humans to attain peace for their kind. In the passing years, as she gets older, she's not so sure why she fights. At the moment, it's mostly out of habit rather than duty. She is searching for a new motivation.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
She is adept in a physical fight, capable of taking down many enemies without suffering much more than minor injuries. However, she tends to be hot-headed, and emotions have never been her strong suit.
Current Location
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Lieutenant of Blackfang
Year of Birth
70 REA
68 Years old
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Pale gold
Hair
A crown of red-brown serpents
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Black with sunspots and silver lash scars on her back
Height
1.85 m
Weight
68.03 kg
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