Monday, November 16, 2015

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

 One of the first amongst The Exiles' to know their Mistress, and one of a handful that first knew her as Perseus Jackson, Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a formal mortal and extraordinarily powerful Seer and Summoner.

While many of her fellow lovers and servants of The Exile prefer to remove her enemies in a more physical and bloody fashion, Rachel is one of the few (along with the likes of Zia Rashid and Sadie Kane) that prefer to wield pure magic instead, casting powerful spells and occasionally summoning powerful entities to fight by her side.

Taking the title Eye of The Exile, and possessing the authority only just below the Hands themselves, Rachel's advice and instructions are heeded by all who serve Riven.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Pyrrha Nikos

An ancient daughter of Ares, she once served as one of the elite Royal Guards of Sparta, those pinnacles of even Spartan military prowess given the duty of defending the King and his family at all costs. Though both her name and legend has faded from the annals of History, those who have earned her trust know the story of her fall.

Ares once commanded her to allow assassins, sent by one of his mortal guises, to slip into the palace and murder the King's youngest son. However, her loyalty to the King and her fondness for the youth (one whom she viewed like a friend or brother) led to her attempting to stop the assassination. She failed, and as she knelt weeping over the boy's corpse, her father cursed her with eternal life, forever keeping her from ending her shame and seeking rebirth.

She roamed the world, seeking ways around this curse, until the day she came across the Fallen Pantheons. Seeing in them kindred spirits, for their mutual suffering and tribulations at the hands of the Greek pantheon, she elected to join them and seek redemption for her failure.

She now serves The Exile both as a lover and her Champion.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Katarina

When she gave herself, body and soul, to her Mistress, Riven, Katarina cast off her last name and her previous ideals, swearing fanatical devotion and eternal servitude to The Exile. Katarina serves her Mistress as her Shadow, either gathering information or, more often, eliminating those that her Mistress deemed unworthy of life.

As Riven's Shadow, Katarina commands her Dancers, those gifted with skills of stealth and who act as scouts and spies for The Exile.

Incredibly, Katarina rose to such an illustrious rank, and grew to be so feared and deadly, with little more than dedicated training, and some enchanted armor and weapons. Born a mere mortal, she was gifted with immortality by the Exiles' goddess patrons, but refused to accept any special power or abilities from them, believing that they would become a crutch for her. This, she believed, would lessen her usefulness to her Mistress, something she cannot allow or stomach the thought of.

It took significant effort to convince "The Sinister Blade" to share her bed, and Riven found her to be a sensually submissive lover once she finally convinced the girl to let herself be loved.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Callista Kane

As a master of Egyptian combat magic and swordplay, as well as her nature as the Avatar and Conduit of Horus' power in the mortal realms, Callista is one of the deadliest heavy combat specialists that The Exile can call upon. While Callista's passion might lie in those she loves and arcaeology, she is just as happy to summon her Avatar of Horus magical combat chasis and crush any and all who threaten the aforementioned loved ones. She is especially close to her sister Sadie, though the pair seems to regard each other more as sister-wives might than blood-siblings, mostly likely due to the fact that they hardly interacted as children.

She servers her Exile as a member of the Stormguard, Riven's most elite forces.

Sadie Kane

As a Stormguard and the Avatar/God-Host of Isis, Sadie Kane is undeniably one of the most dangerous creatures ever to walk the planes of creation. Thanks to her mastery over the Divine Words, and her nature as the Avatar and Conduit of Isis' power on the mortal plane, Sadie is capable of calling things into existence at will...or erasing something from the fabric of reality if she so chose. Despite not sharing much of an upbringing with her sister, Callista, Sadie adores her sibling and would do anything for her. When The Exile asked her to join the Stormguard, and consider being one of her lovers, Sadie agreed immediately...so long as Callista joined her.

Snarky, sarcastic, and playful, Sadie often has a witty or playful comment to make about nearly any situation The Exiles' might find themselves in...right before she blasts any enemy in said situation straight into the afterlife.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Ailyn Warsong

Ailyn prefers to ensure that her foes know that they are coming...right before they become her victims. One of the few Daughters of Tyr still living, she has a great deal of pressure from her siblings and from the other demigods in general to prove herself worthy of being her father's daughter. While female warriors are highly respected by most of the demigods, they most first prove themselves equal to or better than their male counterparts.

When the Exile first came to the Isle of the Stars, Ailyn was one of the many that held contempt for her and her Companions, thinking them to be week for relying on their father's powers in battle. She was also one of the few to challenge them to direct combat, and found herself evenly matched in the ensuing duel. When the Exile asked what she was fighting for, Ailyn replied it was for strength and respect. The Exile explained that she had lost because her cause, her Will, was not strong enough. The greatest of strength was protecting the people and things that you cherish. Her words struck a cord in the warrior demi-goddess, and from that moment forth she was more loyal to Riven than all save the Hands and Katarina, whose loyalty borders on fanatacism.

A powerful and exceptionally skilled warrior, Ailyn is most lethal a long spear, although her archery and swordplay are nothing to scoff at.

Zia Rashid

Once a powerful student of the Chief Lector, Iskandar, Zia Rashid has only grown stronger thanks to the intensive training regimen she and the other members of The Exiles forces received on the Isle of the Stars. While she was originally the host of Nephthys, when her real body was recovered by Sadie, Callista, and Bast, the Goddess of the Nile returned to the river, and the slumbering power of the Sun God Ra embedded itself within her. While the consciousness of the deity remains imprisoned, she is able to draw on his strength to augment the power of her spells to incredible levels.

She prefers to do battle from long range, like Sadie, using spellfire on her enemies or augmenting the abilities of her allies (commonly reffered to as "buffing"). While this does not mean she is helpless in melee range by any stretch of the imagination, she is far less proficient than, for example, Callista. Despite her power, however, Sadie still can outmatch her due to the greater control over magic that being the Host of Isis gives the blond-haired Kane sibling.

Both her power and her skill, and most of all her loyalty, have earned her a well-deserved place amongst the Stormguard, the elite forces of The Exile