| Scarlet Winslow | |
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| "Cookies, anyone?" | |
| Nicknames: Little Sister, Red, Caradelle | |
| Race: Human | |
| Gender: Female | |
| Born: 3rd Cuthon, (1202-1203 CA) | |
| Home Region: Northern Akellon | |
| Age: 19 | |
| Class: Favoured Soul | |
| Eye color: Red | |
| Hair color: Red | |
| Party Status: Active | |
| Affiliation: Dead Man's Party |
Scarlet Winslow is a happy young human country girl, born and raised in Pauper's Mill, a farming town in the far northern part of Akellon.
History
Nerull is a god of death, darkness, murder, and the Underworld, feared by countless men and women. He is known as the Reaper, the Foe of All Good, the Hater of Life, and the Bringer of Darkness. His symbol is a skull and scythe. Nerull is usually seen as a black-robed skeleton with rust-red bones and the remains of green, ropy hair. He carries a staff called Lifecutter that at his command grows a scythe blade made of scarlet energy. He flies through the skies, slaying the living and undead alike, crumbling them to dust with a mere touch of his bony finger.
Nerull is the patron deity of those who seek the greatest evil for their own enjoyment or gain. Most common folk do not worship or propitiate him, although they fear him greatly. It is believed that any form of appeasement will merely draw his attention, something that is at all costs to be avoided by the sensible. Nerull seems, in fact, to draw power from the very avoidance of his name.
One fateful day, Nerull devised a cunning plan to draw more souls to his citadel of the dead. He had decided to impart some of his divine essence into a mortal vessel; One that knew innocence and good, and would unwittingly do his bidding.
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She was born under a blood moon in the 3rd of Cuthon, to a farmer and his wife in a small hut in Pauper's Mill. She was so named Scarlet as she was not only bathed in crimson light when she was born, but she had red hair and red eyes despite neither of her parents having them. Scarlet had a birth mark on the left side of her waist, a disturbingly intricate and detailed image of a scythe and a skull.
Such ominous signs would have made paladins scream in terror or despair at the sight and snuffed the child's life out in an instant, but the Winslows were simple rural folk and knew no better, loving her nonetheless. Scarlet grew up as a personable, optimistic and generally happy child as a consequence of her parent's good upbringing. Her simple background and the naïveté of her parents had turned her into an innocent and naive girl who found it hard to understand the evil that lurks in the hearts of men, perhaps to a fault.
She has a talent in cooking, and particularly enjoys making cookies for her friends, and the townsfolk. Her particular speciality is sweets and pastries, often reflecting her personality and the fact that she herself had a sweet tooth. Her skill at the art of making decorative and tasty baked goods was enough to make a living out of, and so she apprenticed to a pastry chef as she became old enough to do so.
Meanwhile, as she grew, so did the divine spark within her. She is one of Nerull's vessels, a favoured soul. The dark and evil powers of Nerull wells up in her form without need for worship or devotion, granting her the ability to draw negative energy at will from the very air around her. She knew no reason to use her newfound abilities, as innocent as she was, other than to snuff out the life of pests and rodents. She found this somewhat handy, as it was, especially in her line of work.
All through this time, numerous deaths for various seemingly unrelated reasons cropped up in the town of Pauper's Mill since her birth, and the nearby graveyard filled up with the freshly dead. Eventually even her parents died, of mysterious reasons. She was told they died peacefully, at the least. Leaving little to her name upon their death, and with none to spare to continue her apprenticeship or pursue her dream of starting a bakeshop and selling pastries, she struck out on her own as an adventurer.
On her way out of the town, she found a particularly sharp scythe laying on the ground, wrapped with a bow.
Personality
Scarlet is a happy-go-lucky optimistic girl who is naive to a fault. Despite her appearances and her affiliation with Nerull as one of his vessels of power, her outlook in life and personality is completely contrary to one would expect from someone with the capability to wield evil and necromantic powers. She has no natural inclination to do evil, however her naivete is such that she can be easily manipulated to do so, given a good reason. (Or as good as reason in her head!) Hers is a very whimsical spirit, prone to flights of fancy and wonder, and easily bribed by tasty sweets. She adores "Uncle Nye" (Nerull) as an adoptive father, when he so often visits her dreams in visions.
Skills/Abilities
Scarlet is deceptively strong and quick for her build, able to sprint down and dish out blow for blow while dodging and weaving through combat. She bears part of the divine skill of Nerull, and is able to wield a scythe as an extension of herself, with very little actual martial training. More important is the fact that she is a favoured soul of Nerull. She is, incomprehensibly enough, able to wield the dark and unholy powers of the Reaper. Negative energy coalesces around her as if it were natural and her divine powers are second nature to her. She is as much a core asset of the party as any healer could and would be, but her ruinous energies would probably raise more than a few eyebrows.
Trivia
She likes baking, cookies, fluffy things and making friends. She doesn't like mean people and cacti; the latter ostensibly because she tried to hug one, once. "One day, cactus. One day." Oddly enough, despite the fact that she'll eventually grow wings and fly, she's afraid of heights.