Arvia Rahime

[Alex-065]

Name: Arvia Rahime

Age: 109

Gender: Asexual Female

Race: Human and Plant Hybrid

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Power Level: 5+

Timeline: Medieval

Appearance: (Custom Artwork by Asrai)



Personality: Left on her own, Arvia is a somewhat self-indulgent pacifist will little concern for what goes on in the world beyond the borders of her tropical domain, reveling in her enchanted yet somewhat lonely existence. Though soft-spoken and slow to anger, all the fury of nature can be instilled into her by a significant threat to the jungle that saved her life. She sees herself as it's protector, mother, and wife simultaneously. Every living thing is almost an object of worship to her, but holds plant life in highest esteem and will go to extra lengths to ensure it's continued survival. Some aspects of this responsibility are particularly natural to her...

History: Arvia was once human. In that life she had been a soldier and a leader of men. She had once relished the glory of warfare for the honor it brought to her, and her family. When duty called her to fight in jungles unknown to civilization, she followed without question. Her good fortune did not.

Slowly dying alone in the underbrush, with both of her legs cut away, Arvia cried out to be saved from death. The jungle answered. Vines surrounded her and took root in her crippled body, sustaining her life until their real work could begin. Helpless, the stricken shield maiden was hoisted up into the forest canopy by strong, leafy tendrils. Soon they began to circle her, tightening their grip near the top of a mighty tree. As her cocoon grew around her, Arvia slipped into a deep sleep. Ten years later, she awoke as a goddess with the strength of the trees and the tenderness of the flowers. Whole. Beautiful. Powerful...

Powers:
Heightened senses of perception as well as increased speed, strength, agility and nearly limitless stamina as well as several other special abilities.

Verdant Force: Causes plants to grow according to her will, which can be used to ensnare and subdue enemies.

Poison Darts: These darts are in fact Arvia's finger nails, which can be ejected and regrown at surprising speed and made to inject a variety of potent chemicals aside from venom.

Naturalize: The most insidious of Arvia's poison dart attacks, causing the victim to transmute into a festering mold that acts as a powerful fertilizer for nearby plants, including Arvia herself.

Healing Touch: Though she has never been able to identify or recreate the same forces that transformed her, Arvia has learned to grow similar vines out of her body to be used in healing the wounds of flesh and blood creatures.

Giant Growth: In the presence of strong sunlight, Arvia is capable of morphing into a giantess of a hundred feet high or more. An abundance of water can also trigger this transformation; which can rarely be spontaneous and involuntary, though never permanent.

Equipment: None

Weakness: Fire causes Arvia great pain, but being a healthy green plant she never ignites or truly burns. Extreme cold is a far greater threat. Though she is able to heal herself in miraculous ways, enough physical trauma will overcome her regenerative abilities, such as decapitation or complete dismemberment. Without the sun to invigorate her, Avria is weak and sluggish. At dusk, she begins to feel drowsy and soon enters a near comatose sate, making her completely incapable of defending herself after nightfall.

[zandyne]

Oooo I rather like her history and her powers!

Quick, maybe random question, does Verdant Force require a "base material" such as an already established plant system, a part of a plant or even seeds? Just curious.

[TrueBlue©]

I can't decide if I like her name or not, but I can pronounce it, and that's what's important!

How fast does Naturalize happen? Can it be stopped, or reversed?

[Alex-065]

Questions! I love questions! (^^)

Arvia (the Latin word for fertility) does require plants that are already grown in order to use Verdant Force. Like Pryro from X-Men, who can manipulate fire but not create it. In Arvia's case, if there are no plants, then there's nothing to manipulate. She does have a way of creating plants where there are none, though it'd be a bit too slow and awkward for the sake of laying down foliage for Verdant Force in a pinch.

And then there's the question of Naturalize. The first time I tested this technique in IC combat was against an old, axe-wielding dwarf. The darts caught him in the neck. All the major veins and arteries caused the venom to spread like wild fire. The poor old sod was unconscious before he even hit the ground, and moments later he was a pile of plant food. That's the worst case scenario.

One dose, one "hand-full" of the venom can take as long as an hour to fully work it's way around the body, depending on how much mass there is to be converted and where the injection site is. Still, it's a very unpleasant process. If left untreated (which it can be, whether by potions, magic, or amputation) the progression of the fungal transformation becomes irreversible. It's much like gangrene, in a way.

Arvia doesn't even see this as an act of killing someone. Rather, she feels she has allowed her victim to transcend their flesh and become one with nature - that the individual's body is recycled and added to a much greater whole. This is her most effective method of ending violent conflicts quickly, but seldom uses it.

[Oathkeeper]

This reminds me of an old comic cover I saw, Jungle Woman or Jungle Babe or something like that. Same concept, though yours is more plant based while she was a female Tarzan raised by Leopards