Post by Ninmast on Sept 14, 2010 18:50:34 GMT -5
Clan Illusions is, all things considered, a clan of young people. Their youthful exhuberance gives them an energy and vibrance that seems to make paths for them. Headed by Lucas Zwingley, who was actually from the real world of St. Ivalice and was pulled in with everyone else, they quickly became a powerful clan that made it their goal to make sure the future was one they would be proud of. With Lucas gone, returning to St. Ivalice, the clan continued to do their best from their base in Cadoan.
Name: Marcus
Race: Hume
Appearance: Marcus is a handsome young man in his teens with a solid, if lean, build. He doesn't wear quite traditional blue mage attire, though what he does wear he keeps immaculate. Keeping to the regal blue color scheme, he foregoes the floofy hat traditional of the role, of the opinion that giving your enemy a bigger target to aim at is just asking for an arrow through the head. Instead, he keeps his shoulderblade-length hair tied with a royal blue ribbon, a suggestion made by a Viera he encountered once on a dispatch mission. He keeps a half-cape of royal blue trimmed in white, blue cloth pauldrons and his frock is blue with white fur over his more traditional blue top and airy leggings tied with a sash underneath. The sash also doubles as his sheath and his saber hangs from it, causing the sash to tilt to one side, a look he likes.
Personality: Marcus is a gambler at heart with a love of life and taking everything it throws at him with a grin on his face. He's fondest of grand, showy displays that impress the largest number of people and takes great joy in stirring awe in others. He is, at his heart, a showman first and foremost.
Background: Marcus was one of the first people to meet Lucas in Ivalice. Roughly the same age as Lucas, he was a petty thief and street urchin who had come to the lost boy's aid when some other thugs thought to rough him up for any gil he might have - a word Lucas was originally clueless about - for popping into their territory. His immediate impression was that he was dealing with a complete loon, an impression he claims to still hold, albeit with a much friendlier connotation. Back then, however, Lucas was a boy without the most common of knowledge. Clans, Judges, Battle Laws, magic ... He knew none of it. But he did have an amazingly natural sword arm. Marcus theorized after the two of them had knocked the other thugs silly that Lucas was a son of some noble family that had contracted amnesia and run away. Until Lucas informed him that he was actually from another world. Then Marcus subbed delusion in for the amnesia.
Nevertheless, Lucas was the first person to really give Marcus a dose of morality when he questioned why, with such power in this world, Marcus contended himself to live in the conditions he was in. It was such a simple suggestion, one which Marcus tried to stamp out in his own head with what he told himself was common sense, but Lucas' incessant sense of hope was surely viral. When Marcus explained clans to him, the alien came up with a solution as simple as the question he had raised: They would start their own clan. Why not? There was nothing really necessary for doing so, and really, it was a statement of intent if nothing else. No longer to be content with what scraps life decided to throw their way, they'd move to establish a future that they could be more proud of than the dirty streets of the present. Thus Marcus became the first member of Clan Illusions, a name he was actually the one to suggest. Illusions were what people called what they could see but couldn't reach. They'd take those illusions and make them reality.
Primary Class: Blue Mage
Secondary Classes: Thief, White Mage, Black Mage, Illusionist, Parivir
Equipment:
Talwar
Galmia Frock
Crimson Tear Charm Necklace
Brigand's Gloves
Nonmagical Ribbon in his hair
Abilities:
Blue Mage
Magick Hammer - Smites the target with a mystic hammer to deplete a target's magical energy.
White Wind - A healing wind that mends allies' wounds equal to the user's own health.
Angel Whisper - An angelic voice offers words of encouragement to the target, restoring health and granting Reraise.
Night - Harnesses the power of the night to send everyone, friend and foe, into a magical sleep.
Screech - Emits a piercing shriek to damage and confuse the target.
War Dance - A dance that boosts the morale of allies around the user, boosting their physical attack power.
Roar - Lets out a bestial roar that strips all buffs from all enemies.
Sandstorm - Summons a small, localized sandstorm that deals earth damage and blinds any within its area.
Cornered - Unleashes the inner power of the user when in critical condition, dealing heavy damage. This attack cannot be used at any other time.
Matra Magick - Switches the target's HP and MP. Particularly dangerous for warriors with nearly nonexistent mana pools or mages with low health. This does not increase them above their maximum in either category, regardless of what amount is switching in.
Bad Breath - Lets out a fetid belch to cause a slew of unpleasantly negative effects on multiple targets in a cone in front of the user.
Eerie Sound Wave - Sends chills through the target with a focused soundwave, neutralizing any buffs.
Unction - Cover units in a small area with viscous and very flammable oil.
Self-Destruct - Sacrifices the user, dealing heavy damage to everything around him.
Doom - Dooms the target with a powerful curse, incapacitating them after a certain length of time.
Roulette - Randomly KOs one target, but doesn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Quake - Causes a very localized earthquake, dealing earth damage to everyone in the area of it.
Expose Weakness - Intimidates the target, lowering their physical defense and resistance to magic.
Mighty Guard - Surrounds the target in a shimmering aura, raising physical defense and magical resistance.
Dragon Force - Unlocks the target's true strength, raising physical attack and magical power.
Immunity - Neither buffs nor debuffs can be removed from the user.
Thief
Steal Gil - Grabs the coinpurse of the target, along with their money.
Steal Items - Snatches an item from the target's possession.
Steal Weapon - Difficult, but steals a foe's weapon right out of their hands.
Steal Armor - Nearly impossible on a conscious foe, but snags the shirt right off their back.
Steal Helm - Easier than other equipped items, the quick thief makes off with the target's hat, helm or circlet.
Steal Accessory - Earrings, necklaces, magical hairpins, lucky bracelets, none of it is safe from the sticky fingers of the intrepid thief.
Reflex - A defensive skill, allowing the user to easily avoid incoming physical blows.
White Mage
Cure/Cura/Curaga - Heals the target with progressively more powerful holy magic.
Esuna - Magically purges all negative magic from the target.
Raise/Arise - Revives the target from recent death. Arise also restores them to full health.
Reraise - One time after being affected by Reraise, the target will automatically be restored to life as if by the Raise spell when killed.
Turbo MP - Spells cost twice as much energy to cast, but are much more potent.
Black Mage
Fire/Fira/Firaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful fire.
Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful lightning.
Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful ice.
Illusionist
Prominence - Harnesses the fires of the sun in a tremendous explosion to deal fire damage to all foes.
Tempest - Unleashes a lightning storm mighty enough to rock the heavens, dealing lightning damage to all foes.
Freezeblink - Freezes the water in the air into razor-edged shards, dealing ice damage to all foes.
Star Cross - Bathes the battlefield in a divine light, dealing holy damage to all foes.
Stardust - Calls down a shower of meteors from the sky, dealing nontype damage to all foes.
Deluge - Sends a torrent of water to scour the battlefield, dealing water damage to all foes.
Rockfall - Pummels the battlefield with a barrage of rocks, dealing earth damage to all foes.
Wild Tornado - Buffet the battlefield with a mighty tornado, dealing wind damage to all foes.
Parivir
Wind Slash - Engulfs the target in a whirlwind, dealing wind damage.
Iai Blow - Attacks with a swift and deadly swing with a small chance of striking a vital organ, instantly slaying the target.
Blade Bash - Smacks the target with the face of the blade, potentially stunning them into immobilization.
Shimmering Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a flaming blade to deal fire damage and confuse the target.
Skyfury Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a lightning-imbued blade, driving the target into a Berserk rage.
Hoarfrost Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a frozen blade of ice, slowing the target with its chill.
Lifethread Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a blade energized with dark energy, marking the target with Doom.
Unburden Soul - Sacrifices the user to completely restore the health of all allies and curing them of negative effects.
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Name: Sergei
Race: Bangaa
Appearance: A bangaa with a dusty desert red hide, he's markedly the oldest member of the clan, with a rugged though not yet wrinkled (for a bangaa) visage. He proudly wears the armor of the templars and always keeps his gear pristine, oiled and shined. Never is he seen anywhere without it, head held high and proud. His platinum helm follows the slope of his nose, his dragon mail largely hidden behind his blue cloak that wraps over his pauldrons to close around him. He always keeps his trident at the ready beside him, only setting it down when he, himself, does so to sleep.
Personality: Honor is paramount to Sergei and power is necessary to uphold it. His classes of choice reflect this and he has studied previously both as a monk and a dragoon, the former in religious dedication that he still carries to this day and the latter in service and memory of his people. He is loyal and steadfast, never hesitating, never retreating, and never giving an inch in battle that he doesn't make the enemy pay for in blood.
Background: Sergei was something of a veteran already when Lucas and Marcus encountered him. He saw potential in the boys when they rushed to his aid believing he required it, but found Marcus' seemingly careless attitude disgusting. He took a shine to the open-hearted Lucas, or "Squire" as he called him for quite some time, though, and it was he who encouraged the hume to take the path to the virtuous Paladin. He joined Clan Illusions in the name of seeing to the boys' training and stayed on long after.
Primary Class: Templar
Secondary Classes: Warrior, Gladiator, Dragoon, Defender, White Monk, Bishop
Equipment:
Trident (Save the Queen is sheathed at his side)
Platinum Helm
Dragon Mail
Empyrial Armband
Faerie Shoes
Abilities:
Templar
Astra - Render allies in a small area immune to debuffs.
Piercing Cry - Let out a fearsome roar, lowering the speed of surrounding enemies.
Rasp - Prey on the minds of your foes, depleting the MP of enemies around you.
Discipline - Center the user's thoughts, raising attack power.
Silence - Seal the voices of enemies in a small area.
Soul Sphere - Summon a magic field to drain a target's magical energy, depleting MP.
Haste - Hastens the flow of time around a target, raising their speed.
Lifebreak - Deal dark damage equal to the amount of health the user has lost.
Bonecrusher - Counter attack after taking a hit, dealing oppressive damage.
Warrior
Greased Lightning - Strike an unexpected blow, negating the target's ability to react or counterattack.
Lifetap - Summon a field of energy to snuff out the target's life force, cutting their health in half.
Gladiator
Rush - Attack with staggering force, knocking the target back.
Wild Swing - Spin in a tight circle with weapon outheld, damaging surrounding targets.
Beatdown - An all-out attack that deals heavy damage, but with a reduced chance to hit.
Blitz - Take the measure of the target before attacking, increasing chance to hit but dealing less damage.
Fire Soul - Engulfs the user's attack in fire.
Thunder Assault - Charge forth with a lightning-powered attack.
Blizzard Tackle - Slam into the target with icy force.
Ultima Sword - Derived from the most powerful of magicks, this is the ultimate magical sword blow.
Dragoon
Jump - Leap into the air, across the battlefield and impale the target.
Lancet - Leech life with the user's strike through the soul of the wyrm.
Fire/Thunder/Ice Breath - Breath forth the elemental attack of dragons in a cone in front of the user.
Wyrmkiller - The best-guarded secret of the dragoons, dealing heavy damage to dragons. Has no special effect on anything else.
Bangaa Cry - Let out a distinctly bangaa shout, damaging and confusing targets in a cone in front of the user.
Defender
Whirl Burst - A powerful whirlwind attack, damaging and knocking back surrounding units.
Meltdown - Sacrifice the user to deal damage equal to their current health to the target.
Defend - Concentrate solely on protecting one's self, raising physical defense and magical resistance until the user's next action.
Mow Down - A powerful attack that damages surrounding units, but leaves the user exhausted and easy to hit.
Aura - A secret technique that augments the user's aura, granting Reraise and health regeneration.
Bulwark - Protects the user from all damage until his next turn.
White Monk
Roundhouse - A spinning kick that damages surrounding enemies.
Air Render - Focus the user's ki, sending blades of air tearing through the target at a distance.
Earth Render - A focused attack that sunders the ground, dealing earth damage in a line extending from the user.
Aurablast - Unleash a detonation of ki, dealing damage to enemies around the user.
Chakra - Focuses ki on the body's chakra points, restoring health and removing debuffs.
Revive - Sends the user's ki into the target, reviving it from recent death.
Exorcise - Use the energy of the life chakra to ward off evil, destroying undead.
Holy Sign - Weave a sacred symbol in the air, removing buffs from the target.
Bishop
Cura - Uses holy magic to restore a large amount of health. If the target is undead, it harms them instead.
Dispel - Removes magical augmentations from units in a small area.
Holy - Call upon the light of heavenly judgment to strike the target, dealing heavy holy damage.
Barrier - Surround the target in a defensive magic barrier, granting Protect (raising physical defense) and Shell (raising magical resistance).
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Name: Seisha
Race: Viera
Appearance: Seisha's is a look both intimidating and sexy. Her midnight-black bodysuit hugs every stunning curve while her katana rests in an equally black sheath on her back, always at the ready for another life. The only time the black, airy cloth wrapped across her lower face for concealment lowers is to eat, and her vivid, golden eyes make a piercing stare over their top. Her silver hair is cut into a short, messy style that outlines her face while the silver tiara her Azure Tear sits in holds it out of her vision.
Personality: The initial impression this assassin makes is one of cold, standoffish detachment. Nothing gets her worked up, nothing stirs complaint, nothing seemingly gets any sort of response out of her at all. She keeps whatever emotions she feels locked away very tightly and takes whatever is given to her without comment.
Background: Seisha was hired by another, wealthier clan to assassinate the head of Clan Illusions when they started causing trouble and impeding the less-than-ethical workings of the larger clan. When she was stalking Lucas to study her prey, however, she witnessed him helping a little girl, taking time to do a long list of things, finding her missing puppy, getting her something to eat, bandaging a wound she got ... The girl had sprained her ankle when he had first found her, so he spent the entire day carrying the child around, all without so much as a word of complaint and nothing but smiles.
She had put off striking to spare the child, but as the day was coming to a close, he finally got the girl home and when he was alone again, she presented herself to him, informed him of her mission and proceeded to attack. She felt that after such a good deed, he at least deserved for death to meet him face to face rather than in the back. Instead, he defeated her. He actually drew it out, trying to convince her not to, and when she finally left him with no other choice, he gave her one firm bash upside the head and sent her sprawling.
Humiliated, she demanded that he finish it or she would kill him outright. He told her (in no way mocking) that she should go ahead and do it, then, because he wasn't and never would be a killer. He gave her a potion instead and left her there.
Twice more, she would watch him from the shadows, twice more she would witness his kindness to others, and twice more she would attempt to complete her mission, the last time attempting to go for one quick, surprise strike, but stopped short when he did so to, of all things, help a cat out of a tree. Not oblivious to the corniness, but nonetheless touched, she never finished that strike, and he would never know it had ever even happened at all.
Later that night, when the head of the clan sent his heavies to find out why she had yet to complete her job, she answered them with her blade in an instant, then explained the response to them post-humously with, "Our contract is canceled."
The head sent out his entire clan in force to try to squash Clan Illusions and she joined the battle to aid Lucas and has remained a clan member ever since.
Primary Class: Assassin
Secondary Classes: Spellblade
Equipment:
Hyakushiki-Masamune
Azure Tear Tiara
Rubber Suit
Bone Armlets
Ninja Tabi
Abilities:
Assassin
Shadowbind - Turn the target's shadow against its master, stopping the target in its tracks.
Last Breath - Strikes the target's vitals, suffocating them for an instant kill.
Aphonia - Aim for the target's throat, silencing them.
Nightmare - Place the target in a magic-induced sleep, occasionally Dooming the target as well.
Ague - Cause a terrible fear to grip the target, slowing their actions.
Rockseal - Recite an ancient chant, sealing the target in stone.
Oblivion - Addle the target with a cloud of poison-laced dust.
Ultima Masher - Derived from the most powerful of magicks, this is the ultimate assassination ability in terms of sheer damage.
Spellblade
Poison Blade - Attack with a magically envenomed blade, damaging and poisoning the target.
Oil Blade - Attack with an oil-smeared blade, damaging and coating the target with flammable oil.
Sleep Blade - Attack with a Sleep-imbued blade, damaging and putting the target to sleep.
Slow Blade - Attack with a Slow-imbued blade, damaging and slowing the target.
Confusion Blade - Attack with a magically-befuddling blade, damaging and confusing the target.
Stun Blade - Attack with a blade that numbs the legs, damaging and immobilizing the target.
Maim Blade - Attack with a blade that binds the hands, damaging and disabling the target.
Doom Blade - Attack with a death-imbued blade, damaging and Dooming the target.
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Name: Mimoze
Race: Viera
Appearance: Mimoze has all of the curves traditional of her kind covered but not hidden by a lavender spaghetti-strapped dress with a full slit skirt, a tailored version of her Ever Robe to allow optimum mobility. Her hair, as well, is a dusty lavender and flows free and thick before tapering to a point at the small of her back. Her ribbon decorates the right side of her head but doesn't actually restrain any hair.
Personality: Mimoze enjoys a challenge and believes that style and showmanship is just as important as power and that technique doesn't exist at all without them. She scoffs at those overcompensating with heavy weapons who hide behind their heavy armor, because she knows she will simply dance about them and her rapier will pierce their shell like a fang into flesh.
Background: Mimoze was a tournament fighter before joining the clan. She took it up solely for the purpose of getting extra gil to help out her mother in the family bakery to try to help make meet ends that were seeming further and further apart every month. When she met and lost to Lucas in the tournament before getting anywhere near a rank to earn any prize money, she took it pretty hard. Lucas found out and went on to win the tournament, but gave her both the prize money and the additional amount necessary to pay off what her mother owed. He figured it was just one more good deed and that he'd probably never see her again, but the next day, she was waiting outside of his tent with her things packed, saying that she now had a debt to repay to him, and since the funds ensured her mother wouldn't need her assistance, she was going to repay it by joining his clan. She wouldn't take no for an answer and refused at any time, no matter what funds were brought in, to accept that debt was paid in full.
Primary Class: Fencer
Secondary Classes: Red Mage
Equipment:
Last Letter (Rapier)
Ribbon
Ever Robe
Crimson Tear Earrings x2 (one in each ear)
Abilities:
Fencer
Doublehand - Wield one-handed weapons in both hands to deal additional damage.
Reflex - Easily avoid all basic attacks.
Swarmstrike - Attack with the speed of a hornet, damaging and poisoning the target.
Shadowstick - An attack that takes the target unaware, lowering their speed.
Checkmate - A decisive attack that Dooms the target.
Featherblow - Strike with the grace of a feather on the wind. Virtually unavoidable, but deals minimal damage.
Swallowtail - A graceful spin attack that cuts down surrounding units.
Manastrike - Conjure a magic-charged whirlwind to wither away the target's mana.
Piercing Blow - Release a focused shock wave with the strike, penetrating the target to damage anything behind it, as well.
Nighthawk - Shred the target with the talons of a deadly bird of prey, even at a distance.
Red Mage
Fire - Hurl a ball of magic fire at the target.
Thunder - Call down a bolt of lightning upon the target.
Blizzard - Pierce the target with a shard of ice.
Cure - Holy magic binds the target's wounds, restoring health. The positive energies also harm the undead.
Protect - Create an invisible shield around targets in a small area, raising their physical defense.
Shell - Surround allies in a small area with a veil of divine protection, augmenting their magical resistance.
Silence - Steal the target's voice, silencing a small area.
Doublecast - Cast two spells at once.
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Name: Fanara
Race: Viera
Appearance: Fanara is very soft-featured, without the edges of being hardened by combat or violence. She is always happily smiling at others, but is not yet to the point where she would have "laugh lines." She keeps her unassuming hair neatly combed and presentable, but not presumptuous, and dresses very conservatively in her healer's robes.
Personality: Motherly is the first word that comes to mind for describing Fanara. She is very doting on others and is always worried if they're not in tip-top condition. She's even been known to insist on a scarf for Sergei even though he's technically cold-blooded. She enjoys baking and is often the de facto head chef for the clan.
Background: Fanara's joining the clan was less eventful than some. Her temple was attacked by pit monsters and Clan Illusion drove them off. Upon discovering that Illusion lacked a dedicated healer, they offered to provide one in thanks. Fanara has been with the clan ever since.
Primary Class: White Mage
Secondary Classes: Summoner
Equipment:
Healing Staff
Gold Hairpin
White Robe
Moon Maiden Hairpin
Angel Ring
Abilities:
White Mage
Cure/Cura/Curaga - Heals the target with progressively more powerful holy magic.
Esuna - Magically purges all negative magic from the target.
Raise/Arise - Revives the target from recent death. Arise also restores them to full health.
Reraise - One time after being affected by Reraise, the target will automatically be restored to life as if by the Raise spell when killed.
Turbo MP - Spells cost twice as much energy to cast, but are much more potent.
Summoner
Unicorn - Summon the spirit beast Unicorn to restore health and purge debuffs in a large area.
Ifrit - Summon the fire demon Ifrit to deal fire damage in a large area.
Ramuh - Summon the mage-god Ramuh to deal lightning damage in a large area.
Shiva - Summon the ice queen Shiva to deal ice damage in a large area.
Kirin - Summon the spirit beast Kirin to grant health regeneration in a large area.
Carbuncle - Summon the sprite Carbuncle to grant Reflect in a large area.
Maduin - Summon the holy beast Maduin to deal holy damage in a large area.
Phoenix - Summon the legendary firebird Phoenix to revive the fallen and restore health in a large area.
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Name: Ashara
Race: Viera
Appearance: In direct opposition to Fanara's conservatism, Ashara seems to go out of her way to show as much as possible while staying traditional to the appearance of the black mage. She wears her black robes light and sashed firmly about her waist to show off its waspish dimensions before allowing the bottom half to open, revealing her long legs and stiletto heels. Her ashen hair fits well and falls so long that it doesn't taper out until the backs of her knees and her robe top is left loose to show off her racially generous bosom.
Personality: Most of the other girls would call her a harlot. She prefers socially nonconformist. She likes showing what she has, both physically and talentwise, and always seems comfortable in any social setting regardless of the conditions. She can be rather arrogant when it comes to both her beauty and her magic, and is fond of informing doubters of the latter with live demonstrations that just because it isn't typical for a Viera to take up black magic, that doesn't mean it's wise to doubt the power of their dedication.
Background: Ashara is truly one that Lucas never saw coming. Their only encounter prior to her enlistment was little more than a passing in the street that he scarcely took notice of. She noticed, though. She noticed that though he glanced and nodded to her politely, his eyes never went anywhere a man's usually went. Certainly, this wasn't the first time, but usually, it was a tense evasion. With him, it was almost as if he hadn't seen at all.
That drove her batty. Even though he had left town, she went around trying to find out anything she could, and when she found out what clan he was with, she tracked that down, too. When she finally arrived, however, they were out on business. So she helped herself in and helped herself to their booze. By the time they got back five hours later, there was a wasted viera mage sitting on a barstool behind the counter with one leg propped up on the counter for the world to see, mumbling something about how Shiny was gonna see her, Exodus-damn-it.
So far, the other Viera have tried to get her to leave, Marcus hasn't been eager to see her leave and Lucas is left with little to do but try to stay out of the way of her amorous advances in the meantime.
Primary Class: Black Mage
Secondary Classes: Green Mage
Equipment:
Staff of the Magi
Gold Hairpin
Black Robe
Snowy Tear Earrings x2 (one in each ear)
Abilities:
Black Mage
Fire/Fira/Firaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful fire.
Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful lightning.
Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful ice.
Halve MP - Spells cost 50% less to cast.
Green Mage
Protect - Create an invisible shield around targets in a small area, raising physical defense.
Shell - Surrounds targets in a small area with a veil of divine protection, raising magical resistance.
Tranq - Soothe the targets nerves, allowing them higher accuracy.
Leap - Stimulate the muscles in the user's legs, raising their rate of movement and the height that they can jump.
Blind - Conjure a black mist to blind the target.
Oil - Coat the target with a film of black, sticky oil.
Silence - Steal the targets' voices, silencing a small area.
Sleep - Put a small area to sleep with a powerful gas.
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Name: Maella
Race: Viera
Appearance: Maella's ensemble resembles an Arabian Belly Dancer outfit, emphasises on reds, particularly ruby, and her dusty rose hair adds to it, worn short in front but in a long tail in the back. Her strip of Ryozan cloth wraps around her, swirling and eddying when she dances, while her TipTapTwo rests in an ornate wrought iron and rose quartz sheath.
Personality: Maella enjoys crowds immensely, she enjoys seeing the faces of the children light up, she enjoys listening to the adults cheer. Fortunately, to her, all of the world's a stage. She went to special effort to learn not just entertainment steps but the battle dances of old to make this really true, and nothing gives her more satisfaction than seeing the enemies stop dead in their tracks just for watching her.
Background: Her joining was a little more standard than some of the others. She had been working with a traveling troupe to fine-tune her dancing skills when they were attacked and kidnapped by highwaymen. When they didn't show for their performance, a job was sent out to find out what happened. Clan Illusions picked it up and headed out. The rescue was successful and her teacher encouraged her to go with Illusions, as their real-world experience would be better for improving her dance steps.
Primary Class: Dancer
Secondary Classes: Elementalist
Equipment:
Ryozan Cloth (Keeps a TipTapTwo Dagger on her hip)
Ribbon
Dancer's Outfit
Azure Tear Earrings x2, one in each ear
Abilities:
Elementalist
Fire Whip - A lash of flame deals fire damage and disables the target.
Earth Heal - Harnesses the energies of leaf and loam to heal the target.
White Flame - Caressing fires heal all targets in a small area.
Shining Air - A luminescent gale deals wind damage and blinds the target.
Evil Gaze - This dark, mystical glare deals dark damage and confuses the target.
Boulder Crush - Magically drops an enormous boulder on the target, dealing earth damage and immobilizing them.
Sliprain - Drenches the target with a driving rain, dealing water damage and slowing them by impeding progress.
Thunderous Roar - Calls forth a crack of lightning that drowns out all other sound, dealing lightning damage and silencing the target.
Dancer
Witch Hunt - Dance causes MP Damage to all enemies with a mysterious costume.
Mincing Minuet - Dance causes HP Damage to all enemies with powerful dance steps.
Slow Dance - Dance makes all enemies move slower by confusing them with slow dance movements.
Polka - Dance with vivacious moves, lowering the physical attack power of all enemies.
Heathen Frolick - Dance lowers the magical attack power of all enemies by distracting them with a mysterious costume.
Forbidden Dance - Dance with unexplainable moves, causing a collection of abnormal status to all enemies.
Last Waltz - Ultimate Dance, effectively preventing all enemies from acting in nearly any way. This is not a true Stop, and truly fast characters can sometimes act between the dance's magical pulsations.
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Name: Allosette
Race: Viera
Appearance: Dressed in the light, unhindering greens of the forest, Allosette's shapely, deeply tanned form blends in with the nature around her on the hunt, camoflauging her from her prey. Matching the ornate nature of her greatbow, a sheath of arrows rests across her back, their feathered posteriors reaching up over her right shoulder. The goddess' bustier she wears about her chest is deceptively defensive as it simultaneously accents a waist so narrow and bust so generous that she is, regardless of intention, the living representation of why hume women despise the Viera figure.
Personality: Allosette is fond of the quiet peace of nature, and could happily spend all day perched up in a tree without ever having anything to draw an arrow for. She is not a softy, however. A natural predator, when she does spot her prey, she spends no time debating the morality of it, and her keen eye and penchant for preparing with height advantages in mind mean that her target rarely gets the benefit of response.
Background: When Seisha failed to assassinate the leader of Clan Illusions, Allosette was hired to both finish her job and eliminate her for her hubris in slaying the wealthier clan's men. Unlike Seisha, who has trained herself to be a cold-blooded, unfeeling killer, however, Allosette accepts jobs for the challenge. At the time, she had not considered the young up-and-coming knight a worthy target, but Seisha was fairly well-known and caught the girl's interest.
She hunted them for some time, but quickly realized a disturbing fact - she seemed incapable of sneaking up on them. The first time she discovered this, it was actually Lucas that mentioned it, offering, as nonchalantly as if she were with the group, herself, what she wanted to eat when they were ordering.
She tried other routes, attempting to sneak up on Marcus (who, in some trick to this day she has yet to figure out, actually made off with the shirt off her back instead) and then on Sergei (who promptly pinned her to a wall with his trident). Other events involved their mage trying to fry her (not for sneaking around, but because, during a spout of pouting drunkenness, she declared the busty huntress to be "distracting Shiny") and Mimoze nearly skewering her through the abdomen. Allosette was by no means a poor hunter, but for a nobody clan, they seemed unusually adept.
Steadily, the clan seemed to take her presence progressively for granted, to the point where greeting her in her morning hiding spots (no matter where she tried to make them) became as common as getting their morning peaberry tea. Though she had, to that point, not taken any actually aggressive action, she told herself that this expectation could work to her advantage. That was an advantage, however, she never actually took, and the day she realized Fanara had set a place for her at the evening meal, she realized that at some point along the way, her contract had been left behind.
Primary Class: Sniper
Secondary Classes: Archer
Equipment:
Seventh Heaven Greatbow
Beret
Minerva Bustier
Azure Tear Earrings x2
Abilities:
Sniper
Attack+ - Raises the physical attack damage of the user at all times.
Doubleshot - Fire two consecutive arrows in quick succession.
Beso Toxico - Coat arrow with a deadly poison before attacking, damaging and poisoning the target.
Death Sickle - Call the reapers of the dead to Doom the target.
Vanish - Conceal one's self from foes. Taking any other action besides movement will break the effect.
Marksman's Spite - Deal damage and deplete mana equal to the user's lost health.
Armor Shot - Attempt to destroy the target's armor with a well-aimed shot.
Weapon Shot - Attempt to destroy the target's weapon by shooting it out of their hand with great force.
Wallet Shot - Aim for the target's coinpurse. Successful hits score a large amount of gil.
Archer
Concentration - Focuses the user's thoughts and raising their accuracy to peerlessness.
Archer's Bane - Avoid all bow-based basic attacks.
Focus - Muster the user's strength, increasing next action's attack power.
Leg Shot - Take aim at the target's legs to immobilize it.
Arm Shot - Take aim at the target's arms to disable it.
Cupid - Pierce the target's heart with a magicked arrow to charm it.
Burial - A purified shot to bring peace to the undead, instantly breaking the chains that bind them to this world.
Take Aim - Take careful aim at the target. Missing is virtually impossible, but you deal little damage.
Lightning Strike - A blindingly fast attack that denies the target the ability to react or counter.
Blackout - Loose specially prepared arrows to blind the target.
Name: Marcus
Race: Hume
Appearance: Marcus is a handsome young man in his teens with a solid, if lean, build. He doesn't wear quite traditional blue mage attire, though what he does wear he keeps immaculate. Keeping to the regal blue color scheme, he foregoes the floofy hat traditional of the role, of the opinion that giving your enemy a bigger target to aim at is just asking for an arrow through the head. Instead, he keeps his shoulderblade-length hair tied with a royal blue ribbon, a suggestion made by a Viera he encountered once on a dispatch mission. He keeps a half-cape of royal blue trimmed in white, blue cloth pauldrons and his frock is blue with white fur over his more traditional blue top and airy leggings tied with a sash underneath. The sash also doubles as his sheath and his saber hangs from it, causing the sash to tilt to one side, a look he likes.
Personality: Marcus is a gambler at heart with a love of life and taking everything it throws at him with a grin on his face. He's fondest of grand, showy displays that impress the largest number of people and takes great joy in stirring awe in others. He is, at his heart, a showman first and foremost.
Background: Marcus was one of the first people to meet Lucas in Ivalice. Roughly the same age as Lucas, he was a petty thief and street urchin who had come to the lost boy's aid when some other thugs thought to rough him up for any gil he might have - a word Lucas was originally clueless about - for popping into their territory. His immediate impression was that he was dealing with a complete loon, an impression he claims to still hold, albeit with a much friendlier connotation. Back then, however, Lucas was a boy without the most common of knowledge. Clans, Judges, Battle Laws, magic ... He knew none of it. But he did have an amazingly natural sword arm. Marcus theorized after the two of them had knocked the other thugs silly that Lucas was a son of some noble family that had contracted amnesia and run away. Until Lucas informed him that he was actually from another world. Then Marcus subbed delusion in for the amnesia.
Nevertheless, Lucas was the first person to really give Marcus a dose of morality when he questioned why, with such power in this world, Marcus contended himself to live in the conditions he was in. It was such a simple suggestion, one which Marcus tried to stamp out in his own head with what he told himself was common sense, but Lucas' incessant sense of hope was surely viral. When Marcus explained clans to him, the alien came up with a solution as simple as the question he had raised: They would start their own clan. Why not? There was nothing really necessary for doing so, and really, it was a statement of intent if nothing else. No longer to be content with what scraps life decided to throw their way, they'd move to establish a future that they could be more proud of than the dirty streets of the present. Thus Marcus became the first member of Clan Illusions, a name he was actually the one to suggest. Illusions were what people called what they could see but couldn't reach. They'd take those illusions and make them reality.
Primary Class: Blue Mage
Secondary Classes: Thief, White Mage, Black Mage, Illusionist, Parivir
Equipment:
Talwar
Galmia Frock
Crimson Tear Charm Necklace
Brigand's Gloves
Nonmagical Ribbon in his hair
Abilities:
Blue Mage
Magick Hammer - Smites the target with a mystic hammer to deplete a target's magical energy.
White Wind - A healing wind that mends allies' wounds equal to the user's own health.
Angel Whisper - An angelic voice offers words of encouragement to the target, restoring health and granting Reraise.
Night - Harnesses the power of the night to send everyone, friend and foe, into a magical sleep.
Screech - Emits a piercing shriek to damage and confuse the target.
War Dance - A dance that boosts the morale of allies around the user, boosting their physical attack power.
Roar - Lets out a bestial roar that strips all buffs from all enemies.
Sandstorm - Summons a small, localized sandstorm that deals earth damage and blinds any within its area.
Cornered - Unleashes the inner power of the user when in critical condition, dealing heavy damage. This attack cannot be used at any other time.
Matra Magick - Switches the target's HP and MP. Particularly dangerous for warriors with nearly nonexistent mana pools or mages with low health. This does not increase them above their maximum in either category, regardless of what amount is switching in.
Bad Breath - Lets out a fetid belch to cause a slew of unpleasantly negative effects on multiple targets in a cone in front of the user.
Eerie Sound Wave - Sends chills through the target with a focused soundwave, neutralizing any buffs.
Unction - Cover units in a small area with viscous and very flammable oil.
Self-Destruct - Sacrifices the user, dealing heavy damage to everything around him.
Doom - Dooms the target with a powerful curse, incapacitating them after a certain length of time.
Roulette - Randomly KOs one target, but doesn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Quake - Causes a very localized earthquake, dealing earth damage to everyone in the area of it.
Expose Weakness - Intimidates the target, lowering their physical defense and resistance to magic.
Mighty Guard - Surrounds the target in a shimmering aura, raising physical defense and magical resistance.
Dragon Force - Unlocks the target's true strength, raising physical attack and magical power.
Immunity - Neither buffs nor debuffs can be removed from the user.
Thief
Steal Gil - Grabs the coinpurse of the target, along with their money.
Steal Items - Snatches an item from the target's possession.
Steal Weapon - Difficult, but steals a foe's weapon right out of their hands.
Steal Armor - Nearly impossible on a conscious foe, but snags the shirt right off their back.
Steal Helm - Easier than other equipped items, the quick thief makes off with the target's hat, helm or circlet.
Steal Accessory - Earrings, necklaces, magical hairpins, lucky bracelets, none of it is safe from the sticky fingers of the intrepid thief.
Reflex - A defensive skill, allowing the user to easily avoid incoming physical blows.
White Mage
Cure/Cura/Curaga - Heals the target with progressively more powerful holy magic.
Esuna - Magically purges all negative magic from the target.
Raise/Arise - Revives the target from recent death. Arise also restores them to full health.
Reraise - One time after being affected by Reraise, the target will automatically be restored to life as if by the Raise spell when killed.
Turbo MP - Spells cost twice as much energy to cast, but are much more potent.
Black Mage
Fire/Fira/Firaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful fire.
Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful lightning.
Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful ice.
Illusionist
Prominence - Harnesses the fires of the sun in a tremendous explosion to deal fire damage to all foes.
Tempest - Unleashes a lightning storm mighty enough to rock the heavens, dealing lightning damage to all foes.
Freezeblink - Freezes the water in the air into razor-edged shards, dealing ice damage to all foes.
Star Cross - Bathes the battlefield in a divine light, dealing holy damage to all foes.
Stardust - Calls down a shower of meteors from the sky, dealing nontype damage to all foes.
Deluge - Sends a torrent of water to scour the battlefield, dealing water damage to all foes.
Rockfall - Pummels the battlefield with a barrage of rocks, dealing earth damage to all foes.
Wild Tornado - Buffet the battlefield with a mighty tornado, dealing wind damage to all foes.
Parivir
Wind Slash - Engulfs the target in a whirlwind, dealing wind damage.
Iai Blow - Attacks with a swift and deadly swing with a small chance of striking a vital organ, instantly slaying the target.
Blade Bash - Smacks the target with the face of the blade, potentially stunning them into immobilization.
Shimmering Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a flaming blade to deal fire damage and confuse the target.
Skyfury Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a lightning-imbued blade, driving the target into a Berserk rage.
Hoarfrost Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a frozen blade of ice, slowing the target with its chill.
Lifethread Blade - Strikes repeatedly with a blade energized with dark energy, marking the target with Doom.
Unburden Soul - Sacrifices the user to completely restore the health of all allies and curing them of negative effects.
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Name: Sergei
Race: Bangaa
Appearance: A bangaa with a dusty desert red hide, he's markedly the oldest member of the clan, with a rugged though not yet wrinkled (for a bangaa) visage. He proudly wears the armor of the templars and always keeps his gear pristine, oiled and shined. Never is he seen anywhere without it, head held high and proud. His platinum helm follows the slope of his nose, his dragon mail largely hidden behind his blue cloak that wraps over his pauldrons to close around him. He always keeps his trident at the ready beside him, only setting it down when he, himself, does so to sleep.
Personality: Honor is paramount to Sergei and power is necessary to uphold it. His classes of choice reflect this and he has studied previously both as a monk and a dragoon, the former in religious dedication that he still carries to this day and the latter in service and memory of his people. He is loyal and steadfast, never hesitating, never retreating, and never giving an inch in battle that he doesn't make the enemy pay for in blood.
Background: Sergei was something of a veteran already when Lucas and Marcus encountered him. He saw potential in the boys when they rushed to his aid believing he required it, but found Marcus' seemingly careless attitude disgusting. He took a shine to the open-hearted Lucas, or "Squire" as he called him for quite some time, though, and it was he who encouraged the hume to take the path to the virtuous Paladin. He joined Clan Illusions in the name of seeing to the boys' training and stayed on long after.
Primary Class: Templar
Secondary Classes: Warrior, Gladiator, Dragoon, Defender, White Monk, Bishop
Equipment:
Trident (Save the Queen is sheathed at his side)
Platinum Helm
Dragon Mail
Empyrial Armband
Faerie Shoes
Abilities:
Templar
Astra - Render allies in a small area immune to debuffs.
Piercing Cry - Let out a fearsome roar, lowering the speed of surrounding enemies.
Rasp - Prey on the minds of your foes, depleting the MP of enemies around you.
Discipline - Center the user's thoughts, raising attack power.
Silence - Seal the voices of enemies in a small area.
Soul Sphere - Summon a magic field to drain a target's magical energy, depleting MP.
Haste - Hastens the flow of time around a target, raising their speed.
Lifebreak - Deal dark damage equal to the amount of health the user has lost.
Bonecrusher - Counter attack after taking a hit, dealing oppressive damage.
Warrior
Greased Lightning - Strike an unexpected blow, negating the target's ability to react or counterattack.
Lifetap - Summon a field of energy to snuff out the target's life force, cutting their health in half.
Gladiator
Rush - Attack with staggering force, knocking the target back.
Wild Swing - Spin in a tight circle with weapon outheld, damaging surrounding targets.
Beatdown - An all-out attack that deals heavy damage, but with a reduced chance to hit.
Blitz - Take the measure of the target before attacking, increasing chance to hit but dealing less damage.
Fire Soul - Engulfs the user's attack in fire.
Thunder Assault - Charge forth with a lightning-powered attack.
Blizzard Tackle - Slam into the target with icy force.
Ultima Sword - Derived from the most powerful of magicks, this is the ultimate magical sword blow.
Dragoon
Jump - Leap into the air, across the battlefield and impale the target.
Lancet - Leech life with the user's strike through the soul of the wyrm.
Fire/Thunder/Ice Breath - Breath forth the elemental attack of dragons in a cone in front of the user.
Wyrmkiller - The best-guarded secret of the dragoons, dealing heavy damage to dragons. Has no special effect on anything else.
Bangaa Cry - Let out a distinctly bangaa shout, damaging and confusing targets in a cone in front of the user.
Defender
Whirl Burst - A powerful whirlwind attack, damaging and knocking back surrounding units.
Meltdown - Sacrifice the user to deal damage equal to their current health to the target.
Defend - Concentrate solely on protecting one's self, raising physical defense and magical resistance until the user's next action.
Mow Down - A powerful attack that damages surrounding units, but leaves the user exhausted and easy to hit.
Aura - A secret technique that augments the user's aura, granting Reraise and health regeneration.
Bulwark - Protects the user from all damage until his next turn.
White Monk
Roundhouse - A spinning kick that damages surrounding enemies.
Air Render - Focus the user's ki, sending blades of air tearing through the target at a distance.
Earth Render - A focused attack that sunders the ground, dealing earth damage in a line extending from the user.
Aurablast - Unleash a detonation of ki, dealing damage to enemies around the user.
Chakra - Focuses ki on the body's chakra points, restoring health and removing debuffs.
Revive - Sends the user's ki into the target, reviving it from recent death.
Exorcise - Use the energy of the life chakra to ward off evil, destroying undead.
Holy Sign - Weave a sacred symbol in the air, removing buffs from the target.
Bishop
Cura - Uses holy magic to restore a large amount of health. If the target is undead, it harms them instead.
Dispel - Removes magical augmentations from units in a small area.
Holy - Call upon the light of heavenly judgment to strike the target, dealing heavy holy damage.
Barrier - Surround the target in a defensive magic barrier, granting Protect (raising physical defense) and Shell (raising magical resistance).
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Name: Seisha
Race: Viera
Appearance: Seisha's is a look both intimidating and sexy. Her midnight-black bodysuit hugs every stunning curve while her katana rests in an equally black sheath on her back, always at the ready for another life. The only time the black, airy cloth wrapped across her lower face for concealment lowers is to eat, and her vivid, golden eyes make a piercing stare over their top. Her silver hair is cut into a short, messy style that outlines her face while the silver tiara her Azure Tear sits in holds it out of her vision.
Personality: The initial impression this assassin makes is one of cold, standoffish detachment. Nothing gets her worked up, nothing stirs complaint, nothing seemingly gets any sort of response out of her at all. She keeps whatever emotions she feels locked away very tightly and takes whatever is given to her without comment.
Background: Seisha was hired by another, wealthier clan to assassinate the head of Clan Illusions when they started causing trouble and impeding the less-than-ethical workings of the larger clan. When she was stalking Lucas to study her prey, however, she witnessed him helping a little girl, taking time to do a long list of things, finding her missing puppy, getting her something to eat, bandaging a wound she got ... The girl had sprained her ankle when he had first found her, so he spent the entire day carrying the child around, all without so much as a word of complaint and nothing but smiles.
She had put off striking to spare the child, but as the day was coming to a close, he finally got the girl home and when he was alone again, she presented herself to him, informed him of her mission and proceeded to attack. She felt that after such a good deed, he at least deserved for death to meet him face to face rather than in the back. Instead, he defeated her. He actually drew it out, trying to convince her not to, and when she finally left him with no other choice, he gave her one firm bash upside the head and sent her sprawling.
Humiliated, she demanded that he finish it or she would kill him outright. He told her (in no way mocking) that she should go ahead and do it, then, because he wasn't and never would be a killer. He gave her a potion instead and left her there.
Twice more, she would watch him from the shadows, twice more she would witness his kindness to others, and twice more she would attempt to complete her mission, the last time attempting to go for one quick, surprise strike, but stopped short when he did so to, of all things, help a cat out of a tree. Not oblivious to the corniness, but nonetheless touched, she never finished that strike, and he would never know it had ever even happened at all.
Later that night, when the head of the clan sent his heavies to find out why she had yet to complete her job, she answered them with her blade in an instant, then explained the response to them post-humously with, "Our contract is canceled."
The head sent out his entire clan in force to try to squash Clan Illusions and she joined the battle to aid Lucas and has remained a clan member ever since.
Primary Class: Assassin
Secondary Classes: Spellblade
Equipment:
Hyakushiki-Masamune
Azure Tear Tiara
Rubber Suit
Bone Armlets
Ninja Tabi
Abilities:
Assassin
Shadowbind - Turn the target's shadow against its master, stopping the target in its tracks.
Last Breath - Strikes the target's vitals, suffocating them for an instant kill.
Aphonia - Aim for the target's throat, silencing them.
Nightmare - Place the target in a magic-induced sleep, occasionally Dooming the target as well.
Ague - Cause a terrible fear to grip the target, slowing their actions.
Rockseal - Recite an ancient chant, sealing the target in stone.
Oblivion - Addle the target with a cloud of poison-laced dust.
Ultima Masher - Derived from the most powerful of magicks, this is the ultimate assassination ability in terms of sheer damage.
Spellblade
Poison Blade - Attack with a magically envenomed blade, damaging and poisoning the target.
Oil Blade - Attack with an oil-smeared blade, damaging and coating the target with flammable oil.
Sleep Blade - Attack with a Sleep-imbued blade, damaging and putting the target to sleep.
Slow Blade - Attack with a Slow-imbued blade, damaging and slowing the target.
Confusion Blade - Attack with a magically-befuddling blade, damaging and confusing the target.
Stun Blade - Attack with a blade that numbs the legs, damaging and immobilizing the target.
Maim Blade - Attack with a blade that binds the hands, damaging and disabling the target.
Doom Blade - Attack with a death-imbued blade, damaging and Dooming the target.
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Name: Mimoze
Race: Viera
Appearance: Mimoze has all of the curves traditional of her kind covered but not hidden by a lavender spaghetti-strapped dress with a full slit skirt, a tailored version of her Ever Robe to allow optimum mobility. Her hair, as well, is a dusty lavender and flows free and thick before tapering to a point at the small of her back. Her ribbon decorates the right side of her head but doesn't actually restrain any hair.
Personality: Mimoze enjoys a challenge and believes that style and showmanship is just as important as power and that technique doesn't exist at all without them. She scoffs at those overcompensating with heavy weapons who hide behind their heavy armor, because she knows she will simply dance about them and her rapier will pierce their shell like a fang into flesh.
Background: Mimoze was a tournament fighter before joining the clan. She took it up solely for the purpose of getting extra gil to help out her mother in the family bakery to try to help make meet ends that were seeming further and further apart every month. When she met and lost to Lucas in the tournament before getting anywhere near a rank to earn any prize money, she took it pretty hard. Lucas found out and went on to win the tournament, but gave her both the prize money and the additional amount necessary to pay off what her mother owed. He figured it was just one more good deed and that he'd probably never see her again, but the next day, she was waiting outside of his tent with her things packed, saying that she now had a debt to repay to him, and since the funds ensured her mother wouldn't need her assistance, she was going to repay it by joining his clan. She wouldn't take no for an answer and refused at any time, no matter what funds were brought in, to accept that debt was paid in full.
Primary Class: Fencer
Secondary Classes: Red Mage
Equipment:
Last Letter (Rapier)
Ribbon
Ever Robe
Crimson Tear Earrings x2 (one in each ear)
Abilities:
Fencer
Doublehand - Wield one-handed weapons in both hands to deal additional damage.
Reflex - Easily avoid all basic attacks.
Swarmstrike - Attack with the speed of a hornet, damaging and poisoning the target.
Shadowstick - An attack that takes the target unaware, lowering their speed.
Checkmate - A decisive attack that Dooms the target.
Featherblow - Strike with the grace of a feather on the wind. Virtually unavoidable, but deals minimal damage.
Swallowtail - A graceful spin attack that cuts down surrounding units.
Manastrike - Conjure a magic-charged whirlwind to wither away the target's mana.
Piercing Blow - Release a focused shock wave with the strike, penetrating the target to damage anything behind it, as well.
Nighthawk - Shred the target with the talons of a deadly bird of prey, even at a distance.
Red Mage
Fire - Hurl a ball of magic fire at the target.
Thunder - Call down a bolt of lightning upon the target.
Blizzard - Pierce the target with a shard of ice.
Cure - Holy magic binds the target's wounds, restoring health. The positive energies also harm the undead.
Protect - Create an invisible shield around targets in a small area, raising their physical defense.
Shell - Surround allies in a small area with a veil of divine protection, augmenting their magical resistance.
Silence - Steal the target's voice, silencing a small area.
Doublecast - Cast two spells at once.
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Name: Fanara
Race: Viera
Appearance: Fanara is very soft-featured, without the edges of being hardened by combat or violence. She is always happily smiling at others, but is not yet to the point where she would have "laugh lines." She keeps her unassuming hair neatly combed and presentable, but not presumptuous, and dresses very conservatively in her healer's robes.
Personality: Motherly is the first word that comes to mind for describing Fanara. She is very doting on others and is always worried if they're not in tip-top condition. She's even been known to insist on a scarf for Sergei even though he's technically cold-blooded. She enjoys baking and is often the de facto head chef for the clan.
Background: Fanara's joining the clan was less eventful than some. Her temple was attacked by pit monsters and Clan Illusion drove them off. Upon discovering that Illusion lacked a dedicated healer, they offered to provide one in thanks. Fanara has been with the clan ever since.
Primary Class: White Mage
Secondary Classes: Summoner
Equipment:
Healing Staff
Gold Hairpin
White Robe
Moon Maiden Hairpin
Angel Ring
Abilities:
White Mage
Cure/Cura/Curaga - Heals the target with progressively more powerful holy magic.
Esuna - Magically purges all negative magic from the target.
Raise/Arise - Revives the target from recent death. Arise also restores them to full health.
Reraise - One time after being affected by Reraise, the target will automatically be restored to life as if by the Raise spell when killed.
Turbo MP - Spells cost twice as much energy to cast, but are much more potent.
Summoner
Unicorn - Summon the spirit beast Unicorn to restore health and purge debuffs in a large area.
Ifrit - Summon the fire demon Ifrit to deal fire damage in a large area.
Ramuh - Summon the mage-god Ramuh to deal lightning damage in a large area.
Shiva - Summon the ice queen Shiva to deal ice damage in a large area.
Kirin - Summon the spirit beast Kirin to grant health regeneration in a large area.
Carbuncle - Summon the sprite Carbuncle to grant Reflect in a large area.
Maduin - Summon the holy beast Maduin to deal holy damage in a large area.
Phoenix - Summon the legendary firebird Phoenix to revive the fallen and restore health in a large area.
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Name: Ashara
Race: Viera
Appearance: In direct opposition to Fanara's conservatism, Ashara seems to go out of her way to show as much as possible while staying traditional to the appearance of the black mage. She wears her black robes light and sashed firmly about her waist to show off its waspish dimensions before allowing the bottom half to open, revealing her long legs and stiletto heels. Her ashen hair fits well and falls so long that it doesn't taper out until the backs of her knees and her robe top is left loose to show off her racially generous bosom.
Personality: Most of the other girls would call her a harlot. She prefers socially nonconformist. She likes showing what she has, both physically and talentwise, and always seems comfortable in any social setting regardless of the conditions. She can be rather arrogant when it comes to both her beauty and her magic, and is fond of informing doubters of the latter with live demonstrations that just because it isn't typical for a Viera to take up black magic, that doesn't mean it's wise to doubt the power of their dedication.
Background: Ashara is truly one that Lucas never saw coming. Their only encounter prior to her enlistment was little more than a passing in the street that he scarcely took notice of. She noticed, though. She noticed that though he glanced and nodded to her politely, his eyes never went anywhere a man's usually went. Certainly, this wasn't the first time, but usually, it was a tense evasion. With him, it was almost as if he hadn't seen at all.
That drove her batty. Even though he had left town, she went around trying to find out anything she could, and when she found out what clan he was with, she tracked that down, too. When she finally arrived, however, they were out on business. So she helped herself in and helped herself to their booze. By the time they got back five hours later, there was a wasted viera mage sitting on a barstool behind the counter with one leg propped up on the counter for the world to see, mumbling something about how Shiny was gonna see her, Exodus-damn-it.
So far, the other Viera have tried to get her to leave, Marcus hasn't been eager to see her leave and Lucas is left with little to do but try to stay out of the way of her amorous advances in the meantime.
Primary Class: Black Mage
Secondary Classes: Green Mage
Equipment:
Staff of the Magi
Gold Hairpin
Black Robe
Snowy Tear Earrings x2 (one in each ear)
Abilities:
Black Mage
Fire/Fira/Firaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful fire.
Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful lightning.
Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga - Blasts enemies in a small area with progressively more powerful ice.
Halve MP - Spells cost 50% less to cast.
Green Mage
Protect - Create an invisible shield around targets in a small area, raising physical defense.
Shell - Surrounds targets in a small area with a veil of divine protection, raising magical resistance.
Tranq - Soothe the targets nerves, allowing them higher accuracy.
Leap - Stimulate the muscles in the user's legs, raising their rate of movement and the height that they can jump.
Blind - Conjure a black mist to blind the target.
Oil - Coat the target with a film of black, sticky oil.
Silence - Steal the targets' voices, silencing a small area.
Sleep - Put a small area to sleep with a powerful gas.
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Name: Maella
Race: Viera
Appearance: Maella's ensemble resembles an Arabian Belly Dancer outfit, emphasises on reds, particularly ruby, and her dusty rose hair adds to it, worn short in front but in a long tail in the back. Her strip of Ryozan cloth wraps around her, swirling and eddying when she dances, while her TipTapTwo rests in an ornate wrought iron and rose quartz sheath.
Personality: Maella enjoys crowds immensely, she enjoys seeing the faces of the children light up, she enjoys listening to the adults cheer. Fortunately, to her, all of the world's a stage. She went to special effort to learn not just entertainment steps but the battle dances of old to make this really true, and nothing gives her more satisfaction than seeing the enemies stop dead in their tracks just for watching her.
Background: Her joining was a little more standard than some of the others. She had been working with a traveling troupe to fine-tune her dancing skills when they were attacked and kidnapped by highwaymen. When they didn't show for their performance, a job was sent out to find out what happened. Clan Illusions picked it up and headed out. The rescue was successful and her teacher encouraged her to go with Illusions, as their real-world experience would be better for improving her dance steps.
Primary Class: Dancer
Secondary Classes: Elementalist
Equipment:
Ryozan Cloth (Keeps a TipTapTwo Dagger on her hip)
Ribbon
Dancer's Outfit
Azure Tear Earrings x2, one in each ear
Abilities:
Elementalist
Fire Whip - A lash of flame deals fire damage and disables the target.
Earth Heal - Harnesses the energies of leaf and loam to heal the target.
White Flame - Caressing fires heal all targets in a small area.
Shining Air - A luminescent gale deals wind damage and blinds the target.
Evil Gaze - This dark, mystical glare deals dark damage and confuses the target.
Boulder Crush - Magically drops an enormous boulder on the target, dealing earth damage and immobilizing them.
Sliprain - Drenches the target with a driving rain, dealing water damage and slowing them by impeding progress.
Thunderous Roar - Calls forth a crack of lightning that drowns out all other sound, dealing lightning damage and silencing the target.
Dancer
Witch Hunt - Dance causes MP Damage to all enemies with a mysterious costume.
Mincing Minuet - Dance causes HP Damage to all enemies with powerful dance steps.
Slow Dance - Dance makes all enemies move slower by confusing them with slow dance movements.
Polka - Dance with vivacious moves, lowering the physical attack power of all enemies.
Heathen Frolick - Dance lowers the magical attack power of all enemies by distracting them with a mysterious costume.
Forbidden Dance - Dance with unexplainable moves, causing a collection of abnormal status to all enemies.
Last Waltz - Ultimate Dance, effectively preventing all enemies from acting in nearly any way. This is not a true Stop, and truly fast characters can sometimes act between the dance's magical pulsations.
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Name: Allosette
Race: Viera
Appearance: Dressed in the light, unhindering greens of the forest, Allosette's shapely, deeply tanned form blends in with the nature around her on the hunt, camoflauging her from her prey. Matching the ornate nature of her greatbow, a sheath of arrows rests across her back, their feathered posteriors reaching up over her right shoulder. The goddess' bustier she wears about her chest is deceptively defensive as it simultaneously accents a waist so narrow and bust so generous that she is, regardless of intention, the living representation of why hume women despise the Viera figure.
Personality: Allosette is fond of the quiet peace of nature, and could happily spend all day perched up in a tree without ever having anything to draw an arrow for. She is not a softy, however. A natural predator, when she does spot her prey, she spends no time debating the morality of it, and her keen eye and penchant for preparing with height advantages in mind mean that her target rarely gets the benefit of response.
Background: When Seisha failed to assassinate the leader of Clan Illusions, Allosette was hired to both finish her job and eliminate her for her hubris in slaying the wealthier clan's men. Unlike Seisha, who has trained herself to be a cold-blooded, unfeeling killer, however, Allosette accepts jobs for the challenge. At the time, she had not considered the young up-and-coming knight a worthy target, but Seisha was fairly well-known and caught the girl's interest.
She hunted them for some time, but quickly realized a disturbing fact - she seemed incapable of sneaking up on them. The first time she discovered this, it was actually Lucas that mentioned it, offering, as nonchalantly as if she were with the group, herself, what she wanted to eat when they were ordering.
She tried other routes, attempting to sneak up on Marcus (who, in some trick to this day she has yet to figure out, actually made off with the shirt off her back instead) and then on Sergei (who promptly pinned her to a wall with his trident). Other events involved their mage trying to fry her (not for sneaking around, but because, during a spout of pouting drunkenness, she declared the busty huntress to be "distracting Shiny") and Mimoze nearly skewering her through the abdomen. Allosette was by no means a poor hunter, but for a nobody clan, they seemed unusually adept.
Steadily, the clan seemed to take her presence progressively for granted, to the point where greeting her in her morning hiding spots (no matter where she tried to make them) became as common as getting their morning peaberry tea. Though she had, to that point, not taken any actually aggressive action, she told herself that this expectation could work to her advantage. That was an advantage, however, she never actually took, and the day she realized Fanara had set a place for her at the evening meal, she realized that at some point along the way, her contract had been left behind.
Primary Class: Sniper
Secondary Classes: Archer
Equipment:
Seventh Heaven Greatbow
Beret
Minerva Bustier
Azure Tear Earrings x2
Abilities:
Sniper
Attack+ - Raises the physical attack damage of the user at all times.
Doubleshot - Fire two consecutive arrows in quick succession.
Beso Toxico - Coat arrow with a deadly poison before attacking, damaging and poisoning the target.
Death Sickle - Call the reapers of the dead to Doom the target.
Vanish - Conceal one's self from foes. Taking any other action besides movement will break the effect.
Marksman's Spite - Deal damage and deplete mana equal to the user's lost health.
Armor Shot - Attempt to destroy the target's armor with a well-aimed shot.
Weapon Shot - Attempt to destroy the target's weapon by shooting it out of their hand with great force.
Wallet Shot - Aim for the target's coinpurse. Successful hits score a large amount of gil.
Archer
Concentration - Focuses the user's thoughts and raising their accuracy to peerlessness.
Archer's Bane - Avoid all bow-based basic attacks.
Focus - Muster the user's strength, increasing next action's attack power.
Leg Shot - Take aim at the target's legs to immobilize it.
Arm Shot - Take aim at the target's arms to disable it.
Cupid - Pierce the target's heart with a magicked arrow to charm it.
Burial - A purified shot to bring peace to the undead, instantly breaking the chains that bind them to this world.
Take Aim - Take careful aim at the target. Missing is virtually impossible, but you deal little damage.
Lightning Strike - A blindingly fast attack that denies the target the ability to react or counter.
Blackout - Loose specially prepared arrows to blind the target.
