Shae

Shae Occidotheon-Morningstar is a Dhampir Piratess and Nomad from Alfheim. She was born and raised in the town of Axel and currently resides in the Lunar City-State of Lirgal. She actively travels the lands of the Old World, Rathnir, in order to get in touch with new cultures as well as to discover the remains of the ones that have been lost to time.

She currently serves as the main architect for the port city of Axel, to which she contributed a lot in terms of its development. She is the successor to the title of Builder God, a honorary title which has previously only been awarded to her father, Shadeaux Grayshade.

Childhood
Daughter to a human havenite gemcutter, soldier and politician, and an australiquian vampire originating from the lands near Lirgal, Shae was raised in a rather traditional and conservative household, together with her older brother, referred to as Ash. They were thaught manners and etiquettes by her father, who, in addition, introduced them to the art of combat, as well as to the world of gemstones. She never got to meet her mother, who abruptly disappeared after her birth for unknown reasons.

At the age of only 6, she already showed great promise in the art of sword fighting, adapting a very defensive style while still preferring to dual wield a set of emerald scimitars instead of the usual One-Sword/One-Shield form.

Uldarashi Civil War
When she turned 8 years old in the Summer of 101 SMP, the outbreak of the Uldarashi Civil War caused both her father and her brother to enlist in the loyalist army as volunteers, despite her pleas to not get involved in the increasingly more and more violent conflict. They reasoned that they wanted to secure a peaceful and prosperous future for the next generation of Havenites, and that it was the moral obligation of her father as a politician to fullfill his duty for the homeland. From this time on she was sporadically raised by a distant family friend who took care of her.

Several years into the dreadful war, without the chance to see either her father or her brother, she was informed by a returning survivor of the Battle of Terroja that her brother didn't make it out of the slaughter alive, his sudden death leaving her scarred for the rest of her life. Her father should follow his sacrifice some time after during the Hapatmitas-Chevkri Campaign, where he succumbed to the blade of Stanford, after a final, heroic last stand as the only remaining survivor of his platoon, which got decimated by Auroran and Dread Fleet forces who defended the imperial capital.

During the course of the war, Shae became more and more skilled in combat, perfecting her fighting style and adapting to new types of weapons. After forging her very own first trident, she adjusted to an advanced mechanic which yielded several advantages in terms of movement.

Adolescence
In the winter of 108 SMP, at the tender age of only 15, she was elected Grand Representative of Midgard, the province in which Axel was located, and stayed in this position for several years, continuing to develop the rough, mountaineous terrain in the north and planned new, large-scale projects all around Alfheim.

Post-Civil War
With the longest ever conflict to date coming to an end and the different uldarashi states slowly opening up to each other again, she received a small journal which her father always used to keep with him. The item was retrieved by an unnamed lirgalyn marauder who combed through the dunes outside of Hapatmitas after the battle in search of treasures. It contained the last will of her father, which the marauder gave to a member of the former Loyalist War Council named Ren Miazol, who in return handed it over to her.

Discovering the truth
The testament of her father contained various informations, but a riddle citing her mother, Yakira Occidotheon, in particular caught her interest. After deciphering the riddle, which was written in form of a poem, it led her to the location of a secret door in the middle of Axel, which subsequently led her straight to the tomb of her long-lost mother. After learning more about the past through scrolls which she found in a barrel which contained several more relics next to the grave, she came to know that she was actually a so-called dhampir and not a human, as previously anticipated. Her mother had used a shapeshifting spell to make her look like a normal human girl. She also discovered that a group of citizens were the cause for her sudden disappearance, as they planned on hunting her down for being a vampire. In order to not make her daughter meet the same fate, her father was forced to take the life of his own wife, and kept the secret for himself all these years.

Realizing that she was gifted, she started to embrace her true self, and managed to perform a ritual which turned her back into her dhampir appearance.

Adulthood
Although having embraced a nomad way of life, she still owns properties in both Alfheim and Lirgal, which mostly serve as storages for her most valuable relics. Her exact net worth is unknown, but it is estimated to be around 4.5-5.000.000.

Life in Alfheim
During her more or less peaceful life in Axel, she met Ren again, the person who gave her the will of her father a few months prior. They both fell in love with each other and married some time later. Their children, Irabella and Arkanae, are native alfheimis. As an architect in Axel, she is still planning and developing the region to this day, albeit in a much less active way.

Life in Lirgal
During one of her expeditions through the continent of Alteniquia, which had the purpose of trying to find the birth place of her mother, she stumbled upon the Lunar City-State of Lirgal and made acquaintance with Lunar Councillor Aldara Ellan. Astonished by the beauty of the city, she was eager to become a dual citizen and eventually made Lirgal her primary place of residence.

Nomadism
As her journeys across continents became bigger and bigger, she decided to become a nomad, living a self-sustainable lifestyle. To this day she has explored all of the continent of Haven, as well as major parts of Ummarmu and Alteniquia. Smaller expeditions led her through the lands of Syltör, Nieden and Sparwood.

Despite being an archeologist at heart, sworn to document her findings, she sporadically has to fall back on raiding abandoned settlements in order to strip them of any useful resources, although these kinds of events are rare.

Human
She is often described as an athletic, elegant, slender, healthy and pretty looking girl with deep black eyes and long, matte black hair. In addition to that, she wears several different flower crowns, depending on the overall dress that she is wearing. Furthermore, long shrubs made out of the same flowers as the crown are aligned on her arms. Despite not being very interested in jewellery, she wears an emerald-green wedding ring and sometimes a wristband made out of amethysts. A single flower is stitched on the upper right side of her chest, and generally follows the same color theme as the dress.

Due to her outer appearance relying so much on the presence of flowers, which in a lot of cases are roses, she is often being referred to as  The Rose Piratess of Alfheim  by her co-citizens.

Dhampir
While in her dhampir form, her appearance changes drastically, making her incomparable with her human body, although she keeps a gray-red-black color scheme. Her eye color changes from the generic deep black to an intimidating looking dark-ish red, whereas he skin color switches to a pale shade.

In addition to that a distinct red glow appears around her while being a dhampir. Even the effects of invisibilty-provoking spells are unable to get rid of this property, thus being the reason for her earning the surname  The Scarlet Shadow .

Personality
She is generally a very nice and welcoming person and treats others the way they treat her. Often described as an angel, she loves to help others in need, but keeps to herself sometimes. While her dhampir appearance might seem intimidating at first glance to an outsider, nothing much changes in her behaviour, apart from being a bit shier when around a large number of people.

Abilities
Shapeshifting

She has inherited the property to switch between her human and her dhampir form whenever she feels the necessity to do so.

Enhanced Sight

As most dhampirs, she can see relatively clearly when its dark out but has a harder time being able to see clearly in bright sunlight due to being, mostly, a nocturnal individual.

Postmortal

She is in possession of a rare relic known as a Totem of Undying. This object, as can be interpreted by its very self-explanatory name, is supposed to make its user cheat death once, upon which it will be consumed.

Trivia

 * She is highly allergic to bone meal, which acts in the same way as drugs
 * She owns Mount Ashes, the place on which her castle is built on
 * She owns several pets, most noteably a rare parrot which she refers to as Financial Regrets
 * Her favourite food is seasoned cooked salmon