Ursa Blacksong

Gender: Female

Age: 100+

Group: Priests/Priestess

Game: Dark Age of Aeran

Nationality/Loyalties

A priestess in exile Ursa claims no nationality nor loyalties beyond her oath to the Goddess and her vows to the disbanded Black Order.

Title/Rank

Priestess of the Black Order
Black Witch of the Greyhavens
Heretic & Outcast

Race/Appearance

A Half-elven woman of fair appearance with pale snowlike skin and long raven black hair. Her eyes are a pale blue that some say are the color of ice.

Standing roughly 5'2", Ursa tends to favor black tunics and breeches and is often adorned with silver chains and other assorted odds and ends.

Beneath her cloths it is said that she is covered countless tattoo's depicting many sacred passages, phrases, and words of power as well as an assortment of arcane symbols recorded for ease of memory in performing the arcane arts and casting both divine and arcane spells.

Personality/Interests

Ursa does a poor job of acting the part of a Priestess or even acting like one who has taken the holy vows at all. She drinks, she gambles, she dances and plays the part of entertainer and storyteller at the many of the taverns and inns she has frequented over the years and she is well known for taking both men or women into her bed when the mood strikes her.

When it comes to her sacred oath and the duties of the priestly order however she tends to be all business.

Brief History

Before her death Ursa's mother had always described the girls father as being the most handsome of elven Prince's with long black hair and deep dark eyes. A warrior of no small renown he had however always remained nameless to protect some unspoken secret.

It mattered little however given that he was gone from her mother's life before Ursa was born and seemngly never to return.

Ursa's mother however clung desperately to the memory of him and the small hope that he would one day return and lay claim to his beloved and heir. A hope she held onto until her deathbed.

After her mother's death a local landowner had made to sell Ursa's family lands from beneath her under the guise of paying off her mother's debts. Which as it turns out was a lie, the truth of the landowners betrayal uncovered only by chance by a Priest of the Black Order who took the girl under his protection until he could place her safely in the care of the sisters of the Temple in Warfall.

Ursa spent the next several years as an orphan of the Temple until her fair appearance and pleasant demeanor had won her the heart of a local boy from an upstanding family whom seemed willing enough to pay her bride price. That was until the day that the Priest of the Black Order had returned seeking a new novice to train.

Ursa was never really certain how or why she was selected but fate it seemed had its designs and after a series of tests of skills both magical and mundane it was Ursa was judged worthymuch to her dismay.

Many years later with the wars over and the Black Order disbanded by High Temple and Ursa sought to return to her childhood home and put aside the spell and blade but the Goddess it would seem was not done with her.

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Some twenty years later Ursa finds herself a villian in the eyes of the High Temple loyalists and bearing the weight of the discovery that hers is
bloodline is cursed as well as the knowledge of its dark origin. With this comes the knowledge that she is the granddaughter of a infamous Lich as well as the direct decendent of a far more powerful force of evil.

Arms/Equipment

Ursa has traveled a great deal of her life to answer the demands of her calling and the faith. Thus her packs contain the normal equipment one might expect for days spent on the road.

Cloths, Bedding, Kitchen tools, As well as the trappings of the faith and some potions and salves to address injury or illness.

Ursa also carries a silver holy symbol of her order and wears leather and mail armor when called for.

The Black Order is a Marital Order so in addition to a mastery of magic Ursa also carries an Elven Steel sword name 'Manbreaker' (Destroyed Recently) as well as a pair of steel fighting knives and a half dozen other throwing blades. Her pack contains pair of silver fighting blades blessed and magically enhanced for dealing with more unnatural threats. She is now also armed with a Dark Silver ring gifted to her by her source of her bloodline that enables her to better channel her magical energies.

Ursa also carries a half dozen tomes addressing the teaching of the faith and her own Journals as well as pens and an ink stone.

The Book of Psalms
The Tome of the Black Order
The Book of Potions and Salves
The Tome of Rituals
The Book of the Dead
Ursa's Journal

As a means to pay her way Ursa earn also carries a finely crafted Lute which coupled with her fine singing voice she uses to earn a coin or two and perhaps a warm meal at those taverns or Inn's she come across during her travels.

Talents/Abilities/Advantages

As a Priestess of the Black Order, Ursa is trained in dealing with the more or less ill favored elements of day-to-day life to include Curses, Restless Spirits, and assorted Undead, as well as many other more or less troublesome issues.

Ursa has mastered some of the healing and protective magics as well as having gained insight into several useful blessings and curses. She is also educated in ritual magics to include Prophetic and distant communication rites. Speaking with the dead and removing curses however is what her order is best known for.

Ursa is also a skilled fighter can hold her own in a duel as well as against skilled individuals and small less skilled groups.

Fears/Weaknesses/Phobias

Ursa has encountered some things over the years that have left her scarred her both physically and mentally. ( Her death and resurrection as well as the discovery that she is the granddaughter of a infamous Lich perhaps being the worst of these ) and while she can steel herself against the darkness during the waking hours of the day its at night when she is alone in her bed that such nightmares come recounting the horrors of her memories.

Ursa has attempted to dull this weakness with drink and other substances but knows well enough the dangers of addiction and has thus found that a simple curse binding her to the dreaming realm is often enough to keep most if not all of her nightmares at bay. Unfortunately most simply assume the worst about her character and seek to take advantage or exploit her.

Within the recent years the High Church of Sarnia has declared that the remaining members of the Black Order are Witches and Practitioners of the Dark Arts. The Church having placed a large bounty on the heads the Black Orders remaining members.

Favorite Sayings or Quotes

" There's a trick to it, but than again there is a trick to everything isn't there ?"

"Words are the tools of Lairs..."

"What is not known can be learned, What is forgotten can be learned again..."

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