Shriek

[Shriek]

Age/14; Sex/Female; Hair and Fur Colour/Black, dark red at inside curve of the elbows and knees; Eyes/Amber

Height/4'8"; Weight/90 lbs

Appearance/

Shriek stands below most female Zith. She has dark fur, which flashes red in certain lighting at the elbows and knees. Her long hair is blacker than the night sky, and her yellow eyes are closer to the colour of amber. Her large wings are black as well, though not as dark as her hair. Her small, slender body is darted with scars from past battles and her wickedly curved claws are considerably sharper and more dangerous in appearance than most other Zith's. The only things she wears are her harness and a backpack, and the harness carries everything that won't fit in the bag.

In the night, very few people can see her with the exception of other Zith and Symenestra. When hunting, she doesn't wear her backpack but will carry her harness, strapped with what she needs. This is to make transporting of slaves and food easier.

Personality/

Intensely passionate, curious, and cunning are three words Shriek uses to describe herself. In reality, she is all of these things. Her passion is just as strong as it is with the rest of her race, perhaps even more so, and she has killed her own kind in the midst of a fierce, ravaging fight. She is sometimes quick to anger, for causes even unknown to her, and has been known to attack a slave for no reason other than looking at her the 'wrong' way.

Her curiousity is probably her only redeeming characteristic, aside from her desire to become learned in medicine should she one day find a truly strong colony and be required to bandage wounds after a fight. Her practice dummies would be injured humans, and she takes pleasure in injuring them herself and then doing her best to heal them. She is reclusive in a way, preferring to do most work alone, but finds herself more at ease when surrounded by the heat of other Zith bodies.

Shriek possesses a playful streak to accompany her own cunning one. When hunting, she'll creep up on people in the dark, using hearing and scent to get as close as possible, and then shrieking loudly. Stunned prey is then killed or taken to a secluded place for experimentation.

With her dark traits, Shriek is a very 'evil' character. She does not feel remorse nor regret, and while she doesn't particularly hate anyone, including the race known as Drykas who initiated the death of her twin, she does not particularly love them either. She feels only fierce loyalty to her kind, and disgust at the weakness of the lesser races utilized as slaves.

Additionally, what Shriek wants, she'll take, regardless of the consequences. While she hasn't mated, she does indeed suffer from lust and lust-driven fighting. She's even more dangerous in this mood, prone to outbursts of violent behavior.


Skills, Lore, Languages/

Detection/10
Weapon (Tiger Hook)/ 10
Weapon (Composite Longbow)/ 10
Poison (plants)/ 10
Medicine/ 10
Brawling/10

Lore of Poisonous Plants, Lore of Medicinal Plants

Zithanese/Fluent
Common/Decent
Pavi/Unbearable

History/

Shriek was born the younger of two children, with her brother Screech being three minutes older than her. Even as a young Zith, Shriek showed aptitude for being a poisoner of sorts, gaining a reputation for putting 'funny things' in the food to be given to slaves and watching the responses of slave's body. It came to be a common practice to avoid any food or drink handled by Shriek, although this was more teasing than serious mistrust. Shriek never poisoned her own race as she believed they are the one true 'pure' race in her opinion.

She aged gracefully, even for a Zith, becoming especially skilled at shooting her arrows from air. She became even more devious and cunning, learning that the darkness of her fur and the bright colour of her eyes made her ideal for sneaking up and scaring people. She began to take vicious pleasure in releasing the slaves of Zith in Xy in secret and helping their owners either kill or capture them all. A few she kept for herself, bringing into the Sea of Grass and poisoning them. She'd take assorted males and females of various races and cut off extremities, induce severe poisoning, or generally observe the effects of exposure and starvation on their bodies. Her twin participated in these 'experiments', and as did a few more of their friends.

As they grew older, the Zith in these groups grew even crueler towards 'lesser races', and the males would rape the females and allow Shriek to observe the effects of pregnancy before the women were then cut and the pregnancy terminated, the woman's blood then being subject to a new poison. Many Drykas in the Sea of Grass took notice of this practice and used this as a catalyst for their Ankals to give them leeway to hunt the small Zith group. The orders were given swiftly and the unsuspecting Zith were attacked.

Screech died in the attack by the Drykas hunting party, as did another adolescent Zith, but the rest immediately avenged them, getting into the air from the location they'd been experimenting at and killing the horses and men from above. Shriek was just as fierce in battle as the others, even more so for it was her twin whom had fallen. The last human she had landed on she tore at the back of his neck with her claws and fangs, killing him by crushing his spine from behind.

After this, Shriek became almost wild and left Xy. She decided it was time to roam the world and experiment on people in their natural territory. Her current location is Ravok, where she has plans to capture someone of the Black Sun or join them, or Ebonstryfe.


Items/
-1 Backpack containing
comb, 1 week's worth of food, flint and steel, fishing line and tackle, 1 waterskin
Poisoncrafter's Toolkit: 150 gm
Herbalists Kit: 20 gm
Tuning Fork: 5 gm
Metal Flute: 15 gm
4-dose vial of Bloodroot: 50 gm
4-dose vial of Darktongue: 25 gm
4-dose vial of Lazy Gel: 10 gm
-Hanging off her harness:
Tiger Hook Sword: 20 gm
Composite Longbow: 100 gm
20 Longbow Arrows: 1 gm
20 Armour Piercing Arrows: 20 gm

Ledger/
600 gm
-396 gm
=104 gm