Name: Has never taken a name, and doesn't mind what she concede as being accurate descriptions, such as "the short one", "brick-like", or "tangles", but dislikes names in general. Alas, owing to her considering herself to be calm and rational, being referred to as a wild animal, fearful beast, or catastrophic monster, tends to send her into a rage, which results in a ball of roots on all-fours charging after people, which has earned the loathed nickname of "Root-Bear".
Appearance: A very short, very stocky feminine form of malleable wood. She would look like some of the broadest fantasy dwarves, yet of impossible beauty as is common amongst magical creatures, but for the presence of her coating. From her entire surface, with basically absolute density, grow roots, approximately ten centimetres length and tapering from about a centimetre-and-a-half of circular diameter in most places, that spontaneously braid as they grow. She regards herself as being rather immaculately braided, but most observers have difficulty telling it apart from a tangled mess. She also has difficulty comprehending how unnerved others become at her lack of surface detail. For her, the roots magically fail to obscure her senses, she sees, feels, hears, and smells just as most others do, but others find it odd and often unnerving that something with a thick covering of roots that obscure every detail of its surface with multiple layers could act normally.
Regarding herself as a scholar, she has long studied the workings of words, and found great magic that responds to them...
Skillset (Combat): Battle Poetry
Skillset (Non Combat): Truenaming
Skillset (Nature): Tree Singing
Skillset (Locked): not bothering at this point. but will come up with something if such is appropriate for a second character... Or The G.M. assigning something appropriate/random is also fine!
Abilities:
Battle poetry: The art of telling tales with force
Limerick: A quick, simple, piece of wordplay that invokes slapstick. While primarily associated with lewdness, this rarely offers a combat advantage, so the limericks focus on opponents failing to perform basic combat tasks, such as remaining upright, travelling in a straight line, holding a weapon, that sort of thing...
Truenaming: To study a thing to gain power over it.
Gease: A small piece of a truename can be bound to a purpose, compelling a creature to perform that purpose. Still, the majority remains its own, and the name is unchanged, so retains its own underlying nature. Particularly arduous or dangerous tasks will usually be resisted, and retaining the presence of a thing would require the whole of the gease, so this is only really useful for infusing the local inhabitants with a compulsion to perform single, simple, specific helpful tasks.
Tree Singing: To invoke a song within a plant, to give it strength and passion.
Song of Strength: Causes a plant to become sturdier, hardier... better! helps plantlife survive inclement things, such as difficult weather, or combat...
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