Clarice Callis

Clarice Callis is a human female from Marcelli (Vrapi) and a member of the Black Petal Company. She was raised in House Callis, a sub-house of House Selne which heads the Company. She is the second child of the Callis House head, Norman Callis.

Creator's Note
I am a poor profile writer, don't take anything in here too seriously.

Summary
While a loyal person, she's also got a tendency to get too 'into' things; let's call it being energetic. She is occasionally gullible as well as antsy, which can lead to rather "dramatic" misunderstandings at times. Or dangerous ones, you decide.

Clarice regards herself as capable in what she does, but her overall attitude does not tend to match her aptitude. Neither does Clarice have a very good awareness of the continent as a whole, and tends to lack the wisdom seen in others of the traveling type.

On the flip side, she's not afraid to fail or be wrong, and tries hard to learn from her mistakes. This doesn't solve her problems of being occasionally disrespectful to those of authority, unfortunately.

Appearance
Clarice's hair is distinctly black, and normally worn as pig tails on either side, tied up with ribbons that form the Eurybia symbol of House Callis. Her eyes are a mix of green and brown, and show some level of vividness. Her facial features are distinctly Val Maen, if that can even be considered in this day and age.

Clarice wears a green and white patterned dress, the skirt reaching to her knees, and the sleeves reach to the wrists. She wears full black stocking on her legs and her feet are covered in sturdy leather boots.

For combat she simply puts her armor on top of the dress. The chest plate had a cloth tabard attached to the front that hangs down to her knees, it is a basic steel gray and the back of the plate has the House Callis symbol painted on. The shoulder plates are nothing special, and her knee-long gloves are plated on the top side.

Her armored belt has coat tails sown to the back side, falling down to her mid-calves in the back. Her leg plates fit over her boots, covering the shins, halves, and top of the foot, leaving the bottom flexible.

Her helmet is of a rather odd make; the back of it is hinged and clamps at the bottom allowing for the helmet to be put on with the pig-tails of hair intact, sticking out of two holes in the helmet, while still protecting the rest of the head. The front of the helmet has a bill sticking over the eyes in front, and a separate face place can be attached in the front to cover the nose and mouth.

Both the tabard and coat tails are green with white borders.

Clarice's weapon, coined as a "Swath Sword" is its own inventive take on the more common claymore. The blade is a solid forty inches long, and the handle is usually long, two feet in total. The grips for the hands are on either end of the handle, and the center is forged with a thick ovular shaft of metal. The sword has 3 hilts in total; the base of the blade, and the two ends of the shaft in the center of the handle. This shaft is the "shield" for a Swath Sword user, capable of blocking and parrying some attacks as part of attacking motions.

While Clarice has grown up with the weapon, she's not very skilled with traditional swords. As is common among all mercenaries in Black Petal, she has a short sword as a side arm that double as both a tool and a final strike.

Biography
Born as the second child of the head of House Callis, Clarice was somewhat privileged in her upbringing, and her own awareness of this is questionable. Free from any responsibilities as an heir, she was raised largely as a capable mercenary as well as suitable wife. However, formal upbringing for political marriages are more of a customary exercise compared to what used to be done in the old House Selne. There have yet to even be any attempts regarding Clarice, and her focus has been on simply being a capable member of the Black Petal Company.

As is somewhat common among Callis women, Clarice was born with a frame that could be considered less than dainty, which is really quite suited for the more physically inclined business they are a part of. Mercenary training began at age thirteen, and ended at seventeen, at which point all house members who are capable are expected to make a living off their own work.

Unbeknown to her, she was treated somewhat nicely by fellows in the company due to her status, and has been given easier jobs than she likely qualifies for, making her own confidence falsely boosted and her expectations of what dangers lie ahead of her are grossly inaccurate. Something she will swiftly learn now that she's headed out to work free-range.