Snow, Warrior-Maiden


by Heather Varley

She was a warrior, born amid wealth and luxury, and reborn in snow holding the bloody corpse of her slaughtered child. She became an assassin-warrior on a vengeance path and her only companions were death and an assassin-thief who would not leave her side.

She was a warrior, tall, golden-skinned with snow-white hair, six and a half feet tall she stood, and had the musculature to match. Why, I saw her take down a panther-beast with one punch to the head. I also saw her punch one of those thrice-cursed necromancers in the head, and burned her arm all the way up to the elbow. She managed to crack his skull something good, and that was with a side shot. Then she turned and punched him in the ribs with her other hand, but she was pulled off him by the guy's undead servant, still cracked ribs but good. And she was still fighting!

She was a warrior, a Troll-maid whose family was sworn to the protection of a noble family, and she guarded a young Eshu boy of that family even though she hadn't yet Chrysalised. She took on the schoolyard bullies and beat them down when they beat down the smaller ones. She was a head and hands taller than anyone she went to school with and was proud of her height, and was always gentle with the littlest of her charges.

She is always a warrior and she always follows a code of honor. She prefers fighting with the body she was given, and is deadly to an extreme. Sometimes this code is enforced on her with bracers that hold a Geasa, sometimes it is only her personal will and belief in something to guide her hand holds her to this. She fights with herself and does not take advantage of the small and weak. She is Honor and she is Battle. She is Snow.


Okay, Snow always was and will always be a warrior, primarily focused on her body as a weapon and she's good. As a Changeling she is usually a Troll (though Seelie Redcap wouldn't be unheard of), and as a Mage she'd probably be Akashic. She's strong and deadly, and she's also intelligent. She's not all brawn and no brains. Sometimes she wears a pair of bracers and sometimes I leave them off.

Everyone has to have a combat-meister concept, and Snow is mine.

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