Nim

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Player: flammos200.

Character Full Name: Nim Evenstride

Character In-Game Name: Nim

Nickname(s): The letter 'N'.

Association(s): Ravenholdt; The highest bidder.

Race: Blood Elf

Class: Rogue / Infiltrator

Skills & Abilities: Nim has adapted the traditional Rogue abilities to a myriad of means, her varied approaches often requiring varied tools:

Stargazer: Nim's most prized possession is her rifle, the Stargazer. A weapon of moderate weight, equipped with self-made(and thus fairly expensive) magazine ammunition, a Dark Iron silencer, a scope and rather wicked bayonets, in the style of traditional elven Longrifles. It can serve as an impromptu grenade launcher if need be. The Elf's reliance on this weapon has brought about a drawback: Her skills in melee have waned some, and though she is not 'rusty', she may not measure up to some of the more close-quarters-oriented Rogues.

Cloak: As per Stealth, such a state is achieved via the use of a Gnomish Cloaking Device, trademarked with Ravenholdt. Long weapons protruding from the body and large clothes drastically reduce the amount of time spent in cloak due to power requirements, and as such it is often used in conjunction with an insulated bodysuit, to maximize its potential.

Psionics: As per Sap, Gouge and Blind, the stun or confusion effects of these abilities are achieved not through blunt or cutting trauma nor sand in the eyes, but rather they are a result of assault on the target's mind.

It doesn't take a telepath..: As per Evasion, should Nim manage to focus enough in combat, she may attempt to detect surface thoughts in her foes such as where her enemy will strike next, for a short amount of time, in hopes of evading the predicted attacks. It's quite a limited skill in purpose and use, and it does not amount to 'mind reading' or any other such non-Roguey nonsense, remaining strictly another approach to a traditional Rogue ability.

Poof: As per Shadowstep, the skill is explained as a short range teleport behind the target, via the use of a small technological teleporter. This has an obvious drawback: Technology is very much fallible.

Age: 136

Sex: Female

Hair: Jet black, full and reaching down to the small of her back. She is kind of fussy about it, but then again so are most Blood Elves.

Eyes: Fel-green.

Weight: 64 Kgs.

Height: 1,77 m.

Appearances

Nim likes dressing in dark colors, typically browns, blues and blacks. She's no stranger to reds, but she does not enjoy standing out unless it somehow is the point of whatever she happens to be doing. She prefers a bare minimum of leathers in warm weather or in a location she deems as ‘safe', and heavier ones, usually with metallic reinforcements here and there when she's expecting combat.

She bears no distinctive markings – not even piercings, earrings or tattoos.

Personality

Nim is an individual through and through. She does associate with others beyond mere ‘business' because she realizes the usefulness of having connections, appearing sociable, and friendly. She would say she knows better than to form any sort of emotional attachment to people, but unwittingly does commit herself to the diverse individuals she meets on her travels and outings, usually growing a form of twisted respect for them.

Nim is a person that enjoys the intricacy of life just as much as lounging about lazily in the sun all day, and is prone to mood swings, though she doesn't let them impair her ability to focus on the task at hand – should such a task exist, that is. An example would be how she channels her creativity and admiration for intricacy into engineering.

The elf has a few quirks of personality. For instance, she believes that so long as they have a challenge for her, or perhaps a bag-full of gold, all races are equally useful. Amusingly enough while coin is her prime motivator, she also has a sense of honor, twisted a little and warped to her views as a hired blade. This means that she picks her tasks according to her ‘code', considering things that are ‘for a good cause' occasionally more worthwhile than those which would gain her extra coin.

On the topic of blades, she has formed a view of weapons and their use that borders on mysticism, this extending to melee, ranged, simple and even technological weaponry and explosives. Lastly, she is a voyeur and a pervert, at least in her free time, enjoying watching people without being seen, relying often on her skill in stealthy movement and hiding herself from other people's sight.

History

Nim was born in a Farstrider family, and she was a slightly troublesome little ankle-biter. She was a rebellious child, and despite the fact that Farstriders normally encourage their children to go out into nature and learn its ways, she felt the need to sneak out, usually unnoticed, and use the wilds of Quel'thalas as her personal obstacle-course, coming back home bruised, sometimes even bleeding, with the widest grin one would think possible plastered to her face, not one guilty thought on her conscience.

As she grew, Nim became adept in the use of weaponry, and followed in her parents' footsteps for a little while, helping out with scouting and the killing of the remnants of the Amani Trolls in the Southern parts of the elves' homeland, the place nowadays known as the Ghostlands. Once more, her rebellious tendencies kicked in and she felt dissatisfied with the life of the Farstrider, feeling a need for something more. As she was almost completely inept at the use of the Arcane, she turned towards technology to fulfill this purpose. She studied engineering in parallel with stealth and combat in both melee and at range, and found the blending of the two quite useful. She even delved a very slight bit into alchemy - for the topic of poisons.

Nim, thusly, left the Farstriders behind, remaining one only by bloodline, taking up the life of the mercenary, which she found not only more diverse, but even better-paying. As time passed, she progressed more and more towards specializing in bounty-hunting rather than the slaughter of animals and the like, not turning down shadier requests for her skills, either. She found many people that could make use of a blade in the dark, or a sniper shooting from cover, and thus managed to gather a fair amount of coin by the time the Scourge came.

During the siege she kept up the fight against the undead for as long as she could, using guerrilla hit-and-run tactics to avoid being harmed herself. Finding her people desolate and broken, she eventually drained Fel energies from one of Silvermoon's crystals – though, not out of a desire to sate her thirst, nothing of the sort, instead out of the fact that the person she had been contracted to slay only allowed Sin'dorei in their presence, and becoming one was a step to fulfilling that goal.

She felt little need to align herself with the Blood Elves and soon left Quel'thalas, straying often from Horde lands, enjoying a newer range of contractors and marks. It is during this time she aligned herself with the Ravenholdt faction, in whom she had taken a fair bit of interest, since stumbling upon its existence, learning more from there than at any other point in her lifetime. Nim later left for Outland once the Dark Portal was reopened, and ended up aiding the Scryers in their efforts against the traitor prince, Kael'thas Sunstrider, offering them her skills in bringing death to a number of his underlings.

Later on, after Kael had fallen, she went on to fight the Illidari on similar terms, participating in the entirety of the campaign to retake the temple of Karabor, twisted into the Black Temple of Illidan. She was, for instance, one of the demolitionists that shattered the inner right wall of the temple, allowing further forces passage inside. It is due to this campaign that she gained a hatred for the Legion and its minions burning inside her like a fire, the sentiment only dulled slightly by the payment she received in the aftermath of the campaign.

Happily rolling in the proverbial dough, she spent the remainder of her time honing her skills physically as well as technologically on Draenor's shattered remains, only to return to Azeroth after the death of the Lich King, not only out of a desire for further funding, but also due to having grown more or less bored with the Outlands. Truth be told, her decision was mostly whimsical.

A return to the Outlands came shortly after remembering her family home as a deserted, if weapon-stocked house, where she decided - in a desire for redemption for the crimes committed, to dedicate her life to fighting the Burning Legion. There have been a few instances of returns to Silvermoon, mostly for further, more extensive training in fields she'd not pursued before, but also for pleasure and time off. It was on such an escapade that she has met one of her current compaions, a Light-wielding Auctioneer's assistant, just prior to going off to "work" again...