<div class="floatright">(https://img00.deviantart.net/e5ae/i/2016/284/1/9/emily_kaldwin_by_isilmarille-dakphht.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Personal Information</span><br/></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Emily Marquis  (Her real name is Emily<strong>Briarwood</strong>)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Human<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation/Sexuality:</strong>Bisexual, but she prefers women<br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><strong>General Description:</strong>She's the spitting image of her mother, Delilah Briarwood, if she'd been far more lithe and lean and prone to sharpshooting instead of raising the dead and destroying people's lives wherever she went.  Emily's brown eyes and shortly cropped, artfully combed dark brown hair hangs over the left side of her face, partially obscuring her angular, well defined if round features and smooth, clear if pale skin.  She's purely human, having been born before her father was reborn as a vampire after his untimely death, her paleness is more due to her intense studies into alchemical compounds and the like, which has stained her fingertips black with gunpowder and soot.  Beyond that however, she maintains her noble esque appearance with a dark blue overcoat with brass buttons, a dark, richly embroidered bandana that hangs around her neck, a hard suit of black leather armor over a plain white cloth shirt, and a pair of dark blue matching long pants tucked into well worn dark brown, near black leather boots that match her equally dark brown belt around her slender hips.  A Pepperbox holster is just visible beneath the confines of her coat, with a long, currently empty, rifle holster on her back, a number of belt pouches and their ilk attached to her belt.  A sword also rests on her hip, but she rarely uses it if she can help it.<br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Role Play Centered Information</span></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Fighter (Gunslinger)<br/><strong>Level:</strong>3rd<br/><strong>Alignment:</strong>Chaotic Good<br/><strong>Character Sheet:</strong>Emily 'Marques' Briarwood (https://ddb.ac/characters/5880929/oGVqd8)<br/><strong>Additional Information:</strong>Due to her long travels, at least so far, after fleeing her mother's home in Wildmount, Emily knows full well the evil her name has attached to it, and has done all she can to restore her family's lost honor.  The fact that they've nearly destroyed the world on Vecna's unholy order, she has a long, LONG way to go before she can even get close, but as a result, Vecna's lingering followers have made the mistake of coming after her.  Not only that, but given Percival and Cassandra's De Rollo's complicated history with the Briarwoods that's drenched in blood, Emily knows better than to go anywhere near Whitestone if she can help it on the off chance one or both of them, not counting Lady Vex'ahlia, happens to hold a grudge.<br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_u">History</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Unfortunately it's Delilah and Sylas Briarwood as her mother and father respectively, before her father was killed and became a vampire anyway.<br/><strong>Hometown:</strong>Emon when she isn't on the road, pursuing any Vecha worshipers she can put down.<br/><strong>A little about personality:</strong>"I know full well my mother was a murdering, psychotic bitch, and my father....was a literal monster before he was forced into hiding after Vecna was stopped.  I can't say if he's still alive, or if someone finally put him down, only that I am well aware of my family's crimes, and I am damned determined to do everything I can to restore my family's honor one Vecna worshiper at a time if that's what it takes.  As such, I won't hesitate to pull the trigger on anyone who would dare to hold onto the Whispered One's dark promises, but if the De Rollos wish my life, I won't fight their judgment.  It would be fitting justice, but only if it's actually justice and not more petty vengeance driving their blade, or in Percy's case, his gun arm, in spilling my blood."<br/><strong>General Life Story:</strong>As far as most of the world is concerned, the Briarwoods were destroyed in Whitestone when Percy and the rest of Vox Machina cleaned out their evil influences above and below the ancient stone fortress.  In truth, Delilah had had one daughter several years before Sylas wound up becoming a vampire due to her dark deal with Vecna, the Whispered One, a man who became a god on this side of the Divine Barrier.  Emily Briarwood, who immediately changed her name to Marques when she realized just how far gone her family was when word reached their home in Wildemount, and she disappeared from the world about the same time her parents were killing most of the De Rollo family.  If not for a few sane and loyal retainers that hadn't been magically 'persuaded' to obey Delilah's strict orders, Emily would've wound up another brain dead cultist, driven to destroy the world as they knew it, but because she had good people at her back, a human maid who happened to know a few things about the real world due to her low upbringing, and a loyal gnomish bodyguard who had been a worshiper of the Raven Queen, Emily was able to become her own person.  When word reached her that Delilah and Sylas Briarwood had been killed, she was happy about the loss since her few memories of them when they were around weren't pleasant.  As such, she knew from a very young age that they'd been nothing but bad news, (an irony given later events involving Percy and his long rifle), and while she wept for the loss, she was ultimately able to move past it.  Unfortunately for her, their death wasn't to last as Delilah returned not once, but twice, with Sylas never far behind given his undead nature.  Only after Vecna was put down and his cult broken, his zombie Titan he fully intended to unleash on Vasselheim destroyed, did Emily begin her journey, having been living alone long enough, honing her skills and abilities.  It didn't help that she had heard Vecna in her mind just like countless other people had when he had originally ascended, and a few of his minions had tried to take her back to her 'family'.  She'd made it a point to send them back with new holes in their bodies after completing her first gun.<br/><br/>To the world these days, Emily Briarwood died around the same time Vecna was defeated, her father forced to flee, and her mother gone and truly dead this time.  In her place, Emily Marques, so named for the gnomish woman that led her to the Raven Queen, was left behind in her wake, with the good people of Emon being none the wiser as to who she truly is or had once been.  Ever since that fateful day, she's done all she can to destroy every remnant of Vecna's dark influence, while collecting what money she can to upgrade and maintain her delicate instruments, as well as to keep herself loaded for bear in ammo and alchemical components for her guns.  Otherwise, what money she has left, when it isn't used on food and drink, is often donated to the nearest church to the Raven Queen, more in remembrance of the two that all but raised her from those far darker days when the Briarwoods had once roamed the surface of Exandria.  As such, Raven's Flight, a pepperbox design of her own imagination rather than one that was 'inspired' by a powerful shadow demon, is never far from her right hand, and it's often the last thing enemies hear before they're sent to their dead god in bloody pieces.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"You don't know me, but you will."</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://youtu.be/PCOjWXl37p4</div></div>