<span class="bbc_u"><strong>Player Name:</strong></span>Brittlby<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Character Name:</strong></span>Mrs. Nickleby or just Nickleby (Her infrequently used first name is Kaleo)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Photo:</strong></span>Flick! (http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1279181/1girl-animal_ears-black_hair-breasts-cat_ears-cat_)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Class:</strong></span>Summoner / Mage<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Age:</strong></span>19<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Race of Anthro:</strong></span>Cat<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Elemental:</strong></span>Earth : She can control and shape massive amounts of stone and metal with her will, growing more rapidly exhausted depending upon the volume involved. Her skills also give her a certain degree of environmental awareness, provided she is in contact with bare earth or stone. Her heretical and most dangerous ability is in the crafting of golems.  By severing a piece of her own essence off, she creates a spirit with its own personality and physical traits. When tasked, she can summon them from the stone, giving them a house of earth to stow themselves in. Though she has been seen to argue with them at times, given that her own well being is tied into their continued existence coupled with a predilection to please her, they tend to obey her wishes and protect her interests.<br/><br/><strong>Bio:</strong>An entertainer by trade, famous for her skills as a musician, puppeteer and comedian, Kaleo Nickleby was born with a hole in her heart. She felt it most acutely, knowing it was shaped like a man, though she had not entirely pieced together which man.<br/><br/>Married four times in three years, Mrs. Nickleby stopped changing her last name after the second. Her first husband was a tax collector and was beheaded for skimming the proceeds. Her second husband, a spice merchant by trade, was never found after a week abroad to deliver his wares. At least most of him was never found.<br/><br/>Though what was found of him could fit in a small bag, the remains were given a proper burial by a charming fox who owned the largest funeral parlor in the City of Stone. An older man, he still managed to console Mrs. Nickleby in a way few had before. They were married scarcely two weeks after the funeral and her third husband was found dead on the second night of their honeymoon, an unseemly smile on his cold muzzle betraying what he had been doing when his heart had given up.<br/><br/>It was almost three months before she left her estate to perform again, accompanied by a massive bear of a man. Given that she had been sequestered for three months, receiving food and liquor but turning away visitors, it is unknown precisely where she met her fourth husband.<br/><br/>Mr. Ekimus Gainsbury Esquire claims on his records to be an immigrant from the Empire of Flame, recently arrived in the City of Stone. A common enough occurrence to be sure, but the tax collectors, still wary of Mrs. Nickleby after her first husbands indiscretions took note that all of her staff were replaced within the last year, and every single one claiming to hail from abroad and only recently have arrived.<br/><br/>The two most inquisitive collectors were found dead on the same evening, both in well secure buildings on opposite ends of the city. One had his skull crushed by an inhuman grip, the other, her ribcage collapsed by a terrific pressure. There were whispers of forbidden magic on the lips of the constables.<br/><br/>Golem.<br/><br/>She had honed the treasonous Geomancy magics over the years in secret, passing them off as puppetry and parlor tricks. With the loves of her life struck down unfairly, she set herself to the task of putting together a husband that would not steal, wander or grow old. Her fourth husband, Ekimus was born beneath her nimble sculpting fingers.<br/><br/>It did not take the constable long to track down Mrs. Nickleby from the tax agents notes and shared conversations with their coworkers. She fought them with an army of earth, her "husband" and house servants holding thirty constables and a dozen soldiers to the crown at bay.<br/><br/>One brave knight managed to pass through the defenses and actually get at her, striking her unconscious with a vicious gauntleted left hook. Her army fell to dust, leaving six dead in the aftermath. Kept warded and powerless, the Oracle of Stone begged the sentence for death be waived in favor of exile. The Empress knew of the dreams of the dark and was swayed by the Oracle's visions and assurance that sometimes when fighting the forces of darkness, the best solution was not to combat it with good, but rather another kind of evil.<br/><br/>When she was at last allowed to step onto foreign soil, she knew that Ekimus was still with her though his "body" was leagues away. All of her servants were close at hand, and they all were part of her destiny.<br/><br/>As long as there was earth and will to shape it, they were always just a wish away...<br/><br/><strong>Flaws: </strong>Prone to unhealthy infatuations, Nymphomania, Extreme Masochism, Aggressive Narcissist, Homicidal Tendancies, Delusional<br/><br/><strong>Fetishes:</strong>Bondage, Exhibitionism, Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Biting, Denial<br/><br/><strong>Notes on Animus Geomancy A.K.A. Golem Craft from the Nickleby Estate Massacre Trial: </strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">One of the more complicated of Earth magics, its specific practice by the Geomancers Guild was outlawed three hundred years ago due to the long term side effects of its use on the practitioner. To speak to the stone and manipulate it with ones own will is the gift of an Earth Talker, but in order to give the stone life... the spirit must come from somewhere. It is one of the immutable laws of the stone.<br/><br/>A golem crafter slowly barters away their own soul and humanity each time they invoke a new creature. And what do we make of the mind of a person who can raise and destroy life from the earth with a mere thought? They are often noted to have little regard for the value of life, as their own creations are more intimately in line with their own world view and desires. <br/><br/>In the case of Mrs. Kaleo Nickleby, though she was only charged with the deaths of eight people, there remains some suspicion that perhaps there were many others that remain unreported. Perhaps her husbands deaths were not unrelated tragedies. This remains conjecture, but what is a fact is that the most horrific murderers in the City of Stone's history have been Golem Crafters.  <br/><br/>Of this, I have not doubt, despite the Oracle's assurances... Kaleo Nickleby is a monster.</div></div>