<hr/><div class="floatright">(https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/0b/a8/0ba80d300ed43f41561d30a54e5f7514.jpg)</div><b>Name:</b>Auhmla<br/><b>Age:</b>19<br/><b>Race:</b>Voliga (bovine)<br/><b>Level:</b>0  XP: /20<br/><b>Rank:</b>Student<br/><b>Gender:</b>Female<br/><b>Sexuality:</b>Pansexual<br/><b>Pouch: </b><br/><b>Health:</b>75<br/><b>Magic: </b>45<br/>Attribute Status:<br/>Strength: 9 (Spent a Cookie for 2 points)<br/>Perception: 3<br/>Agilty: 3<br/>Constitution: 5<br/>Knowledge: 3<br/><br/><b>Appearance:</b>Artwork by Yoona. Click image for higher rez or click here for link to gallery. (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/Yoona)<br/><b>Height:</b>8'5<br/><b>Eyes:</b>Orange-brown (much more obvious when she's wearing clothing with orange tones in it)<br/><b>Skin:</b>Auhmla's hide is mostly cream-colored with brown patches.<br/><b>Marks:</b>Nothing beyond aforementioned brown patches<br/><br/><b>Acquired Skills:</b><br/>Compassionate Listener - Auhmla has always seen herself as a problem-solver, and most of the biggest conflicts she has seen have occurred because two people couldn't reach an understanding. Auhmla isn't the most diplomatic bovine, but she has an earnest, caring mien which helps to defuse conflicts. (2d4)<br/>Economy of Strength - There are bigger, stronger Voliga, but perhaps not as many as you'd think. What makes Auhmla a surprise even to those who take note of the rippling muscle beneath her slight chubbiness is that she's really good at using what strength and mass she does have; the young Voliga has a keen eye for leverage and balance, and when she does throw her weight around she always does so efficiently. (2d6)<br/>Grab - She's quick within the sphere of her own reach, and typically deals with smaller, more agile opponents by simply picking them up. It's much harder to dodge and flank someone once their fist is curled in your tunic and your feet aren't on the ground. (2d2)<br/>Grounded Block - Provided she has both hooves on the ground, she's very good at shifting her mass so that any force she has to block is met braced and channeled into the ground beneath her. (2d2)<br/>Herbal Insight - Auhmla is familiar not only with specific healing plants (and harmful ones) but also the ways plants grow and shape themselves to a task. By comparing what she does know about plants she's familiar with, she has a good chance to understand (and perhaps make use of) even strange plants. It's also a rare day when any kind of a vegetative predator gets the drop on her. (2d4)<br/><b>Active</b>[Technique or True Magic]<br/>Signia:<br/><br/>Techniques:<br/><em>Thorn</em>- A touched plant grows sharp thorns or splinters or roots which cause direct damage to its target.<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Effects</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll: 4d2 dmg/rds.  &lt;-  Just means 'Damage per round'. Once you cast it, it's there for a good while and won't take any Mana to support it.<br/>Cost: 20 mp</div></div><br/><em>Tangle</em>- A touched plant uses its roots or vines or branches to try to trip or grapple its target.<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Effects</div><div class="spoiler_body">Trip: Hooks the ankle, throwing the target off balance; Fail, lose 1 rd.<br/>Roll: Agi Check 9<br/>Cost: 15 mp<br/>OR<br/>Grapple: Interrupts declared-character turn; Fail: Immobile d4 rds.<br/>Roll: Per or Str Check 10<br/>Cost: 30 mp<br/></div></div><br/><em>Grass-glide</em>- Ground covering plants (grass and the like)  actually shift and move when she steps on them, carrying her slightly and causing Auhmla to move more quickly (like walking on one of those moving sidewalks (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Travelators_at_Indira_Gandhi_International_Airport%2C_Delhi.PNG) instead of walking beside it).<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Effects</div><div class="spoiler_body">+3 Agility.<br/>Note: Must be loose soil, Does not work on hard dirt or stone.<br/>Cost: 10 mp<br/></div></div><br/><b>Weapon of Choice: </b>Auhmla usually carries a staff. No, wait, that's a small tree (it really stops being a sapling when it's thicker than your fist, doesn't it?). When she isn't carrying it, she will generally set it in some loose soil and let its roots and branches spread out. She takes care of her tree and it takes care of her.<br/><b>Armor:</b>Auhmla usually wears a brocade vest (which she isn't terribly conscientious about keeping buttoned) and a matching embroidered loincloth that hangs roughly to her knees. Both are woven of dark earth-tones that set off her own hide, but with highlights of orange and green breaking up the richer, deeper browns. This is mostly for the benefit of the Academy and all the strange little folk who seem to get excited or bothered by seeing someone without clothing. More practically, she also wraps puttee-like padding above her hooves, around her shanks and her hands and forearms when she's doing heavy work or wandering around rocky ground. [Armor 5].<br/><b>Inventory:</b>1/5<br/>- Tome<br/>- An immense brown blanket/poncho with pale orange patterns (http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/2898_5.jpg), usually just rolled up tightly, that she keeps around. just in case things get too cold or she ends up sleeping somewhere so rocky that the plants won't cushion her.<br/>Tome: 0/25 [ Holds all spells or techniques not in use. You are free to exchange spells and techs as long as you are not in battle or under attack. No one can read your tome unless level 15 or higher]<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Backstory</div><div class="spoiler_body">Auhmla is a big girl even among the Voliga, but she's very easygoing - difficult to upset. She has had some middling troubles with her family; she's young enough to still have some rebellious ideas about the tribal council, and she likes plants (and among the Voliga, farming is a more masculine activity). While it might not be obvious to non-Voliga, she's something of a rebellious spirit...Probably not so apparent given that she doesn't act like a modern, human rebellious teen or college-age type! She's stubborn (as an ox?) about taking instructions from males who she disagrees with...And surrounded by smaller males she may very well just casually take charge whenever she thinks she can get away with it. ;) <br/><br/>Once it became apparent that she had more than a little innate plant-magic talent and because she was making too much of a habit of being a headache to her clan, she's been sent off to the Academy in hopes that she'll come back a little wiser and hopefully see why the world works the way it does...And what her proper place in it should be.<br/><br/>Voliga often thinks before she speaks, and when she does speak she sometimes speaks slowly, considering her words. It's easy to think she's not that smart, but if you pay attention, she is neither foolish or stupid. She just doesn't let other people rush her. The young cow is good at heart, but willing to get her hands dirty and play rough if it's absolutely necessary, particularly since she's big and beefy (anyone watching her for even a few minutes will realize that what at first looks like a lot of fat is only a comfortable and cuddly layer over a <em>great deal </em>of stocky muscle) and mostly surrounded by smaller people. She loves gardening and talking much more than fighting, and she carries a small TREE around, but it's more of a pet than a weapon. Given her 'druthers she would prefer to entangle an opponent and try to talk them out of fighting. She'll only hit them with her stick if it seems impossible to reach an agreement that doesn't involve other people (including herself) getting hurt.<br/><br/>After all, if she uses it to bash too many thick skulls, she might hurt her tree.</div></div>