<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/VjfvTWw.png)</div><strong>Taris Vannel</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=293833.msg14533999#msg14533999)<br/><strong>HP:</strong>25 / 40<strong>AC:</strong>18<strong>CMD:</strong>20<strong>Arcane Pool:</strong>5 / 6<strong>Arrows:</strong>54<strong>Posts:</strong>22<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Steinhelm<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Xara, Guardsmen, Dragon-Amulet Guy<hr/>Taris brushed her cloak back, reaching for a satchel bundled up along the small of her back.  Producing it, she showed the small leather pack to one of the guardsmen, the symbole of a serpent coiling around a winged staff marking it as a medical kit.  She gestured silently towards the fallen warrior and tapped two fingers to the side of her neck, indicating that he should check and make sure the man was dead, and stabilize him as possible.<br/><br/>Honestly, she didn't have high hopes.  She'd heard that the berzerkers of Wildlands fought like men possessed, even fighting on with mortal wounds that would stop a normal man in his tracks.  Still, she wanted to try and save his life.  Not out of mercy or anything, but because he'd be a useful source of information if they could break him ... it might require the intervention of one of the Academy's mages though.  Say what she would about this cult of sin, they had a talent for instilling fanatacism in their rank and file.<br/><br/>She raised an eyebrow at Xara when the ring symbol engraved in the berzerker's amulet.  As the captain took that first hesitant step forward though, Taris shook her head.  It might be the Captain's mission, but Taris still considered it her problem at the root.  If these people were looking for her, she didn't want them to know that she had allies yet.  She took her own confident step towards the amulet, casting detect magic and looking at the amulet's aura as she spoke.  She wanted to make sure there was no evocation magic woven into its pattern ... after seeing the explosive runes trap at the entrance she was feeling a bit cautious.<br/><br/>"Yeah, axe wounds can be inconvenient like that." Taris deadpanned, her eyes half-hooded as she cooly regarded the symbol as though the voice could see her through it.  She curled her lip a bit as she followed up that statement, her tone that of someone speaking down to garbage as she canted her head slightly to the side.<br/><br/>"I'm guessing you're some kind of big shot if this northerner wasted his dying breaths calling you." she said, crouching down and resting her arms on her knees as she got closer so that she could be heard without picking the thing up.  "Since you're having trouble breathing, I'll just say my piece."<br/><br/>"Your men targetted me, and now they're all dead.  I'm in the middle of something important, so I'd rather not waste my time with your cut-rate thugs.  Still, if you're going to insist on getting in my way, I might decide the most expedient thing to do is just kill you all."<br/><br/>She smiled a bit, her eyes taking a condescending lilt.<br/><br/>"Before you give me any bullshit about your reputation, I'd ask you to consider what sort of impact a graveyard full of your subordinates would have on it.  I hear you're even down one of the sins ... the six deadly sins doesn't really have the same ring, does it?  Well, imagine how embarrassing five would sound, it doesn't even alliterate.  Or four."<br/><br/>"You guys, of all people, should respect the kind of damage one pissed off person can do.  So, can we part amicably, or am I going to have to start sharpening some pikes?"<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/WLVeGed.png)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Memorized Spells</div><div class="spoiler_body">Cantrips:  Detect Magic, Light, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand<br/>1st Level:  <del>Magic Missile</del>, <del>Ray of Enfeeblement</del>, <del>Expeditious Retreat</del>, Obscuring Mist, Weaponwand<br/>2nd Level:  Force Sword, <del>Scorching Ray</del>, <del>Mirror Image</del></div></div>