Original Characters Compendium

A list with descriptions and references of my original characters that I'm working into a story. It's set in a mostly medieval time period but with influences from all of America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

In no order: Nature, Morbie, Malic, Demeter, Eryth, Ragnhild, and Bai Li. 

NATURE
A beautiful and terrible buddha. She's an allegory of, um, nature. The metal spikes implanted in her exposed  brain allude to the expanding threat of modern civilization. She is at times serene but can be provoked to great anger with little effort. She cares little for others, helping them only when it keeps the balance of the planet and prefers the presence of animals to humans. You will rarely see her outside her enlightened (six armed) form. As a buddha, she can control the forces of the earth at will.

Physique: Curvy!

Clothing: Barely matters. If she wears any at all, it would be animal furs and hides, feathers, or Native American/African inspired. Usually orange, green, and sharp reds. 

Weapons: Bow and arrow and/or jagged metal whip. 

Enlightened and angry

Passive

MORBIE
A bodhisattva (buddha who seeks enlightenment for the purpose to help others), Morbie has a quiet but self-assured nature. Morbie is an allegory of the universe (hence the six eyes) and can alter time and space. She was much more uncertain and shy before reaching Nirvana. Her enlightened form is only slightly more aggressive than her passive, human form. Her likes and dislikes are unknown (except she likes the color purple). When passive, she poses as an acolyte at a much lower level of buddhahood than she really is.

Physique: Standard. Not too thin, not too thick.

Weapons: A strange double-sided blade. I made up a name for it, but completely forgot :)

Clothing: WHEN ENLIGHTENED: If any, her legs and two of her six arms have long blue gloves/tights, her waist is adorned with jewels, and there are rings in her hair. WHEN PASSIVE: acolyte garb (plain white smock (SEE CLOTHING MEME)). During her past lives, before her quest for buddhahood, her hair was often long and left down. This is unimportant.

*The eyes are not static. They can move fluidly to anywhere on her body.

Passive, acolyte 

Enlightened

All forms

Passive, acolyte

Enlightened

Enlightened

Acolyte garb

MALIC
A normal human male born to the chieftess Ragnhild of a tribe of Scandinavian/Nordic-inspired warrior women. Always excluded and shunned by most of the tribe, he was raised as a scholar (since the role of warrior is exclusively for women) and is used to adventuring alone. Nonetheless he is good with a double-sided blade like the one Morbie wields. Malic likes talking, joking, exploring, and learning.

Physique: Slim but built.

Weapons: Double-sided blade.

Clothing: Varies, see examples. A mix of Gaelic and Roman influences.

His hair is usually scruffy and bothers everyone but him. Beard optional.

Alternate-universe Malic, as he appears with KuriosiTKat's Fumiru

Malic and his eventual wife, Demeter

Malic during one of his solo excursions

Younger Malic

DEMETER
A pretty girl from a boring village. She is at first a pacifist and her only talents are domestic, however, she is a good songstress. Demeter eventually begins to wield a ball and chain to defend herself after an assault which broke her arm. Malic's mother Ragnhild at first despises her and her domestic female tendencies, but trains her in the ways of battle. She joins the royal army and becomes a high-ranking commander.

Physique: Well-proportioned. Standard.

Clothing: Simple pretty dresses. Eventually she dons armor.

Weapons: A ball-and-chain.

Her arm has the tendency to be bitten off.

RAGNHILD
Malic's mother, chief of his tribe. She is very masculine in her personality and behaviour but resists the custom of her tribe to banish all males and raises Malic anyway. Ragnhild was previously named Yrgi ("George"). Her affection for her son rarely shows, but it's there.

Physique: Muscular.

Clothing: A mix of Viking, Gaelic druid, Roman, and Valkyrie influences. Usually sports armor and long skirts, a fur capelet, and twigs and flowers in her hair.

Weapons: Two swords.

In battle gear

ERYTH THE WHITE KNIGHT
An allegory of erythrocytes (white blood cells). Her hair is adorned with flowers and her face is hidden by a six-slitted mask, resembling the eyes of buddhas. The similarities are unclear.

Physique: Muscular.

Clothing: Armor.

Weapons: A long sword.

Crappy sketch!

BAI LI
An acolyte like Morbie, however only his third eye is open. He is a warrior monk who wields choa (or chui),  double melon hammers. He is very stoic, serious, and silent. He had a male lover who passed away and he's never engaged in a relationship since.

Physique: Very muscular.

Clothing: Simple monk garb, maybe some talismans and beads.

Weapons: Double melon hammers.

A note on Nirvana: the process of reaching enlightenment requires living many lives as "tests" and surpassing each one. One key to truth (represented as an eye) is opened for each test. Non-enlightened beings naturally have two eyes, and an initiate has three. The sixth eye is the hardest of all to attain. How an individual finds truth is up to them - there is no one single path.