Character Sheets

Long ago, Akane, who didn't share the common affection of her kin for ranged combat, learned to wield a far more impressive weapon in her opinion – a huge katana, capable of easily severing the limbs of her enemies. She enjoyed fighting and liked battles; she often watched with pleasure the deadly clashes of students. She herself had achieved some success in mastering her favorite weapon.
Everything would have been wonderful if not for a couple of peculiarities in her personality, about which Akane preferred to remain silent.
She felt uncomfortable in the company of admirers of Darkness, whose black influence changed the familiar yoru to, as it seemed to her, an unrecognizable state. His shadow haunted Akane's people, like a thundercloud, and she also could not shake the feeling that a pair of black eyes were watching her, and their owner was ready to reach out and touch her soul at any moment.
Akane didn't like men at all; she was disgusted by their courtship, and she couldn't even think about anything more. But girls, good friends and just acquaintances, made her heart beat faster... After experiencing cold rejection a couple of times, Akane didn't dare to tell anyone else about her feelings.
To no one, except for a follower of the Fox, who, after listening to the crying girl, laughing, put fluffy fox ears on her head and advised her not to despair, but to follow her own path. Thus, Akane accepted the Fox, who seemed to her to be the ideal companion.
At the end of the training, a group of ten of the best warriors, led by one of the masters, was sent on a certain mission: a well-guarded caravan of a Sylvian merchant was to pass within three days' journey from the border; the task was to kill them all, the guards and the merchant.
Akane was lucky enough to join the group, although she was sure that she was not worthy.
Everything happened too quickly; the six guards of the caravan did not have time to do absolutely anything against the young assassins and their deadly teacher. Akane didn't even have time to run to the wagons by the time all the members of the caravan were dead. All except for a girl, the merchant's daughter, who was running away into the forest, screaming. The warriors laughed loudly, watching as one of them chased after her with a dagger in his hand. Akane rushed after him, but the teacher shouted at her:
- Akane Hana! This is not your prey!
- My weapon is clean! - The girl raised a katana shining in the starlight. - You did everything too quickly.
The teacher grinned contentedly.
- Go! - He waved his hand. - Return quickly; we need to leave.
The girl found them a minute after she ran into the forest; the young man had nailed the merchant's daughter's hand to a tree with a knife and was saying something that made her afraid to even cry, looking with a mad gaze at her tormentor. Hana's heart ached at this sight, and she suddenly understood why she had rushed after the young assassin.
Akane Hana had to decide. There was no more time to hesitate.
Focusing, the girl flew out from behind the tree and rushed towards her former acquaintance. The katana flashed in the night, and the hand of the assassin, who did not expect such a turn of events, flew to the ground; he only managed to turn his head before it, with an expression of anger and pain frozen on his face, rolled along the ground.
Pulling out the dagger and grabbing the even more frightened girl by the healthy hand, she ran forward, deeper into the forest, where her former friends would not find her. In the morning, she found herself on the ground near a large tree, where they had stopped to rest; her head hurt badly from the blow, and Akane needed some time to get to her feet. The merchant's daughter did not lose her head; she took the first opportunity to escape, while ensuring her safety from pursuit.
- Well, now I am completely alone, - said the girl and quietly cried.
Later, during her aimless wanderings, she learned that the Kro Empire was looking for volunteers.

Name: Akane Hana
Nationality: Yoru
Religion: Fox
Characteristics: 30:0:0:5 - 0:0:0:80
Skills:
Two-Handed Weapon Proficiency
I Allows the use of two-handed weapons of rank I
II Allows the use of two-handed weapons of rank II
Katana Mastery: increases initiative when using "fast" two-handed weapons
Power Strike (activated skill): deals a blow with a power bonus, which requires 50% more action points than a normal blow

Martial Arts
I Increases the character's vitality by 30
Swift as Lightning: increases speed and initiative

Inventory:
Katana, light armor, money, a few sweet apples(mmm... this is very tasty!)