Lynnea Ymir

Veena Sage and Bug Hunter

Background

Lynnea Ymir is a Veena Viera with experience in finding and cataloguing vilekin, insects, and related bugs. This talent ws developed from years spent in the cold wilderness of the Skatay Range, honing this particular fixation after leaving her isolated mountain-dwelling tribe.When travelling, Lynnea can often be found with a rather overloaded satchel containing potions, notebooks, equipment for catching and observing insects, cartons of coffee and milpreves for simple incantations. She will almost always have a spare pare of clothes to hand, just in case there is muddy terrain to be traversed because of a gleaming carapace that is just begging to be studied! Her clothing tends towards skimpy, with a particular preference for sweater dresses and stockings, if her intolerance of warmer climes allows!Lynnea has begun developing her abilities as a Sage. Her use of spells in combat situations is aided by her rather peculiar knowledge of insect venoms, salve-making and potion crafting. She has been seen wielding brilliant white nouliths and has the ability to use these offensively and defensively, albeit in a rather rudimentary and unpracticed manner.She has also been discovering more about her heritage, coming to believe that she is related to a tribe of Veena exiles. Journals she has found so far indicate that these outcasts believed strongly in the power of ice-aspected magicks and in the use of transformative salves, medicines, potions and spells to attain a form that one is happy with. Lynnea has been studying their teachings and looking to apply them where she can.Lynnea Ymir is a trans woman, having chosen to sculpt her body in a specific way, resulting in a shape that further accentuates the natural bulky and zaftig body type of her tribe. At all times, a dark leather collar with a firm locking mechanism can be seen around her neck. This is an ornate accessory, inlaid and decorated with gold and silver filigree, and one that shows she is special to someone else.

Free time? Bug time!

Interests

Lynnea enjoys her entomological interests - especially when there is a particularly good vilekin nearby! A neat beetle, a glowing firefly, or a pretty pink butterfly is a perfect excuse to make conversation with her, and she's often followed by a pink Morpho. Her interests in bugs and creepy crawlies has led to her having numerous dealings with the Gridanian Entomological Society through which she undertakes freelance work including finding specimens, recording the location of insect hives and providing services as a guide for those seeking to fight larger vilekin! She also works for the Hawthornes as an apiculturist at The Honey Yards and has been able to supplement her income via fortunate discoveries of rare and valuable insects.Having spent much time alone, she can be taken by the urger to socialise every now and then, but has a tendency to do this in a very binary manner where she's either in charge or completely at the whims of another. Lynnea also wears her emotions clearly and proudly, including more negative feelings and sentiments.When not out in the wilderness ensuring her fancy skimpy choices of clothing become grass stained and caked with mud, she loves spending time in cafes (lattes are a particular favourite) trying exotic blends and reading a whole range of books – from in depth scientific reports to trashy, romantic erotica (particularly any involving Elezen women!).To pay for those books, lattes and expeditions to stumble across a particularly good snail, Lynnea also sells tinctures and potions she's created from insect parts and products, and also undertakes account keeping and the production of scientific diagrams. She also draws for leisure, but these pieces are best described as informative and formal, rather than artistic!Lynnea's interest in potions and salves stems from her upbringing in an isolated Veena tribe in the colder regions of the Skatay Range where this art was taught. She has recently been investigating members of her tribe that left while she was a kit to pursue a more liberal approach to life and the pursuit of magicks involved in the preservation of life, ice manipulation, and spellcraft for body transformation. This has also involved becoming familiar with nouliths wielded by members of her tribe and researching somanoutics. Any hint of discovering more about these people - through journals, historical records or anecdotes - is sure to steal her attention!

People can be tricky!

Personality and Relationships

Lynnea has a slight tendency to be proud and a little arrogant and often puts her entomological interests first. However, an epoch of loneliness in the wilderness means that she has developed great patience – such a trait certainly helps when one needs to spend bell after bell observing and categorising insects! - and her instinctive wariness and baseless dislike of smaller races is often managed relatively skilfully as a result. Lynnea holds other Veena in high regards and this courtesy is extended to Rava too. She has a complete weakness for Elezen women, often changing her opinions (unless they concern vilekin or her loved one) to agree with an Elezen that she considers to be particularly aesthetically pleasing or displaying personality traits that she finds agreeable.She might initially be a little standoffish with other races, but it isn't too tricky to win her over with a few cups of expensive coffee blends, the promise of spending time looking for bugs, or chatting about smutty novels. So long as anyone keen on her company can put up with a few derisive snorts and smirks and moments where her imagination wanders, leading her to ask rather direct and sometimes all too personal questions.Due to her upbringing and leaving the coldness of her home on bad terms, family and mothers can be a particular sore spot for this Veena, drawing forth more guarded and wary reactions. The time she spent alone was geared very much towards isolation and survival. When the going gets tough in combat situations, this redheaded bun's first instincts tend towards running, hiding and avoiding anything getting worse - fighting is a last resort!Lynnea is in a devoted relationship with Phoenix Lormark, a tall and mysteriously guarded Duskwight woman. Although the two are equals, Lynnea shows this commitment and her loyalty by wearing an ornate collar decorated with silver and gold leaf reliefs. She cannot remove this, nor does she wish to given the strength of their relationship.

Character information

Gender: Feminine (trans woman)
Age: Early 30s
RP hooks: Slice of life, adventuring and hunting for bugs, developing survival skills, specific knowledge regarding Veena tribes or Sage magicks sought, cafes, chatting about books, combat healer.
ERP: Flirting, charged scenes and adult conversations are fine, but this won't lead anywhere beyond teasing and denial due to Lynnea being taken.
Please be 21+ if looking to get in touch for RP!Items:
Salve-makers satchel – Lynnea was raised in a tribe that highly prized being able to extract active compounds from a range of sources, turning these into potent lotions, tinctures and fluids. She is also well versed in insect toxins and can weave these into the concoctions that she makes.
When unable to wield her Nouliths, Lynnea will tend to use thrown vials or applied salves in combat. These allow for her to apply non-magical restorative effects to allies and to impair enemies with damaging effects. For example, corrosive tinctures on mechanical or heavily armored foes or choking gas on enemies that breath through the air.Spare change of clothes – She’s used to spending days in the wilderness, traversing through awkward terrain. It’s handy to keep a few spare sets.Entomologist’s kit – Scalpels, scissors, small knives, magnifying glasses, gloves, protective netting preserving balms and components for traps. Some of these items can be used for melee combat in a pinch.Hag stones – Separate from her Nouliths, Lynnea has three simple milpreves, or hag stones. These allow her to channel aether-based healing spells at range.

Combat details:
Noulith manipulation – Lynnea has the ability to command modified milpreves that function as Nouliths, allowing for the manipulation of aether and similar energies to both debilitate foes and heal allies.These Nouliths are unlike those used by more traditional Sharlayan sages and appear to have been crafted by the combination of hag stones specifically worn by the application of wind, water and ice, depleted auracite, and brilliant white sands from The Burn. When in use, they appear to be of a pointed shape with a shimmering glowing white colour.Lynnea's nouliths can be disabled by appropriate counter magic, by blunt damage or from well targeted firearm shots.Desperate fight - Lynnea can respond to an attempt to engage her in melee combat by bearing her fanged eye teeth, slashing nails and kicking.Rarely dressed for the right occasion – Lynnea does not relish combat and will do her best to avoid these situations. She’s also a bit fashion conscious, for better or worse and in this case it’s definitely for the worse.Unskilled and afraid – Lynnea managed to survive on her own by avoiding combat and this gives her an instinct to run and hide.Dazed and confused – Veena don’t do particularly well when surprises are sprung on them and Lynnea’s nerves don’t handle sudden and unexpected actions well, particularly related to combat.

Traits:
Isveena heritage – Lynnea's parents were from an offshoot tribe of Veena exiles. Due to their practices, she is naturally susceptible to transformation, seduction and corrupting magicks but also very resistant to the cold.Entomologist – Lynnea Ymir has always been interested in bugs.
After leaving her tribe, she spent over an epoch categorizing and studying bugs native to Skatay Range. She has continued in this passion, turning it into a way of life through selling of rare insect parts and detailed sketches, gathering and curating specific information on these creatures, and being aware of migratory patterns.Preservationist – Lynnea has been developing her abilities in a magickal art that bears some resemblance to Eorzean somanoutics, though this is more focused on the teaching of exiles from her tribe and integrates her knowledge of insectoid defenses.Survivalist – Having spent a decade of her life living off the land by herself, Lynnea is well adjusted to surviving colder climates. In outdoor environments Lynnea will be able to manoeuvre swiftly through difficult terrain involving woodland, heights, rocky terrain, ice or snow.Nature’s harmony – Lynnea will not take offensive actions against animal or insect-like creatures without first being attacked or threatened. She is still able to provide guidance and suggestions to others in such situations.Moral convictions – Due to her moral code surrounding the “White Word” that she adheres to, Lynnea is highly opposed to unnecessary suffering but is strident in that some malignancies must be exterminated to preserve balance.