Nharaziel, Hand of the Void Wanderer

Human (Illiaxu) · Hand of the Void Wanderer · Fantastiska Universe

Appearance

Nharaziel stands in stark and immediate contrast to the Illiaxu she came from. Where her people are typically wiry and lithe, adapted to the dim rainforest, she is now voluptuous and physically imposing, her form remade by years of Void corruption into something the blade designed rather than biology provided. Her skin is pale as cracked porcelain, pallid and fractured by fine dark lines that trace across her body, the same slow bleaching and fracturing seen in other Illiaxu who have been claimed as the Void's tribute. Her hair is pure black, and her eyes are the opposite of Illiaxu norm: solid white, pupil- and irisless, reflecting nothing. She wears form-fitting black leather armor under a heavy hooded dark cloak, her silhouette absorbed by shadow wherever the light is poor. Qazreth, what others call the Black Blade, what Nharaziel calls by name, treating it as a person rather than a weapon. When she draws upon its power, dark violet energies emanate up her arms and across her armor while her white eyes bleed faintly purple at the edges. Even sheathed, a faint smoky purple haze seeps from the blade's edge like breath from a cold mouth, curling against her hip and dissipating before it rises far.

First Impression

The hood doesn't hide her. And Qazreth at her side doesn't act like any normal weapon: the gem in the handle pulsates like it is a breathing, living thing. A thin curl of purple smoke rises from its sheath at all times, the only part of her that never holds still. Those who look into her white eyes long enough find they cannot recall, afterward, what they were thinking before they looked.