My Oc - Ilyrana Lightshiver

Full Name: Ilyrana Lightshiver

Nickname: Ily, Rana

Parents: Garrik Lightshiver, Shi'larra Autmnfire

Siblings: Copper tribe elves

Age: 91

Species: Wood Elf

Relationship status: Taken

Abilities/Powers:
Bow Mastery - Such is tradition in the majority of Elven culture, Ilyrana has been trained to use the most basic and one of the most silent of weapons since the age of three, making the young elf an excellent marksmen and leathal apponent with a bow and arrow. Though she usually only uses it for hunting, should she need too, she can use the tool for stealth attacks and quick kills.
Huntsman - Despite being raised in Tirion, a hilltop city built by Elves that is saidto have sand like streets made from diamond dust, the young elf took up the art of hunting in order to become closer to Nature.

Elven Magic - Though not considered a Master of the craft, Ilyrana is skilled in Elven magic. Going by the teachings of her Elders, she was taught to use her Fea (spirit) in such a way that she is able to heal others, including but not limited to life threatening injures. Although she cannot bring someone back from the dead, as necromancy is shunned in elven culture unless practiced by the much darker blood and dark elves, she has been known to use her powers to restore life to other living things such as plants and on very few occasions, small animals.

Melee Mastery - Though she prefers knives, the young elf has mastered various other forms of melee weapons, including the bo staff, various daggers, the guandao and tonfa. Though she carries very little with her when she travels, mostly just a hunting knife, her bow, a quiver and often a staff.

Stealth - Due to her capabilities as a huntsman and her ever evolving understanding of magic, Ilyrana is capable of blending in with just about any landscape. Wether it be hiding amongst trees or disappearing into a sandstorm, sometimes even using her limited subterfuge abilites to fool a being's mind into not seeing her, even as she stands nose to nose with them, she is often difficult to track and even harder to find when she does not wish to be found.

Horse riding - Having been her primary source of travel since she was young, Ilyrana is able to ride a horse on an expert level. While some attribute her excellent skill with the beasts to her Elvish heritage and kind treatment of animals, the elf will simply shake her head and attribute her ability to years of practice.

Equipment:

Elven Bow - A carefully crafted Yew bow with ornate carvings along the arches. Considering the young woman's background and love of nature, the specially crafted bow depicts vines wrapping around the soft colored wood, it's leaves spreading out as if reaching for the sun when held correctly.

Quiver of Arrows - These hand made arrows often have stone or steel tips, the fletchings made of goose feathers. The quiver itself made of hardened leather and having the same vine like pattern branded into it, can hold up to twenty arrows. Due to this, ten of the arrows are plain, while the other ten have intricate carvings and often symbols carved into them in order to enhance whatever magic the archer uses with them.

Hunting knife - The handle of the blade, much like her bow, is inlaid with a silver and gold vine pattern that wraps around the whole of the handle. The blade itself is made from Mithril, a metal known only to the Elven people.

Bo Staff - A staff made of white oak and adorned with vine like carvings, intertwining with various elven symbols and flowers. Though mostly used as a melee weapon or a walking staff, it can be used to channel Ilyrana's magical abilites or Fea

Bio: Ilyrana Lightshiver spent most of her happy childhood in a small village of Woodelves like herself, where her father was the chieftan of the lands known as Ambo-O Kal. The young elf spent her days frolicking in the lush greend fields and hunting with her father as well as others within the shelter of the trees. As she grew, so did her curiosity for all things natural, including the mysteries of the ocean that surrounded their island home andfurther up the coast, the sparkling white city of the Elves. Despite the cheiftan's wishes, the young girl could often be found at the beach, playing in the waves and practicing the magic passed down from the Elders when she wasn't helping out within the village itself or hunting with her father.

As time passed and the child came to her adolecence, so did the world around her change.The normally peaceful people became forcefully engaged in a war with an invading armyof Orcs, trolls and other viscious creatures led by the formidable Adar -o gurth or Father of death. It was then that the village of Wood or Copper elves as some called them were forced to the glistening city of the elves to seek refuge. One village out of hundreds that had separated themselves and once lived in harmony with the Earth and nature around them now sought shelter within the marble walls, though even this would not last long.

As one last push, Adar -o gurth attacked the city, felling the walls and infiltrating the kingdom but the High Elves were already steps ahead of them. Having sent ships of their own people as well as refugees out to the ocean in order to spread them out and send them to new homes within their own realm and without. On one of those ships, looking out toward the home that she once loved and adored and watching as, due to one final act of magic and perseverance by those wishing to keep Ambo o- Kal a secret, the terrain around the mythical city crumbled and fell into the ocean, leaving only a single white spire behind.

With the final memory of her home and a heavy heart, the ship that carried Ilyrana and many others, none of which had been within her village before, crossed the veil into the realm of humans and drifted ashore, depositing the refugees into a new land where magic like theirs was seldom seen and often sought after. Using her skills as a hunter, the Fea bestowed upon her from birth and a small arsenal passed down from her father consisting of a Yew or Elven Bow, a quiver of arrows, her hunting knife and her bo staff, the young woman set out to make a place for herself in this mysterious new world.

At first, she stuck to the forests, but the more contact she began to have with humans, she began to realize that there was more to this place than she had thought. However, that did not stop her from remaining in the forest, moreso for her safety than anything else. It was while she was living there that she met a little girl that had gotten lost within.

After having calmed the girl and made sure that she was taken care of, she helped the young woman back to the entrance. It was there that she met the young woman's father and while she was a little confused as to the way she felt about him, never really explored such feelings before but the more time she spent around him and Katie, the more the bond seemed to grow. She was happy, happier than she had been upon first leaving her home at least.

While the woman did have her own reservations, especially when it came to invading personal space that didn't stop her from growing ever closer to Will and Katie. Eventually, she did find herself allowing their relationship to become intimate. It was shortly after this, however that she was approached by the King of Elves who ordered her home. The young Silvan elf didn't have a choice, she didn't have the opportunity to tell her new found partner about what was going on, instead having to disappear into the night in order to return to her own realm.

The young woman was used to being looked down upon, what she was not prepared for Thranduil to berate her, forbid her from seeing Will again, assuming that he was 'mortal'. It was around that time, while they were preparing for one final stand in order to attempt to take her home land back that it was discovered that she was pregnant. Instead of allowing the woman on the front lines, she was given a role with the officers, planning their movements and assisting them with whatever they needed until the baby was born.

It was then that Ilyrana found out that Thranduil had planned to take the baby and raise it in the Silver City. At first she had thought nothing of it, accepting it for what was presented. An opportunity for a Silvan elf to be adopted into the Royal family but as time went on, it became evident that Thranduil wanted nothing more than another serving boy. By that time there was nothing she could do about it, the young man was already a part of palace life and though she had always been close to the Prince, that didn't seem to help her or her son much.

Finally, the war came to a head and Ilyrana joined the front lines. Bow and daggers in hand, the young woman fought for her home in hopes to reclaim at least what was left of her home. It was all for naught, however. The Orcs were too many and the elves, not enough. They failed in their mission and when all was said and done, Ily was allowed to return to the human realm. She begged and pleaded to be allowed to take her son with her, but Thranduil would not allow it.

The Elf returned, finding herself heartbroken and afraid of what she would find after being gone so long. It didn't help that she had become attached to a Dwarf that reminded her so much of Will, when the man had died she found herself mourning him as one would mourn a lover. She remained in the forest once again, until Will came across her once more while she was hunting.

She nearly ran, the woman terrified of what he might think or say but upon seeing him again, her feelings for him came flooding back and she found herself running straight into his arms. She knew it was rather uncharacteristic for her, as was the fact that she cuddled into his arms when they finally got home and made sure that Katie was okay. She's been living with him ever since, helping him to raise the son that he helped her rescue from Thranduil's clutches and their youngest daughter, Arwyn.


Face Claim: Evangaline Lily