Azure d'Allorey



"This time i won't fail. I will protect them. ALL of them!"

Azure d'Allorey was a former student of Beacon Academy until it was destroyed. Now she roams with her Team through the swamps of Mistral. She is a defensive warrior, armed with the shield "Faithkeeper" and the dust-infused sword "Wyrmbane". Coming from an old line of grim Huntsmen she would sacrifice everything to keep the citizens of Remnant safe.

Appearance
Azure is a human at the age of 20. She is a grim beauty with pale white skin, standing 176 cm tall, her dark brown hair often worn in a ponytail. Her blue eyes are watching strictly the training sessions of her team, shining proud when accomplishing another step on her road to perfection or burning with wrath when facing the vile creatures of Grimm.

As a Huntress of the d'Allorey family, she wears the traditional colours of her house in the field: A blue battle skirt, above it a steel cuirass, covered by a bright blue tabard. At the tabard is the sign of her family weaved - a white dragon entwining a silver sword. Her legs are protected by steel greaves, her feet by dark leather boots and arms are kept safe by shining steel pauldrons and rerebraces. Her hands are wrapped in leather gloves. As always, every piece of armor is perfectly polished, everything is in perfect shape.

When she isn't on a mission, she can be seen wearing a pair of dark blue jeans with a white blouse, her feet often covered by sneakers.

Personality
As someone who hails from the family called the "inventors of gloom and harshness" Azure is a strict perfectionist, always looking for new ways to improve herself on her way to absolute perfection of all her skills. Carried by a moral code of honor, truth and protection for those who can't protect themselves, she developes a burning hatred for any kind of shameful, cowardly or dishonorable behavior. But this code also makes her at some times extremely stubborn when it comes to dealing with other opinions.

As a Huntress she will protect everyone who needs help, she will save any life that needs saving. Though being a rather calm person, she is highly idealistic and believes that knightly, honorful behavior and striding for perfection is the only way to save humanity and all of Remnant from evil.

Personal Story
Born as the heiress of the old family of d‘Allorey, Azure was raised to become a weapon against humanity’s foes – the creatures of Grimm. She was from childhood on trained in the art of swordsmanship, in the skills of tracking and hunting her prey. Due to her mother’s influence she wasn’t trained only in the physical and intellectual skills but also about the importance to cultivate and preserve the fine arts of music and poetry. Her teachers remarked always her iron will to erase her mistakes and improve herself until perfection is reached. She never gave up when there was a challenge to prove her mastery and if she failed, she returned later and mastered the task after weeks of zealous training.

The d’Allorey’s were called “eccentrics”, “living in the past” and “pessimists” for unceasingly hunting the beasts of the wilderness, so they secluded themselves after the Great War from the other citizens of Vale. They retreated to their own property and stayed there. They trained. They tracked. And they hunted Grimm.

Bound by her unshakable will to succeed, to protect those who need protection and to create new masterpieces of beauty, Azure continued to increase her skills in battle and in art. And when her father gave to her the ancestor weapons of her family as a sign of reached mastery within her home, she went to the one place, where she could become even stronger – the Academy of Beacon.

Lived a lonely life with only her family around her gave her problems at first – this place was so different from what she knew – but she did everything to gain knowledge and understanding of the people around her. She saw a new challenge, a new way to show how far she has come. She had now a new home to protect. There were new people who needed help. <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.75pt;">She wouldn’t falter. She wouldn’t fail. She would protect all of them!

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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: DE">3 Years later (after Beacon's Fall)
<p style="font-weight:normal;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">They were sitting in a little bar at a small village in Mistral. It has been some time now since they lost their home. The home she had sworn to protect.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">In the end she was barely able to safe her team from the destruction of Beacon. How many other students may have died there? <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.75pt;">They evacuated after that bright flash on top of Beacon Tower. Azure hadn’t the slightest clue what happened there. But Team ARDN survived and somehow they found themselves here – in the Grimm infested swamps of Mistral.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">“Tomorrow we will hunt again … our duty hasn’t ended with Beacon’s fall.” 

Family
<p style="font-weight:normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Brun d'Allorey - father (43) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Bistre d'Allorey -mother (39) 

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Friends
<p style="font-weight:normal;">Regalia Conti (TBA)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Carnelia von Dornenfeldt (TBA)

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Nicole "Nick" McCarric (TBA)

Weapons
<p style="font-weight:normal;">Azure wields the Ancestral Weapons of her family - the Longsword "Wyrmbane" and the Shield "Faithkeeper".

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Wyrmbane is a steel longsword, that can be infused with lightning dust crystals to gain a mid-range attack against e.g. flying creatures. It shouldn't be used for too long time or otherwise the electricity grows too much and can harm the wielder or any bystanders.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Faithkeeper is a greater steel shield which can take massive ammounts of damage due to the ability to be channeled with the bearers aura. It is said that as long as the faith of it's bearer isn't broken, the shield won't break too. If it is a legend or the truth can't be said for sure but until now the shield is perfectly intact and undamaged. <p style="font-weight:normal;">

Semblance
<p style="font-weight:normal;">Azure's Semblance is called "Reinforcing the Steel". With it she can temporarily infuse not only her aura, but her entire will and faith into Faithkeeper and strenghten it to repell all incoming attacks regardless how strong they are. Sadly, while doing so, Azure isn't able to move or attack any enemies due to the need of concentration while channeling her willpower. <p style="font-weight:normal;">

Fighting Style
<p style="font-weight:normal;">When attacked, Azure will stand her ground, letting the enemy charge at her. Due to Faithkeepers strenght and her own stubborness, she will endure all attacks that batter her shield. Wyrmbane will crash down at the attackers head until their skull is broken or they retreat. Against flying creatures like Nevermores she will use the lightning dust infusion the gain a ranged attack against them. She won't use it to totally obliterate the enemy but to force them to land so she and her team can attack them without risking an overcharge of Wyrmbane.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">She isn't an agile fighter and her attacks may lack overwhelming power but she is the most steadfast huntress of Team ARDN and their bullwark against anything trying to harm them. As long as her faith is unbroken, Azure will stand her ground.

Trivia

 * Azure isn't based on a particular historical figure but on the concept of knighthood and chivalry itself. She seeks perfection in combat and art, protect the innocent and weak and takes nearly nothing in return.
 * The Infusion of Wyrmbane is based on the Lightning weakness of dragons (= flying enemies) in the Souls-series.

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