Liath Azure



Appearance
Whilst not the tallest or broadest of men, Liath has a lean body wrapped in hard muscles given long hours of training.

His face is somewhat slender, with high cheekbones, a sharp nose and jawline, piercing blue eyes, as well as thin lips. He has shortish, spikey light brown hair that is swept back out of his face, save for a couple bangs that fall down the sides of his head, and has a small amount of scruff on his chin. The rightmost of these has a few brightly coloured beads through it. He also has three small brass rings through his upper left ear.

His chosen combat attire is a long unhooded robe of deep Azure blue cloth, with a sash of golden silk around his waist and three different pouches then attached to that; two on his right side, one on his left. The robe opens at the waist both on the front and back to allow for easy movement, and ends just below his knees. The edges of these opened areas are boardered with a lighter Azure blue cloth. Liath has since stitched the sleeves so they are permanently rolled up to  his elbows, allowing for more comfortable casting.

He wears brown combat pants, cut to three quarters in length and bloused over boots that end just beneath his knees.

Completing his look are the dual, fingerless dust casting gloves. Made of softened leather, they stretch almost all the way up to his elbows and have lightweight metal plates bolted to the outer forearm to afford him some protection. Each casting glove has three dust crystals socketed to the backhand side. Given previous experiences, Liath wraps his hands and forearms in bandages before donning the gloves. This hides the several long and thin scars he has patterning both his arms.

Back Story
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Personality
Liath is a confident and smart man. He likes the company of his friends over being alone, but prefers to be when he's working or studying. He's a calm individual, almost never loosing his temper with even the most challenging of people.

He's a cheerful and kind sort, never shy to offer help to a friend or anyone really, and is quick to smile and laugh. His tendancy to make tactless and blunt comments can make his life difficult from time to time, though he doesn't seek fights needlessly and will often try to defuse situations between friends and strangers with words first before throwing any fists.

Whilst not the most outgoing person, Liath knows how to make friends. Given the situation he's found himself in at Beacon, he tries to get along as well as he can with his teammates.

When fighting, Liath is absolutely silent. No battle cry's or feral snarls; just a simple cold silence. He does not wear a smile or a snarl, his face is blank and eyes vacant. To him, violence is an ugly necessity, and one that he is slowly and rather terrifyingly starting to enjoy.

He is not shy or overly self conscious, and is quiet open about his body, including the scars on his forearms which he quite proudly admits to earning during training a few years prior to his attendance at Beacon.

The religion of his people is something he clings to tightly, it being one of the few links back home he has. The tenets of which do not stop him from living life like a normal teenager should, and he very rarely references it. He does not elaborate on it, and the most quite a few people hear of them is when he swears to beings only referred to as the "Old Lords".

Equipment
Caster Gloves: simple fingerless leather gloves with three dust crystals socketed into the back hand section, arranged with two smaller crystals flanking a larger central crystal. The Crystals Liath uses are as follows, from right to left in terms of socketing; On his left hand - Thunder, Fire, Wind. On his right - Earth, Ice, Gravity.

Foci: What appears to be a simple cylinder, grooved to provide good grip. It is one foot long, and can extend to double that length. It is held in a sheath of sorts attached to the side of the left most pouch.

In addition to his weapons, he also carries a couple of useful tools and other items in his pouches.

Fighting style & Skills
Liath is a caster, using dust to annihilate any foe on the battlefield. Be it throwing shards of ice or fireballs from afar, smashing his enemies with lances of earth, or slicing them to bits using razor wind, Liath is exceptionally deadly at any range. He prefers the thrill of close quarters fighting, and given his adoption of the style some eight years previously, he has proven to be an incredibly capable kickboxer.

In regards to weapons training, Liath was taught how to use a variety of blades, pole-arms, and firearms in the pursuit of finding his style. Whilst it quickly became obvious his interests lay almost completely with dust, he continued to train in advanced sword and pole-arm techniques using broadswords and halberds.

In order to allow him focus as a caster, he carries no weapons made of steel that would otherwise occupy his hands, and opted for a rather more versatile method. Foci was given the name simply because that is what it is; a focus point. Liath creates a weapon of ice, using Foci as a start point for him to hold with ease. Given the focus of his weapons training, this will either be a broadsword when Foci is in it's more compact mode, or a halberd when in it's extended mode.

Given his extended childhood education of dust, he has an excellent grasp of it, and is capable of rather advanced techniques. Most noteworthy of these would be his ability to create weapons out of ice. Given the path taken to learn this tricky art, Liath is excellent at making minaret's of ice, with exceptionally fine detail. He enjoys making them, and will regularly indulge in this somewhat peculiar hobby whenever he's too bored.

Trivia
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