I am no Knight; I am no Saint.
A Dalmascan freedom fighter and a doting adoptive mother.
Basics
■ PRONUNCIATION: ash-LA LAR-tay
■ NICKNAMES: Snips (Restricted)
■ RACE & CLAN: Dalmascan Hyur
■ GENDER: Female
■ APPARENT AGE: 18
■ ACTUAL AGE: 27
■ NAMEDAY: 4th Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon
■ ORIENTATION: Demisexual, Bisexual, Polyamourous
■ MARITAL STATUS: Divorced, not looking
■ NATIONALITY: Dalmascan
■ CITIZENSHIP: Dalmascan, Bozjan, Ul'dahn
■ FAMILY: Nakil (father) and Pavti (mother) who own Larte Textiles in Shilli Village, Giza Plains, Dalmasca; Edith Larte (adoptive daughter).
■ RESIDENCE: The Goblet, Ul'dah; Rabanastre, Dalmasca
■ OCCUPATION: Former Rebel, Current Countess
■ PATRON DEITY: Faram
■ HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5', 3" (162.6cm)/110 ponze
■ ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good
Physical Appearance
■ EYES: Bright Sapphire Blue
■ HAIR: Navy Blue & White
■ SKIN: Deeply Tanned
■ BUILD: Petite, Lithe, Athletic, Boyish
■ VOICE: Higher Alto, Melodic
■ BEARING: Animated, Confident, Lithe
■ LATERALITY: Ambidextrous
■ SCARS: None
■ MARKINGS: Tribal Tattoos
■ STYLE: Functional & Stylish
Psychological Information
Although she grew up in the shadows of a religious organisation, Ashla has an active rebellious streak that existed even before the occupation of Dalmasca. She and her Mentor bent or outright broke many rules during their time together. The ruling body of their order branded her Mentor's teaching methods unorthodox, but it couldn't deny the results the pair could produce.Her training provided some tempering of her wild nature, however. She was growing up while training as what amounts to a holy knight, despite her Mentor's unorthodox methods, had an effect. She can recentre herself quickly, especially out of combat, though she can do so effectively.Her time as a commander with the Dalmascan forces before the occupation has also given her some level-headedness, both in combat and outside of it.One of the few things she retains from the traditions of her village is that she prefers going barefoot but finds doing so impossible in most instances. At the insistence of society and her mentor, she has grown somewhat accustomed to wearing shoes or boots but goes barefoot when she can get away with it.
Philosophical Information
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.There is no fear; there is power.I am the heart of the Star.I am the revealing fire of Light.I am the mystery of Darkness.In balance with chaos and harmony, Immortal in the Lifestream.
Vocal Information
Her voice has a melodic quality, though she seems unaware primarily of it outside of when she's singing. With its higher alto tones while still retaining a distant sense of tenors, many people find her speaking voice soothing - when she's not excitable, that is.The tonal qualities of her voice also tend to betray her earnestness and her concern for others. This leads to people having an odd tendency to trust her quickly and start baring their souls long before she's willing to.
Personal Information
■ PROFESSION: Holy Knight/Sword Saint
■ HOBBIES: Acrobatics, Acting, Astrology, Philosophising, Combat Competition, Fishing, Reading, Research, Art Appreciation, Painting, Music (Appreciation, Writing), Singing, Dancing, Storytelling, Invention, Metalworking, Weaving, Woodworking, Writing
■ LANGUAGES: Eorzean, Dalmascan, Ivalician/High Ivalician, Garlean
■ RELIGION: The Light of Kiltia
■ RESIDENCE: The East Shroud, The Black Shroud; The Goblet, Ul'dah
■ BIRTHPLACE: Shilli, Dalmasca
■ FEARS: Injustice
■ Weaponry: 1H Swords, Chakram, Nouliths
Mannerisms
extroverted / introverted / in between
disorganised / organised / in between
close minded / open-minded / in between
calm / anxious / in between
disagreeable / agreeable / in between
cautious / reckless / in between
patient / impatient / in between
outspoken / reserved / in between
leader / follower / in between
empathetic / unemphatic / in between
optimistic / pessimistic / in between
traditional / modern / in between
hard-working / lazy / in between
cultured / un-cultured / in between
loyal / disloyal / in between
faithful / unfaithful / in between
Mannerisms
● Favoured alcoholic beverage: Valens Wine
● Favoured food: Spiced Jerky
● Favoured weather or season: Thunderstorms
● Favoured colour: Dalamud Red
● Other Favourites: Galbana Lilies, music, cooking, rolanberry mead● Least favourite drink: Lemonade
● Least favourite food: Bread
● Least favourite weather or season: Winter
● Least favourite colour: Yellows
Basic Stats
● High: Stamina, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wits
● Above Average: Charisma, Perception
● Average: Appearance, Strength
● Low: Manipulation,
Aetheric Stats
● Mastery: Cosmology, Aetherology, Esoterica
● Expert: Conjury, Dark Arts, Kriegstanz, Thaumaturgy
● Average: Astrology, Archanima
● Novice: Occult
Weapon Stats
● Mastery: Fencing, Firearms
● Expert: Bows, Hand-to-Hand
● Average: Chakrams, Lances
● Novice: Scythes, Heavy Swords, Axes
Combat-Related Stats
● High: Melee, Ranged Weapons
● Above Average: Archery, Martial Arts, Stealth
● Average: Survival, Thrown Weapons
● Low: Brawl, Intimidation
Combative Abilities
● Accelerated Precognition: While there are more uses for such than combat, her mind can see most paths and outcomes for the world around her. Far from perfect out-of-combat, it gives her something of an edge during a fight.
● Celerity: Ashla can speed up her reactions in combat by burning a bit of aether.
● Prowess: Using her aether, she can hone her accuracy, striking consistently, even against more formidable opponents.
● Aetherblades: Though she rarely uses them, Ashla has a particular pair of sword hilts that let her turn her aether into a physical weapon. These aetherblades cut cleanly through most materials and cauterises flesh that it damages.
● Ability: Description
Non-Combat Stats
● High: Awareness, Empathy, Expression, Streetwise
● Above Average: Alertness, Investigation, Magitek, Meditation, Subterfuge, Science
● Average: Leadership, Crafts, Research
● Low: Medicine, Politics, Seduction
Non-Combative Abilities
● Psychometric Flashback: Places or objects heavily imbued by aether or emotion can trigger brief flashbacks to something that occurred at the location or happened to the object. Most of the time, it's the most recent event. However, that's not always the case.
● Precognition (General): Usually taking the form of dreams, she can catch glimpses of the future. These flashes are typically about things that are about to transpire. Such visions don't go much further than a year or so into the future.
While extremely vivid, these dreams start out being very difficult to understand, as they don't immediately reveal all the necessary information. A form of trance allows such to be recalled with more and more clarity as the event gets closer and closer.
However, there's rarely perfect clarity to these visions.
● Nuqtat Hayawia: Although still a novice in the art, she has extreme control over her body and mind. She can control her blood flow, temperature, heart rate, and level of consciousness.
While still new to the technique, she's learning how to purge poison and disease from her body through this form of waking meditation.
OOC Combat Preferences
Here are some basic thoughts on different combat methods found throughout the XIV RP community!
✔ Contested Rolls: Flat /random between contested parties, highest roll 'wins'. Critical failures are 50 or below, while critical successes are 950 and above.
✔✔ d20 Based Systems: Everyone and everything has a target difficulty that must be reached to succeed.
✔✔ d10 Based Systems: As above, however, 10s are considered an additional level of success.
؟؟ Designated Personal Systems: Any combat system aside from the listed systems, typically designed by a player or an FC/LS.
؟؟؟ Free-form/Honour System: Non-roll based combat, typically runs off of the honour system.
● Lightning Stab
"They who dwell aloft have spoken. Let their words echo in your empty soul. Ruination is come!"
Ashla charges lightning into her sword and stabs it forward at her enemy.
● Blade Flash
"Misfortune hangs heavy on a head once held high. Such is poor cover for when the heavens fall."
Ashla forms light around her sword and swings it horizontally, sending out a wave of blade beams in front of her.
● Icewolf Bite
"Honed is the blade that severs the villain's head. Endless is the path that leads him from hell."
Ice covers her sword and she makes a single, powerful strike with the aim of shutting down her opponent's magical effects.
● Judgement Blade
"To the current of life, we succumb. Its judgement swift and final. It's bite as cold as steel."
Shards of holy ice fall upon her foes.
● Holy Explosion
"I call out to the skies and tremble as the brilliance of a thousand bolts blind mine enemies and tears their flesh asunder!"
Raising her sword to the sky, Ashla calls upon holy Light to envelop her opponents, causing a pinpointed area to explode in Light.
● Heavenly Judgement
"They who dwell aloft have spoken. Let their words echo in your empty soul. Ruination is come!"
The ultimate holy sword skill, the divine Light of Faram envelopes her sword as she lifts it to the sky, calling upon the heavens to rain down a barrage of blade-like beams of Light around her.
● Blade of Ruin
"The hearts of men are black with corruption and must needs be cleansed!"
The ultimate destruction sword skill, Ashla focuses on splitting energy into her sword before lashing out. Her blade swings in a downward strike that sends a large wave of energy to pierce through her target and their nearby allies, cleaving through their bodies and leaving them weakened. This leaves a translucent sword buried in their forms for a brief moment.
● Sanguine Sword
"Open your eyes to the darkness, and drown in its loveless embrace. The gods will not be watching."
The ultimate destruction sword skill, Ashla focuses on splitting energy into her sword before lashing out. Her blade swings in a downward strike that sends a large wave of energy to pierce through her target and their nearby allies, cleaving through their bodies and leaving them weakened. This leaves a translucent sword buried in their forms for a brief moment.
● Dusk Blade
"To live by the sword is to die by the sword. There is time enough for regret in the flames of hell."
She summons a violet blade from the Underworld, thrusting it upwards from below her opponent's feet.
● Northswain's Strike
"Seven shadows cast. Seven fates foretold. Yet at the end of the broken path lies death, and death alone!"
A gleaming red sword appears from under her opponent, slicing through their very soul in an attempt to kill them outright.
Organisations
■ The Leonwald Duchy: Countess
■ The Order of Espers: Sword-Saint (Knight) of Zalera
■ The Order of the Knights of Dalmasca: Re-instated Commander
■ The Order of Kiltia: Former member
■ The Light of Kiltia: Underground member
■ Dalmascan Resistance: Former Cell Commander
■ Kiltia's Tears: Commander
■ Blades of Gunnhildr: Honourary Blade
Relationship Status Legend
| 💞 Relationship | 💕 Romantic Attraction | 🍆 Physical Attraction | 💙 Complicated | 💛 Platonic Love |
| 💱 Business | 👤 Acquaintance | 🎎 Friend | 🌀 Emotional Conflict | ⚰️ Deceased |
| ➕ Positive | ➖ Negative | ⚪ Neutral | ⚫ Unsure |
Edith Larte
Adoptive Daughter
| 💛 | 🎎 | ➕ |
Morai
Celestial Convor
| 💛 | 🎎 | ➕ |
Killikith Bellum
Master & Apprentice
| 💕 | 🍆 |
| 🎎 | ➕ |
Anna Warsong
Girlcrush
| 💕 | 🍆 |
| 🎎 | ➕ |
Byleth Eizner
Estranged Ex-Husband
| 💕 | 🍆 | 💙 |
| 🌀 | ⚫ | ➕ |
Ruyi Chochi
Pacifist Politician
| 💛 | 💱 |
| 🎎 | ➕ |
Yanghu
Ancient Automaton
| 💛 | 💱 |
| 🎎 | ➕ |
Relsar Heiral
Deadman Walking
| 🍆 | 💛 | 💱 | 🎎 |
| 🌀 | ➕ | ⚫ |
Akanin Starkiller
Fallen Friend
| 💞 | 🍆 | 💙 | 💛 | ➕ |
| 💱 | 🎎 | 🌀 | ⚫ | ⚰️ |
Morai
Avatar of Light
| 💙 | 💛 | 💱 | 🎎 |
| 🌀 | ⚰️ | ➕ |
Visas Marluka
Blind Battlemaiden
| 💙 | 💛 | 💱 |
| 🎎 | ⚰️ | ➕ |
Sersae Boffi
Bitter Betrayer
| 💙 | 💛 | 💱 | 🎎 |
| 🌀 | ⚰️ | ➖ | ⚫ |
Common Rumours
■ "Made the mistake of thinkin' she were an Ala Mhigan, cus of how tan her skin is. She didn't much correct me, but I have some reservations 'bout how true it might be." — Ala Mhigan Labourer■ "The blue-haired freak? That ain't a woman! Swear they're a he! A little lad!" — Drunk Highlander■ "Oh, the kid claiming to be a Bozjan Blade? It's not a rumour - she's got one of their marks." — Former Garlean Conscript■ "Mrs Larte-Eizner, excuse me, Miss Larte's annulment occurred back in the Fifth Umbral Moon of the sixteenth year after the Calamity. So just shy of two years before the Warrior of Light journeyed to the New World." — Sanctum Acolyte■ "Blade Larte's back - if you ever see her in the small cove on the Southwest part of the encampment, show some respect and steer clear of the area. She goes there to meditate and discuss sensitive matters with other Blades." — Bozjan Soldier
Uncommon Rumours
■ "Kid's a Dalmascan, and if she ain't ever a damn lion through and through." — Maimed Thief■ "Don't let her size fool you - she'll break you as quick as any Highlander." — Roegadyn Dock Hand■ "Blade Larte? Didn't she write Lucavi: A Definitive Guide for the Bozjans?" — Twin Adders Scholar■ "The pendant she wears is quite strange. It looks like a normal piece of auracite, but sometimes it briefly bears a strange mark - two lines parallel to another, with squiggly lines connecting the tops and the bottoms. It looks like a stylised numeral two." — Sharlayan Aetherologist■ "While reviewing Blade Larte's file, I've found an anomaly: every single mission she undertook - including the evaluation for becoming an honourary Blade - speaks of an unnamed Blade. I'm sure it's the same Blade in each report, yet I can't remember who it was. No one can.I've ordered an investigation into it, yet we've no idea who this missing Blade is so far." Bajsaljen
Rare Rumours
■ "Lass was some sorta holy knight, or that's the closest concept we've got here in Eorzea. Had my doubts, till she laid out a man thrice her size without much effort." — Sultansworn■ "Kid was celibate for years after her mentor died - which, y'know, that's saying a lot about their 'relationship' if you ask me." — Dalmascan Freedom Fighter■ "Allegedly, the creature that was the source of the Imperials rising from the dead over and over - a beast of a Voidsent - was defeated by some secret Blade and that runt before those geomancers really did anything. And...supposedly she did all the heavy lifting." — Disabled Bozjan■ "Summoned from the Front, I found myself face to face with Blade Eizner and Blade Larte. They were embarking on a journey to unravel a most peculiar mystery, and I could only hope that my presence would aid in discovering the truth." — Izzac, Bozjan Archivist
Restricted Rumours
■ "That kid's something of an enigma. She died, I saw it myself. And yet...Light flooded into her, her eyes opened, and set up gasping for breath. The man...must have been Kiltia himself, to perform such a feat..." — Hiding Kiltian Knight■ "Her mentor's very much alive. He's the one that sold out the Kiltian Order. He was working for the Garleans, but now...no one knows where he's gone..." — Obscured Kiltian Priest■ "She won't talk about him anymore, and I stopped asking about him almost immediately since it made her so sad, but Mother was married to a Bozjan man named Byleth. He was...gone when I returned from the Studium almost three years ago, and we've not heard from him since. I — I think he may have died on a secret mission.Then, around the start of the Third Astral Moon, she gathered up all his clothes and suddenly burned them. I...wish she'd tell me what happened to him." — Edith Larte■ "Saint Larte's a paradox - although she claims her youthful appearance comes from some Sharlayan skincare regiment, it's just a cover. Something happened during a fight with a Lucavi, and they both vanished.And don't try and tell me that's her kid or something; it's not that she's the spitting image of the Saint - she looks exactly like the missing Saint. It has to be her." — Concealed Saint
Out of Character
Player Information
There is a lot of information on this character carrd, but it is by no means completely comprehensive. There are chunks of backstory that are left intentionally vague so that details can be later added as developed through creative writing or in role-play revelation. Feel free to use Common or Uncommon rumours freely, if you want to use a Rare Rumour as a plot hook or to spark RP, I would ask that you send me a tell first, to make certain it's alright.Lore Adherence
Everything concerning this character that has not been confirmed by in-game lore should be taken with a grain of salt. Anything that has had to be changed because of lore shifting will be noted below.■ No changes. Been pretty dead on with lore predictions.
Out of Character
Character Concepts
Holy Knight/Sword Saint with a Jedi spin; the character is heavily based on Ahsoka Tano from The Clone Wars, Rebels, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka.Contact
■ In-Game: Ashla Larte@Mateus
■ Tumblr: A Knight No More
■ Discord: Available upon requestCredits
The following is not entirely comprehensive but contains general credits for the outline of this carrd layout.■ Original template by Bancroft Gairn.
■ Adapted by Xheja Rajhera.
■ Expanded bits by Lucaell Tareth'eian.
■ Music bits from J'karu Rhome.
■ Relationships & OOC notes by Glioca Sargonnai.
■ Various formatting inspired by Odette Saoirse & others.
