Feray Noman Lupris
Played by Heather
Current Stats

Name: Feray Noman Lupris (Fur-ay Loopriss)
Race: Lainian
Age: 17
Location: Leck, Messina
Profession: Hunting/Farming
Weapon(s): Preferred - Dual long bladed hunting knives
Secondaries - Lances and lightweight swords
Elemental Alignment: Earth
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Physical Description: Feray looks much like other women of the Lupris bloodline. She has long dark blue hair tied back from her face, the tip of the makeshift braid/ponytail reaching her hips. Her skin is a deep tan color. The trademark of the Lupris line, however, can be found in Feray's eyes. They are a unique silver color and hold not only intelligence but compassion. She can often be found in a midnight colored hunting loincloth with accompanying short hunting top that has no sleeves to it. Her build is more slender than other Lainians, as if someone had run out of muscle while creating her. Still, she has strength enough in her frame to hunt and work, so it is not a big issue. Of particular mention, however, is the long beastial tattoo running up her left arm, from shoulder to fingertips. On her forearm, not hidden but not horribly noticable, are two dark purple circles.
Weapon Description: While other Lainians favor more foreward weapons, Feray grew to love two elongated hunting knives that she recieved from her mother. The blade is roughly 25 cm long and 5 1/5 cm wide. It is jagged along the upper fine end to aid in battle and hunting, wounding those who need wounding by tearing chunks of flesh away. The handle is a fine and sturdy wood with cords of leather bound around it to aid in grip. It measures at roughly 12 cm long and 3 1/2 cm wide. She carries them at her hips in dark brown leather sheathes.

Feray's story doesn't begin with her directly. It stems from her mother, Triun (Try-oon) Lupris, a "retired" explorer. Feray's father was an historian named Jaguis (Jag-wee-suh). They both lived peacefully in the town of Laine. Triun had chosen to settle down there after falling in love with Jaguis and instead of fighting monsters and exploring, she wanted to raise a family with him.

Feray was born a healthy child on a stormy snow fettered night to her overjoyed parents. Her general childhood was filled with days of running about with her friends and learning from her father about the disappearing legends of the past. However, it was not to last.

Time, as it has been known to do, eventually wore down for the loving Jaguis and he passed on shortly after Feray's 7th birthday from natural causes. Both Feray and Triun felt the loss greatly, as did the community.

However, this opened up something inside Triun that she had long kept tightly shut. The fire that burned for exploration. For adventure. Without Jaguis to anchor her down, Triun began to become restless. Finally she sold what she could, gathered her child up, and began to head out into the world once more.

Many people Triun met on her travels thought her foolish to bring Feray along but Feray loved the excitement and begged her mother to never leave her behind. So Triun humored her daughter as much as possible and shut out the comments that bothered her. They travelled across Jesora and The Lost World over the next few years, content to travel wherever the wind took them.

Finally they came to Elencia and the Misty Forest. Triun had only once tried to brave the forest and had come out bloody and scared. She was well aware of the dangers of the forest. So she turned from it, backing down. Unfortunately, Feray (now 10) had other plans. The young girl saw something beautiful within the branches, a glint of bronze amidst the green, and quickly slipped her hand from her mother's grip to dash after it. Her mother pursued her, yelling, but Feray was concentrating intently on whatever treasure she believed herself to have found.

They ran for minutes, her mother fighting with branches that her child could easily duck under, and finally Feray skidded to a stop in a leaf littered clearing. There was a small creature with bronze colored spines that danced in the filtered sunlight. The creature and Feray gazed at one another for moments while Triun finally staggered into the clearing. She was furious with her child for running and began to scold her. The bronze being dashed away to safety as Feray struggled to explain herself to her mother.

Their words stirred something above them. Before Triun could react, Feray was entangled in a silvery thread of webbing and was being hoisted into the air, screaming madly. Above them emerged a huge black and grey spider with unnaturally large teeth behind a pair of grasping mandibles. The spittle that dribbled from the hungry spider's teeth sizzled as it hit the ground and it filled the air with the stench of decay. Triun grabbed her battle axe from and lunged for her child.

She was too far away from Feray. Her rescue was in vain and her child was grasped cruelly in the mandibles. It took only a second from a heart wrenching scream to come from the child as the spider's teeth sunk deep into her left forearm. The scream trailed off as Feray fainted from the sheer pain. Before the spider could finish its meal, however, a shout rang out and the spider's body was pierced with a jagged lance. Another joined it, burying deep in the spider's body. The spider writhed wildly and released its prisoner, choosing to retreat.

Triun caught her daughter and cradled her, crying helplessly at the deep wound in Feray's forearm. Her child's saviors, two beastmen guides with a human man, approached her and offered her passage from the forest to the nearest town, as that was where they were headed themselves and the child needed help.

The name of the species that had bitten her child, they learned afterwards, was called Arachnidae Vactillius-tyranus Parkinsilae...or more commonly, a "Reaper's Scourage" spider. Feray recovered but her mother's flame was extinguished for good and, fearful for her child's life, she settled down once more, this time in Leck.

Time passed and the trauma was forgotten, save for the deep purple colored scars on Feray's forearm which never truly faded. Feray grew into a beautiful young woman and recieved a set of hunting knives for her 14th birthday, which she grew to cherish. She became skilled with them, dabbling briefly with spears and light swords on the side. She took to farming as a means of income and began to hunt to supply food for her mother, who was beginning to get elderly. Life was peaceful and interesting.

But something lurks in the future for Feray and it is about to make itself known....

In the worst possible way.

Updates—spoiler warning!

Feray is suffering from a serious illness as a result of the spider bite she suffered when she was younger, and rather than fading over the years, the poison is slowly worsening and spreading through her body, and will eventually kill her. Judging by her growing weakness and the frequency of her seizures, she doesn't have much time left. The rest of the group refuses to admit that she could die and won't let Feray accept death. Erellisae and Nathan in particular are determined to stand between Feray and death. Feray, knowing she doesn't have long, is afraid to get too close to the others, so when Nathan revealed his growing affections for her, she didn't respond very favorably. However, Erellisae is determined to save her recently adopted sister and get her together with Nathan, by force if necessary... ;)

Further updates! Feray's illness has been cured! Soon after they arrived on the island of Cereshanti, she lapsed into a coma and looked ready to die within a few hours. The party discovered that Emmit, who had been shipwrecked on the island, was not only Feray's ex-boyfriend, but he also had the cure that could dispel the poison from her body, once and for all. Emmitt's price for the cure was a date with Erellisae. She went through it and secured the antidote, but they gave it to Feray just barely too late, and she stopped breathing. The Spirits then heard the party's pleas and, speaking through Jalanda, agreed to save Feray's life. She is now back in the world of the living, recuperating rapidly, and is in almost better health than when the journey began. She marks of the poison have entirely disappeared. And now that Feray has no more excuses, could a romance with a certain crabman be lurking on the horizon...? Erellisae certainly hopes so! Unfortunately, later events concerning the bard Emmitt suggest that he may still hold a flame for Feray, which could certainly complicate matters...