Valérie Ghorak-Marteau, Gunslinger (Musket master)
Half-Orc, Female, 5'10", 145lbs, 18 years old, C-cup
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Hard at work
Daddy was a human smith, Mommy was a wandering orc mercenary who was impressed by his... weapon skills, And less than a year later, one bouncing Half-Orc babby was born. She grew up near the forge, was apprenticed off at the normal age (14) to learn the engineering trade with some old fart who tinkered with the relatively new firearms, when her parents went and got conscripted (and killed) in some petty lord's attempt at a rebellion. Come the end of her apprenticeship, none the wiser, goes home to her village, Boom! Some new jerk in her family forge, and no-one has heard from dear old mom and pop since the rebellion three years ago. In a fit of rage, beats up the new smith, breaks a limb or two, takes up her musket, and goes to terrorise any monsters, dungeons, and asshole nobles that get in her way.
Her dark brown hair is cut quite short, due to a forging accident at a young age. Bright blue eyes from her father.
Deep green skin offset by bright blue tattoos in whorling spiral designs (Celtic style), especially on the shoulders, hips and stomach. Classically believed to be lucky among Orc tribes, took the ink to remember her mother and her clan.
Relatively skinny for an orc, but with the wiry sort of build and toughness prized by any in the smithing trade. Her reflexes are faster than a striking snake, (she was just glad not to get bitten). Not a excessively broad mind, but sharp, and she has a knack for applying her hard-earned knowledge amd abilities in unexpected ways. She has an abiding confusion as to why people don't just say what they mean.
She normally wears hard-wearing working clothes with tough boots, and usually has a pair of smoked-glass goggles (useful in smithing) and a scarf around her neck. Chews her lip absentmindedly, and is unashamedly open with her emotions.
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Justification for alternate racial and chosen feats. (Why not, right?)
Shaman Training and Blind-Fight - Mama Ghorak trained Valérie's defenses in the traditional orcish style - by hitting them with different kinds of sticks until you can either dodge, parry, or tank a blow. Since Valérie managed to dodge so well, she was then blindfolded and hit with more sticks.
Sacred Tattoos - A traditional custom of her mother's clan, Valérie travelled to the Ghorak clan after learning of her parent's death, and took the ink as a way to honour and remember them. The ritual, pain, and symbology are part of the Orcish rite of passage into adulthood.
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