Adalyne Corbin

$$Once upon a time, Adalyne and her family were at peace. They had moved in 690, while Adalyne was two months pregnant with Blaise. In contrast to Absalem, who had who had traveled plenty as a mage hunter^[2], this was Adalynes first time being outside of Dorma Zaul for any significant period.
$$Despite her efforts, acclimating would prove to be far more difficult for her than for her husband — regardless, she got it eventually. That was a good few hectic months of their life: Between moving in, acclimating to the change in not just language but also culture, and Adalynes pregnancy, this was one of the most stressful periods of her life — Even including the previous assassination attempts on her husband and father.
Yet in other ways, it was also the least stressful. Even to the present day, it's difficult to explain. Perhaps it doesn't matter.
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$$What does matter is that one day, Adalyne woke up. She had not just a place she lived but a home, untouched by shadows of the past; she had a husband, who no longer needed to carry a weapon at all hours, no longer needed to be forever vigilant; she had a beautiful baby boy, who would never know the dreadful darkness within those old stone walls.
And for the first time, it felt... real. That shadow no longer hovered over her. And for the first time in a long time, she knew peace.
$$How she wishes it could have lasted.
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$$It happened in 709 AE, in Blaise's first year at DFMA when he was 18. The cold blood pooling. It was supposed to be a day for celebration of new life. Absalem's birthday was four days away.
$$Mother and child came home to a mess of broken furniture and torn flesh.
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$$Those days were the worst of her life.
Were it not that Blaise, and the little one within her womb, needed her, Adalyne would not have survived those weeks. Most of those days she has no memory of, except for the last day of that depressive episode. Three weeks, perhaps. She hadn't left her bed for close to two days. She hadn't showered in even longer.
Adalyne didn't remember the last time she had eaten. Perhaps a week ago.

$$It was her child that finally pulled her out of it. What a mother she was.
Adalyne can still remember when Blaise woke her, begging her to get up and eat. He had cooked for her. He didn't leave her alone until she'd eaten it all. She can't remember when she fell asleep again, holding onto him for dear life. Nor can she remember how many times she apologized to him.
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$$Blaise made her promise something that following day. He made her promise that, even in her grief, she would not lose her will to live. Absalem would not want it; so she got up. She shaved her head, her neck, and her collarbone. Taking hammer and awl, Adalyne broke her right horn where the marital ring was embedded and let it bleed, allowing the scar to set. She did not let that darkness consume her again.
$$Perhaps in time she would have moved on properly, and continued to live in spite of this pain. Fate, however, had different plans for her.
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$$Adalyne and Blaise were shopping together when they encountered an odd kobold. She can still remember him vividly. He struck a wrong chord in her, but she couldn't explain why at the time.
$$While she was trying to exit the conversation the odd fellow forced upon them, he said something that stopped her.

"Doesn't it bother you?" He had asked Adalyne. When asked what he was talking about, the odd man went on and said,
"That I killed your husband."

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$$Blaise was the first to attack. In a single viperous movement, the devil redirected her attack and broke her dominant arm; Blaise was taken out of the fight, while Adalyne was too stunned to react. Worse than this, Adalyne now had to defend her whilst contending with the devil whose abilities scaled to her own. From the first exchange, the battle was lost.
Or so Adalyne thought.
$$Whilst her mother contended with the demon, Blaise was not idle. She decided she was going to use everything. Every scrap of mana she had access to, including the energy contained within her markana. And then she went deeper, converting the mass of her body into energy. Blaise began to atrophy before their eyes.
What happened next is almost beyond Adalyne's Ability to describe.
shoulder. Part of the scorched, blackened humerus bone were visible. The devil was down, but not dead nor defeated.
Taking her daughter, Adalyne fled.
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$$Blaise was held in the ICU for three weeks. Every bone in her left arm had been reduced to shards, and had to be regrown from scratch; in addition to this, she had lost ~27% of her body weight. And Adalyne...
Seeing her daughter through the window of the door, connected to wires upon wires and tubes upon tubes, standing at the door of death. . . Words could not then, and cannot now, suffice.
Adalyne returned home in a thick, red haze.
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$$Decades as a prodigy in combat of many forms, despite her rust, had not been lost to Adalyne. This whirlwind of fear, rage, sorrow, and so many other emotions was something she could deal with in spite of how it threatened to drown her. She had dealt with it before. She would deal with it again.
$$For much of those three weeks, Adalyne did little more than eat, sleep, and meditate. Day after day, she spent parsing her thoughts and emotions. Fear, dread, sorrow, and so much chaff was cast aside. All that remained was absolute wrath and absolute determination.
$$Adalyne found the conclusion she needed: This devil had taken her husband from her, and now it had almost taken her child.
There was only one path that would not lead to her own self-destruction.
The devil would die at her hand, or she would die at his.

[Boris] (Summon | Strength)
$$Boris is the first of Adalyne's two summons. Housed within the markana on her arms, Boris is the manifestation of her Strength element; When he is on the field, she loses all access to it. However, Boris may be on the field while Adalyne is in a different cloak.
If Boris is defeated in battle, he will instantly return to Adalyne's body and she will lose all access to Strength magic for 24 hours, which is the time it takes for Boris to recover his strength,
$$Boris's appearance is like that of a direwolf, constructed of scarlet energy, with a shoulder height of 4'8" and a body length of 10' 8".
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$$In addition to, and because of, his sheer size Boris's physical prowess is immense. His jaws are capable of ripping through solid steel, and his headbutt is able to deform actively charged, high-grade catalyst alloys. His tail is able to be used as a club or as a shield.
$$On top of his destructive capabilities Boris is deceptively mobile; he is physically fast, but it goes much further than that. Boris is capable of rapid forward and backward movement thanks to a technique of his own invention, Makhnami, which allows him to close or create even vast distances before immediately going on the offensive or defensive.
$$It should be noted, he can only do this forward and backward, and is vulnerable if caught unaware in the middle of it.
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[Cloak of Strength] (State Transformation | Strength) {Perfect Grade}
$$Upon activation Adalyne is enveloped in a flamelike aura of scarlet, flecked with golden embers. This aura hovers 2-3 inches from her body, and itself has no apparent effect on surroundings (including attackers.)
$$Adalyne, after much hard work and many hours of meditation, her body has acclimated to the elevated state, and can maintain it indefinitely without any loss in stamina. It should be noted that this is exclusive to [Cloak of Strength]. Because of that, she has dubbed this "Perfect Grade."
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$$While in this state, Adalyne's physical strength is vastly increased. Her deadlifting PB (with her magic suppressed) is 520 pounds; with [Cloak of Strength] however, her deadlifting PB (simulated with VAKTOVIA^[3]) currently sits at ~1,915 pounds. However this state incurs an expansion of muscle mass, and thus, decreased mobility when it comes to larger movements.
Considering this, [Cloak of Strength] sees the most usage whenever Adalyne needs to hold down a specific area.
$$ Spells requiring this to be active will be marked with {STR}.

[Crushing Mass] (Hex | Strength&Earth) {CD: 12 turns | EP: 8 turns} STR}
$$Adalyne strikes the spiked butt of her poleaxe into the ground, generating a shockwave of magic that travels 15 meters in all directions; every entity hit by this shockwave that Adalyne deems an enemy will then be inflicted with [Crushing Mass]. This shockwave ignores physical obstacles that may be in the way, but arcane barriers can stop it. The effects are three-fold:

• Any entity capable of flight (through any means) inflicted with [Crushing Mass] will immediately lose the ability to do so. Those currently in flight will fall out of the sky.
• The effect of enemy movement-focused abilities are (mildly) reduced.
• At the point Adalyne strikes the ground, an Anchor of congealed Strength magic is formed. All entities inflicted with [Crushing Mass], as well as Adalyne, are bound to a 15 meter diameter sphere around this spike. Because the initial casting range is larger than this, anyone who is caught outside of this range will be immediately (and violently) pulled into it.
  This specific effect can be dispelled by destroying the Anchor; [Crushing Mass] itself will remain until it expires or is forcibly cleansed from a target. The anchor cannot be reformed outside of a full re-cast. There is a maximum force that the Anchor can put on any single entity; if this force is exceeded, the Anchor's hold on that entity will break and they will no longer be bound.
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  [Foundation] (Passive | Earth) {STR}
  $$While [Cloak of Strength] is active Adalyne has an innate, arcane connection to the ground beneath her feet. While she's grounded it's much harder for an opponent to do things such as move her or destabilize her. Generally, if she wants to stay in a position, she's going to stay in that position.
  $$Adalyne also has far more control over surrounding terrain thanks to this connection, be it dirt, rock, cement, or brick. Earthen constructs will generally be more durable.
• [Hold the Line] (Buff | Earth) {CD: None | EP: None} {STR}
  $$Adalyne bangs a fist on her chest and roars. Her magic resonates with allies within 20 meters, extending to them a lesser version of its stabilization. If any affected allies have Earth, or an Earth-based element, they will receive [Foundation]'s full effects.
  $$This effect will last as long as Adalyne maintains [Cloak of Strength].
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  [Resonant Redirection] (Def. | STR}) {CT: 1 tr | CD: 8 tr | EP: 4 tr} {ZEN}
  $$Resonant Redirection must be charged and prepared a turn before use, and can be held for 4 turns before it expires. Adalyne focuses magic into her poleaxe, causing it to shine red for a few seconds. With correct timing, Adalyne blocks an attack and releases the charge.
  $$The kinetic energy of the attack will be perfectly redirected. In the case of a projectile, this will cause it to be sent back to its source with the exact same speed. The type of the attack being redirected is very important: Some, for example beam attacks, cannot be redirected at all.
  $$If it is imbued with extraplanar magic weak to her Earth element, the redirected attack will never miss and entirely ignore her opponents elemental resistances. If it is instead resistant, redirection will fail entirely.

[Ilya] (Summon | Speed)
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[Speed Cloak] (State Transformation | Speed) 3rd Grade
$$Upon activation, Adalyne is engulfed in a verdant flame-like aura, extending four to five inches from her body. This aura is purely visual, a by-product Adalyne hasn't taken the time to stamp out.
$$This state heightens Adalyne's mobility considerably including her overall speed as well as dexterity, allowing her to be at the right place, at the right time, all the time.
In testing, on flat ground in a straight line, Adalyne has a 0-to-96 KPH time of eight seconds; her sprint PB rests at 10 km in three-and-a-half minutes, with her highest speed at 165 KPH.
While not able to maintain such high speeds at all times, testing on standardized agility courses shows high levels of maneuverability.
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[Blade of Volos] (Attack | Water) {CD: 2 tr} {SPD}
$$While [Speed Cloak] is active, Adalyne has the ability to fire projectiles of water from her polearm; the shape of the projectile, and its properties, depend on which part they originate from.
$$The axhead of her poleaxe will fire blades of water (obvious enough,) which have a limited range (8m); the spike at the top will fire beams of water, which have less power but greater range (12m); the hammer/beak will fire short range (4m) spikes of water which are better for breaking through defenses, arcane and mundane.

[](Defense | Speed) {SPD}