Faith Weist

Note:This profile is a bit out of date. I believe Faith perished in the Arythian War against DeLaykrinn.

• Sex: Female
• Origin: Albrook
• Marital Status: Single
• Height: 5` 8"
• Hair: Honey blonde
• Eyes: Blue (Typical, eh?)

History

Born to a good family, Faith grew up as good as most girls did. Better, perhaps. Middle class family on a farm in the middle of nowhere. She grew up learning to enjoy life, and get what she wanted out of it.

She went through school with a 4.0 average, and with many boyfriends. She was the ideal student, and was easily preparable to become one of the other "greatest" minds in the universe. But she had turned her nose at the offers... the only things that seemed to be developed anymore were war weapons... she hated war.

Which is funny.. because two years later, she entered the GA. Her brains instantly bumped her up ranks.. her sex, it has been rumored, has kept her down. It was strange -- she joined the war to stop the war. Her tactics in battle are impressive -- she is super efficient in her strategies, and usually ends up with slim kill ratios. She had once won a decisive field battle in the Great War without a single man being killed. She makes it very clear of her views that war is the single most terrible force in the Web at every opportunity.

Shortly after the end of the Great War, Faith found herself torn. She had learned of one of the members of the Research and Development department of the Grand Army had been developing a stealth weapon, with implications that could only be imagined. Taking a duty upon herself, she made herself the girlfriend of that particular doctor, Ray Lenn, hoping to get in on the secret and eventually destroy it.

Things turned awry, however, when a potential buyer actually appeared at the front doorstep of Ray`s home. A large and brooding man by the name of Roland Boderick. Seeing things had gotten out of her control, Faith interrupted the meeting between the two men. Faith tried to stop Roland escape with her needle gun, but Roland had used Ray as a human shield, marking him for dead instead.

Unsure of what to do, Faith intead gathered all the evidence of the weapon, code named Cylinder, and destroyed most of it. Ray`s body she left, hoping the Grand Army`s speculation alone would lead to the truth of the death, without finding the Cylinder themselves.

The Grand Army Police jumped the gun, however, and pinned the murder on Kix Brooks, a Grand Army private who had been jealous of Ray and Faith`s relationship for some time. After awaking from a drunk stupor only to find himself a wanted criminal, Kix took a hostage by the name of Ronnie Dunn and made his escape in his trusted Ragnarok ship.

Faith followed the two, and gunned them down with her own ship. She followed them to the ground and gave them money and supplies, telling them to make themselves scarce for the time being, until she could clear things up. Without another word she left, trusting the two on their own. Back in headquarters, Faith was torn between the choices of fessing to the Grand Army, which would surely lead them to the Cylinder, or leaving the blame to lie on Kix -- it would be a small price for the safety instilled. She finally decided, however, that it was not her place to do such, and she used her vacation time in the Grand Army to chase after the runaway, and explain the situation to him, hopefully bringing him back to Albrook with her.

Kix was far less than receptive, however. He flatly refused to return with Faith, but Faith made it her mission to see otherwise. She promised that she would not leave Kix`s side until he agreed to return.

Kix made a run for it when he got the chance, however, and recruited himself into the OmniSent security force, which was run by Roland himself. Faith followed him into Aryth, but instead found herself in the company of the Verund Cenrum of the Glory Tower as well as the Queen of Rodan. She had been enlisted during the time to act as a leader for the Five Great Nations still loyal to the Glory Tower in order to run away the revolution against the current government system. Things quickly became more complex, however, when Roland had Rudra Tairen assassinated and moved to take the Glory Tower as his own, capturing the Tanes within and using them for nothing more than weapons. Faith, finding Roland at last, was given a new task -- to lead the combined forces of Aryth against the OmniSent tyranny taking the Glory Tower.

She soon found Kix again and enlisted his help, and took upon herself a task that had never been achieved in Aryth -- to unite the Five Great Nations under one army and march them against the Glory Tower. It did not go easily. She did quite well in finding an undetectable base of operations in the rogue nation of Rein. She sent Kix back to Albrook with the last remaining set of plans for the Cylinder, hoping to stop its use by Roland. She then attempted to liberate several Tanes from the Glory Tower in hopes of evening the odds on both sides. This operation botched a bit, though, and the leaders of the army were unsure of whether to keep Faith in command or lose her. All but Panarch Terrance of Marabon decided that she had done more than enough to excuse her of this mistake, but Terrance marched off with the armies of Marabon to take the Tower on himself.

Without another moment to lose, Faith laid an assault on Roland`s captured Glory Tower. The attack was going smoothly in Faith style -- not a single casualty was to be issued -- until the Grand Army and other forces from the outside forced themselves through the Arythian Gate and immediately began to open fire on the enemy, OmniSent and Tane alike. After regaining control of the situation, Faith was severly displeased to see how thing ultimately turned out. Also, Roland, who had attacked Albrook from the other side, had lost his battle, and now retreated to his secret base Atlantis back in Aryth.

An outside force of considerable strength was being sent against Atlantis, but Faith intended to have first dibs on Roland, who had sent her down this treacherous path against the Grand Army thus far. She used a watercraft to infiltrate Atlantis itself, and challenged Roland to a personal battle even as Atlantis was being torn about around her. Roland nearly bested her, and would have killed her, had Rudra not returned at that moment. The assassination attempt on her life had not been successful, and she talked Roland down to a shameful shadow of his arrogant self. In stereotypical climatic style, Faith and Rudra escaped Atlantis to see another day.

Shortly after the end of the OmniSent Conflict, Faith recieved news that Kix had crashed his Ragnarok in the Bloodbane Mountains. She chased him down and saved his life from certain death, after which the two finally admitted a mutual romantic interest in each other. Faith, however, wasted no time to persue that in particular. The next week, she finally submitted herself to the Grand Army. She was found guilty of all charges, and currently resides in a Grand Army middlehouse, waiting for the sentence for her crimes.

Disposition

Likeable, cheerful, intelligent, and very apt to take care of herself -- Faith is a very capable young woman, which makes her all that much more attractive. She is a milestone for the women`s movement through the ranks of GA, often considered the Grand Army`s cover girl. A great media buzz has surrounded her since she started climbing the ranks, peaking during her court trial for the Grand Army. She has nearly been forgotten by the public`s short attention span, however, in the days of the Leviathan War.

Faith is dead serious when it comes to her job and her responsibilities. She is also a staunch pacifist, and as such found herself in an uneasy alliance with Rudra after she revealed herself in the Battle of Atlantis. However, despite her serious nature in times of need, she has relative inexperience in some matters, and can also be caught with too much confidence in others. Her temper is also nothing to be trifled with.