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''Note:This profile is a bit out of date. I believe Faith perished in the [[Arythian War]] against [[DeLaykrinn]].''
 
 
 
*Sex: Female  
 
*Sex: Female  
 
*Origin: [[Albrook]]
 
*Origin: [[Albrook]]
*Marital Status: Single
 
 
*Height: 5` 8"  
 
*Height: 5` 8"  
 
*Hair: Honey blonde  
 
*Hair: Honey blonde  
*Eyes: Blue (Typical, eh?)
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*Eyes: Blue  
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*Deceased
  
 
==History==
 
==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.
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Faith's childhood is mostly unremarkable: Born to a middle class family, she was a popular child who excelled in academic pursuits. She had a keen interest in research, technology and engineering, but after a brief stint in college she discovered that most research was being applied to warfare in lieu of the Great War. Having no desire to build weapons that would be responsible for killing millions, she dropped out of college.
  
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.
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Ironically, she joined the [[Grand Army|GA]] shortly thereafter.  It was her desire to avoid casualties and end the war by being a part of it. Thanks to her keen intellect she ascended through ranks quickly and gathered something of a reputation of successfully completing operationg with little to no casualties. The Grand Army, however, was a male dominated organization with exceptionally few female commanders. Many have theorized Faith's gender worked against her, keeping her from the positions she deserved. It's also possible her progress was retarded by her pacifist views and unorthodox strategies, that many saw as risky.
  
Which is funny.. because two years later, she entered the [[Grand Army|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.
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She continued service with the [[Grand Army|GA]] through the [Great War], and after the war's conclusion focused her efforts in the army campaigning to slow the development of progressively more powerful weapons. During her efforts she discovered a dangerous stealth weapon known only as "The Cylinder" was still under development with one of the Army's more prolific (and arrogant) engineers, Dr. [[Ray Lenn]]. Knowing her superiors would never be willing to turn away such a powerful weapon, Faith took it upon herself to befriend Dr. Lenn in the hopes of sabotaguing the project. Unfortunately it was during this time that Faith discovered Ray actually planned to sell the weapon on the black market to a man called [[Roland Boderick]]. Faith tried to disrupt an arranged meeting between the two men, but her attempts failed and Dr. Lenn was left for dead while Roland retreated with the weapon data.
  
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.
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Finding herself at odds, Faith eventually decided to destroy the evidence of the Cylinder and leave Ray's body, hoping that the Grand Army could trace down Roland without learning of the Cylinder or of Faith's espionage.  Unfortunately the Grand Army traced the murder back to a man who assaulted Dr. Lenn the night before, a pilot by the name of [[Kix Brooks]].  After learning that Kix had actually taken a hostage and fled from the Grand Army, Faith pursued the fugitive and his hostage and gave them money and supplies and promising to straighten out the situation while pleading with them to stay out of sight.
  
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 Weapons|needle gun]], but Roland had used Ray as a human shield, marking him for dead instead.
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Faith spent some time trying to determine how she would make amends and ultimately decided to take a vacation from the Grand Army in the hopes of tracking down Kix to explain the situation and at the same time determine the best course of action. When she did find Kix, he refused to have anything to do with her and fled her attention by joining the security group of the mysterious [[OmniSent]] organization, based out of the recently discovered dimension of [[Aryth]].
  
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.
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Faith followed Kix into Aryth where she learned of the civil strife of that dimension.  [[Marien Othlan]], the [[Verund Cenrum]] of the [[Glory Tower]], and the Queen of [[Rodan]] attempted to recruit Faith as the "General" of the members of the [[Five Great Nations]] of Aryth still loyal to the [[Glory Tower]]. Faith's active role in the struggle was sealed after [[Roland Boderick]] launched a coup in the OmniSent and bolstered his own military might by conquering the Glory Tower and enslaving its powerful [[Tanes]] as his own weapons.
  
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.
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Faith, now officially AWOL from the Grand Army, was given the task of leading the combined forces of Aryth against the OmniSent.  She united the Five Great Nations and made a base of operations in [[Rein]]. After two attempts at retaking the Glory Tower Roland finally retreated to his base of [[Atlantis]], where he was defeated by the combined forces of Faith's army and foreign forces.
  
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.
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During the final battle to take the Glory Tower, Kix crashed his ship into the [[Bloodbane Mountains]] and was presumed dead. Faith trekked the dangerous mountains and found Kix, still alive.  The two had grown romantically attached to each other over the course of the war and they returned to Albrook hoping to continue their lives. However, Faith finally submitted herself to the will of the Grand Army and confessed her sabotague and conspiracy.  After being locked away in a Grand Army middlehouse for half a year, she was dishonorably discharged from the army.
  
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.
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She broke off her relationship with Kix shortly after this and spent a few months jumping from job to job.  During this time she was contacted again by [[Rudra Tairen]], who appealed for her help dealing with the new threat to the Five Great Nations of Aryth. Changed from her recent experiences, Faith was initially hesitant to go back to Aryth but was eventually persuaded. She took the helm of Lord General of the Five Great Nations.
  
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.
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The new conflict would later be known as the [[East-West War]], and centered around the Five Great Nations being attacked by the DeLaykrinn Empire from across the Bloodbane Mountains. The empire had an entire population of enslaved magic users and managed to conquer the peaceful nations of Aryth in very little time. The invading forces also managed to destroy the Arythian Gate in the process, which was the only way in or out of the dimension of Aryth.
  
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.
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During this time Faith slipped deeper in depression, keeping to herself outside of a new friendship with Celpo Agent and OmniSent member [[Sliver]]. She lead the straggling remaining forces of Aryth to a new ad-hoc base in the snowy areas north of Truklan between the River Tyme and Source. She continued to lead even as she personally fell into deeper despair. At one point when things looked their most desperate, Emperor [[Vonkrick DeLaykrinn]] invited Faith and Sliver to a negotiation meeting.  Negotiations deteriorated when the Emperor made it clear he would accept nothing less than the total subjucation of all magic users in Aryth, as he viewed magic users as a dangerous force that had to be contained.  
  
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.
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Following this, Faith planned one last desperate attack against the Empire, which had stationed itself almost entirely in [[Truklan]].  During the attack, Faith was mortally wounded by one of the Emperor's cabinet members (who I can't remember the name of) using an enchanted knife. Because of the enchantment no magic could heal Faith's wound, and so a desperate attempt was made to erect a new gate to the rest of the Web and the science that could heal her. Though the attempts were eventually successful, by the time the gate was opened it was too late and Faith passed on.
  
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.
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Reinforcements later arrived through the Arythian Gate, finishing the East-West War and forcing the Emperor to flee. The new Arythian Gate was named Faith's Leap in the fallen general's honor.
  
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.
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==Disposition==
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Faith was capable, strong, and typically cheerful.  Her charisma and force of will brought her far in life, further than any woman had ever been in the Grand Army, which earned her some level of celebrity.  At the same time, she had fewer and fewer friends as she progressed through life, thanks mostly to her chosen career and the time she put into it. She can be very short tempered.
  
==Disposition==
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Faith adopted a much darker attitude following her dismissal from the Grand Army and the seemingly hopeless fight against the DeLaykrinn Empire. In her final days and especially her final moments, however, she seemed to rediscover herself and her former steel.
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]].
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Her closest friends upon death were probably [[Sliver]] and [[Kix Brooks]]. She also had a particularly tense renationship with [[Rudra Tairen]], who she viewed as being noble and strong but at the same time hypocritical and extreme.
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==Other Notes==
  
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._
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In the post "A Terrible Life", an alternate reality version of Faith is revealed.  This Faith feels trapped in the Great Army and has been completely unsuccessful in her attempts to tame it from the inside. She is a loner for the most part, and in the story she is discovered by Rudra when she is catching a meal in a dive restaurant.
  
 
[[Category:Dead Characters|Weist, Faith]]
 
[[Category:Dead Characters|Weist, Faith]]

Latest revision as of 23:49, 7 September 2006

  • Sex: Female
  • Origin: Albrook
  • Height: 5` 8"
  • Hair: Honey blonde
  • Eyes: Blue
  • Deceased

History

Faith's childhood is mostly unremarkable: Born to a middle class family, she was a popular child who excelled in academic pursuits. She had a keen interest in research, technology and engineering, but after a brief stint in college she discovered that most research was being applied to warfare in lieu of the Great War. Having no desire to build weapons that would be responsible for killing millions, she dropped out of college.

Ironically, she joined the GA shortly thereafter. It was her desire to avoid casualties and end the war by being a part of it. Thanks to her keen intellect she ascended through ranks quickly and gathered something of a reputation of successfully completing operationg with little to no casualties. The Grand Army, however, was a male dominated organization with exceptionally few female commanders. Many have theorized Faith's gender worked against her, keeping her from the positions she deserved. It's also possible her progress was retarded by her pacifist views and unorthodox strategies, that many saw as risky.

She continued service with the GA through the [Great War], and after the war's conclusion focused her efforts in the army campaigning to slow the development of progressively more powerful weapons. During her efforts she discovered a dangerous stealth weapon known only as "The Cylinder" was still under development with one of the Army's more prolific (and arrogant) engineers, Dr. Ray Lenn. Knowing her superiors would never be willing to turn away such a powerful weapon, Faith took it upon herself to befriend Dr. Lenn in the hopes of sabotaguing the project. Unfortunately it was during this time that Faith discovered Ray actually planned to sell the weapon on the black market to a man called Roland Boderick. Faith tried to disrupt an arranged meeting between the two men, but her attempts failed and Dr. Lenn was left for dead while Roland retreated with the weapon data.

Finding herself at odds, Faith eventually decided to destroy the evidence of the Cylinder and leave Ray's body, hoping that the Grand Army could trace down Roland without learning of the Cylinder or of Faith's espionage. Unfortunately the Grand Army traced the murder back to a man who assaulted Dr. Lenn the night before, a pilot by the name of Kix Brooks. After learning that Kix had actually taken a hostage and fled from the Grand Army, Faith pursued the fugitive and his hostage and gave them money and supplies and promising to straighten out the situation while pleading with them to stay out of sight.

Faith spent some time trying to determine how she would make amends and ultimately decided to take a vacation from the Grand Army in the hopes of tracking down Kix to explain the situation and at the same time determine the best course of action. When she did find Kix, he refused to have anything to do with her and fled her attention by joining the security group of the mysterious OmniSent organization, based out of the recently discovered dimension of Aryth.

Faith followed Kix into Aryth where she learned of the civil strife of that dimension. Marien Othlan, the Verund Cenrum of the Glory Tower, and the Queen of Rodan attempted to recruit Faith as the "General" of the members of the Five Great Nations of Aryth still loyal to the Glory Tower. Faith's active role in the struggle was sealed after Roland Boderick launched a coup in the OmniSent and bolstered his own military might by conquering the Glory Tower and enslaving its powerful Tanes as his own weapons.

Faith, now officially AWOL from the Grand Army, was given the task of leading the combined forces of Aryth against the OmniSent. She united the Five Great Nations and made a base of operations in Rein. After two attempts at retaking the Glory Tower Roland finally retreated to his base of Atlantis, where he was defeated by the combined forces of Faith's army and foreign forces.

During the final battle to take the Glory Tower, Kix crashed his ship into the Bloodbane Mountains and was presumed dead. Faith trekked the dangerous mountains and found Kix, still alive. The two had grown romantically attached to each other over the course of the war and they returned to Albrook hoping to continue their lives. However, Faith finally submitted herself to the will of the Grand Army and confessed her sabotague and conspiracy. After being locked away in a Grand Army middlehouse for half a year, she was dishonorably discharged from the army.

She broke off her relationship with Kix shortly after this and spent a few months jumping from job to job. During this time she was contacted again by Rudra Tairen, who appealed for her help dealing with the new threat to the Five Great Nations of Aryth. Changed from her recent experiences, Faith was initially hesitant to go back to Aryth but was eventually persuaded. She took the helm of Lord General of the Five Great Nations.

The new conflict would later be known as the East-West War, and centered around the Five Great Nations being attacked by the DeLaykrinn Empire from across the Bloodbane Mountains. The empire had an entire population of enslaved magic users and managed to conquer the peaceful nations of Aryth in very little time. The invading forces also managed to destroy the Arythian Gate in the process, which was the only way in or out of the dimension of Aryth.

During this time Faith slipped deeper in depression, keeping to herself outside of a new friendship with Celpo Agent and OmniSent member Sliver. She lead the straggling remaining forces of Aryth to a new ad-hoc base in the snowy areas north of Truklan between the River Tyme and Source. She continued to lead even as she personally fell into deeper despair. At one point when things looked their most desperate, Emperor Vonkrick DeLaykrinn invited Faith and Sliver to a negotiation meeting. Negotiations deteriorated when the Emperor made it clear he would accept nothing less than the total subjucation of all magic users in Aryth, as he viewed magic users as a dangerous force that had to be contained.

Following this, Faith planned one last desperate attack against the Empire, which had stationed itself almost entirely in Truklan. During the attack, Faith was mortally wounded by one of the Emperor's cabinet members (who I can't remember the name of) using an enchanted knife. Because of the enchantment no magic could heal Faith's wound, and so a desperate attempt was made to erect a new gate to the rest of the Web and the science that could heal her. Though the attempts were eventually successful, by the time the gate was opened it was too late and Faith passed on.

Reinforcements later arrived through the Arythian Gate, finishing the East-West War and forcing the Emperor to flee. The new Arythian Gate was named Faith's Leap in the fallen general's honor.

Disposition

Faith was capable, strong, and typically cheerful. Her charisma and force of will brought her far in life, further than any woman had ever been in the Grand Army, which earned her some level of celebrity. At the same time, she had fewer and fewer friends as she progressed through life, thanks mostly to her chosen career and the time she put into it. She can be very short tempered.

Faith adopted a much darker attitude following her dismissal from the Grand Army and the seemingly hopeless fight against the DeLaykrinn Empire. In her final days and especially her final moments, however, she seemed to rediscover herself and her former steel.

Her closest friends upon death were probably Sliver and Kix Brooks. She also had a particularly tense renationship with Rudra Tairen, who she viewed as being noble and strong but at the same time hypocritical and extreme.

Other Notes

In the post "A Terrible Life", an alternate reality version of Faith is revealed. This Faith feels trapped in the Great Army and has been completely unsuccessful in her attempts to tame it from the inside. She is a loner for the most part, and in the story she is discovered by Rudra when she is catching a meal in a dive restaurant.