Maox
Legacy Name: Maox

"I wouldn't even have gotten out of bed this morning if I knew I'd be facing such weaklings."

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[Hateful][Violent][Judgmental][Motherly]

Name: Mao, (Ma-Ow) Just Mao.

------Origin------

It is unknown just how Mao came to be, as there are a number of stories ranging from alchemy to necromancy, but one way or another, she is the product of some magic.

Some say that her and the creatures like her were demons trapped in swords. Others believe that they were crystalized souls that wizards captured and incubated. Still others believe that they were swordsmiths that stabbed themselves on their own prized weapons in order to prevent them from being used by their enemies and rivals.

Mao is a Calliphn, a sword spirit, one of seven that consider each other kin. Calliphn are creatures bound to their swords. They are physically powerful, and often elementally so as well. They can take large amounts of wounds before faltering. Supposedly, they can only die when their swords are destroyed, and the weapons are highly durable as well.

However, the Calliphn cannot use these powers for themselves. In order to unleash their full potentional, they must make a pact with another being and serve them as their weapons. Once in a pact, a Calliphn cannot disregard an order.

There are some safeguards for the Calliphn, like they being the only ones who decide whether to make a pact and they do not have to follow orders that are physically impossible. But without a pact, Calliphn cannot move out of a half a mile radius away from their swords, and they are physically weakened.

Following every order would eventually become something Mao would hate.

Her recent past is something of local lore by now, and different accounts are fuzzy if not contradicting on details, but they all do agree on a few key points.

Twenty years ago a man by a name that sources cannot agree on made a pact with Mao professing to be some pious man who wanted to change the world. Amused, Mao accepted.

Things had been pleasant, for a while, before the man's orders of rescuing and noble fighting started to change.

One way or another, Mao found herself ordered to slaughter soldiers, rip apart noblemen and wage a two man war against a kingdom. She became a symbol of fear, a creature--a weapon without a will, and crushed every person who opposed her pactmaker.

Eventually powerful enough warriors resisted her master, as that what he had become, and they killed him and subdued Mao.

However, they weren't able to kill her.

Creating seals that prevented her from escaping, they trapped her in a small, lightless cave, and warned any unwarry travelers from attempting to enter.

There she stayed for twenty years.

One way or another, she escaped, and fled the country and her status as a symbol of violence and oppression. She has to carry her own sword, weakened but still unwilling to form a new pact.

-----Personality----

Mao is a highly violent creature having been supposedly made for battle. She enjoys showing off and, ironically enough, seems to revel in her foes fearing her. She carries herself proudly, despite her past.However, she is also cruel, and untrusting since her betrayal at the hands of her previous pact maker.She is quick to pounce on any flaw she sees in people and rather hypocritically ignorant of her own flaws.But after knowing someone for a while, she can actually be quite protective, even motherly towards others. Carrying someone on her back is the more obvious sign of this.

---Appearance---

Her regular form is similar to that of an Eastern dragon. She is over twenty feet long and around six feet at the shoulder. Her body is teen feet long with her tail making the other ten. Her face is wolflike, her body covered in short cream fur, except for her birdlike legs and arms. She has darker patches of fur on her face and tail. Her eyes are a glistening red.

In her human form (Acheived by a bracelet of human bones) is a slender, odd looking being. She is bipedal, walking on her bird like legs. Her short fur shifts into skin on her face. She has soft, pixie like features, but with sharp eyes. She retains her dragon like features in the form of her tail, claws, and limbs. Since she is anatomically unfeatured, she walks around unbashedly without clothes.

Her sword is a simple Japanese style blade with a black metal dull edge and a highly reflective cutting edge.Age: Hundreds of years.

Height: Tall

Weight: Slender

Orientation: Unknown, presumed asexual

Gender: Physically none, though identifies as female

----Relations with other pets----

Crostblade;

Mao distrusts him the most, since he reminds her of her former pact maker. However, she enjoys training and often beating him in combat.

Silksherri;

She shares a bit of a rivalry with Sherri, who is often appauled by Mao's behavior and dress (or there lack of).

Siylent;

Mao holds some affection for the mute comedian and goes out of her way to keep her out of trouble and to prevent Tabalay from bugging her.