"It - it's a lizard thing."
Name: Wuth - Daeph - Laul, answers to Eph. She doesn't mind being called by any name as long as it isn't outright mockery or profanity.
Age: 72
Birthday: August 11th
Gender: Female
Category: Student
Class: College
Appearance Description: Being a lizardfolk, Eph is covered in scales - all five feet of her height. Her face is distinctly humanfrom the eyes down, but the top of her head is an almost conical and spiky structure, covered in scales and tapering off the back of her head. Her figure is shapely and her posture stately, her scales light yellow and shiny. A four - foot tail extends from her hips and ends in a small, sharp tip covered in grey and less shiny scales. She has black claws an inch long and frills on her back and the sides of her forearms. Her eyes are light green and evidently reptilian, though her nose and mouth are both human. She wears a cartoonish wizard hat with a tiny belt around its base. Most often is she found in something outlandish, as part of her cosplay interest.
Personality Description: Eph is defined by dichotomy - she is cold and calculating from a distance but is warm and spontaneous when actually interacting with people. She is lazy normally but is industrious when it matters (though what matters to her is often a matter of food or mating). As part of her calculating nature, she tends to be a bit of a schemer, though more harmless than most examples of such.
Powers:
Primary: Cold Magic
Eph is capable of causing cold. Not ice - though that sometimes happens as a side effect. What Eph does is slow down motion on a subatomic level to induce cold. Essentially, what she does is stop motion cold. Molecules slow down and lose heat and energy; water freezes, and everything within the area of effect speeds up to the pace of a dead snail. And everything indeed does - Eph is not immune to the effects of her magic. She can manifest it as an aura that perpetually slows down everything nearby, but it does drain a lot of stamina and gets generally annoying. Usually she uses it on tiny patches of space to slow down specific things.
Secondary: Reptilian Anatomy
As a lizardfolk, Eph can naturally regenerate. She heals fast and leaves little scarring, and given enough time (and food) she can regrow body parts as long as she doesn't die from the initial injury. She can communicate with other lizards; however, as other lizards are non - sapient, she can't quite order them around or do anything but understand them or hiss at them with words and concepts they can't understand. She can shed her skin, and must regularly do so, but doing so leaves her nerves more exposed and raises her sensitivity to ridiculous heights.
She regularly lays eggs. Most of the time they stay within her room but sometimes she lays them elsewhere when they simply must leave her body.
Biography: Born and raised by a mutant tree in the forests of Manta Carlos, Wuth - Daeph - Laul was from birth destined to be... absolutely nothing. She was meant to be a normal lizard snacking on flies until the inevitable encounter with a predator. However, fate had other plans - which fell apart and left it bored - and so fate mutated her, turning her into a lizardfolk when an adventuring animancer tripped on a nearby stump, causing said animancer to accidentally cast his strongest transformative spell.
It took many, many decades for this transformation to kick in, as it was originally meant to take place alongside human aging. Eph lived like a normal lizard while her body slowly transformed into that of a lizardfolk, and so things went for almost six decades. As she became less lizard and more lizardfolk, the tree upon which she stayed when she was hit with that spell also became more sentient.
The tree learned of the ways of humanity from the birds that told it of what they saw, and he developed knowledge much more quickly than Eph. He decided to wait for something to happen before taking any action with this newfound knowledge however, and on a fifth of October, twenty years before the current day, a human settled atop the stump upon which the animancer tripped, and soon took up residence there. There, the human woman, named Millia, built a home made of wood, and she would find out of Eph's existence. She gave her the name which Eph would carry for the rest of her life, from the first words she uttered upon laying eyes on her.
The tree, being protective of Eph, soon began to teach her of what he knew, hoping to ensure her protection from that woman. However, regretfully he did not know quite enough, and Millia soon took over her upbringing, teaching her the ways of man and the ways of magic.
Of course, there came a time when Eph was to leave - Millia was dying of an incurable ailment, and she did not wish for Eph to be alone. In her last days, he told her of Starlight Academy, and bade her to stay there, grow, and be strong. Eph's mental state at the time was not unlike that of a child, and so she left that home crying, chilling everything nearby as she walked in the direction Millia had pointed her.
Starlight Academy, upon learning of her story, accepted her in - they after all had no reason to refuse someone such as her. There in the academy she stayed, developing her magic and most of all herself.
Additional Information:
She sounds like she's dying of respiratory disease when she laughs.
Every 23rd of April she visits the forest and the tiny shack Millia built, bringing with her purified water and fertilizer for the sentient tree she calls En.
As she has a different anatomy to cater to, Eph learned to make her own clothes. She's expanded this into an online clothing business called "Sewn to Scale".
