Isolde Deid

Isolde is an icy warrior who only melts when she's around her beloved, Sofiya. She's there because Roni convinced Sofiya, and Sofiya convinced her.

Appearance
Isolde is a tall blond-haired Nayan with steely gray eyes. Her hair is cut short so that it doesn't get in her way when fighting. She's beautiful, but in an intimidating way. She usually wears an all black outfit made out of a formfitting material that allows her as much flexibility as she needs, and is never seen without at least four knives. She moves gracefully and deliberately, like a snow leopard or other large cat, with a dangerous, sinuous grace. She has a very athletic frame and strong muscles. She moves faster than a normal person should be able to move.

Personality
Isolde is pretty much as cold and intimidating and icy as she looks - unless you happen to be around her and Sofiya, when she melts. She loves Sofiya very fiercely, and is a completely different person when it's the two of them. When Sofiya is there she's still reserved, but she reveals her cutting wit, which she likes to use to tease Sofiya or make her laugh. When she's near Sofiya she's usually holding her hand, or leaning into her shoulder, or something else. She's a good battle strategist, and can think very quickly, but prefers to leave the strategizing and planning to Sofiya. She knows how to fight with pretty much any weapon, and is an excellent hand to hand fighter, but prefers knives or her double swords, or a crossbow for farther away. She can use firearms, but finds them unpredictable and doesn't like to use them in combat unless she's far away and aiming at something like a wall or a large group of soldiers.

History
Isolde is from a very longstanding and illustrious noble family that has their roots in the underground. They have a title, but are criminal royalty. She was her parent's fourth daughter and sixth child, and they decided that it would do the family good to have a personal assassin that they wouldn't have to worry about paying, or being bought out, so she was trained by the very best teachers that money could buy, both legal (such as her hand to hand combat teachers), and illegal (the actual assassins that were her main teachers).

She first met Sofiya when her family was purchasing a chemical weapon that Sofiya had developed. For Isolde, it was love at first sight, and she kept on making excuses to come back and see Sofiya, and it eventually became clear that the feeling was mutual. Isolde was expected to marry a son from another noble family in order to make an alliance between the houses, with the expectation that she could have whatever romances or affairs she wanted on the side, but she couldn't bare to have Sofiya be like her side partner, so she left her family to go live with Sofiya. She doesn't generally do mercenary jobs, but would occasionally do work arranged through Sofiya with her customers. Roni and Sofiya were friends, and so Roni convinced Sofiya to get herself and Isolde to help.