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Entanglement has switched over to a dressing room format for now, so applications aren't needed for the time being.

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The major religion of Peth is the Church of the One Above, a pantheistic religion whose main deity is a sky father figure from which the church draws it's name. The main tenants of this faith include a tolerance of all people who believe in the faith and attempting to convert those who do not, the godliness of the human body, and that by doing good deeds believers will have good fortune in life. The Church, as it is often called, does not preach of an after life but rather goodness in life, there is no heaven or hell of any kind. They instead believe in a form of karma, in this case the sum of ones good and bad deeds are given spiritual form as a kind of daemon. This being follows its creator and influences that persons fortune. Evil spirits can only be chased away by strengthening ones good spirit. The One Above is the creator of these spirits and thus is a judging figure as to what good and bad exactly are. The church has put these decrees together in a book known as the “One Scripture” which is required reading for all followers and serves as the basis of the faith. Minor gods also exist that rule over minor aspects of life, but they have recently been reimagained as a more angelic figures that serve as the One Above's as messengers and warriors. The leaders of the Church consists of men and women who are appointed by the previous group of leaders. Most of the churches leaders are of the human race and they often wield great power in Peth's governmental and cultural life.

It is also notable that education is highly valued in Pethian culture. Most humans attend school till the age of 18 or 19 at which time they graduate into the world of work, though who hope to be mages often join a guild to practice their trade. Others go on to one of Peth's many technical schools. Here those not gifted with magic work towards a job building and maintaining machines, buildings, and various other constructs. Primary and secondary school are run by local governments, while most of the technical and magic academies are run by and paid for by guild heads and other powerful individuals. Since its establishment, about 500 years ago, this system has kept industry and life in Peth running at a chipper pace.

Racily Peth is a fairly diverse place, with the most common race being Humans, who make up 75 percent of Peth's population. Humans evolved from an earlier race of ape like creatures and are known to be very industrious, often working as mages, tinkers, inventors, warriors, and many, many other things. Most range from 5' 4”- 6' 2” in height and weigh between 120 and 200 pounds. They are a moderately spiritual race, with most believers within the race belonging to the Church of the One Above.

Method of Arrival on Station: Doria will be stumbling into the station in the form of the rodent that Dol forced her into before casting her into the trash. As she was quite shaken during the experience, Doria was mostly unsure of what she was doing.

Physical Appearance: Originally, Doria was a fairly normal looking human girl with long blond hair and a medium build. However, after being subjected to Dol's experiments, Doria's form shifted dramatically, taking on the appearance of the local fish-folk that populate Senith's water ways. This was due to the fact that the fish-folk were the least beings Doria had been in contact with before her transformation. Her form is very mutable and subject to changing at a moments notice. In other words, if Doria was exposed to any one form for an extended period of time it would replace her current state as her so called “basic” form.

Clothing-wise, Doria prefers to adorn herself with modest tops and skirts. She is also known to be perpetually wearing gloves, as they limit physical contact with others and thus prevent unwanted transformations in every day life.
Character History:
Doria was born to to parents of meager means some 21 years before the present date. As both her mother and father were farmers she took quickly to working with both plants and animals throughout her youth. Doria's childhood was rather normal, for the small rural village she lived in anyway, and fraught with little danger aside from the occasional run in with loose wildlife or bout with common illnesses. It was at age 9 that her life became a bit more interesting as young Doria learned she had a natural, pun intended, talent for plant-based magic. The incident by which she learned this fact was rather a simple one, as Doria brought life to a wilting plant she had forgotten to water for several days. Doria was quick to capitalize on her new talent and worked the practice of it into her daily routine of getting up early, tending to the various animals that populated her parent's land, and then exploring the nearby woods for anything that could be used for dinner or other common needs. This routine, sprinkled with playing with friends and the occasional attempt at other types of work, lasted well into Doria's late teens when the young country girl was inflicted with a case of wanderlust and decided to pack up her things and head for the big city.

After a few days walk, Doria found herself in the endless hustle that keeps the city of Senith up and running. Always the adaptable youth, Doria quickly found herself work selling fruit at a local shop and set up living arrangements in a local boarding house for wandering youth such as herself. However, being sedentary for most of the day, as required of a job that consisted mostly of sitting behind a counter all day, Doria grew bored with her charge and soon took to slacking off at work . This led not to her being fired from the position, but rather demoted to an evil less involved position cleaning up the store after hours. Now deprived of both her ability to be both psychically and socially active on a daily basis, much of Doria's zeal for life evaporated leaving her a hollow shell of a person that staggered between work or home with no real direction or goal. With her little time off, Doria would often sit alone in the park practicing her magic on the local plant life. This idle activity actually proved to pay off for the young wanderer as her skill caught the eye of a Representative of the Nuvarian Guild, a collective that supplied Senith with much of it's food supply as well as acting as a kind of think-tank for the biological sciences. Doria quickly said yes to the representative's offer and was soon inducted to the guild as an initiate, working to keep the various planets and animals the guild kept happy and well fed. This new role proved helpful in that it allowed Doria some of the freedom she possessed in her rural home and renewed her faith both in herself and her skills as a nature mage.

After months of hard work within the guild, Doria was eventually assigned to work under one of the organization's more unorthodox luminaries, a man known as Dol. Dol was mostly known for originating a type of magic known as Biomancy, a technique that allowed for the manipulation of the physical body. Often used as a an alternative to normal surgery Biomantic magic allows for the rapid healing of the human body, as well as other less seemly uses. Doria took quickly to Dol, looking up to him as the pinnacle of the natural magic she practiced. As Dol's assistant, Doria acted as both errand girl and lab assistant, tending to any whim that her mentor may have. This relationship continued for some time, with Doria quickly becoming her mentor's favorite underling and asking the young mage to be the subject of a special experiment of his. As it turned out, this experiment involved using Biomantic magic to temporarily override a subjects physical structure with that of an entirely different species, allowing for a trans formative effect similar to that which occurs naturally in shape shifting races.

These experiments began simply enough, Doria would be isolated in an environment where she could not harm herself and others, then subjected to the above mentioned magic. Early experiments proved often silly to watch, as Doria could not control her new forms, among them a centaur, merfolk, and others, and would often struggle to even move in her new form. She eventually grew stronger and more adaptable, able to move with more grace and adapt her thinking to synch with her new form. However, there was a clear downside to being subjected to so much shapeshifitng magic in such a small time frame. Doria became quite addicted to the strange feeling that accompanied her changing form and sought it out more and more as the experiments went on. Though Dol saw the mental shift in his assistant, he did little about it and continued the tests anyway. As the human body can only take some magical manipulation without falling apart, Doria's continually shifting state eventually wore on the very basis of her being. Making her form unstable and open to taking on any form from which she was physically exposed to for more then a few seconds. This fact became quite evident when Dol noted Doria's complexion very much matched the merfolk she had been sent to deliver a stock of food to the previous day.

Dol, sensing that if news of Doria's condition ever reached the guild's higher up he would be in a sea of trouble, great ends to dispose of his star assistant. First having her copy the form of a common rat for the days experiment, then, ceasing the form's innate weakness, beat Doria unconscious and threw her into the day's trash. When Doria finally came to she found herself in a dump miles from the city and with no way to return until she could resume her natural state.

Personality:

Do to the fact that Doria was raised in a small village where everyone knew and trusted one another, she can often come across as a bit naive in nature. They nature often lends itself to Doria trusting anyone who treats her with even the slightest bit of kindness and diligently taking orders with little question, provided there is nothing blatantly wrong with them. The positive of this ethic comes in the form of Doria's powerful work ethic and how easily she can form bonds with other people. Both of these traits have endeared Doria to her co-workers in the Nuvaria guild, allowing for her to enjoy a peaceful existence within the guild with many a friend and little conflict. It is also worth noting that she is very devoted to her mentor within the guild, a man who goes by the rather enigmatic name of Dol Dona. Doria sees her mentor's zeal for scientific research and the betterment of people and the natural world as an very worthwhile goal and hopes one do she will be in an position to spread her own love of nature to the rest of the world.

In her home town, Doria was known by the townsfolk as an cheery young girl with a intense love of nature seemingly endless supply of energy. Her day commonly consisted of waking up at the crack of dawn to tend to the various animals the town kept communally for food and then spending several hours exploring the local countryside or practicing her natural magic. Ever known as a hard worker by her family and friends, Doria took pride in what she did for the town and the surrounding environs, but ultimately wished she could practice her skills in a bigger place where she could be of use to more then the few hundred people who inhabit her home town.

This intense longing eventually lead Doria to pack her things, wish her family and friends good bye and head for the city of Senith, the largest industrial city on the continent. Upon entering the big city for the first time, Doria found that she was at am loss for what to do with herself. The shear number of people and size of the city itself left Doria alone and awkward, unable to find work of social contact within the sea of humanity that call Senith home. The poor country girl eventually found her place within the massive machine that is Senith, when a representative of the Guild Nuvara, the city's biggest provider of natural products and research, found her practicing her magical skills alone in the park. Doria was soon employed within the guild's biomantic division and took quickly to the role, regaining much of the former glimmer of hope and awe she had back home. his whole episode is evident of another facet of Doria's personality, the fact that she is often feels out of place when far from home and lacking a defined role to fit into. Without the daily routine she maintained in her home town, Doria descended into a slump that she only came out of with her admission to guild Nuvara and the return to a daily routine that came along with it.

Another very important factor within Doria's psyche is the fact that she has a rather addictive personality. This trait didn't show for most of Doria's life, if simply for the fact that she threw herself into care of the town's animals and practicing her magic for hours on end. However, with her move to the city and the complete lack of nature even in surrounding area, Doria had to find something else to fill the void. Failing with a good number of hobbies, Doria took up the slack in her life by volunteering for an after hours project within the guild. This “extra” project, as Dol called it, was actually an experiment in transformation magic, with Doria acting as the test subject. The magically induced transformations took place over the course of several weeks, at a frequency of about twice a week.

The thrill of her body twisting into a new shape became something of a thrill to the young guild mage and left her looking forward to the experimentation each week. Her mentor eventually picked up on this fact and upped the number of experiments to about four weekly. The constant warping of Doria's form led her body to become unstable and take on the properties of the spell that had been cast on her so many times. At first excited to have been gifted with the power to mimic the animals she loved so much and running errands for the guild no other mage could, Doria eventually takes a much darker view of her newly found powers. Finding she was slowly loosing her own identity to the myriad forms she assumed on a daily basis. In her current state, Doria does her best to balance her natural cheeriness with the mental problems that come from loosing one's sense of self.

Abilities and Skills:
Due to her unstable form Doria will take on the physical shape of any being she touches for a period of more then 30 seconds. Her powers are imperfect, however, as she can only take on a general archetype of whatever race the being whom she was copying. In other words any specific mental, magical, or any other unique traits that said being may possess are not taken into Doria's borrowed form.

Doria's unique body structure has also caused her to lose accesses to her original form. In its place Doria has gained access to a form resembling a hybrid of the most recent forms she had assumed before her total break down. The basis of the form is built upon the frame of a merfolk woman, bi-pedal, lithe, and possessing fins and other fish-like traits, mixed with minor traits of the last few forms she has assumed. These non-merfolk traits appear at random and change every time she assumes this hybrid state.

Sample:
Not so long ago the the young woman known as Doria had a peaceful existence, a steady job, and a good relationship with those around her. Now, all of that was gone, she had been cast out of her guild, betrayed by her mentor, and trapped in the form of a common rodent. True, she had escaped the body of inflicted upon her by that wretched turn coat Dol, but did it really matter? Her humanity had been left somewhere in a sterile lab a few worlds over and her body now best resembled the result of some horrific science experiment. As that thought rang depressingly in Doria's head she laughed at what she had just realized. She was a failed experiment, a product of her mentor's twisted desire to achieve mastery of the natural world! Her world had been destroyed that afternoon, and she saw no reason, or way, to ever go back. With that, Doria's mind had reached the present, she had been offered a chance to escape to a new place and accepted without hesitation. If she had nothing nothing to live for at home, Doria thought, she may as well forge a new life in this strange place.

Even that, the young shapeshifter imagined, would be quite the tall order. Her distorted form disallowed her from all but the most brief of contact with other beings and her strange appearance drove away many a person by itself. If one couldn't make contact with another living being, what was there left to do? Doria's answer to this problem was to make way to the station's bar and drink until she forgot the pains of her strange existence. Of course, as per usual, the world would simply not let Doria be as a nearby patron attempted to strike up a conversation. He asked the usual had you been here long, whats your name, and even what her race was. Doria was quick to respond, a bit of alcohol in her system aiding in the rough swiftness of her words.
“In order,” She said in a slightly annoyed voice “No, Doria, and human, you happy now?” The man seemed unmoved by Doria's rudeness, only pushing further with his questioning.
“Really, your human?” He said in a rather blunt manner. “I would have pegged you for some kind of fish-girl.” Doria's annoyance grew as the man questioned her very existence.
“I'm not a fish, I was just in an accident...” Doria began to tear up as her past again welled to the surface. But, she would not allow this questioning to continue she just wanted this man to shut up and leave her be. That in mind, she formulated a way to end this already uncomfortable conversation. “Here, let me show you...” Doria said while removing a glove from her vaguely fish-like hand. She then proceeded to overlay her bare hand with that of the rather annoying bar patron, lingering in that position for almost a minute before ceasing the awkward overlay. The bar patron, startled by Doria sudden advance, looked up from his hand to see an odd sight. Where the fish-girl had once sat was now a young human girl of roughly the same height and weight. The girl smiled at her companion for a second before speaking. “See?” The girl questioned. “I'm a human!” The man nearly feel from his seat at the strange turn of events, he had seen many a thing on the station, but this clearly took the cake for sheer oddity.
“Yeah, yeah you are...” The man stammered before jumping from his seat and dashing for the bar's entrance. Meanwhile, back at the bar, the young woman took another sip of her drink and sighed. Somethings never change...

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