Ypsel

Ypsel, is a High Elven Warrior.

Biography
Born in the shining great city of Yanus, she was born into a shining family, with shining expectations. Yet, for some reason, she did not turn out as shining as the family would have wanted it. Initially, they thought that magic and science would do well in her service, as they did for some other members. It turned out, that she had absolutely no affinity for magic, and just could not learn it - even though she had enough potential for it in her blood, she was book dumb, a very slow learner interested in completely different things.

Truth be told, there were a few things that interested her. She learned archery, like all self-respecting elves, albeit swords were a better fit into her hands, and she preferred them. This could be hardly described as an interest, more like something she was willing to learn without external aid or pressure. Truth be told, she could be easily convinced to try many things, but it took serious effort to get her to delve deep into anything. She was always quiet, she did not have friends, as they could hardly tolerate not being able to have smalltalk with her. She did not really react to being poked, and when something was thrown at her, she easily evaded it - realizing that Ypsel could not even be bullied, they all decided to leave her alone. She became the black sheep of her family, as her beautiful looks mattered little to the highly social High Elves. Her utter lack of talent in the arts and complete disregard for religious life were the last two straws that broke the camel's back. The cleanest solution was to expel her from the family and her birth city, even though she was barely thirty years old - very young by elven standards, barely even an adult.

To tell the truth, people with her kind of personality always suffered this fate, if not worse. She had no reasons to complain, as this is what she wanted to begin with: they would no longer force her to study things she had no talent for, so she could finally devote her time to what she always had a real interest in - sword fighting. Of course, she needed food, she needed to clean her clothes, so she obviously needed money too. It was difficult to find a job, but instead of failing, she got lucky: a bunch of human cutthroats would have liked some services from her for some money, but as she resisted them, one of them decided to deprive her of her sword and give her a good beating. However, Ypsel was faster and taller than them, she luckily avoided that fate. The three partners of the bandit did not feel much better either, and their relationship wasn't too coherent.

And so it came to pass, that instead of trying to force themselves on her, they decided to pay her for a different kind of service - get rid of a rival team of bandits, and get paid a good sum for it. This ended well for all of them, as some of the loot got into her pockets too. This is how she realized that her skills at swordsmanship are honoured with payment at some places, so the only obstacle to true freedom was the occasional fight. She could thank her successes to her rare agility, and challenges only strengthened her. With some lucky, she did not come out as a loser from any relevant battles, so she did not have to face an early death either.

She became a wandering mercenary of sorts, with the winds blowing her into the ranks of bandits and bannermen of nobles. Here and there in villages and smaller towns, some recognize her as a famous swordswoman, but her name is more well-known to malevolent people hiding in the shadows, who don't like getting their own hands dirty, Aside from how to swing a sword and speak the human tongue, she learned practically nothing new throughout the slowly passing decades. All in all, under the easily spotted cold and quiet mask lies an easily influenced simple mind.

The original FRPG
Ypsel appeared on the Hungarian forum on the 25th of August, 2010, precisely at 3:33. She only took part in a few adventures: Run Saló, run!, To Go Underground, Assassins for hire and Cradar's Head.

The 2012 game


Ypsel was amongst the characters who were intended to be recruitable companions. Game development never got far enough to make her meetable.

The 2013 game


It was designed, that Ypsel would be a recruitable companion in the 2013 game as well, but as the game never got beyond the designing stage, nothing came out of that.