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The first person sample is very short and does not give us a very good sense of Tauriel's personality. The extra meme sample, while very introspective, is somewhat short on dialogue. We would like to request another sample similar to something you might post in the game, so we have a better idea of what to expect.
We would also like to request you make a more concrete decision about her abilities and skills. While we understand that canon isn't very clear on what she can and cannot do, we would like for you to definitively say what her skills are one way or the other so we know what to expect in Paradisa.
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More detailed skill explanation:
Tauriel is immortal in the sence that she will not age physically.
Elven sight is very, very good. An example of this is Legolas’ ability to distinguish individual riders in a group enough to count their numbers, at a distance of five leagues. The way he speaks of it hints that this is nothing, suggesting that he can most likely see much further than that with equal clarity.
I have no such concrete example of how good her hearing would be, but I would say that she can hear sounds that are very quiet, as well as sounds coming from a very far off distance. I would also say that she can hear as wider spectrum of frequencies than the average human. I’m not talking dog whistle frequencies or anything I just mean that where human ears tend to lose the ability to hear certain frequencies over time, hers would have retained this ability since elven bodies do not age.
Tauriel is seen primarily fighting by firing her bow and also using a pair of long knives. She is extremely skilled at using both of these weapons, barely having to take aim before she lets an arrow loose with perfect accuracy. She is equally skilled with both hands when it comes to wielding her knives and I would say that it is a safe assumption to make that she is very skilled with other types of weaponry as well.
Swords most certainly since they are seen used by elves in canon and I find it unlikely that she would not have been trained in using one, and she would not be lost with a spear in her hands I don’t think. With weapons like axes and maces and warhammers I would say that her training has not been as thorough, but that she could still make rather good use of them simply by virtue of being an experienced fighter. She is by no means incapable of using whatever is at hand to try to bring her enemy down.
Tauriel is exceptionally agile and has reflexes that are faster than a human’s. Her balance is very good and she can perform acrobatic feats that would be very difficult for many people to execute with such ease. An example that illustrates this is Legolas standing on one leg on a dwarf’s head whilst said dwarf is sitting in a barrel and floating down a rapidly flowing river. All the while he is also firing arrows. And hitting his targets.
While this is stunt is not pulled off by Tauriel herself, it says something about the abilities of elven warriors in general as well as it does of Legolas in particular, I think. Tauriel is shown as being very agile as well, if not in quite so showy a fashion, I just chose that example to point at an extreme.
Possibly does not need sleep, or at least goes into a meditative dream-state rather than the human kind of sleep, and she can enter this state whilst riding or walking as well, which is most likely part of why it will take longer for her to become fatigued than it would for a human. She also just has greater stamina than the average human and can keep going for a long time without rest.
Legolas is seen walking through a snowstorm seemingly not bothered by the cold, and this is not just a trait that belongs to him in particular, but all elves in general. His footfalls are also light enough that he does not sink into the snow, another general elven trait and thus Tauriel shares this. It would appear that elves are in general quite resistant to changes in the weather.
It is my understanding that Elves cannot die from illness, even though they can get sick, hence I would say that Tauriel has a much stronger immune system than a human has.
She heals faster than a human would, and most likely injuries leave less of a mark on her even where they would have left scars on a human. There is canon that supports the rather vague statement that an elf can survive more severe injuries than a human could, but it is hard to nail that down. Suffice to say that if you stab Tauriel in the heart, she will die. If you put an arrow in her skull, she will die. Cut a hand off, and she will be one-handed for the rest of her days. Grave injuries will heal faster and better than they would on a human, and that is about as much as can be said for certain.
And now we come to the tricky matter of Tauriel’s ability to heal. Canon suggests that she knows a bit about both herb-lore and the care of injuries in general. I would say that she knows enough to take care of many kinds of injuries that one might receive in battle, but I doubt that she would be quite so adept at curing “common” illnesses.
She does, however, seem to know a bit about poisons and how to drive them out.
There is also the matter of her seemingly being able to heal partly by using magic. When I have had her use this ability in other games I have left it up to the other mun how great an effect her use of it has had on their character’s injury.
Tauriel is not presented as a healer, and so I doubt that her magical power is particularly great by elven standards. It is enough to get someone through a dire situation such as when she drove the Morgul poison out of Kili, but compared to the ones who truly devote themselves to healing I would say she is not to be considered as powerful. It appears to be an ability to through the chanting of words (spells?) encourage healing and make it go faster, or even heal injuries that would have been too great for the wounded person’s own body to handle.
In Kili’s case it is pretty clear that he is still wounded once she is done, so by no means is her ability some sort of magical fix for everything. She can pull someone away from the edge of death, perhaps purify a wound that has been infected or maybe reduce scarring from a healing wound. It’s an aid, not something she can use on its own to just make injuries go away.
First person sample:
[ The young elf-woman paces back and forth, disappearing from sight and then reappearing on the screen once again, her movements full of restrained power and restless energy. ]
To what point and purpose am I being kept in this place? I have not been questioned, nor put to any other kind of use beyond rotting away inside these walls like a blade left to rust in its sheath.
[ She stops her pacing, sharp eyes glaring at no one in particular and the world in general. ]
Whatever game is being played here, know that I will not break so easily. If you thought that you could make this bird sing by putting it in a cage, you were sorely mistaken. My people live free, as do I, and you may imprison my body, but my spirit will never be yours.
[ She seems aware of how fruitless her little speech truly is, and so she ends the message with a frustrated growl and a muttered insult that puts a bit of a dint in the grandeur of her speech. ]
Oh, go kiss an orc.
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