Nicknames: Ro, Ln, Ln’Ro, Iri
Ro is her usual nickname. Ln or Ln’Ro is an affectionate form of endearment used by Rowasa’s family or close family friends. Iri comes from Ln’Rowasa’s middle name, which most people ignore because it is Vantha. Rowasa’s mother Ayanra used to call her Iri.
Race: Mixed Race (Vantha mother and Human father)
Age: 17 (born Winter 494 AV)
Gender: Female
Appearance
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Ln’Rowasa is quite tall for her age, standing at 6 feet and still growing. Yet her stature is that of the Vantha – lithe, dexterous and hardy, Ro is fast and agile, especially after having outgrown her gawky stage. Her skin is tanned from exposure and the smattering of pale freckles across her face is proof that she has spent most of her life outdoors. Paying homage to her Vantha heritage is the glossy sheet of long, straight black hair that falls to her waist, but since the thick, dark hair absorbs a lot of heat, Rowasa has acquired the habit of weaving it into a satiny braid. Despite the sheen of her tresses, Ro’s hair does not possess the colorful shimmer of pure Vantha. Her almond-shaped eyes are rimmed with dense black lashes, and in a fascinating collision of racial biology, they are heterochromic – the left eye is a traditional Vantha lavender that darkens to violet when Ro is enraged, while the right one is a dreamy blue so pale that it is almost gray. Rowasa possesses the delicate facial features of the Vantha except for her broad, sloping cheekbones and chiseled jaw, which are strongly reminiscent of Humans. Her eyebrows arch naturally in a slightly haughty-looking way. Thus, though not conventionally beautiful, Rowasa’s countenance can be striking, and most who judge her by looks assume that she is far more arrogant and confident than she really is.
Personality
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Disposition
Gifted with the vast imagination and quick wit of the Vantha, Ln’Rowasa is an excellent spinner of tales, and enjoys hearing those of others, too. Though she suffers the isolation and insecurity of the mixed race, with those she trusts and knows intimately she can forge strong and deep bonds. Still, she is very shy and reclusive, a restless loner like her father, and not at all possessed of the vivacious social verve characteristic of the Vantha. She constantly feels lost and out of place among the Konti of Mura, endlessly mourning her lack of Divination and her apparent inability to obtain Avalis’s Gnosis mark, no matter how fervently she studies and wishes for it. Though she is usually calm and controlled, her conflicting emotions of jealousy and loneliness can give rise to tempestuous and confusing feelings in emotional situations. Yet when she is not overwhelmed, Rowasa is composed and capable of intense focus and concentration. She is disciplined, following regular routines that help her feel in greater control of her life and cope more successfully with the stressful feelings of an outsider. Rowasa is not very wise, being inexperienced and lacking self-esteem, but she is highly intelligent and remarkably observant.
Ethics
Ro suffers from the naïveté of the young. She has grown up in a peaceful and largely positive environment, so she is not inherently a bad person, and she does know the difference between right and wrong. She is also very open-minded, interested in different cultures and appreciates ethnic diversity. However, Ro’s jealousy, great curiosity and tendency to give into temptation has led to a dangerous addiction that has led her to continuously question her morals.
Likes
Ln’Rowasa loves the strange and exotic. She often eavesdrops on tourists to hear about the rest of the world, and dreams of traveling. Ro is very interested in becoming more in touch with her Vantha heritage. She loves carving and wants to become an architect in future.
Dislikes
Because it reminds her of how little she fits in, Ln’Rowasa hates Lover’s Day and dislikes the Anniversary of the Valterrian. Whenever these festivities are celebrated, Ro stays at home and suffers from a significantly grumpier mood.
Gifted with the vast imagination and quick wit of the Vantha, Ln’Rowasa is an excellent spinner of tales, and enjoys hearing those of others, too. Though she suffers the isolation and insecurity of the mixed race, with those she trusts and knows intimately she can forge strong and deep bonds. Still, she is very shy and reclusive, a restless loner like her father, and not at all possessed of the vivacious social verve characteristic of the Vantha. She constantly feels lost and out of place among the Konti of Mura, endlessly mourning her lack of Divination and her apparent inability to obtain Avalis’s Gnosis mark, no matter how fervently she studies and wishes for it. Though she is usually calm and controlled, her conflicting emotions of jealousy and loneliness can give rise to tempestuous and confusing feelings in emotional situations. Yet when she is not overwhelmed, Rowasa is composed and capable of intense focus and concentration. She is disciplined, following regular routines that help her feel in greater control of her life and cope more successfully with the stressful feelings of an outsider. Rowasa is not very wise, being inexperienced and lacking self-esteem, but she is highly intelligent and remarkably observant.
Ethics
Ro suffers from the naïveté of the young. She has grown up in a peaceful and largely positive environment, so she is not inherently a bad person, and she does know the difference between right and wrong. She is also very open-minded, interested in different cultures and appreciates ethnic diversity. However, Ro’s jealousy, great curiosity and tendency to give into temptation has led to a dangerous addiction that has led her to continuously question her morals.
Likes
Ln’Rowasa loves the strange and exotic. She often eavesdrops on tourists to hear about the rest of the world, and dreams of traveling. Ro is very interested in becoming more in touch with her Vantha heritage. She loves carving and wants to become an architect in future.
Dislikes
Because it reminds her of how little she fits in, Ln’Rowasa hates Lover’s Day and dislikes the Anniversary of the Valterrian. Whenever these festivities are celebrated, Ro stays at home and suffers from a significantly grumpier mood.
History
Secret :
Family History (~480 - 499 AV)
Though Ln’Rowasa was born in Winter 494 AV, her tale begins about twelve years before. In the icy Taldera region, a beautiful Vantha woman in her late teens by the name of Ayanra fled from home when she was betrothed to an abusive man against her will. Beckoned by fireside tales of beauty, peace, and a safe matriarchal community, Ayanra traveled through perilous terrain to reach the White Isle. On the way, most of the valuables she had brought with her (including a large portion of her dowry) was bartered and sold to financially support her harrowing journey.
Once in Mura, Ayanra fell in love with the city and decided to devote her life to becoming a follower of Avalis. Within a few years of dedicated study, she finally received her first Gnosis mark, gifting her with the divine skill of Divination. Still, she was never as good as the official Konti priestesses of Mura, and receiving her second Gnosis took a long time and copious effort.
The night after she received it, Ayanra was suddenly infused with the vision of a handsome Human man, a simple traveler with no magical skill or apparent talent, with worn and dirty garb and a laugh in his eyes. She knew that she had fallen in love long before she returned to the true world and began to yearn for his coming. At last, he arrived, a Zeltivan sailor on a trading ship. Ayanra spotted him exploring the market while his captain negotiated with local merchants. She persuaded him to quit his crew and stay with her in Mura, becoming her lover and muse.
Yet her fear of mistreatment and suspicion regarding his intentions made him restless; before long, he yearned once again to wander the lands. It was his nature. More and more, Ayanra began receiving unbidden vision of him abandoning her, but these were so painful that she pushed them away and ignored any sense of foreboding. She anxiously tried to bear a child with him in order to convince him not to leave. The reverse was true – the Zeltivan sailor became paranoid, afraid he would be chained to the White Isle and a foreign culture all his life. When Ayanra was three months pregnant, her lover snuck away in the night to a ship returning to his homeland. He was never seen in Mura again, and as the distance between them was so great, Ayanra with her limited power was unable to see his fate.
Mourning after her lost love, Ayanra dropped her studies of worship as her Divination began to spiral out of control. More and more she drifted back to visions of the happy past she had spent with the Zeltivan man, and she barely survived the birth. Even after bearing his child, Ayanra was a negligent mother, absorbed in her own catatonic sorrow, but the few precious moments when she was fully conscious and even a little joyful, she lavished her infant with attention and care. Ayanra’s best friends among the close sisterhood of priestesses were the women who really reared Ln’Rowasa. These Konti regretfully anticipated the dark, murky path Ayanra was stumbling down, and though they did their best to help her, they realized that her Gnosis magic was destroying her mind inside out.
As Ayanra’s condition worsened, the surrogate mothers decided that it would be harmful to leave the five-year-old Rowasa with her birth mother, and together they obtained legal permission to raise Rowasa on their own. When Ayanra lost her child, she lost the last thread connecting her to the sane world, and she entered her most detrimental and powerful practice of Divination yet, assailing herself with surreal hallucinations of an imaginary past that had never come true. This culminated in a fatal Overgiving.
Pre-Creation History (Winter 494 - Winter 511 AV)
Ln’Rowasa was brought up by five surrogate mothers (Sh’Eless, Sh’Dvunia, W’Iakaya, Tp’Ushona and Q’Wagielle), all Konti priestesses. The twins Eless and Dvunia, whom Ro lived with until she was fourteen, are the primary parental figures. They regularly visit her, bought her the 400 sq. ft. single-room cottage containing a hearth, bunk, chest, chair and small table she currently lives in, and have supplied her with the income she now possesses.
From the start, Rowasa was unable to fit in. While she studied the art of Divination all her life, she seems incapable of receiving Avalis’s mark of Favor. The lack of encouragement by her mothers to invest further effort in this area convinced her that they knew she would never See. Instead, they recommended healing for her, hoping she could become a qualified doctor and thus find a niche in Mura society. However, it was discovered on the very first day of medicinal training that this was not an option – Rowasa Iridyllis Lneth was haemophobic and couldn’t stand the sight of blood. Following this painful discovery, the Konti gave her a job as a swan maiden, but even this raised insurmountable problems. Rowasa came back her first day of instruction in tears: the tourists had made derogatory remarks about her not being Konti and insisted that she show them the Mark of the White Lily. When she could not, they refused to pay for the tour and humiliated her in front of the other Murans by ridiculing the fact she bore no Gnosis mark.
During these years of fluctuating jobs and insecurity, Ln’Rowasa found comfort in listening to the rare Vantha travelers that entered Mura, and connecting with Vantha culture. She purchased an eating knife with a whalebone hilt from a Vantha merchant and used her primitive knowledge of carving to make a delicate hole in the palm-sized whalebone statuette of a windrunner, an heirloom of her mother’s. She threaded a string through the opening and wore it as a necklace. Being shy and reclusive, Rowasa rarely interacted directly with any Vantha, but she overheard many, many conversations, and was even been able to pick up some words and phrases in Vani. (Language books in local libraries were also a useful resource.) Finally, Rowasa’s mothers taught her cooking, art and handicraft, and this seemed to be in accord with Ro’s racial talents. Rowasa possessed an innate talent at carving and realistic art. Soon she was passionate about becoming an architect.
Every day, Ln’Rowasa left her home and walked past the Silver Lake to the Opal Temple, making her way through the elegantly sculpted house of worship to reach the Medical Library. There, she studies architecture and basic medicinal knowledge. But in the past three years, something else has captivated her, something dark and treacherous. She knows she should just leave it be, but it seems natural coming from her, very temptingly so. It is something she just knows she could do very, very well in. It is something that could set her apart from the others and make her special and extraordinary like she always wanted.
On the nights she dares to, on the nights she is driven to by fury and loneliness and sorrow, on the nights when the world seems to pit itself against her with all its might, Rowasa Iridyllis Lneth looks into the mirror in her room for hours and hours on end, careful to ensure that her mothers are asleep and will not walk in on her. She patiently locks eyes with her reflection and stares and stares and stares, feeling some dark blossom budding and growing within her. You see, three years ago, someone misplaced a very, very dangerous book in the section intended for Denvalian architecture – a tome on the art of Hypnotism.
Rowasa can’t find the strength to resist the call of a magic all her own. Though it may sound forgivable now, this denial, this entrenchment, is as misguided as the deviant nature that led to her mother’s undoing.
Post Creation History (Winter 511 AV - Beyond!)
Coming soon!
Though Ln’Rowasa was born in Winter 494 AV, her tale begins about twelve years before. In the icy Taldera region, a beautiful Vantha woman in her late teens by the name of Ayanra fled from home when she was betrothed to an abusive man against her will. Beckoned by fireside tales of beauty, peace, and a safe matriarchal community, Ayanra traveled through perilous terrain to reach the White Isle. On the way, most of the valuables she had brought with her (including a large portion of her dowry) was bartered and sold to financially support her harrowing journey.
Once in Mura, Ayanra fell in love with the city and decided to devote her life to becoming a follower of Avalis. Within a few years of dedicated study, she finally received her first Gnosis mark, gifting her with the divine skill of Divination. Still, she was never as good as the official Konti priestesses of Mura, and receiving her second Gnosis took a long time and copious effort.
The night after she received it, Ayanra was suddenly infused with the vision of a handsome Human man, a simple traveler with no magical skill or apparent talent, with worn and dirty garb and a laugh in his eyes. She knew that she had fallen in love long before she returned to the true world and began to yearn for his coming. At last, he arrived, a Zeltivan sailor on a trading ship. Ayanra spotted him exploring the market while his captain negotiated with local merchants. She persuaded him to quit his crew and stay with her in Mura, becoming her lover and muse.
Yet her fear of mistreatment and suspicion regarding his intentions made him restless; before long, he yearned once again to wander the lands. It was his nature. More and more, Ayanra began receiving unbidden vision of him abandoning her, but these were so painful that she pushed them away and ignored any sense of foreboding. She anxiously tried to bear a child with him in order to convince him not to leave. The reverse was true – the Zeltivan sailor became paranoid, afraid he would be chained to the White Isle and a foreign culture all his life. When Ayanra was three months pregnant, her lover snuck away in the night to a ship returning to his homeland. He was never seen in Mura again, and as the distance between them was so great, Ayanra with her limited power was unable to see his fate.
Mourning after her lost love, Ayanra dropped her studies of worship as her Divination began to spiral out of control. More and more she drifted back to visions of the happy past she had spent with the Zeltivan man, and she barely survived the birth. Even after bearing his child, Ayanra was a negligent mother, absorbed in her own catatonic sorrow, but the few precious moments when she was fully conscious and even a little joyful, she lavished her infant with attention and care. Ayanra’s best friends among the close sisterhood of priestesses were the women who really reared Ln’Rowasa. These Konti regretfully anticipated the dark, murky path Ayanra was stumbling down, and though they did their best to help her, they realized that her Gnosis magic was destroying her mind inside out.
As Ayanra’s condition worsened, the surrogate mothers decided that it would be harmful to leave the five-year-old Rowasa with her birth mother, and together they obtained legal permission to raise Rowasa on their own. When Ayanra lost her child, she lost the last thread connecting her to the sane world, and she entered her most detrimental and powerful practice of Divination yet, assailing herself with surreal hallucinations of an imaginary past that had never come true. This culminated in a fatal Overgiving.
Pre-Creation History (Winter 494 - Winter 511 AV)
Ln’Rowasa was brought up by five surrogate mothers (Sh’Eless, Sh’Dvunia, W’Iakaya, Tp’Ushona and Q’Wagielle), all Konti priestesses. The twins Eless and Dvunia, whom Ro lived with until she was fourteen, are the primary parental figures. They regularly visit her, bought her the 400 sq. ft. single-room cottage containing a hearth, bunk, chest, chair and small table she currently lives in, and have supplied her with the income she now possesses.
From the start, Rowasa was unable to fit in. While she studied the art of Divination all her life, she seems incapable of receiving Avalis’s mark of Favor. The lack of encouragement by her mothers to invest further effort in this area convinced her that they knew she would never See. Instead, they recommended healing for her, hoping she could become a qualified doctor and thus find a niche in Mura society. However, it was discovered on the very first day of medicinal training that this was not an option – Rowasa Iridyllis Lneth was haemophobic and couldn’t stand the sight of blood. Following this painful discovery, the Konti gave her a job as a swan maiden, but even this raised insurmountable problems. Rowasa came back her first day of instruction in tears: the tourists had made derogatory remarks about her not being Konti and insisted that she show them the Mark of the White Lily. When she could not, they refused to pay for the tour and humiliated her in front of the other Murans by ridiculing the fact she bore no Gnosis mark.
During these years of fluctuating jobs and insecurity, Ln’Rowasa found comfort in listening to the rare Vantha travelers that entered Mura, and connecting with Vantha culture. She purchased an eating knife with a whalebone hilt from a Vantha merchant and used her primitive knowledge of carving to make a delicate hole in the palm-sized whalebone statuette of a windrunner, an heirloom of her mother’s. She threaded a string through the opening and wore it as a necklace. Being shy and reclusive, Rowasa rarely interacted directly with any Vantha, but she overheard many, many conversations, and was even been able to pick up some words and phrases in Vani. (Language books in local libraries were also a useful resource.) Finally, Rowasa’s mothers taught her cooking, art and handicraft, and this seemed to be in accord with Ro’s racial talents. Rowasa possessed an innate talent at carving and realistic art. Soon she was passionate about becoming an architect.
Every day, Ln’Rowasa left her home and walked past the Silver Lake to the Opal Temple, making her way through the elegantly sculpted house of worship to reach the Medical Library. There, she studies architecture and basic medicinal knowledge. But in the past three years, something else has captivated her, something dark and treacherous. She knows she should just leave it be, but it seems natural coming from her, very temptingly so. It is something she just knows she could do very, very well in. It is something that could set her apart from the others and make her special and extraordinary like she always wanted.
On the nights she dares to, on the nights she is driven to by fury and loneliness and sorrow, on the nights when the world seems to pit itself against her with all its might, Rowasa Iridyllis Lneth looks into the mirror in her room for hours and hours on end, careful to ensure that her mothers are asleep and will not walk in on her. She patiently locks eyes with her reflection and stares and stares and stares, feeling some dark blossom budding and growing within her. You see, three years ago, someone misplaced a very, very dangerous book in the section intended for Denvalian architecture – a tome on the art of Hypnotism.
Rowasa can’t find the strength to resist the call of a magic all her own. Though it may sound forgivable now, this denial, this entrenchment, is as misguided as the deviant nature that led to her mother’s undoing.
Post Creation History (Winter 511 AV - Beyond!)
Coming soon!
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Skills
Secret :
Architecture: 18
Hypnotism: 14
Carving: 10
Cooking: 10
Drawing: 8
Total: 60
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Lore: Architecture, Divination
Fluent: Kontinese
Basic: Common
Poor: Vani
Architecture
Lore of designing buildings; drawing blueprints; knowing and recognizing construction materials
Divination
Lore of Avalis's Gnosis mark; its effect on practitioners; its history; knowledge of Chavena
Starting Package
18 Architecture, 14 Hypnotism, 10 Carving, 10 Cooking, 8 Drawing, Divination Lore, Architecture Lore, fluent Kontinese, basic Common, poor Vani
The rest have been earned, learned and/or trained.
Hypnotism: 14
Carving: 10
Cooking: 10
Drawing: 8
Total: 60
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Lore: Architecture, Divination
Fluent: Kontinese
Basic: Common
Poor: Vani
Architecture
Lore of designing buildings; drawing blueprints; knowing and recognizing construction materials
Divination
Lore of Avalis's Gnosis mark; its effect on practitioners; its history; knowledge of Chavena
Starting Package
18 Architecture, 14 Hypnotism, 10 Carving, 10 Cooking, 8 Drawing, Divination Lore, Architecture Lore, fluent Kontinese, basic Common, poor Vani
The rest have been earned, learned and/or trained.
Possessions (12)
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Clothing (3) – white cloak; silver sandals; pale lavender dress
Belongings (2) – peach-dyed leather backpack, heirloom
Necessities (5) – eye-shaped piece of rose-colored soap, eating knife with engraved fish-shaped whalebone hilt, pearl-studded comb, seashell-back brush; leather waterskin
Supplies (2) – flint and steel
Heirloom – mother’s authentic Vantha windrunner statuette, carved of whalebone
Nourishment – 1 week: seafood, freshwater
Ledger
100 gold-rimmed mizas
Belongings (2) – peach-dyed leather backpack, heirloom
Necessities (5) – eye-shaped piece of rose-colored soap, eating knife with engraved fish-shaped whalebone hilt, pearl-studded comb, seashell-back brush; leather waterskin
Supplies (2) – flint and steel
Heirloom – mother’s authentic Vantha windrunner statuette, carved of whalebone
Nourishment – 1 week: seafood, freshwater
Ledger
100 gold-rimmed mizas
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