Shiva

[Shiva]

Shiva Basic Information Race: Konti Birthday & Age :Fall of AV 419 (90 years old) Gender: Female Physical Description The slight and slender Konti stands at an unimposing 5’ 4”, weighing a scant 100 lbs. Shiva’s long white hair, only one piece that shows her racial background, is usually kept in a pleated braid that hangs down part of her back and is tied with smaller beaded braids of hair. Her deep violet eyes can be a bit shocking since they almost look black, especially in darkened rooms. Her pale skin is awash with glittering lavender scales along her feet, hands, and neck, more proof to her Konti origin. Character Concept The young looking Konti is an enigma of her knowledgeable and gentle race. Shiva is quiet, and has already strong forming gifts of her people, but would prefer the company of trees and silence to that of people, or even her own blood sisters. She would prefer there was no trace of her, than that she made a difference, rather be forgotten by the world than change it. Character History Maybe the reason for this personality paradox is because of the Konti’s upbringing. Shiva was born not in her people’s home land on the White Isle, but instead in the Symenestra land of Kalinor. Riva’s mother, Kilea, was brought to the race’s cavernous home for a harvest to be a surrogate mother, the species seeing her appearance and intelligence as traits they could pass to their newborns and not realizing that the Konti would in turn, only give birth to another Konti. Kilea was given to a Symenestra male, and upon the birth of Shiva, put into slavery with her daughter for her uselessness as a further surrogate. The two were paid for richly when the people discovered their true nature, and sold to a family whose bloodline had gone relatively untainted throughout the years, and who were well respected in the web they inhabited. These people were a strangely cold race, and Kilea only wished to return home to her sisters. After a length of time, despite the Konti’s gifts, she refused her services to her masters, and after the Symenestra tired with her antics, they simply killed her in her sleep, making Riva, who was at that time ten years of age, watch the life slip from her mother’s already pale features. After this, the young Konti worked hard for her masters, though not because of fear, but because of an emotion that Konti don’t often experience: anger. She worked hard on her skills of fortune telling, to please her masters and also to learn anything she could for the chance of escape, she worked hard to master the strange abilities the Symenestra have for climbing around their rocky solitude, and worked on keeping silent and forgettable. When Shiva was 30 the opportunity came for the Konti when she saw through a set of carved bone reading stones that there was going to be a minor coup in her master’s web with some unhappy underlings at a dinner party the household had been planning for months. She used this knowledge to escape just before the uproar, escaping through the labyrinth of stone and finally making her get away. While Shiva made it back to the land her ancestor’s hailed from, and told her fellow Konti of her mother’s demise and her desperate wishes to return to her home, after 20 years on the White Isle, she found herself ill at ease here too, as if this was not a true home to her either. Her sisters were so peaceful and quiet, so kind, yet her life seemed so meaningless here when there were slaves like her across Mizahar, troubles all around. She honed her skills further here, but soon had to depart. By this time the Konti had become quite lonely, though she rarely ever showed it. She seemed not to fit anywhere in the world, and so now Shiva walks the land, barely more than a specter, searching for a place she belongs. Training (Skills, Arcana, Gnosis, Lore) 30/ 100 Fortune Telling (Starting Package/ racial bonus) 10/100 Suvai (Starting Package) 10/ 100 Acrobatics (Starting Package) 10/100 Stealth (Starting Package) Lore of Remaining Unseen (SP) Lore of Symbology (reading runes specifically) (SP) Equipment and Possessions 1 pair of Suvai (Mother’s heirloom) 1 set of clothing (as well as Black velvet cloak, leather boots) 1 Waterskin 1 Traveling Pack containing a toiletry set, one weeks rations, cutlery knife, and Flint and Steel Ledger 570 gold Miza -10 gm (Set of carved bone reading runes) -15 gm (Silver symbol of Laviku) -5 gm (Black velvet cloak) Thread List