Mai'na Of Mura

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Mai'na Of Mura

Postby Mai'na on February 18th, 2010, 3:36 am

Name: Mai’na
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Height: Five feet, two inches
Weight: 140 pounds
Eye colour: Gray
Hair colour: Blonde
Birthday: 5th Day of Summer 485AV
Race: Konti

Physical description:
Quite the typical Konti youth Mai’na has long waist length blond hair, more gold than the stark white of her mother’s. Her gray eye sport a navy tint and reveal the most about the many complex emotions she feels throughout the day. With a light speckling of freckles across her nose she could almost pass for human, if only they didn’t seem so blue in the full sun. The scales that swirl across her skin have a periwinkle opalescence that makes her seem all the more girlish. Mai’na favors men’s clothes, enjoying the freedom that trousers give her, but her mother insists on stocking her drawers with light cotton skirts in pastel colours with flowers and animals printed gaily on them. Favoring her own fashion advice you’ll most likely see Mai’na wearing men’s clothing once she discovers the many styles of Mizahar.

Character concept:
Mai’na has a flighty spirit and displays her youth rather well. Stubborn and impulsive she has little respect for authority. With a quick wit and a sharp tongue she has a habit of not thinking before she speaks, and while she may not mean to offend or anger she is talented in doing both. ‘With a foot in your mouth and your head up your ass.’ as her mother would say. A neutral-good personality clumsy mind set.
Raised to worship Avalis, Mai’na has as strong a religious aspect to her life as would expect any average Konti woman. But she is never hesitant to question what she is told and seek out other pathways. She has a thirst for all knowledge in a similar way. She is always willing to listen to anyone speak if they are teaching her as well.
As well as having a healthy fear of her gods Mai’na fears being alone, she has no desire to follow the will of her mother, but all she knows is her island and her family so she feels a certain amount of duty to them. Even though she rebels this doesn’t mean that later she doesn’t regret. Mai’na lives in constant shame of her mother’s disapproval. She hungers for acceptance and fears that it will never come. She has a constant resentment for the ways of her people and dreams of her father and the freedom she envisions the humans having.
She knows very little of all things outside of Konti, her mother saw to it. So one could very easily label her as ignorant, but it’s not for a lack of effort towards change. She also resents the enforced ignorance that she deems a curse.
Being Konti, Mai’na inherited gifts of sight and empathy from her mother, her strength is empathy however. Her ‘visions’ lack the detail and finesse of those seen by other Konti women, blurry and vague she tends to ignore them and focus on the gift of feeling the emotional states of others. She also has been lucky enough to form a telepathic bond with her Ivaski, Sable, where she can feel his emotions and intentions like she would be able to with a humanoid.
Her other ‘strengths’ could be considered simply hazardous. With a knack for fighting and getting away with hell raising she shows an aptitude for understanding plants and their affects on the beings on Konti, and she is more than willing to learn about plants and peoples of other lands.

Character History:
Born to Mai’lia by the human father Nathanial Brookson, Mai’na was born on the island of Sahova. In order to understand the life of Mai’na, you must first learn the story of how she came to be, in a crippling land in a cruel way.
Mai’lia of Mura was reckless and wild, and in her young age she was a foolhardy creature with very little caution. The gifts that the Konti are blessed with so obscurely at birth left her a powerfully talented empathic when she reached maturity, and it was that empathy that eventually lead to a nearly insatiable wanderlust. As a child she wanted to see the known lands, to explore the peoples that lived in them and to feel all that there was for on to feel. She felt that her purpose was the art of experience, and this combined with her wild heart lead to her decision that the only way to perfect her art was to travel.
Mai’lia was twenty-seven when she left her Mother’s coastal home in the north of the island of Konti. She set out for adventure and wasn’t disappointed. The details of her travels, while very exciting and worth the telling, would take too long to be told in one day, they had fruitful results and after a time she found herself living a life that fed her desires. Aboard merchant ships, earning her keep by using her gifts to aid captains, she took in Mizahar one land mass at a time. Staying here and there on land for periods of time she became a true nomad. Until one day two decades after she left her homeland, she met a human.
His name was Nathanial and he was unlike any creature she had ever seen of felt. She found that of all the beings she had come to know he was the purest and happiest. She saw only gold within his heart and the love she felt was genuine and instantaneous. She discovered then that while she had indeed known love in many forms, she hadn’t until that moment known what it was to be -in- love. And luckily enough Nathanial Brookson loved her in return. For years they travelled together, knowing Mizahar all the better for having each other to experience it with.
But Mai’lia knew she couldn’t wander forever. The day came, after five years of denying the nature of her love and the nature of her people, when she became aware of Nathanial’s child growing within her. Elated by the news the pair knew what must be done, a stable home was best for a child and Nathanial was willing to provide one for the exotic woman he had grown to care for so dearly. The decision was made for Mai’lia to return to her island home and Nathanial would join her and the child when he had completed one last journey.
At port in Zeltiva they had planned separate departures. Her path would lead to Mura and her sister’s home, to birth their daughter and arrange their new life. He would join her eventually, but first his travels would take him to the unforgiving Sahova, a private shipment that would ensure his family enough Mizas to ensure their new beginning in Mura. On the morning that the ship left port Nathanial kissed his love tenderly and promised his return, and she returned his kisses believing his promise, mistaking it for the future. And that night she would learn better.
Tossing in her bed, fitfully dreaming blurred images that caused her to sweat and scream, images that raced away at the opening of eyelids and faded from memory as the clarity of consciousness filled her. Mai’lia had always seen as many of her people had before her, but never clearly and always were the messages hidden. But she knew this time that something wrong would happen and Nathanial was in danger. Ignoring her better judgment, she exhausted her resources to find a private boat heading to Sahova, and three weeks after the visions first came to her she left the shores of Zeltiva toward an uncertain future. The time passed slowly, her dreams intensified night by night as the boat was tossed closer and closer to its destination and when it came to port with no other ships in sight her hopes of finding Nathanial on the island sank. Still she endeavored that her visions would lead her to a reunion with him here on this forsaken island. The ship returned across the great expanse after two weeks and Mai’lia was left to Sahova and its dangers, to find her love alone.
For months Mai’lia explored Sahova, making shady dealings with the Nuit and wizards in order to survive. And after much hardship she found herself on the doorstep of a dingy cottage, heavy with child, deep in the woods at the centre of the island. Information gained from a Nuit local has lead her there, he had known of the ship Nathanial had travelled to the island on, and of its fate, he said that its crew had stayed at the cottage but did not know how long they stayed of if any of them remained there.
The windows were warm with the light of a large hearth, shadows moved this way and that letting her know that someone was inside. Her small hand rapped at the large heavy door and thump from inside the cottage answered, followed by the long slide-knock sound of an iron deadbolt.
It was on this night that she would at long last learn what happened to Nathanial. She would learn that this merchant vessel had been dashed upon the rocks in a vicious storm, what crew survived made their way inland and rode out the bad weather. When the tempest surge cleared the dead were collected, and among the bodies lay Nathanial, drowned, his body blessedly unbroken and peaceful. The mariners weren’t without aid however, for the Nuit are resourceful. It had taken time but they had been able to send the men back across the unforgiving waters, the mariners had left the island as Mai’lia had been searching for them. And the price for the aid of the locals? What would marooned sailors have that would be of any value? Their dead of course.
And as the door withdrew, and the hearth light spilled onto the darkened step Mai’lia faced the price they paid. For Nathanial stood before her, his expression that of another soul, eyes locked in a darkness she had never known. Mai’lia fled then, away from that place, away from the pain of her loss. Some time before her departure from the island she gave birth to her daughter. Mai’lia returned to Mura broken and changed. She abandoned her wanderlust and adopted a fearful nature, and she vowed to keep her daughter from the pain she suffered. Mai’lia tried her best bringing up her daughter, to the extent of keeping her on Mura for the sake of “protection”, her fear bread an unhealthy paranoia that made Mai’na rebel and the girl grew into a rebellious youth, much like her mother at a young age. Her rebellious ways lead to mischief, which she developed a taste for, and before long it became more than a problem.
Mai’lia had to make a choice; she had to do something to prevent her daughter from becoming like she had, wild and reckless. She wanted to instill traditional Konti ideals and values in her daughter that she had lacked at such a young age. She believed that if she could do this she would be able to save her daughter. After years of failing to get through to Mai’na, Mai’lia had had enough. And that leads us to the present.
Mai’lia is sending her daughter away from Konti, to a people she hopes will straighten Mai’na out. Mai’na of Mura now is setting off away from everything she has ever known or rebelled against, into a world that isn’t as forgiving as her mother. To Cyphrus, and to the Akalak people, where Mai’lia hopes her daughter will find a husband and settle her wild ways.


Training and Skill points:
Fortune Telling: +10 racial bonus
Herbalism: 15 (starting points)
Philtering: 15 (starting points)
Writing: 10 (starting points)
Brawling: 10 (starting points)

Lore:
1: Knowledge of Avalis (starting lore)
2: Lore of Konti flora (starting lore)

Ledger:

Equipment & Possessions
Family heirloom: Guard Dog "Sable" (Breed: Ivaski)

Starting package:
1 set of clothing (white cotton skirt & blouse with blue floral print),
1 water skin,
1 set of toiletries,
food for a week,
1 eating knife,
1 backpack
Dagger: 2 GM
Iron staff: 25GM

100 Gold Mizas start:73 Gold Mizas after creation.

Notes:
Mai'na lives in her Mother's thatched roof cottage on the outskirts of Mura.

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