K'taana Reeves

[K'taana]

K'taana Name: K'taana Reeves Physical Information: - Race: Konti - Birthday & Age: 31 Fall, 493 (17) - Gender: Female Physical Description: She is short, about 5'5", weighing 105 pounds. She has long, pale hair, usually tied back and hidden under a cowl or scarf. Her skin is naturally pale, sometimes coated with a fine layer of mud to hide her delicate scales; she will also wear a scarf to cover her face, detering further scrutiny of her skin. She also tends to wear thin gloves or fingerless gloves in an attempt to hide the webbing on her fingers. Her eyes are a fine blue. She has the graceful, fragile appearance of her race. She is small, and looks exactly her age, but her eyes are a deep green, and filled with fire. Character Concept: - Personality: K'taana has learned very well how to keep to herself. She is silent most often, but she is usually biting her tongue. Contrary to the first impression, she really does have a lot to say, but she has learned the art of knowing when to say it. She has a deep appreciation for the beauty in everyday things, but it was not nurtured in her childhood, and therefore has not blossomed to the potential for peace-loving that Konti women usually have. Instead, the her supressed nature led to a firey young girl who is argumentative and constantly searching for the place she will fit in. She loves working with her hands, making things. She cares deeply, and therefore cares sparingly. The longing for freedom denied has reached a breaking point, and she has arrived at a turning point in her life. - Ethics: Life is precious to her, whether animal, plant, or one of the races. Wasting is a terrible sin in her eyes, especially when it comes to life. Privacy is something that she holds in principle, but not in practice, though unwillingly at times. Her views on fighting are conflicted. It makes her feel powerful and strong, but it also damages her psyce. - Likes: Horses, children, and peaceful places. Gatherings of women. Making things. Privacy. -Dislikes: She has a deep-seated dislike of men in general. Character History: -Pre-Creation: The story preceding her birth is important to who she is and her situation. K'taana's mother, a human woman by the name of Carissa, fell in love with an Akalak named Logoth. But they were unable to conceive, and after years of trying, Logoth went in search of a Konti woman. The Konti, T'landra, fell deeply in love with Logoth, and agreed to bear him children. She gave birth to twins, one Akalak and one Konti. Logoth loved the children dearly, even the Konti girl. Carissa, mad with jealously and hatred, murdered her Logoth and T'landra, when she came with the child to visit him, abandoned the Akalak boy and stole the Konti girl. She managed to escape the wrath of the Akalak, saving the child, and fled to Nyka. K'taana spent her childhood constantly reminded by her "mother" that being Konti was dangerous, even shameful, and it must be hidden from the world. Carissa did not want her deeds discovered, neither did she want the girl kidnapped. So she was disguised, her face usually covered, sometimes coated in a layer of powder; her hair was always bound back. Like all Konti, she was born with a Mark of Avalis, and bore the single lily spanning across her entire back. At the age of ten, her mother brought her to be the apprentice of an elderly potter after months of K'taana's begging. At first, he refused, insisting that, on top of being a girl, she was far to young. But the revelation of her race convinced him to give her a chance, and he never looked back. She quickly grew adept at making pots, spending years in the shop. K'taana knew of her gift from a young age, and would often spend hours laying somewhere quiet, her eyes quite blank, exploring the chavi, learning to interpret what she saw there in the hardness of the past. She slowly grew more adept at deciphering what she saw, and began to explore the twisting, hardening places of the immediate future, trying to figure out what it meant, but with little results. She would frequently suffer attacks, traveling into the chavi involunarily, and unable to keep her conciousness in her body. This could happen anywhere, at any time, without warning. She spent most of her time at home or in the potter's shop, as the attacks grew more frequent as she grew older; having an attack in public avoided messy questions. During her attacks, she would often see a dark-skinned boy in the tribe of dark-skinned men. He was varying ages though her attacks. He suffered greatly, and she was under the impression that he was alone. What she saw troubled her, and once she brought it up to her mother following a particularly long attack. She never made that mistake again. What Carissa called "wander-lust" gripped K'taana as she passed her sixteenth birthday. She began to pace the room, leave for hours, even days at a time. The more she stayed at home, the worse her attacks got. If she left for a day or two, the attacks were almost non-existent, and increased again as time went by. Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, K'taana wandered into a small shop filled with hand-written books. She found a book on the lore of Konti, and the image of a white haired woman a few pages in. She had poured over the book, recognizing herself in every page. Her suspicions, all that she had ever seen in the chavi, and everything she read in the pages of the book, grew to be too much, and she confronted her mother. Carissa came clean about what she had done. Furious for the life that had been taken from her, K'taana took what would have been her dowry, bought a Mixed Blood horse, and left Carissa with her husband of five years and two children. -Post-Creation: N/A   Skill Points Riding: 10/100 Disguise: 5/100 Knife Fighting: 5/100 Hunting: 5/100 Pottery: 25/100 Medicine: 10/100   Starting SP Riding: 10/100 Disguise: 5/100 Knife Fighting: 5/100 Hunting: 5/100 Pottery: 25/100 Medicine: 10/100 (Racial Bonus)   Acquired SP N/A   Gnosis Mark of Avalis - One: Divination   Lore -Under Construction-   Possessions - 1 Set of Clothing - 1 Waterskin - 1 Backpack which contains: - 1 Set of Toiletries (comb, brush, razor, soap) - Food for a week - 1 eating knife - Flint & Steel   Housing 1 large tent (4 person) large tarp 100 ft of rope flint & steel lantern 2 torches bedroll blanket fishing tackle & hooks a riding horse a full set of tack a large set of saddlebags   Ledger Amount Description Credit Debit Total 100gm Starting Amount +100gm - 100gm Threads: http://www.mizahar.com/forums/topic9019.html