Nikalah Vestu Menedet, from The Ambassadors, a roleplay on RPG

Name Pronunciation: nee-KAH-lah veh-STEW MEH-neh-dehtNikalah

Age: 135 (appears as 19)

Species: Hanai

Appearance: Dark brown, almost black hair, with streaks of red-gold embedded in it. Long (small of her back), worn in a braid, with a tie at the end that contains tiny knives, capable of ripping skin. Mahogany-brown eyes, almond-shaped, and slightly slanted. Nikalah is tall and slender, reaching a height of about 5”6. She carries herself with good posture, and with the sort of aura that Hanai people tend to give off: calm and coiled-spring, like she could explode at any second. Which happens sometimes. She wears knee-high white leather boots, shin-length dark blue pants tucked into said boots. A dark blue tunic top, belted by white cord, with the same design as her tattoo stitched in gold and silver thread on the left sleeve. Her tattoo is on her left upper arm, a circle of what appears to be several lines woven together.

Magic Abilities: Yes

Abilities: Nikalah is mostly a nature manipulator/healer. She can convince elements of nature to give some of their life force to those who are in danger of dying, then help the wounded person’s body to heal so that the given life isn’t wasted. Can also communicate telepathically, but only at a limited distance - 100 metres at the most - and for no longer than 10 seconds at a time.

Personality

Personality: Nikalah appears most of the time as a human personality in an Hanai body. She doesn’t have the typical impassiveness of her race, preferring to live a passioned life. Which is why she left: she just couldn’t take the solemnity of living with others who didn’t see the world the way she did.

Nikalah has a sense of battle humour, which consists of insults and criticism of someone’s fighting style during a battle. This is designed to throw someone completely off their game, so they’ll screw up, hopefully presenting an opportunity for her to take them out. She has a love of battle, not from bloodlust, just from the thrill of a good fight.

She’s also the tiniest bit temperamental. As in, calm and collected one minute, before something ticks her off and she spazzes. If you’re the one to cause a spaz attack, she’ll make you regret it, whether through an emotional, physical, or magical beating.

Nikalah also loves books. First day in a new town, if she has some downtime, she’ll head for the library, and spend all day there. Food? Water? Pssh. Books are better.

Strengths: She’s a good fighter, physically and psychologically. She can back up a good friend, and will, should the need arise.

Weaknesses: She has a tendency to doubt. And is a tad bit over-protective if she gets close to someone. But tell her to back off, and she will.

Equipment

Weapons: Nikalah wears a thin, strong sword on her left hip, easy to draw with her right hand. The blade itself is strange metal: pale blue-white stuff. There’s a three-quarter blood-channel on the blade, the hilt being made of light silver-coloured metal. The grip is bound in black leather. A pale blue crystal is the pommelstone.

History

Birthplace: City of Na’an, Tioria Province

Family:
Grandfather - Morishin Menedet - Council of Elders Chairman
Father - Vestor Menedet - Director of Na’an Law Enforcement
Mother - Selahna (Fortallan) Menedet - Professional healer
Brother - (older by 20 Hanai years) Alesdrian Menedet - Law enforcement officer

History: Nikalah’s family was quite prominent in Na’an - her grandfather was the head of the Council of Elders, her father led the city’s law enforcement, and her older brother was highly skilled in both swordplay and magic. Nikalah, like her mother, excelled in healing.

Against her grandfather’s wishes, Nikalah joined the city’s counterintelligence department. He had wanted her to follow in his footsteps, rising through city politics until she held his position. At the very least, she should have gone into law enforcement. He continued to try and persuade her to change her career path, to no avail. Eventually, he cut himself off from the entire family to punish his granddaughter’s thoughtless disregard for the family traditions. In order to end the family’s excommunication, Nikalah left. Since then, she has made a living for herself as a thief/assassin-for-hire.

She came to Armana City on a job, which she recently completed. With her target packaged up in a big box and on the caravan to Ban, she has time to relax a little. Hence why she has now come to the Dark Moon tavern . . . .