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Inali Ismene (Black Fox Learning)

A young cecaelia making her way through the world in search of knowledge.

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a character in “Altaea Saga: Song of the Ancients”, as played by PixieCP

Description

A cecaelia is a type of half humanoid creature who refer to themselves as Jensi. At the waist, their body forms a bell fringed with tentacles of a length up to two meters. These tentacles are smooth and dry, about the same texture as soft leather although they are quite tough. They also possess neurochemicals, primarily used for self defence and communication. As a culture Jensi are rarely confrontational as when you can kill with a touch, only very serious things are argued over. Among Jensi women pierce their lobes but men pierce the shell of the ear.

Inali herself measures about 250 cm from her crown to tips when lying flat. Her hair is thick and a dark brown and black colour. She wears it just past her shoulder blades, mostly tight braided though pieces escape to frame her face at the front. Her skin is a golden brown colour, her large and wide set eyes a warm amber. Her face is more broad than narrow, with stubborn chin and strong sharp brows. In the appropriate clothing Inali appears to be a common human, her only markings being a small tattoo on her wrist which denotes her birth year and sign to other Jensi. In her lobes are carved wood spirals polished very smooth, rare jewellery by her peopleā€™s standards.

Inali is by no means dainty, although her breasts are modest she has wide hips and a stout figure. She looks more like farm stock than a lady. Standing she is usually about 5ā€™6, though this can change depending on how she carries herself on her limbs. The tentacles are a darker shade of the rest of her skin tone.
Inali is also a natural mage but with very specific talents. She is trained in her peopleā€™s way of magic which concentrates on feeling, identifying and then directing the ambient magic in objects, people and the air. It is this training which has resulted in her natural magical talent manifesting itself as being able to identify and feel magic workings. She can understand any kind of magic simply by being present and paying attention when it is used and intuitively knows just how to do it. Un/fortunately, she cannot perform the magic herself, having almost no magical strength in and of herself. Inaliā€™s own magic is highly ritualistic and requires careful setting up, concentration, and then meticulous dismantling so as to not leave agitated magic behind. Where Western magic uses the intellectual concept and Eastern magic uses the spiritual concept, Jensi magic uses the essence of magic. Her specific skills are healing, divination and wards.

Personality

Inali is compassionate and friendly, easily making friends and winning people over. At least until they see her tentacles and run screaming. She is also highly pragmatic about her situation, knowing that she is as strange and thus scary to them as two-limbs were to her when she was just a child. Inali is also incurably curious and highly intelligent, learning everything she can and recording it. This results in very small, very tidy, very cramped handwriting in a script that saves space in her journals.

Equipment

Inaliā€™s most vital item is her clothing for disguising her nature. She has a tunic in a greenish brown weave that she made herself, hence the semi-failed dye job on the brown fibers. It splits over her hips, forming a panel in front and back. This tunic has a hood attached, and Inali has another one in a more successful blue colour. She also owns a brown skirt that wraps around and ties securely under her tunic when she requires a cover in settlements. Itā€™s in better condition than the rest of her clothes given how she doesnā€™t wear it traveling. Two off-white long shirts, a scarf, gloves and a breast band round out her clothing ensemble. She doesnā€™t own shoes but does have a cloak oiled to resist water. In a backpack she has some food, travel rations, a blanket, a traveling writing set and a journal. She also carries her mage kit, items that she uses to focus and direct her magic casting as well as drawing the power from. Also has a comb, needle and thread, water gourd, numerous other things sheā€™s forgotten are in there, and tinder and flint. For pretty things she has polished wood spirals in her ears, a choker woven from leather strips with an odd shaped metal pendant, and a belt of colored wool with beads in it. On her normal belt she has her pouch of money (shells, small coins in copper and tin), her belt knife (For eating mostly) a bag of smooth stones and wrapped around her waist is a sling. She also carries a staff which is mostly for show as a walking aid and for hanging her small tin latern on.

History

Inali Ismene, or Black Fox Learning, was fourth born to Sanidi Iskka and Ayana Meahiā€™s mating and is now 612. At a young age she showed a talent for ā€˜listeningā€™ to magic, highly valued in her people. She was taught the iron control required for her to survive even her childhood by her teachers in magic. It was during her rites to become a fledged magician that she met her elthsa. The word doesnā€™t have a proper translation into most common tongues, meaning a combination of teacher, guide and mentor. When a cecaelia wishes to marry, start a family, go on a journey or make any significant change, they ask their elthsa for permission. However, Inaliā€™s elthsa was to prove highly unusual. She was granted a gift. Immunity to time and disease, Inali could have the opportunity to truly learn everything there was to learn in the world, the small knowledge, and return it to her elthsa. She is only young yet, her species hits 2000 years of age on occasion, but in time her immortality will become more apparent to her as she doesnā€™t age past full maturity while everyone she knows and loves dies off. Inali left her home in search of more to learn, and has been steadily moving away from Ignir, her homeland. So far she has accumulated several pieces of knowledge, from how to brew tea and bake bread to the basic rules of alchemy. She speaks several languages although some of her dialects are likely archaic by now. At present Inali has returned to Ignir with her latest crate of records and is now in Northwatch having delivered it to her elthsa. Sheā€™s looking for a new direction to travel in.

So begins...

Inali Ismene (Black Fox Learning)'s Story