A young cecaelia making her way through the world in search of knowledge.
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.
Inaliās 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. Itās in better condition than the rest of her clothes given how she doesnāt wear it traveling. Two off-white long shirts, a scarf, gloves and a breast band round out her clothing ensemble. She doesnāt 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 sheās 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.
Inali Ismene, or Black Fox Learning, was fourth born to Sanidi Iskka and Ayana Meahiās mating and is now 612. At a young age she showed a talent for ālisteningā 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 doesnāt 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, Inaliās 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 doesnāt 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. Sheās looking for a new direction to travel in.