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Theme: Giving In
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Build: Athletic; toned with some light visible musculature, particularly abs and biceps.
Height: 5'8''
Appearance: As the face is typically what you really see first on an individual, let's start there. Soft features belie an iron personality and a caustic wit. Her eyes are a vibrant hazel, which seem to fit nicely alongside her warmly tanned skin. Framing her face is a short mess of wavy white hair, both clashing and accenting her visage rather well. Her arms and stomach display a body of lean athleticism, kept in shape through rigorous training and a hectic lifestyle alongside her companion, Adrian. In the arid heat of the desert, Nimba keeps to wearing lightweight clothing that breathes well – aside from her partially leather top, that is. This includes her hood, skirt and leather gauntlets. Completing this ensemble is a pair of sturdy leather boots, and of course her staff. A long, heavy, gnarled length of carved wood, its surface sanded smooth- though it bears some obvious signs of wear. An enchanted leather mask hangs from her belt, it's purpose to filter and protect against aerial hazards, such as dust, sand and possibly even toxins or other noxious fumes.
Personality: Most importantly, know this of Nimba Hawteeya: she is a troublemaker at heart. She's not a malicious soul, she's just.. well, playful's not the right word. She has a sense of humor that usually ends up getting her into trouble- pair that with an endless and insatiable curiosity, and you've got one hell of a mess on your hands. As a child she was prone to playing pranks, even setting fires, around the various camps her Band would establish. Always the one to wander off into the woods and caves, sneaking around the townships and cities to play and explore. Other children native to these places would recall the mysterious friend they'd made once upon a time. The girl who appeared from time-to-time before eventually vanishing forever. In a way, this has not changed. Nimba's a wandering soul who hates the thought of being rooted to a single place for too long, and craves new sites and experiences with a passion. Her jokes are often dry, and her expression typically a cross between wry amusement and stern staidness, readily concealing much of her emotion from being so easily discerned by any onlookers.
Combat Style: Nimba is a mage at heart. Her real power lies in elemental magic, especially air and fire. She has been schooled in various other arts including: restoration, arcane, enchanting, charms and illusion. Her fighting style compliments Adrian's, offering aid in the form of healing, defense and trickery for the most part. There always seems to arise a case where she is required to use something a little more.. destructive. If forced into a physical confrontation, however, Nimba can still defend herself quite aptly, being proficient in hand-to-hand combat and the employment of her staff as a weapon.
Bio: Nimba is a Yi Aba, an ethnic pariah group dwelling in an immense diaspora-nation of a sort around and within the Abbedon Empire. Once, they held their own country: Abarra. The Abarrans were driven from their homeland by the invading Carthim of In Carta Hör, a much larger and more powerful state. Scattered and homeless, and hardly wanted anywhere they went, the people of Abarra, now known as Yi Aba, roam various lands in Bands. They are mostly self-sufficient, but do work as traveling merchants and musicians after a fashion in order to help sustain their various camps. It was in one of these Bands that Nimba Hawteeya was born. As a young girl she was overly curious, constantly getting into trouble and causing grief among the elders of her Band. There was even an instance where she started a fire out of curiosity, only to be totally surprised when it spread and ignited one of the Band's carriages. Nimba was placed under careful watch for some time after that. At the age of eighteen, she and her Band were camped near a small township in one of the Empire's provinces, smack dab in the middle of a deep, tangled forest. The mayor had enlisted the aid of a one Adrian Ronuad des Màstoof to remove them from his township's border. Upon entering the camp to warn the elders, Nimba spied the stranger and felt immediately called to him. He was a wanderer; going where he pleased and doing whatever he wished or needed to stay afloat. Thus, she went to the elders with a proposition: agree to leave, but in return he would have to take her along with him. This was a win-win solution, as she figured. The elders got to get rid of her, as she was sure they wanted to, and Adrian would fulfill his contract. To her surprise, it worked- and she set off with Adrian, leaving her roving home behind to see newer places in lands her migrant life with Yi Aba would never have led. Since then, the two have traveled across both Imperial lands and beyond, their journeying finally leading them to Gaudis to complete a contract.
