Naea

Naea tal'Augstawne
Status
Race	Rakash
Gender	Female
Guild	Bard
Instance	Prime

General Information

• Beta of Asini Tal Veda of the Augstawne Girene Dzirta.
• Member of the Tavern Troupe
• Citizen of Siksraja
• Engaged to Chinoa
• Sub-par speaker of Common, which often gets her into trouble.

Background

Naea is an Augstawne Rakash and an unrepentant Bard. Raised in the East by various hands after the death of her parents during the Migration eastward, Naea is outgoing and personable but can often appear silly or childish to outsiders, as she usually manages to reduce situations to frivolity, however bleak they seem. Some find her reliance on jokes and humour to be annoying, though beneath her childish exterior lies a staunchly loyal personality.

Trained as a Bard in River Crossing, Naea was a reluctant and wilful student often provoking the wrath of her instructors with a constant stream of pranks and practical jokes. Displaying a remarkable lack of talent as a vocalist, her primary area of study, Naea was regarded by her tutors as a talented if un-driven poet, and written off as a serious performer of high art. Her true creative love however, was the story. Currently enjoying a low cultural ebb, stories were regarded by most of her instructors as a childish and immature medium, and they tried, repeatedly, to discourage Naea from writing and performing them.

Dismayed at the stubbornness of the academy, Naea ended her studies once she achieved the rank of Bard, abandoning the Crossing for Therengia, travelling north with Chinoa to warn of the imminent fall of the barrier. After the war, Naea settled in Siksraja to begin training as a Stastitaj, traditional Rakash storytellers responsible for guarding the oral history of their people. Any trace of her frivolous side evaporates when she performs, and this transformation often catches even her oldest friends off guard.

Softskin

You are Warrior Poet Naea tal'Augstawne, Ghost of Velaka, a Rakash. You have an angular face and tilted eyes, one milky white and one gold. Your white hair is short and wavy, and is worn arranged in tight dreadlocks. You have ebon skin and a lithe figure.

Your shoulder has a tattoo of a kneeling Rakash thrusting a sword skyward as she is encircled by a ring of spectral apparitions.

Moonskin

You are Warrior Poet Naea tal'Augstawne, Ghost of Velaka, a Rakash Bard

You have an angular face and mismatched eyes, one gold and the other milky white, a white and black coat and a long tail.

Appearance

You are wearing white cloth hair wrap dangling with deep black crow feathers, a moon-shaped emerald pendant on a braided silver chain, a faenrae pelt longcoat tooled with a pattern of swirling crow feathers, a black tankard-shaped badge etched with the insignia of the Tavern Troupe, a Gorbesh catapult basket, a relna rugursora, a black nightsilk odaj with a firesilk phoenix displayed in full glory, some Katamba-black hunting leathers, a thick leather wristcuff strung with a relna sudrava varna, a silver-inlaid malachite neithrel band fitted with two silver chains, a braided platinum engagement ring set with a black diamond moon, a scarlet silk sash hung with tiny silver bells, a claymore sheath, an intricately carved faenrae skull, a desiccated ur hhrki'izh bone spellbook case festooned with shamanic clusters of wren feathers, a soft snowbeast pelt thigh quiver clasped with a curved ivory tooth, a sharply serrated knife with a black leather hilt, a cambrinth ankle cuff inlaid with black onyx crows to spell MROD, and a pair of nightsilk nauda laced with braided firesilk cords.

Notable Events in Naea's Life

• Won a custom crafted violin at Yiara's performance contest in Zoluren, her most cherished posession.

Tap: an ebonwood violin inlaid with a flaring phoenix

Look: The exquisite instrument is masterfully crafted, its centerpiece adornment carved from polished flamewood. Clutching a lute in its talons, the mythical bird rises upwards from a sea of flames. Engraved into the wood at the base of the neck in elegant script is the letter "N."

Tap: an ebonwood violin bow inlaid with leaping flames

Look: Carved from polished flamewood, the wild tendrils swirl along the length, eventually culminating in a halo of fire around an engraved "N."

• Attended the farewell Moot at Bambina's house in the Crossing and subsequently traveled North to Therengia with Chinoa to spread word of Lyras's coming to Baron Gyfford, King Raenilar and others. Has since settled in Therenborough with Chinoa and her hedgehog, Ena.

Songs and Stories

Naea is a prolific story writer and poet and is happy to entertain all comers with a poem or a story.

Portrait

Painted by the extremely talented Lanita. Thank you!