Crumbli
the Tea Time Tyrant
- Name: Naria Alejandro.
Age: 21.
Gender: Female.
Species/Race: Beastkin/Human.
Kingdom of Origin: Igninuim, the fire realm.
Occupation: Slave merchant and goat herder.
Alignment: Chaotic neutral. - Appearance: Incredibly human and childlike in appearance. Her hair’s an off white grown out long with a waved texture. Her face, neck, arms and torso are all covered in the traditional human skin but beyond the hips she turns to her beast like nature. Her legs are similar to that of a goat and covered in short white fur that she sheers regularly to keep from growing matted. She has hooved feet, multiple teats and sheepish looking ears that stick out from the side of her head. Clothes wise she wears very little to signify wealth or suspicious abundances of fortune.
Personality: Deceptive and alluring. She behaves like a child in many regards to maintain the illusion she’s never aging. While her desires and wants from life grow and mature to more mature pursuits, she refuses to give in. She’s a proud sort who seeks mostly to out do others including her adopter. In her eyes he failed to keep the slave trade going so her goal is to maintain the trade until it no longer benefits her.
History/Bio:
Naria was born in the grand city of Hacin. Her mother was human and her father was ever changing in his identity. Sometimes he was a minotaur and other times he was a goatman. No two women who raised her ever agreed on what her father was but she knew he must have looked like her to some degree. It made sense that way.
She spent the early part of her life in an inn on the outskirts of Naria in the lower class regions. The inn offered other services and the women who raised her all performed said services. By the age of five she was sold by her mother to a scaled man with large teeth. She screamed and cried for days but was never given back. From that day forth she never knew of her mother or her father. She was so young she couldn’t even remember the names of the women who worked there or the name of the inn.
The scaled man was kind and provided her with everything she needed. He didn’t lay a hand on her nor did he ever abuse her in any regard. While slavery was illegal, adoption wasn’t and that was his excuse for having such a different looking daughter. Everyone around him came to accept that his daughter was half human and furry.
She was raised in the inner districts by the wealthy man until she was of mature age. When she struck twelve he decided she was a woman and began to treat her as such. The day of her adoption was considered to be her birthday. Others often asked if she was anywhere from six to eight years old but each time he had to clarify she was in fact twelve.
Her adopter was the overseer of the largest slave trade in the city. With the war going on the cities were too focused on fighting the enemy to thoroughly investigate the use of wartime prisoners. He began grooming her in the arts of slave trading before his untimely death at the hands of the guards during the peace times.
She learned about managing finances, how to read very basically, and what traits were desirable in a slave. She also learned how to hightail it when things went south. When the guards finally caught her adopter they went to take her as well. He pleaded that she didn’t know anything about it despite her knowledge and that it was solely his responsibility. She was eighteen when his head came clean off and rolled over to her feet. She was upset but not because he’d died. She had to brave the world alone now and it scared her.
Cut forward four years and she’s rebuilding his world. She claims to be a goat shepherd but carries out illegal slave trading on the sly. Her goat farm acts as a halfway house and while she doesn’t run the business, she plays a vital part in smuggling the slaves in and out of the city. She gets paid handsomely for her efforts but longs to rule over the slave rings like her adopter. - Equipment:
- Armour: A cheap cloth gown with thin fleece lining. Offers very little to no protection from weapons or magical attacks. Good at environmental protection and warding off guards.
- Weaponry: A small knife strapped to her thigh. The knife itself is made of finely cut glass and wood. The wood covers all sides of the glass excluding the curved side of the blade. On that side the wood is sharpened with a gap between the middle and the glass piece is fitted inside. Nothing too glamorous but enough to get the job done if ever she comes up against a problem while remaining legal.
Abilities:
- (Trained) Shrewd business sense - Though young and arguably inexperienced, Naria knows one thing to be true in this world. Everyone has a price and haggling can make them lower it. Her ten years of learning and practising business affairs has helped develop this skill.
- (Trained) Keen eye - Always looking for the features of a good slave or the dangers of undercover guards, Naria has to keep her eyes peeled or risk death at every turn. This skill can be transferred to other situations like finding a specific item in a shop or a weapon outline beneath gowns like her own.
- (Magic) Scorched earth - A spell that burns the ground around her releasing a cloud of thick smoke. She can use this cloud to aid her escape from the law or push the attack with quick stabs to the abdominal regions.
- (Magic) Ashen chains - So long as ash is present, she may cast a spell that binds targets to their location. Again a spell that can be used for a safe escape or a pushed advantage. The chains can be broken free of but usually require finicky movements to shake off.
- (Natural) High jumps - She can throw herself high into the air, roughly three to four feet. While impressive it’s usually impractical unless scaling tall surfaces such as walls or stalls.
Other:
- It’s rumoured that her father could have been a half breed of beastkin. Rumours range from him being half human to half desert cat which are known to hardly age or grow over their lifetimes.
- Despite having a safe supply of money she refuses to touch it for reasons beyond the bare needs of life. This is mostly to keep suspicions around her lowered.