Appearance
Race: Nuit
Gender: Female
Age: 93
Birthday: Day 13, Spring, 420AV.
Birthplace: Sunberth
Post-60th Summer 513 AV
Appearance: Tsaba is just under 4' tall with a thin, somewhat frail frame. She has the appearance of a human girl with angular cheeks and nose, long blonde hair and bright green eyes that tend to look at things rather harder than one would expect from a child. She frequently wears her hair in two braids down her back. The black pigment in her mouth and around her eyes betrays her status as a Nuit. Pre-60th Summer 513AV
Appearance: Tsaba is 5'5” tall and weighs about 145lbs. Her current body is 45 years old, although she has been possessing it only a couple of months and it shows no obvious signs of decay beyond the characteristic Nuit eyes and tongue. Her wavy hair still contains hints of blonde among the strands of white, and hangs to just below her shoulders; she rarely ties it back, preferring to allow it to cover as much of her neck and shoulders as possible. Her ice blue eyes normally bear a hard, no-nonsense look, even when she smiles. She is slightly stooped, making her appear smaller than her full height.
Character Concept
Tsaba is an inherently practical and scholarly person with little natural empathy for others. She does have a great respect for life, having been raised by a healer, but expects any favours she shows to be repaid in time, just as she intends to repay the help of others. She has little interest in physical property that she is not in immediate need of, and being essentially immortal means that she does not value her time all that highly; she is, however, an obsessive collector of information, whether cultural history, a new skill, or even a particularly enlightening personal story. Tsaba will often gladly assist people in exchange for such information, including working for free in exchange for the opportunity to develop a new skill. Tsaba is also a lover of the written word; the opportunity to read or, even better, copy interesting texts is a good price for her time, so scholars and librarians often have no trouble buying her help in miscellaneous matters. Tsaba was raised in Sunberth but spared the extreme anarchic views of the population through the combination of a relatively uninterested foster parent and a relocation to Sahova when still quite young. She has nominal respect for authority based largely on practicality and will normally obey local law if she can safely do so simply to avoid trouble, but has no fundamental belief in the rightness or wrongness of law; although very young for a Nuit, she already sees human life and, by extension, human culture, as transient. But no matter how she views the laws of others, Tsaba will do everything in her power to keep her own word; if she makes a promise, she will abide by it if she can. Tsaba is happy to maintain casual friendships with mortals, but the only relationship she has that she considers truly lasting is that with her father figure and mentor, Craun.
Character History
Orphaned at age six by a mine cave-in in Sunberth, Tsaba would surely have died had she not been taken in by the local healer Craun who tried to save her father's life. Craun possessed no magical healing ability (the miners would not trust him with their wounded if he did), but his services were vital to the community. Tsaba was one of two foster children, both of whom were apprenticed to Craun; however, she showed neither interest nor aptitude for the healer's art. Although Craun tried to teach her basic medical procedures,the only medical procedure she showed any aptitude for was using Auristics for diagnostic purposes. It was not until he all but gave up and set her to note-taking and copying out books that they discovered her true aptitude – the written word. Tsaba began as a blind scribe copying out Craun's books, but quickly began to teach herself and her sister how to read. The children didn't know what Craun did with the copies, and they didn't ask. There were several things they never asked. Like why the smell of alcohol and embalming fluid permeated not just the rooms where Craun would treat the injured and dress the dead, but the whole house and his own skin. Or why the flesh under his all-engulfing work robes, which was seen only by them inside the house, was cold and off-colour. Or why the face hidden behind those robes occasionally changed into another face. Even when they were too young to understand, they understood his secrecy, and they understood what was too dangerous to talk about.
Eventually, even Craun acknowledged that Sunberth was getting too dangerous and prepared to leave. His foster children were both sixteen at the time, old enough to make their own way in the world, and old enough to make a choice. He offered them eternal life. Despite the dangers involved, both accepted.
Craun took his two apprentices to Sahova, and soon after put them both through the Daek-Nuit ritual. Only Tsaba survived the process.
The loss of her sibling and difficulty adjusting to an undead existence left her depressed, so Craun coerced a promise out of her – that she wouldn't try to kill herself for three years. Tsaba coped as she always had; by reading and learning. When she wasn't working for Craun, she learned not only from the library, but took notes for researchers and poisonmakers. While she has seen only a tiny fraction of the vast stores of information at Sahova, it eventually became apparent to Tsaba that her lifestyle was stagnating and Sahova was a stifling place to live. The information at Sahova wasn't going anywhere, and most of the actual work she accomplished was only a step or two above what golems could do. And while there was more information there than she could ever hope to learn, so much of it was old; information on the races and cultures shaped by the Valterrian. How could they hope to make progress in the modern world, if they didn't understand it? Tsaba left her apprenticeship to Craun and headed back out into the world in search of new information. She has every intention of keeping him updated on her travels; although she doesn't expect Sahova at large to value her work, he will want to know how she's doing.
But it is becoming clear to Tsaba that her sheltered life and mere book learning may not be enough to get by in the world outside Sahova. Can she adapt, or will her immortality last a shorter time than expected?
Language
Fluent Language: Common
Basic Language: Nader-Canoch
Housing
Location: Zeltiva
House: Small cottage, furnished with bed, dresser, firepit, table, 2 chairs, desk, bookcase, shelves |
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Tsaba 
by Tsaba on May 26th, 2013, 1:59 pm 
