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Jin'li Epinoch

2014-07-28T18:46:30Z

ExKage:

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((Jin'li has no moral compass and no real ability to feel emotions as we feel emotions. He has brainwashed himself into finding purpose and satisfaction in obeying his master.))
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((Jin'li has great difficulty moving now, his muscles in a state of duress after nearly dying twice.))
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<br> ((Jin'li is infected with several diseases that are all slowly killing him. They are:))

<br>Bronchiectasis,

<br>Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

<br>Muscle atrophy

<br>Sickle Cell Anemia
<br>((Translation? Don't let him bleed on you.))
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((Jin'li is an eunuch and an albino.))

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Jin'i is thin and frail for his young age, his illnesses slowly eating away at his body each day. Dark bags are always present under his eyes from never getting enough sleep and his straight hair falls unkempt down around his dark eyes that seem to hold no emotion in them at all. He is very short and the skin that is wrapped around his body is pale and white, though he does not suffer from albinoism. His narrow face isn't unattractive, however, and there was a time when many looked upon his youthful face with lust in their minds. Though time is taking all that from Jin and his body seems to be on a threshold, parts of his physique clinging to the strong, desirable male he once was as the rest wastes away from disease.
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<br> Jin'li's most notable characteristic is his manners, which border on the obsessive. He is incredibly polite and often requests permission before doing anything. His manners, however, do not change to accommodate the location he is in, instead, always being tailored to his own system of beliefs regarding etiquette.

<br> Jin'li also feel no emotion when it comes to life or death. He knows he will die eventually and so will everyone else. He is a fatalist and holds no fear since he thinks he was killed by those who used his body all those years ago. Threats against his person do not phase him, nor does killing another being bother him. He is cold and calculating, unable to feel emotions the way normal mortals do.

<br> All Jin'li cares about is acting as a pawn for his master. No matter what he is asked to do, Jin'li will do it.

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Uses a long, almost spear like gunblade to fire at a distance. He is a skilled shot but relies on range because his ailing body has difficulty maneuvering the complex actions required of melee combat and he knows no magic.
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* Carrying out his Master's orders
* Manners

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* Sex, or discussions there of of any kind as he was horribly scared mentally and emotionally by experiences in his youth and has become unable to feel emotion as a defense mechanism by his brain to handle his trauma.
* Dislikes those who try to go against his master's plans.
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* Killing.
* Sneaking.
* Being sick all the time.
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*Jin'li's only family.

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* Kanaria Galanodel - The woman who allowed Jin'li to live although she did not know it. Jin'li's new master and Jin'li are both very impressed by how she was going to allow Jin'li's final wish to be granted and, as such, Jin'li is very fond of her.

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*''[[Anyone and no one]]'' - Jin'li's allies and enemies change at a whim, save for his feelings for his masters and Kanaria. He will kill an ally or befriend a foe at his master's order.

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* ''"Jin who? Never heard of him."'' - Almost everyone will answer with this.

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* ''"That white haired miqo'te? Well he was very polite, paid his tabe, and left a good tip, but didn't say much."'' - most bar tenders who serve him
* ''"ya."''
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* ''"Jin? Don't let them know I know this, but the lad was a pleasure slave till he was fifteen."''
* ''"Heard he castrated himself because he hates sex."''
* ''"Heard he has more diseases in his blood than there is in all the pleasure houses of Limsa."''
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* ''"Jin'li you say? To me? I... I can't rightly say... I'm not sure if I want to hurt him or if I want to try to make peace... And that scares me a bit, quite a bit..." - [[Kanaria Galanodel]]''
* ''"I walked away from his corpse once. We didn't make that mistake again." - [[Osric Melkire]]''
* ''"He embraced death. Perhaps did he feel his doom coming for all he's done. It wasn't satisfying still."- [[Kahn'a Od'hilkas]]''
* ''"Heard he's dead now. Good riddance. Those things hurt."- [[Kage Kiryuu]]''
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Jin'li was born a slave. As such, his impressions of a person's standing was a very set thing and that he was always lower and must be polite to all non-slaves. He was born sickly. His first master, the slave master of a pleasure house, had the boy know his first women at the age of nine, and his first man at ten. Jin'li's face made him a highly desirable rental among the patrons of this pleasure house and Jin'li's young mind was forever scared by what he endured until he was age 15.
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At 15, his true master would enter the establishment. For reasons Jin'li never truly understood, the man who was to be his new master took pity on the 15 year old Jin'li and purchased him from the slave owner.
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<br> Jin'li spent over a year seeing one doctor after another, each finding a more serious illness in him. Some even remarked it was a miracle the boy was even still alive and that he would be better off put out of his misery. However, Jin'li's new master refused to do so, and instead began training the boy in the art of shooting and espionage. His master beat and punished the boy harshly. Despite his illness, the young man earned his master's approval and, for this, he was promised to be a useful pawn in his master's plans but that he would never be anything more to his master. Jin'li felt as if he was worth something for the first time in his life. In devotion to his master, Jin'li castrated himself to destroy any urges he might have that would distract him and to make sure he never had to be reminded of the horrible things that had been done to him in the pleasure house.
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Since that time, Jin'li as been a loyal servant to his master. Nothing is more important to him than his master's will, and he would turn on the empire in a heartbeat if his master ordered him to.
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With Adin's death at the hands of Osric, Kanaria, Kahn'a, and Lelani, Jin'li planned to join Adin , but Rema begged him to take a potion before the fight. Jin'li lost, stabbed through the lung and seemed to bleed out. In truth, he came close enough to death's embrace that he was abd to see the spirit of his Adin waiting for him in the beyond. But just before Jin'li could step into death, he was dragged back to his body. Rema had restored him as best she could, feeling pity on the miqo'te. Jin'li's body is now very weak and moving is difficult, but he serves his new master, for she was kind, and saved a slave for no other reason than to let him live. Rema had tried to free Jin'li but he refused and now serves her as urgently as he served Adin.

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<div style="font-family: cambria, arial, verdana; font-size: 10pt; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-top: 1px solid black;"><p style="line-height: 170%; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">''Messy template of doom by: [[Kahn'a Od'hilkas]]''</p></div>

[[category:Miqo'te]]

Kage Kiryuu

2014-07-18T20:15:32Z

ExKage: /* The Journey */

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==Character==
===General===
Kage was once a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for. However, with his family he is determined to see things through, especially for them. It is unknown to Kage how he became a Miqo'te Sunseeker. He had finished his patrol in his new occupation as a Brass Blades and was using the aethernet when next he knew it was bells later and he was naked in his new form in Crescent's Cove near Horizon.

===Appearance===

While Kage was once the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell, he is now the shortest of adult male Sunseeker Miqo'te. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade and a long blue fluffy tail.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand

While at one point he was proficient in aetheric manipulation, with Kage's transformation he has been unable to use it without burning himself or otherwise injuring himself.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy. In light of recent events, Kage was disowned by his entire family. Perhaps, not all of them if his gift was any indication.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does. He loves her and is desperate to make sure nothing befalls her while his back may be turned.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen. Unfortunately Natalie's actions have caused a rift, one that may never be repaired. Roen's ties to them both as well as Ul'dah have hopefully been cut so that she will never have to be tainted by the beast that is the Jewel in the Desert. He recently tried to warn her of the charges she is facing by the Brass Blades Captain Anden Anduron. He also took the moment to say his goodbyes, for he believes he will never see her again.

===Friends===
Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties. He was able to tell her of his transformation into a Miqo'te, something with which she took without faze.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed. C'kayah was the one who helped kick Kage into accepting, at least mostly, his change in life.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions. He has not seen U for a long time, especially since his change.

===Acquaintances===
'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. The two have grown far apart, such that it seems all bonds have been broken.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable. She seems to understand that he's been under great pressure to things he finds distasteful but in the end he is resolved to do. She took his physical change quite well.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "I thought I knew him, but I was a fool like so many others. The best you could say about him is that he dances to someone else's tune." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "A fine friend. Someone I can trust with my life. If only he'd take better care of himself..." -- [[Frhanz'ir Kirche]] RIP
::* "The man has shown me something I never expected: compassion. Even I have to respect that and would offer to help him in a time of need. I also also feel guilty about a lot of the terrible things I did to him, and want to make that up." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]] AKA Franz nil Renatus
::* "Somewhere in there is still the sweet Kage I know." --[[Aya Foxheart]]
::* "Kage who? Why does his name keep popping up whenever Natalie is mentioned?" -- [[Askier Mergrey]]
::* "There's still hope there. I can see it, I think we all can see it. I think he's a respectable young sir, only acting out heroism in the most antagonistic matter." -- [[Oscare Iono]]
::* "From what I've been told there might be a streak of real justice left in that one still. I want to believe. I don't kid myself though... Either way, it doesn't bode well for the poor guy." -- [[Roswyn Valhuri]]
::* "Impetuous and antagonistic in all my dealings with him. Always thinking about his own skin it seems. I would not even speak with him were it not a necessity." ~ [[Coatleque Crofte]]

=History(Spoilers)=
===The Before===
<spoiler>His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with. </spoiler>

===The Journey===
<spoiler>[[File:lalakageblm.jpg|left|500x500px]]Kage did not make these contacts easily. Nor did he ask for help so easily either. Through time and his initial correspondence with Natalie Mcbeef he was able to foster relationships and himself. He was introduced to Roen Deneith and many more. His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers. </spoiler>

===The Royal Ball of Ul'dah and its Aftermath===
<spoiler>Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were. </spoiler>

===The Break===
<spoiler>
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.</spoiler>

=Most Recent Events=
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In time, Natalie and Kage's concealment of what they knew of Roen's dealings caught up to the three. A hand with connections in the Syndicate looking to get their focus off had them disgraced and they were transferred to the Brass Blades. Kage soon realized that this had something to do with Roen and had resolved to do anything and everything he could so that she would not have that attention come to light.

After one morning patrol, Kage had been heading home via the Aetheryte in the plaza. As he was in the process of using it he was, unbeknownst to him, knocked out by the Garlean mercenary once more. Bells later he woke up in Crescent Cove almost naked and in a different form. Under some force and guidance by some such as C'kayah, he grew to accept some of the new changes to him. Soon after he had to prove to the Brass Blades as he was ordered to retrieve gil from the Quicksand while Monetarist or Brass Blade spies watched him. Momodi was not there and alas Aya was the one Kage had to pursue. This led to Aya fleeing and Kage could not follow. He ended his report truthfully up to that point and then lied to the Brass Blades about how he came up with more gil than was ordered to retrieve.

Kage found out that a deal Natalie made with Jameson Taeros included giving them Gharen Wolfsong, Roen's brother. For this Natalie was going to get Roen's freedom and amnesty, no fear of being hanged as a Garlean spy. But in order to give Gharen to Jameson, Natalie had Askier Mergrey kidnap and take Roen away until Natalie received the documents for Roen's freedom. Instead, Roen and Askier came under torture by Crim, an offensive Roegadyn that Kage had had the displeasure of meeting and working with twice before he found out Crim's role in Roen's disappearance. A team of Natalie, Kage and Osric Melkire got Gharen out of his imprisonment and later a large group went to find Roen and Askier. In the end, Natalie cut Roen free, free of any duty to Ul'dah... and free of any ties to Natalie herself. Kage retrieved Roen's items and gave them to Melkire, asking him to deliver the bundle to its owner, Roen. Unknown to many, it held Kage's goodbye to Roen: a white feathered beret.

Recent conversations made him very wary and anxious. Kage was desperate, hell bent on making sure that Natalie does not die. By her own hands or Melkire's. Or Jameson Taeros's. This made Kage approach both Commander Swift of the Immortal Flames as well as Jameson Taeros.

Captain Anden Anduron summoned Kage's presence after the Captain spoke to Natalie. He promoted Kage to Lieutenant and instructed him to bring Roen in for desertion. He also told Kage that Natalie was demoted for 'fraternizing with a subordinate' as it showed favoritism and could lower units' morale. He was clear that if Kage continued with Natalie, that Kage would be strung up in the square and castrated. In his instructions to Kage to bring Roen, he was willing to give him 10 men. All this culminated in Kage's decision. He would first approach Roen. Upon return to Ul'dah, he would resign from the Brass Blades and confess to his sins. Kage received a missive from Commander Swift that he would also speak to the Captain about when he resigned.

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Kage Kiryuu

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ExKage:

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| gender = Male
| citizenship = Ul'dah
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| stat_5 = In Game
| stat_5_value = Mon-Thurs 4pm-10pm Friday 8pm to latenight. Saturday 9am-Late night. Sunday 9am-10pm
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==Character==
===General===
Kage was once a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for. However, with his family he is determined to see things through, especially for them. It is unknown to Kage how he became a Miqo'te Sunseeker. He had finished his patrol in his new occupation as a Brass Blades and was using the aethernet when next he knew it was bells later and he was naked in his new form in Crescent's Cove near Horizon.

===Appearance===

While Kage was once the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell, he is now the shortest of adult male Sunseeker Miqo'te. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade and a long blue fluffy tail.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand

While at one point he was proficient in aetheric manipulation, with Kage's transformation he has been unable to use it without burning himself or otherwise injuring himself.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy. In light of recent events, Kage was disowned by his entire family. Perhaps, not all of them if his gift was any indication.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does. He loves her and is desperate to make sure nothing befalls her while his back may be turned.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen. Unfortunately Natalie's actions have caused a rift, one that may never be repaired. Roen's ties to them both as well as Ul'dah have hopefully been cut so that she will never have to be tainted by the beast that is the Jewel in the Desert. He recently tried to warn her of the charges she is facing by the Brass Blades Captain Anden Anduron. He also took the moment to say his goodbyes, for he believes he will never see her again.

===Friends===
Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties. He was able to tell her of his transformation into a Miqo'te, something with which she took without faze.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed. C'kayah was the one who helped kick Kage into accepting, at least mostly, his change in life.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions. He has not seen U for a long time, especially since his change.

===Acquaintances===
'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. The two have grown far apart, such that it seems all bonds have been broken.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable. She seems to understand that he's been under great pressure to things he finds distasteful but in the end he is resolved to do. She took his physical change quite well.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "I thought I knew him, but I was a fool like so many others. The best you could say about him is that he dances to someone else's tune." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "A fine friend. Someone I can trust with my life. If only he'd take better care of himself..." -- [[Frhanz'ir Kirche]] RIP
::* "The man has shown me something I never expected: compassion. Even I have to respect that and would offer to help him in a time of need. I also also feel guilty about a lot of the terrible things I did to him, and want to make that up." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]] AKA Franz nil Renatus
::* "Somewhere in there is still the sweet Kage I know." --[[Aya Foxheart]]
::* "Kage who? Why does his name keep popping up whenever Natalie is mentioned?" -- [[Askier Mergrey]]
::* "There's still hope there. I can see it, I think we all can see it. I think he's a respectable young sir, only acting out heroism in the most antagonistic matter." -- [[Oscare Iono]]
::* "From what I've been told there might be a streak of real justice left in that one still. I want to believe. I don't kid myself though... Either way, it doesn't bode well for the poor guy." -- [[Roswyn Valhuri]]
::* "Impetuous and antagonistic in all my dealings with him. Always thinking about his own skin it seems. I would not even speak with him were it not a necessity." ~ [[Coatleque Crofte]]

=History(Spoilers)=
===The Before===
<spoiler>His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with. </spoiler>

===The Journey===
<spoiler>[[File:lalakageblm.jpg|left|500x300px]]Kage did not make these contacts easily. Nor did he ask for help so easily either. Through time and his initial correspondence with Natalie Mcbeef he was able to foster relationships and himself. He was introduced to Roen Deneith and many more. His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers. </spoiler>

===The Royal Ball of Ul'dah and its Aftermath===
<spoiler>Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were. </spoiler>

===The Break===
<spoiler>
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.</spoiler>

=Most Recent Events=
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In time, Natalie and Kage's concealment of what they knew of Roen's dealings caught up to the three. A hand with connections in the Syndicate looking to get their focus off had them disgraced and they were transferred to the Brass Blades. Kage soon realized that this had something to do with Roen and had resolved to do anything and everything he could so that she would not have that attention come to light.

After one morning patrol, Kage had been heading home via the Aetheryte in the plaza. As he was in the process of using it he was, unbeknownst to him, knocked out by the Garlean mercenary once more. Bells later he woke up in Crescent Cove almost naked and in a different form. Under some force and guidance by some such as C'kayah, he grew to accept some of the new changes to him. Soon after he had to prove to the Brass Blades as he was ordered to retrieve gil from the Quicksand while Monetarist or Brass Blade spies watched him. Momodi was not there and alas Aya was the one Kage had to pursue. This led to Aya fleeing and Kage could not follow. He ended his report truthfully up to that point and then lied to the Brass Blades about how he came up with more gil than was ordered to retrieve.

Kage found out that a deal Natalie made with Jameson Taeros included giving them Gharen Wolfsong, Roen's brother. For this Natalie was going to get Roen's freedom and amnesty, no fear of being hanged as a Garlean spy. But in order to give Gharen to Jameson, Natalie had Askier Mergrey kidnap and take Roen away until Natalie received the documents for Roen's freedom. Instead, Roen and Askier came under torture by Crim, an offensive Roegadyn that Kage had had the displeasure of meeting and working with twice before he found out Crim's role in Roen's disappearance. A team of Natalie, Kage and Osric Melkire got Gharen out of his imprisonment and later a large group went to find Roen and Askier. In the end, Natalie cut Roen free, free of any duty to Ul'dah... and free of any ties to Natalie herself. Kage retrieved Roen's items and gave them to Melkire, asking him to deliver the bundle to its owner, Roen. Unknown to many, it held Kage's goodbye to Roen: a white feathered beret.

Recent conversations made him very wary and anxious. Kage was desperate, hell bent on making sure that Natalie does not die. By her own hands or Melkire's. Or Jameson Taeros's. This made Kage approach both Commander Swift of the Immortal Flames as well as Jameson Taeros.

Captain Anden Anduron summoned Kage's presence after the Captain spoke to Natalie. He promoted Kage to Lieutenant and instructed him to bring Roen in for desertion. He also told Kage that Natalie was demoted for 'fraternizing with a subordinate' as it showed favoritism and could lower units' morale. He was clear that if Kage continued with Natalie, that Kage would be strung up in the square and castrated. In his instructions to Kage to bring Roen, he was willing to give him 10 men. All this culminated in Kage's decision. He would first approach Roen. Upon return to Ul'dah, he would resign from the Brass Blades and confess to his sins. Kage received a missive from Commander Swift that he would also speak to the Captain about when he resigned.

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Kage Kiryuu

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==Character==
===General===
Kage was once a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for. However, with his family he is determined to see things through, especially for them. It is unknown to Kage how he became a Miqo'te Sunseeker. He had finished his patrol in his new occupation as a Brass Blades and was using the aethernet when next he knew it was bells later and he was naked in his new form in Crescent's Cove near Horizon.

===Appearance===

While Kage was once the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell, he is now the shortest of adult male Sunseeker Miqo'te. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade and a long blue fluffy tail.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand

While at one point he was proficient in aetheric manipulation, with Kage's transformation he has been unable to use it without burning himself or otherwise injuring himself.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy. In light of recent events, Kage was disowned by his entire family. Perhaps, not all of them if his gift was any indication.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does. He loves her and is desperate to make sure nothing befalls her while his back may be turned.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen. Unfortunately Natalie's actions have caused a rift, one that may never be repaired. Roen's ties to them both as well as Ul'dah have hopefully been cut so that she will never have to be tainted by the beast that is the Jewel in the Desert. He recently tried to warn her of the charges she is facing by the Brass Blades Captain Anden Anduron. He also took the moment to say his goodbyes, for he believes he will never see her again.

===Friends===
Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties. He was able to tell her of his transformation into a Miqo'te, something with which she took without faze.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed. C'kayah was the one who helped kick Kage into accepting, at least mostly, his change in life.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions. He has not seen U for a long time, especially since his change.

===Acquaintances===
'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. The two have grown far apart, such that it seems all bonds have been broken.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable. She seems to understand that he's been under great pressure to things he finds distasteful but in the end he is resolved to do. She took his physical change quite well.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "I thought I knew him, but I was a fool like so many others. The best you could say about him is that he dances to someone else's tune." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "A fine friend. Someone I can trust with my life. If only he'd take better care of himself..." -- [[Frhanz'ir Kirche]] RIP
::* "The man has shown me something I never expected: compassion. Even I have to respect that and would offer to help him in a time of need. I also also feel guilty about a lot of the terrible things I did to him, and want to make that up." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]] AKA Franz nil Renatus
::* "Somewhere in there is still the sweet Kage I know." --[[Aya Foxheart]]
::* "Kage who? Why does his name keep popping up whenever Natalie is mentioned?" -- [[Askier Mergrey]]
::* "There's still hope there. I can see it, I think we all can see it. I think he's a respectable young sir, only acting out heroism in the most antagonistic matter." -- [[Oscare Iono]]
::* "From what I've been told there might be a streak of real justice left in that one still. I want to believe. I don't kid myself though... Either way, it doesn't bode well for the poor guy." -- [[Roswyn Valhuri]]
::* "Impetuous and antagonistic in all my dealings with him. Always thinking about his own skin it seems. I would not even speak with him were it not a necessity." ~ [[Coatleque Crofte]]

=History(Spoilers)=
===The Before===
<spoiler>His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with. </spoiler>

===The Journey===
<spoiler>Kage did not make these contacts easily. Nor did he ask for help so easily either. Through time and his initial correspondence with Natalie Mcbeef he was able to foster relationships and himself. He was introduced to Roen Deneith and many more. His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers. </spoiler>

===The Royal Ball of Ul'dah and its Aftermath===
<spoiler>Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were. </spoiler>

===The Break===
<spoiler>
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.</spoiler>
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=Most Recent Events=
In time, Natalie and Kage's concealment of what they knew of Roen's dealings caught up to the three. A hand with connections in the Syndicate looking to get their focus off had them disgraced and they were transferred to the Brass Blades. Kage soon realized that this had something to do with Roen and had resolved to do anything and everything he could so that she would not have that attention come to light.

After one morning patrol, Kage had been heading home via the Aetheryte in the plaza. As he was in the process of using it he was, unbeknownst to him, knocked out by the Garlean mercenary once more. Bells later he woke up in Crescent Cove almost naked and in a different form. Under some force and guidance by some such as C'kayah, he grew to accept some of the new changes to him. Soon after he had to prove to the Brass Blades as he was ordered to retrieve gil from the Quicksand while Monetarist or Brass Blade spies watched him. Momodi was not there and alas Aya was the one Kage had to pursue. This led to Aya fleeing and Kage could not follow. He ended his report truthfully up to that point and then lied to the Brass Blades about how he came up with more gil than was ordered to retrieve.

Kage found out that a deal Natalie made with Jameson Taeros included giving them Gharen Wolfsong, Roen's brother. For this Natalie was going to get Roen's freedom and amnesty, no fear of being hanged as a Garlean spy. But in order to give Gharen to Jameson, Natalie had Askier Mergrey kidnap and take Roen away until Natalie received the documents for Roen's freedom. Instead, Roen and Askier came under torture by Crim, an offensive Roegadyn that Kage had had the displeasure of meeting and working with twice before he found out Crim's role in Roen's disappearance. A team of Natalie, Kage and Osric Melkire got Gharen out of his imprisonment and later a large group went to find Roen and Askier. In the end, Natalie cut Roen free, free of any duty to Ul'dah... and free of any ties to Natalie herself. Kage retrieved Roen's items and gave them to Melkire, asking him to deliver the bundle to its owner, Roen. Unknown to many, it held Kage's goodbye to Roen: a white feathered beret.

Recent conversations made him very wary and anxious. Kage was desperate, hell bent on making sure that Natalie does not die. By her own hands or Melkire's. Or Jameson Taeros's. This made Kage approach both Commander Swift of the Immortal Flames as well as Jameson Taeros.

Captain Anden Anduron summoned Kage's presence after the Captain spoke to Natalie. He promoted Kage to Lieutenant and instructed him to bring Roen in for desertion. He also told Kage that Natalie was demoted for 'fraternizing with a subordinate' as it showed favoritism and could lower units' morale. He was clear that if Kage continued with Natalie, that Kage would be strung up in the square and castrated. In his instructions to Kage to bring Roen, he was willing to give him 10 men. All this culminated in Kage's decision. He would first approach Roen. Upon return to Ul'dah, he would resign from the Brass Blades and confess to his sins. Kage received a missive from Commander Swift that he would also speak to the Captain about when he resigned.

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==Character==
===General===
Kage was once a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for. However, with his family he is determined to see things through, especially for them. It is unknown to Kage how he became a Miqo'te Sunseeker. He had finished his patrol in his new occupation as a Brass Blades and was using the aethernet when next he knew it was bells later and he was naked in his new form in Crescent's Cove near Horizon.

===Appearance===

While Kage was once the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell, he is now the shortest of adult male Sunseeker Miqo'te. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade and a long blue fluffy tail.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand

While at one point he was proficient in aetheric manipulation, with Kage's transformation he has been unable to use it without burning himself or otherwise injuring himself.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy. In light of recent events, Kage was disowned by his entire family. Perhaps, not all of them if his gift was any indication.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does. He loves her and is desperate to make sure nothing befalls her while his back may be turned.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen. Unfortunately Natalie's actions have caused a rift, one that may never be repaired. Roen's ties to them both as well as Ul'dah have hopefully been cut so that she will never have to be tainted by the beast that is the Jewel in the Desert. He recently tried to warn her of the charges she is facing by the Brass Blades Captain Anden Anduron. He also took the moment to say his goodbyes, for he believes he will never see her again.

===Friends===
Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties. He was able to tell her of his transformation into a Miqo'te, something with which she took without faze.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed. C'kayah was the one who helped kick Kage into accepting, at least mostly, his change in life.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions. He has not seen U for a long time, especially since his change.

===Acquaintances===
'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. The two have grown far apart, such that it seems all bonds have been broken.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable. She seems to understand that he's been under great pressure to things he finds distasteful but in the end he is resolved to do. She took his physical change quite well.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "I thought I knew him, but I was a fool like so many others. The best you could say about him is that he dances to someone else's tune." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "A fine friend. Someone I can trust with my life. If only he'd take better care of himself..." -- [[Frhanz'ir Kirche]] RIP
::* "I...I don't want to ruin anything Frhanz left behind. I know he'll probably never forgive me, and I don't expect him to." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]] AKA Franz nil Renatus
::* "Somewhere in there is still the sweet Kage I know." --[[Aya Foxheart]]
::* "Kage who? Why does his name keep popping up whenever Natalie is mentioned?" -- [[Askier Mergrey]]
::* "There's still hope there. I can see it, I think we all can see it. I think he's a respectable young sir, only acting out heroism in the most antagonistic matter." -- [[Oscare Iono]]

=History(Spoilers)=
===The Before===
<spoiler>His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with. </spoiler>

===The Journey===
<spoiler>Kage did not make these contacts easily. Nor did he ask for help so easily either. Through time and his initial correspondence with Natalie Mcbeef he was able to foster relationships and himself. He was introduced to Roen Deneith and many more. His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers. </spoiler>

===The Royal Ball of Ul'dah and its Aftermath===
<spoiler>Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were. </spoiler>

===The Break===
<spoiler>
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.</spoiler>

=Most Recent Events=
In time, Natalie and Kage's concealment of what they knew of Roen's dealings caught up to the three. A hand with connections in the Syndicate looking to get their focus off had them disgraced and they were transferred to the Brass Blades. Kage soon realized that this had something to do with Roen and had resolved to do anything and everything he could so that she would not have that attention come to light.

After one morning patrol, Kage had been heading home via the Aetheryte in the plaza. As he was in the process of using it he was, unbeknownst to him, knocked out by the Garlean mercenary once more. Bells later he woke up in Crescent Cove almost naked and in a different form. Under some force and guidance by some such as C'kayah, he grew to accept some of the new changes to him. Soon after he had to prove to the Brass Blades as he was ordered to retrieve gil from the Quicksand while Monetarist or Brass Blade spies watched him. Momodi was not there and alas Aya was the one Kage had to pursue. This led to Aya fleeing and Kage could not follow. He ended his report truthfully up to that point and then lied to the Brass Blades about how he came up with more gil than was ordered to retrieve.

Kage found out that a deal Natalie made with Jameson Taeros included giving them Gharen Wolfsong, Roen's brother. For this Natalie was going to get Roen's freedom and amnesty, no fear of being hanged as a Garlean spy. But in order to give Gharen to Jameson, Natalie had Askier Mergrey kidnap and take Roen away until Natalie received the documents for Roen's freedom. Instead, Roen and Askier came under torture by Crim, an offensive Roegadyn that Kage had had the displeasure of meeting and working with twice before he found out Crim's role in Roen's disappearance. A team of Natalie, Kage and Osric Melkire got Gharen out of his imprisonment and later a large group went to find Roen and Askier. In the end, Natalie cut Roen free, free of any duty to Ul'dah... and free of any ties to Natalie herself. Kage retrieved Roen's items and gave them to Melkire, asking him to deliver the bundle to its owner, Roen. Unknown to many, it held Kage's goodbye to Roen: a white feathered beret.

Recent conversations made him very wary and anxious. Kage was desperate, hell bent on making sure that Natalie does not die. By her own hands or Melkire's. Or Jameson Taeros's. This made Kage approach both Commander Swift of the Immortal Flames as well as Jameson Taeros.

Captain Anden Anduron summoned Kage's presence after the Captain spoke to Natalie. He promoted Kage to Lieutenant and instructed him to bring Roen in for desertion. He also told Kage that Natalie was demoted for 'fraternizing with a subordinate' as it showed favoritism and could lower units' morale. He was clear that if Kage continued with Natalie, that Kage would be strung up in the square and castrated. In his instructions to Kage to bring Roen, he was willing to give him 10 men. All this culminated in Kage's decision. He would first approach Roen. Upon return to Ul'dah, he would resign from the Brass Blades and confess to his sins. Kage received a missive from Commander Swift that he would also speak to the Captain about when he resigned.

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Kage Kiryuu

2014-07-03T16:08:50Z

ExKage:

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| gender = Male
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| stat_5_value = Mon-Thurs 4pm-10pm Friday 8pm to latenight. Saturday 9am-Late night. Sunday 9am-10pm
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==Character==
===General===
Kage was once a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for. However, with his family he is determined to see things through, especially for them. It is unknown to Kage how he became a Miqo'te Sunseeker. He had finished his patrol in his new occupation as a Brass Blades and was using the aethernet when next he knew it was bells later and he was naked in his new form in Crescent's Cove near Horizon.

===Appearance===

While Kage was once the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell, he is now the shortest of adult male Sunseeker Miqo'te. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade and a long blue fluffy tail.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand

While at one point he was proficient in aetheric manipulation, with Kage's transformation he has been unable to use it without burning himself or otherwise injuring himself.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy. In light of recent events, Kage was disowned by his entire family. Perhaps, not all of them if his gift was any indication.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does. He loves her and is desperate to make sure nothing befalls her while his back may be turned.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen. Unfortunately Natalie's actions have caused a rift, one that may never be repaired. Roen's ties to them both as well as Ul'dah have hopefully been cut so that she will never have to be tainted by the beast that is the Jewel in the Desert. He recently tried to warn her of the charges she is facing by the Brass Blades Captain Anden Anduron. He also took the moment to say his goodbyes, for he believes he will never see her again.

===Friends===
Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties. He was able to tell her of his transformation into a Miqo'te, something with which she took without faze.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed. C'kayah was the one who helped kick Kage into accepting, at least mostly, his change in life.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions. He has not seen U for a long time, especially since his change.

===Acquaintances===
'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. The two have grown far apart, such that it seems all bonds have been broken.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable. She seems to understand that he's been under great pressure to things he finds distasteful but in the end he is resolved to do. She took his physical change quite well.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
((Feel free to add))
::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "I thought I knew him, but I was a fool like so many others. The best you could say about him is that he dances to someone else's tune." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "A fine friend. Someone I can trust with my life. If only he'd take better care of himself..." -- [[Frhanz'ir Kirche]] RIP
::* "I...I don't want to ruin anything Frhanz left behind. I know he'll probably never forgive me, and I don't expect him to." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]] AKA Franz nil Renatus
::* "Somewhere in there is still the sweet Kage I know." --[[Aya Foxheart]]
::* "Kage who? Why does his name keep popping up whenever Natalie is mentioned?" -- [[Askier Mergrey]]
::* "There's still hope there. I can see it, I think we all can see it. I think he's a respectable young sir, only acting out heroism in the most antagonistic matter." -- [[Oscare Iono]]

=History(Spoilers)=
===The Before===
<spoiler>His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with. </spoiler>

===The Journey===
<spoiler>Kage did not make these contacts easily. Nor did he ask for help so easily either. Through time and his initial correspondence with Natalie Mcbeef he was able to foster relationships and himself. He was introduced to Roen Deneith and many more. His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers. </spoiler>

===The Royal Ball of Ul'dah and its Aftermath===
<spoiler>Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were. </spoiler>

===The Break===
<spoiler>
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.</spoiler>

=Most Recent Events=
In time, Natalie and Kage's concealment of what they knew of Roen's dealings caught up to the three. A hand with connections in the Syndicate looking to get their focus off had them disgraced and they were transferred to the Brass Blades. Kage soon realized that this had something to do with Roen and had resolved to do anything and everything he could so that she would not have that attention come to light.

After one morning patrol, Kage had been heading home via the Aetheryte in the plaza. As he was in the process of using it he was, unbeknownst to him, knocked out by the Garlean mercenary once more. Bells later he woke up in Crescent Cove almost naked and in a different form. Under some force and guidance by some such as C'kayah, he grew to accept some of the new changes to him. Soon after he had to prove to the Brass Blades as he was ordered to retrieve gil from the Quicksand while Monetarist or Brass Blade spies watched him. Momodi was not there and alas Aya was the one Kage had to pursue. This led to Aya fleeing and Kage could not follow. He ended his report truthfully up to that point and then lied to the Brass Blades about how he came up with more gil than was ordered to retrieve.

Kage found out that a deal Natalie made with Jameson Taeros included giving them Gharen Wolfsong, Roen's brother. For this Natalie was going to get Roen's freedom and amnesty, no fear of being hanged as a Garlean spy. But in order to give Gharen to Jameson, Natalie had Askier Mergrey kidnap and take Roen away until Natalie received the documents for Roen's freedom. Instead, Roen and Askier came under torture by Crim, an offensive Roegadyn that Kage had had the displeasure of meeting and working with twice before he found out Crim's role in Roen's disappearance. A team of Natalie, Kage and Osric Melkire got Gharen out of his imprisonment and later a large group went to find Roen and Askier. In the end, Natalie cut Roen free, free of any duty to Ul'dah... and free of any ties to Natalie herself. Kage retrieved Roen's items and gave them to Melkire, asking him to deliver the bundle to its owner, Roen. Unknown to many, it held Kage's goodbye to Roen: a white feathered beret.

Recent conversations made him very wary and anxious. Kage was desperate, hell bent on making sure that Natalie does not die. By her own hands or Melkire's. Or Jameson Taeros's.

==Annotations==

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Kage Kiryuu

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ExKage:

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==Character==
===General===
Kage is a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for.

===Appearance===

Kage is the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade. He also sports a goatee on his chin that he plays with when he's anxious. Currently he doesn't have an official job, taking odd jobs here and there to make ends meet. As such he doesn't wear any truly plated armor. Rarely can he be found in a mage's robe but more often than not he wears a tabard.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand
::* Proficient in aetheric manipulation

==Relationships==
===Family===

Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy.

===Friends===

Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''' Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful. He views Natalie as many things: mentor, friend, and family. He will throw his support for her in anything she does.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''' Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even. He now sees Roen as part of his family and he would do everything and anything he could for her. He is stubbornly and fiercely protective of Roen.

'''[[Alexaria Whiteraven]]:''' Shortly after his first meeting with Natalie about becoming a Paladin and trying to join the Sultansworn, Kage met Alexaria. Kage calls her Alex and considers her a true and kind friend. At the time in which he met Alex, Kage was at a loss in how to proceed with his training. He didn't know if he had the courage or skill to continue. However, Alex gave him some of the best advice he could have ever asked for. Kage enjoys the time he spends with Alex and will usually take the time to speak with her if he does not have any duties.

'''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]:''' Kage first met this female Miqo'te through his friend Salem Nunh. At first he did not know what to make of her but he's found that she has a very large and kind heart. Through constant interactions with her, Kage has come to trust her greatly. He enjoys teasing her, though he does think a lot of her jokes are bad. He's never really learned of songs or their lyrics, so a lot of the time when she tries to sing he doesn't get it. After recent talks, Kage has no doubt whatsoever of Chokho. He deeply appreciates all her help and hopes that she stays safe.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''' Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. He had found a brotherly kinship with Kayah, a good friend and he completely supported Natalie's relationship with him. He had thrown his lot in with him, and was overjoyed when he was brought into their tribe. With the argument that took place, seeming to have driven Kayah away, Kage at first believed it was an abandonment. After speaking with Natalie, Kage hopes to see Kayah return to the family once more. He misses him. In the case should C'kayah need it and Kage found out, Kage would be there as soon as the Twelve allowed it. For now, Kage is keeping himself more than a tail's length away. The family that C'kayah left needs Kage more than ever it seemed.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''' While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions.

'''[[Rurutani Sasatani]]:''' Kage first met Ruru at the Quicksand and quickly became the other Lalafell's friend. After some conversations, Kage decided that Rurutani could be left with a better sense of purpose and duty if he joined the Sultansworn. Plus, Kage believed that Rurutani would make a fine addition to the Sultansworn ranks. As such, Kage tried to nudge his friend into applying to be one. Kage found out that he was to mentor Rurutani. Their relationship was strained after recent events where an attempt to silence Kage ended with Rurutani losing an eye and Kage being temporarily taken out of active battle readiness, having his arm snapped and his head slammed into the ground. Kage believed that Ruru losing his eye was Kage's fault and as such felt he could not bear seeing Ruru looking upon him with blame and hate. Instead, he almost lost his friend until Roen's stern but caring words caused Kage to realize that he had to make it right. Their bond is now strong as ever and Kage hopes to see Ruru pass his Trials soon.

'''[[Roswyn Valhuri]]:''' Kage did not actually meet this kind Keeper until after he had recovered from his injuries. When an attempt was made on Kage's life, this Keeper was the one that answered his call over a linkpearl as he fell unconscious while Ruru lay dazed from the blow to his eye. Roswyn did not have the conjury abilities to act as their healer, but she was able to revive Kage's consciousness. Kage then found her in Quicksand and was finally able to thank her after his injuries had been healed and he had recovered. While something seems off that makes Kage cautious, he finds her to be likeable.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

=Rumors=
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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::* "There's not many people I talk to so little, and trust so much. Kage is polite, kind, and always a pleasure." -- [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::* "One thing I never doubt about Kage is his loyalty to those he cares about. Despite his kind nature, I suspect he will go to any lengths for his friends." -- [[Roen Deneith]]
::* "You'd never know it by looking at him, but when the chips are down, there is no one better to have at your side" -- [[Natalie Mcbeef]]
::* "It's amazing how this lalafell can mix complete brilliance and complete stupidity all in one cute body...When I see him all I think is well isn't he Brillidity. AYE! Thats it..I'm just going to call him Brilty for short." -- [[Surilian Blu]]
::* "He is an archetypical Sultansworn - with everything that implies. Never trust him to be anything else." -- [[C'kayah Tia]]
::* "No one knows exactly what Kage Kiryuu is capable of. I hope to one day find out." -- [[Alexaria Whiteraven]]
::* "Turns out I was wrong about him. Gods know why, seems a decent enough fellow." -- [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"A real Sultansworn! Just like Roen! That's gotta take somethin', I reckon, protectin' the city raised by yer kin. Real admirable, that. Real admirable." -- [[Jajara Jara]]
::* "I'm going to make him disappear. Almost a bit sad about that too." --[[Unnamed Mercenary]]

=History/Timeline (Spoilers)=
His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts of her family line since his oldest brother was and continues to be his better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at best at. He ruined the gold metals and others. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with.

His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial of the Trial of Loyality with his friend Lambert Arkwright, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

In between the Trials, Kage heard Natalie call for assistance from those harassing her and Kayah. He went to support her only to be insulted and offended by one of the masked, hooded, or helmed lancers.

Kage and Roen were sworn and mere days later the Royal Ball of Ul'dah was had. During that time Kage met and befriended another Lalafell named Rurutani Sasatani, quickly becoming close. After a small mission to look into the lancers from before to see if they meant Ul'dah or Ul'dahn citizens harm, Kage suggested that Ruru apply to become a Sultansworn recruit. It was thus then that Kage became Ruru's mentor. Kage was able to accompany [[Dennthota Ahtahrmwyn]] at the ball for a short while, enjoying her company outside having sparred with her. He had to leave for some small time to guard the Sultana as she met with audiences but soon after Kage was relieved of his duties. When he found Denn once more she quickly told him she had to leave. Kage left the ball and returned shortly after, noticing that Natalie was not there anymore. Afterwards Natalie returned to the ball and let slip that both Natalie and Denn had had a tryst together. Distraught, Kage told his friends over the pearl that he would be somewhere else. His friends followed him, worried, but he ran away to the Airship bar that he liked to frequent to be alone. There he found someone who he had met awhile before, a female Keeper named Suri. He knew Suri to be acquainted with or thought to be friends of Natalie and Kayah. Knowing of the complicated relationship he did not tell Suri why he was upset when she tried to ask. After a few drinks, Kage swore to put this behind him as he was friends and family with Natalie and Kayah first. While he believed there was more to Denn than just a fighter, he would rather see his relationship with Natalie ok. He left the bar and his hat and headed to the ball. He found Natalie and Kayah arguing and he paused. He walked towards the Alchemists' Guild but knew he would rather repair this. He walked back to try and talk to them only for them to leave angry and hurt. Having felt as if he was the cause for his friends, Kage broke down crying where they once stood as he heard Natalie break her pearl. After awhile, deciding that he would return to drinking he headed to the Alchemist's Guild's Aetheryte shard only to find a scene that would hit him to the core. Kayah lay on the floor, beaten and bloodied with his head caved in slightly. The attackers were hooded, masked or helmed but he could tell that at least two were Roegadyn female and one was a Miqo'te female pugilist. With one last knife stab into Kayah's back the leader called her group to leave. Only with help from Natalie's friends in the Night Blades did Kayah's fate not turn to the worst imaginable. Kage returned to the airship bar for his hat as well as to tell Suri about Kayah. There he found out that for a moment Suri was involved and it related to her being able to take out Natalie. Enraged, Suri left to deal with the one she only knew of as a tall purple haired female Roegadyn.

Left to himself, Kage tried to do all he could to find information about this Roegadyn and her band. Soon afterwards he found Suri, who he found out was beaten and tortured for telling Kage any information about the Roegadyn and a perceived betrayal on the Roegadyn's part. Kage learned that he best lay low as Suri had been told to silence him. She obviously was not there to do so but to make sure that Kage lived. Roen, dealing with her own troubles still, found him after receiving word from Natalie. Knowing that Roen had much on her plate, Kage did not tell her the extent of what he was going through and only told her some things. She left him be, trusting him to confide in her. While trying to lay low, Kage failed and was attacked in Pearl Lane just outside of the Quicksand by a female pugilist Miqo'te. In the process, Kage received a head injury and a snapped arm while his friend Ruru took a blow meant to kill Kage to his eye. Denn showed up and took them both to be healed after Roswyn revived Kage to consciousness.

It was at this time Kage retreated into himself, in a world of self-pity and self-despair. Feeling as if he had failed Ruru and that the other Lalafell would hate him, Kage did not actively seek out the other. Natalie soon returned and it was then Kage almost gave up on his life. He had faltered, for a bit, and it had nearly broke him and his oaths. It was then that things with Roen's plight came to light as well and she also lectured Kage, making him realize that though he was burdened he did fail his friend Ruru. He had left him alone. Kage tracked him down in La Noscea and the two had words. All was said and done, their bonds renewed, hopefully for the stronger. Returning to Ul'dah, Natalie tasked Kage with the tracking of one Highlander female who Roen had informed them of. Delial Grimsong. After seeing her speaking with Chokho outside of Quicksand, making a deal, Kage hoped to make his own deal with her to ensure Roen's deal would come out well while dealing with anyone who might serve to deal Ul'dah harm. However, a masked female Roegadyn started to spread inflammatory remarks, defaming Kage in the public. She even called him out in front of the whole Quicksand while he was there, insulting him by calling him a traitor. He and Natalie let her be, deciding that she was just deranged. With Ruru's skills and reconnaissance after Kage mentioned having seen her outside of Quicksand speaking with Chokho and making a deal, Natalie and Kage interrogated Delial over her interests in Ul'dah. Kage was clearly uncomfortable, knowing what this might do for Roen's deal. Soon afterwards he would find out that it soured things for them all.

Having reaffirmed his place with Natalie, Kayah, and another in an urban tribe of sorts, Kage was taken from behind as he stood on the railing in Quicksand as per his usual. A blade held to his back, the masked Roegadyn from before told him if he cooperated nothing would happen. Some of Kage's friends were present and noticed that something was amiss, most especially the Free Paladin Nazeru Auronas. A chase out to the steps ended with Kage being wounded. Nazeru got him back into Ul'dah, where quick aid was applied. Ser Anelia Sadowyn answered a call for help where she took Kage to a clinic once Natalie saw that Kage would be safe in her hands. While being tended to by Ser Anelia, a call over one of his linkpearls alerted Kage in his weary state that they had been able to track down the Roegadyn. When he expressed his desire to help, his loved ones told him his only job was to rest. Resigned, he stayed still at the clinic but he encouraged Ser Anelia that perhaps lending her medical aid would be a boon. It was a complete surprise to him when she decided to take him with her. He had only had time to tell Denn who had called him worried that he didn't know where he was but that he was headed to Camp Drybone, where he found himself in the middle of a chaotic field of battle. Right until he was hastily barreled over, being taken up into the arms of a heavily armed, axe-wielding Roegadyn. It was a stand-off as Natalie held the attempted kidnapping Roegadyn and the new Roegadyn held Kage with an axe to his throat. In the end, Natalie took the one to be interrogated, Kage was thrown away as the Axe-wielding one teleported away. Soon after Kage was forced by his loved ones to rest, having been forced to ingest a tea that knocked him out for a bit so that his breathing would get better. Later, Kage learned who exactly these two Roegadyn were.

=Most Recent Events=
Kayah and Natalie had had some arguments, resulting in Kayah leaving. Kage found him at the Sanctum of the Twelve, in an effort to find out the cause of this rift. Not seeing how he could get Kayah from permanently leaving Kage slowly made his way back home, and finding a baby opo-opo. Making it back to Ul'dah and feeling as if his life was breaking apart, Kage never made it back to the place that was considered his home. Despondently, he sat outside of the Quicksand, unmoving until Natalie came to him to set him right. The tribe was together again until a series of incidents tore them apart once more. An attack on Lolorito's house was blamed on C'kayah Tia. Breaking a promise to Kage, he left without a word. Kage knew that Kayah was innocent but was upset that he had left. Kage was sent on a mission to La Noscea, rumors abound of Kayah being sighted there. Kage met Suri, bringing her business and bad news. He however was quite glad to see her happy and seemingly engaged. Soon, Kayah and Natalie spoke together, bringing Kage into the conversation that broke it apart. Kayah had plans as his head was now wanted by two forces. While Kage was simply concerned and wanted to offer his aid, Kayah insisted that Natalie should speak to Osric with Kage or not at all. Natalie left, leaving Kage and Kayah to talk. Kayah perceived this as abandonment and the tribe was no more.

Meeting with Natalie in Limsa Lominsa, they found Roen with her brother. After finding out that Roen would be returning to the city once more, Kage and Natalie spoke. It was then that Kage found out exactly what was happening. Kayah had left and Kage blamed the Flame. He had left his pearls behind and the tribe was in danger of being broken apart once more. Natalie said that the tribe needed a leader, the one that protected the tribe and kept it safe to grow together, the nunh. In a moment of desperation and resolve, Kage told Natalie that he would take it. He would become the one to keep the tribe together and protected, so that all the ones he loved would have a place. She agreed.

In Ul'dah once more having had a fruitless search for C'kayah Tia, Kage resumed his work until he dug into it. He was dead. In disbelief, Kage drank his sorrows away at the Quicksand but his friends told him that they doubted Kayah could be dead. Kage resolved to find the Flame and when he did he found out that Kayah was alive. And yet, he had not returned. He had not spoken to them at all. Kage told Osric that the Flame should try to keep out of his business and his life and parted ways. Speaking one night in the Quicksand speaking with Aya, Kage was pushed over by an armored axe-wielder. Kage insisted that the man follow him outside of the Quicksand where the man took a swing at him with his axe. Kage blocked the blow, as onlookers came out and he called for them to not interfere. Kage tried to force the man out of the gates when he grabbed Kage and teleported them to Eastern Thanalan. There Kage realized that the man was the same Garlean mercenary that he had fought with during the Mergrey bomb incident. A Garlean experiment caused strange aetheric events that Kage could not even resort to his magicks of old to fight against. Kage was able to deal a blow to the Mercenary before an axe swing threw Kage onto this back. The mercenary grew bored and left, leaving Kage to head back to Ul'dah and heal.

After soothing Aya's concerns and a quick heal for the most serious of sores, Kage walked out of the quicksand into Pearl lane only to happen onto Kayah. In an angry exchange of words, Natalie came upon them as well. It ended with C'kayah leaving and Kage in despair over his relationship with C'kayah Tia. It looked like it was not going to be the same ever again. While in his heart Kage hopes that he can see Kayah once more, he has more pressing issues such as keeping his family together and happy.

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== Character ==

=== General Info ===

This woman carries herself with the air of a woman who knows her place in the world and has been convinced, reluctantly perhaps, that she floats somewhere above most of those around her. Proud to the point of arrogance, Delial Grimsong bows to no man and serves no one without cause.

NOTE: Delial Grimsong is not a Warrior of Light and does not possess the Echo, nor has she participated in any of the major events portrayed in-game or have any open affiliation with any relevant factions save for the Garlean Empire.

'''(( Still very much a WIP so please pardon strange parts. Trying to flesh this out, I promise!! ))'''

=== Appearance ===

Delial is slight for a Highlander: her stature is short in comparison and her frame meager and less robust than many of her sisters, a fact which does irk her somewhat. Yet she makes it up with sheer confidence, known to be not at all modest about showing off what the Gods did see fit to give her. Her skin is a dark caramel and her hair is dark with violet undertones, especially in the sunlight. One of her eyes is a sharp yellow while the other is scarred to a milky white, clearly blinded by some injury which had left its mark across her brow and cheekbone. While she has no tattoos, she seems to mark her face with ritualistic lines regularly enough for it to seem a permanent fixture on her skin. In a nod to Ala Mhigan tradition, she's had her upper and lower canines filed into points.

Her taste in clothing seems to vary between opulent robes and simple, if not somewhat revealing, blouses and camisoles. Her most prized possession may very well be her well-worn thigh boots, proud as she is of her shapely legs. She changes hairstyles fairly often but seems to favor tying it up and back or keeping it down about shoulder length with small beads and charms (bone perhaps?) woven into her locks.

When she speaks, [http://youtu.be/ONLE1ZXe-S8 her voice] is fairly deep and has a touch of that breathy quality to it, a feature she tends to exaggerate when speaking with people she does not know very well. Despite being a Highlander, she does not speak with the expected Highlander dialect but with the sharper, clipped tones that speak to heavy exposure to Imperial influence. It can come off as forced, however, as she almost never slips into anything less than a formal, proper vocabulary, and does not speak with contractions or slang.

=== Personality & Philosophy ===

Proud, vain, cut-throat and unapologetically hedonistic. These are the qualities Delial embodies, living her life mostly at her own pace with mostly her own desires at heart. She prides herself on being a strong, independent woman with loyalties and a sense of honor very clear to herself even if not to the people with whom she interacts. Selfish and self-serving, she tends to have little reservation about using or harming others if doing so will get her closer to what she wants. Her moods are as fickle as the faces she wears: lies and falsehoods spoken through perfectly practiced smiles, plying flirtations and flattery or even bold-faced threats to bend people her way. Cruelty is not beyond her, nor is kindness should it suit her needs.

It could be said, however, that much of her behavior is as much a lie as the words she twists, for though she puts herself forward as a wicked creature (and sometimes even seems to delight in the image), those who are closer to her might come to find that she has a tendency to become very attached to those she finds interesting and may find herself conflicted between her desire to attain her goals and a need for acceptance and comraderie. She maintains a bitter stance towards romantic inclinations ('sentiment' she says as if it were a vulgar thing) and finds blatant heroism and self-sacrifice to be utterly repulsive and useless. For all her brazen ways, she is terribly afraid of dying though she is unafraid of pain. Proud as she is of her ability to manipulate others, she is nowhere near as clever as she thinks and is just as prone to manipulations to herself, having an impulsive need to protect her pride at nearly any cost.

Delial admires strength and conviction (even if it is misguided in her eyes) above all else, and spares little time or courtesy to those she feels are particularly weak-willed. Even if her morals are a little more on the grey side of things, she cannot abide actions such as rape or infanticide and is generally averse to the use of spells or drugs that can heavily impair or alter another's state of mind. Inhibiting a body is one thing, but she finds little sport in destroying minds.

She is not shy about her sexuality and sees little shame in indulgence. She does, however, act adversely towards concepts such as 'love' and has a difficult time reciprocating affectionate behavior with all but a very select few. Monogamy does not interest her, nor does marriage. If she has ever suffered a desire to have children, she has done well enough to resist it so far.

== Religious Views ==

Outwardly she may not seem a pious woman but Delial considers herself to be fairly devout. Like many Ala Mhigans, she worships Rhalgr the Destoyer chief among the Twelve. In her youth, however, she and her mother both fell under the sway of a different sort of god: the lesser moon Dalamud, the crimson meteor, which they took to believe was an avatar of Rhalgr's fury made manifest. Even after the Calamity and its subsequent destruction, Delial still pays regular homage to the fallen moon. Much of what she knows with regards to magick came from a hedge-witch under whom her mother and, by extension, Delial herself learned and worshipped.

If she maintains an affiliation with the Lambs in the present day, she does well enough to hide it.

== Combat ==

Delial is very comfortable with small swords and blades though she seems to prefer spell casting over any actual physical combat, possibly because of the obvious disadvantage being half-blind might bring about. Her proficiencies seem to be with arcanima, albeit with a slightly bastardized form than what is taught in the Arcanist's Guild: more primitive and vulgar with techniques and sigils long designed to manipulate life-energies provided by the caster in the form of various bodily humours moreso than mere aetheric manipulation. As such, her abilities are handicapped somewhat and while she remains a capable damage dealer with her unorthodox spellwork, her ability to heal with said spells is considerably less effective than those of one taught the "pure" geometries.

NOTE: Delial's in-game class does not necessarily reflect what she can do ICly. Despite having Summoner at 50, I tend to view her as a potent Arcanist and a passable Scholar and that's really about it. Red Mage would probably be the best approximation to a classic FF class, so fingers crossed!!

== Tendencies ==

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<div style="padding:10px 35px;font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Likes</center></div></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Philosophy
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Sex
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Trashy romance novellas
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Terrible wine
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Flattery
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Pet names (for others)

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<div style="padding:10px 35px;font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Dislikes</center></div></span></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Gil
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Small, enclosed spaces
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Archers
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Weakness (in herself or in others)
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> 'Easy' people
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Chains

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: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Haruspicy (supposedly!)
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Lying
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Melodramatics
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Withstanding pain
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Angering others
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Arcanistry

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<div style="padding:10px 35px; font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Other</center></div></span></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Favourite Food:''' Aldgoat steak
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Favourite Color:''' Green
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''If she could be an animal, she would be a:''' Dragon
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Biggest Fear:''' Enslavement
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Hero:''' Gaius van Baelsar

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=== Other Notes ===

::*She is completely blind on her left side and as such she has a tendency to scan her surroundings quite often. As a rule she dislikes having others standing to her left and so she is careful about positioning herself near or around other people.
::*Those especially observant might note that her face paint is, in fact, made at least in part with blood. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it isn't, but always it smells just enough of blood.
::*While it is not common knowledge (yet), Delial was fairly heavily involved on the Garlean side of the conflicts in Ala Mhigo. Since the Imperials took over, Delial made it a mission of hers to help quell dissidents and the threat of rebellion and has had a hand in the kidnappings and murders of many suspected Resistance members.

== Relationships ==

=== Family ===
Delial rarely, if ever, speaks of her family and has taken great care to try and sever her ties to them. Attempts to track down her relatives may be made all the more difficult by the fact that she does not go by her maiden name of Blackstone. Feeling that the name was tainted by her family's chosen alleigances, she discarded it not long after the events of the Calamity.

::*'''Garren Blackstone''': Father, formerly a priest of Rhalgr. He was killed fairly early on in the upheaval of Ala Mhigo but was survived by his wife and children.
::*'''Lyra Blackstone''': Mother, midwife and self-appointed witch. Skilled with all manner of hedge-magics, it was through her that Delial learned much of what she knows and still practices. She commited suicide days after the Calamity.
::*'''Westor Blackstone''': Elder brother by two years, formerly a disciple of Rhalgr and secretly a member of the Fists of Rhalgr. Killed during a skirmish between Garlean forces and Resistance fighters.
::*'''Harvard Blackstone''': Younger brother, formerly a stablehand. The only other surviving member of Delial's immediate family, unknown how he was able to flee the violence in Ala Mhigo. Currently lives in works in Ul'dah as an errand boy and a retainer. He and his sister are not on speaking terms, but she remains fiercely protective of him.

=== Player Standing ===
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: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Orpheus Arkouda]]''' - If there is anyone in Eorzea she actually trusts completely, it would be this man. Despite a rocky reunion long after a single violent encounter years prior, the two have welcomed peculiar friendship of sorts. In her hour of greatest need, he answered her summons and may very well have saved her life; a fact for which, though it irritates her to consider too deeply, she remains thankful. Recent conversations have all but secured her loyalty to the man and she looks forward to working with him in the near future.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Edgar Von Gandervalt]]''' - A boy who loves a woman he shouldn't. Their relationship, if one can call it that, is complicated indeed, even more so after Delial confessed to having a played a critical part in the murders of his parents. Given the abrupt turn her life has recently taken, she has seen fit to try and make sure the boy is not given the opportunity to continue his pursuit of her. She warned him that she was 'in far too deep' to be the thing he wants her to be, and threatened to kill him should she ever find that he had been speaking of her to anyone.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Raelisanne Banurein]]''' - Delial's "partner in crime" and, in essence, employer. She is a deceptively delicate looking woman with a cold streak in her, but she still remains the best lead on getting Delial back to where she wishes to be. Though she may never say so aloud, she respects the woman's quiet strength and must often remind herself that Miss Banurein is far more than what she seems. Recently, Delial delivered Gharen Wolfsong to her and saw the woman's methods for the first time. Despite being complicit in her experiment, the more Delial learns and understands Raelisanne's work, the more she finds herself questioning her decision in aiding her. Yet those questions were quashed fairly recently and Delial has returned to actively engaging herself in Banurein's orders, perhaps with a little more zeal than before.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[A'rytiss Edar]]''' - A cheerful miqo'te conjurer with a knack for getting himself lost. Delial has incredibly mixed feelings about the boy she found nearly wandering blindly into an Imperial Castrum. She has since taken him on as her go-to healer, trusting few others to attend to her wounds and her troubles with so open and clear a mind as him, even if he is possibly the most naive person in Eorzea. This does not come without guilt, however, as healing leaves him drained and exhausted. He is one of the few people to which her attachment is almost purely emotional, though she is uncertain if her fondness for him is purely platonic or something more. Regardless, she has found herself in a position where wooing the boy would only put him in danger, and even the barest nontion of romance leaves the boy incredibly uncomfortable.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Chokho Viqqoh]]''' - A delightfully shameless flirt. Their first encounter was completely random: a discussion with Miss Deneith was briefly interrupted by the grey-skinned miqo'te delivering to her a flower. Delial, ever keen on flattery, delights in how the woman praises her for her confidence and beauty. A random meeting outside the Quicksand led her to divulge a little of her intentions in Ul'dah, and she may have recruited the sly miqo'te in an information-hunting campaign. Delial doesn't expect much to come of it but it gives her an excuse to keep in touch with this most intriguing woman so it's a win either way. Chokho agreed to assist in Harvard Blackstone's retrieval, agreeing to pick up her brother at an undisclosed location after Roen was satisfied with Gharen Wolfsong's release. Delial has become wary of the woman, wondering if she had perhaps put too much faith in the girl for the girl has shown herself to be much more sly, much more clever than Delial had previously suspected.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Askier Mergrey]]''' - A somewhat naive miqo'te who is apparently Garlean born. She met the man while searching for her brother and agreed to help him with a package in exchange for information as to Harvard's whereabouts. She would later learn that his mission was not quite as he explained it, and that his origins and goals were far beyond the mask of 'innocent merchant' that he wore. Delial does not approve of it but she has agreed to help him if only to get back at the Sultansworn. She dispises the odd, heavy coat he loves to wear about Ul'dah and is not shy about teasing him for it or his other questionable fashion choices.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Val Nunh]]''' - A sandy-haired miqo'te who is not shy about speaking his mind. Her meeting with him was strained: while being healed by A'rytiss, Val and a small pack of noisy miqo'te somehow managed to locate them in the caves behind Lost Hope under the impression that their company member was under attack. He was quick to realize that such was not the case and, after a bit of bickering back and forth between Delial and his subordinates, agreed to allow her to stay in the company clinic while A'rytiss was tended to. While she does not know him very well, she respects his brazen manner and obvious lack of concern with sugar-coating his opinions and his orders.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Mimiko Miyuki]]''' - A flirtatious miqo'te bard and a friend of Edgar's. They met while Delial and Edgar were taking some time away in Bronze Lake and it was eventually revealed that Mimiko and Edgar had shared some intimacy together. Later she would arrive with Val Nunh and his crew to interrupt a healing session with A'rytiss. Delial does not trust the woman and holds a fairly low opinion of her... but she cannot begrudge the woman for attending to Edgar in a way she could not.

: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Reverend Hakuga]]''' - A representative of the elusive Reverends, under whom Delial served briefly. While she once felt she owed them (and perhaps him in particular) for her freedom from imprisonment and potential execution in Coerthas, she has found working for them to be stifling. After a bloody confrontation with other unnamed agents, Delial has severed her ties and has not had any contact with Hakuga nor his peers ever since.

=== Enemies ===

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Roen Deneith]]''' - A woman targeted by her employer. Their meeting in Little Ala Mhigo turned into what had seemed like a friendship, but Delial used Roen's trusting, good-hearted nature to pry information about the Resistance from her. While she intends no harm to the woman, she fully intends to use Gharen Wolfsong's well-being as leverage to have her destroy what remains of the Resistance for her. That plan backfired when it was made known that Roen had found and captured Delial's brother. An exchange was arranged but the terms were against Roen, and there was a time when Delial felt compelled to correct that. Since her Sultansworn friends took it upon themselves to capture, interrogate, and torture her, however, Delial has felt that compassion drain. She has no intention of making further contact with her, unless so ordered by her superiors.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Gharen Wolfsong]]''' - The son of an old clan and a man who appears to be a key figure in a small but resilient group of Resistance fighters in Ul'dah. With a bit of careful planning and a handful of sheer luck, Delial was able to subdue and capture Wolfsong for use by Miss Banurein. She revealed to him a secret involving the day his family was torn apart and would likely have been torn apart herself were the man not bound. Delial was wary of Banurein's methods and, after seeing Roen's pain post-exchange, had set herself to find a way to correct the matter. That has since changed, and Delial no longer has any interest in Wolfsong but to perhaps someday see him dead.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Qaeli Varily]]''' - An acquaintance of Gharen's, and to some degree of Roen's. The silver haired woman was everything Delial did not expect of Roen's allies: bold, bloodthirsty, sharp as any blade and just as dangerous. Their encounter was brief but Delial left it broiling over her words. There are not many people who get under her skin, after all. Qaeli was hidden but present at the exchange for Wolfsong and ended up shooting Delial through her shoulder with an arrow while trying to get some answers with regards to the control mechanism that Delial activated and then destroyed. If she can keep out of the white-haired woman's way then Delial will be thankful.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]''' - An important figure in the Sultansworn of Ul'dah. To Delial, the woman is a brainless thug and she cannot understand how the few other Sultansworn she has spoken to can stand to follow the woman. She is transparent in her obliviousness, her lack of understanding, and in her clumsy way of insult. As far as Delial is concerned, the woman is a walking corpse.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Kage Kiryuu]]''' - A lalafellin goon of the Sultansworn. His protective attitudes towards Roen were obvious, as were his lack of understanding of the situation at hand. Delial watched him squirm while his superior instigated an interrogation. "It must be nice being a slave," he said, failing to recognize the irony in his own words. She thinks little of the man, a fool following a fool, and should he become a further nuisance she will not hesitate to end him.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Osric Melkire]]''' - A hyur with a knack for fisticuffs. He came to her with Jameson Taeros to ask her questions regarding Sultansworn involvement in the incident at the Nanawa Mines so many weeks ago. Much to her surprise, she saw the man again at the lichyard north of Camp Drybone, working against herself and the team assigned to retrieve the last of three packages Askier Mergrey wished to secure. While she has no conflict with the man directly, she knows that she is known to him, and has little reason to believe future encounters with the man will be pleasant.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Kahn'a Od'hilkas]]''' - A miqo'te archer. He has an active role working against Askier and is not shy about proclaiming it. Delial finds his arrogance grating, and found herself thoroughly humiliated during a scuffle between sides. The man has spilled her blood, and Delial will make it her duty to repay that in the future.

== Rumors ==

=== Common Rumors ===

::*"Unsettlin' is what I'd call 'er. She seems ta like that, though, gettin' a rise outta' people."
::*"Woman hardly goes anywhere without those boots. Practically lives in them, but... Honestly, can you blame her?"
::*"Talks a big game. All talk, that one. I'm a nice guy. Why wouldn't she want to have dinner with me?"

=== Moderate Rumors ===

::*"Dark times for me, for a lot of people who weren't quite in their right minds. But I swear, I've seen her before... We'd meet, you see, and pray together. I think I've seen her."
::*"It's a damned shame. Sometimes I see her squinting real hard at the market boards... Maybe her eyesight is worse than it looks?"
::*"No, I ain't dealin'. But I know someone who does. She gives him business now and again - maybe once a moon or so, sometimes twice, never buys too much. But repeats are repeats, you know what I'm sayin'?"

=== Rare Rumors ===

::*"There was to be a trial, and a hanging. She only attended one. It was another woman who hung that day, I swear on my mother's grave. That woman should be dead."
::*"Sinner! A sinner and nothing more! Grimsong is hardly a fitting name. Kinslayer ought do it."
::*"She'll come and stare at that boy - over there, him, do you see? She'll stare and never say a word. Whenever he leaves, she'll leave, too. Never together. She don't look the type to be intimidated by men."

=== PC Rumors ===

::*(( If you know Delial ICly, please feel free to toss some rumors up here! ))
::*"She is very much a bearer of many a great burden. Hells, you're looking at one of them, now." - [[Edgar Von Gandervalt]]
::*"She has a way of weaving lies and truths seamlessly. It makes her more dangerous. I do not intend on doing much listening next time we cross paths." - [[Roen Deneith]]
::*"Just LOOK at her! What's not to love?! Still, I can't help but to wonder what she's hiding... My heart's not so far aflutter that I don't know better." - [[Chokho Viqqoh]]
::*"Grace incarnate and viper personified, that's Delial for you." - [[Osric Melkire]]
::*"Her grins are vicious, her posture proud. But her aim is lousy, and that spoils it all." [[Kahn'a Od'hilkas]]
::*"If it weren't for the fact that she mocks my coat, I'd say she was just as clever and ruthless as myself. She's willing to set the world on fire for her kin, and that is a trait she and I share." [[Askier Mergrey]]
::*"Her words so sly, her actions so devious. Aye, I'd rather not listen to her dangerous words. She best leave Roen and Ul'dah be or I won't be able to hold back my tongue or hand any longer." - [[Kage Kiryuu]]

== History/Timeline ==
(( In progress! ))

== Potential Relationships ==

::*Ala Mhigans, particularly those who were already young adults during the fall, could have known/remembered her.
::*Likewise, Garlean characters who might have helped conquer or maintain Garlean rule after might know of her.
::*Current or former resistance characters may know her as a criminal.
::*Characters who have had involvement with the Lambs of Dalamud might know her.

== Additional/OOC ==
::*I am a huge nerd and here are some theme songs.
::** [http://youtu.be/JU6cT88Por4 Walk on Vanity Ruins - Silent Hill 3 OST, Akira Yamaoka] - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is totally Delial's voice.
::** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWR9MR5juWI You Know You Like It - AlunaGeorge]
::** [http://youtu.be/vKNcuTWzTVw How To Be A Heartbreaker - Marina and the Diamonds]
::** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8YQkq7Nr3U Mono - Silicone]
::** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmeF4K-MelU The Crow - Dessa]
::*Delial was my main throughout my time in WoW and she's being reincarnated here in a sense. So if you know me from Feathermoon, please feel free to say hello!

== Annotations ==

This Template was created by [[Deirdre Ta'ea]]. Some formatting inspired by [[Siobhain Surtsthalwyn]]'s page.

Jajara Jara

2014-05-09T20:13:14Z

ExKage:

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== Character ==

=== General Info ===

A familiar face in the markets of Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa, Jajara Jara is an enterprising lalafell known among her friends for her friendly demeanor. While she is not an adventurer, she has given much support to the local branch of the Adventurer's Guild and is recognized in the Goldsmith's Guild as a skilled craftsman.

(( This page is LONG overdue for some major editing due to RP developments. Not everything currently written is entirely accurate! So please pardon the mess while things are sorted out. '''Last updated: 05/04/14!''' ))

=== Appearance ===

Short even for a Lalafell, Jajara Jara makes up for it somewhat with a stout and surprisingly muscular frame, a detail often overlooked given her race's inherent rotundity. Her skin is dark and, while unmarked by scars, bears a stylized tattoo across her face in reddish ink which gives her an almost vaguely intense appearance when also taking vibrant nearly flame-orange eyes into account. Her hair takes on hues of reds and violets and is worn fairly short and tied into two loose braids at her neck. She is lightly freckled across her nose and her ears are unusually large for a lalafell. Her hands, if anyone were to take good notice of them, are rough and worn, calloused and lined with small scars.

The clothing she prefers is loose fitting and easy to move in. She has little taste for the fineries of silk and lace but makes exception for jewelry. Favored colors span between humble earthtones and gaudy reds, oranges, and yellows. It is rare to see her without a turban or bandana of some sort.

=== Personality & Philosophy ===

Generally good natured almost to the point of naivety, Jajara is quick to trust most anyone who isn't holding a weapon to her throat. An unapologetic optimist, she tends to see the good in people and strives to do good herself. Smiles and laughter come easily to her. She holds personal honor and promises to be paramount as while Ul'dah may be a city that runs on secrets and gil, a person is nothing if they cannot be trusted with either. She would not call herself an "adventurer" per se but she has been known to strike out onto the road at the behest of strangers in need of help, but rarely without compensation. She is a child of the Dunesfolk, after all, and remains loyal to her kin, her nation, and the prospect of coin in her pockets. Quick to attach herself to her friends, she is without a doubt loyal to a fault and her emotional state is often heavily influenced by the state of her friends.

Jajara is generally observant of laws and traditions and would be a most unlikely criminal. She is a terrible liar and a worse thief; fortunately, she relies on neither skill in her day to day life. Jajara is also something of a pacifist and tends to try avoiding violence as a means to end conflict. Murder is, naturally, completely and utterly abhorrent to her and she tends to look down on known murderers.

Since Reverend Hakuga's death, she has tried to be a little more active in worship. She is naturally a pious thing, often invoking the Gods for one thing or another in her day to day life. As per family tradition, she honors Oschon the Wanderer and Byregot the Builder above all else. Nald'thal has also become a fairly important deity to her as of late.

== Combat ==

Jajara grew up learning bits and pieces of basic pugilist techniques from the men in her family and, in her youth, served to help protect the caravan from wild beasts and the occasional bandit. There is a certain grace, she believes, in using the body as a weapon - particularly a body which most would dismiss as unimposing to say the least. Her style tends to focus on dehabilitation rather than outright offense, her strikes aimed for joints and nerves to cripple or slow targets down. Most weapons are clumsy in her hands so she prefers a good pair of cesti if she is ever called to battle.

However, Jajara does not relish in combat. Her arrival in Ul'dah saw her putting in a brief stint in the Coliseum to earn some gil, and she has on occasion ventured out to perform small tasks for the Adventurer's Guild. Pacifistic as she is, she still takes some pride in her abilities and puts herself through an exercise regimen twice daily to maintain it. Even without being an active combatant, the physical demands of her work necessitates such measures.

== Tendencies ==

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<div style="padding:10px 35px;font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Likes</center></div></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Stories
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Water (in appropriate amounts)
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Gold, gemstones
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Fruit (oranges in particular!)
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Stars
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> The Sagolii Desert

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<div style="padding:10px 35px;font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Dislikes</center></div></span></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Solitude
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Liars
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Cruelty
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Air/water travel
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Swear words!
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Infidelity

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<div style="padding:10px 35px; font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Hobbies/Talents</center></div></span></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Mining
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Forge work
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Goldsmithing
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Singing
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Martial arts
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> Trusting people she shouldn't

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<div style="padding:10px 35px; font-size:14px;color:#000000;"><center>Other</center></div></span></h3>
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Favourite Food:''' Roasted Nopales
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Favourite Color:''' Orange
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''If she could be an animal, she would be an:''' Adamantoise
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Biggest Fear:''' Losing friends and family
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> '''Hero:''' Her father, Sasayome Nanayome

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=== Other Notes ===
::*Jajara could easily be considered somewhat dim by many more worldly people. She has never stepped foot into a school house nor academy or even a library in her life. What she knows was shared to her by her family and the others who roamed the sands. She knows her letters, some basic maths, and the Gods... but of politics, borders, geography, and even world history she is largely ignorant.
::*Her name can be found posted on the [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=4645| Adventurer's Guild Pen Pal's Club roster].
::*Jajara rarely, if ever, keeps living pets for fear that she might have to eat them should she ever fall down on her luck. It is for this reason that her Chocobo is named "Dinner," though she usually keeps her stabled with the Immortal Flames where she is able to be fed adequately.
::*Getting lost in her work comes very easily to her and so Jajara might inadvertently go for long lengths of time without rest or food.
::*An unfortunate part of the way she was raised, Jajara does harbor a certain sense of racism in her, particularly towards miqo'te. Her clan only dealt with the desert tribes by necessity, and most children are taught that they are a degenerate, immoral race. Her distrust towards Seekers in particular has only flared back up given recent events.

== Relationships ==

=== Family ===
(( ''Note: Because Dunesfolk lore is so vague, I've mostly been playing off of headcanons. If more solid lore ever does come out, information here might be ret-conned and adjusted as needed to stay lore-friendly.'' ))

Before coming to Ul'dah, Jajara Jara travelled with a dunebeast clan headed called Great Berimu after the largest of the beasts, over whom her mother holds dominion. Reclusive even for nomadic Dunesfolk, they have been content to wander the deepest reaches of the Sagolii, only venturing out as far as the Forgotten Springs once every few moons to trade and resupply. As such, they have remained largely disinterested in the happenings of the world and have shunned most outsiders, particularly those of other races. They have long abided by their own laws and traditions in spite of the changing world around them.

The coming of the Battle of Cartenaeu saw much of their number decimated. Among those lost were Jajara's father, several aunts and uncles, and a sister. Lacking the numbers and strength to survive for long, as the Calamity left Great Berimu with mostly the too-old or too-young, an arrangement was made to merge their clan with a relative's for the benefit of both.

While Jajara usually shies away from speaking explicitly of her family members, there are a few names that have come up from time to time.

::*'''Jojore Jore''' (NPC) - Her mother and the de facto leader of her clan. Jajara still maintains somewhat of a bitter stance towards her but they've recently come to somewhat of an understanding. Their most recently encounter saw to her agreeing to release her daughter from her marriage oath in exchange for the secrets of Orpheus Arkouda's tribal weaponry and forging techniques, and expects to meet with her daughter again to complete the exchange.

::*'''Auntie Boro''' (NPC) - Her aunt (mother's side) to whom Jajara looked up to and still speaks fondly of. She is a kindly woman who tended to Jojore's children as much as she did her own, often playing the "good guy" to their mother's coldness. She was largely unsympathetic to Jajara's current romantic inclinations but she did not interfere.

::*'''Sasasori Kokosori''' - Her baby brother and perhaps the one sibling to whom she is closest. The two bicker in the way best friends do and, once, used to be near inseparable. Since coming to Ul'dah, he has since realized his dream of learning under the Conjurer's Guild and has since left Thanalan in pursuit of that dream.

::*'''Koporo Aporo''' - One of her elder brothers. He is very protective of his littlest sister and has repeatedly expressed concern over her life choices. He seems to be good friends with Edgar Gandervalt, possibly due to the latter's kindness in helping him get started in Ul'dah upon his arrival.

::*'''Dedeji Deji''' (NPC) - Jajara's eldest sister. The two have always had a rocky relationship with Dedeji constantly teasing and belitting her youngest sister for her non-conformist ways. She is a strong woman, however, who has remained within the boundaries of her clan's gender roles while touting her own defiant independence. Because of Jajara's disappearance and subsequent oath-breaking, it has fallen to her to complete the terms of Jajara's betrothal.

::*'''Jajaraji Nanaraji''' - One of her many cousins. He and Jajara were recently reunited in Ul'dah after several mishaps being sent about Eorzea in search of her. Though he had been instructed to bring Jajara back to Great Berimu, Jajaraji is far more interested in pursuing his studies now that he has the resources of the free cities at his fingertips. Jajara sees little of her eccentric cousin these days but has faith he is working hard to do himself and the clan proud.

=== Player Standing ===
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: <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest    <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire    <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love     <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing    <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing    <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing</center></table>

: <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Orpheus Arkouda]]''' - Their relationship has changed dramatically since they first met, where a ne'er-do-well mercenary with what seemed to her a death wish opened up to her and became something nobler. They had planned to marry and even took a trip into the heart of the sands together to help Jajara finally sever a most crucial tie to her family. It has been some time since the two have been seen together, and Jajara remains tight-lipped about the current status of their relationship.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Edgar Von Gandervalt]]''' - Her closest friend, confidant, and adoptive 'little brother'. An awkward initial meeting sparked what would become a strong and lasting friendship, with the two of them going back and forth to provide support and advice to one another on matters of work, life, and love. There was a time where Jajara nearly destroyed their friendship, and another when Edgar confessed feelings she could not reciprocate... yet despite their troubles, he will always be her only miqo'te brother.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Roen Deneith]]''' - A friend and client. She met the aspiring Sultansworn through another friend and two got along right away. There's a sadness to the woman that Jajara suspects goes beyond worries of the mentor she often spoke of, but it is easily eclipsed by the strength of her heart. Rumors of corruption in Ul'dah are not lost upon her, but Jajara knows that Roen is at least one person that she can trust. Jajara has recently joined with Roen to go on a "girl's only" fishing trip in the Shroud to give the both of them some time to breathe from their ordeals. As of then, Roen is the only one who knows of Jajara's situation.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Gharen Wolfsong]]''' - A friend and fellow smith. She met the man by way of his lovely boots, as he humored her and suffered her inquisitiveness with gentle words and the occasional smile. Jajara is fascinated by the scarred Highlander and his obvious skill with weaponry, as well as the quiet wisdom he had imparted to her during some of the roughest days of her life. She often teases the man for never writing but it is easily forgiven, for she knows he is a good man with challenges of his own. Jajara is awaiting the chance to go visit Gharen with Roen in the hopes that she might help him recover himself.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[U'roh Tia]]''' - Jajara doesn't know very much about this rambunctious Seeker but the two share equal passions for their respective martial art: he for his lance, and she for her fists. She admires his friendly nature and respects his fighting spirit, believing that he uses his skills for the betterment of others. So far they've sparred but once and Jajara took the win.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Kage Kiryuu]]''' - A lalafellin Sultansworn, and a fellow Dunesfolk. She met him much the way many others have, she assumes: with him sitting on 'his' ledge in the Quicksand. He seems like an honorable sort of fellow with a fairly clear idea of where - or at least who - he wants to be. Beyond that she doesn't know him too well but she enjoys their chats all the same. They seem to have made tenative plans to visit one another in Limsa Lominsa one day.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Wyra Panipahr]]''' - Wyra and her sister, Torora, have become fast friends with Jajara while she was spending some time unwinding in the Quicksand. The two of them are utterly charming and remind her very much of her own siblings, and she finds their protectiveness of one another to be admirable. Apparently, Wyra had been subtly flirting with Jajara, a fact which had gone all but unnoticed until Wyra admitted to doing so. Despite mixed feelings about that, Jajara intends to maintain their friendship. She hasn't had too many lady friends to talk to lately and she finds the company of other like-minded lalafell to be extremely welcome.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Renaud Becquerel]]''' - The leader of the Coral Sea, and Jajara's current employer. Jajara is uncertain about the man. He seems kindly enough, though his way of speaking (so eloquent and flowery!) instills in her a sense of unease if only because she has difficulty understanding him at times. He is unusually handsome for an Elezen. Suspiciously so.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Dhemgeim Shyrdoenwyn]]''' - An incredibly tough Roegadyn who is also apparently pretty important to the company. Jajara has nothing short of respect for the woman, even if she took it upon herself to bury Jajara and her fellow lalafell up to their chins on the beach that one time. Jajara admires Dhem's kindness, honesty, and her open-mindedness. While they are not particularly close by any means, Jajara would likely do whatever is asked of her if it is for Dhem's sake.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Sigurd Rainecourt]]''' - A Hyur mage of some sort. [[Driving Rain]] insists on calling him Demon Scholar or something to that effect, and Jajara finds this rather disconcerting. Still, the few conversations they've had were friendly enough, and she learned a little bit about his past and his home. He seems like a decent man; beyond that, Jajara cannot yet say.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[C'ycnus Nuhn]]''' - A... nuhn, apparently? There isn't much Jajara knows about the man besides the fact that he, like she, hails from the deserts of Thanalan. They are both also really bad with telling plants and flowers apart. Apparently, he and [[Augustine Frost]] do not get along.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[I'tsu Fhuz]]''' - An intelligent if not slightly strange Miqo'te. She is very curious and thoughtful and, most importantly of all, kind. They've had a few chats together and was one of the first people to whom Jajara warmed up when first brought in to the Coral Sea. Jajara has been commissioned to work on a pair of intricate golden rings for her and, presumably, her soon-to-be wife.

: <font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Chuchukepa Hohokepa]]''' - A lalafellin mage with a propensity for embarassment. They both share roots out from the nomad clans and both seem to have their secrets about their pasts, and on that perhaps she feels a sort of kinship with the man. Obviously he has his secrets but he seems a decent man despite them. She and L'aenoh Tia have agreed to help him with a matter he wishes kept secret, both feeling concern for the well-being of someone who seemed eager to dive in over his head.

: <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> '''[[L'aenoh Tia]]''' - A Seeker male who was apparently a former employee of the Coral Sea. Jajara finds his constant teasing and prodding at Chuchukepa to be somewhat irritating and was unimpressed with the typical Seeker bluster with which he seems to carry himself. Yet she warmed up to him slightly when he offered to fix up some armor for Chuchukepa. Given her current attitudes towards Seekers, she remains wary of him.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font><font style="color:#4e9362;" size="3">●</font> '''[[Reverend Hakuga]]''' - Jajara has known two men to wear the title of Reverend and both have proven to be good friends. The first - a miqo'te man who had worked closely with her and XI:7 in general - was very near and dear to her heart, loved and trusted as she would one of her blood. His death has proven to be very difficult for her to accept and still she mourns him despite being uncertain how to do so. His "replacement" as he so coldly put it was initially met with distrust and almost outright hostility but she has come to trust him as well. She has not seen this Highlander in many moons and suspects the worst. (( Character MIA. ))

(( Working on rebuilding this section! So please don't be upset if I've forgotten you. ; ____ ; ))

=== Enemies ===

As of yet she has made no enemies and very much intends to stay that way. Naturally she holds an version to the Amal'jaa but would not go so far as to declare them a personal, mortal enemy.

== Rumors ==

=== Common Rumors ===

::*"That girl sure is nice enough but she can be a bit dense."
::*"Yeah, I seen her around the Goldsmith's guild a lot. She's a far cry from the Guildmaster but she's not that bad. Seems to take a lot of pride in her work."
::*"Never seen her in a fight but I reckon she could pack a punch. You ever seen a Lalafell built like that? Not outside the Coliseum, you don't."
::*"Walked to work one morning and saw her sitting off to the side, hammering away at one thing or another. Wouldn't you know it, she was still there hours later when I was walking right back."

=== Moderate Rumors ===

::*"Someone told me she ran out on a family debt of some sort, but I don't know what that might mean exactly. I don't think she has any family here. Seems to be the point."
::*"They'll sit up on the deck for hours, those two. Lalafell and a Miqo'te. Do you think they're really...?"
::*"Don't see her around the Pugilist's Guild as oft as I used to, no, but now and again she'll pass by with this look to her eye. You wouldn't think so just by lookin' at her but she had good form, even if she was clumsy as all hells about it. I wonder if she'll ever come back."
::*"I've seen some of the people she talks to. Ruffians and criminals and worse - even a ''Garlean'' if you'll believe it! Poor thing is just asking for trouble if you ask me."

=== Rare Rumors ===

::*"Well some poor Dunesfolk comes in to the shop drenched in sweat, covered in sand, and she drops this ring on the counter. Looked like some kind of wedding ring, real old fashioned thing that wasn't even worth the spit to shine it. Tell truth, I only gave her the gil cause she looked like hell."
::*"I got a pot of gil thanks to her. Nobody wanted to bet against Lance Goodpunch - no one but me! But when she knocked him out not once, not twice, but ''three'' times - WHAP! POW! - ohhh, my heart was ''singing''! Thank the lady for me, would you?"
::*"That gold-eyed girl? Yeah, she comes through pretty often. A miner, isn't she? Now and again, though, she'll just ride up to the top of a dune and just... stand there. Stand and stare. Sometimes after a while she'll ride out, and sometimes she'll just come right back and leave. No idea why, though. If it's the sandworms she's watching, that little bird of hers is more than fast enough to outpace them."

=== PC Rumors ===

::*(( If you know Jajara ICly, please feel free to toss some rumors up here! ))

::*"Would you believe it if I said that she has been able to make a man wet himself?" - [[Keru Lowry]]

::*"She took down a giant magical golem... with a tiny hammer. I hope to never get on her bad side." - [[Seth Honeybrew]]

::*"Give her the right tool and she will forge for you  treasures beyond your wildest imagination." - [[Edgar Von Gandervalt]]

::*"Given Byregot's gift I'd say, an' a mean throwin' arm as well if'n ye startle 'er. What's more important though? She's a good soul, count myself lucky te know th' lass an' call her friend." - [[Gharen Wolfsong]]

::*"She made a beautiful bracelet for me once. But I count her generosity and kindness as the greater gift." - [[Roen Deneith]]

::* "Lotta spirt packed into a tiny package. I'll give her that." [[U'roh Tia]]

::* "She's one of Roen's friends, and a Lalafell! She even comes from a line of crafters like I do. It's really too bad I already know I don't have quite the ability to work with metals. I'd have taken up on her kind offer to learn." [[Kage Kiryuu]]

== History/Timeline ==
(( Kind of WIP; haven't decided if I want to fill this out more or leave it mostly vague. ))

Jajara Jara was born in the deserts of Thanalan, yet another branch of an surprisingly expansive family tree who roamed the sands. Her clan travelled the sands upon the backs of a four dunebeasts, the largest of which was a wizened old thing named after an honored ancestor, Beberimu Jajarimu. They made their living trading hand-woven cloaks and blankets and prided themselves on their dyeing techniques, making use of most any plants or leftover animal parts to produce vibrant dyes with which to enhance their craft. Jajara never really picked up on either trade, taking more interest in more martial affairs. It was not long after her birth that many of her kin were called away to help in the coming war against the Imperial threat and so she took it upon herself to learn to defend her family in the absence of the more capable members of her clan. Vultures of all shapes are never far in the desert and with their number easily halved they were made dangerously vulnerable.

Life was rather uneventful, however, and her skills were rarely ever put to use aside from the occasional ambush from wild mongrels or angry hammerbeaks. The Calamity saw fit to return nearly none of her kin to them and those that did return were scarred and largely unfit for work. What had remained were mostly elders and younglings alike, hardly suited for maintaining the clan and their beasts alike for much longer. It was decided then that they would seek out a sister herd and arrange to be taken into the fold rather than wait to be picked off by the elements if they were lucky or the beastmen if they were not. Sever weeks later they were officially joined with a herd led by a relatively close relative (Jajara's grandmother's sister and husband) and prospects for survival rose dramatically.

It was not too long after that Jajara Jara took leave of the caravan and turned instead for the city. Common talk among the clanfolk was that an unwelcome courtship and subsequent proposal had a large part to play in her desire to leave, but gossip is just gossip and only Jajara knows for sure what turned her away from the open dunes.

== Potential Relationships ==

::*Jajara has a total of six living siblings left and a slew of cousins. Any one of these might find their way out of the desert for one reason or another.
::*Her mother would have likely put out a notice about her missing daughter, though it might not have circulated beyond the nomad clans.
::*A member of an allied clan with whom Great Berimu might have visited from time to time.

== Additional/OOC ==
::*Jajara is actually named after that cool bone dragon thing from Legend of Mana. Just so happens that her name fits the naming convention! Woooh.
::*It might be a little bit tacky but I love picking theme songs and you can't stop me.
::**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CalSEsVBMR0| Those Who Wait - Daley]
::**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3N9lrq-rks| Into the Thick of it - Secret of Mana OST, Hiroki Kikuta]
::**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHdBa324RU| Maybe I'll Even Buy A Sheep - Breath of Fire 4 OST, Yoshino Aoki]

== Annotations ==

This Template was created by [[Deirdre Ta'ea]]

Kage Kiryuu

2014-04-09T05:38:04Z

ExKage: /* Player Character Rumors */

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| gender = Male
| citizenship = Ul'dah
| race = Lalafell
| clan = Dunesfolk
| stat_1 = Age
| stat_1_value = 24
| stat_2 = Height
| stat_2_value = 2' 10.2"
| stat_3 = Server
| stat_3_value = Balmung
| stat_4 = Time Zone
| stat_4_value = Pacific (GMT-8 Standard, GMT-7 Daylight Savings)
| stat_5 = In Game
| stat_5_value = Mon-Thurs 4pm-10pm Friday 8pm to latenight. Saturday 9am-Late night. Sunday 9am-10pm
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==Character==
===General===
Kage is a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for.

===Appearance===

Kage is the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade. He also sports a goatee on his chin that he plays with when he's anxious. Currently he doesn't have an official job, taking odd jobs here and there to make ends meet. As such he doesn't wear any truly plated armor. Rarely can he be found in a mage's robe but more often than not he wears a tabard.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand
::* Proficient in aetheric manipulation

==Relationships==
===Family===

Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy.

===Friends===

Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''': Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''': Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''': Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. While unsure of how Kayah seems to have many connections with some unsavory fellows as well as many others, he's found a sort of brotherly kinship with Kayah. He views Kayah as a good friend, completely supporting Natalie's relationship with him.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''': While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

==Rumors==
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
((Feel free to add))
::* "-insert here-"

==History/Timeline==
His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts since his oldest brother is better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with.

His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial with his friend Lambert Arkwright of the Trial of Loyalty, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

==Annotations==

This Template was created by [[Deirdre Ta'ea]]

Chokho Viqqoh

2014-04-09T05:28:45Z

ExKage: /* Present */

{{Infobox-character
| title = "There's a time and a place for subtlety... This is neither."
| gender = Female
| image = Chokhosample1.png
| imagewidth = 500
| citizenship = N/A
| race = Miqo'te
| clan = Keeper of the Moon
| stat_1 = Place of birth
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| stat_2 = Age
| stat_2_value = 26
| stat_3 = Weight
| stat_3_value = "Whoa, who's asking?!"
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: Chokho Viqqoh is a character born from a desire of whimsy. Typically playing stoic and strong characters, I wanted to play someone who was able to truly and honestly enjoy the world while being relatively helpless (at first). As time went on I realized that a thuggish adrenaline-jockey would be boring, and the character became a philosopher. Now, she takes the world with a lightness of heart and an unusual depth of intelligence.

: Her masked intelligence also comes into play with a desire to turn some tropes on their side. Chokho has a power that she does not fully understand. Instead of this running her life as is the case with most stories that start this way, she very quickly learned what she can and can't do without setting it off. Now she takes a very careful approach in trying to better understanding herself.

<font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="2">'''★'''I'm very interested in pursuing a mentor/student relationship in philosophy, or certain classes, as well as expanding the Viqqoh family in game. Let me know if you'd like to work something out!</font>

===<div style="padding:10px 15px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">Basic Info</div>===
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: Chokho is a fun-loving hedonist that has the-... let's call it a distinction, of being generally incompetent when it comes to combat in an adventurer's world. Her quick smile and loud laugh do not come from a vapid lack of weight however. Instead, Chokho follows philosophy closely resembling nihilism. She believes she has seen the world for what it is, and knows there is no deeper meaning. And if all we have is what we make up, why not make up something that everyone can enjoy?

: She's also a liar by trade. Her intentions and actions are so heavily obfuscated, it's nigh-impossible to tell what her goals are. But in the end she's relatively harmless, so Eorzea is not about to loose sleep over whatever game she's playing.

<font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="2">'''★'''You can generally assume any knowledge here is NOT something easily accessible on an IC level! Chokho dedicates a lot of time and effort into concealing information about herself, by whatever means necessary.</font>

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: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Bad Jokes
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Art
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Sex
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Books
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Vanity
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Philosophy
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Wealth

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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #DFD59E;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;"><center>''DISLIKES''</center></div></span></h3>

: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Violence
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Sadism
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Work
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Harm's way

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: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Vice(s): Yes
: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Food: Chooclate
: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Drink: Wine

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===<div style="padding:10px 15px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">Appearance & Personality</div>===
: Chokho looks like her appearance and acts like her personality.

: Ok, but really.

: Chokho stands just a touch taller than most other miqo'te. By far her most striking features are her incredibly dark skin and her tiger face-paint. Combined with her deep red eyes and pronounced canines, Chokho cuts an intimidating image.

: Fortunately, that's where Chokho's intimidation ends. She's unmistakably non-threatening in the way she flirts and continually bounces around with a constant, playful energy. Her constant laughter and quick smile is more than enough to put most people at ease. Chokho's has an insatiable appetite for play and has no shame in cracking bad jokes or impishly teasing. If it wasn't for her lithe body - and her frequent flaunting of it - she could very easily be mistaken as entirely childish.

===<div style="padding:10px 15px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">Weight of Viqqoh</div>===
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<font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="2">'''★'''Viqqoh is a common name in Eorzea. Perhaps you've heard it before? That's likely because it's an often recommended name from moon keeper name generators - but forget about that. We can come up with a better reason than that!</font>

:A name is passed down to each child by keeper's [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Miqo%27te/Naming tradition]. Some of these names can be traced as far back as the First Astral Era. Viqqoh (alongside Luna and Jinjahl) is one such powerful name. The jungles of Othard house a large sect of the name Viqqoh. Through power pushed through guile, they've claim to be the original holders of the name before it spread to Eorzea.

:The name carries deliberate power and pride to its members, but it's expanse has not been entirely mapped out! Chokho's family is deliberately open ended in some parts to allow other players to take up the roles if they desire. If the idea interests you, contact me! There are already two members of the family in play, though the other player a secret for the time being.

===<div style="padding:10px 15px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">Biography</div>===

====<div style="padding:0px 20px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;"> 1551 - 1561 </div>====

:Chokho Viqqoh was born in the jungles of Othard to a large and powerful family. One of last children that her mother had, Chokho would have eventually grown up to be a powerful mage or skilled hunter like her many brothers and sisters, if not for an unusual illness.

:Chokho was born pale and weak, and she would stay this way for her entire childhood. Local conjurers had never seen a sickness such and this and they were only able to surmise that some part of the girl, on an aetheric level, was "missing". There was a hole in her being that could be filled by no magic. Without a cure, Chokho was cursed to an eternal shortness of breath and frail form. She was not given long to live.

:The girl was lucky in one thing: her mother. Chokho's mother was a powerful woman and matriarch to the clan. When the conjurers said there was nothing they could do, she told them to find someone better. When no one was found with an answer she liked, she took matters into her own hands. Even though the Viqqoh clan was founded on pride and power, its stern hunters and arguably ruthless mages rallied around one of their own. Through spells, foreign medicines, and more supplies than she could ever hope to reply, Chokho would live. She would never have the strength of her peers and could rarely muster the energy to leave her home, but she would live.

:Her life was painful, but not without joy. While the majority of the clan could spare little time from their tasks, Chokho had the regular company of two other members who were deemed equally non-vital: her brother Xau'to and her father Hawu'a. Xau'to, a scoundrel by trade, was a frequent source of company and always had a trick up his sleeve or a story to tell to keep the sick child company. Any childhood Chokho has she owes to her sibling's affection. While her father often took to the road for the sake of the clan, he was never the less a pillar of stability for a life teetering so close to death. One of the most influential gestures he ever did was paint Chokho's face in the stripes she still wears today. Reminiscent of a tiger native to their home, Hawu'a was quick to remind Chokho how strong tigers are and how much she is like them.

=====<div style="padding:0px 30px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">1562 - 1572</div>=====

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''Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC!''
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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #90AB76;">◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)</div></b>
: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> "What a lush! I don't think there's anything more she cares about than a stiff drink and a stiffer bedfellow!"
: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> "Not a care in the world, that one. A good enough way to live, I suppose."
: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> "Gets her kicks from foolin' around and lyin'... not right, I'll tell ya."

<b><div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #F37E1D;">◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)</div></b>

: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> "For all the noise she raises, I don't see her making much trouble."
: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> "Not as bad as she makes herself out to be. She might just have a heart yet. Hah!"
: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> "In three different cities I've heard her laugh that she's from 'somewhere else.' So where in the seven hells can it be?"

<b><div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #D83018;">◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)</div></b>
: <font style="color:#D83018;" size="3">■</font> "I don't know what you think Chokho Viqqoh is, but I promise you she is no miqo'te."

<b><div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #aac5b4;">◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players)</div></b>
(Add your own if you know Chokho!))

: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "Cho's got a heart. What she doesn't have is a plethora of good jokes." - [[Kage Kiryuu]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> [Your text here!]

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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;"><center>''RELATIONS''</center></div></span></h3>
: <center><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest    <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Interest     <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing     <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> Watching</center>

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> [[Salem Nuhn]] - Chokho's first friend on arrival to Ul'dah, Salem's relaxed attitude and shared love of play instantly made him one of her best friends. A little heartbreak here and there isn't going to stop that.

: <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> [[Nazeru Auronas]] - Though she's not about to admit it, Chokho's formed something of a relationship with her dashing friend. Excessive pampering and chocolate helps her overlook how this goes against her free-spirited approach to life.

: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> [[Marrow Ochi]] - Marrow's power represents what Chokho believes can be Eorzea's saving grace, and the one thing to give her a spark of hope in her nihilism. She is constantly disappointing when Marrow fails to take care of herself, and unable to stop from feeling motherly when she can.

: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> [[Kage Kiryuu]] - Met through Salem, Chokho knows very little about the lalafell. But what she does know, she likes! She's always happy to talk, and help him with his goals in whatever small way she can - even if she doesn't agree with them.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> [[Natalie Mcbeef]] - Although Natalie offered Chokho a linkshell that now connects her with most of her friends, Chokho is wary of her. She'll often state she feels Natalie is narrow-minded or boring, but the truth is Chokho is just jealous of the attention she gets.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> [[Alexaria Whiteraven]] - Like many contacts, Chokho was first drawn to Alexaria due to tight pants. Once all attempts to get into them fell flat, Chokho was surprised to find that Alex kept such a sharp, philosophical mind. She now delights in talking to the woman about deeper thoughts and the workings of the mind and spirit, instead of the flesh.

: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> [[Ennara Calian]] - Met initially through Alexaria, Chokho has come to trust Ennara deeply after the highlander helped her out of a bad spot. Ennara is one of the few that Chokho knows will always help her... and keep a secret.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> [[C'kayah Tia]] - Interesting enough to watch, but nothing more. Kayah HAS to be up to something as far as she's concerned, but she doesn't know what. He's good looking and well mannered though, so that's enough.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> [[Arky Mosuke]] - Affectionately dubbed "Charmer", Chokho delights in Arky's gentlemanly manner. She's pegged him as someone with a secret, and is unwilling to invest more trust until more light comes to the situation.

: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> [[U'zhan Tia]] - Even though they're not terribly close, Chokho likes U'zhan. He swings by to tease her a little or joke around, and then goes on to take care of his own matters. No fuss, no complications, no problem.

: <font style="color:#C24640;" size="3">●</font> [[Araswel Dakwhil]] - Chokho desperately wants to like the other moon keeper, but she has no idea how to. She's hyper-competent in all combat and completely unrelatable. After being told not to flirt with her, Chokho feels she's out of options.

: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> [[Delial Grimsong]] - Even though she knows next to nothing of the woman, Chokho is smitten. Between her alluring voice and regal poise, Chokho pursues this beauty without any idea what she'd do if she caught it.

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[Placeholder! Going to put the songs that inspire Chokho, as well as the sort of things she sings in character]

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:''Template credit goes to [[Bancroft Gairn]]... Seriously just copy/pasted 90% of this. Dude's amazing.''

[[category:Player Character]]
[[category:Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]
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Kage Kiryuu

2014-04-09T04:44:37Z

ExKage:

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| stat_5 = In Game
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==Character==
===General===
Kage is a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for.

===Appearance===

Kage is the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade. He also sports a goatee on his chin that he plays with when he's anxious. Currently he doesn't have an official job, taking odd jobs here and there to make ends meet. As such he doesn't wear any truly plated armor. Rarely can he be found in a mage's robe but more often than not he wears a tabard.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up, Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He's shy, soft-spoken, reserved and mild-mannered but also playfulwhen with friends. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. As such, he does not take well to being insulted for seeing whether his friends are in danger or being harassed. Only his self-restraint keeps him from lashing out at someone physically or violently for doing so. He's very forceful when he feels like his friends need to be defended from physical or personal attack. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends from friends. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason. Thus, he hates it when people lie to him. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong on how people are affected.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
::* Friends going off without him to watch their backs
::* Deep seas or oceans, he has never learned to swim properly

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* Sitting on the rail in Quicksand
::* Proficient in aetheric manipulation

==Relationships==
===Family===

Kage's mother's side of the family had a heavy focus in thaumaturgy and a few tomes ready for study on some black magicks. Kage's father comes from a family who specialized in goldsmithing. His father does quite well in goldsmithing so that Kage and his family were never in want. Kage has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. His brother continues the family's goldsmithing business while his sister has turned to alchemy.

===Friends===

Kage has made a variety of friends in the city of Ul'dah. Many of them seem to be Miqo'te but he has made friends with Roen Deneith, a Midlander Hyur. He's gotten to know many of them through Natalie Mcbeef or through being in the Quicksand.

'''[[Natalie Mcbeef]]:''': Kage had only heard of the Miqo'te Sultansworn until he decided to send her a missive that changed his life. While previously he had only ever entertained the thought of being a Paladin and then Sultansworn after seeing Papashan, Natalie gave him the advice and courage to move forward. He has since become one of Natalie's apprentices of sorts, having her mentor him. He's grown to expect things from Natalie that others would find to be the unexpected. A good way to describe part of their relationship is that she always finds ways to help Kage grow in either character or experience. Something that, in the specific moment, Kage does not always find helpful.

'''[[Roen Deneith]]:''': Kage first met Roen right after he approached Natalie about Paladins and Sultansworn. She was introduced to him as a Paladin in-training. Natalie nominated Roen to mentor Kage of sorts. At first, the two did not seem to know how it would work but throughout each individuals' training, Kage realized that Roen would be a good friend. He thinks her very worthy of the Sultansworn title, believing that she deserves it more than he does even.

'''[[C'kayah Tia]]:''': Through his constant interactions with Natalie, Kage interacted with the male Miqo'te often. While unsure of how Kayah seems to have many connections with some unsavory fellows as well as many others, he's found a sort of brotherly kinship with Kayah. He views Kayah as a good friend, completely supporting Natalie's relationship with him.

'''[[U'tano Kazhe]]:''': While not sure how he felt about U, he quickly became very fond of the female Miqo'te. He first met her at a beach party in the Mist that was held after a series of stressful and danger-filled events involving his friends Natalie Mcbeef and Marrow Ochi, as well as Salem Nunh's own problem. U had been invited, meeting Kage at the party. At his second meeting with U, Kage interacted with her directly and was quite annoyed and non-plussed at her manhandling of him by holding him in the air and running around. He quickly found that he did not mind U's making an airship of him, being quite fond of her and her actions.

===Enemies===
Kage is generally easy to get along with and so far has not had the need nor the want to make enemies. However, he has started to have a bit of a dislike for those with lances. He's had quite a few unsavory meetings with those who wield those weapons.

==Rumors==
===Common Rumors===
::* "He's that Lalafell always surrounded by a bunch of Miqo'te here in Ul'dah." - Ul'dahn citizen
::* "I always see him sitting on the rail here." - Quicksand patron
::* "I've seen him getting shoulder rides on Miqo'te. Strange."

===Moderate Rumors===
::* "He's always following that Miqo'te Sultansworn, Natalie, right?"

===Rare Rumors===
::* "I thought he was just a swordsman, but I've seen him running 'round in mage's outfits."
::* "Don't see him taking on too many jobs, but he's always been in here drinking ale or just lounging on that rail."

===Player Character Rumors===
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==History/Timeline==
His mother raised Kage to be the heir of sorts since his oldest brother is better at shaping the fine and malleable metals that Kage was only average at. Kage has a fairly decent amount of control over the large amount of aether he has so his mother put him on that path. It was not a fulfilling life prospect and so a few years after the Calamity Kage found his life changing.

Traveling through the Thanalan, The Clutch area, Kage observed an incident in which several Sultansworn came to the aid of a fellow. They were led by a Lalafell. Kage wasn't sure about how things came to be but he soon felt something in himself that wanted change. He wanted to do something with his life and not just follow the flow his family had set for him. Leaving against the protests of his mother, Kage packed his things and left for Ul'dah. He hid his aetherial disposition unless the very odd jobs that he took required them, and only if no one would be the wiser. He asked for help and advice, receiving it from those he'd made contact with.

His aetherial proficiency came to surface when his friends showed that they might be in trouble. In a small confrontation between Marrow and a few others, he tried to use his magic to get Marrow and others out of the incident. It then became useful when dealing with a friend's, Salem Nunh's, crisis.

Kage had since started to wind down and relax, focusing on his training to be better at using a sword and shield. He recently undertook the Sultansworn Trials alongside Roen. Erik Mynhier administered the Trial of Faith to Kage first. While lounging in the Quicksand and speaking with Natalie, he was surprised by the Trial of Courage Natalie decided to administer to him. He and Roen took the Trial of Loyalty together under Anelia Sadowyn. They left not knowing whether they passed or failed. After watching Roen's own Trial of Courage, Kage learned of his failing the Trial of Loyalty. Upon re-trial with his friend Lambert Arkwright of the Trial of Loyalty, they were told by Anelia that Kage and Lambert passed.

==Annotations==

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Kage Kiryuu

2014-03-17T21:25:25Z

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==Character==
===General===
Kage is a Dunesfolk Lalafell whose family have lived in the Thanalan for many, many years. He was traveling through Thanalan, The Clutch area, when he spied something that festered a strange feeling within him. He was driven and inspired by the events he saw. He saw Papashan and other Sultansworn come to the aid of another. It became the driving force within him to train to be a paladin and to eventually become Sultansworn. This led to him meeting with the Sultansworn, Natalie, as well as others that she knew. Recent events has caused him to realize that the politics of the job and those of Ul'dah might be something that he's not yet prepared for.

===Appearance===

Kage is the shortest of adult male Dunesfolk Lalafell. He has blue hair with highlights of a red shade. He also sports a goatee on his chin that he plays with when he's anxious.

===Behavior===

Once he's comfortable and willing to open up Kage will be happy to give people as good as he takes it. He can be playful as well as reserved and mild-mannered. He cares very much for those he becomes friends with. He does not easily make friends by himself, usually making friends through networks. He can be found sitting on the rail in Quicksand, outside of Quicksand by Ruby Road, or sitting at a table in the Airship landing. Kage finds it very hard to lie to people to their faces and usually would prefer not to unless for a good reason, as such he hates it when people lie to him. He's a mostly shy and self-spoken one but when he feels like his friends are in danger or being attacked in some way he will be very forceful. He has a lot of anxieties about himself, but he's started to grow stronger as his training progresses. He believes in his friends and is generally too "goody two shoes". He wouldn't enforce this belief unto others, especially his friends, unless he thought that the trouble for them is too much or if it puts them into danger. He doesn't like it when his friends get hurt, being upset that they would not ask him for help or for him to cover their backs. He does not have a rigid sense of judgment only a subjective right or wrong of how things affect people.

===Likes===
::* Ul'dah
::* Any beverage at the Quicksand
::* Becoming friends

===Dislikes===
::* Killing or hurting others (mentally or physically)
::* Not being able to initiate making new friends
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==Annotations==

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