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{{Infobox-character<br />
| name = Niamh Chalahko<br />
| image = niamhavi1.png <br />
| imagewidth = 275px<br />
| caption = <br />
| title = <br />
| gender = Female<br />
| citizenship = <br />
| race = Miqo'te<br />
| clan = Keeper of the Moon<br />
| server = Balmung<br />
| stat_1 = Born<br />
| stat_1_value = West Shroud, Black Shroud<br />
| stat_2 = Nameday<br />
| stat_2_value = 9th Sun, 1st Astral Moon (~20)<br />
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| stat_4 = Hair/Eyes <br />
| stat_4_value = Blonde/Light Green<br />
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
Niamh was born in the West Shroud about a decade before the Calamity. She was raised as a traditional Moon-Keeper by a clan of hunters, with the most notable quality of her childhood being the absurd amount of relatives she recounts in conversations. Many of these relatives are now missing or presumed dead, but the few yet living remember their cousin as passionate if not a bit of a firebrand.<br />
WIP<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle–clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations–but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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Niamh grew up in a family where you did as you wanted, when you wanted, and where falling for a lie was worse than telling it.<br />
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:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352317Niamh Chalahko2020-09-07T00:23:28Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
<br />
==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
Niamh was born a decade or so before the Calamity and grew up the middle child of six in an itinerant community of extended blood relations (cousins, half-first cousins, third cousins once removed, etc). While Keepers are said to typically abide in family units of two or three, this band of Chalahkos (aka the Copperfish–an unflattering moniker inspired by their greed and social floundering) was significantly larger in number. It’s hard to give exactly what that number was, seeing as most came and went as they pleased; but when the caravan stood still long enough to get a head count (usually for supper), its company seemed to stretch about three generations, with the average individual damming between six and nine children (a quarter of which were male, and they were still expected to leave, it just... wasn’t enforced). <br><br />
Their operation could be best pictured as 'organized chaos', but with even less of a principled infrastructure. Freedom was a value of chief concern to the travellers, who had long ago agreed that life was much more enjoyable if you simply did as you desired. This meant that resources and reserves held among their 'household' were never in consistent access or supply–varied counts on heads meant that demand on materials was unpredictable, and preordained responsibilities had no clear reason for being–and the collective's approach to life felt much like a pendulum in perpetual swing: get what you need, as you need it. Yet members were rarely listless or lacking direction; they did things because they wanted, and not because they had to; the system worked not because of a proclivity toward order, but to play. None among them had nothing, and all among them dreamed. Each member was self-sufficient, and self-reliant if need be. Sharing was an active choice in the group, not an expectation–envy and rivalry was no stranger of the family, but generosity–or at the least compromise–was more often the winner. <br><br />
They travelled from place to place, with an itinerary that kept them mostly below the boughs of the Shroud. While they had a reputation of being opportunistic, swindling debt-evaders, the charismatic (or menacing) among them managed to keep reprisals from other communities to a minimum; and if neither charm nor intimidation found a resolution, the caravan simply skipped town till the heat subsided. That was the worst case scenario of course; a lot of leniency was granted to them, on the condition their wares remained accessible (and dynamic). Among their sundry trinkets, trifles and tinctures were composts, fertilizers; potent potions of undesirable taste; woodsin nullifiers, soulkin dissuaders; and here and there the fenced good–though these were marketed from a stance emboldened by plausible deniability. As well, a few of their band fancied themselves "treasure hunters," and sold goods they thought substantiated this claim: antiques and artifacts; supposed relics, the form of which were weapons and tomes; and, while they were often just disjointed scraps of machina, they did occasionally have for sale contraptions yet of living function. <br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle–clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations–but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
It took some time before the adolescents were reunited with their family. Discovered upon fleeing the battlefield and realized to be minors, they spent about a year as wards of Gridania's state–that was about the time it took for the novelty of free food and board to wear off, with some motivation found towards the end when potential parents began poking around for their preferred form and feature of waif. It took as nearly as long as they were away to rediscover their relatives, and this was just a fragment–many still are missing to this day.<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
<br />
Niamh grew up in a family where you did as you wanted, when you wanted, and where falling for a lie was worse than telling it.<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Acquisition</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Upbeat</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unscrupulous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Intrepid</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Indifferent</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agnostic</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Brazen</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Talkative</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Deceitful</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Never</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Blue magic; fables; hunt marks; machina; monsters; treasure</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Hums; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdrops; looks with her hands; poor etiquette; sings; stares; is superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Collecting; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
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'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. <br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. <br />
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'''Grandmother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Great-Grandmother:''' ''Torin'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Aunts:''' [Eldest-youngest] ''Aodhan'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Uilleag'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Flann'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sheh'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Pol'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Alaois'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Uncles:''' ''Ailbhe'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'sae'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Pol’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Alaois’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. <br />
* ''Mona'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. <br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. <br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Mave'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. <br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. <br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. <br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. <br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
====Screenshots====<br />
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====Art====<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire — Niamh's skill level with, and handling of, a bow<br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352307Niamh Chalahko2020-09-06T06:13:03Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
Niamh was born a decade or so before the Calamity and grew up the middle child of six in an itinerant community of extended blood relations (cousins, half-first cousins, third cousins once removed, etc). While Keepers are said to typically abide in family units of two or three, this band of Chalahkos (aka the Copperfish–an unflattering moniker inspired by their greed and social floundering) was significantly larger in number. It’s hard to give exactly what that number was, seeing as most came and went as they pleased; but when the caravan stood still long enough to get a head count (usually for supper), its company seemed to stretch about three generations, with the average individual damming between six and nine children (a quarter of which were male, and they were still expected to leave, it just... wasn’t enforced). <br><br />
Their operation could be best pictured as 'organized chaos', but with even less of a principled infrastructure. Freedom was a value of chief concern to the travellers, who had long ago agreed that life was much more enjoyable if you simply did as you desired. This meant that resources and reserves held among their 'household' were never in consistent access or supply—varied counts on heads meant that demand on materials was unpredictable, and preordained responsibilities had no clear reason for being—so that the collective's approach to life felt much like a pendulum in perpetual swing: get what you need, as you need it. Yet members were rarely listless or lacking direction; they did things because they wanted, and not because they had to; the system worked not because of a proclivity toward order, but to play. None among them had nothing, and all among them dreamed. Each member was self-sufficient, and self-reliant if need be. Sharing was an active choice in the group, not an expectation—envy and rivalry was no stranger of the family, but generosity was more often the winner.<br />
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===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 5<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
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'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. <br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. <br />
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'''Grandmother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Great-Grandmother:''' ''Torin'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Aunts:''' [Eldest-youngest] ''Aodhan'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Uilleag'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Flann'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sheh'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Pol'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Alaois'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Uncles:''' ''Ailbhe'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'sae'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Pol’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Alaois’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. <br />
* ''Mona'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. <br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. <br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Mave'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. <br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. <br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. <br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. <br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352298Niamh Chalahko2020-09-06T00:01:06Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
Niamh was born a decade or so before the Calamity and grew up the middle child of six in an itinerant community of extended (and loose) blood relations. While Keepers are said to typically abide in family units of two or three, this band of Chalahkos (aka the Dandelions—so called because they were plenty) was at least double that. Niamh can't rightly recall the exact number, as freedom was valued nearly to a virtue, and as much among their 'family' came as went. This meant that resources and reserves held among their 'household' were never in consistent access or supply—varied counts on heads meant that demand on materials was unpredictable, and preordained responsibilities had no clear reason for being—so that the collective's approach to life operated more like a pendulum in perpetual swing: get what you need, as you need it. Moreover, members were rarely listless or lacking direction; they did things because they wanted, and not because they had to; a system that worked not because of a proclivity toward order, but to play. None among them had nothing, and all among them dreamed. Each member was self-sufficient in their own right, and self-reliant if need be. Sharing was an active choice in the group, not an expectation—envy and rivalry was no stranger of the family, but generosity was more often the winner.<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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| pdef = 4<br />
| dex = 9<br />
| mdef = 1<br />
| prowess = 3<br />
| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 5<br />
| intelligence = 7<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
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'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. <br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. <br />
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'''Grandmother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Great-Grandmother:''' ''Torin'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Aunts:''' [Eldest-youngest] ''Aodhan'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Uilleag'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Flann'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sheh'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Pol'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Alaois'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
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'''Uncles:''' ''Ailbhe'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Ailbhe'sae'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Aodhan'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'a'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'to'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Uilleag'li'' (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ) <br><br />
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'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Pol’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Alaois’s children'''<br />
* x<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. <br />
* ''Mona'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. <br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. <br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Mave'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. <br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. <br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. <br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. <br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352225Niamh Chalahko2020-09-02T07:01:08Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
Niamh was born in the Twelveswood about a decade before the Calamity to a moderate Keeper household. They were not so moderate as to have actually held a house, but they did trade with the nearby hamlets and families enough to be considered a far cry from Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. They sold goods both foraged and forged, and their bestsellers were the latter; their fertilizers and remedies were in chief demand, even sought as far north of the Lumberline as Bentbranch. They hunted and gathered among the ravines southeast of Urth's Gift, and could be expected at Quarrymill's market during each month's new moon. Their fertilizer production, which took near a year to decompose from start to finish, required them to stay near.WIP<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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| mdef = 1<br />
| prowess = 3<br />
| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 5<br />
| intelligence = 7<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
'''Mother’s Siblings:''' [Eldest-youngest] Ailbhe'a (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'to (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); Ailbhe'li (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'sae (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ)<br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. <br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. <br />
'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. <br />
* ''Sé'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. <br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. <br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Maeve'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. <br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. <br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. <br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. <br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352224Niamh Chalahko2020-09-02T04:20:27Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
Niamh was born about a decade or so before the events of the Calamity to a moderate Keeper household. They were not so moderate as to have actually held a house, but they did trade with the nearby hamlets and families enough to be considered a far cry from Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. They sold all manner of goods both foraged and forged, of which their best sellers included homespun fertilizers and brews. They hunted and gathered within the Elemental sanctioned lands southeast of Urth's Gift, and were never found far from the ravines.<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
'''Mother’s Siblings:''' [Eldest-youngest] Ailbhe'a (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'to (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); Ailbhe'li (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'sae (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ)<br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. <br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. <br />
'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. <br />
* ''Sé'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. <br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. <br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Maeve'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. <br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. <br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. <br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. <br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
x<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:These members are known to her — <br><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30yᵣ (48ᴛʙ); currently lives near Wineport. <br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) <br><br />
'''Mother’s Siblings:''' [Eldest-youngest] Ailbhe'a (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Sadhbh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'to (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); Ailbhe'li (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ); ''Oonagh'' (ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ); Ailbhe'sae (ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ)<br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' (+6yᵣ 24ᴛʙ) — Independent/travelling apothecary. Caring, shy.<br />
* ''Ciar'' (+3yᵣ 21ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother outside Wineport. Culinarian-in-training. Impatient, argumentative. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' (-3yᵣ 15ᴛʙ) — Dockworker at Aleport. Mischievous, lazy.<br />
* ''Naomhan'' (Twin of Odhran'a) — Guard for an Ul’dahn noble. Brazen, charismatic. <br />
* ''Aodh'' (-6yᵣ 12ᴛʙ) — Lives with their mother. Anxious, sensitive.<br />
'''Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' (+11yᵣ 29ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with law-evading for poaching. Charismatic, wily. <br />
* ''Sé'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Clan Mark Hunter, searching for Tadhg. Dutiful, self-righteous.<br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Roams the Shroud. Brazen, impatient.<br />
* ''Cian'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Horticulturist at Swiftperch. Brash, ambitious.<br />
* ''Daire'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, executed by the Gridanian State for sins against the wood.<br />
'''Oonagh’s children'''<br />
* ''Maeve'' (+8yᵣ 26ᴛʙ) — Dancer at Costa de Sol. Cheerful, sensitive.<br />
* ''Ita'' (+5yᵣ 23ᴛʙ) — Missing, supposed to do with moneylenders. Lazy, wily.<br />
* ''Tais'' (+2yᵣ 20ᴛʙ) — Miner at the Ceruleum Processing Plant. Dutiful, caring.<br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' (-1yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Toal'' (-4yᵣ ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ) — Lamb of Dalamud, destroyed by greenwrath.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' (-7yᵣ 11ᴛʙ) — Lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters. Big dreamer. Cheerful, scatterbrained.<br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
x<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler>(+/-yᵣ based off Niamh's age, ᴛʙ = time bubble)<br />
:( These members are known to her — <br><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30 (48ᴛʙ); currently lives in La Noscea. <br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'', ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ <br><br />
'''Mother’s Siblings:''' (Eldest-youngest) Ailbhe'a, ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ; ''Sadhbh'', ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ; Ailbhe'to, ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ; Ailbhe'li, ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ; ''Oonagh'', ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' 6yᵣ+ (24ᴛʙ); independent/travelling apothecary. Caring, shy.<br />
* ''Ciar'' 3yr+ (21ᴛʙ); lives with their mother in a hamlet in La Noscea. Training to be a culinarian. Volatile, argumentative. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' & ''Naomhan'' (‘to) 3yrs- (15ᴛʙ); twins. Former, guard for Ul’dahn noble; latter, dockworker/shipper at Aleport. Mischievous, charismatic. <br />
* ''Aodh'' 6yr- (12ᴛʙ); lives with their mother. Somber, shy.<br />
'''(Known) Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Oonagh’s children – banned from the Shroud'''<br />
* ''Ita'' 5yr+ (23ᴛʙ); missing. Traditional, severe.<br />
* ''Tais'' 2yr+ (20ᴛʙ); ceruleum miner; stopped taking Niamh’s calls when she caught her siphoning during a visit. Hard-working, prefers to follow; strong reactions.<br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' 1yr- ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ; Lamb of Dalamud. Skittish, aloof.<br />
* ''Toal'' 4yr- ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ; Lamb of Dalamud. Jokester, paranoid.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' 7yr- (11ᴛʙ); lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters; also dreams of being a culinarian (or a shipwright. Or a bard. Or a…) Loving, but scatterbrained.<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' 11yr+ (29ᴛʙ); missing. Poacher, law-evading. Persuasive, cunning. <br />
* ''Sé'' 8yr+ (26ᴛʙ); mark-hunter, searching for Tadhg. Conscientious, self-righteous.<br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' 5yr+ (23ᴛʙ); roams the Shroud. / ɪᴅ: Traditional, emotionally stiff.<br />
* ''Cian'' 2yr+ (20ᴛʙ); La Noscea, has children. Selling fertilizers and trying to enrich the community’s soil. Nurturing, but ignores distress that doesn't involve nature or children.<br />
* ''Daire'' 1yr- (17ᴛʙ); detained by Gridanian authorities; Lamb of Dalamud. Manic, creepy.<br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352221Niamh Chalahko2020-09-02T01:15:56Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: /* Family */</p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
x<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30 (48🇹🇧); currently lives in La Noscea.<br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' <br><br />
'''Mother’s Sisters:''' ''Oonagh'' younger, deceased (Lambs); ''Sadhbh'' [SIEV] older, deceased (Calamity) <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' elder sister, 6yr+ (24🇹🇧); independent/travelling apothecary. Caring, shy.<br />
* ''Ciar'' 3yr+ (21🇹🇧); lives with their mother in a hamlet in La Noscea. Training to be a culinarian. Volatile, argumentative. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' & ''Naomhan'' (‘to) 3yrs- (15🇹🇧); twins. Former, guard for Ul’dahn noble; latter, dockworker/shipper at Aleport. Mischievous, charismatic. <br />
* ''Aodh'' 6yr- (12🇹🇧); lives with their mother. Somber, shy.<br />
'''(Known) Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Oonagh’s children – banned from the Shroud'''<br />
* ''Ita'' 5yr+ (23🇹🇧); missing. Traditional, severe.<br />
* ''Tais'' 2yr+ (20🇹🇧); ceruleum miner; stopped taking Niamh’s calls when she caught her siphoning during a visit. Hard-working, prefers to follow; strong reactions.<br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' 1yr- 🇩🇪🇨🇪🇦🇸🇪🇩; Lamb of Dalamud. Skittish, aloof.<br />
* ''Toal'' 4yr- ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ; Lamb of Dalamud. Jokester, paranoid.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' 7yr- (11ᴛʙ); lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters; also dreams of being a culinarian (or a shipwright. Or a bard. Or a…) Loving, but scatterbrained.<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' 11yr+ (29ᴛʙ); missing. Poacher, law-evading. Persuasive, cunning. <br />
* ''Sé'' 8yr+ (26ᴛʙ); mark-hunter, searching for Tadhg. Conscientious, self-righteous.<br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' 5yr+ (23ᴛʙ); roams the Shroud. / ɪᴅ: Traditional, emotionally stiff.<br />
* ''Cian'' 2yr+ (20ᴛʙ); La Noscea, has children. Selling fertilizers and trying to enrich the community’s soil. Nurturing, but ignores distress that doesn't involve nature or children.<br />
* ''Daire'' 1yr- (17ᴛʙ); detained by Gridanian authorities; Lamb of Dalamud. Manic, creepy.<br />
</spoiler><br />
<br />
====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
x<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' had Niamh when she was 30 (48🇹🇧); currently lives in La Noscea.<br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' <br><br />
'''Mother’s Sisters:''' ''Oonagh'' younger, deceased (Lambs); ''Sadhbh'' [SIEV] older, deceased (Calamity) <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' elder sister, 6yr+ (24🇹🇧); independent/travelling apothecary. Caring, shy.<br />
* ''Ciar'' 3yr+ (21🇹🇧); lives with their mother in a hamlet in La Noscea. Training to be a culinarian. Volatile, argumentative. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' & ''Naomhan'' (‘to) 3yrs- (15🇹🇧); twins. Former, guard for Ul’dahn noble; latter, dockworker/shipper at Aleport. Mischievous, charismatic. <br />
* ''Aodh'' 6yr- (12🇹🇧); lives with their mother. Somber, shy.<br />
'''(Known) Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Oonagh’s children – banned from the Shroud'''<br />
* ''Ita'' 5yr+ (23🇹🇧); missing. Traditional, severe.<br />
* ''Tais'' 2yr+ (20🇹🇧); ceruleum miner; stopped taking Niamh’s calls when she caught her siphoning during a visit. Hard-working, prefers to follow; strong reactions.<br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' 1yr- 🇩🇪🇨🇪🇦🇸🇪🇩; Lamb of Dalamud. Skittish, aloof.<br />
* ''Toal'' 4yr- 🇩🇪🇨🇪🇦🇸🇪🇩; Lamb of Dalamud. Jokester, paranoid.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' 7yr- (11🇹🇧); lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters; also dreams of being a culinarian (or a shipwright. Or a bard. Or a…) Loving, but scatterbrained.<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' 11yr+ (29🇹🇧); missing. Poacher, law-evading. Persuasive, cunning. <br />
* ''Sé'' 8yr+ (26🇹🇧); mark-hunter, searching for Tadhg. Conscientious, self-righteous.<br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' 5yr+ (23🇹🇧); roams the Shroud. / ɪᴅ: Traditional, emotionally stiff.<br />
* ''Cian'' 2yr+ (20🇹🇧); La Noscea, has children. Selling fertilizers and trying to enrich the community’s soil. Nurturing, but ignores distress that doesn't involve nature or children.<br />
* ''Daire'' 1yr- (17🇹🇧); detained by Gridanian authorities; Lamb of Dalamud. Manic, creepy.<br />
</spoiler><br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* <br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=352219Niamh Chalahko2020-09-02T00:19:08Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
===Early Life=== <br />
x<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br><br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. <br><br />
Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
x<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
x<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
====Family====<br />
<spoiler><br />
'''Mother:''' ''Odhran'' [O-rawn] <br><br />
'''Mother’s Mother:''' ''Ailbhe'' [AL-va] <br><br />
'''Mother’s Sisters:''' ''Oonagh'' [OO-nee] younger, deceased (Lambs); ''Sadhbh'' [SIEV] older, deceased (Calamity) <br><br />
'''Siblings:'''<br />
* ''Cahir'' [CAH-heer] elder sister, 6yr+ (24|TB); independent/travelling apothecary. Wants to help, but poor at relating.<br />
* ''Ciar'' [KEER] 3yr+ (21|TB); lives with their mother in a hamlet in La Noscea. Training to be a culinarian. Moody, critical. <br />
* ''Odhran’a'' [O-rawn-ah] & ''Naomhan'' (‘to) [NEHV-an] 3yrs- (15|TB); twins. One, guard for Ul’dahn noble; other, sailor. Mischievous, charismatic. <br />
* ''Aodh'' [AY] 6yr- (12|TB); lives with their mother. Somber, shy.<br />
'''(Known) Cousins:''' <br><br />
'''Oonagh’s children – banned from the Shroud'''<br />
* ''Ita'' [EE-da] 5yr+ (23|TB); missing. Traditional, severe.<br />
* ''Tais'' [t-EYE] 2yr+ (20|TB); ceruleum miner; stopped taking Niamh’s calls when she caught her siphoning during a visit. Hard-working, prefers to follow; strong reactions.<br />
* ''Oonagh’a'' [OO-nee-ah] 1yr- (17|TB); deceased, Lamb of Dalamud. Skittish, aloof.<br />
* ''Toal'' [t-OHL] 4yr- (14|TB); deceased, Lamb of Dalamud. Jokester, paranoid.<br />
* ''Oonagh’li'' [OO-nee-lee] 7yr- (11|TB); lives with Niamh’s mother and sisters; also dreams of being a culinarian (or a shipwright. Or a bard. Or a…) Loving, but scatter-brained.<br />
'''Sadhbh’s children'''<br />
* ''Tadhg'' [TIEG] 11yr+ (29|TB); missing. Poacher, law-evading. Slick, cunning. <br />
* ''Sé'' [SHEH] 8yr+ (26|TB); mark-hunter, searching for Tadhg. Resolute, but self-righteous.<br />
* ''Sadhbh’a'' 5yr+ (23|TB); roams the Shroud. Traditional, emotionally stiff.<br />
* ''Cian'' [KEE-in] 2yr+ (20|TB); La Noscea, has children. Selling fertilizers and trying to enrich the community’s soil. Nurturing, but ignores distress that doesn't involve nature or children.<br />
* ''Daire'' [DAW-ra] 1yr- (17|TB); detained by Gridanian authorities; Lamb of Dalamud. Manic, creepy.<br />
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====NPCs====<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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'''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. <br />
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==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake; under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the second born of triplets, and it was an event to marvel not because she and her siblings were born as three, but because two of them were born as male. In her clan, the anomaly of giving birth to triplets was ordinary and single births, extraordinary, as well as the only guarantee of having a son. Because most births were tripled, her family had grown to proportions both remarkable and immeasurable; a veritable mass production of doppelgängers and déjà vus. The nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
<br />
That any townsfolk knew to deem them at all speaks of unwonted behaviour by Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized with non-Miqo'te, and had stayed in roughly one, stationary spot since a time outside of memory. They occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weakness, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebration and mourning was commonplace in Dandelion culture, and considered the truest medium for communion with their goddess. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
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Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes disappeared along with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
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With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their close proximity with [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep], some were manipulated into believing they'd found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Niamh sensed that members of her family were suffering and that some were on a dark path, but her age and status meant her concerns went unnoticed or unheeded. She, along with her brothers, left camp frequently, for even the embittered looks of Gridanians seemed more cheerful than what awaited them at home. Under their noses – or more likely, owed to their absence – their mother, of all people, was taken in by their cousins' foul ideology; her condition served as the muster point for their challenge against the presence of the Twelve, and later as a sign of prophecy. They egged on her illness to her unknowing detriment, until their fanaticism and her fantasies became one galvanizing feedback loop. The story ends at the attempted sacrifice of family by family, with a timely but tragic intervention of greenwrath, and then a timely and heroic intervention by the Wood Wailers. Niamh's mother was arrested despite the childrens' pleads for leniency, and as the carts drove away with the dead and the damned, those that remained of the bloodline grappled with the severity of their circumstances. Decisions were made swiftly, but not by them; for them; and none among the Dandelions continued to abide in the Black Shroud thereafter, for any Shroud-folk who knew their names or faces would not let them.<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
Niamh was alone now, but if she were to be honest, she had always been alone. Where were her brothers? Odhran'a had joined some shipping company out of Limsa Lominsa, but was probably shipped off himself when they learned that he, like his siblings, couldn't read; Naomhan had been keen on proving his mettle in the bloodsands of Ul'dah, but last she'd heard he was bodyguarding for some Lalafellin mogul, so whatever he'd done, it must've worked. Niamh, like her brothers, had no special talent; but unlike her, they had found their respective ways to get by. She had wandered aimlessly at first – more aimlessly than she did now – until she was clutched by the pitch that fortune awaited her in the Gold Saucer, and away she went. One year later she emerged, or rather fled, with her newly won companion – a chocobo she knighted the moniker of "Dook." WIP<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Understanding</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Assertive</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Irreverent</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; machina; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; decisive language; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); superstitious; uncomfortable eye contact or avoidant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art and music appreciation; camping; crystal-reading; dancing; exploring; gambling; games; having her fortune divined; hunting; problem-solving; visiting the aesthetician</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Crystals and gems<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Loud (sudden) noises<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieval/dismantling<br />
:* Knife-work<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Herbology<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* My FFXIV [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
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[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351709Niamh Chalahko2020-08-11T06:57:16Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake; under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the second born of triplets, and it was an event to marvel not because she and her siblings were born as three, but because two of them were born as male. In her clan, the anomaly of giving birth to triplets was ordinary and single births, extraordinary, as well as the only guarantee of having a son. Because most births were tripled, her family had grown to proportions both remarkable and immeasurable; a veritable mass production of doppelgängers and déjà vus. The nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
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That any townsfolk knew to deem them at all speaks of unwonted behaviour by Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized with non-Miqo'te, and had stayed in roughly one, stationary spot since a time outside of memory. They occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weakness, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebration and mourning was commonplace in Dandelion culture, and considered the truest medium for communion with their goddess. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===Calamity===<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
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Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
===Seventh Umbral Era===<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes disappeared along with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
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With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their close proximity with [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep], some were manipulated into believing they'd found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Niamh sensed that members of her family were suffering and that some were on a dark path, but her age and status meant her concerns went unnoticed or unheeded. She, along with her brothers, left camp frequently, for even the embittered looks of Gridanians seemed more cheerful than what awaited them at home. Under their noses – or more likely, owed to their absence – their mother, of all people, was taken in by their cousins' foul ideology; her condition served as the muster point for their challenge against the presence of the Twelve, and later as a sign of prophecy. They egged on her illness to her unknowing detriment, until their fanaticism and her fantasies became one galvanizing feedback loop. The story ends at the attempted sacrifice of family by family, with a timely but tragic intervention of greenwrath, and then a timely and heroic intervention by the Wood Wailers. Niamh's mother was arrested despite the childrens' pleads for leniency, and as the carts drove away with the dead and the damned, those that remained of the bloodline grappled with the severity of their circumstances. Decisions were made swiftly, but not by them; for them; and none among the Dandelions continued to abide in the Black Shroud thereafter, for any Shroud-folk who knew their names or faces would not let them.<br />
===Seventh Astral Era===<br />
Niamh was alone now, but if she were to be honest, she had always been alone. Where were her brothers? Odhran'a had joined some shipping company out of Limsa Lominsa, but was probably shipped off himself; Naomhan had been keen on proving his mettle in the bloodsands of Ul'dah, but last she'd heard he was bodyguarding for some Lalafellin mogul, so whatever he'd done, it must've worked.<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Swimming<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
:* Luxury<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Loud noises<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351707Niamh Chalahko2020-08-11T01:09:28Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan the anomaly of triplets was ordinary and single births, extraordinary, as well as the only guarantee of having a son. Because most births were tripled, her family had grown to proportions both remarkable and immeasurable, a veritable mass production of doppelgängers and thrice felt déjà vu. The nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
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That any townsfolk knew them to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weakness, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebration and mourning was commonplace in Dandelion culture, and considered the truest medium for communion with their goddess. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
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Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes diminished with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
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With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their close proximity with [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep], some were manipulated into believing they'd found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Niamh sensed that members of her family were suffering, and that some were on a dark path, but her age and status meant her concerns went unnoticed or unheeded. She, along with her brothers, left camp frequently, for even the embittered looks of Gridanians seemed more cheerful than what awaited them at home.<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan it was a normal anomaly for females to be born as near-identical triplets, while those unfamiliar with her clan questioned their lucidity after thrice-felt déjà vus. Rather than calling them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
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That any townsfolk knew them to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weakness, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebration and mourning was commonplace in Dandelion culture, and considered the truest medium for communion with their goddess. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes diminished with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
<br />
With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their close proximity with [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep], some were manipulated into believing they'd found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Niamh sensed that members of her family were suffering, and that some were on a dark path, but her age and status meant her concerns went unnoticed or unheeded. She, along with her brothers, left camp frequently, for even the embittered looks of Gridanians seemed more cheerful than what awaited them at home.<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
</div><br />
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</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan it was a normal anomaly for females to be born as near-identical triplets, while those unfamiliar with her clan questioned their lucidity at thrice-felt déjà vus. Rather than call them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
<br />
That any townsfolk knew to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
<br />
Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weak, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebrations and mournings alike was commonplace to Dandelions, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest, and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
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Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes diminished with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
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With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their living proximity to [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep] at the time, some were manipulated into believing they found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Their allegiance would not be revealed for a couple years yet, which would by that time seal their indoctrination in blood.<br />
The situation culminated to a reveal of the allegiance when Niamh returned home to discover her campsite had been ransacked, and its members apprehended by the authorities. Under the pretense of going to free their family members from prison, Niamh and her brothers were led to the Keep and captured.<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Collectibles<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan it was a normal anomaly for females to be born as near-identical triplets, while those unfamiliar with her clan questioned their lucidity at thrice-felt déjà vus. Rather than call them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
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That any townsfolk knew to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weak, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebrations and mournings alike was commonplace to Dandelions, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest, and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
<br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| ''Silent Arbor'']] <br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods for sustenance; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes diminished with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Oddities<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
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:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
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:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising junkmonger ambiguously affiliated with ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan it was a normal anomaly for females to be born as near-identical triplets, while those unfamiliar with her clan questioned their lucidity at thrice-felt déjà vus. Rather than call them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
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That any townsfolk knew to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.<br />
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Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth, when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weak, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebrations and mournings alike was commonplace to Dandelions, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest, and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
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Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| ''Silent Arbor'']] <br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. The Glim-Gowan sept was as torn to pieces as their moon-reverent faith. Of immediate affect to her, an aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their new, bleak normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until visiting the ruins of memories fell from demand. Young and with no clear guidance or recourse, the Chalahko kids began thieving and conning to provide for themselves and their dependents.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
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Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Oddities<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising junkmonger ambiguously affiliated with ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“I don’t think it matters if you do everything right in your life. There’s an outside force pulling you in a direction; Gods: I hope it’s them, pulling.”''</div><br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake a decade or so before the events of the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity], and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because some quirk in their genetic citation mandated that all females within her clan-branch be born in near-identical threes. Pair this with the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, and this meant that her family was a streamline production of doppelgängers and thrice felt déjà vus. Rather than call them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the "''Dandelion-Chalahkos''," named after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.<br />
<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Fire Piles'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 162541 077.png|thumb|left| ''Sylphlands'']]<br />
<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under thirteen did not journey into this expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the ''thrice three'') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children was twelve, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop and entered the dreamlike copses of their souls. <br />
<br />
Whether due to some blight in the milkroot, a pollutant in the dreamtoad ooze, or some other additive from the Glim-Gowan larder gone foul, the expanse was not as the women usually found it – and they did not return from the trip in their entirety. Niamh's mother came back jaundiced and mistrustful; her aunts lethargic, detached and anxious. Their promotion of station required a temporary tenancy of six years, and as only one year had passed, it would still be five more before any Glim-Gowan Chalahko came to check on them. The kids sought to manage on their own.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“... I saw the sigils of the Twelve. I saw the sigils of the Twelve break under that- thing. How could the Gods be so beaten?”''</div><br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
<br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| ''Silent Arbor'']] <br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. The Glim-Gowan sept was as torn to pieces as their moon-reverent faith. Of immediate affect to her, an aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their new, bleak normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until visiting the ruins of memories fell from demand. Young and with no clear guidance or recourse, the Chalahko kids began thieving and conning to provide for themselves and their dependents.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
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===ARR to 5.3===<br />
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==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Oddities<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
:* Animals<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Cold<br />
:* Large, open spaces<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Most city folk (love/hate)<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Having to ask<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Knife-carving<br />
:* Lock-picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute-playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* Meaninglessness<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
:* Loneliness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
<br />
===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
<br />
===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Before 1.0=== <br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“I don’t think it matters if you do everything right in your life. There’s an outside force pulling you in a direction; Gods: I hope it’s them, pulling.”''</div><br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and with the female-leaning birth phenomenon already characteristic of her race, it meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might remark 'copy cats'. Most, though, declared them ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with. <br />
<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Fire Piles'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 162541 077.png|thumb|left| ''Sylphlands'']]<br />
<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under thirteen did not journey into this expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the ''thrice three'') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children was twelve, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop and entered the dreamlike copses of their souls. <br />
<br />
Whether due to some blight in the milkroot, a pollutant in the dreamtoad ooze, or some other additive from the Glim-Gowan larder gone foul, the expanse was not as the women usually found it – and they did not return from the trip in their entirety. Niamh's mother came back jaundiced and mistrustful; her aunts lethargic, detached and anxious. Their promotion of station required a temporary tenancy of six years, and as only one year had passed, it would still be five more before any Glim-Gowan Chalahko came to check on them. The kids sought to manage on their own.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“... I saw the sigils of the Twelve. I saw the sigils of the Twelve break under that- thing. How could the Gods be so beaten?”''</div><br />
====Calamity====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
<br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| ''Silent Arbor'']] <br />
====Seventh Umbral Era====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. The Glim-Gowan sept was as torn to pieces as their moon-reverent faith. Of immediate affect to her, an aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their new, bleak normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until visiting the ruins of memories fell from demand. Young and with no clear guidance or recourse, the Chalahko kids began thieving and conning to provide for themselves and their dependents.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
<br />
===ARR to 5.3===<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx<br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances=== <br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“I don’t think it matters if you do everything right in your life. There’s an outside force pulling you in a direction; Gods... I hope it’s them, pulling.”''</div><br />
====Family – ''The Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Fire Piles'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 162541 077.png|thumb|left| ''Sylphlands'']]<br />
====Tribulation – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''“You can't really trust sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under thirteen did not journey into this expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the ''thrice three'') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children was twelve, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop and entered the dreamlike copses of their souls. <br />
<br />
Whether due to some blight in the milkroot, a pollutant in the dreamtoad ooze, or some other additive from the Glim-Gowan larder gone spoiled, the expanse was not as the women usually found it – and they did not return from the trip in their entirety. Niamh's mother came back jaundiced and mistrustful; her aunts lethargic, detached and anxious. Their promotion of station required a temporary tenancy of six years, and as only one year had passed, it would still be five more before any Glim-Gowan Chalahko came to check on them. The kids sought to manage on their own.<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“... I saw the sigils of the Twelve. I saw the sigils of the Twelve break under that- thing. How could the Gods be so beaten?”''</div><br />
====Catalyst – ''The Sundered Moon''====<br />
Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
<br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| ''Silent Arbor'']] <br />
====Family & Livelihood – ''Bearer of the Torch''====<br />
Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. The Glim-Gowan sept was as torn to pieces as their moon-reverent faith. Of immediate affect to her, an aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone. Rootslake was losing water and would eventually drain to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's populace shifted, as its people came to terms with their reality's bleak new normal. No longer did they know their neighbours. Opportunists skittered forth from whatever holes had previously contained them. Many others fell to banditry simply from no other recourse.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
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===ARR to 5.3; Onwards & Upwards===<br />
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====Vision====<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's sure to mean trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy not at all unlike the stare of a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances=== <br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“I don’t think it matters if you do everything right in your life. There’s an outside force pulling you in a direction; Gods... I hope it’s them, pulling.”''</div><br />
====Family – ''The Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Pile Patch'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 162541 077.png|thumb|left| ''Sylphlands'']]<br />
====Tribulation – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''“You can't really trust sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into this expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the ''thrice three'') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children was eleven, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop and entered the dreamlike copses of their souls. <br />
<br />
Whether due to some blight in the milkroot, a pollutant in the dreamtoad ooze, or some other additive from the Glim-Gowan larder gone spoiled, the expanse was not as the women usually found it – and they did not return from the trip in their entirety. Niamh's mother came back jaundiced and mistrustful; her aunts lethargic, detached and anxious. Their promotion of station required a temporary tenancy of six years, and as only one year had passed, it would still be five more before any Glim-Gowan Chalahko came to check on them. The kids sought to manage on their own.<br />
<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''“... I saw the sigils of the Twelve. I saw the sigils of the Twelve break under that- thing. How could the Gods be so beaten?”''</div><br />
====Catalyst – ''The Sundered Moon''====<br />
She witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
<br />
She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
<br />
===ARR & Onwards===<br />
<br />
====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's sure to mean trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy not at all unlike the stare of a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances=== <br />
<div style="font-size:13px;">''"You ever feel like you never got a say in your own life?"''</div><br />
====Sept – ''the Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Pile Patch'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Misfortune – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into this expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the ''thrice three'') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children was eleven, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop and entered the dreamlike copses of their souls. <br />
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Whether due to some blight in the milkroot, a pollutant in the dreamtoad ooze, or some other additive from the Glim-Gowan larder gone spoiled, the expanse was not as the women usually found it – and they did not return from the trip in their entirety. Niamh's mother came back jaundiced and mistrustful; her aunts lethargic, detached and anxious. Their promotion of station required a temporary tenancy of six years, and as only one year had passed, it would still be five more before any Glim-Gowan Chalahko came to check on them. The kids sought to manage on their own.<br />
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===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Sky Is Falling & the Lambs Are Slaughtering'' 🝗</div><br />
====Trauma – ''Bahamut's Meteorshower''====<br />
She witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br />
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She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
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===ARR & Onwards===<br />
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====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy–not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances=== <br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Mystique of Dirt & Those Rotten Cabbages'' 🝎</div><br />
====Sept – ''the Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Pile Patch'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Misfortune – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the thrice three) – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children were ten, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop.<br />
<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Sky Is Falling & the Lambs Are Slaughtering'' 🝗</div><br />
====Trauma – ''Bahamut's Meteorshower''====<br />
She witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
<br />
===ARR & Onwards===<br />
<br />
====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy–not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances=== <br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Mystique of Dirt & Those Rotten Cabbages'' 🝎</div><br />
====Sept – ''the Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Pile Patch'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Misfortune – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan milkroot. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the thrice three) – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children were ten, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop.<br />
<br />
===End of 1.0, Aftermath===<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Sky Is Falling & the Lambs Are Slaughtering'' 🝗</div><br />
====Trauma – ''Bahamut's Meteorshower''====<br />
She witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
<br />
===ARR & Onwards===<br />
<br />
====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy–not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table></div><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Links===<br />
* Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]<br />
* Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko<br />
* Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages<br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351403Niamh Chalahko2020-07-28T04:57:01Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']] <br />
===<div style="font-size:16px;">Pre-1.0, Life & Its Circumstances</div>=== <br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Mystique of Dirt & Those Rotten Cabbages'' 🝎</div><br />
====Sept – ''the Glim-Gowan Chalahkos''====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. One might even say copy cats. Most, though, said ''Glim-Gowans'', for their hair matched the dandelion flowers they shared beds with.<br />
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* <div style="font-size:12px;">Niamh's family [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd]</div><br />
====Livelihood – ''Hot Hills''====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or ''Pile Patch'' by the locals living within five malms, while those privy who lived further still simply referred to it as "''that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South.''" For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which Hot Hills was heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This'' 'dirt farm''' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]<br />
====Misfortune – ''Bad Milkroot''====<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of sylvan milkroot. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them the thrice three) – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest among the children were ten, so it was only the three mothers who partook of the entheogenic goop.<br />
<br />
===<div style="font-size:16px;">End of 1.0, Aftermath</div>===<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''The Sky Is Falling & the Lambs Are Slaughtering'' 🝗</div><br />
====Trauma – ''Bahamut's Meteorshower''====<br />
She witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. She can’t say she remembers much of the battle – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.<br />
<br />
Since the Calamity, Niamh is acutely sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.<br />
<br />
====Trauma – ''Dalamud's Lambs''====<br />
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===<div style="font-size:16px;">ARR & Onwards</div>===<br />
<br />
====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy–not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
<br />
Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351401Niamh Chalahko2020-07-27T22:20:34Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
====The Glims====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 – twelve years before the Calamity and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. You could even call them copy cats.<br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or the 'Pile Patch' by anyone living in a six malm radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent–and better yet, cheap!–quantity of sylvan milkroot. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
<br />
Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them, 'beathai')–a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest of the children were ten, so all of them received the customary 'smearing across the gums' of the entheogenic goop. Lucky for them.xx<br />
<br />
===Bahamut's Meteorshower===<br />
[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Bahamut_(Final_Fantasy_XIV) x]<br />
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===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy–not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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| mdef = 1<br />
| prowess = 3<br />
| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 6<br />
| intelligence = 8<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351349Niamh Chalahko2020-07-23T19:49:52Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
====The Glims====<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''"We could wade into the water – a few of us even showed our bravery by wading till the water lapped at our collars. But any further and our mothers would call 'Return! You're scaring off the fish!' ... It was when they were no longer looking that we'd dunk our heads and swim down till we touched the seaweed, and wet meals would be mysteriously sparse for the rest of night."''</div><br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. You could even call them copy cats. Most, though, called them the Glims.<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>'''''Names of Importance —'''''<br />
* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates a three year difference''</spoiler></div><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''"We'd inscribe the dirt with symbols before beginning a new pile. The meanings of them don't exactly translate, considering much of my sept's wisdom was wordless; passed instead through the mimicry of action, and learned by the presence of you being. They looked something like this."''</div><br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or the 'Pile Patch' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy]</spoiler></div><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
<div style="font-size:12px;">''"You can't really trust sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation sylphish milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
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Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them, 'beathai') – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest of the children were ten, so all of them received the customary 'smearing across the gums' of the [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca psychedelic goop]. Lucky for them.xx<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Beatha, plural beathai,''' based off [https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/7-chakras#1 these 7 chakras] – 9 stated for cattism reasons</spoiler></div><br />
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===Bahamut's Meteorshower===<br />
[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Bahamut_(Final_Fantasy_XIV) x]<br />
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===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
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====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy – not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351344Niamh Chalahko2020-07-23T08:20:26Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
====The Glims====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. You could even call them copy cats. Most, though, called them the Glims.<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>'''''Names of Importance —'''''<br />
* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates a three year difference''</spoiler></div><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or the 'Pile Patch' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy]</spoiler></div><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
: <div style="font-size:12px;">''"You can't really trust sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation sylphish milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to shine the brightest and illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
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Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cryptic messages could only be deciphered after unlocking all nine chakras (called by them, biwos) – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest of the children were ten, so all of them received the customary 'smearing across the gums' of the [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca psychedelic goop]. Lucky for them.xx<br />
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<div style="font-size:12px;">'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Biwos''' based off [https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/7-chakras#1 these 7 chakras] – 9 stated for cattism reasons</spoiler></div><br />
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===Bahamut's Meteorshower===<br />
[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Bahamut_(Final_Fantasy_XIV) x]<br />
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===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
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====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy – not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
====The Chalahko Glims====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. You could even call them copy cats. Most, though, called them the Glims.<br />
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'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or the 'Pile Patch' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy] <br />
:* Information free to reference in roleplay<br />
:* </spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
: <div style="font-size:12px;">''"You can't really trust sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation sylphish milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
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Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cipher could only be understood after unlocking the ninth chakra – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest of her siblings was ten, and so all of the kids only received the customary 'smearing across the gums' of the [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca psychedelic brew].<br />
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===Bahamut's Meteorshower===<br />
[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Bahamut_(Final_Fantasy_XIV) x]<br />
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===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
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====Vision====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy – not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==Backstory==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] – twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, while her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. This was because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. You could even say copy cats.<br />
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'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy] <br />
:* Information free to reference in roleplay<br />
:* </spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
: <div style="font-size:12px;">''"You can't really trust Sylphs to be diligent. They're practically flying cabbages, after all."''</div><br />
The novelty of caretaking wore off fairly quick – and not just because it was boring staying in one place all the time. Ironically, the sobering of their spirits occurred not long after they acquired and ingested a particularly potent – and better yet, cheap! – quantity of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation sylphish milkroot]. This was not an unusual event in and of itself, as custom dictated that celebration (and mourning) begin (or end) with a journey through the thickets of ones soul, where the providence of Menphina was said to illuminate paths both dark and uncertain.<br />
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Children under twelve did not journey into the expanse, as it is was believed that Menphina's cipher could only be understood after unlocking the ninth chakra – a rite which began three years after birth and lasted for nine. By this time the oldest of her siblings was ten, and so all of the kids only received the customary 'smearing across the gums' of the hallucinogenic brew.<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy – not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
<br />
Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* No clear city-state allegiance. As of 5.3, she is most often found in Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
* Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
* [https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
* Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
* [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
'''#Combat'''<br />
* Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351336Niamh Chalahko2020-07-22T23:57:36Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br />
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'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy], but definitiveness inconclusive <br />
:* Information free to use as world-building in roleplay; as a forestborn or Gridanian; or for another Chalahko's backstory</spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
x<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
[[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's an omen of trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy -- not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>[https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
<br>'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>'''#Combat'''<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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|image = Niamhav.png<br />
|birthname = <br />
|pronounced = [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō]<br />
|meaning = <br />
|nicknames = <br />
|age = Early 20s<br />
|born = 1560<br />
|nameday = 9th Sun, 4th Astral Moon<br />
|birthplace = The Black Shroud<br />
|race = Miqo'te<br />
|clan = Keeper of the Moon<br />
|alignment = [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChaoticNeutral Chaotic Neutral Type 2]<br />
|citizenship = None<br />
|guardian = [[File:Menphina_Icon.png| 20px]] [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Menphina Menphina the Lover]<br />
|height = 5 ft<br />
|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender; lean<br />
|hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye<br />
|eyes = Cyan<br />
|skin = Pale; a bit sallow<br />
|facialfeatures = Face paint, beauty mark below eye, teardrop on forehead<br />
|tattoos = Cheek lunar markings<br />
|piercings = <br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br />
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'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
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This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
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'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy], but definitiveness inconclusive <br />
:* Information free to use as world-building in roleplay; as a forestborn or Gridanian; or for another Chalahko's backstory</spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
x<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. There is a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the capacity to catch it. Her eyes even look starved too; starved of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's for reasons that are sure to cause you trouble; her natural countenance one of unabashed curiousity or disconcerting vacancy -- not at all unlike a Vanu Vanu's pet paissa brat. <br />
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Her ears look average, her tail long but not the longest; a symbol that looks like a tear or raindrop must hold some significance to her, for it sits in blackened permanency on her brow. She has slate-purple markings in the shape of crescent moons, inscribed as mirror images on either side of her face, with the bottoms of the smiling moons curving above her high-boned cheeks. She traces over this section with a dark salve during long travels, which aids to eliminate the glare of sunlight should she have to work into the day. <br />
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Niamh is very graceful, but you wouldn't always know it by looking at her. That's because she also considers herself infallible.xx <br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
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<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
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<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
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<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
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<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>[https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
<br>'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>'''#Combat'''<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br />
<br />
'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
<br />
'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy], but definitiveness inconclusive <br />
:* Information free to use as world-building in roleplay; as a forestborn or Gridanian; or for another Chalahko's backstory</spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
x<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
<br>'''Top, #History'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>[https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
<br>'''#Appearance & Personality'''<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>'''#Combat'''<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351286Niamh Chalahko2020-07-18T21:18:47Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br />
<br />
'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
<br />
'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy], but definitiveness inconclusive <br />
:* Information free to use as world-building in roleplay; as a forestborn or Gridanian; or for another Chalahko's backstory</spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
x<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit & Sources===<br />
''In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''<br />
====Top, #History====<br />
Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>[https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
====#Appearance & Personality====<br />
Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
====#Combat====<br />
Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351285Niamh Chalahko2020-07-18T21:15:39Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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|weight = 100 lbs<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake, South Shroud'']] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br />
<br />
'''Names of Note:''' <spoiler>* '''Siblings:''' Same-age brothers (her triplets) Naomhan [NEHV-an], Odhran’a [O-rawn-ah]; Elder sisters Sadhbh [SIEV], Tadhg [TIEG], and Cahir [CAH-heer]; Younger sisters (twins) Sé [SHEH] and Toal [t-OHL]; Younger brother Odhran'li [O-rawn-lee] <br>''* each semi-colon designates three years difference.''</spoiler><br />
====Hot Hills====<br />
There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''. <br />
<br />
This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
<br />
'''Author's Note:''' <spoiler>* Alludes to [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Geomancer geomancy], but definitiveness inconclusive <br />
:* Information free to use as world-building in roleplay; as a forestborn or Gridanian; or for another Chalahko's backstory</spoiler><br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
====Bad Milkroot====<br />
x<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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==Credit & Sources==<br />
''In Order of Use''<br />
===Top, #History===<br />
Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>[https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/167534982764/mirkemenagerie-update Mirke's Menagerie Lore Index]<br />
<br>[https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki Final Fantasy Fandom Wiki]<br />
<br>[https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Main_Page FFXIV Gamer Escape]<br />
<br>[https://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name/the etymology and history of first names]<br />
===#Appearance & Personality===<br />
[https://www.16personalities.com/ 16 Personalities]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
===#Combat===<br />
Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Ffxiv_07182020_135903_232.png&diff=351284File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png2020-07-18T20:59:49Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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<div></div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351277Niamh Chalahko2020-07-18T01:45:16Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: /* Before the Calamity */</p>
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|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender; lean<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was inestimably bigger. Inestimable because it was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and, taking into account the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br>There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land that they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure six malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills were heaped contained ''magick properties''.<br> This 'dirt farm' was treated like a torch in passing by the many, many hands of her large, large family; and every several years or so, the matriarchs announced the next who would hold it, with the explicit direction of "stay put, and keep shop." At the age of seven, it was Niamh's family who received the torch, and thus the mantle of Hot Hills.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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| mdef = 1<br />
| prowess = 3<br />
| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 6<br />
| intelligence = 8<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
<br />
===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351276Niamh Chalahko2020-07-17T22:59:16Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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|nameday = 9th Sun, 4th Astral Moon<br />
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|height = 5 ft<br />
|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender; lean<br />
|hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye<br />
|eyes = Cyan<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was incalculably bigger. It was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and because of the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br>There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to deem it inherited. It was called the 'Hot Hills' or the 'Fire Piles' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure five malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for finding premium compost and fertilizers such as bonemeal. Some even claimed that the Hot Hills contained ''magick'' properties.<br> This 'dirt farm' was an heirloom between hands in her large, extended family, and every few years or so, the matriarchs entrusted a branch of the family to "stay put and keep shop." ''A branch of the family'' meant triplet sisters -- so three family units (each one twig) that made up one large family (the branch) -- and an established branch with children (leaves) already dammed was always picked.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
<br />
===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351275Niamh Chalahko2020-07-17T21:55:24Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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|image = Niamhav.png<br />
|birthname = <br />
|pronounced = [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō]<br />
|meaning = <br />
|nicknames = <br />
|age = Early 20s<br />
|born = 1560<br />
|nameday = 9th Sun, 4th Astral Moon<br />
|birthplace = The Black Shroud<br />
|race = Miqo'te<br />
|clan = Keeper of the Moon<br />
|alignment = [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChaoticNeutral Chaotic Neutral Type 2]<br />
|citizenship = None<br />
|guardian = [[File:Menphina_Icon.png| 20px]] [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Menphina Menphina the Lover]<br />
|height = 5 ft<br />
|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender; lean<br />
|hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye<br />
|eyes = Cyan<br />
|skin = Pale; a bit sallow<br />
|facialfeatures = Face paint, beauty mark below eye, teardrop on forehead<br />
|tattoos = Cheek lunar markings<br />
|piercings = <br />
|scars = Many branches on upper arms and torso of varying thicknesses and lengths, two gunshot wounds: back, leg<br />
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|profession = Curio Collector/Machina Scrapper<br />
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|combat = Evasive; stealthy; projectile; traps; debuff<br />
|advantages = <!--Physical advantages--><br />
|limitations = Sensitive to high concentrations of aether or sudden fluctuations<br />
|noncombat = <br />
|skills = <br />
|weapon1 = Shortbow<br />
|weapon2 = Slingshot; hatchet; booby-traps; bombs<br />
|armor = <br />
|username = Kitty-candlestick<br />
|timezone = PST/UTC-7<br />
|server = Balmung<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born [https://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/post/168364110644/a-lore-question-for-you-madam-are-there-any-towns east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake] in the year [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV_timeline?action=edit&section=34#1562 1560] -- twelve years before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was incalculably bigger. It was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes, and because of the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br>There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to deem it inherited. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' or the ''Fire Piles'' by anyone living in a [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Unit_of_Measure five malm] radius, while anyone living further still simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/South_Shroud South]." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the local favourite for premium compost and fertilizers such as bonemeal. <br />
<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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|image = Niamhav.png<br />
|birthname = <br />
|pronounced = [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō]<br />
|meaning = <br />
|nicknames = <br />
|age = Early 20s<br />
|born = 1560<br />
|nameday = 9th Sun, 4th Astral Moon<br />
|birthplace = The Black Shroud<br />
|race = Miqo'te<br />
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|height = 5 ft<br />
|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender; lean<br />
|hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye<br />
|eyes = Cyan<br />
|skin = Pale; a bit sallow<br />
|facialfeatures = Face paint, beauty mark below eye, teardrop on forehead<br />
|tattoos = Cheek lunar markings<br />
|piercings = <br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born east of the Lumberline by the shores of Rootslake in the year 1560 -- twelve years before the Calamity and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. Her family, the immediate one, was compromised of her mother, two aunts, some siblings, and many, many cousins, but her ''un''-immediate family was actually much bigger. It was genetically writ in her sept within the Chalahko clan that females be born in near identical threes -- and because of the female-leaning birth phenomenon that was characteristic of her race, this meant there was always a conspicuous amount of same-faced people milling about in her family. <br>There was another distinctive mark of her kin, and that was a piece of land they did not own but inhabited nonetheless, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited -- and the neighbouring communities saw little reason to complain. It was called the ''Hot Hills'' and was described as a dirt farm by any from the South.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
<br />
===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
<br />
===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351238Niamh Chalahko2020-07-16T06:40:39Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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|weight = 100 lbs<br />
|physique = Slender, lean<br />
|hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye<br />
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born in the southeastern Twelveswood in the year 1560 -- twelve years before the Calamity and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. She was raised an orthodox Moon-Keeper by a family who lived in semi-seclusion; their brushes with strangers were during bouts of trade, which happened through dealing at the local market or, more commonly for them, by allowing outsiders to visit their camp. They tolerated accessibility because their best-selling wares were fertilizers and mulch, which tended to be incredibly burdensome at point-of-sale, and was better left to be sorted out (and carried) by their customers. <br />
<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Carving<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==Combat==<br />
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| dex = 9<br />
| mdef = 1<br />
| prowess = 3<br />
| luck = 10<br />
| magic = 6<br />
| intelligence = 8<br />
|}}</div><br />
===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
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===Rumours===<br />
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==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
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<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
<br />
===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
[[Category: Keeper of the Moon]]</div>Kitty-candlestickhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Niamh_Chalahko&diff=351220Niamh Chalahko2020-07-15T06:24:13Z<p>Kitty-candlestick: </p>
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An enterprising scrapper ambiguously employed by ''Rowena's House of Splendors'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveyor of anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.<br />
==History==<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 234755 357.png|thumb|left| The South Shroud]] <br />
===Before the Calamity===<br />
====A Family Out of Three====<br />
Niamh Chalahko was born in the southeastern Twelveswood in 1560, twelve years before the Calamity and the end of the Sixth Astral Era. She was raised as an orthodox Moon-Keeper in a family conspicuously large – that was until you got counting heads and realized how often the same person seemed to be counted thrice. Uncanniness notwithstanding, it was exceedingly normal in her sept to have female births come in near-identical threes. Niamh was one such triplet, except her kit co-conspirators were both male – a gender already not born in abundance to the race as a whole, and a combination not seen by her sept in two generations. Their names were Naomhan and Odhran’a – Odhran'a being the first of the triplets born; Niamh second and Naomhan third. Naomhan was not given the traditional matronymic as his "elder" brother was, for the tradition counts on a birth infrequency, where two boys learning to hunt will not be confused and potentially endangered by belonging to the same call. In line with her culture’s values, Niamh was charged with the well-being and safety of her brothers – and because they rarely made this easy, Niamh was often found culpable of clemency and disciplined by her mother accordingly. Niamh also grew up with three elder sisters – Sadhbh, Tadhg, and Cahir – two younger sisters – twins, Se and Toal – and one younger brother – Odhran'li – the "baby" of their family. They were the children of Odhran; one family unit of three.<br />
====The Torches====<br />
The longest held memory of Niamh's family is a name said to have survived thirty generations, when their ancestors were supposed to have roamed the [http://www.ffxivinfo.com/maps/coerthas.php Coerthan Highlands]; a region at the time still newly wed to war. They were said to be wayfaring ferrywomen during the tumultuous time, known by those that lingered in the deteriorating communities as the ''Teine Sid''; fire faeries; who could take a person 'cross any track, often by the dying light of torchlight.<br />
[[File:Tumblr a78c9a60130994a6110b6f4bf987ec9a 6af800d0 2048.jpg|thumb|left| Snakemolt]]<br />
===After the Calamity===<br />
====Lambs of Dalamud====<br />
<br />
==Appearance & Personality==<br />
::[https://www.16personalities.com/istp-personality ISTP-A]<br />
<table class="table" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sense of Humor</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Emotional Disposition</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>SEXUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Moodiness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Orientation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Libido</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Outlook</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Integrity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Sexual Expressive Style</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Impulsiveness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Openness to sexual experience</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Boldness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Promiscuousness</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Flexibility</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affinity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Affiliation/Adherence</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Comportment</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Tolerance</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Interactivity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Expression of beliefs</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Disclosure</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Converting others</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Conformity</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Attitude</td><br />
<td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Topics of Conversation</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Quirks, Habits, & Oddities</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">Hobbies & Enjoyments</td><br />
<td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Likes:'''<br />
:* Automatons<br />
:* Tinkering<br />
:* Window shopping<br />
:* Odd items<br />
:* Fine dining<br />
:* Pampering<br />
:* Playing<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Dislikes:'''<br />
:* Opo-opos<br />
:* Rain (getting wet from)<br />
:* Gridanians<br />
:* Pirates<br />
:* Sharlayans<br />
:* Boats<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Skills:'''<br />
:* Mechanical intuition<br />
:* Retrieving<br />
:* Dismantling<br />
:* Lock picking<br />
:* Weaving<br />
:* Shroud plantlore<br />
:* Potion-making<br />
:* Lute playing<br />
:* Tag<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"><br />
:'''Fears:'''<br />
:* Greenwrath<br />
:* Voidsent<br />
:* Soulkin<br />
:* Illness (dying of)<br />
:* No Twelve<br />
:* Nothingness<br />
</div><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==Combat==<br />
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===Overview===<br />
Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw. <br />
===Archery=== <br />
Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.<br />
[[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters. <br />
===Magicks===<br />
She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again.<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
* [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.<br />
===NPC Relations===<br />
* The Girls of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Papana Papana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C%27intana C'intana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana Auriana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Aelina Aelina]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lydirlona Lydirlona]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cristiana Cristiana]<br />
:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Azena Azena]</spoiler><br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena]<br />
* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien]<br />
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===Relationships===<br />
<br />
===Rumours===<br />
<br />
==Other Notes==<br />
===Gallery===<br />
<center>[[File:Ffxiv 06022020 235232 779.png|200px|]][[File:Tumblr 07f36e8470abf6f2e240bd6d0757a682 f6b2e1b6 2048.jpg|200px|]][[File:Ffxiv 05302020 201447 137.png|200px|]][[File:Ffxiv 06162020 014705 287.png|200px]][[File:Ffxiv 06172020 213028 991.png|200px|]][[File:Ffxiv 06112020 151936 523.png|200px|]][[File:Ffxiv 06162020 023510 650.png|200px]][[File:Ffxiv 06052020 162957 339.png|200px|]]</center><br />
<br />
===Trivia===<br />
* [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ Niamh's carrd]<br />
* Brother's names' Naomhan [nehv-an]; Odhran’a [o-rawn-ah]<br />
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===Inspiration===<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire <br />
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===Credit===<br />
'''In Order of Use'''<br />
<br>Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]<br />
<br>Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]<br />
<br>[https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality]<br />
<br>Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]<br />
[[Category: Player Character]]<br />
[[Category: Balmung]]<br />
[[Category: Miqo'te]]<br />
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