Kallera Etoile

Kallera Etoile
Gender	female
Race	Elezen
Clan	Duskwight
Citizenship	Gridania

General Appearance/Markings

A Duskwight Elezen hailing from Gridania, Kallera is an adventurer of around 26 summers. She has pale white skin, dark freckles, and a small scar on her left cheek. Her hair is naturally black, though she has at times preferred red highlights. Her eyes are magenta, and she uses no lip coloring.

Basic Info

Despite attempting to start out as a craftswoman, Kallera has been known for being a fighter in her adventurering career, often taking levequests or protection jobs. Whether as a Dark Knight or a Pugilist, Kallera has a mild and understanding nature to those in need, which becomes a cold ruthlessness to her opponents once swords cross.

Strengths/ Weakeeses

Strengths:

Protective: Kallera is fiercly loyal to those she cares about, and tends to stand up for close friends and students, sometimes to a fault.

Mediator: Kallera tends to know the value of the right word or comforting gesture to someone in a volatile or depressing situation.

Weaknesses

Self critical: Kallera will sometimes blame herself first irrationally if things go wrong or an ally is hurt.

Spell strength: Kallera's knowledge of aetherology is lacking. While she can manipulate aether, she cannot explain the details behind it.

Limited:

scarred hands: While it is more pronounced on her right hand than her left, Kallera is unable to travel via aetheryte or manipulate aether into spells with either hand without severe pain until her injury heals.

History

Kallera is often light on the details of her pre calamity history, if she brings it up at all.

Childhood

Etoile Kallera's life began in the West forest of the Black Shroud, the only daughter of Jushiraux and Estelle Kallera, a pair of poachers who worked with the goblin merchants in the area. If there were relatives, she does not know them. Her parents were loving and sweet, while Jushiraux was the brains of the couple, being a handyman and trapmaker, Etoile looked up to her mother, who was a powerful pugilist. For a time, Jushiraux and Estelle hid the details of their illegal business to Etoile and others. Over time, however, the little girl grew curious, and the threats grew closer to home, the couple feared Etoile could be a target for both wood wailers and fences, or worse, forced into a life of crime. They sought a better life for their daughter, and after teacher her some basicas in the tanning trade and self defense, sent her away at the age of 13.

Kallera's life since declaring her citizenship in Gridania has often been one of feast or famine. With the proceeds from adventuring part time, she got a start making and selling her wares on the market board. She worked up enough money for a comfortable living, only to lose it in a cleical error due to her name change at the adventurer's guild.

after the calamity, Kallera was soon homeless, and was one of the victims in a scam among desperate adventurers involving fake job crystals. what she didn't know was that there was a genuine one among them. Fairly unknowledgeable about the abyss or aether, Kallera was hallucinating and hearing voices until her mentor taught her control over them. it was a tumultous relationship between the two however as she started to resent his lessons. Despite his belongings, Kallera was unwilling to take up his work when he died, and bought a home in Lavender Beds.

She spent some time adventuring full time afterwards, her pugilist skill now more for the physical training, and her dark knight skills for adventuring. Meeting some other dark knights with control problems caused Kallera to spend some time teaching others as a fighting instructor, to some success.

Shortly after her students left her to seek their own path, Kallera was among a large group of adventures that were caught in Odin's retun in the South shroud. There she suffered a injury from the primal's attacks that affected her ability to safely manipulate aether. Unable to tap into her training as a Dark Knight, Kallera went back to her former calling.

Personality

Kallera tends to keep her composure among others, Among friends, she tries to not be the leader, and prefers to submit to instructions, to a point. When alone or not on duty, she finds it easier to let out her stress and "take the low road."

Her style of glamour often accentuates her legs or hips, even her armor as a dark knight wasn't without her garments showing off her feminine curves. Her sense of syle as a pugilist takes this further with lighter clothing, though she has made a note to use some protection through using gauntlets and weapons that can turn away attacks.

A certain pet peeve of hers is her name. Changed when she first entered Gridania, Kallera chafes at being addressed as "Etoile" like its her first name. She is mum as to the reason.