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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Even-tempered'''. Though she speaks like a ruffian on occasion, Sarnai is in fact a calm individual. It is difficult to rouse her anger or intimidate her with few exceptions. She prefers to defuse tense standoffs rather than fight, most of the time, and isn't prone to rising to bait.</font></div> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Even-tempered'''. Though she speaks like a ruffian on occasion, Sarnai is in fact a calm individual. It is difficult to rouse her anger or intimidate her with few exceptions. She prefers to defuse tense standoffs rather than fight, most of the time, and isn't prone to rising to bait.</font></div> | ||
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Dark Arts'''. Sarnai seems to have a talent for manipulating Aether. While raw and unhoned, she has shown signs of being capable of using abilities of a strange, dark and defensive nature. Perhaps it has something to do with a certain possession of hers...</font></div> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Dark Arts'''. Sarnai seems to have a talent for manipulating Aether. While raw and unhoned, she has shown signs of being capable of using abilities of a strange, dark and defensive nature. Perhaps it has something to do with a certain possession of hers...</font></div> | ||
+ | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Amicable'''. Despite her many, MANY issues and flaws as a person, it is very rare for Sarnai to actually make an enemy. Though she doesn't often initiate conversation, when she does she has just enough wit and charm to coax most people into seeing her in at least a neutral if not friendly light. This is in part due to her desire to please everyone she meets - she doesn't WANT anyone to be upset with her, and worries over bad impressions. Her dry humor and own deep-rooted self-loathing generally helps keep her from being too offended by others in turn. She doesn't take things personally, and only committing a grave sin in Sarnai's eyes is enough to make her not want to even attempt to be cordial.</font></div> | ||
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Social Obliviousness'''. Another quirk resulting from her upbringing - Sarnai has a tendancy to come across as socially awkward at times and frequently misunderstands people. She is utterly guileless when it comes to intrigue in particular, and often falls victim to completely missing the true intentions of others. Most of the time, this simply manifests in bafflement at the antics of others around her. She has been known to make terrible excuses and flee when said antics involve aggressive flirtation - Sarnai has absolutely no clue how to deal with the opposite sex. Or her own sex. Or anyone, really, having thoroughly repressed any and all such thoughts for as long as she can remember. For a seasoned warrior she still maintains an amusing level of innocence and naievity. </font></div> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Social Obliviousness'''. Another quirk resulting from her upbringing - Sarnai has a tendancy to come across as socially awkward at times and frequently misunderstands people. She is utterly guileless when it comes to intrigue in particular, and often falls victim to completely missing the true intentions of others. Most of the time, this simply manifests in bafflement at the antics of others around her. She has been known to make terrible excuses and flee when said antics involve aggressive flirtation - Sarnai has absolutely no clue how to deal with the opposite sex. Or her own sex. Or anyone, really, having thoroughly repressed any and all such thoughts for as long as she can remember. For a seasoned warrior she still maintains an amusing level of innocence and naievity. </font></div> | ||
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''No, YOU'RE a lightweight!'''. The woman cannot hold her alcohol, at all. This does not stop her from trying and failing miserably whenever the opportunity presents itself. It's a miracle she's only been robbed a few times and not worse - at least she's learned to stop when the floor starts to run away. </font></div> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''No, YOU'RE a lightweight!'''. The woman cannot hold her alcohol, at all. This does not stop her from trying and failing miserably whenever the opportunity presents itself. It's a miracle she's only been robbed a few times and not worse - at least she's learned to stop when the floor starts to run away. </font></div> | ||
+ | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Self-Flagellation''' Sarnai has serious, serious issues with her own self-image and frequently thinks of herself as nothing more than a worthless tool to be used and discarded. For a very long time, she did not even truly consider herself human - just an exile, just a beast. The end result of this is she all too greedily jumps on any chance to punish herself and if not forgiven for even a minor slight explicitly, will allow herself to be more or less crucified in her guilt. She is easily manipulated as a result, and what's worse, even if she recognizes it she would likely make no attempts to stop the person, seeing herself as deserving of the abuse. Nobody hates Sarnai as much as Sarnai does. </font></div> | ||
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Of course, she only ''assumes'' he stayed home... It's been a long time, after all. </div> | Of course, she only ''assumes'' he stayed home... It's been a long time, after all. </div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>"Matsu",</b> <i>Witch of the One</i>. <b>(</b><font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2"><b>+</b></font><font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><b>)</b> -</div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"> <b>"I will forever be grateful for your aid, mistress. I don't understand why you did some of the things you did, to me and to others, but it is fair price. I owe you my life."</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">When Sarnai was shot and left to die in the woodlands of northern Yanxia, it was only by a stroke of fate that she should ever open her eyes again. This stroke of fate was penned by an old woman, who had been prowling nearby for alchemical ingredients. Though Matsu's true intentions with Sarnai were hard to gauge and she often treated the girl as little more than an object to test things on, there was a mutual if somewhat twisted level of care and affection there in the months that followed. | ||
+ | Alas, Sarnai grew restless and did not stay long as her apprentice - though she left with Matsu's blessing, the old woman doing what she could to try and rehabilitate the broken girl into something more suited to survival out of the wilderness.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Glazhund Skoenlahzsyn,</b> <i>Former Squadmate</i>. <b>(</b><font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2"><b>+</b></font><font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><b>)</b> -</div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"> <b>"You didn't have to look out for me, but you did. Even if I felt like I was looking out for you, most of the time. I'll try and keep going. I'll be fine. I'll be fine.."</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Glazhund was part of Sarnai's unit when she served with the Maelstrom. As the oldest member of the unit, and Sarnai the youngest by quite a margin, he came to be almost an uncle to her. Though he was far from the strongest fighter in her squad, he was probably the most perceptive, and much of the taming of the feral child came at his careful coaxing. For this, she has nothing but respect and adoration for him. After Sarnai's discharge from the Maelstrom, he was the member of her squadron whom she most dearly missed - however, she did not believe herself worthy of associating with her former comrades any longer and so with a heavy heart, now avoids him.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Brifard Carrin,</b> <i>Former Squadmate</i>. <b>(</b><font style="color:#000000;"size="2">✝</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">? </font><font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><b>)</b> -</div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"> <b>"I didn't ask for your help, you fucking idiot! Why couldn't you have just left me?! Why couldn't you have just let me die? It's what I wanted! I'm... Not worth dying for..."</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Brifard was an often-surly, rarely pleasant young man whom with Sarnai often butted heads during their time serving the Maelstrom. Four years older than she was, there was the sense of a sort of sibling rivalry between them and though Sarnai genuinely believed the man disliked her, his true feelings were far more complex - as he would demonstrate when the unit was ordered into the fray at Cartenaeu. As Dalamud fell, chaos reigned - falling pieces of Bahamut's prison, searing balls of flame, explosions set off from Garlean warmachina... These hazards almost claimed Sarnai's life after she was clipped with a Reaper barrage, and would have had Brifard not scooped the injured girl out of the line of fire and broken rank to carry her to relative safety. A blast of shrapnel tore through them as they ran, tearing open Sarnai's side and rending Brifard's lungs asunder. She still nurses an immense sense of guilt for being weak enough to have required saving, and much of her inclination to hold others at arm's length comes from her desire to prevent such a thing ever happening again.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Rioliene Muisanc,</b> <i>Former Squadmate</i>. <b>(</b><font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2"><b>+</b></font><font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">?</font><b>)</b> -</div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"> <b>"You never did understand how I saw the world, did you? But then, we weren't in my world. We were in yours. And I didn't understand that for far too long. You're still a bitch. But you had a point."</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Riolene was a young woman who took a sort of fascination with Sarnai after she was assigned to their unit. Though Sarnai was VERY skeptical about the lancer's intentions after a few comments about dragons, scales, and whether Auri scales could be sold off as dragon scales, she formed a tentative friendship with the woman which would turn sour later when their service brought many clashes of ideology. Sarnai was vicious and merciless as a soldier - Riolene was methodical, precise, with a great disdain for the young au ra's way of doing things. And yet, as much as Sarnai wanted to ignore the "prissy knife-eared bitch", the woman often spoke a lot of sense and lead to her beginning to question much of how she conducted herself.</div> | ||
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− | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Quas'to | + | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Quas'to Lihzeh]],</b> <i>Couerl Consortium</i>. <b>(</b><font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">+</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Shifty Cat</b></div> |
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>"I'm noticing a pattern with roguish types lately... But you're a good one, I think I might like you. And your squad."</b></div> | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>"I'm noticing a pattern with roguish types lately... But you're a good one, I think I might like you. And your squad."</b></div> | ||
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Personal RP Limits'''</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Personal RP Limits'''</div></div> | ||
− | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">'' | + | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">'' My limits are your limits. All I ask is that you remember '''IC and OOC are very different things''' and don't get mad if things don't go exactly how you plan. I play by the concept of consequences, and I will expect you to accept the same unless we work out something beforehand. |
+ | If something I do, say, or meme about OOC or IC gives you pause or makes you uncomfortable, please let me know. The last thing I want is for you to have a bad time roleplaying with me! Don't hint, either, I'm an idiot and won't pick up on it.'' </div></div> | ||
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''I will play''' | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''I will play''' | ||
− | '' | + | ''Basically anything as long as it makes sense in context. I will play mature themes if it fits within the narrative and doesn't seem bizarrely out of character. Just give me a heads up if it's something very major that would impact my ability to play the character normally from that point on. If you're not sure, ask.</div></div> |
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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''I won't play''' | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''I won't play''' | ||
− | ''Permanant death | + | ''Permanant death. Immensely lorebreaking or AU plots. Random oneshot ERP that serves no purpose in written context. Erotic themes involving characters or players who are minors, look like minors, or act like minors.''</div></div> |
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Disclaimer'''</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Disclaimer'''</div></div> | ||
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Little Tidbits.''</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Little Tidbits.''</div></div> | ||
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '' While this profile, when finished, will contain a lot of information on Sarnai and her history it is by no means a complete biography. I have intentionally omitted several major details in the name of flavor, flexibility, and muh plot twists.''</div></div> | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '' While this profile, when finished, will contain a lot of information on Sarnai and her history it is by no means a complete biography. I have intentionally omitted several major details in the name of flavor, flexibility, and muh plot twists.''</div></div> | ||
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''While all efforts have been taken to keep this character in adherence to what we know of lore, there is still a LOT of stuff we're not told about the FFXIV universe. I have taken some liberties and | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''While all efforts have been taken to keep this character in adherence to what we know of lore, there is still a LOT of stuff we're not told about the FFXIV universe. I have taken some liberties and filled out some details where none existed before, though I do draw heavily on existing material and try to place it carefully so that I am not accidentally invalidating points of both my own or other people's characters.</div></div> |
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ <i>I'm pretty much always willing to roleplay, unless I'm literally in the middle of something when you message me. Don't be shy about messaging me - | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ <i>I'm pretty much always willing to roleplay, unless I'm literally in the middle of something when you message me. Don't be shy about messaging me - Double tap me if I don't answer, I may have missed you! ''</i></div></div> |
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Potential Plot Hooks'''</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Potential Plot Hooks'''</div></div> | ||
− | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '' | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Mercenary]''' If your character is in need of a hired sword or guardian, they may hear of a fierce Raen woman who carries the experience of both a Steppe Warrior and an ex-soldier.</div></div> |
+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Pathfinder]''' If your character is in need of someone to guide them safely through hostile terrain and ensure they reach a remote destination safely, rumors of a skillful fieldswoman familiar with all manner of hazards and beasts may prove useful to them. As a bonus, she is imtimately familiar with the countryside of northern Yanxia and the Azim Steppe. </div></div> | ||
+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Hunter]''' If your character has been needing to procure hide, pelts, trophies, corpses or simply have a threat eliminated, they may find what they require in the strength of Sarnai's sword arm or the shaft of her arrows.</div></div> | ||
+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Maelstrom]''' If your character was a member of the Maelstrom in the past eight years, they may have bumped into Sarnai as a common soldier - Au Ra in Limsa would have been much rarer a sight back then.</div></div> | ||
+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Malaguld]''' If your character was a member of the Malaguld tribe around 24 years ago, they may have known of a small band who split from the main tribe as the threat of the Empire became greater on the Steppe frontier and moved eastwards - Sarnai being a baby with them at the time.</div></div> | ||
+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''[Xaela]''' If your character grew up on the central steppes or in the Arras, they may have seen a lone Raen child fending for themselves and fleeing all attempts at contact. They may also have noticed that the child bore a mark of exile, painted upon their own face in ash.</div></div> | ||
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− | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Alias:</b> Ash, Snappy | + | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Alias:</b> Ash, Snappy, Sardine, |
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Citizenship:</b> Limsa Lominsa/N.A | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Citizenship:</b> Limsa Lominsa/N.A | ||
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Birthplace:</b> Azim Steppe | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Birthplace:</b> Azim Steppe | ||
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: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Language(s):</b> Xaelic, Yanxian, Eorzean (''Spoken word only'') | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Language(s):</b> Xaelic, Yanxian, Eorzean (''Spoken word only'') | ||
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Orientation:</b> Heterosexual | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Orientation:</b> Heterosexual | ||
− | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Marital Status:</b> | + | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Marital Status:</b> Single |
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Commonly found in:</b> Limsa Lominsa, La Noscea, Mist, Coerthas, The Shroud, Azim Steppe, Yanxia, Kugane | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Commonly found in:</b> Limsa Lominsa, La Noscea, Mist, Coerthas, The Shroud, Azim Steppe, Yanxia, Kugane | ||
: <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Profession:</b> Mercenary, Ex-Soldier, Guardian (Current), ''Fate's Cross Trainee'' (Current) | : <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <b>Profession:</b> Mercenary, Ex-Soldier, Guardian (Current), ''Fate's Cross Trainee'' (Current) |
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Sarnai Malaguld is a warrior hailing from the Far East - born and raised on the wild steppes of Azim and the Ryakgyr Peninsula. Though she has traveled far through her life she still strongly identifies as a tribal raen, no matter what she is forced to become to adapt to the situations she finds herself in. She wields a bow and sword with a well-practiced air, more at home in the wilds than in a city. Her life has lead her to many places, seen her fill many roles - from a tiny spitfire hefting her father's sword against imaginary enemies, to a lone huntress on the wild steppe, to a fugitive in foreign lands. From a penniless vagrant washing up on La Noscean shores, to a Storm recruit, to a haggard mercenary. Perhaps to something more, still.. Not too long ago, Sarnai's life took a turn for the inconvenient. No longer in the employ of the Maelstrom, she lost her purpose and found herself falling back into the role of a wandering mercenary to keep her coinpurse weighted. Perhaps she's simply grown used to being told what to do and no longer remembers what it is like to be truly free. She haunts the streets of sprawling cities foreign to her, dogged wherever she goes by the furtive whispering of a strange etched stone she carries close to her heart... Finding her own path has not been as simple as seeking a new calling and making a few friends, however. While she's taking some steps to try and better herself as a person and remedy some of her more glaring flaws, some startling revelations and unpleasant realities have made themselves clear to the woman. She suffers a deep sense of conflict and confusion, wondering just what this is all FOR, and if it really is wise to allow herself to go soft instead of being brutally tempered once more into a weapon without feeling. Her old goals and dreams, are they just foolish delusions of a life long since abandoned? Her new, secret hopes and desires, will they simply lead to self-destruction and losing everything she's so tentatively allowed herself to care about? How can she reach for such things, when she doesn't know how to hold anything without tearing it apart in her claws? Ain't nobody out of the woods yet.
A keen eye may notice...
Sarnai is largely monochromatic in color. Every hair, scale and feature on her body is a uniform ivory-white, from her thick eyelashes to her short-but-sharp claws. Her skin is very pale, with only the slightest tinge of pink added from much time in the sun. Deep crimson eyes offer the only spark of color.
Sarnai is built taller and a little broader than most auri females - still somewhat shorter than a hyur, but much more solid. She is quite lean, but otherwise packed with functional muscle. There is no mistaking her build for anything other than the body of a warrior. There is the suggestion of natural curves to her form, but she would seem to be a bit too underfed and haggard to give them prominence. All in all, she is built much like a steppe tiger - solid, sleek, and powerful. Smeared across the centre of Sarnai's face is a grey blazon much like a cross or the hilt of a sword. Parts of it frequently rub off into her bangs, leaving them stained grey. From the burned scent, it seems to be mostly made of ash, and is quite water soluable. She is rarely seen without it, and protests at its removal - there is clearly some significance. Her horns are diamond-shaped in cross-section, and though they are quite substantial looking and come down to formidable points, they are not significantly less delicate than any other au ra's horns. Her right horn has a sizeable notch towards the upper point. Sarnai's tail is long and slender, terminating in two sets of barbs and a spaded tip. It is long enough that the tip may drag on the ground if she does not carry it properly, and is prone to expressive fits of movement and gesture. Sarnai's scale patterns are slightly unusual, with very few present on her limbs and torso. The patterning on her dorsal stripe is particularly ornate and spreads across the entirety of her shoulderblades, stretching from the base of her neck to the base of her tail. More notable than her pale scales however, would perhaps be the scars that ravage the plane of her skin. Most are small and superficial in appearance, faded slices and nicks that may have come from sparring or swordplay, but there are two specifically of note that draw the eye immediately when exposed, for their particularly jarring appearance. From the outside of Sarnai's left thigh to her right bicep, a deep, angry-red scar stands in stark contrast to her pale skin. From the way it wraps around the curvature of her body it is hard to believe the warrior survived. It looks as if she has almost been cut in two, if not all the way through. And encircling her throat, a similar bizarrely awful scar - this one looks almost like a deep seam between her scales, though the purple-pink of scarred tissue is unmistakeable. Both scars look as if they should have resulted from fatal injuries, and both have clearly left major weaknesses. Their prescence - and the fact Sarnai is still walking around quite the thing - suggests they're quite old, and yet they somehow don't look like they've entirely healed over properly. These scars are not normally visible under Sarnai's usual attire, her neck scar being concealed by a scarf she almost never removes, and her torso scars by her usual attire. Aside from the paint on her face, Sarnai usually keeps herself and her gear as clean as possible. Visible wear and tear usually means something is wrong. In particular, she cares for her weapons obsessively - if something's wrong with her sword, something is VERY wrong with Sarnai. Clothing - Sarnai prefers to wear practical clothing, with an inclination to things she can conceal some kind of protection into. High boots, loose shirts and leggings are her usual preferance for casual wear. She dresses for what she expects to deal with - as much as she prefers to wear medium-light clothing, she is also known to don a full suit of plate and chain when she's "working". She tends to favor reds, greys, and browns in her wardrobe, but doesn't seem to have a strong preferance for color as long as it doesn't make her stand out too much. Sarnai doesn't adorn herself with any kind of jewellery aside from her neckscarf - and only that because it serves a practical purpose. This doesn't mean she doesn't LIKE shiny things, but she'd rather look at them on other people than herself, because shiny draws attention and Sarnai prefers the ability to lurk when she pleases.
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