D'aijeen Thalen

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Gender	Female
Race	Seeker of the Sun
Clan	Unknown
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Age	>18
Primary Linkshell	tbd
Religion	tbd
Occupation	Concealed
Relationship Status	Single

Basic Info

Originally a member of the Hipparion Tribe, K'aijeen was the youngest daughter born to K'piru Jhanhi by K'thalen Nunh. Her closest siblings, K'airos and K'airi, were significantly older than she was. As a child, K'aijeen displayed an affinity for hunting but a talent for mysticism. While her mother attempted to teach her respect for order and logical systems, and her peers attempted to push her in the direction of becoming a tribal shaman, K'aijeen focused her attention on the hunts. This never matured into skill with any weapon or with hunting in general, however. Instead, it manifested as a much more troubling personality trait: a fascination with watching things die. As she aged, the distance between the object of her fascination and any skill that was useful to the tribe became greater. Even though she was a child, after violating several of the Tribe's laws K'aijeen dramatically undertook a self-imposed exile. Arriving in Ul'dah as a poor and helpless kitten, she received the aid of an outcast member of the Dodo tribe, D'hein Tia, and changed her tribal prefix out of respect. After the Calamity, believing the Hipparion tribe decimated, D'aijeen reunited with her older sister K'airos and began to live with her as opposed to D'hein, whom by then had become an adoptive father.

History

Childhood

Born late in her mother's life, D'aijeen was significantly removed in age from either of her sisters. She did not form any significant bonds with the youths in the tribe, not even with K'ailia Yohko, who was around her age and a student of her mother. At the time of her Naming Ceremony, she exhibited all the signs of a healthy and intelligent girl. She was deeply connected with her father from her birth, interested in mysticism and the hunt, and held reverence for the sun and the strength of the desert. When she began following the huntresses at the age of 7, her fascination with death had already settled in. Her lack of skill at the hunt resulted in her being pushed towards shamanism (for which she had demonstrated great propensity), but she refused this. K'aijeen attended many hunts, but never learned to hunt effectively. At the age of 10 children of the Hipparion are meant to verbally recite the teachings of the hunt, but D'aijeen showed no regard for these teachings.

Learning the Hunt was not considered optional by the Hipparion tribe. It was central both to providing food and effectively serving as a tribal shaman, and if K'aijeen could not demonstrate at least a theoretical understanding of the hunt, she would never be allowed to take part in the Trial of Adulthood. K'aijeen's disinterest in passing this test would set the tone for the rest of her time in the tribe, which was marked by misbehavior and rebellious acts. Regularly caught breaking tribal rules and disregarding ritual and tradition, K'aijeen was chastened by the tribes elders multiple times in the next two years.

When she was twelve years old, long before she could even have been eligible for the Trial of Adulthood, K'aijeen rejected everything the Sagoli Hipparion Tribe had attempted to teach her and imposed exile upon herself. She walked out into the sands of the desert alone and under-provisioned. Even for a grown hunter, this would normally be a death sentence.

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Relationships

K'piru Jhanhi - D'aijeen's birth mother was an important inspiration in her youth, though the relationship became more and more strained as D'aijeen aged. The young Miqo'te would neve accept the lessons her mother attempted to teach her of order, mathematics and astronomy, though her intelligence caused her to glean significant understandings of these things anyway. Though D'aijeen is unaware of her mother's fate, she hasn't bothered to really look into it. She has told K'airos that their mother is dead.

K'thalen Nunh - Her birth father was the most adored person of her youth. D'aijeen saw her father's jovial attitude and passion for life as the ultimate paradigm by which one should live. His death at Cartenau greatly compromised D'aijeen's foundation.

D'hein Tia - Taking an adoptive father was never, to D'aijeen, a sign of disrespect to her birth father. A Seeker tribe has many Nunhs and many male role models. And, to boot, D'aijeen does not particularly like D'hein Tia (though D'hein likes her a great deal). D'aijeen looks on D'hein with appreciation and respect, and essentially just uses him for his money. He is a safety net that she does not utilize as often now that she has K'airos to pal around with.

K'airos Thalen - Her older sister whom she adores, K'airos "died" at Cartenau. The fact that D'aijeen did not accept here sister's death with the same kind of resignation as she did with the rest of her immediate family speaks to D'aijeen's opinion of K'airos. She sees K'airos as beautiful and powerful, someone to be idolized, and whom she greatly envies. Also, very useful.

K'airi Thalen - tbd

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