Altani Dataq'Kahkol

Altani Dataq'Kahkol
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Gender	Female
Race	Au Ra
Clan	Xaela (born Dataq, raised Kahkol)
Citizenship	none

Character

General

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Appearance

Altani is short, slim, and rough looking. Her horns have nicks and gashes. Her face is covered in scars, bruises, dirt and grime ranging in age from ‘this just happened’ to ‘as long as I can remember.’ Her hair – black as her horns – is kept short, practical yet unkempt and always in need of a trim. Despite this beaten up appearance, her eyes burn with a hateful fire. A quick glance is more likely to get a glare and a scowl than a smile and a nod.

Altani’s clothes herself in garments as rough and simple as herself. Everything is practical, no unnecessary frills or trinkets. Most of her clothing appears to be in decent shape, but a not-so-discerning eye can pick out swiftly-sewn patchwork or crudely-cobbled chunks of leather padding in her armor.

Personality

Altani carries herself with a lack of care of the world around her. She isn’t unaware of the crowds of cities, she just seems to prefer sparing herself the niceties of ‘excuse me’ and ‘sorry,’ instead weaving her way through throngs of people without a single sound. Her eyes remain forward, her mouth remains shut. In crowds with no ease way out, she often looks skittish and keeps to herself. Definitely not a people person.

In less crowded spaces or if she's with the handful of people she knows and trusts, Altani relaxes. She still keeps to herself, but is more willing to interact with people, as opposed to staring them down from as far away as she can manage.

Combat

General

Altani lives to fight. Her eyes only truly light up when she’s pummeling some poor sap who thought it would be a good idea to harass the small Au Ra or when hunting too-curious beastkin poking about remote settlements. Altani prefers to fight with minimal weaponry, a pair of old metal claws or some wood shaped into crude and unwieldy knuckledusters at most. Altani’s attacks are quick and relentless, making use of her entire body. Biting, headbutting, scratching are all fair game in her eyes, while grace and honor remain foreign concepts. The end result of a fight, no matter who wins, leaves the young Au Ra looking a complete mess.

Tendencies

Likes

• Combat or hunting
• Solitude
• Physical work

Dislikes

• Dotharl
• Crowds
• Cowardice

Hobbies/Talents

• Altani is actually fairly decent with needle or knife, feeling at ease when working with cloth or leather.
• She enjoys watching people, if from afar, even if she does freeze up when they inevitably notice her.
• Training is by far Altani's personal passion and she can often be found hidden somewhere out of the way with a makeshift striking dummy made of whatever was handy.

Other

• Altani has a fair number of nervous tics, including tapping at the nicks on her horns and drumming her fingers.
• She is not a fan of physical contact. Altani flinches or even tries to move away when someone touches her.

Relationships

Family

Greatmother Mergen - Altani's late greatmother. A spiritually-minded woman who believed that every twinkling star to be the soul of an ancestor, watching their kin from the heavens. Mergen also lead her clan in the Suns Khurd ceremony, where the clan returned to where the first of their line had fallen. Staying for two whole suns, great drums boomed the entire time, scaring away foul spirits and calling the deceased to their final resting place. As her age advanced and her health failed her, Mergen was unable to participate in drumming. She succumbed to illness soon after, dying in her sleep while surrounded by kin.

Friends

Kulain Qalli - Altani's beloved chieftess. She hasn't known the songbird for long, but circumstances have lead her to being fiercely loyal.

Rumors

Common Rumors

• I saw her looking at a sign for way too long, all squinting-like. Can't she read?

Moderate Rumors

• Have you seen here around that Xaela that's set up camp in the Lavender Beds? She follows that one around like a lost pup.
• I saw her one night, looked real scared. Could've swore she had tears in her eyes, too.

History/Timeline

Ambushed by the Dotharl while hunting far from the main camp, Altani and the handful of survivors were left for dead. They were saved by passing Kahkol scouts, who quickly brought them into the clan. The always-small Altani was often mocked and shoved about by the larger children, especially during times of low supplies and high tensions.

Altani found solace in her kin, who kept her tormentors at bay. She became dependent on them, ever-wary the other scattered survivors that the Kahkol picked up. However, her kin began to dwindle in number. Some left the clan of their own accord, others fell to disease, war, or age. Soon, the mockery began once again, with older male and female clanmates falling back on childish pranks. Altani snapped. A retort lead to a fight. A fight lead to a death. A death, the child of an elder, lead to an exile. The Au Ra was cast out from the clan, wandering for nearly a year before she stowed away on a ship bound for Eorzea. Further travel would send her to Thanalan and then Ul'dah, where she would remain until a chance encounter with a Qalli shaman.

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