Alyssen Haloreach

"Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose ."

Alyssen Haloreach
Gender	Female
Race	Hyur
Clan	Highlander
Citizenship	Displaced Ala Mhigan
Age	38 (b. 19 4UM, 1539 6AE)
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Chocobo Jockey
Height/Weight	5'5" / 115 lbs
Orientation	Who knows?
Relatives	None known

Biography

(1539) Alyssen was born and raised in Gyr Abania, growing up in the rocky, rural highlands as the daughter of livestock farmers. She was a bright but rebellious child, and had a reputation among her peers as a loud-mouthed braggart. She got in her share of fist-fights with the local boys, though you could never be sure if she started them or just finished them.

(1557) She was sheltered enough from the conflicts Ala Mhigo seemed constantly involved in, with news about 'the war' only ever something the older folks gossiped about at the trader's shop. So when the Garlean Empire rolled through Ala Mhigo like a gilded carpet had been laid out for them, Alyssen refused to accept her family's complacence with their new governance, which they saw as a welcome change to the tyrant King Theodoric. At 18, she joined the fledgling Resistance fighters.

(1558) She fought with the Resistance for a year or so, but a bungled mission lead to her capture by Garlean authorities. She and six other rebels were sent to a prison camp in Ilsabard, where they were used for years as magitek guinea-pigs in unscrupulous, torturous experiments. Most of their memories of these experiments were systematically scrambled or re-written, to prevent calling any attention to the truth of what was going on behind the curtain.

(1568) At the end of her 10 year sentence, Alyssen was released and returned to Ala Mhigo. She knew trying to fight the Empire from within Ala Mhigo was a fool's errand; the Resistance was weak and the city-state's people too comfortable under their Garlean yoke. She harbored a smoldering contempt for not only the Empire, but also for her cowed countrymen. She resolved that the only way to gain any measure of revenge against Garlemald was to leave Ala Mhigo behind. Using her Resistance connections, she carefully smuggled herself out of the city-state and headed for Ul'dah.

(1572) The Calamity. While fighting with Eorzean forces against Garlean troops, Alyssen is badly injured in the chaos. During her recovery, her mangled memory starts to put itself back together, and she retires from the battlefield for good. The pain--both physical and emotional-- and guilt that hang over her cause her to withdraw into self-medicating with drink. She no longer has a taste for revenge, overwhelmed by the destruction of the Calamity and the losses of warfare. She becomes a drifter, mostly finding work as a farmhand tending chocobos and livestock in exchange for a bed and a little coin.

(1577) The Gold Saucer offers sanctioned chocobo races, which provide Alyssen with the escapism she seeks and a way to make a living doing it. Granted, it's a hard living, but it's the only kind she's ever known.

Appearance & Personality

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Relations ♥ Romantic Interest    ♥ Family     ● Friends     ● Shrugs     ● Avoids

Footnotes

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