Bobofa Bofa
| Bobofa Bofa | |
 Above image drawn by me. | |
| Gender | female |
| Race | Lalafell |
| Clan | Dunesfolk |
| Citizenship | Unaffiliated |
| Age | ?? |
| Name Day | 1st sun of the 1st Astral moon |
| Ul'dah | Nald'thal |
| Occupation | High Priestess of the Order of Nald'thal |
| Free Company | F&C |
| Sexuality | Uncertain |
Name: Bobofa Bofa
Full Title: High Priestess Bobofa Bofa of the Order of Nald'thal of the Arrzaneth Ossuary.
Age: ??
Home: Ul'dah
Current Residence: Ul'dah
Occupation: High Priestess of the Order of Nald'thal
Talents/Skills: Thaumaturgy, cosmetics
Theme song: [Link Name]
Server: Mateus
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Blog: http://graveyard-bard.tumblr.com
Art Blog: http://adrien-draws-stuff.tumblr.com
Height: 2'5"
Race: Lalafell, Dunesfolk
Eye Color: Violet
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Shoulder length, some braids.
Skin color: Black
Distinguishing features: She has rather luminous eyes and a beautiful jewel adorned on her forehead.
How she dresses: She wears dresses and long robes most often, and she wears a lot of jewelry and expensive fabrics.
Mannerisms: Reserved and polite, she holds herself elegantly and calmly. She doesn't emote much when she talks, tending to keep face.
Hobbies: Sewing, reading, divination, skull collecting.
Speech patterns: She speaks with intention and authority. Sometimes she can be more casual and likes to joke a lot with those she is comfortable with.
Educational Background: Studied Thaumaturgy extensively, as well as history.
Intelligence Level: Average
Positive Traits:
- Refined
- Polite
- Bashful
- Honest
- Good natured
- Hard working
- Eloquent
- Gracious
- Confident
Negative Traits:
- Morbid
- Too quiet
- judgemental
- Overly private
High Priestess Bobofa Bofa of the Order of Nald'thal is a small Dunesfolk that spends much of her time in Ul'dah working diligently in both the Ossuary and the Sanctum. She can be found in the quicksand quite often on her breaks or after work, though she has also been known to travel outside of the city walls to the Coffer and Coffin, or to the various bars around the Goblet.
She is very private and doesn't have many friends as of late, and she seems to like it that way. A little bashful, she is easy to embarrass and catch off guard, though usually she is in good spirits and very gentle.
Her home is very traditional, much of her family making their homes on the backs of beasts of burden and feeding their children the famed poisonous concoction to boost their ability to resist such poisons. She doesn't talk much about her family, though they are in good standing and healthy.
Bobofa hosts funerals, performs funerary rites, embalming, vengeance orders and various wills, as well as deal with the wealthy in Ul'dah and their donations to the Order. She sometimes deals in the laws of the city, signing off on most or turning down others that seem unfair or unjust.
Not much is known about her personal life, though she has been known to dabble in divination and allegedly lives a very lavish lifestyle.
Family:
TBA
Bobofa has been learning Thaumaturgy for over 25 years.
She lives and works in ul'dah.
"A raging fire to cleanse the corpse; a freezing blizzard to halt corruption; a jolt of lightning to expel the sins of mortal life."
Some small Thaumaturgical facts below:
- Aether pools within ones self swell in times of intense fear and duress (fire 3/thundercloud procs anyone?? :D)
- There are 307 verses of funerary rites for the virtuous fallen.
- Thaumaturgy: The Yawning Abyss was written by Zozomaya.
- Priestess Mamane is strict about noise in the THM guild.
- The last will and testament of a patron of the Ossuary, which contains a vengeance order – a service provided by the thaumaturges whereby revenge is exacted upon who or whatever took the life of the deceased. Mostly these are acted out against the wildlife of Thanalan, such as stray billygoats or other attackers. Rarely will the Order deal with a murderer.
- Thaumaturges under the Order only accept laws from those with enough gil to 'pay a sultana's ransom', therefore they typically deal with the wealthy in ul'dah regarding the laws of the city.
- Should a Thaumaturge not have an appropriate amount of aether reserves within their body to work with, they are likely to end up killing themselves if they try to force more than a small flicker of flame of spark of lightning. Straining to get more aether from your reserves than you have can potentially ignite your very life blood, and in the worst case burn you alive from the inside out. (this is shown with black magic moreso than Thaumaturgy, however the principle is the same: too little aether you can safely work with coupled with trying to use too much to manipulate a spell = disaster for the caster, and a painful death.
- The Ossuary houses the order of nald'thal, and assists souls into Thal's realm. Thal does not only measure wealth in money, but in everything that the soul leaves behind in our world when passing on into his on their dying breath. This includes food, housing, gil, clothes, livestock, and anything else of value that you can't take with you into the after life.
(The following is information I have gathered on the Thaumaturges guild and the Order of Nald'thal from 1.0. a WIP for now!)
- Thaumaturges working with the Order are protected by the Order against vengeance deeds and wills, such as when a Thaumaturge exacts revenge on who or what had killed someone unnaturally and that now dead persons will requested vengeance, the Thaumaturge that executed them is protected from another coming after them in turn.
- Stated above, Thaumaturges of the ossuary will go through with vengeance wills for the Order of Nald'thal, and by taking on the burden of hatred and anger from the soul, it will be able to be at peace in Thal's realm. Compensation must me made in writing in the will before death for the deed to be carried out, as no payment will get services dismissed.
- Limsa is known for not liking the Order of Nald'thal, and it's hard to give them funeral rites because so many of them are lost at sea and without a corpse you can't really hold a proper funeral that the Order and Ossuary promises.
- All Thaumaturges under the Order must answer to it's laws, and can be executed by the Order if it comes to that. (such as murder, where a thaumaturge kills another outside of a vengeance will.)
- Your virtue is a measure of your very existence – your birth and station, childhood and (womanhood/manhood), knowledge and wisdom, power and wealth. Do not think wealth to be limited to the monetary. Wealth, to the Order, consists of all things a soul leaves behind when it departs this realm.
- Arrzaneth Ossuary guides its followers that they might leave as much in their wake as possible.
- The following is an example of a vengeance order: “My last will and testament… I hereby leave one third of my total estate to the Order of Nald’thal of the Arrzaneth Ossuary. In return for this consideration, I humbly request that my death be avenged should my days be cut short by unnatural causes.”
Bobofa is very skilled and deadly when it comes to thaumaturgy, as she has years of practice under her belt and is still continuing to use and practice the art to this day. She would never use deadly force on anyone outside of a vengeance order.
She is not physically strong at all, and can be easily picked up and restrained should anyone try. She is easy to push around and doesn't take a hit well, so physical combat she tends to stay out of.
Positive:
- Kukufeni: Her current partner, she enjoys his company and can usually be found with him. She likes how corny he is in private, and likes to tote him around places.
Neutral:
Negative:
- Bofa doesn't speak much with new people until she knows them. She likes to sit quietly and listen rather than speak in social situations, though when she is working, she is much more outgoing and authoritative.
- She has a taste for extremely spicy food.
- She wears flowers much of the time, mostly to cover up the scent of decay.
- Sometimes she wears eye coverings, due to 'thaumaturges eye' as she usually explains.
- Bofa can almost always be found in thanalan, and rarely leaves for the other cities.
- She has worked in the order of nald'thal most of her life and has never really pursued anything else.
- She is a master thaumaturge.
Some links to fanart here!
- Drawn by Cephis Rirlock
Common Rumours(Easy to overhear):
- I've never run into someone who walks so quietly, scared the blazes out of me, I swear!
- She teaches, you know.
- She's nasty when she does those vengeance wills, though I do feel safer knowing she'll be there for me if someone happens to kill me.
- She's very gentle, actually. I may have called her mom once or twice by mistake.
Moderate Rumours(Moderately easy to overhear):
- Hard to read, that one.
- She works too hard.
Rare Rumours(Difficult/rare to overhear):
- I hear she has bad dealings with the syndicate.
- She has access to some really dark stuff in that Order.
PC Rumours (Feel free to add!):
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