C'rhisi Tohbei

C'rhisi Tohbei
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Seekers of the Sun
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Tribe	Coeurl Tribe
Occupation	Dancer/Bartender/Bard
Guardian	Azeyma, the Warden
Age	19
Height	5'3"
Weight	125 lbs

Physical & Social Information

Basic Information

Born in the eastern Thanalan desert, the daughter of the jali or bardpriest of one of the villages of the Coeurl tribe, C'rhisi grew up with her life generally set out before her. When her eye color settled and it was determined she was heterochromic, the weight of destiny weighed even more heavily on her. She is out in the world as part of a tribal ritual where she is supposed to learn new things in order to bring new knowledge back to her tribe. She spent time in Gridania, studying with the Archer's Guild, and currently lives in Ul'dah where she spends time working as a dancer and bartender at the various bars and taverns (both high class and low) and her free time seeking out interesting stories, songs, poems, and knowledge.

C'rhisi has recently taken up with the Order of the Sword and Rose, a free company headed by one Konner Kinkaid and T'nara Fariq. She has begun travelling around Eorzea when not occupied in Ul'dah, seeking something that she has no name for.

Appearance

Height: 5'3"
Weight: 125 lbs
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Light/Dark Green (Heterochromic)
Build: Lean, Muscular
Identifying Marks: Pale blue tattoo around eyes and across cheekbones, darkened fur on tips of ears and tail.

Standing a hair over 5'3", C'rhisi is fairly tall for a Miqo'te, her ears lending her a good extra three inches as they are generally perked up and forward in intense curiousity. Her face is heart-shaped with wide cheekbones and a pointed chin and she has light striped markings along her cheekbones under her eyes and pointing down her forehead. Her eyes are large and odd-colored, her left a dark olive, her right a nearly color-less pale green, made striking by dark lashes and a sun-faded tattoo in pale blue that goes around them and across her cheeks. The miqo'te girl's short, bobbed hair is a dark blonde with natural highlights of paler yellow-gold where the sun has bleached it. The fur on her ears and tail echoes this coloration, though the tips of both are slightly darker, as are her eyebrows.

C'rhisi has clearly led a life of physical work, her figure muscular and toned, with long, lean, predatory lines. She has calluses on her fingertips from the bow, and keeps her usually half-sheathed nails quite long and sharp and often laquered in various hues for performances. She is built on a long frame but has generally passed the 'gangly' stage of life and, with her long training in dance, moves gracefully unless highly agitated or excited.

Her voice is pleasant and slightly low for a female with a hint of raspiness to it. She has excellent range when singing though is currently untutored in the finer points. Despite living in larger cities the last three years, she tends to communicate a great deal silently, using stance, facial expressions, and ear and tail positions.

Behavior

As with many entertainers, C'rhisi has a public and a private face. When on-stage, she is elegant and sensual. When behind the bar she always has an ear, a shoulder, and a smile. When not performing, however, C'rhisi is generally fairly quiet, happy to listen before speaking, slow to anger but not one to shy away from a fight when it's forced on her. She was brought up in a society where the good of the many really does outweigh the good of the one and so tends to be generous (sometimes to a fault), though living in Ul'dah has cured her of most of her altruistic tendancies. The miqo'te has a good heart and a fast smile and is the type to listen to any story- good or bad, true or false.

Born with the weight of great destiny on her shoulders, C'rhisi does find it difficult to make long-term or deep friendships and can sometimes be seen as shallow or aloof due to her reluctance and inexperience with such interactions.

Since joining with Konner Kinkaid and T'nara Fariq, C'rhisi has exhibited a talent for intuition and close observation, often catching small details. She has proven herself to be a fairly good mediator, though her temper, youth, and naievete still get in her way at times. She still finds it hard to let people in to get to know her, but seems to be truly enjoying the companionship of those she has met and is travelling with.

Combat

After her coming of age ceremony, C'rhisi began learning the talents of a hunter in her tribe- archery, tracking, how to dress a kill, and how to use a small knife. She was born the daughter of the jali of her village, a bard/priest/shaman, and due to her bloodline and the color of her eyes she began being taught at the breast the arts of her mother. She is not particularly talented at hand to hand combat and, though muscular, can be overpowered by beings larger than her fairly easily. C'rhisi has no compunctions about using any weapon to hand though, including her long nails or her sharp teeth.

The miqo'te girl was born into a warrior culture and violence is nothing new to her. She is not the kind to freeze in a fight.

Character Notes

Likes

• Dancing
• Stories
• Learning new things
• Archery
• Fish

Dislikes

• Beastmen
• Cruelty to the weak
• Bad tips
• Sprouts

Hobbies/Talents

• Storytelling/singing
• Wood-working
• Sharp-shooting

Other

• Frightened of large bodies of water
• Believes she is destined to return to her tribe with some great piece of knowledge
• Terrified of failure
• Is afraid of getting too close to people, due to her feelings that she must return to her village.

Relationships

Family

C'rhisi is the daughter of one of the highest ranking female members of her tribe and village. Her father is one of the older nunhs in the village, C'Tohbei Nunh, an accomplished hunter and warrior that is still successfully protecting his position against challengers in his middle age. She grew up with about a half-dozen half-brothers and half-sisters in the communal housing of her father's mates. She considers all the females mated to her father her aunts and all their children are her brothers and sisters. While she is out on her ritual of Singing the World, a type of coming of age rite, she is out of contact with her family, but she holds the entire village and the rest of her tribe close to her heart.

C'rahna Issei- C'rhisi's mother and the current jali of her village. Rhisi has a complex relationship with her mother- on the one hand, she is awed by her and loves her very deeply, but on the other hand she is terribly afraid of letting her down and of being considered an unworthy daughter and heir. This combination of awe and fear has created many of the conflicts in C'rhisi's personality and mind. C'lahni is an older miqo'te woman of perhaps fourty, powerful in the arts of healing, divination, mediation, alchemy, dance, and song. C'rhisi bears a strong resemblance to her.

The Master Hunter- A person that C'rhisi has mentioned several times in glowing terms, but never named. She is an older member of C'rhisi's village that, from her stories, taught C'rhisi the art of the bow as well as how to survive. C'rhisi holds her in very high regard.

Friends

C'rhisi is on good terms with the waitstaff, owners, and regular patrons of most of the bars in Ul'dah. She is known as a great bartender and an excellent dancer, a good draw. She enjoys hanging around the Blood Sands, watching the fights and taking in the atmosphere, and she is on speaking terms with many of the regulars there.

||* Sigga Stonebull- a patron and sometimes-bouncer. He has assisted with rowdy patrons before and as a result they have a casual acquaintance/friendship. ||* Konner Kinkaid, T'nara Fariq, 'Father' Zol, Grehn, Edgar, Yloise, and Mara. This is the group she has begun associating and travelling with in the last couple of months. While each is nominally a 'friend', C'rhisi has become very close to (and implicitly trusts) T'nara, looking up to her almost as an older sister.

Enemies

C'rhisi holds a deep, abiding hatred for the Amal'jaa, born of years of her tribe warring with the beast people due to their proximity to the lizard men's homeland of Pagi'than. She is wary of pirates in general, though this is a difficult conflict for her as they often tell excellent stories. C'rhisi is on the look out for a male miqo'te with a deeply scarred right arm as well as a male miqo'te that goes by the name 'Andras'.

History/Timeline

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C'rhisi was born on the 21st Sun of the 1st Umbral Moon in the year 1558 of the Sixth Astral Era, in a small village in the eastern Thanalan desert. Her mother, C'rahna Issei, chose the nunh C'Tohbei as her mate after several unsuccessful courting attempts by the other nunhs in the neighboring villages. As her mother is the jali of her home village, C'rhisi was born to be her heir and as such it was important that her father be one of the stronger, smarter nunhs. Tohbei filled that description well.

The miqo'te had a fairly atypical childhood for one of her tribe- she remained with her mother and her father's other wives and cubs until she was roughly three years old. At such time, her mother took up her duties as jali again and brought her cub along. Rhisi began learning by imitation the songs, dances, and spells that were her mother's stock-in-trade. Her mother may have started her so young due to the omen in her eyes- being that her eyes are odd-colored it was a great omen from Azeyma that she would be destined for great things. Since the jali are go-betweens for the spirits, the Goddess, and the tribe, her mother assumed that Rhisi would be involved somehow in some great act involving such things, so she started young and did not allow her daughter many of the normal childish activities.

At the age of twelve, Rhisi underwent her coming of age ritual. She found as she did that she had no real talent for embroidery or making things, ending up going out into the brush with a sharpened stick for a spear instead of the bow she had been meaning to create. Nevertheless, when she returned she was allowed to wear the adolescent clothing she had made, askew embroidery and all, and she was begrudgingly allowed to join a group of her peers in learning the arts of hunting- though her mother maintained that the rigors of being a jali and an apprentice hunter would be too great. Rhisi managed to balance everything on very little sleep and far too much work until she was seventeen.

At age seventeen, it was determined by the Master Hunter that Rhisi had learned all she could teach her and that it was time for her to undergo her final ritual- Hunting the World. Her mother balked at this suggestion, thinking her daughter was too young and that the spirits had not yet settled enough after the great Calamity. More in fear of the unknown than due to Rhisi's incompetence, C'rahna refused to allow the girl to go. Without her mother's agreement, Rhisi dwelt in a limbo- not an adult but too skilled to be considered a child. She grew sullen, unpleasant, and quarrelsome. Finally, a couple of months after Rhisi was meant to leave, C'rahna watched her daughter practicing a ritual dance and saw her unhappiness. Her heart was moved and she reluctantly gave her permission for C'rhisi to go on the condition that she not only complete the ritual of Hunting the World but also the ritual of Singing the World- meaning that C'rhisi would not be welcomed home until she had learned something that would help the spiritual and physical lives of her village.

C'rhisi went first to the Black Shroud, seeking out knowledge of the Keepers of the Moon as well as seeking to hone her archery skills with the Archer's Guild there. She would eventually find her way south to Ul'dah, where she resides currently, using her skills dancing and listening to bring in a little coin and to allow her to hear stories from all over Eorzea. She is certain that one of those stories, one of those legends, will lead her to the destiny her mother and her tribe believes she's to fulfill.

Character Addenda

OOC Notes

IC Connections

Character Inspirations: - Nancy from Sin City - Rachel Brice and Zoe Jakes

Your character might know C'Rhisi from: - One of the bars in Ul'dah, where she's danced and tended bar for the last 2 years or so. She has worked in several of the bars/dance halls in Ul'dah and currently does a 'circuit' every few weeks. - The Blood Sands- she enjoys watching matches. - Gridania- about 2 years ago, C'Rhisi spent a fair amount of time in Gridania, learning about the elementals native to the Black Shroud and studying with the Archer's school. - C'Rhisi goes -anywhere- there are stories being told. She loves listening to old drunks (or young drunks!), veterans, bards, whatever. She'll follow a song or a story across town like the smell of good baking!