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<li>Kahto'a Taihra (''7 years old; son, alive'')</li> | <li>Kahto'a Taihra (''7 years old; son, alive'')</li> | ||
<li>Mahsi Lajihri (''22; years old; female, alive, adopted'')</li> | <li>Mahsi Lajihri (''22; years old; female, alive, adopted'')</li> | ||
− | <li>Leehli | + | <li>Leehli Taihra (''female, 21 at death, adopted'')</li> |
<li>A'ahmin Lajihri (''18; female, alive'')</li></ul> | <li>A'ahmin Lajihri (''18; female, alive'')</li></ul> | ||
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− | <small>Cirhien Taihra is a widowed Miqo'te Keeper with at least one official residence in Limsa Lominsa known to those that might attempt to locate her. She was trained in the archer's art in Gridania in the Shroud among kin that remain there. As a retired Maelstrom First Lieutenant and a veteran of the battle of Carteneau in Mor Dhona, the bard is an oft quick-tongued woman that is apt to say what is on her mind or keep her silence when she has naught to speak. In the years since the Calamity and her retirement, she has spent much of her time at various tasks for the tending of her daughters and young son, now in mourning for one of the eldest of her adopted children. Despite the Calamity and other troubles, she has learned to keep her chin up, her wits about her, and a sharp eye for all things. | + | <small>Cirhien Vhitsrah, once Taihra through an ill-fated marriage, is a widowed Miqo'te Keeper with at least one official residence in Limsa Lominsa known to those that might attempt to locate her. She was trained in the archer's art in Gridania in the Shroud among kin that remain there. As a retired Maelstrom First Lieutenant and a veteran of the battle of Carteneau in Mor Dhona, the bard is an oft quick-tongued woman that is apt to say what is on her mind or keep her silence when she has naught to speak. In the years since the Calamity and her retirement, she has spent much of her time at various tasks for the tending of her daughters and young son, now in mourning for one of the eldest of her adopted children. Despite the Calamity and other troubles, she has learned to keep her chin up, her wits about her, and a sharp eye for all things. |
With a bit of a gift of what she calls intuition, though is, in fact, the Echo about the woman, she has a perhaps an odd fascination with books and reading for one of her kind, supposedly. A skilled and dedicated songstress, bard, and poetess, the moon-kissed haired woman has done all manner of jobs, maintaining a heavy pride in even the dirty work, and sometimes especially. She considers herself more of a lover than a fighter but has a reputation for both for those with the right sort of ear to the ground. Having served both shipside as well as land, she often downplays her considerable martial ability unless riled, and prefers to place most everyone in an arm's length, friendly position. Like her mother before her, Cirhien has also served as an entertainer and courtesan over her life, and is known to find places to sell perfectly politely acquired Garlean ''"trade goods"''. A diminutive spitfire, the once-Matriarch is as well a bit of a tease, for as loyal as she can be, when the fancy strikes her. | With a bit of a gift of what she calls intuition, though is, in fact, the Echo about the woman, she has a perhaps an odd fascination with books and reading for one of her kind, supposedly. A skilled and dedicated songstress, bard, and poetess, the moon-kissed haired woman has done all manner of jobs, maintaining a heavy pride in even the dirty work, and sometimes especially. She considers herself more of a lover than a fighter but has a reputation for both for those with the right sort of ear to the ground. Having served both shipside as well as land, she often downplays her considerable martial ability unless riled, and prefers to place most everyone in an arm's length, friendly position. Like her mother before her, Cirhien has also served as an entertainer and courtesan over her life, and is known to find places to sell perfectly politely acquired Garlean ''"trade goods"''. A diminutive spitfire, the once-Matriarch is as well a bit of a tease, for as loyal as she can be, when the fancy strikes her. | ||
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− | <small>Devoted to Llymlaen's grace, Cirhien presents herself as a rather devout believer in the twelve though has no qualms using the names of the gods as creative curses. While born in to a Miqo'te prostitute by the name of Zisin Lajihri in Limsa whom was born in turn to the Matriarch Kahtori | + | <small>Devoted to Llymlaen's grace, Cirhien presents herself as a rather devout believer in the twelve though has no qualms using the names of the gods as creative curses. While born in to a Miqo'te prostitute by the name of Zisin Lajihri in Limsa whom was born in turn to the Matriarch Kahtori Vhitsrah, a now deceased White Mage, her mother had little interest in her after she began to grow from an infant to a toddler and adopted by one of her mother's Hyur lovers, she has come relatively far in her travels and life. While it is almost never spoken of, Cirhien was fathered by a traditionally wandering Keeper 'Scholar' male whom took a deep liking to her mother, and was said to vanish not long after Cirhien was born as her mother refused his offer to remain, or to aid with the child upbringing. Her openness regarding people in a wide sense is perhaps clearest with her late marriage to a reasonably well known Keeper Miqo'te Archer trainer, bard and privateer despite being reluctantly raised by a Highlander Hyur, in which love nearly did conquer all. The Taihra name is a that of a still fairly middling family grouping within the Northern Shroud and was at one time connected to the Vhitsrah-Lajihri through ties of marriage and mating, though these connections have somewhat broken. At one time the Taihra name was one synonymous with fine, honourable archery among the Keepers. While her husband's mother and father are gone, not all of the Taihra folk have vanished due to the Calamity or other difficulties; many of her husband's siblings remain. Cirhien likewise has an unknown number of half siblings through her father, who is a third cousin of her grandmother's maternal line. Some few of her grandmother's younger siblings are also stil living. |
− | Indeed, even so, despite this sad setback, Mistress | + | Indeed, even so, despite this sad setback, Mistress Vhitsrah - as she yet calls herself in her late husband's honour quite oddly though she is a Keeper, seems wrapped in determination, with passion as her lease and lead. For those observant folk that are Limsa-born, it could be noted that the woman is oft busy with one job or another while she lives in a palatial mansion in Mist. Her son lives fully with his aunt these days as was planned with his birth, while the woman's daughters (both adopted and natural) are of an age that their lives are their own among what remains of her late husband's family. Due their ages and the number of losses among the Taihra women, she has permitted her daughters to take the 'Taihra' surname when they choose to wed and remain among those that live still in the Northern Shroud, surrendering her rights as Matriarch to the girls in favour of her husband's elder sister, due to the woman's inability to have children of her own. For six and a half years now her husband has been dead and a year before that imprisoned, while matters between Kahto'a and herself are quiet but bittersweet. Between her elder children and the youngest rests a considerable gap; the eldest, A'ahmin is half Seeker, fathered by an old friend believed lost long ago, and as a result, entirely raised as a Keeper. The two eldest, Leehli and Mahsi, were twin girls and nearly arrived upon their majority together before a brutal accident took Leehli's life some moons ago. Both were fathered by her late husband and one of the man's various lovers long deceased and as such, are fully blooded Keeper. The woman's young son is named for her maternal grandmother, due to an old promise that was painfully given and kept, rather than following strict tradition.</small> |
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<small>Possessed of long platinum hair while being a relatively average woman for a Miqo'te, Cirhien cuts a figure that is dutiful and often occupied with one task or another, all to the purpose of those considered family. A melodic contralto voice that is surprisingly educated has been known to turn a head or two, but rather in admiration or uncertainty that is of course, for the bearer to know. Generally, she carries either a bow or a stringed instrument on her person, while a satchel of books is often a presence. In addition to her pale facial markings, she has some tattoo work; upon her back is a middling detailed tattoo of a lute and a Gridanian tree while her arms are covered in a rosebud and thistle floral motif from shoulder to fingertip. | <small>Possessed of long platinum hair while being a relatively average woman for a Miqo'te, Cirhien cuts a figure that is dutiful and often occupied with one task or another, all to the purpose of those considered family. A melodic contralto voice that is surprisingly educated has been known to turn a head or two, but rather in admiration or uncertainty that is of course, for the bearer to know. Generally, she carries either a bow or a stringed instrument on her person, while a satchel of books is often a presence. In addition to her pale facial markings, she has some tattoo work; upon her back is a middling detailed tattoo of a lute and a Gridanian tree while her arms are covered in a rosebud and thistle floral motif from shoulder to fingertip. | ||
− | Mistress | + | Mistress Vhitsrah's expressive face does have a notable scar over her left eye, though the eye still functions. Often, she is seen with an eyepatch, or baring that, spectacles. From her seafaring adoptive father that had very little understanding of his Ala Mhigan heritage, she gained a steady understanding of people other than Miqo'te as well as a tongue that is occasionally known to cut as well as any blade. From her prostitute mother she learned that abandonment for some, was easily done, yet, as she had known the woman by name and heritage only, and near faded memories of a haunting voice, it was not held against her. Certain what is clear to those that know the look is the air of the matron as well as one that might lean toward exploration and adventure. While possessed of keen senses and an appreciation for the forest and able to see it for the beauty of the trees, her heart, belongs firmly to the sea. Her education was largely received in matters of books and magic through her Great Aunt, an Under Archon very well trained in Sharlayan practices, while the grandmother she knew very briefly taught her healing magic. Water and Air are her deepest gifts regarding the path of elements; where earth magic comes as a close second. A tiny tattoo of a Maelstrom sigil rests upon the woman's left arm, wrapped in the vines and rosebuds to obscure. </small> |
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: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Name: [[Vasir'li Solhu]] : Keeper Miqo'te Male that Cirhien is acquainted with through less than legal business ties and piracy. Of those longer known in her life that isn't imprisoned or dead, Cirhien trusts Vasir'li the most. Desperately wishes he could be or find happiness, so quite often is delighted to sing his praises to anyone that might be inclined to listen. Attractive, broody, can hold his alcohol, and his silver eyes easily melt her spine even if she's unwilling to directly say she's in love with him and has been for years. Mate to Rhysa Verkou. | : <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Name: [[Vasir'li Solhu]] : Keeper Miqo'te Male that Cirhien is acquainted with through less than legal business ties and piracy. Of those longer known in her life that isn't imprisoned or dead, Cirhien trusts Vasir'li the most. Desperately wishes he could be or find happiness, so quite often is delighted to sing his praises to anyone that might be inclined to listen. Attractive, broody, can hold his alcohol, and his silver eyes easily melt her spine even if she's unwilling to directly say she's in love with him and has been for years. Mate to Rhysa Verkou. | ||
− | : <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#960018;" size="3">♥♥</font>Name: Vahsrin'a Saialdhe : Male Miqo'te Keeper, a generous patron and underworld boss that appears to know all of Cirhien's good buttons to press; whether he could be more (or ought to be) is a matter the | + | : <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> <font style="color:#960018;" size="3">♥♥</font>Name: Vahsrin'a Saialdhe : Male Miqo'te Keeper, a generous once-patron and former underworld boss that appears to know all of Cirhien's good buttons to press; whether he could be more (or ought to be) is a matter the Keeper is very much in denial regarding depending on the day and even perhaps the shift of ocean waves. Very drawn to his dark side, but who wouldn't be? He's an older man with at least one child and is absolutely stunning to look at. Other than another old friend, he's one of a very, very few that have drawn her attention and held it in terms of hearts bonding. More recently, he's become the first of any mates that she's committed to in more than five years, and she one of his since her late husband Loren'zi's murder. Tenderly accepting of her as a courtesan in every way. Their relationship is an open one. |
: <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Name: [[Etani'a Sedi]] : One of Cirhien's co-workers and a friend at the Wanderer's Elysium; fellow courtesan and entertainer she often seeks advice from. Remains well respected. Given that one would have to be dead not to find Etani'a beautiful, and Cirhien is not, she is slightly attracted despite Tani's preference for males. | : <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Name: [[Etani'a Sedi]] : One of Cirhien's co-workers and a friend at the Wanderer's Elysium; fellow courtesan and entertainer she often seeks advice from. Remains well respected. Given that one would have to be dead not to find Etani'a beautiful, and Cirhien is not, she is slightly attracted despite Tani's preference for males. | ||
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− | File:CirhienbustbyDivine.jpg|<small>Cirhien Taihra, art commission by [http://divinedespair.tumblr.com Divine Despair]</small> | + | File:CirhienbustbyDivine.jpg|<small>Cirhien Vhitsrah (Taihra), art commission by [http://divinedespair.tumblr.com Divine Despair]</small> |
− | File:Cirhienoceanclose2.png|<small>Cirhien Taihra, screenshot</small> | + | File:Cirhienoceanclose2.png|<small>Cirhien Vhitsrah(Taihra), screenshot</small> |
− | File:CirhienbyMelfias.jpg|<small>Cirhien Taihra, art commission by [https://melfias.tumblr.com Melfias]</small> | + | File:CirhienbyMelfias.jpg|<small>Cirhien Vhitsrah (Taihra), art commission by [https://melfias.tumblr.com Melfias]</small> |
− | Cirhienintrospective.png|<small>Cirhien Taihra, screenshot</small> | + | Cirhienintrospective.png|<small>Cirhien Vhitsrah (Taihra), screenshot</small> |
File:Loren'ziTaira.jpg|<small>Cirhien's deceased husband, Loren'zi Taihra</small> | File:Loren'ziTaira.jpg|<small>Cirhien's deceased husband, Loren'zi Taihra</small> | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:38, 16 September 2019
Cirhien Vhitsrah, once Taihra through an ill-fated marriage, is a widowed Miqo'te Keeper with at least one official residence in Limsa Lominsa known to those that might attempt to locate her. She was trained in the archer's art in Gridania in the Shroud among kin that remain there. As a retired Maelstrom First Lieutenant and a veteran of the battle of Carteneau in Mor Dhona, the bard is an oft quick-tongued woman that is apt to say what is on her mind or keep her silence when she has naught to speak. In the years since the Calamity and her retirement, she has spent much of her time at various tasks for the tending of her daughters and young son, now in mourning for one of the eldest of her adopted children. Despite the Calamity and other troubles, she has learned to keep her chin up, her wits about her, and a sharp eye for all things.
With a bit of a gift of what she calls intuition, though is, in fact, the Echo about the woman, she has a perhaps an odd fascination with books and reading for one of her kind, supposedly. A skilled and dedicated songstress, bard, and poetess, the moon-kissed haired woman has done all manner of jobs, maintaining a heavy pride in even the dirty work, and sometimes especially. She considers herself more of a lover than a fighter but has a reputation for both for those with the right sort of ear to the ground. Having served both shipside as well as land, she often downplays her considerable martial ability unless riled, and prefers to place most everyone in an arm's length, friendly position. Like her mother before her, Cirhien has also served as an entertainer and courtesan over her life, and is known to find places to sell perfectly politely acquired Garlean "trade goods". A diminutive spitfire, the once-Matriarch is as well a bit of a tease, for as loyal as she can be, when the fancy strikes her.
While her aetheric gifts are known only by those that have managed to get the woman to part with such dangerous information given its largely illegal status, on the face, she is both bardic and the studious courtesan devoted to the arts of entertainment and pleasure. In her service aboard both the occasional pirate ship or later, forced Maelstrom command, she was known to shoot first and ask questions after the fact, which was an impulse needing to be suppressed after shifting to a somewhat more legal status. If asked, the Siren would admit to only doing as much as to keep herself in pleasant comfort, and most that have met the lady know the calling only as a name used on the stage, when once it was due to her cruelty and tearing sailors to their richly deserved deaths first in working for her adopted father, and later, other Captains. It was an eventually run in with troubling matters surrounding maritime law that caused the lady to change her stripes, at least in appearance. Having thoroughly played both sides, the lovely miqo'te has a toe both in the darkness, as well as light.
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Basic Info
Devoted to Llymlaen's grace, Cirhien presents herself as a rather devout believer in the twelve though has no qualms using the names of the gods as creative curses. While born in to a Miqo'te prostitute by the name of Zisin Lajihri in Limsa whom was born in turn to the Matriarch Kahtori Vhitsrah, a now deceased White Mage, her mother had little interest in her after she began to grow from an infant to a toddler and adopted by one of her mother's Hyur lovers, she has come relatively far in her travels and life. While it is almost never spoken of, Cirhien was fathered by a traditionally wandering Keeper 'Scholar' male whom took a deep liking to her mother, and was said to vanish not long after Cirhien was born as her mother refused his offer to remain, or to aid with the child upbringing. Her openness regarding people in a wide sense is perhaps clearest with her late marriage to a reasonably well known Keeper Miqo'te Archer trainer, bard and privateer despite being reluctantly raised by a Highlander Hyur, in which love nearly did conquer all. The Taihra name is a that of a still fairly middling family grouping within the Northern Shroud and was at one time connected to the Vhitsrah-Lajihri through ties of marriage and mating, though these connections have somewhat broken. At one time the Taihra name was one synonymous with fine, honourable archery among the Keepers. While her husband's mother and father are gone, not all of the Taihra folk have vanished due to the Calamity or other difficulties; many of her husband's siblings remain. Cirhien likewise has an unknown number of half siblings through her father, who is a third cousin of her grandmother's maternal line. Some few of her grandmother's younger siblings are also stil living.
Indeed, even so, despite this sad setback, Mistress Vhitsrah - as she yet calls herself in her late husband's honour quite oddly though she is a Keeper, seems wrapped in determination, with passion as her lease and lead. For those observant folk that are Limsa-born, it could be noted that the woman is oft busy with one job or another while she lives in a palatial mansion in Mist. Her son lives fully with his aunt these days as was planned with his birth, while the woman's daughters (both adopted and natural) are of an age that their lives are their own among what remains of her late husband's family. Due their ages and the number of losses among the Taihra women, she has permitted her daughters to take the 'Taihra' surname when they choose to wed and remain among those that live still in the Northern Shroud, surrendering her rights as Matriarch to the girls in favour of her husband's elder sister, due to the woman's inability to have children of her own. For six and a half years now her husband has been dead and a year before that imprisoned, while matters between Kahto'a and herself are quiet but bittersweet. Between her elder children and the youngest rests a considerable gap; the eldest, A'ahmin is half Seeker, fathered by an old friend believed lost long ago, and as a result, entirely raised as a Keeper. The two eldest, Leehli and Mahsi, were twin girls and nearly arrived upon their majority together before a brutal accident took Leehli's life some moons ago. Both were fathered by her late husband and one of the man's various lovers long deceased and as such, are fully blooded Keeper. The woman's young son is named for her maternal grandmother, due to an old promise that was painfully given and kept, rather than following strict tradition.
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Appearance & Personality
Possessed of long platinum hair while being a relatively average woman for a Miqo'te, Cirhien cuts a figure that is dutiful and often occupied with one task or another, all to the purpose of those considered family. A melodic contralto voice that is surprisingly educated has been known to turn a head or two, but rather in admiration or uncertainty that is of course, for the bearer to know. Generally, she carries either a bow or a stringed instrument on her person, while a satchel of books is often a presence. In addition to her pale facial markings, she has some tattoo work; upon her back is a middling detailed tattoo of a lute and a Gridanian tree while her arms are covered in a rosebud and thistle floral motif from shoulder to fingertip.
Mistress Vhitsrah's expressive face does have a notable scar over her left eye, though the eye still functions. Often, she is seen with an eyepatch, or baring that, spectacles. From her seafaring adoptive father that had very little understanding of his Ala Mhigan heritage, she gained a steady understanding of people other than Miqo'te as well as a tongue that is occasionally known to cut as well as any blade. From her prostitute mother she learned that abandonment for some, was easily done, yet, as she had known the woman by name and heritage only, and near faded memories of a haunting voice, it was not held against her. Certain what is clear to those that know the look is the air of the matron as well as one that might lean toward exploration and adventure. While possessed of keen senses and an appreciation for the forest and able to see it for the beauty of the trees, her heart, belongs firmly to the sea. Her education was largely received in matters of books and magic through her Great Aunt, an Under Archon very well trained in Sharlayan practices, while the grandmother she knew very briefly taught her healing magic. Water and Air are her deepest gifts regarding the path of elements; where earth magic comes as a close second. A tiny tattoo of a Maelstrom sigil rests upon the woman's left arm, wrapped in the vines and rosebuds to obscure.
Biography
As a child, Cirhien was inquisitive and ever seeking new enjoyments. She grew out of childhood upon her father's ship, off and on somewhat, Llymlaen's Embrace. At around the age of fifteen, her father decided to retire, at least mostly, to his opinion from piracy, and settled in Limsa Lominsa where he'd grown up. As an adolescent and young lady, she gained the sharp tongue and a steady eye much like the father that took her in, and so much - it was suggested by a friend of her family that she seek out the seemingly distant Gridania for teaching in Archery rather than complete reliance on her father's restaurant, Bloody Sun, which tended to draw a certain sort of former and present privateer clientele. She spent some years in Gridania, which was eventually where she met her husband, Loren'zi Taihra, one of her many tutors in the art. Eventually, she gave one child of the Taihra line in addition to her half-blooded daughter specifically for her barren sister-in-law to raise, who was born just before the man was executed due to a false accusation of poaching accepted as fact. Still mourning her husband's loss, Cirhien spends her time performing as many odd jobs as possible, though lately seems very settled in her life as a courtesan and dealer on the side. As a result of losing her husband to a false charge of Poaching and trying to raise a very solemn son that barely recalls his father due the loss, she is very protective of her private life, but at the same time deeply wishes for friends that would not judge her for her winding path.
Miscellaneous
Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players)
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Gallery
Cirhien Vhitsrah (Taihra), art commission by Divine Despair
Cirhien Vhitsrah (Taihra), art commission by Melfias
Footnotes
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