Kallera Etoile

Kallera Etoile
Gender	female
Race	Elezen
Clan	Duskwight
Citizenship	Gridania

General Appearance/Markings

A Duskwight Elezen hailing from Gridania, Kallera is an adventurer of around 26 summers. She has pale white skin, dark freckles, and a small scar on her left cheek. Her hair is naturally black, though she has at times preferred red highlights. Her eyes are magenta, and she uses no lip coloring.

Basic Info

Despite attempting to start out as a craftswoman, Kallera has been known for being a fighter in her adventurering career, often taking levequests or protection jobs. Whether as a Dark Knight or a Pugilist, Kallera has a mild and understanding nature to those in need, which becomes a cold ruthlessness to her opponents once swords cross.

Kallera's accepting nature and perchant for odd jobs hides a restless soul, one who is realizing she lacks an understanding of the greater world around her.

Likes/Dislikes/Quirks

Likes:

• Martial Arts
• Chocobos
• teaching
• social gatherings
• Triple Triad

Dislikes:

• finances(is a penny pincher)
• aetherology
• city guards
• heat waves

Quirks:

• Gets annoyed when people address her as "Etoile"
• says a half filed glass is half empty.
• good with kids
• uses the wrong slang at times

History

Kallera is often light on the details of her pre calamity history, if she brings it up at all.

Childhood

Etoile Kallera's life began in the West forest of the Black Shroud, the only daughter of Jushiraux and Estelle Kallera, a pair of poachers who worked with the goblin merchants in the area. She knows of no other relatives. Her parents were loving and sweet, though much of their life revolved around showing other people only what they wanted to see, a trait Etoile took to heart. While her father was the brains of the couple, being a handyman and trapmaker, Etoile looked up to her mother, whose fighting skill made her look unstoppable to the young lass. For a time, Jushiraux and Estelle hid the details of their illegal business to Etoile, and Etoile's existence to just about anyone. Over time, however, the girl grew curious, and the threats grew closer to home. The couple feared for her future, since she could be a target for both wood wailers and thugs, or forced into a life of crime. They sought a better life for their daughter, and after teaching her some basics in the tanning trade and self defense, sent her away at the age of 13 to Gridania under a changed name.

pre calamity

Kallera's life since declaring her citizenship in Gridania has often been one of feast or famine. With the proceeds from adventuring part time, she got a start making and selling her wares on the market board. She worked up enough money for a comfortable living, and even fought in the defense of her home.

In the time after the battle of Carteneau, her wealth was lost in a cleical error due to her name change at the adventurer's guild.

post-calamity

After the calamity, Kallera was soon homeless, and her attempts at getting back her business was stopped at every turn, leaving her with selling her skills as a sellsword and laborer, gaining a knack for the hatchet. She was one of the victims in a scam among desperate adventurers involving fake job crystals. what she didn't know was that there was a genuine one among them. Fairly unknowledgeable about the abyss or aether, Kallera was hallucinating and hearing voices, convinced she was on until her mentor(ironically the one who planted it in the first place for a lead)taught her control over them. it was a tumultous relationship between the two however as she started to resent his lessons and handiwork. Despite being the recipient of his belongings, Kallera was unwilling to take up his work with stamping out Gridanian racism when he died, and bought a home in Lavender Beds, taking only his one retainer.

Remnants Fallen

She spent some time adventuring full time afterwards, her pugilist skill now more for the physical training, and her dark knight skills for adventuring. Meeting some other dark knights with control problems caused Kallera to spend some time teaching others as a fighting instructor, to her enjoyment and some success.

Shortly after her students left her to seek their own path, Kallera was among a large group of adventures that were caught in Odin's return in the South shroud. There she suffered a injury from the primal's attacks that affected her ability to safely manipulate aether. Unable to tap into her training as a Dark Knight, and finding her injury needing specific care, Kallera went back to her pugilist roots for a time, helping Kisumi Mimsy take in a Lalafell merchant for questioning.

Crescendo

Kallera had asked A'Vette Rayoh, also known as "The Crimson Songstress", to regale a stirring tale to A'Vette involving herself, a promise she had made when she first met the bard at the Drowning Wench... though the tale of Demoncet went unfinished, her own tale with A'Vette was just beginning. Brought in and welcomed as part of A'Vette and Alexis' growing family, Kallera helped the pair in various assignments and requests, including an attack on a Garlean installation that had been researching the Echo.

Personality

Kallera tends to keep her composure among others, Among a party, she tries to not be the leader, and prefers to seek guidance, though some situations demand her own disruptive touch. When alone or not on duty, she finds it easier to let out her stress and "take the low road."

Her style of glamour, whether as a disguise or in armor, wasn't without some glamored style. She takes this further as a pugilist with lighter clothing, though she has made a note to use some protection through using gauntlets and weapons that can turn away attacks.

While not as much as before, Kallera still chafes at being referred to as "Etoile". Changed when she first entered Gridania, Kallera considers it overly personal, and it often comes with trouble. Note: When Kallera is "not herself" (via darkside, the echo, or some other controlling influence) , the writing will refer to her as Etoile until she begins to recover...