Kannadi Albedo

Kannadi Albedo
The Professional
Race	Hyur
Clan	Midlander
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Age	26
Namesday	Second Sun, Fifth Astral Moon
Occupations	Ecologist, researcher
Disciplines	Thaumaturge, Conjurer, Goldsmith, Weaver
Deity	Azeyma, the Warden

Kannadi Albedo (KAHN-ah-dee ● al-BAY-doh) is a scholar of monsters, behavior, and monster behavior. Somehow she has managed to fit that into an aristocratic upbringing.

Physical Description

Though tallish for a Midlander woman, Kannadi is more identifiable by her style of dress: even in the oppressive heat of Thanalan, she's rarely out of long sleeves and unbroken skin coverage neck to toe. Gloves aren't uncommon for her either. The style and material of it all trends toward the expensive.

Above the neck, her skin is a medium brown, her eyes are gray, and her hair is dark brown and very exactingly kept. She often wears jewelry as well, save for field work where it might get damaged.

The typical length and coverage of her clothing conceals a fit "long-distance" physique, the sort honed through long days of extensive walking, hiking, and monster study. She couldn't out-sprint a cactuar, but she could outpace most monsters, as she occasionally must when they do not take kindly to being studied.

Personality

Polite with permanently proper diction and fastidious attention to detail, which some may confuse for haughtiness but which is simply indicative of her adherence to educated professionalism. She's very much a scholar and defines herself by what she knows and doesn't know. What she knows is monster ecology, the behaviors and interactions of all those creatures of potential threat to adventurers and civilians alike. On that subject she is authoritative and (tries to be) interesting.

Kannadi is rarely angered, just annoyed or disappointed -- and even on those occasions when she is angry, she's not apt to show it beyond curtness and withering looks.

Her careful investments and her family's wealth have put her in the enviable position of not needing to do much work at all, which has caused her no shortage of guilt. In response to how Ul'dah's less fortunate live and what other wealthy Ul'dahns do with their freedom, Kannadi donates frequently and generously between her deliberately long hours of crafting, researching, and/or writing.

She also has a dry sense of humor and occasionally makes observations which employ it.

Background

Kannadi is who you get when a decade and a half of expensive high-class education helps sculpt, but fails to completely stick to, a smart young lady who has a passion for scientific observation and a knack for magic. In addition to being a goldsmith and weaver of profitable talent, she is a published author of informative booklets on notorious monsters as well as the uncredited co-author of On the Properties of Beastmen. (Don't get her started on that one.)

Her education and personal wealth allowed her to follow her whims, which led her through a geological survey bureau, a research/exploration academy, and most lately a certain league of adventurers. What impact she has on Eorzea at large is currently light, as she is fond of roaming monster paths or lodging herself in her study, but she has risen through the ranks of the Immortal Flames with respectable speed. She currently holds an officer's commission as Second Lieutenant.

Family

Family is very important to Kannadi, being that she is the product of two notable ones.

The Albedos are a family of great wealth, amassed through wise investments, generations of compound interest, and carnivorous real estate deals all across Eorzea. Mori Albedo was once Ul'dah's seventh wealthiest citizen, close enough to the Syndicate to smell it yet be denied entry. When he died under sudden and mysterious circumstances, his ambitious and imposing wife Karen inherited his wealth and gained the Syndicate seat he sought. Karen "the Silver Giant" Albedo sat there very comfortably for thirty-five years until she stepped down in 1567.

The Lahar family is among the oldest in Ul'dah's textile industry, yet not always the luckiest. The Garlean attack dealt a devastating triple blow to the Lahars: their substantial trade concerns with Ala Mhigo were wiped out, the heir to the family was killed, and his wife immolated herself out of grief. Only now is the family business starting to resurface with a focus on very-high-end products and considerable help from the Albedos.

Father: Torrent Albedo (50)

Mother: Avani Lahar-Albedo (47)

Siblings: None

Cousins: Albedos Zulfiqar (30), Rasim (28), Leyla (25), Dima (21), Nadra (17), and Haytham (10); Lahars Airavata (20) and Akupara (20)

Aunts: Aicha Kandida-Albedo (49); Amrita Raji-Lahar (38)

Uncles: Alicanto (55) and Rilo Albedo (40); Avinash Lahar (51)

Grandmother: Karen Albedo (79)

Published Works

• Concerning Kobolds

A brief pamphlet on the kobold beastkin. Out of print, copies impossible to find.

• Fatal Fauna of Thanalan

An informative booklet of Thanalan's twelve deadliest monster species.

• On Notorious Monsters

An informative listing of notorious monsters for all adventurers of Eorzea. Written in 1572, yet out of print by 1577 due to being a whole realm out of date, it is still possible to find among rare book dealers.

• On the Properties of Beastmen

A scientific study of beastmen, for which Kannadi is an uncredited co-author. She was left off the byline over a disagreement regarding the book's sale price; she wanted it cheaper.

Theme Music

General: Rabao (FFXI Piano Collection)

Battle: Something to Protect (FFIX OST)

Emotional: Rose of May (FFIX OST)

In Study: Whispers of the Gods (FFXI Piano Collection)

Internal Struggle: Aishou (Fullmetal Alchemist OST 3)