Maral Oronir
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- Maral is a martial arts specialist hailing from one of the branches of the nomadic Oronir clan. She was born on the continent of Othard somewhere in the Azim Steppes. She migrated to Eorzea six cycles prior and settled in Ul'dah for a time to improve her pugilist skills. Her deceptively petite body hides a powerful form. Maral has currently been accepted into the Turuk Bairon clan, and is now known as Maral Bairon.
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Appearance & Personality
- Standing taller than the average Xaelean woman at 5'2, Maral boasts a strong body despite her petite frame due to hard and intense training. Fluffy, dark brown hair has been cut in layers and is laced with natural orange highlights. Midnight scales are scattered along bark brown skin, which save for her scarred and calloused hands, feet and shins is smooth and well taken care of. She wears only a little gloss on her full lips and a bit of eye shadow, but otherwise doesn't bother with makeup. For clothing Maral prefers anything that she feels flatters her figure, or that is loose and would do well for her in a spar. She is proud of her body, and has no qualms about displaying it, being of the belief that all beings are blessings of Azim, and therefore are perfect and beautiful.
- At times Maral can come off as oblivious, often not getting what seems even the simplest jokes or innuendos. While she tends to lack common sense, she posseses keen observational skills. Maral's strengths come in her ability to see things through not from an emotional perspective, but from what she feels to be the most logical standpoint to her.
Biography
Childhood
- Born in the Oronir clan, Maral grew up with her twin sister Xailaee. A brash and outgoing youth, she often skipped out on lessons and clan teachings to play, explore, and train. Unless it had to do with training, hunting, or animal husbandry, she was usually uninterested. When at gatherings and doing trades with other clans, she would often pick fights with other children, looking for spars and claiming she was trying to get stronger. Her parents inability to tame their wild and unruly daughter drove the Chieftess of the clan to grow frustrated with the child, and talks began to marry her off into a suitable clan when she came of age.
Teenage
- At sixteen summers Maral left the clan and managed to head to Kugane, where she boarded a smuggler's ship headed to Eorzea along with a handful of other Xaela and domans who were hoping to head there to do trade or find family/work in a foreign land. Things quickly went south when their destination abruptly changed and it was discovered their ship was actually a slaver ship and the crew had been hired to take and 'condition' the cargo before presenting them for auction to the black market in Ul'dah. While Maral and a few others attempted to fight back, and even kill a few of the slavers, the first rebellion was quickly - and brutally - subdued with those responsible made harsh examples of. After weeks of mental and physical torture the soon-to-be slaves were about to give up as the ship readied to pull into port. But what greeted the slavers was not the rest of their crew, but a small band of mercenaries. With what little strength left, some of the victims helped fight back once freed. Maral, faced with feeling an unbridled rage and hatred she had never experienced before, also took to the attack, especially when reinforcements did arrive. She fought with such ferocity despite her battered frame that she caught the attention of one of the mercenaries who would become an important figure in her life - Maria Zolts.
- After everything that happened, the victims were left lost and without purpose. While the Brass Blades took them in temporarily, Maria took in the young Xaela. The language barrier and Maral's shattered trust in others made things extremely difficult at first. Still, over time Maria taught the girl how to read and write, fed her, and gave her shelter. After a while she even took Maral out on missions with her, simply saying the young girl needed an outlet for her rage.
"Control your darkness, don't let it control you. Rage is a tool, don't let it be your weakness."
- Two cycles later, Maral parted ways from Maria. Armed with knowledge on how to read and write in Eorzean, along with some basic history and anything else Maria tried to cram in her head that would stick, she set off on her own to continue training her body. During her time with Maria she felt a change come over her, a need to settle the disquiet within. Maral spent the next four cycles traveling alone throughout Eorzea, meeting others, fighting, studying other martial art styles, getting lost, working odd jobs so she could feed herself when hunting didn't work out. As she traveled, saw wonderous sights, meditated and learned, she began to find an inner peace within herself.
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Footnotes
- Maral Oronir can be found on the Balmung server
- Updated: 4/29/17
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