Namimi Nami

Namimi Nami
Redcap
Gender	Female
Race	Lalafell
Clan	Plainsfolk
Citizenship	Limsa Lominsa
Place of Birth	Limsa Lominsa
Guardian	Llymlaen, the Navigator
Nameday	10th Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon (Age: 28)
Occupation	Adventurer
Pronunciation	"nɑ-mi-mi nɑ-mi"

Namimi Nami is a Lominsan adventurer. Sold into slavery at a young age, Namimi was rescued by a member of the Upright Thieves and eventually became a member of the Rogues' Guild. After the Calamity, she became an adventurer and joined the Maelstrom, using her skills in information-gathering and bladework. In the past year, she took up ninja training with Doman refugees, and aided the Doman Liberation Front in liberating and reconstructing their homeland.

Appearance

Nami hails from Limsa Lominsa.

Basic Info Height: 2'10" Weight: 40 ponzes Complexion: Pale with Freckles Hair: Blonde Eyes: Green Particular Traits: Voice: Contralto with Lominsan Brogue; Speaks in Thieves' Cant Clothing Style: Prefers Pants to Skirts, Red Beret Laterality: Ambidextrous

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Tropes ■ Hot-Blooded

Intelligence

Quirks Nami peppers her speech with rogue terminology.

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Abilities and Skills

Personal ■ Quick Thinker

Weapons ■ Knives

Magic ■ Ninjutsu

Crafting ■ Fishing

Family and Relationships

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Affiliations

■ The Maelstrom

■ Rogues' Guild

■ Doman Refugees

■ Bloody Executioners

Rumors

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Biography

Early Life

Born in Limsa Lominsa in 1549 of the Sixth Astral Era, Namimi's mother—a fishwife's daughter—became smitten with a smooth-talking merchant who left her not long after she became pregnant. Disowned by her parents for her actions, Namimi's mother struggled to provide while homeless in the city, but ultimately succumbed to the lung rot when Namimi was five years old. The sole keepsake from her late mother, a red beret gifted to her by her father, remains with Namimi to this day. Namimi lived as a pickpocket within the city-state until the day she was taken against her will by a pirate. Namimi was rounded up with a group of children—including a young "Captain" Jacke Swallow—to be sold into slavery. They stole both the freedom and innocence of the children, and Namimi would never fully recover from the experience.

This blatant violation of the Lominsan code of conduct attracted the attention of the Upright Thieves. It was a nameless rogue who would liberate Namimi, Jacke, and the other children from bondage, yet the young Lalafell had no home to return to and refused to return to life in the orphanage. At the age of thirteen, she graduated from pickpocketing to working in the Lominsan underworld as a smuggler, helping move and fence contraband ranging from illicit substances such as somnus and pluto to weaponry ranging from firearms to explosives. She also proved a deft hand at forgery, which is how she discovered her gift with language. For the next five years, she gained renown for her skill as a smuggler and formed a network of connections with most of the city-state's pirate crews.

The Rogues' Guild

By her eighteenth nameday, Namimi Nami was known as a woman who could get almost anything in and out of the city. One day, she was visited by Jacke, who decided to confront her in person upon discovering their shared past. While she initially denied any accusation that she had broken the code, when Jacke showed her proof that she had unwittingly abetted a crew of slavers who dealt in kidnapped children, her smarmy attitude quickly gave way to horror and self-disgust. Not only did she fully cooperate with Jacke, she offered to personally lend a hand to his efforts—an offer he quickly rejected fearing her inexperience in their ways would prove a hindrance. During the guild's infiltration of the slavers' flagship, they found that their enemies came prepared to deal with them.

Namimi, however, managed to even the odds, freeing the captives and seeing them to safety while the rogues fought the pirates, then setting the ship ablaze using her smuggled explosives. She joined the guild in battle and, though her bladework was yet unpolished, she helped even the odds for the rogues. At the end of the night, the slavers lay dead, the children were all safe and accounted for, and Jacke welcomes Namimi as a new member of the Rogues' Guild. And so it went, for five years Namimi punished those as break the code as a member of the "Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss," putting her skills and connections to use for the good of the common man. She became a master of knives, and even came to see the guild as a surrogate family.

After the Calamity

When the Seventh Umbral Calamity came, Namimi attempted to save as many souls as she could from the flames of Bahamut. She used her size and agility to sneak into burning and crumbling buildings, and helped pull many of her countrymen to safety. And yet, when the night ended and the first sun rose on the Seventh Umbral Era, it revealed the harrowing sight of Galadion Bay dyed crimson with the myriad bodies cluttering its waters. This brought a change in her demeanor, and it wasn't long before she declared her official resignation from the Rogues' Guild. As a gift, Jacke, V'kebbe, and Perimu Harimu commissioned her a pair of misericordes from Naldiq & Vymelli's, which she favors to this day.

Knowing that such carnage wrought by the Garleans had taken place all across the realm, she endeavored to help it rebuild, and to put her efforts towards defeating the imperials. She joined the Adventurers' Guild and, after gaining some renown for her skilled bladework, enlisted in the Maelstrom. Five years later, she would attain the rank of Lieutenant within the Foreign Levy, and laid siege to the imperial forces stationed at Castrum Occidens during Operation Archon. During the early Seventh Astral Era, her efforts saw the Admiral recommend her for training under the Doman shinobi newly come to Eorzea as refugees. Namimi learned ninjutsu under the patient tutelage of Yugiri Mistwalker and Hozan Nagae, and rose to the rank of chunin.

After taking Baelsar's Wall in the wake of the battle between Shinryu and Omega, Namimi learned from her Doman tutors that Yugiri had left to return to the Doman Liberation Front. As she was not asked to participate in the Ala Mhigan liberation effort, she used her connections in the Lominsan underworld to charter a course to Kugane, and from there cross the Ruby Sea. By the time she arrived in Doma, Yugiri had already left to the Azim Steppe in the company of the Warrior of Light, but Namimi decided to remain in Yanxia and aid in the ongoing effort against the Garleans. When the time came to assault Doma Castle, she donned stolen imperial garb and helped her teachers disable the Dairyu Moon Gates. She even elected to remain in the Far East after the battle, fighting against the XIIth Legion as it attempted to retake the region.

Since the full withdrawal of the XIIth Legion from Yanxia, Namimi has moved back and forth between Eorzea and the Far East as both adventurer and ally. She heavily involved herself in the Shazenkai's attempts to reconstruct the Doman Enclave, and continues to donate a not-insignificant portion of her earnings towards seeing the rest of Yanxia restored someday. She has, as a result, also endeavored to familiarize herself with Doman language and customs, including spearfishing and preparation of such delicacies as sushi and sashimi. When not adventuring, her secondary interest in the culinary arts has since developed an authentic Far Eastern flair, typically prepared with fresh fish she personally caught, much to the delight of the gourmands who frequent the Bismarck.

Other Information

Name Etymology Namimi Nami, follows typical Plainsfolk female naming conventions with a given name and a rhyming courtesy name bestowed upon reaching adulthood. Her primary alias, she gained as a rogue for her signature crimson beret and her resemblance to a diminutive creature from Lalafellin folklore known for dying its cap in the blood of its victims. She claims to have received her other alias from a Doman, who joked at how appropriate it was for a seafaring woman of southern descent such as herself to be named "Nami Minami". The word "Nami" means "wave" in the Doman tongue, and the word "Minami" means "south". Nicknames ■ Redcap Namimi ■ 波南 Current Residence Sailors' Ward, Southern Islands, Limsa Lominsa Gallery