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| − | |image = Tumblr_c376aaab7b5f3f3a120a5eea915b8ca8_2a5bbb40_1280.png | + | | name = Niamh Chalahko |
| − | |birthname = | + | | image = niamhavi1.png |
| − | |pronounced = [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō]
| + | | imagewidth = 275px |
| − | |meaning = | + | | caption = |
| − | |nicknames = Chocofeather | + | | title = |
| − | |age = Early 20s | + | | gender = Female |
| − | |born = 1560 | + | | citizenship = |
| − | |nameday = 9th Sun 1st Astral Moon
| + | | race = Miqo'te |
| − | |birthplace = Black Shroud
| + | | clan = Keeper of the Moon |
| − | |race = Miqo'te | + | | server = Balmung |
| − | |clan = Keeper of the Moon | + | | stat_1 = Born |
| − | |alignment = Chaotic Neutral | + | | stat_1_value = West Shroud, Black Shroud |
| − | |citizenship = N/A | + | | stat_2 = Nameday |
| − | |guardian = [[File:Althyk_Icon.png| 20px]] Althyk the Keeper | + | | stat_2_value = 9th Sun, 1st Astral Moon (~20) |
| − | |height = 5 ft
| + | | stat_3 = Height/Weight |
| − | |weight = 100 lbs
| + | | stat_3_value = 5'0"/100 lb |
| − | |physique = Slender; lean
| + | | stat_4 = Hair/Eyes |
| − | |hair = Flaxen blond, sooty dip-dye
| + | | stat_4_value = Blonde/Light Green |
| − | |eyes = Cyan | + | | stat_5 = Occupation |
| − | |skin = Pale, a bit sallow | + | | stat_5_value = Peddler |
| − | |facialfeatures = Face paint, beauty mark below eye, teardrop on forehead | + | | stat_6 = Guardian |
| − | |tattoos = Cheek lunar markings
| + | | stat_6_value = [[File:Oschon_Icon.png| 20px]] |
| − | |piercings =
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| − | |scars = From being thrown into gravel and sliding across it, chiefly marks upper left torso and arm; two gunshot wounds: right-side back, leg
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| − | |accomplishment = <!--What does he/she think his/her greatest accomplishment is?-->
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| − | |regret = <!--What's his/her biggest regret?-->
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| − | |profession = Parts & Antiques Saleswoman; Refurbisher/Recycler | |
| − | |soulstone = <!--Does he/she havea soulstone ICly?--> | |
| − | |combat = Evasive; ranged; traps | |
| − | |advantages = <!--Physical advantages--> | |
| − | |limitations = Sensitive to high concentrations of aether or sudden fluctuations | |
| − | |noncombat = | |
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| − | |weapon1 = Shortbow
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| − | |weapon2 = Slingshot; hatchet; traps; incendiaries
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| − | |username = Kitty-candlestick
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| − | |timezone = PST/UTC-7
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| − | |server = Balmung
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| − | |tumblr = [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com]
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| − | |characters = <!--Do you have other characters that you play?-->
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| − | |freecompanies = <!--Which Free Companies are you a member of?-->
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| − | |linkshells = <!--Which LinkShells are you a member of?-->
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| − | |preferences = <!--What are you RP preferences?-->
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| − | An enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as ''Rowena's House of Splendors'' and the ''Skysteel Manufactory'', Niamh is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Any motives beyond business are kept to her sleeve. Purveys anything a Garlean war machine may have within its chassis.
| + | '''Niamh Chalahko''' [ˈniːəv ˈkaləˌkō] is an enterprising junkmonger tentatively affiliated with operations such as [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] and the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory]. She is found in edifices abandoned and dilapidated, ransacking memories of technological eld for profit. Among her sundry wares, she is known to purvey anything an Imperial war machine may have within its chassis. |
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| | ==Backstory== | | ==Backstory== |
| − | [[File:Ffxiv 07182020 135903 232.png|thumb|left| ''Rootslake'']]
| + | Niamh was born in the West Shroud about a decade before the Calamity. She was raised as a traditional Moon-Keeper by a clan of hunters, with the most notable quality of her childhood being the absurd amount of relatives she recounts in conversations. Many of these relatives are now missing or presumed dead, but the few yet living remember their cousin as passionate if not a bit of a firebrand. |
| − | ===Before 1.0===
| + | WIP |
| − | A decade or so before the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Umbral_Calamity#Seventh_Umbral_Calamity Calamity] is when Niamh Chalahko was born; in the South Shroud east of the Lumberline, by the shores of Rootslake, under a walnut tree on a fountain-grassed knoll, during the third bell past the dead of night. She wasn’t born alone; she was the middle of triplet brothers, which was unusual not because they were born as three, but because two of them were male. In her clan it was a normal anomaly for females to be born as near-identical triplets, while those unfamiliar with her clan questioned their lucidity after thrice-felt déjà vus. Rather than calling them "copy cats," the nearby townsfolk deemed them the ''Dandelion-Chalahkos'', after their matching proclivity for widespreadness.
| + | Niamh witnessed the Battle of Carteneau and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice. <br> |
| − | | + | She can’t say she remembers much of the battle–clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations–but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light. |
| − | That any townsfolk knew them to deem them at all speaks of an unwonted behaviour unsuitable to Moon-Keeper orthodoxy. Unlike the kith she was avoided by, her kin fraternized, immobilized. For years innumerable the Dandelions had occupied land by Rootslake, having squat on it for enough generations to consider it inherited. It was called ''Hot Hills'' by the locals living within five malms, while those who lived further simply referred to it as "that Miqo'te dirt farm in the South." For agriculturalists rotating crops or gardeners starting beds, it was the ideal place to find premium compost and bonemeal. Some even claimed that the land on which the Hot Hills was heaped contained magick properties.
| + | ==Appearance & Personality== |
| | + | [[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too – of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance moves like clockwork between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy. |
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| − | Niamh and her brothers worked the farm with their cousins and aunts; their mother yet lived but was mentally unwell, having slipped into psychosis not long after their birth when a treacherous batch of [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Milkroot_in_Moderation milkroot] triggered a latent predisposition towards delusion. Their mother’s sisters raised them instead but not as their own, with some small prestige afforded to Niamh’s brothers if only for their rarity, while culpability fell to Niamh as her mother's sole female successor. They were seen as the offspring of weakness, for the wedding of milkroot to both celebration and mourning was commonplace in Dandelion culture, and considered the truest medium for communion with their goddess. Those that did not return were said to be bound by a hunt unfelled; some search of the soul with direction as its reward.
| + | Her ears look average; her tail is long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent – only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the proportions and carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but due to her perceived sense of infallibility, she tends to bet poorly on matters that affect maneuverability, such as wearing showy, vision-obscuring hats. On the up-side, she's the top contender for most crashing-intos of Eorzeans. Bring her to Hingashi, and she's likely to be the front runner there, too. WIP |
| − | ===End of 1.0, Aftermath===
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| − | ====Calamity====
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| − | Niamh witnessed the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Carteneau Battle of Carteneau] and the Fall of Dalamud, albeit from very far away. She was not a combatant on the field, but a curious kid accompanying her troublesome brothers on an expedition to see what the wartime hubbub was about. Discerning the path to the event wasn’t difficult, as every person not clad in armour had a common direction their backs were turned to. The difficult part was finding a clandestine route to viewing, which they managed by scrambling up the cliffside and establishing a vantage point in a relatively comfortable crevice.
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| − | She can’t say she remembers much of the [https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=71 battle] – clashing waves of soldiers, too small to make out as distinct figures of nationhood; magitek armours that appeared to the youngsters as creatures of Goliath proportions; pops of light from magicks performed, beyond the wildest imaginations – but as the distance closed between Dalamud and the land, a feeling of existential dread awashed her that is still palpable to her this day. Beyond that, the memory is eclipsed in light.
| + | Niamh grew up in a family where you did as you wanted, when you wanted, and where falling for a lie was worse than telling it. |
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| − | Since the Calamity, Niamh is sensitive to sudden fluctuations in the ambient aether, and is susceptible to aether sickness. Her intimate proximity with the horror of war should have had more of a cautionary affect on her but, past the initial shock, has had the opposite: she has a high psychological threshold for dealing with scenes of ruin, which is handy for her line of work.
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| − | [[File:Ffxiv 07282020 164243 039.png|thumb|left| ''Snakemolt'']]
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| − | ====Seventh Umbral Era====
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| − | Her family never did recover from the devastation that was the Calamity. An aunt and several cousins had perished in the fires. They buried who they could, when they were found. Hot Hills was gone; Rootslake would eventually fade to a mere mire. Game was scarcely found, and foraging near impossible. The South's population shifted then scattered as its people came to terms with their bleak, new normal. What had separated the opportunistic from the industrious was difficult to distinguish. The remnants of Niamh's family managed to hold out for a year or two before turning to unscrupulous methods; they were guides at first, reuniting the lost with their lost, until the demand of visiting ruined homes diminished with hope. With no clear guidance or recourse, Niamh and her young company lived up to every prejudice pointed at their race. She took no pleasure in perpetuating ruination, but it still remains a more pleasant memory than the closing chapter of her family.
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| − | With their belief system as rent as the false moon they had revered, the Dandelion youths searched for new devotions. Partially owed to their close proximity with [https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Amdapor_Keep Amdapor Keep], some were manipulated into believing they'd found succor through the teachings of a sinister faith; a cult which called themselves the [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lambs_of_Dalamud Lambs of Dalamud]. Niamh sensed that members of her family were suffering, and that some were on a dark path, but her age and status meant her concerns went unnoticed or unheeded. She, along with her brothers, left camp frequently, for even the embittered looks of Gridanians seemed more cheerful than what awaited them at home.
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| − | ===ARR to 5.3===
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| − | ==Appearance & Personality==
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| − | [[File:Niamhav.png|thumb|left|]] Niamh is on the skinnier side of average for her race. She has a leanness about her that reads of a strenuous, dogged way of life; where meals are missed if you lack the wherewithal to capture it. Her eyes seem starved of something too; of the quench of some answer that alludes her, or the satiation security brings. She doesn't smile much, and if she does it's your canary in a coal mine; her natural countenance an ebb and flow between unabashed curiousity and disconcerting vacancy.
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| − | Her ears look average; her tail long, but not the longest. Her lunar markings hug below her cheekbones, and extend longer than the Keeper norm. To ask of their permanency seems impolite, but they are in fact not permanent; only an inky salve applied primarily to negate the sun's glare. She has the carriage of someone who ought to be very graceful, but then she xx
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| − | <td class="cell3" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>PRIMARY MOTIVATOR</strong></td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Discovery</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sense of Humor'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Dry</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Emotional Disposition'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Curious</td>
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| − | <td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999"><strong>'''SEXUALITY'''</strong></td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Moodiness'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Labile</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Orientation'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Asexual</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:#ffffff;"><strong>CORE TRAITS</strong></td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Libido'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Outlook'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Optimistic</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressiveness'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Integrity'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Fickle</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Sexual Expressive Style'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Physical</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Impulsiveness'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Spontaneous</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Openness to sexual experience'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Boldness'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Audacious</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Promiscuousness'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Low</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Flexibility'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Adaptable</td>
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| − | <td class="cell3" colspan="2" valign="top" style="background-color:#999999;color:ffffff;"><strong>RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY</strong></td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affinity'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Apathetic</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Affiliation/Adherence'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Orthodox; Questioning</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Comportment'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Agreeable</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Tolerance'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Tolerant</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Interactivity'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Engaging</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Expression of beliefs'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Occasional</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Disclosure'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Unconcerned</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Converting others'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Casual</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Conformity'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Freethinking</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Attitude'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" valign="top">Humble</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell3" colspan="4" valign="top"> </td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Topics of Conversation'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Chocobo care; mechanics; observations; self-care; spirituality; work</td>
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| − | </tr>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Quirks, Habits, & Oddities'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Humming; doesn't like to be touched; eavesdropping; encroaches personal space; pacing; poor etiquette (please, thank-you); poor eye contact; stares; superstitious</td>
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| − | <td class="cell4" valign="top" style="background-color:#dddddd">'''Hobbies & Enjoyments'''</td>
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| − | <td class="cell5" colspan="3" valign="top">Art appreciation; music appreciation; dancing; fortune telling; gambling; games; invention</td>
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| − | </table></div>
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| | <table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> | | <table width="1000" border="0" style="position:center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> |
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| | :'''Likes:''' | | :'''Likes:''' |
| | :* Collectibles | | :* Collectibles |
| | + | :* Crystals and gems |
| | :* Automatons | | :* Automatons |
| − | :* Fine dining | + | :* Swimming |
| − | :* Pampering
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| | :* Playing | | :* Playing |
| | :* Animals | | :* Animals |
| | + | :* Luxury |
| | </div> | | </div> |
| | </td> | | </td> |
| | <td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"> | | <td valign="top" width="350" scope="col"><div align="left"> |
| | :'''Dislikes:''' | | :'''Dislikes:''' |
| | + | :* Loud (sudden) noises |
| | :* Opo-opos | | :* Opo-opos |
| | :* Rain (getting wet from) | | :* Rain (getting wet from) |
| | :* Cold | | :* Cold |
| | :* Large, open spaces | | :* Large, open spaces |
| − | :* Gridanians
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| − | :* Most city folk (love/hate)
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| | :* Sharlayans | | :* Sharlayans |
| − | :* Having to ask
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| | </div> | | </div> |
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| | :'''Skills:''' | | :'''Skills:''' |
| | :* Mechanical intuition | | :* Mechanical intuition |
| − | :* Retrieving | + | :* Retrieval/dismantling |
| − | :* Dismantling
| + | :* Knife-work |
| − | :* Knife-carving | |
| | :* Lock-picking | | :* Lock-picking |
| − | :* Potion-making | + | :* Herbology |
| − | :* Lute-playing
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| | :* Tag | | :* Tag |
| | </div> | | </div> |
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| | <td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"> | | <td valign="top" width="800" scope="col"><div align="left"> |
| | :'''Fears:''' | | :'''Fears:''' |
| − | :* Greenwrath | + | :* Spirits, voidsent, soulkin |
| − | :* Voidsent
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| − | :* Soulkin
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| | :* Illness (dying of) | | :* Illness (dying of) |
| | :* Meaninglessness | | :* Meaninglessness |
| − | :* Nothingness
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| − | :* Loneliness
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| | </div> | | </div> |
| | </td> | | </td> |
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| + | * Rowena's House of Splendors - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary. |
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| + | * Skysteel Manufactory - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular. |
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| − | | strength = 2
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| − | | pdef = 4
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| − | | dex = 9
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| − | | mdef = 1
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| − | | prowess = 3
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| − | | luck = 10
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| − | | magic = 6
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| − | | intelligence = 8
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| − | ===Overview===
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| − | Raised by blighters and brigands and brothers that fight dirty, Niamh is not above a fistful of sand to the eyes to dispatch her opponent; but brawls – beyond holdups – are not really where she shines as a knockout (they’re where she’s likely to actually be knocked out though, if the pocket sand doesn’t work). On her toes, she’s an evasive, aerial combatant, moving with the slippery elegance of someone averse to fighting, but no stranger to it ([https://youtu.be/2Eu0AyqlU4w?t=55 example]). If backed into a corner, she'll throw everything and the kitchen sink at her enemy, although her fighting style in close quarters will always be defensive and reluctant with the intention only to incapacitate or escape. If there’s nothing around her to improvise as projectile weapons or shields, and no traps laid to lead her opponents into, the fight is as good as over and she’ll high-tail it out of there. In battle she is an unreliable ally and will flee at the first sign of serious heat. Not only that, but if the battle is ''over something'', such as some prized, coveted object, you can bet your booty she’ll be trying to take it with her – and not because she doesn’t want it to fall "into the wrong hands." Hers are definitely the wrong hands. She is first and foremost an opportunist, and a very ''indebted'' opportunist at that. Even the most pleasant of company is unlikely to overcome this fatal flaw.
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| − | ===Archery===
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| − | Those that rival her with the shortbow are few and far, as she's had one practically glued to her most of her waking life. She’s proficient with a longbow, but the denseness of trees where she grew up meant the farthest you could be from your target while still maintaining line of sight would be under 50 yards, so it didn’t make sense to lug around the unnecessary poundage. Niamh only got practice with longbows post-Calamity, when her family had to move westward into new hunting grounds.
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| − | [[File:Ffxiv 06032020 131332 774.png|thumb|left| Hunting game in the Peaks]] If convinced to join the party, she’s a cool, collected, confident sniper that will give you the willies just by looking at her. She owns the moments with a predatory glean to her eyes, and knows her shots will hit their marks – otherwise she doesn't take them. If you tried to get her attention or talk to her while she’s shooting, she’d seem to be in a completely other world. She makes little in the way of sound, past some self-compliments, and will operate mostly on her own while managing to appear where needed; she’s a natural at anticipating the flow in a group environment and countering her opponent’s next moves – not unlike the adaptive, analytical nature of a pack-hunter who doggedly pursues their prey into their final moments. She is unlikely to purposely kill another of the race of Man, even if commanded, and shoots as such. Unpurposeful killing is another story, be it by way of bombs, booby traps, or succumbing to the wounds or blown open holes created there by. By her conscience, those are just poor luck encounters.
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| − | ===Magicks===
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| − | She ''was'' gifted at healing pre-Calamity before she became prone to aether sickness, but successfully administrating magical medicine is less of a certainty now, as drawing upon the ambient aether to perform a curative spell will at the least cause her vertigo, if not completely debilitate her. She knows how to splint, suture, and disinfect wounds, but will also insist on the consumption of naturopathic sludge to make her patients hale and hearty again. | |
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| − | ==Affiliations== | + | ====NPCs==== |
| − | * [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena's House of Splendors] - Niamh occasionally works a stall, or a corner under some stairs like Cristiana, but more likely she'll be out in the field, snooping around for new trifles to sell. Plus the gloom in Mor Dhona makes her aether-sick and it's stifling to always wear a mask. To keep up with her contractual agreement with Rowena, Niamh splits her spoils among a few of the merchants to ensure she makes profits, even with the loss of working through an intermediary.
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| − | * [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Skysteel_Manufactory Skysteel Manufactory] - She hasn't been caught at it yet, but she poaches commissions she overhears through the House or around town and tries to be the first to supply the Manufactory with mechanical odds and ends. She's hoping to ''at least'' get an experimental aetherotransformer through this extracurricular.
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| − | ===NPC Relations=== | |
| | * The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina] | | * The Women of Rowena's House <spoiler>:* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Laraina Laraina] |
| | :* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana] | | :* [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/G%27jusana G'jusana] |
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| | * [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena] | | * [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Rowena Rowena] |
| | * [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien] | | * [https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Stephanivien Stephanivien] |
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| − | ===Relationships===
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| | ===Rumours=== | | ===Rumours=== |
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| | ==Other Notes== | | ==Other Notes== |
| | ===Gallery=== | | ===Gallery=== |
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| − | ===Links===
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| − | * Niamh's search info [https://niamhc.carrd.co/ carrd]
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| − | * Glim-Gowan lore [https://gowan.carrd.co/ carrd] — feel free to reference/include as a Chalahko
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| − | * Niamh's [https://kitty-candlestick.tumblr.com/ tumblr], open to messages
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| − | ===Trivia===
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| − | * No clear city-state allegiance. Commonly found betwixt Ishgard and Gridania, although she has an apartment in Ul'dah and a slip asserting she's a citizen of Limsa Lominsa.
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| − | ===Inspiration===
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| − | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Simo Häyhä], Finnish sniper nicknamed the "White Death"
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| − | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&feature=emb_title Lars Andersen], Archer Extraordinaire
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| − | ===Credit===
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| − | ''Sources In Order of Use, & Not Already Hyperlinked Above''
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| − | * Infobox from [[Template:Infobox-TMI]]
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| − | * Tables from [[Brynhilde Wulf]]
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| − | * [https://www.ashami.com/rpg/ Ash's Guide to RPG Personality], found through [[Brynhilde Wulf]]
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| − | * Attributes box from [[Fancy Character Template]]
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| | [[Category: Player Character]] | | [[Category: Player Character]] |
| | [[Category: Balmung]] | | [[Category: Balmung]] |
| | [[Category: Miqo'te]] | | [[Category: Miqo'te]] |
| | [[Category: Keeper of the Moon]] | | [[Category: Keeper of the Moon]] |
