R'das Sahazrh

R'das Sahazrh
Gunsmith of the Black Karakul
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Seeker of the Sun
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Location	Horizon
Occupation	Gunsmith

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About R'das

Brief History

R'das Sahazrh is a young Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun in her equivalent early twenties. She was sired to the R Tribe by R'Sahazrh Nuhn. R'das left her tribal home a couple of years after the Calamity and made her own way in the world, eventually arriving in more settled areas of Thanalan where she settled down in Horizon and began to make a living for herself as a blacksmith.

Over the years, R'das picked up bits and pieces of other crafts: carpentry to create more intricate and comfortable sword grips, and goldsmithing to create decorative embellishments upon the weapons she created. A major turning point in R'das' career was when she took an interest in the firearms of the Yellowjackets and Garlean invaders and set to work understanding the means by which to operate - and eventually mimic and create her own designs of - the contraptions. To do this she delved into the field of alchemy to better understand the concepts of firesand and how to properly utilise it to create the desired effect within a firearm.

R'das dropped her old trade of creating more traditional arms like swords or lances and moved into a new market of firearms, producing them and selling both the weapons and the proper knowledge to use them, though at a very steep price.

She also frequented old battlefields, searching for any remaining Garlean weaponry or materials that could be easily salvaged. By doing this and reverse-engineering the devices she found, she has gained a rudimentary knowledge of many types of magitek armament. Though she has never been able to reproduce a Garlean magitek weapon from scratch, the possibility that she one day might is one of the driving factors that keeps her going at her trade.

With the crisis at Copperbell Mines, R'das' supply of metals has started to dwindle, and as such, so have her profits. Recently, R'das has joined the ranks of the skypirates of the Black Karakul and is currently working on arming the second iteration of the airship with scavenged Garlean technology, appropriated from the wreckage of the Agrius and various other sources.

Appearance

R'das stands a few ilms above most of her kin. Her build is somewhat lithe, though a glance at her bare arms or torso would reveal that her smithing profession keeps her fit enough. Musclebound by no means, R'das at least looks to be able to lift her own weight, if only for a short while.

Her hair is cut short to avoid it getting in her eyes - or worse, her forge - and worn threaded through two bangles either side of her head. Her hair, tail and her ears are coloured a soft black tone, as opposed to the typical pitch black of other black-haired Eorzeans.

As a desert cat, R'das' skin is a bronzed colour. She's been in Thanalan for so long that she's reached the point where her skin doesn't burn easily, nor do her eyelids flicker in the sun. Her skin is decorated with faint tribal markings, coloured orange. Many are barely visible against the colour of her skin, and she seems to pay no attention to them at all.