R'das Sahazrh
 R'das Sahazrh
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| 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 early-to-mid twenties. She was sired to the R Tribe by R'Sahazrh Nuhn. R'das left her tribal home two years before the Calamity and travelled the world up until the events at the Battle of Carteneau. In the aftermath of the Calamity, R'das settled permanently in Horizon in Western Thanalan and started work as an independent 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.
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 special attention to them at all.
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.
In terms of clothing, R'das prefers less expensive, looser clothes. Wearing too much, or too tight, clothing in the desert climes of Thanalan is most decidedly not recommended. She oft wears bandanas to keep her hair out of her eyes, and sand out of her hair, though she sometimes wears eyeglasses. Whether she actually needs them or just wears them for aesthetics is forever a mystery.
Recently, however, her dress sense has started to lean towards slightly more expensive clothing. In particular, a rather fancy looking leather coat, embroidered with gold trim and buckles. She tends to wear this coat when she's out socialising, taking it off for anything that runs the risk of damaging it.
Temperament
Laid back does not begin to describe R'das' attitude to pretty much everything; if one could take a domestic housecat's personality and place it into a humanoid, the result would be R'das. When not working, R'das spends a lot of time lounging around in the sun. It's common for Captain Baradoen arriving at the site of the Karakul's construction to find R'das asleep or sunning on the rail instead of attaching weapon mounting.
In conversation, R'das has a close partnership with dry sarcasm and wit. While not confrontational, she doesn't deal with easily-offendable or annoyed people very well, often poking to see how far she can take things until somebody cuffs her across the head. She also has a tendency to toy with slower individuals, trying to see how gullible they are or how much of a tangent she can take a conversation on before they can notice.
R'das has a heavy accent, a frankly horrible amalgamation of Ul'dahn sark and Limsan pronunciation. The Ul'dahn influence is relatively obvious, and the Limsan elements R'das blames the Roegadyn Captain Baradoen for, though more likely her common deals with the Yellowjackets are more to blame.
