Selthrana White
| Selthrana White | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Race | Hyur |
| Clan | Midlander |
| Citizenship | None |
| Age | 26 |
| Place of Birth | Unknown |
Appearance
At full height Selthrana stands at 5'7", weighing around 125 lbs. She has generally Mediterranean features with olive skin, long, dark straight hair, dark blue eyes, thick eyebrows and a snub nose. Her face is often devoid of much expression, except for the sharpness in her eyes which can seem intimidating. Her jawline is a little too angular to have what one could describe as conventional beauty, but she is not particularly ugly either. On the rare occasion when she smiles, her features can be rather appealing.
Her body language is often closed-off, standing straight with frequently folded arms.
Personality
Upon first meeting Selthrana, she would come across as distant or reserved at best, and at worst stuck up and unsympathetic. She has little patience for whining or drama and likes to keep to the point. Not one to sugar-coat, she will speak her mind clearly whether or not what she has to say is pleasant. Her humor is sarcastic enough that it may not be clear when she is joking. Nevertheless, she can be quite kind and gentle when the occasion calls for it, and if she gets to know someone well enough they will likely see past her course exterior.
At the heart of much of her tendency to be unsociable is her lack of trust of other people, not a dislike for them. Far from it, she cares for people and wants to help those in need, but she is willing to be the firm voice of reason or to show tough love if she deems it necessary. Inquiries into her past will be met with vague, hand wave replies.
Selth maintains a strict moral code, fully aware it is her own and does not expect most to share it. She maintains a distinct distaste for extreme beliefs or methods. Poetic justice is often of more value to her than due process justice. She will often stand as a balance in any argument or confrontation, looking deeper into motivations and complications rather than surface value of the facts.
Affiliations
She maintains the workings of ARK (Afflicted Rescue and Kinship), something of a charitable organization.
She often associates with The Arcane Circle.
Abilities
Selthrana is an alchemist who uses an extensive knowledge of arcanima to combine formulas from both disciplines to enhance both. Much of her research is independent, exploring unconventional uses of aether and alchemical recipies, especially in the field of biochemistry.
She covers the basics of potions for mending wounds and healing disease, restoring aether, poisons and the like.
Her specialty mixtures involve explosives, hallucinogens, stimulants, sedatives and various other tricksy things.
Background
You'll have to extract the details of Selthrana's past on your own, but here are a few things that aren't as juicy to get you started:
When she was seventeen years old, she lived among the Sylphs around the East Shroud. This was where she began her pursuit of alchemy and has studied it voraciously ever since. After spending about six or seven years there, she moved on and traveled across various parts of Eorzea working where she could and learning in any library she could find or any friendly beast tribe.
One might understand that having not lived in many places with established law or strict enforcement (she ducked in and out of the city-states on occasion, but otherwise stuck to outskirts), she's not always used to the idea. She rather keeps to a personal code and values that more than anything else, though she's learned enough surface level customs to abide by them. At least in public.
