Talyn Shadowmoon

Talyn Shadowmoon
Gender	Female
Race	Huyr
Clan	Midlander
Citizenship	Ala Mhigan
Age	(mid 20s? maybe a bit older?)
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Minor merchant on Pearl Lane in Ul'dah
Height/Weight	5' even /
Orientation	(unknown)
Relatives	(unknown)

(pronounced Talon )

An Ala Mhigan refugee.

Events, Appearance & Personality

(Always changing as Talyn's story unfolds in roleplay with others...)

●●●'RET-CON STORY CHANGE'●●●

The Situation: Talyn had been interacting with a character on a story in which I clearly warned the other person, OOC, that such actions would lead to a rather sizable bounty to be placed on their character's head. The other player has now chosen to drop the story line. I admit it being in reaction to poor execution on my timing and approach for part of the story, and perhaps his realization that it was a bad direction for his character, either way that character is no longer part of Talyn's story. The situation that was unfolding was not a direction I truly wanted to be involved in anyway, so better to end it entirely. (As the threat of a bounty was to have done much sooner.)

The Solution: To avoid having to Ret-Con those who had been part of the story line, or seen the events from the sidelines, a player made NPC named Vahjah'tan Raha will assume the role of the other player's character. (See info below.)

WARNING: Yes, I will allow whatever you want to play out to happen with my characters, as long as it is within a story arc and you are over 21 for certain situations. I will also warn you OOC and IC of the consequences of those actions. You need to ask yourself if you truly want to follow that route with your character. Do not want people seeking your character's head? Do not stalk or force yourself upon my weak characters. Yes, I will RP it, but I will also carry through on my warnings that your character will be hunted.

If the average citizen of Ul'dah were asked to describe Talyn they would say she is a very shy and quiet young midlander that almost always wears a travel cloak with the hood pulled up and forward.

Those who have seen her without her hood describe an amethyst-eyed petite huyr that might mange beauty if she were not always wearing drab-toned hempen tunics with most of her hair pulled into a tight braid against the back of her head, leaving only a short, jaw-length layer framing her face.

Talyn vanished from Ul'dah for a long period, not unusual with Ala Mhigan's refugees, but reports in the Quicksand rumor mill indicate she looked unwell the last time anyone saw her and was lead out of the city by Zeryr, the dark armored elezen sellsword from Pearl Lane.

At last returning to Ul'dah, Talyn had only just entered the Quicksand when her robed figure was spotted by the Overseer Kano Kokorogakure. Rumor says the two ran a chase through Ul'dah that ended on Pearl Lane with what seemed to have been a misunderstanding on the young lady's part.

Hours later Talyn and a white haired miqo'te in a mask made a late evening commotion in the Quicksand that ended with Talyn slipping free of her cloak and fleeing the establishment, leaving a baffled looking miqo'te with her travel cloak and the travel bag filled with her jewelery making supplies.

She has not been reported to be seen in Ul'dah since.

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• When she first arrived in Ul'dah Talyn tried to avoid notice, staying back from others and simply watching unless approached or invited to participate in something. She slowly began to be more outgoing, but has recently had several encounters that have reminded her she is not as ready for conflict as she would like.
• Often wears a travel cloak with the hood pulled forward as she stands off to the back of an area and observes what is going on.
• Talyn never seems to use aetherytes or chocobos, walking anywhere she goes.
• Rarely carries a visible weapon, but has been known to carry cesti around at times, presumably given to her by someone at the pugilist's guild when she visits it.
• Does not like to drink things handed to her by others. When she does drink she prefers anything with hard liquor in it.

How She Makes a Living She can sometimes be found selling inexpensive items on Pearl Lane.

• Cloth-crafts: Mostly hempen bandannas with bits of beads and things decorating many of them, some cotton. Also gloves and hempen yarns threaded with beads for weaving.
• Jewelery: Copper and leather necklaces, rings, earrings and bracelets.
• Alchemy: Minor healing potions good for little more than cough syrups or to aid against infections. Also scented perfumes and bath salts.
• Misc: A variety of leftover items from working on custom orders for items such as decorative scepters with glass gemstones to bits of wrought iron and even some eating utensils.

Biography: Revealed during RP

When outside, Talyn can sometimes be seen being followed by a chocobo that will often fight to protect her if present when there is danger.

(... Backstory RP currently in progress, will update as it continues.)

Basic Info

Wepons:

• None known

(to be added to)

Skills:

• (to be added to)

LIKES (unknown) ■ Gathering and polishing small gemstones to use in making jewelery ■

DISLIKES (events show I must list some of these) ■ Being forced into intimacy ■ Being chased, particularly after warning the person away ■ ■

OTHER ■ Alignment: (unknown) ■ Vice(s): (unknown) ■ Favorite Food: (unknown) ■ Favorite Drink: Whiskey ■ Favorite Color: (unknown)

Lost Lil' Chocobo

While exploring the area up toward Gridania, Talyn found herself a bit north of the city and into an cold area with patches of snow. Turning around she headed back toward Gridania, but soon realized she was being followed.

A scared and injured little chocobo had followed her away from the foothills of the highlands. Too thin and feathers caked in mud here and there the Lost Lil Chocobo stayed back but kept following Talyn. She eventually coaxed the chocobo to let her tend to its wounds and it has since followed her quite often.

After talking to several stable owners in the Shroud and failing to find an owner, Talyn declined a suggestion to go up into Coerthas and left the search for the chocobo's owner up to the people of Bentbranch Meadows.

Hours after leaving the Chocobo at Bentbrach Talyn again became aware of the little fellow following her back toward Thanalan. She does not have to heart to chase the poor guy off and has recently made a basic saddle for Lost to carry potions to use in tending to the chocobo should he be injured again as well as a large book on the proper care and training of chocobos that she came across.

Vahjah'tan Raha

NOTE: Since Vaja is replacing the role of a character that stepped down from a active story arc, he is getting a basics box here on Talyn's page so it is easier to see what he is for others that were aware of that arc. I create a player-npc page for him later here in the player character listings, but for now this is enough to explain the character I have created based on set in-story events.

Vahjah'tan Raha was born as the tenth son to a Keeper of the Moon that felt she had to have been cursed to never have the daughter she wanted. While she started out a very loving mother who ever attentive to her babies, by the time Vaja was born his oldest siblings provided more of the care than Vahjah Raha, so Vaja failed to get true paternal nurturing and was instead semi-ignored by the siblings that provided his care.

Left to his own most of the time, Vaja failed to learn to emotionally bond with others. He instinctively wants to find love, so searches out women he can get close to. He sometimes fails to realize that what he thinks is proper feelings is not taken as such by the person he is attempting to endear himself to. This has lead to more than a few instances of Vaja fleeing an area as the authorities searched for a miqo'te stalking and assaulting local women.

Once Vaja has decided he likes a woman, for whatever reason (Talyn it was her purple eyes), he begins to attempt to form an emotional, or even physical, bond with her. Since Vaja has no childhood basis for what those emotions are based on, his approach is seen in a much poorer light by those he stalks.

Vaja is extremely angry and embarrassed when it comes to his being a tenth son, so never includes the designator when he introduces himself. Instead he intentionally sets just enough of a falter to "Vaja" that most assume he has said "Vaj'a" and therefore assume him to be the first son.

Name Meaning:

• Vah - Vulture
• Jah - Jackal
• 'tan - tenth son born
• Raha - Raptor

(I considered Jackal Vulture instead of Vulture Jackal, but decided since he is destined to be a bad guy I would at least give him the dignity of not being called Java all the time.)

Miscellaneous

RUMORS Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ■Drawn from RP events ■Questionable Sources ■NPC event in-game used in her story ■Unfriendly Sources ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■ "If she is there, the girl sells the most charming hempen bandanas." ■ "I think I know the girl you mean, flighty little thing with purple eyes?" ■ "I tried to talk to her, but when I turned back around she was gone." ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ "I think I saw her in The Drowning Wench in Limsa, just standing in the corner watching everyone from under the close-pulled hood of a travel cloak." ■ "I bought her a drink at the Quicksand... she just held it for a while then sat it on the rail and never drank any." ■ "Who? Purple eyed short thing? No, I can't say.. OH, wait... I think she bumped into me once, knocked my coin all over the ground, but she picked it all up for me. Hmm? No, no, not a single gil was missing. Why?" ■ "What are you doing bothering me? Can't you see I am extremely busy? No, I have not seen- wait, problems with aetheryte you say... hmm... maybe... It seems there was someone here that I was helping with that. A roegadyn I think... no, no it was a lalafell... maybe. I was helping him with potions, Oh, it was the miqo'te lad with the purple hair and black eyes! Now, unless you want to volunteer to sample potions for first day students I suggest you leave, I am very busy!" - Severian, Guildmaster of the Alchemy Guild. ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) (to be added) ■ "I've chased her from the Goblet a few times. I think she sleeps in the tunnels... or waits to rob people perhaps." ~~A guard of the Goblet ■ "Talyn? She's lovely, I want her to be one of the ones with me when my time comes, but when I say that to her she gets the cutest little evasive smile and says she hopes that day never comes. I'm trying to get her to let me train her as a pugilist, I can see she has the skill, just look at the back of her gloves, but she is just a good friend who enjoys listening to an old man talk about the glory of years gone by." ~~ Hamon Holyfist, Master of the Pugilists Guild ■ "The girl from Pearl Lane? The girl with the limp? No? Hmm... I thought she limped." ■ "I heard she was seen in the airship landing in Limsa glaring at an Elezen lord." ■ "Aye, she spent time out here, til a miqo'te in a mask showed up, scared her off with talk about how alone she was, no guardian to protect her and had nowhere to run. Not sure if she proved him right or wrong when she took of across the sands. Hope she's okay, but I couldn't keep up when I tried to follow." ~~ Spearman seated at campfire at mythril mines in South Thanalan ■ "Hard to forget a girl that small that's not a Lalafell... at least I don't think she was," laughs. "Came racing out of the desert on foot and grabbed hold of my arm as she spun herself behind me, a masked cat on a drake came trailing along not a few strides behind the breathless thing. He seemed amused. Not sure what's funny about chasing girls though the Sagoli on an Amalj'aa drake though, or goading them into fleeing the safety of our site when he sees me itching to draw my blade." ~~ Gate guard at Byregot's Strike, South Thanalan ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ "Although I first saw her in an alley near the Quicksand, I knew by first sight that she had a good heart, despite what others think." -Niklas Gran ■ "You know, I keep hearing her name, but its almost always associated with some sort of trouble!" -Aya Foxheart ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Neutral Standing ● Poor Standing ● Zeryr Roemeaux : Talyn met Zeryr due to a mutual preference for quiet areas that few people frequent, specifically the end of Peal Lane. She is always more relaxed if Zeryr is in the alleyway than when she is there alone. She can sometimes be seen seated across from him, sometimes close to where he sits, depending on how unsettled she is at the time (more unsettled she is, the closer to where he is she will be). Zeryr has helped Talyn on at least two occasions: aiding her on an excursion into Copperbell Mines and saving her from the Amalj'aa, as a result she feels safer when he is around and has come to consider him the closest thing she has to a friend. She only ever sleeps when he is present. ● Cyril Sorel : Talyn met Cyril after overhearing him talking to Castlebane near the Quicksand. They have spoken on several occasions since, including one instance where Talyn sought possible protection from a potential threat when Zeryr was not in the alleyway. Cyril is the only person other than Aya and Momodi from whom Talyn has not only accepted a glass, but also drank from it. ● Sasha Rochester : Talyn was introduced to Sasha by Zeryr and slowly has come to consider her almost a friend (which says a lot about how well Talyn likes Sasha, since Talyn has never had friends before, only acquaintances). Sasha is one of the few people Talyn truly relaxes around, despite the appearance Talyn has created that she is working against Sasha. Talyn has been involved in events surrounding Sasha on several occasions and knows Castlebane, the person who is after Sasha. ● Sebastian Castlebane : Talyn met Castlebane because of overhearing him and Cyril near the Quicksand. Her last interaction with Castlebane was in the Quicksand, when the man hired Talyn to assassinate someone. ● Shanra Fhey : Talyn met Shanra where she meets most of the people she comes to know, the small alcove just outside the Quicksand on Pearl Lane. They ran into one another several more times before sitting to talk in the quicksand when Talyn was trying to avoid someone else. Talyn has found Shanra to be easy to relax around, even when Talyn is on edge, and Talyn shared with Shanra that Talyn hopes to one day have a place she can have a garden and share the comforts of home with those without a home of their own. ● Niklas Gran (Leader of The Gran Knights) : Talyn was only in Ul'dah for less than a day when she was approached by the energetic leader of the Gran Knights, who expressed concern at her sitting alone in the alleyway behind the Quicksand. Uneasy about his intention she nevertheless accepted his invitation to join his free company, under the caution that she would not stay for long. Uneased by Niklas' apparent desire to seek out suspected Garleans in the area, Talyn chose to leave the company rather than have unwanted trouble find her and was named an Honorary Gran Knight by Niklas and agreed to let him know if she learned of anything suspicious in the Ul'dah area. ● Xanat Barahime Knights of Xentar <<Xntar>> (Leader) : After she left the company of Gran Knights, Talyn found herself invited to join another free company by the company's leader. She provided what little she could to the efforts of the free company, but in the end left it to form her own small company. ● Uriel Neishin : Talyn first encountered the 'Scary Bird Lady' on Pearl Lane when Uriel took interest in Talyn's bag of jewelry making supplies. Talyn that Talyn has had a few encounters with and has taken to avoiding. ● Kano Kokorogakure : An elezen that Talyn is avoiding encountering again after she gave him false information. Kano chased Talyn through the Gold Court area of Ul'dah when she ran from him. Talyn made it back to Pearl Lane where Zeryr saw the trouble and stood by in case Talyn needed assistance. Kano offered Talyn a bag of gil for having aided him on their first meeting then left, ominously indicating that he was not finished. ● Masked Miqo'te : A masked miqo'te that approached Talyn in the Quicksand when she was trying to avoid Kano. The miqote's actions, while seemingly not intended to scare her, caused Talyn to run from him. He tracked her to an area near the Gladiator's guild where she fled from him once again. She actively avoided him and while he seemed to observers to be accepting of her preference to avoid him, he later tracked her down to a mythril mining camp in South Thanalan and is reported to have chased after her from there to Byregot's Strike then toward Little Ala Mhigo, cornering her in a dead end just below there. Zeryr had seen the chase through the canyon on is way to where he was to meet Talyn and faced the miqo'te down, resulting in the miqo'te feinting an attack and leaving the area. Note: Are you listed above? Wondering why? If your character interacted with Talyn enough that she has formed an impression, that will be expressed here. This will also reflect thing that happen in public places - such as chasing her or causing someone to come to her aid. If you desire your character to be added (or removed) please feel free to make me aware of it, or you are welcome to edit this section on your own. I reserve the right to edit additions. Thank you.

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Footnotes

Thank you to Nureai Urezie for being how I found this awesome layout made by the talented artist Bancroft Gairn (Seriously, take a look at his drawings on his profile) Thank you both!

Wanted for Roleplay

Any players of Garleans or Ala Mhigan refuges would be welcome.

Other than that I am open to any ideas or just to start with random walk-up discussion and see what happens.

I am agreeable to anything that is based on story advancement.

Can't find Talyn? Ask Syffrid Greywolfe or Krys'a Lyrabhe to get her online. ;)