X'shah Zinbhe
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■ ORIENTATION... Heterosexual. ■ RACE... Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun. ■ PATRON DEITY... Azeyma. ■ GENDER... Female. ■ AGE... Early twenties. |
■ WEIGHT... One-fifty ponze. ■ EYES... Bright white. ■ CLOTHING... Well-loved. ■ BODY SHAPE... Heavily pear-shaped. |
Those of her tribe-branch that have ridden into battle at her side describe her as anyone would a fellow warrior—that to see her in battle is like witnessing an avatar of wrath born. A notion strangely contrary to the tenents of mercy that her goddess espouses.
Whether they detest or love her and her methods, many of her own people seek to brook favor with her. Like the witch-woman many murmur her to be, she aids those who seek her—for a debt paid in service to Azeyma and the spirits, of course—even as they deride her once safely out of earshot. For her part, X'shah has surpassed her forebearer and plumbed the vastness of revelation with unmatched expertise among the rabble of her clan. This has allowed her to successfully parlay her scores of extensive mystical abilities into a web of favors owed by many.
The unsettling truth of the matter is that X'shah would gladly conceal herself away from her kin and their constant badgering. She lacks patience to deal with curiosity-seekers who lack commitment and only wishes the blessing of solitude with which to while away her remaining suns.
Yet they have riotously selected her to lead as chief. She who refuses decorous distance. She who scorns extensive ceremony and homage to anyone but Azeyma Herself. She who is only satisfied when she believes she has obtained more than they mean to give.
This miqo'te thrives on one talent at the fore of all else—the ability to convince those who interact with her that they understand a great deal about her—while never revealing her true motives. This aspect of her personality has proven a double-edged sword: earning her the intrigue and ire of those she encounters and interacts with.
Words chosen with great deliberation and a guarded demeanor cannot hide all, however. With a mere brush of her presence it is easy to perceive her as a tightly-wound coil unwilling to part with trust, riddled with double-standards and opposing personality traits that actively work against her and her goals.
She is a meddler, yet solitary. Insecure, yet imperious. Naïve, yet bright. A veritable dynamo of youth without the wisdom to channel her energies into productivity.
Her height and the cast of her physical structure is unimposing; X'shah being pear-shaped with excessively broad hips and massively thick thighs. Where she was once a toned huntress before her tenure as priestess, the sweet meats of the city has significantly rounded her figure out.
Her windswept burgundy hair is coarse and massaged with a healthy sheen of oil. Both ears are blotched black, a tuft of ruff peaking each. Her skin is pockmarked from claw and fang of predators she has opposed for territory or dominance. Teeth-marks honeycomb her ears, one left completely ragged. Her stubby tail is bumped and crooked, even if bristling with shiny healthy hair. Most of her teeth have been knocked out in battle or skirmishes for territorial dominance. Each gap replaced with a golden replication or the fang of a beast slain in her former life as a huntress soldered into her jaw. These replacements are traditional among her sept-folk and make for a terrifying grin, indeed.
Swathes of scarification and semi-permanent henna score her flesh: honoring her role as Speaker of Azeyma, daughter, grand-daughter, and desert Lynx. Not even her face has remained unscathed from ritual scribe: two gouges were cut and healed over long ago into her cheeks; three lines of bumps dot her chin; her forehead sports a design of raised welts masterfully branded at an early age to signify sept devotion.
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Some of these rumors are untrue, speculation, or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under the Player Character category! ◢ Common Rumors - Easily overheard. Use these freely!
◢ Uncommon Rumors - A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!
◢ Rare Rumors - Very rarely overheard. Please ask before using!
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. ◢ Player Character Rumors - Feel free to add rumors of your own!
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Personal RP Limits
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Yes, hello. I've been role-playing for twenty-two years and it's by far my favorite hobby. I am a dynamite southern-raised gal currently living as a recluse in the desert. For the most part, I'd like to think I've created myself a nice little life of solitude and peace. A touch jaded — I've seen and heard it all — so I tend to turn to dark, filthy, or shocking humor to make it through this grind we call life. You now know what to expect. I just can't take anything seriously. |
Due to the sensitive nature of the in-game timeline and how the developers over the years employ "time bubbles" this timeline purposefully presented as incredibly vague for the sake of simplicity.
• Roughly 23-24 years ago: X'vienne enters labor after an unremarkable pregnancy. X'shah is born during a total solar eclipse with bright white eyes, igniting the superstitious scorn of many in her sept, especially against her mother.
• The Purge: Roughly 12-14 years ago, X'rhenzek Tia, fueled by rage, jealousy, and the backing of a great number of huntresses skeptical of X'vienne mothering more children after the ill omen of X'shah's birth, slaughters X'zinbhe Nunh and X'vienne in their bed together. He makes a claim that he caught the woman in the midst of hexing the sept and murders their entire combined bloodline, even the kit in her belly, save two children: X'kriss who shares his blood—and X'shah—who was sent off by her mother the previous day sensing trouble afoot.
In the years after the event most justified it and still do to this sun stating that if X'zinbhe was not weak he would have survived and fought off their attacker. Most opt cowardice instead, choosing not to acknowledge it happened at all and speak of the event in hushed tones, naming the wretched event "the purge." X'rhenzek has proven himself an effective protector and his tyrannical, tight leadership kept the sept mostly intact during the events of 1572.
• 1572: Dalamud bloats within the sky and begins to burn bright red, sparking panic sept-wide. A playmate's of Shah's entire family joins countless across Eorzea in forming a doomsday cult. The entire family sacrifices itself to spare the sept the wrath of the gods; there is only one survivor: X'khalara.
The Calamity plunges the entire sept into violent chaos and long-bubbling tensions boil over. Many proud warriors die. X'rhenzek pulls the sept up by its bootstraps and holds it together.
X'shah returns to her people in the throes of the catastrophe. In general, viewpoints of the elders are split: some see the presence of the clearly mad woman traveling in from the dunes as yet another ill omen while others see much of X'vienne in her and do not wish to anger the dead, believing perhaps the events of the Calamity are visited upon them by the spirit of X'shah's witch-mother. The elder council acknowledges her and X'rhenzek spares her life as a gesture of good will. X'shah retreats back into the dunes.
- ■ X'shah's shrine is easy to find by word-of-mouth and her status as Speaker is well-known in Ul'dah by now.
- ■ X'shah was born among a group of families — a sept of Lynx — physically separated from her home tribe. These bright-eyed miqo'te wander the massive expanse of the southern Sagolii as a nomadic group that has pledged to thrive under the harshest of Azeyma's conditions. Little is known of what they have or hope to accomplish. What is known that they lead plain lives with little wealth, instead choosing to focus on their honing their as hunters and warriors. Territorial disputes with this sept is generally dreaded and seen as a small nuisance, considering the savagery displayed the painted warriors of the close-knit sept bordering on zealotry. Neighboring Sagolii tribes darkly whisper of their own hunters encountering her sept's women engaged in dark rituals and strange magic. Some of the blackest tales spread by the enemies of her sept swear that several of their own have wandered into the dunes at night bewitched by a member of her sept, lured by a strange hex or song, never to be seen again.
- ■ X'shah's shrine is easy to find by word-of-mouth and her status as Speaker is well-known in Ul'dah by now.
- ■ Template was created by Bancroft Gairn.
- ■ Adapted by Xheja Rajhera.
- ■ Tabs by Unnamed Mercenary.
- ■ Expanded bits and relationship color keys by Lucaell Tareth'eian.
- ■ Music and OOC note by Glioca Sargonnai.
- ■ Mashing everything together like a mad scientist by D'lyhhia Lhuil.
