L'koliwe Jinh

L'koliwe Jinh
"The White Witch"
[[Image:|250px|]] "Once it was that man and beastmen were in equal rights. Why is it now that we are separate?"
OOC Character Information
Main Job(s):	"Elementalist"
Main Tradeskill:	N/A
Preferred Role:	All
Server:	Balmung
Status
Alignment:	Chaotic Good
Reputation:	Cold, Determined
Occupation:	Wanderer
Education:	None
Marital Status:	Single
Sexuality:	Undetermined
Guardian:	N/A
Free Company
N/A
Items Carried
Ancient Scrolls, Gilpurse, Ancient Warblade, Ancient Waraxe, Ancient Rod, Ancient Lance, Ancient Fists, Ancient Knives.
Characteristics
Race:	Miqo'te
Clan:	Sunseeker
Age:	N/A
Height:	5 Fulm, 9 Ilm
Weight:	138 ponze - pound
Eyes:	Left: Blue
Hair:	White
Complexion:	Hardened through battle and nature both
Physical Build:	Lean, but powerful
Notable Features:	Face has been tattooed mostly white

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		P.Defense	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Dexterity	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		M.Defense	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Martial Prowess	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Magic Affinity	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Luck	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █

"We who were borne underneath this sky are equal. If you cannot see that...perhaps Mother's gift was squandered upon you."

Basic Info

LIKES ■ Wilderness ■ Peaceful Resolution ■ Solitude ■ Natural Foods

DISLIKES ■ Pointless Brawls ■ Sprawling Cityscapes ■ Brazen Males ■ Pirates (Particularly Limsans) ■ Enhanced or seasoned dishes

OTHER ■ Alignment: Chaotic Neutral ■ Vice(s): Power, Sex ■ Favorite Food: Grilled Trout ■ Favorite Drink: Grape Juice ■ Favorite Color: White

Appearance & Personality

Despite being a woman whose bulk of her life was spent in the wilderness, L'Koliwe keeps herself rather clean and orderly. She has an earthy scent to her, as she tends to avoid perfumes and other man-made smells. While her hair is kept in dreadlocks, it is hardly seen, as she keeps it put in place by her hood. Jinh wears a long, tattered white gown and a set of white boots to comfortably travel the wilderness in. Several summers of wandering have torn and worn her clothing, though it seems the fabric keeps a resilient white all the same...

The few who had brushed against the reclusive Miqo'te female have little to remark on the subject, though they've done their best to describe her to others. Cold and callous, Jinh has little love for those who mistreat others. She is constantly serious, a smile never playing on those tattooed lips, her expression often blank. Her eyes seem to pierce into your very soul, watching, observing all of your sins as though they were unfolding right before her very eyes, and judging you for every single one of them. Jinh is quiet, often contemplative, and rarely speaking unless she has something to say. She is not a violent woman, though will resort to doing so if she deems there is no purpose in trying to talk to someone...though it seems speech is her first directive action towards others, even if it is less than polite.

Having long abandoned mankind's world, Kaliwe is very unused to their customs and mannerisms. She is, in that respect, openminded but opinionated on the way things are. She will not often make friends with man unless they agree fully with her train of thought. The Miqo'te is, if nothing else, utterly determined to see justice done; she believes this to be her divine purpose.

Biography

Childhood

Born to the ever-overshadowed "L" tribe, Koliwe was already well on her way to being forgotten by most of the civilized world. Their people, not known much for their hunting but instead their craftsmanship and gathering, were slowly beginning to fade away in name and purpose. With so many of their tribe thirsty for the fame and glory that others of their kind received as hunters and slayers of beasts, it was a small wonder that so many of their own went wandering and joined the ranks of others. Even their Nunh found his people slowly beginning to dwindle in numbers--Koliwe herself was one of but fifty or so females to the "L" tribe. With so few males in their populace, and with their leader rapidly approaching the end of his lifespan, the Viper tribe began to panic. Their way of life was beginning to die off, with more and more of their own abandoning their people to seek out selfish desires and self-serving lives, and soon there would no longer be an "L" clan. Determined to see his people live on, their Nunh began consummating with as many of their womenfolk as he could muster, to include Koliwe herself at the ripeness of twelve summers.

Still, all attempts to bring more life to the dwindling Viper Tribe would ultimately be halted by the Calamity's wake. As the moon began its terrible descent, the people of their clan watched in horror as the skies darkened with the power and might of ancient times long passed. While most would have watched with terror, young Koliwe saw only the presence of a power long kept sleeping...a strength she longed to harness as her own. Unskilled in blade and untaught in magicks, Jinh was determined to find a new power to keep in order to establish her people as important once again. Hungering for such a force to call her own, the young Sunseeker abandoned her tribe after the salvation of Eorzea to find the source of ultimate might. Taking the gown her mother had worn to plea to the Twelve for salvation from Dalamud's descent as her own, L'Kaliwe cast off her tribal shackles and tattooed her face bright white--a tribute to her new life--and took up the mantle of White Wanderer.

Teenage Years

That search may have ended a different way altogether, had fate not intercepted her. Barely but twelve summers old, L'Koliwe wandered aimlessly around Thanalan, until she was beset upon by a band of Amal'jaa raiders seeking offerings for Ifrit. On the brink of becoming one of many thralls to the beast, the Miqo'te soon found the hard way that she was one of several touched by the light of the Mothercrystal--a servant to the very being of Eorzea herself. Unable to be converted, the young lass was set to be killed on the spot until her untimely escape from her captor's clutches. Upon reaching safety, Koliwe began to question her brush with death...Why was it the beastmen were treated so? Why was it their gods were considered monstrous, while the Twelve and other gods were not? What made their differences so vast that they could not be made to achieve peace? She could, after all, understand their languages...and she could not be made enthralled by their summoned gods... So many on both sides had been slaughtered for naught, converted for naught, destroyed for naught...could there, perhaps, be a reasonable end to their conflict? Could peace not be made between the two sides?

Jinh was nothing if not determined to try. Using her gifts, she began to communicate with the Amal'jaa first. Slowly but surely, she developed a keen sense of not only learning of the lizard-like creatures, their culture, and their ways of life, but of fire magic as well. The Miqo'te was not of their people, but she began to garner their respect when warning them of dangers, and pointing them towards prosperous ventures in the harshness of the desert. Often times, Koliwe would warn their parties of oncoming Immortal Flame raids and adventurers looking for a quick gil on Amal'jaa body parts. Yet, despite her kindness to the beastmen, it did little to stave the cruelty of either side. Innocents were still sacrificed to the fiery god's name, and ample Amal'jaa villages were snuffed out in response. Sickened by the bloodshed, L'Koliwe moved away from Thanalan to seek out further information in the Black Shroud.

She would find little more in the Twelveswood than frustration. While the Slyphs of Little Solace were more than pleased to speak of peace and understanding, (in addition to teaching her the elements of lightning magicks,) the Ixal on the other hand, were not. The birdlike beings were not wont to discussion, often threatening Jinh with death (and far worse,) for her trespassing. Seeing there was little point in trying to speak to the more primitive peoples of the Ixal, Koliwe journeyed up past Abalatia's Spine, to the wind-worn lands of Xelphatol. It was here that she took a deeper understanding for the Ixal, and began studying them in a more intimate sense, earning the beastmen's trust gradually over time. By her seventeenth summer, she had become fully integrated with their kind, aiding them wherever she could in exchange for knowledge, learning the ways of wind magicks as she spent more and more time there. L'Koliwe's heart ached in understanding for the Ixal, understanding their plight and yearning desire to take to the skies once again. Seeing that they made no plans to withdraw their campaign however, she left Xelphatol in lieu of Abalatia's Spine.

The Vanu Vanu would have more to offer the eager young woman. Friendly and hospitable, (though prone to territorial disputes amongst their own kin,) the bird-like beastmen of the skies took kindly to the Miqo'te traveler. They shared a great deal with the Sunseeker, exchanging work for information and supplies. It was through L'Koliwe's insight and understanding that Camp Cloudtop and the Vundu began their exchange of goods and services, the two sides slowly becoming a mutual relation to one another. Satisfied that the Gundu would be of little threat to the fragile peace between the pair, Jinh began her trek towards the Dravanian Hinterlands.

While the Onemind was less-than-thrilled for her arrival (and even moreso when they found she could not be tempered,) it was the Nonmind Vath that welcomed Koliwe into their humble home. While she aided them in building their new nest, a safe haven for those who had broken their chains to the mental link they shared, the Vath Storyteller described their old purpose and former way of life in exchange. The Vath were intelligent creatures, skilled in crafting and building and working as a team unlike anything Jinh had witnessed before. Calm, collected, and widely accepting of new things, L'Koliwe found herself feeling confident in the new strain of Vath's potential, aiding them in a peaceful negotiation between their camp and that of the Ishgardian territory of Tailfeather. Content that there would be no conflict between their peoples, she left for Vylbrand in hopes of understanding the beast tribes within those lands.

But what L'Koliwe Jinh would find, instead of her understanding, would be hatred and vicious insult towards the beastmen tribes. Cheated from lands and resources by the pirate city-state of Limsa Lominsa, the Sunseeker found herself broiling over with furious anger. The Kobolds and Sahagin, both who had agreed to leave the lands of the seafarers be in exchange for territories, were driven further and further away from spoils and places considered to belong to them in treaties that no longer seemed to hold water. Offering her hand to the Kobolds, they taught her of mining, the ways of their people, and earth magicks in exchange for ores and the hopes that she would one day be able to mend the rift brought forth by the traitorous Admiral of the Malestrom.

The same would be said of the wandering Sahagin, whose only wish was to survive and continue their species--a longing that Koliwe herself knew only too well. Instructing her in their ways of life and their principles allowed her to see that the fishlike beings were not too unlike that of the Miqo'te themselves, forming a closely knit bond between the two sides. For three summers she stayed with the clutch, becoming sworn to their cause and even recruiting on the behalf of the Serpent Reavers for a short time.

Present Day

Leaving the Sahagin, L'Koliwe found herself pondering the ultimate question...how to force man to see the plight of their beastmen brothers and sisters, and make them equal once more. There was much to be learned from another who called forth primals...the mysterious and elusive Lady Iceheart. For their goals were not too dissimilar to one another's--to bring peace and prosperity to their peoples for a rift formed long ago by selfish men. Taking a page from the Elezen woman's tome, Jinh began to look further into the summoning artes and that of her Echo abilities...seeking to find a power that would finally bring and end to the bitter bloodshed between both man and beastman for good. Living on the outskirts of villages and cities, attacking anybody who dares to come close to her with weapons using powerful elemental abilities, Koliwe has been given several new names by those who would come across her; Ghost Cat...Pale Wanderer...White Witch.

Combat

L'Kaliwe Jinh's style of combat features several different forms, each with its own unique elemental trait and abilities. She is, first and foremost, a mage--an elementalist to be more precise--communicating closely with the Elementals and the Primals in order to further focus her aether. Depending on which elemental aspect she is attuned furthest into, the gem on her forehead will glow the appropriate color, with white or black mingling depending on astral or umbral alignment.

Relations

LEGEND

♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ♥ Close Friend ● Good Standing ✖ Poor Standing

Family-

Father - L'Raha Nunh - One of two known Nunh to the Viper Tribe, if not only for the sake of its size. A desperate man who seeks to grow his people, no matter the cost. Entirely obsessed with his image, the Nunh stoops to using the coin gathered by his tribe to purchase Sunseeker slaves in order to breed and continue his line, much to his people's disgust. Still...who can argue the logic?

Mother - L'amneko Odh - A weaver of some well-known repute in Ul'Dah and the Thanalan area for the quality of her work, she settled in the lands of her people after finishing her apprenticeship to the Weaver's Guild, where she was promptly taken as one of many mates to the tribe's only Nunh at the time. A sweet woman with a kindly disposition and a loving heart. She was killed in the Calamity in a wayward blast of Bahamut's fiery rage as it landed within the "L" tribe village.

Footnotes

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