Totoki Estoria
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 Totoki Estoria
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| Gender | Female (♀) |
| Race | Lalafell |
| Clan | Dunesfolk |
| Citizenship | Limsa Lominsa |
| Nameday | 22nd Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon (age 23) |
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| Marital Status | Single |
| Orientation | Bisexual |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist, historian, and educator |
Totoki Estoria (born Totoki Toki) is a Limsan scholar, archaeologist, and historian, best known in academic circles for the highly analytical 787-page treatise We Three: The First Moments of the Age of Man - An Archaeological Timeline of the First Umbral Era Wandering Tribes, which received general praise from the academic community. With over a dozen other dissertations regarding the same or similar topics directly credited to her, and for her participation on multiple expeditionary surveys set to research the migratory patterns of the ancient wandering tribes, Totoki is considered by many in the field to be among the foremost living experts on Eorzean prehistory.
A respected member of the Arcanists' Guild and a gifted mathmagician, Totoki has written several short papers on arcane theory and has worked with other arcanists and scholars to research the ancient Allag art of summoning in the hope that a greater understanding of the craft will help bring about an end to the recurrent primal threat. She frequently leads classes for apprentice arcanists at the guild's Mealvaan's Gate compound, ranging a variety of subjects that include basic arthimancy, the mathematical manipulation of aether as expressed by the most common arcane geometries, how best to communicate with and care for one's Carbuncle, and several others.
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BIOGRAPHY
Early Childhood
- Totoki Toki was born in one of the many remote, dusty villages that spring up periodically along the outskirts of Thanalan. Her parents were both older adventurers, looking to hang up their armor and start a family. Perhaps two years after Totoki’s birth, her parents learned of a business opportunity in Limsa Lominsa; one that paid enough for both to settle down and provide the their little family a pleasant, comfortable life. In order to make the trip, they hired themselves out to guard merchant caravan hauling exotic spices toward La Noscea. As payment for their service, Totoki was allowed to ride in the relative comfort of a small passenger cabin, cared for by the caravan captain’s teenage daughter.
- Shortly after entering La Noscea, the caravan was beset. Grossly outnumbered and caught unawares, the caravan was decimated. Miraculously, Totoki survived, though she appeared the only one to do so. Broken, primitive weapons, the manner of wounds inflicted upon the victims, and several beastly indentations in the mud found all around the grisly scene pointed toward an ixal ambush.
- When the caravan failed to arrive on schedule, the nearby villagers rounded up a posse to find it. It was an older Highlander hyur named Kaiven Estoria and his wife Aevvah, weavers from Limsa Lominsa visiting family in the village, which discovered the savaged wagons and found the weeping Totoki inside. The captain’s daughter had hidden Totoki in a storage compartment hidden under the cabin’s bench seat shielded it with her own body. While the young girl’s diary provided Totoki’s name, the villagers never recovered any information bearing the identity of Totoki’s parents and no lalafell corpses were found near the wreckage, though some evidence was found to suggest that several bodies had been dragged away by the attackers.
- Totoki still has the diary and reads it often. The girl’s absolute love of learning, which she wrote of often, at least partially influenced Totoki’s decision to pursue teaching as a career.
Childhood, Limsa Lominsa, and the Present
- Kaiven and Aevvah Estoria adopted Totoki and raised her as their own. Though both were old and gray when they’d found her, the Estoria household was a boisterous, active one. Kaiven and Aevvah were a surprisingly spry, gregarious couple that expressed nothing but love and support for Totoki. Though modest, her life growing up in Limsa Lonimsa was quite pleasant, just short of charmed.
- From a very young age, Totoki showed prodigious mathematical talent. When she was seven, Totoki started handling Kaiven’s business accounts and nearly quintupled his profits. While other children were playing with balls and running about, Totoki would often find a piece of chalk and draw complex geometrical shapes on the cobbled Limsan streets. Such activities caught the attention of K’rhid Tia, then in Limsa, looking to establish a new guild focused on arcanima. Though it took some convincing, K’rhid eventually persuaded Kaiven and Aevvah, which allowed Totoki to become one of the original twelve students of K’rhid’s Arcanists’ Guild.
- Totoki rose through the ranks rapidly and belong long was teaching her former peers. Thubyrgeim, K’hrid’s second and frequently acting guild master during K’hrid’s frequent absences, noted that Totoki had a talent for educating young pupils and made it officially employed her as a tutor for the guild when she was twelve. Soon thereafter, Totoki began reading various academic works from all over Eorzea. She was most keen on those focused on arithmetic, but over time she found herself drawn more and more toward history as well. After reading one particular paper regarding freshly excavated ruins that were believed to be Third Umbral Age which she vehemently disagreed with, she wrote the author a scathing letter.
- And much to her surprise, the author of the paper wrote back. The two corresponded several times before the author finally invited Totoki to come and see the ruins for herself, which she did. The offending author, one Professor Oxdoyittier of Sharlayan decent and a Son of Saint Coinach, proved to be much more enjoyable in person. After meeting, he and Totoki began a friendship that lasted until the recent destruction of the Sharlayan colony in the Dravnian Hinterlands. Though they disagreed often, sometimes loudly, Oxdoyittier seemed to genuinely cherish his time with Totoki. He saw in her a hungry, capable mind, and made it his mission to encourage it and nourish it.
- Many of her early academic works were written in counterpoint or direct opposition to assertions made by Oxdoyittier in a similar works. She has a bit of parchment from one of his works framed and hanging on the wall of her classroom at the Guild. It reads, “I take it with great flattery that you seem quite so often appear dedicated to the study and annihilation of my life’s work. I have chosen to take it as an expression of your most sincere, great affection for me. And while you are quite wrong, as I should soon explain, I would feel need to write this note regardless, to likewise convey my own most earnest, undying affection for thee.”
- It is largely due to Oxdoyittier that Totoki developed such a deep, abiding interest in history and archaeology.
- The Calamity devastated Totoki, and resulting in the death of Aevvah and Totoki herself sustaining a severe head injury that rendered her comatose for several months. The recovery process was slow and painful, at first struggling to recall even the simplest details about her life. Slowly more and more detail returned and after little more than a year, she’d gone back to teaching for the Guild and archaeological research. But even now, Totoki will occasionally find a dark spot in her memory. Missing time that she can’t account for.
APPEARANCE
- Totoki’s a pretty average representative of her race. Though she’s a bit short, even for lalafell, she isn’t so greatly short so as that it would make her particularly unique. Her body type isn’t particularly lithe, athletic, or corpulent; she maybe ever-so-slightly on the thicker-than-slim of average, but she’s certainly neither heavy nor obese. Other than the fact that her clothes are sometimes covered in chalk dust or that her hands might be stained with ink, Totoki is realized perfectly well by the game client.
PERSONALITY
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MISCELLANEOUS
The Calamity
- Unbeknownst to her, Totoki was one of many adventurers who rose up around the Calamity and fought alongside the Grand Companies at the Battle of Cartaneau. Sometime before the fall of Dalamund, Totoki acquired a Soul of the Summoner from K’rhid Tia and developed an extraordinary bond with it. Armed with then rarified magics, she and a company of fellows joined the Immortal Flames against the Garlean invasion. She and her allies fought valiantly, but the aerial superiority of the Garlean military turned Totoki’s battalion and forced them back into Mor Dhona. Regrouping near Camp Revenant’s Toll, it was there that Totoki witnessed the emergence of the primal wyrm Bahamut.
- The monstrous waves of aether ebbing from Bahamut triggered a powerful memory in Summoner Soul. After Bahamut’s first wave of crystalline destruction destroyed Camp Revenant’s Toll, Totoki attempted to focus the primal wyrm’s ambient aether into a Bahamut-egi, thinking such a creature might prove capable of depending she and her company. Totoki only partially succeeded. Though unable to conjure a proper egi, Totoki managed to enter into a Dreadwyrm Trance that afforded her the strength to create a aethric barrier which splintered the next deadly flare of prime aether that descended the surviving Flames and her company.
- Channeling the colossal amount of aether required to defend against Bahamut took an enormous toll on Totoki and irreparably damaged her Soul of the Summoner, splitting it in half. Owing to the staggering depth of the connection that Totoki shared with the object, the shattering of the Soul damaged her, as well; she has no memory of her time as an adventurer, nor any notion that she ever played a part in events of the Calamity. The broken Soul sits in the cupboard of the room she keeps in Gridania, its soft close nearly faded and the Allag rune etched into it unrecognizable.
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◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the characters that belong to other players)
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