Pema Jawantal

Pema Jawantal
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keepers of the Moon
Citizenship	Unaffiliated

Physical Parameters

Build: Short and Slim

Hair: Blue with Stripes of Golden Orange

Right Eye: Indigo Left Eye: Amber

Complexion: Fair

Weight: 115 Lbs

Age: Between 24-26

Clothing: Stylish but practical robes, custom leather boots and gloves. When foraging or mining she tends to wear clothes that are more practical than stylish.

Voice: Soft, smooth and warm which carries a gentle british-esque accent. The rolling of 'r's typical to Miqo'te is noticeably suppressed when she speaks.

She always has a bounce in her step and a song on her lips and her good cheer can be quite infectious. Though quiet and diminutive, when given the option, once she begins to speak she becomes intensely animated; her face is extremely expressive. Her eyes twinkle when she's happy and her visage almost always reflects her true feelings.

Tiny and compact she moves with fleet feet and assured grace. She spends at least an hour a day in meditative exercise which she developed while living in congress with nature. This provides the basis for her exceptional physical condition paired with her unusually exceptional nutrition encouraged by her hunter-gatherer lifestyle. So while she is certainly not going to be swinging an axe anytime soon, she is nimble, flexible, graceful and well-toned with exceptional muscular control and agility.

History

When Pema was between the ages of three and four, her mother and other members of the tribe (she cannot remember who exactly) were traveling. She can not remember the exact intended destination, though she does remember that they were moving to a new home. They stopped for a mid-day meal and while playing in a meadow Pema remembers that a great, green mist surrounded where she played. Being small she paid it no mind and simply continued weaving the crown of flowers for her mother. Once finished, she stood and called out happily to her mother, only to discover that she and the rest of her tribe had vanished. She wandered the woods for days calling out to them, searching for them; but she's never seen them since.

Much of her childhood and formative years simply blurred into one another. After losing her family, she simply remained in the forests and began to eek out a meager living. She watched the animals to learn what was safe to eat and what was not, slept on the forest floor and began to learn the ways of conjury intuitively from nature. Of course, her skills were rough and rudimentary, but usable. The first incidence of Pema drawing upon nature's power occurred within her first year in the wilderness. She came across a wounded snurble who was in mortal peril and would soon pass from the world. When she saw the poor, doomed critter she picked it up, hugged it, wept and wished for it's recovery. She wished so hard, as she tells it, that nature heard her heartfelt cry and answered. A soft glow materialized in the air, surrounded her hands then sunk into the snurble. In no time the wounds began to heal and the creature came back from the brink of death. She later was named 'Sticky' by the little Pema who loved and treated her as a friend and equal until the day she died almost a decade later.

In the winter of her roughly seventh year, she was caught attempting to steal a meat pie from a frail looking traveler. She was caught by the traveler, an Elezen named Elimar. Elimar took pity on the girl and noticed her connection with nature and over the course of several years he would come to visit her camp in the forest and taught her proper conjury and other survival skills. This time of learning was the most stationary she had been for her entire life. Indeed it's not certain how she came near Gridania at that time, even she admits she has no idea just how far she has wandered over Eorzea.

If not for the calamity she would likely still be in the woods, living a simple life and appearing only to offer aid to the wounded before disappearing back into the vert. However, she found her strongly-opinionated mentor dead at the hands of bandits taking advantage of the following chaos. This sparked not a light of hatred of vengeance inside of her, but fueled her desire to aid others that Elimar's lessons would not be in vain and that she might help them from suffering his fate. And while she still lives deep within the woods, moving around the Black Shroud mostly these days, she has largely come out of the woods; blending in with adventurers where she can.

Personality

What you see is what you get. She doesn't have the capacity for treacherous guile and deception. Her lack of socialization has left her bereft of many social nuances, cultural differences and then some. However, her lack of knowledge and experience with others is tempered by the manners which were instilled in her Elimar. So while occasionally she makes observations and commentary that are blunt and innocent, much like a child, it is unlikely that she will offend others; though she often finds the more colorful behavior of others perplexing.

She is tolerant, caring, generous and genuine. She owns nothing but the clothing she wears and whatever she happens to be carrying at the time. When she looks at the world, she sees a world of abundance and plenty, which leads her to share her bounty freely.

Though she is a bit naive, she has a extremely good intuition and reads people well.

Her gentle nature has lead her to be underestimated many times in the past. Her calm and kind demeanor is a product of intense spiritual cultivation and should not be mistaken for weakness. Her willpower is unmatched by most peoples; she is deeply in touch with who she truly is and is unwavering in her application of her principles. Her alignment is True Neutral. She lives within a world where one reaps what one sows; it is one beyond rewards, revenge, greed and the law - only natural law is applicable there.

Due to recent events she has withdrawn greatly from the 'civilized' world and is extremely difficult to form a trusting, working relationship with. Attempts to form friendships or recruitment efforts by various groups may be met with strong resistance.

Skills

Combat Skills

Her combat skills are largely limited to magical spells. This is not to say that she is not extremely fit and with an unusually high degree of control over her body through exercise and meditation; but if unable to use magic she is far more likely to rely on fleet feet and quick wits to end the situation without violence.

As for magical abilities, her normal defensive and offensive magics are as you would expect from any other conjurer. However, she's been seen taking lessons at both the Arcanist and Thaumaturgy guilds respectively and practicing her skills in the field. So it is clear that she has a thirst for knowledge and a desire to continue growing.

In combat, she prefers to fight in group and far from the melee. Her greatest strengths lie in weaving aether into powerful healing magics to restore and renew her allies in the midst of combat.

Due to recent events she has been putting great stock into offensive capabilities; including trying her hand with a bow and arrow. However, her obscurity at this time has lead to little information besides this.

At times of great stress and/or danger the following abilities have been observed:

Conjuring large magical barriers which can withstand large amounts of magical damage. This information has been reported several times by adventurers over the years.

Large scale magical healing of groups where many of the adventurers were near death and were restored almost to their peak condition. These events were reported to have coincided with flashes of near-blinding lights and a sound similar to the harmonious ringing of bells. It is also said that the sheer volume of aether being manipulated at these moments is enough to cause her to levitate slightly, simply from the magical strain. This ability has been reported less often, but when it has occurred it was reported by greater numbers of individuals; many of them hoping to find and thank the healer who wandered in and saved them.

An adventurer in the neighborhood of Fallgourd Float reported that they watched her engulf herself in magical fire and use herself as a living bomb when surrounded by rabid wolves to the east of the town. This report has yet to be substantiated.

Domestic/Survival Skills

Used to living off the land, she's a natural botanist. Used to a life of foraging and living from the goodness of nature's bounty she knows all the best places to gather specialty items across Eorzea. She is a skilled cook and can perform many intricate tasks to care for herself such as leather working, weaving, and she possesses minor skills in carpentry. She has been known to frequent both guild headquarters for many of these skills as well as skilled craftsmen working in various villages.

Trade Skills

Because of her meager dealings with others, hard currency is in short supply with Pema. To this end, she uses what she does have as currency in trade; be it herbs, fruits, ore, lumber, pastries or cloth. She uses all resources at her disposal to gain the things she needs in life, which makes everything she has (and her enormous generosity) all the more meaningful.

She has been known to sell cloth, clothing, dyes, foodstuffs and potions (or offer them as payment.)

Rumor has it she's been seen at the forges in Limsa Lominsa a few times, trying her hand at armor and weapon smithing and at the goldsmithing guild in Ul'dah. No word on quality or ability.

Special Skills

Due to her unusually intimate knowledge of local herbs, foodstuffs and more she has developed a deep understanding of herbal medicine and alchemy which enhances and supports her magical healing abilities. Thus, her skill in both magical and mundane healing styles would be on par with many of the best physicians. In some cases her own knowledge and skill, learned through hard experience as opposed to from books or teachers, can be much more substantial than traditional healers and doctors. She has also discovered a system of primoridal 'seed' syllables, during her long communion with nature, which she uses in chants and incantations to greatly increase their efficacy.

Affiliations

It is confirmed that while she was a member of the Order of the Sword and Rose for some time that she has since left the Order on the basis that she does not feel safe. No word has come as to why she feels this way as she typically declines to speak of the Order, it's members or any events that occurred whilst she was among them.

Other Notes

Guardian: Thaliak, The Scholar

Favorite Treat: Ripe Pixie Plums

Favorite Color: Ocean Blue

Frequently Seen at...: The Black Shroud; all over, it's rumored that this is the area in which she makes her camp. But no one is quite sure exactly where.

Of late she's been spotted at Fallgourd Float with reasonable regularity.

She was seen working as a waitress at the Coffer and Coffin when the Order of the Rose and Sword hosted an evening of food and drinks recently.

Likes: Honesty, Music, Singing, Reading, Swimming, Star-gazing, Tolerance, Balance

Dislikes: Senseless waste/suffering/destruction, Dishonesty, Disloyalty, Bigotry, Thieves

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Rumors:

(Due to her personal obscurity, any rumor counts as 'rare'.)

"I heard a banemite chased her up a tree and she waited up there for hours for it to fall asleep so she could run away."

"I heard that she lives in a cave."

"My friend's sister's cousin's aunt's brother-in-law said his wife's sister saw her running through the woods naked covered in mud and chocobo feathers."