Y'lyfriel Sikah
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Gender | Female |
Race | Miqo'te |
Clan | Seeker of the Sun |
Citizenship | Limsa Lominsa |
Age | 23 |
Marital Status | Bonded |
Occupation | Scholar |
Height/Weight | 5'2" / 128 ponze |
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[hide]Basic Info
Update On the 31st Sun of Azeyma's moon, Y'lyfriel Sikah became one with the lifestream. She is survived by dear companions, her bonded mate, Rhesh'ir Zhwan, and their son, Riel'a Zhwan.
The past several years of Y'lyfriel's life have been tumultuous. Since finding her way to the Twelveswood after a fateful voyage, her journey with Rhesh'ir Zhwan and the formation of the Maelstrom Foreign Levy 81st, she has found herself involved in events that she once only thought to read of.
In spite of the grandeur of their adventurers, her personal motivations were always quite intimate--she wished to care for her new family to the best of her ability, and make the realm a safer place for her son.
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Appearance & Personality
- Y'lyfriel prided herself on dressing well, and taking immaculate care of herself. Unless stress or fieldwork had a hold on her, she made effort to appear respectable and well-dressed. Fond of changing hairstyles, Lyf made far too many trips to the aesthetician.
Though passionate and often quick to leap to emotional conclusions, she was known for a studious intelligence that kept her focused on whatever task is at hand. Whether it was arcanima, naturalism, or contemporary Eorzean mechanical aptitudes, Lyf endeavoured to keep herself busy, and was especially pleased when her work was put towards keeping her family and her company, the 81st, safe.
Biography
Childhood
- Y'lyfriel is yet unaware of her birthplace; her mother, Y'zanza Behn, and her father, Sikah, brought her to La Noscea, and it is there that she spent the entirety of her youth. The family lived a short distance from the Swiftperech settlement. Her mother made much of the family's living as an artisan weaver of some renown. When Y'lyfriel was only two years of age, her father, an adventurer, failed to return from a particular outing. Y'zanza spoke very little of his occupation or interests during Lyfriel's growing up, but maintained an insistence that Sikah had died while abroad. Shortly after her father disappeared, Lyf's sister, Y'adebh, was born.
- In spite of Sikah's disappearance, the family managed to remain well off. Both Y'lyfriel and Y'adebh were adventurous in spirit, the former finding her freedom in her numerous acquaintances along the La Noscean coast, the latter keeping her head in the clouds---clouds full of adventurers' tales. Neither found themselves in an abundance of trouble, apart from the bumps, bruises, breaks, and heartaches of young lives. Hearing at a distance of Ala Mhigo's plight, and later, the Battle of Silvertear skies, kept them longing to see and experience other lands. Though Y'zanza allowed her daughters a large amount of freedom, they were kept from traveling abroad.
Teenage
- The destruction wrought by Dalamud's fall, and Bahamut's emergence, took thousands of lives. Away on a rotation with a patrolling Yellowjacket squad--an apprenticeship that would prepare her to enter Mealvaan's Gate--Y'lyfriel was away from her family's small home when it was brought to ruin. Breaking from her horrified awe at the spectacle that would forever change Eorzea, she rushed home to find only death--Y'zanza's and Y'adebh's bodies still aflame.
- With the help of what was left of the small community, the dead were laid to rest. For the next three cycles, Lyf struggled to maintain a living for herself as a weaver, but what little her mother had imparted to her was not enough to find her a suitable living. Resigning from the recovering community of Swiftperch, Lyfriel made her way into Limsa Lominsa and took up her nearly abandoned apprenticeship. She began as a clerk in Mealvaan's Gate, but her studious nature and desire for adventure allowed her a place to study the Arcanum. Alongside her blossoming thirst for knowledge, she made a fair, and perhaps expected number of poor choices. One brief courtship with a Bismarck waiter landed her an apprenticeship at the esteemed restaurant, but it lasted only as long as Lyf's patience.
Present
- After two years of study at the Gate, she began a relationship with a Lominsan privateer--Captain Erasmuss Ross. Believing it to be a route of escape into a life of adventure, she allowed the man to convince her to leave her studies and her home, to travel abroad. Their first voyage together was over shortly after it began; Sahagin set upon their ship, and several crew members, including Captain Ross, were killed. The man who assumed command--a renowned Arcanist named Rayner Cantilever, was unveiled to have his own motivations. He assaulted Lyfriel within Ross' cabin, and ordered the crew to sail for a Nymian ruin. Only further disaster awaited their arrival, as a host of tonberries set upon Rayner's new crew. Lyfriel escaped the disaster with two others, a strange stone, and a yet-unknown new companion that would change her life forever.
A New Path
- Shipwrecked and adrift, Y'lyfriel was picked up by a passing merchant vessel that eventually made its berth on the eastern Eorzean coast. From there, Lyf traveled to the Black Shroud, but not before discovering the strange, sentient elemental that had saved her while at sea---Eirene, a faerie of Nym. Their bond together freshly forged, they remained together in the Shroud while Lyf attempted to make a living working as a naturalist. While attempting to study a flock of ziz, she happened upon one 'Zee' of the Shroud--Rhesh'ir Zhwan, a traveling, reclusive bard. Time spent together brought them closer, and along the way, Lyfriel met Tahla'li Tayuun, Onuma Ahntifi, Lotan'to Jiub, Dawson Colwell, and X'linwh Tia.
- What began as a loose gathering of like-minded companions in the Shroud evolved into a renowned free company operating beneath the banner of the Maelstrom, led by Rhesh'ir himself. Though they've known hardship, she and Rhesh'ir now have a child together, and have found more worth fighting for than either could have suspected after their fateful meeting in the Twelveswood. Brought together by circumstance but bonded by love, Lyfriel and Rhesh'ir became Eternally Bonded before the eyes of their companions and the Twelve. With fresh resolve, they continue to lead the Maelstrom Foreign Levy 81st Company towards fresh endeavors and new threats that circle ever closer.
In Memory
- Though her Bonding to Rhesh'ir Zhwan was tumultuous, and the events that transpired around Lyfriel and her family remained dire and volatile, she persevered. Past the gates of Ishgard, she journeyed with her comrades and family, until she met an untimely death beneath the wings of a Dravanian, one in servitude to the massive beast that the Maelstrom Foreign Levy 81st company was pursuing. Her fate came only bells after reconciling the troubles that had kept she and Rhesh'ir separated, on the heels of intimate plans that would have seen them closer than ever before.
Miscellaneous
- The greater of the final years of Lyfriel's life were dedicated to her company and her family, in every sense the words possessed. She was ever willing to fight for the well-being of those close to her, and her home on the Vylbrand was a fortress for her heart and her intentions. Her true home, though, was in Rhesh'ir and Riel'a, whom she would have given any part of herself for, without second thought.
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