Mostly offgame introduction of my cat-folk character Nichuan:
Appearance
Nichuan is a 16 year old Riksharr* girl with ginger fur and golden eyes. A big strand of bleached hair covers half her face most of the time. Her face itself is sprinkled with lots of piercings that are interconnected with delicate silver and golden chains. Most prominent is a heart-shaped charm that is pierced through the skin of her forehead. On her arms and legs she wears half a dozen copper bracelets and rings that give a soft ringing noise whenever she moves. All over her body the ginger fur is covered with darker stripes that give her tiger-like look. She is wearing linen clothes, just little more than rags, that cover her srawny body decently but barely.
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Background
Nichuan's impoverished family struggled for a few years in
Liskan, capital of the
Tirkachi Clan in the
Golden South, before a traveling mage named
Gonzen Wright became aware of the magic tricks the girl was using to earn extra money in the city's colorful markets. He sensed the power that had awakened in the girl, but also that it was beyond his ability to guide her to control it. The elitist academy of Liskan was reserved for those who could afford the expensive education. Instead, he gave her a book and a name,
Gernwald Berling, Master of Magic, who taught at the
Free College of Holt-Lindeck, and went his way. Nichuan persuaded her mother to pack her few belongings and together with her two sisters travel north with the next caravan.
On the journey she met the mercenary
Eremis, whom caravan leader
Gram si Alachmes found half-dead in the desert. He seemed fascinated by her magic and she got curious about his tale. So they talked for a while and got a little closer. But his gaze kept wandering off into the distance, and she sensed the loss he was carrying. She knew a little about the healing arts, but healing such wounds as his was beyond her abilities.
Her first steps in Holt-Lindeck took her to the "College" at
Firelane Square, a collection of huts and houses built around an old tower that people call the
Ramshackle Tower. She hopes Berling will train her. As a powerful wizard, it should be easy for her to provide a good life for her mother and sisters. In the Dancing Cauldron, the family has made makeshift accommodations sharing a tiny chamber for which Eremis insisted on paying.
*What your character might know about Riksharr, the cat-folk:
nothing | I don't know what Riksharr are. She is a cat-girl of the cat-folk. |
little | They live in the Golden South and sell tabacco, coming with caravans. |
medium | They call themselves Riksharr or Giriwach. They are nomadic peoples roaming the Plains of Nachrar. The females are warriors, who serve the males that are traders or kings. |
a lot | The Giriwach is their shared culture, they also share a language, the Girinan. The big communities live in settlements that are ruled by a king-like leader with a harem of female advisors. |
expert | Some of them live in nomadic tribes, others in big clans with prospering settlements. They trade not only with the Borderlands but also the dwarves of the north or the Akrassian Kingdom.
The biggest clan is the Tirkachi Clan, living in Liskan. The Giriwach are only the biggest culture of the Riksharr. There are a lot more smaller communities. Most Riksharr families live nomadic while others live in harem-like structures with different levels of power distribution between males and females. |