Kainé Rhaz

  AKIRA HAYASHI    —  The Bokairo innkeeper before his son Ushitora took over the family business, Akira kept meticulous logs of each and every visitor who stayed at the inn—and by doing so helped Kainé choose her last name after her adopted mother helped her choose her first name. Though he has since passed on, Kainé still occasionally visits the Bokairo Inn to visit his son, and take note of the bookkeeping that the Hyuran man continues in his father's stead.

  CHIYO HAYASHI    —  A kind-hearted woman, Chiyo is married to Ushitora and has a young daughter with him. Though she will happily (and truthfully) proclaim that her life is wonderful now should anyone ask her life story while shopping at her stall in the open-air Umineko Teahouse, she was also raised in Aelina's orphanage, her own parents a casualty of the Garlean invasion of Doma. It was there she met Kainé, and the two formed a quiet bond that has lasted through the years.

  ANEKO HAYASHI    —  A kind young girl, and Akira's granddaughter. Her mother runs a tea stall by the Umineko Teahouse while her father works at the Bokairo Inn, and though Aneko usually helps her mother outside in the fresh sea air, occasionally she will beg the Viera who stayed at the same orphanage her mother was raised at to walk her to the inn to see her father.

  AELINA ITO    —  An older Hyuran woman who took Kainé in when the Viera finally reached Kugane. The woman ran a textiles shop that doubled as an orphanage for a long while, before her age finally caught up to her. She helped teach Kainé Eorzean Common, and the Viera owes much of who she is today to the woman kind enough to take in a terrified, inarticulate young woman barely able to stand on her own two feet.

  CELINE AUBERLAINT    —  A young Duskwight woman that Kainé was able to rescue in just the nick of time from a diremite nest, Celine is a conjurer-in-training who skulks around the edges of Issom-Har and Buscarron's Druthers when the animosity of Gridania proper proves to be too much for her. Still, she tries her best to see the best in people, and Kainé's rescue and quiet kindness plays no small part in that, though the Viera does not know that.

  THIS COULD BE YOU...    —  Or perhaps, this could be us. Who knows? A link to a carrd here, a bio there, maybe even your character's name...if Kainé is willing to put up with them, or they worm their way into her heart. If we've been roleplaying together for some time and have a decent OOC relationship, and you'd like to be here, please don't hesitate to coordinate!

Somewhere deep in the Golmore Jungle is an abandoned Ravan village, reclaimed even more aggressively by the Wood than one would expect even from a Ravan village. If you know how to find it—assuming you are even allowed to—perhaps you may yet spy an old, rotting weapons rack, and notice two vacant spots, conspicuous by their emptiness when surrounded by the decaying weapons still somehow held in their places by the old wood and growing moss.Somewhere in the Black Shroud, there is a small, hidden abode, a day's travel off the beaten path but ever welcoming to those who need rest and attempt to keep kindness within its walls. It is stocked with a plethora of books and no few snacks, meals, and drinks, but few see who restocks it, or when. Still, the food is fresh, the booze is as strong (or weak) as one wishes, and the few cushions make for a decent enough resting place for the night.Somewhere in Shirogane, there was once a small cottage, rough-hewn stone walls cobbled together with perseverance and no small bits of wishing and hope. Once it was a textiles shop, run by an aging Hyuran woman who had no blood relations but made her life richer by taking in those who needed help; after that, it was a small teahouse and bakery, run by one of the woman's adopted children. Now, the doors open no longer, the previous owner having moved to somewhere far away from their previous life. Perhaps across the sea, however, one might find where the owner has made their new nest.Somewhere in Kugane, there is a small pier somewhat close to the lone inn that is welcoming (and even that word is a stretch) to foreigners. On that pier is a tiny stall, old and now unused, but built with love and care, and occasionally the innkeeper, son of an innkeeper, stops by to pay respects with his wife and child on their way home from their tea stall.Somewhere in the Coerthan Highlands...well, you won't find anything there, unless someone really, truly wants you to. And even if they forget occasionally, the snowstorms do more than enough to cover up any stray tracks left behind.

The lone thread connecting all these disparate locations and people stands before you, a Ravan Viera standing at just over 6 fulms and 6 ilms, her black-tipped ears rising another almost fulm above her head. Perhaps you know none of these places, none of these people, and the whispers of them she carries with her means nothing to you. Perhaps you know one of these people, or perhaps you think you know of one of these places.Whatever questions you may have for the figure in front of you may be answered quietly over a mug of tea, if you know how to phrase your questions and how to navigate the landmines of her past so that your queries do not come off as aggressive. Or perhaps she will sniff out your questioning intentions and assume them pitted against her, whether true or not.If you choose to obfuscate your reasons for interacting with the leporine figure that shares a space with you for the night, then do not expect kindness or warmth from the Rava—the scars sprawled across her body speak to an uneasy life, and long years lived against what she wished for herself weigh heavy behind her gaze. There is little kindness there for herself, much less for those she thinks may wish her harm.Ply her with enough high quality loose leaf tea, however, keep coming round and being as friendly as you can be without being overbearing, and perhaps one day you may find you have made a new friend, somewhere along the way, both over many days and simultaneously all at once. It is no effervescent, energetic friendship, but a slow, steady stream, a river of strength and protection when needed, and hoped to be returned in kind.The Viera that stands in front of you stands alone and frightened, waiting for any malice to come her way whether earned or no, but she was not always that way, and yearns to shake off the dark clouds that follow her now.

STATS

  NAME    Kainé Rhaz  NICKNAME/ALIAS    Sister (to fellow Viera who keep to the Green Word), little bird  AGE    80  DATE OF BIRTH    23rd Sun of the 6th Astral Moon (November 23)  GENDER & PRONOUNS    female, she/her  ORIENTATION    heterosexual / heteroromantic  RACE/ETHNICITY    Viera / Rava  NATIONALITY    Born in the Golmore Jungle, now considers herself Hingan/Gridanian

BACKGROUND

  PARENTS   
- unknown mother
- unknown father  SIBLINGS   
- unknown blood siblings
- considers fellow Ravan Viera sisters  SIGNIFICANT OTHER   
- none  OTHERS   
- TBA  PETS    none yet  OCCUPATION    previously a shopkeep's assistant in assistance to her adopted mother; after that, a baker/tea-maker; now a hunter for hire  HOMETOWN    the Golmore Jungle, Dalmasca / the Far East  CURRENT RESIDENCE    unnamed alcove / the Black Shroud // a Hingan-inspired home with hints of greenery / Mist  LANGUAGES    Ravan, Eorzean Common  ACCENT    Golmoran accent (see voice claim in next column)

PHYSICAL

  HEIGHT    6'6.25" / 198.88 cm (not including ears)  WEIGHT    181 lbs.  HAIR    White, with black lowlights; wavy, generally either down to around her shoulders or more rarely pulled up into a high ponytail with bangs framing her face  EYES    Ruby red  SCARS    raised scars, both circles and jagged lines, crisscross her arms, chest, thighs, and upper back  PIERCINGS    none  TATTOOS    none  VOICE CLAIM    Ranni, Elden Ring; click here

PERSONAL

  POSITIVE TRAITS   
- hardworking
- patient
- protective
- kind to those she trusts  NEUTRAL TRAITS   
- takes her time, whether with work or relationships
- observant
- independent
- self-reliant  NEGATIVE TRAITS   
- slow to trust
- prone to lashing out
- distrusting
- skittish  TEMPERAMENT    Cool, yet friendly and slightly protective if one gets to know her; however, is skittish around those she does not know and has not yet come to trust

OTHER

  POWERS / ABILITIES   - Lancework — ★★★★★
- Archery — ★★★★☆
- Ravan Conjury — ★★☆☆☆
- Fisticuffs — ★★★☆☆
- Woodsmanship — ★★★★★
- Cooking — ★★★★☆
- Mist Sensitivity — ★★★★★