Name:Ksietek Wosotwonje (both names together. yes it's a mouthful. Ksee-eh-tek (but the t is unaspirated) Voh-sote-vone-yeh Age: roughly 500 years old Occupation: She's a soul-guide. She takes souls on the dangerous danger to the afterlife, brings babies souls from the before, brings souls to visit the earth during certain times of the year, and carries prayers to cthonic gods. She brings dreams and she helps the earth to reawaken in spring. She is not the only soul-guide, there are others who do the same thing as her. She does all of these things, but her primary focus is as a guide to the afterlife, which means she's also a vampire killer. Residence: A nomadic life on the road of souls Physical characteristics: She is short and skinny, but wiry with a long neck. She has dark gray skin embedded with small, rough green jewels which are not very bright unless they catch the light just right. Her hair is white and feathery and it is full of butterflies and spiders. Atop it is a wreath of flowers which die and bloom again, die and bloom again. Her eyes are pure yellow and the glow like lanterns. She has a pair on the front of her face and a pair on the back of her head. She has very expressive thick white eyebrows and mouth set in a determined straight line. She has strange growths from her body like things that look like small branches and she has hooves instead of feet to help with the uneven terrain of the soul road. She carries a sharp sword and wears armor of butterfly scales and a stork amulet around her neck. She is adorned in small bells. She also has a sort of knapsack she carries with her with food and supplies because yes she does have to eat. She also carries a shawl in to wrap the souls of children in so they will not be so scared. She was something before probably, but it does not matter. Strengths: Understanding and communication, encouraging, brave, relentless Weaknesses: a little too eager to fight, argumentative, greedy. Paranoid, untrusting. She wants to know everything and she's overly curious and restless. Ksietek has a dark uneasy life, bringing what comfort she can to souls but she can never give them what it is they truly want, to go back to life. She is a soldier whose job may never end because there are vampires, corrupted souls who would prey on both the living and the dead and she must protect souls from them, and also keep her charges from becoming vampires. She fights well though, with her sword and her bells. Souls come with yearning, a need for closure for answers and so it's no surprise that Ksietek sort of inherits their curiosity. When you've been doing this for so long, you need something more than just the job to keep you going. So she too thirsts for secrets for knowledge. She too wonders what will happen when she dies because no one knows.Another thing is that anger and fire help her to keep going. She isnt without compassion and feelings, the things she sees transporting souls could make her give up, but she doesn't. And people might see her as greedy, but the way she sees it is she has a right to fight for everything that's hers. There will always be souls needing her to guide them, begging her to let them visit their family a few days early and sometimes she really does want to break the laws for them, heck she argues sometimes with the gods about it; she is defiant though she tries for diplomany, but she knows she is just a guide. It is a dark life, she tries to be as kind as she can, patient with the angry souls, or the souls who seem to walk right into danger. She does what she must, and she is proud of it and she feels fulfilled, but it's draining sometimes. If only they could love her the way they love the ones whose job is more bringing spring, or bringing babies. But the dead must be guided and her sense of duty is very strong
ignore this one Lladvyka Łdzoçaŋt (yad-vie-kuh wud-zoh-chawngt) Age: 22 Occupation: She's a servant, doing lots of difficult household chores and repairs and stuff Residence: The city of Devikkla Physical characteristics: She's white, with skinned tanned and reddish from working outside, with strong sure hands, and a broad face, from which her blue-gray eyes watch out from with a deep look of contemplation and thought in them. Her nose juts out prominently and tiny semi-precious jewels near her right nostril. She has dark brown hair which she wears under a head covering to protect it and just because it's part of her culture, most often she wears a warm pink headcovering. She is strong and robust. She wears practical simple colored dresses most of the time, but often accents it with a woven belt from her grandmother which has little otters and shells and has real shells dangling from it, but she's careful with it and wouldn't wear it if it's likely to break. Strengths: She's resilient and strategic. She's not rash and she knows how to get people to like her. But she's also a schemer and she doesn't forget things. She's creative. Weakness: She'll always try to pass the blame off to someone else. She's also scatterbrained and a gossip.
