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 ==== Biographical data ==== ==== Biographical data ====
   * **Full name:** Ëwrikh [əˈʋɾɯç]   * **Full name:** Ëwrikh [əˈʋɾɯç]
-  * **Nicknames or aliases:** Evrith [ˈɛβrɪθ] (adapted to [[language:imperial:#Contemporary Imperial]], Ehwrit [ˈewʰritʰ] (as recorded in [[language:Poradric]])+  * **Nicknames or aliases:** Evrith [ˈɛβrɪθ] (adapted to [[language:imperial:#Contemporary Imperial]]), Ehwrit [ˈewʰritʰ] (as recorded in [[language:Poradric]])
   * **Titles:** N/A   * **Titles:** N/A
   * **Date of birth:** 71 [[history:cloud_era:|Cloud]] 30:8   * **Date of birth:** 71 [[history:cloud_era:|Cloud]] 30:8
-  * **Place of birth:** Khilaad, on the coast of the [[avishraa:place:Windward Sea]]+  * **Place of birth:** [[geopolitical:Khilaad]], on the coast of the [[geography:sekhaa:marine:Denoric Gulf]] of the [[geography:sekhaa:marine:Windward Sea]]
   * **Date of death:** To be determined   * **Date of death:** To be determined
   * **Place of death:** To be determined   * **Place of death:** To be determined
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   * **Species:** [[Takma:]] ([[Chosen:]])   * **Species:** [[Takma:]] ([[Chosen:]])
   * **Race:** [[takma:start#variations|Littoral]]    * **Race:** [[takma:start#variations|Littoral]] 
-  * **Ethnic origin:** [[culture:ethnicity:Fringer]]+  * **Ethnic origin:** [[ethnicity:Denoric]]
   * **Current ethnic identification:** None   * **Current ethnic identification:** None
-  * **Native language:** [[language:imperial:#vernacular_imperial|Windward Imperial]] +  * **Native language:** [[language:imperial:#vernacular_imperial|Denoric Imperial]] 
-  * **Other languages spoken:** [[language:imperial:#Contemporary Imperial]], [[language:Khonai Tass]]+  * **Other languages spoken:** [[language:imperial:#Contemporary Imperial]], [[language:Hnem Dwa]]
  
 ==== Other ==== ==== Other ====
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 ===== Mentality ===== ===== Mentality =====
 ==== Motivation ==== ==== Motivation ====
-Evrith has become very attached to her quest to try to save the world from the threat of the mysterious [[person:dlyss|figure in white]] from her visions. If asked, she ascribes this not to any sort of selflessness, but to a desire to have at least one thing that she can feel good about, a positive result from her life to give it meaning that - given its likely brevity, unpleasant course, and end - it might not otherwise have. While she takes relatively little pleasure in living, she is resolved to stay alive at least until her quest, successful or not, has reached its end; but it has been her opinion for some time now that, //beyond// that point, there is nothing left to hold her back from choosing a smooth, peaceful end for herself.+Evrith has become very attached to her quest to try to save the world from the threat of the mysterious [[person:dlyss|figure in white]] from her visions. If asked, she ascribes this not to any sort of selflessness, but to a desire to have at least one thing that she can feel good about, a positive result from her life to give it meaning that - given its likely brevity, unpleasant course, and end - it might not otherwise have. While she takes relatively little pleasure in living, she is resolved to stay alive at least until her quest, successful or not, has reached its end. That, in order to achieve this, there is a minimum amount of self-care involved, is something she seems occasionally blind to, whether willfully or not.
  
 ==== Virtues, vices, and flaws ==== ==== Virtues, vices, and flaws ====
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 ==== Intellectual characteristics ==== ==== Intellectual characteristics ====
 +Evrith was once far more enthusiastically curious than she has since become, and a tendency to seek out knowledge is still a habit that's hard to break - but it is indeed a habit now, a survival tactic rather than something done out of enjoyment. Much the same applies to cerebration; she spends much of her time trying to think before acting - if there is time to do so - but the same habit tends to develop into brooding when applied to introspection.
  
 +Being an [[chosen:magic:span|oracle]] has allowed her to learn far more than she ever wanted and make aware of many dangers, but it makes it difficult, when the time comes, to turn her mind off in the way she finds necessary for relaxation.
  
 ==== Morality and philosophy ==== ==== Morality and philosophy ====
 +Generally speaking, Evrith believes strongly in freedom. As it applies to her ability to see the future, and her effects on it, she considers that the best outcome is one that //expands the range of desirable futures// that are open to a person, rather than limiting them. For her own behavior, this leads to something of a moral minefield, since there are few ways she can act toward other people that will not have //some// effect on their available futures, and she is desperately afraid of "trapping" people into certain possibilities. While she prefers to deal with this by providing people with information and letting them decide what to do with it, it can occasionally lead her towards more manipulative methods - providing long-term freedom of action at the cost of short-term controlling behavior.
  
 +As both a Kaean and a dweller on the societal margins, Evrith has little regard for laws and other rules of proper behavior, where she has much awareness of them at all; if she avoids transgressions, it is because she feels it right or at least prudent to do so rather than because anyone requires it.
  
 ==== Religious views ==== ==== Religious views ====
-Evrith believes in the reality of the [[culture:mythology:imperial_religion:Siathar:]] and [[culture:mythology:imperial_religion:Lamnar:]] of the [[culture:mythology:Imperial religion:]]. That said, she is not affiliated with the [[culture:mythology:Imperial religion:]] in any //formal// sense, and does not engage in the practices of worship generally expected of an adherent. Though this is partly due to a Kaean dislike of formality in religious matters, it may be most ascribed to Evrith's conviction that she has offended the gods - through her attempt at kinslaying, if not for any of her other self-perceived faults - and that they are not only not interested in her entreaties, but have cursed her for her transgressions.+Evrith believes in the reality of the [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:]] and [[mythology:imperial_religion:lamnar:]] of the [[mythology:imperial_religion:]]. That said, she is not affiliated with the [[mythology:imperial_religion:]] in any //formal// sense, and does not engage in the practices of worship generally expected of an adherent. Though this is partly due to a Kaean dislike of formality in religious matters, it may be most ascribed to Evrith's conviction that she has offended the gods - through her attempt at kinslaying, if not for any of her other self-perceived faults - and that they are not only not interested in her entreaties, but have cursed her for her transgressions.
  
-Her recent encounters with [[concept:doomtouched|the]] [[culture:mythology:imperial_religion:seekers_of_the_depths|followers]] of [[culture:mythology:imperial_religion:lamnar:Uvuun]] have only strengthened this latter conviction, since it now appears that, not content with the foregone conclusion of Evrith being delivered to Him after a miserable death, He is now actively seeking her out to hasten her end.+Her recent encounters with [[concept:doomtouched|the]] [[mythology:imperial_religion:seekers_of_the_depths|followers]] of [[mythology:imperial_religion:lamnar:uvuun]] have only strengthened this latter conviction, since it now appears that, not content with the foregone conclusion of Evrith being delivered to Him after a miserable death, He is now actively seeking her out to hasten her end.
  
 ==== Social aptitude ==== ==== Social aptitude ====
 +Evrith craves friendly contact, extended periods of solitude and avoiding Unchosen takmar having impressed a sense of loneliness and isolation on her. She is therefore inclined to be pleasant to those she sees will be pleasant to her. She is more tactful than one might expect from someone with her unusual upbringing, partly from having a precognitive sense of how others might react and partly from the habit of trying to appease her older brother; but she can still be quite blunt if she feels she needs to be.
  
 +Between a lack of self-confidence and the probabilistic nature of the future, she tends to avoid definitive statements and opinions unless she is very sure of them.
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 +Growing up uprooted in her brother's care and isolated ever since, Evrith has largely failed to absorb the customs and etiquette of her people or any others, particularly those centered around gender roles. To nearly all others who interact with her, she comes off as a well-meaning foreigner, unschooled in "proper" behavior. With a Kaean's lack of interest in rules for rules' sake, it is unlikely that this situation will change significantly.
  
 ==== Likes, dislikes, and taboos ==== ==== Likes, dislikes, and taboos ====
 +Evrith has mostly acquired the survivor's ability to give up likes and dislikes; she endures what she has to endure because she must, and on occasion she even seems to punish herself by seeking out unpleasantness. That said, she enjoys places and situations that cause her to feel as if she is experiencing home as it was before she and her brother were driven out - warm, moist winds, warm rocks and sand to bask on, the sight and smell of the sea, and the taste of saltwater fish.
  
 +She has few taboos other than those shared with most people who aren't actively evil or psychopathic.
  
 ==== Habits, quirks, and mannerisms ==== ==== Habits, quirks, and mannerisms ====
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 ==== Education ==== ==== Education ====
 +Evrith never received anything approaching a formal education. She cannot read or write; she can count to high numbers but can only perform basic math.
  
 ==== Occupation ==== ==== Occupation ====
 +Evrith is essentially an itinerant, moving constantly and subsisting through hunting, fishing, and theft, though the pursuit of her quest might also be considered an occupation.
  
 ==== Wealth and possessions ==== ==== Wealth and possessions ====
 +Evrith has very little to her name; most of what she carries now consists of supplies provided by [[person:Shyriath]], [[person:Tikke]], or [[person:Unitti]] and she does not really consider them hers. The only objects she approaches having feelings of ownership toward are several [[concept:glyphic_teleportation#linking books]] obtained in [[geopolitical:Oraa]], and since she stole them from their original owner, the moral rightness of her claim to them is debatable.
  
 ===== Personal history ===== ===== Personal history =====
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 ===== Relationships ===== ===== Relationships =====
 ==== Family ==== ==== Family ====
 +Evrith's parents - including her mother Kazeth - and remaining grandparents were killed by a mob in her village. While she has three or four older siblings who left home before this point, she was too young to have much of a relationship with the ones who were present when she was born, and they are effectively strangers to her.
  
 +Her relationship with her older brother Uruth was much closer, but fraught at best. He raised her, but being relatively young himself, he was not prepared for the difficulties of foster-parenting a young witch while remaining on the move; he came to resent and blame her for the way his life turned out, and the interactions that resulted played a large role in Evrith's psychological problems. After a particularly unpleasant incident in which Evrith, pushed to the breaking point, attempted to place Uruth in a fatal situation, Uruth left her. Evrith finds it particularly hard to forgive herself for this, and believes that the gods are punishing her for it.
  
 ==== Other individuals ==== ==== Other individuals ====
 +Besides her brother, Evrith has largely remained out of extended social contact until relatively recently. The main exception was a period, in late 74 Cloud, during which she encountered and lived near an isolated [[xtauh:]] woman of the [[ethnicity:Hnem Osh]] ethnicity, from whom she learned [[language:Hnem Dwa]] and with whom she developed a wary but civil and mutually beneficial relationship. Evrith moved on after the woman died of illness.
  
 +More recently, she has acquired a group of (for lack of a better term) followers in her quest to neutralize the future threat of the [[person:dlyss|figure in white]]:
 +  * [[person:An-uxhwi]]: a youngish [[xtauh:]] male who, while both were enslaved in a silver mine near [[geopolitical:Torniim]], nursed Evrith back to health and became her assistant in engineering the mass escape that freed them. An-uxhwi appears to have developed a devotion to Evrith that, while having some basis in gratitude and religious feeling, has an increasing personal element. Evrith is very touched by this and both enjoys his company and has come to rely on his support, but worries about what fate she will lead him to, particularly since she sees many futures in which their mutual liking turns into something deeper still.
 +  * [[person:Shyriath]]: a male [[Chosen:]] [[takma:]], met while Evrith and An-uxhwi fled from Torniim south through the desert, not very old but cynical and suspicious beyond his years. Their initial meeting and Shyriath's misinterpretation of its circumstances led to a display of his [[chosen:magic:mind|mentalist]] and [[chosen:magic:element|elementalist]] powers that left Evrith deeply resentful; between this incident, a certain incompatibility of personalities, and the frictions generated between a [[chosen:start#kaeans|Kaean]] and a [[chosen:start#srians|Srian]] who are both unused to managing their differences, the relationship between the two is rocky at best. Evrith recognizes Shyriath as an ally and as essentially a decent person, but they do not consistently get along with each other and make no great pretense of doing so.
 +  * [[person:Tikke]] and [[person:Unitti]]: a pair of male xtauh around Evrith's own age, encountered during the events at [[geopolitical:Oraa]] and swept up along with the others. Their relative lack of command of [[language:Imperial:]] has slowed the process of getting to know them and she does not feel that she has much in common with them, but she finds them pleasant to be around, though Tikke's extravagant personality sometimes grows grating.
 +  * [[person:Hyd'natt]]:
  
 ==== Affiliations ==== ==== Affiliations ====
 +Circumstances have by and large forced Evrith into the position of a loner. She has only recently acquired a group of followers intending to aid her in her attempt to thwart the dangers of the figure in white. 
  
 ===== Inspirations ===== ===== Inspirations =====
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