Ink-Brush Fox's
Blurb Directory
This is a landing page for the various FFXIV OCs that I have created - I welcome any input or feedback on any of them!
NSFW content is available upon request for most characters.
Potentially upsetting themes marked.
My main character and muse
My secondary characters and muses
Symbol Key
★ - Dark Themes
♥ - Sexual Themes
Shio Shinju
The Littlest Kojin, Warrior of Light
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Ruby Sea
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Warrior of Light, Fisher
Interests: Anthropology, culture, fishing, fighting, language
Unusual traits: The Echo, Legacy Tattoo
Identity: Female (she/her)
Found drifting in the ocean by the Kojin of the Blue, the newly-named Shio Shinju was raised according to their beliefs, and trained as a Samurai. Soon realising she had the Echo, she set out across the land to try to live up to the myths she was told, which led into a life of continual trauma, abuse, and hardship. Just wants to go fishing again. Learns about new cultures by learning their fighting styles.
Thalassa
Azem, the Traveller
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: The Unsundered World
Age: Incalculable
Occupation: The Traveller, Shepherd to the Stars in the Dark
Interests: Culture, language, adventuring, sea-life
Identity: Any
Once a Word of Mitron, Thalassa had a particular talent for microbiology - a talent which she channeled into populating the oceans of the world with sealife.
However, once Venat retired, Thalassa was horrified that her two mentors - Venat and Mitron - had both recommended her name to take over the Seat of Azem. Unable to avoid the increased responsibility, she took the role begrudgingly, doing her best to prove herself unsuitable for it via malicious compliance - until the Final Days struck, and she spent the remainder of her days trying to save as many lives as she could.In the modern day, her influence is felt starkly in her Sundered counterpart, Shio - it is Thalassa's aether that causes Shio's hair and one of her eyes to turn white. Her legacy weighs heavily upon the Kojin, who spends her every day trying to live up to the legendary Traveller.
Acras
The Blood-Drinker
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Azim Steppe
Age: 300-400
Occupation: Socialite
Interests: Political machinations, parties, fine clothing
Unusual traits: Vampiric traits - drinks blood, burned by sunlight and running water, ageless
Identity: Female (she/her)
Cursed by a Voidsent after her tribe was driven into the desert, Acras abandoned her old name and all connections to the Xaela of the Steppe, beset by a new requirement to drink blood to survive. She now lives semi-nomadically, changing cities periodically to attend high-class functions, sipping literal blood from metaphorical blood-drinkers on society.
Ak-Nupe Inik
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Issom-Har
Age: 500-600
Occupation: Unemployed
Interests: Nature, the Elementals, spiting Gridania
Unusual traits: Ageless due to Elementals, Hearer of the Elements
Identity: Female (she/her)
One of the last children born into the city-state of Gelmorra before it was abandoned in favour of the new state of Gridania, Nupe Inik served the role in her dying city that Padjal now serve in the modern city.
The Elementals of the Shroud were grateful for her for trying to care for them even as the city fell into disrepair and ruin, and blessed her with agelessness - and then, once the Padjal started to be born, they promptly seemed to forget about her, no longer answering her cries or speaking to her (although she can still overhear them).
Considering her life to be over, she renamed herself Ak-Nupe, in accordance with the way to refer to the dead in Gelmorran culture, and now, the deeply upset and abandoned-feeling healer roams the Shroud outside of Gridanian settlements, unwilling to set a single foot inside the city that took her home and her life from her.
Alatyr
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Bozja
Age: 45-50
Occupation: Travelling Merchant
Interests: Local food, particularly pub food, nice baths
Identity: Male (he/him)
Owner of a one-man merchant caravan, Alatyr spends his days travelling the world, specialising in servicing smaller towns. His path is long, meandering, and covers two of the Three Great Continents, avoiding Ilsbard. He's generally liked, very charismatic and persuasive, and generally can be found, if not travelling between villages, in whatever inn or tavern is available, eating the local food and drinking the local ale, with the hottest person in the village on his knee, being seduced.
Adon Cere
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The village of Cere
Age: 55-60
Occupation: Unemployed (Looking for Lim)
Interests: Athletics, gardening
Identity: Female (She/her preference, really apathetic)
When the villagers of Cere realised that the Wood-Warder Lim was not going to be returning, Adon was sent out to find a suitable replacement. Seeking across the realm, she finds what time she can to indulge in gardening or sports as a hobby, but mostly, her time is devoted to trying to find either Lim or a suitable replacement for him.
Alha Kangarriparri
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Meracydia
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Artist
Interests: Landscapes, painting, drugs
Unusual traits: Tattoo on his chest, the Echo (unbeknownst to him)
Identity: Apathetic (Any)
Born in Meracydia to a small tribe living in the wilderness, completely separated from society. An idealistic dreamer and painter in the traditional style of his people, he had a vision one day - perhaps a hallucination from lack of sleep and overusing stimulants, perhaps a dream, perhaps a divine vision, who is to really say? - and immediately set off for other lands. Once reaching the continent of Eorzea, he immediately set out to find what his vision was driving him towards, and has not had any luck so far. Social, friendly, enjoys games, enjoys people, likes hearing life stories and seeing new things, but always looks kind of scraggly and ragged.
Nganno
Of The Rainbow
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: The Unsundered World
Age: Incalculable
Occupation: Terraformer
Interests: Landscapes, playing with snakes
Unusual traits: Rainbow-coloured aura around his head
Identity: Any
As a terraformer, Nganno specialised in rivers and mountains in arid landscapes. On many days, the place that Nganno could be found would be on a cliff overlooking some vista of cracked clay and steep cliffs, playing with his magic to cause rivers to wind through it like winding, sinuous serpents.In the modern day, his influence is felt in Alha's magnetism towards landscapes - drawing him to paint the landscapes that, a long time ago, Nganno shaped.
Amga Qestir
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Reunion
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Unemployed
Interests: Stargazing, hunting, camp cooking
Unusual traits: Selectively mute
Identity: Apathetic (verbally, no pronouns, other contexts, any)
A Qestir nomad, Amga travels the world in silence, enjoying hunting new game and seeing new skies. She has a habit of establishing a campfire and catching enough to feed any travellers, and anybody is welcome at her campsite, to stargaze, share food, and enjoy the night - as long as they do not speak. The first attempt to speak will have her shush the traveller, and the second will have her expel them from the camp.
Amisgalgüi Qalli
The Mute Songstress
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Qalli Iloh
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Songwriter
Interests: Music, songwriting, instruments
Unusual traits: Strong respiratory issues, forcibly mute, frail, asexual
Identity: Female (She/her)
Born with only one working lung - and only partially working at that - Amisgalgüi, "without breath", is named for the fact that her mother had to manually breathe for her for the entire night before a healer arrived. The young Amis, born to the Qalli, the "songbirds of the steppe", was cursed in what the young Xaela would consider the worst fate imaginable - she could not draw a deep enough breath to sing. Eventually, she left her tribe, and struck out into the world. After travelling for a time, she found herself in Radz-at-Han, where a combination of the medicine from the alchemists and the bright, warm, dry weather helped her lungs, and now she plies her trade as an amazing songwriter for hire, despite her lack of voice. Searing temper, irascible, uninterested in most people.
An Venu
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Ruby Sea
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Adventurer
Interests: Fishing, poetry
Identity: Male (He/him)
In the Venu family, An's elder sibling left years ago, and after some months of contact, was never heard from again. When An was old enough to want to strike out and become an adventurer like the sibling he grew up admiring, he promised his parents that he would linkpearl call them for at least an hour every weekend, and would come to visit them at least once a month. Dutiful in doing so, An is interested in seeing the world, trying new foods, learning new poetry from every land, and hopefully, one day, finding his missing sibling.
Aoede Menis
Battle-Singer
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Mor Dhona
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Unemployed
Interests: Fighting, fucking, feasting
Unusual traits: The Echo
Identity: Apathetic (she/her most often, but she will accept anything)
Has the Echo and has fought gods - doesn't realise the significance of this because is just completely unconnected from the MSQ and the information around it. But is the type of person who, when the Amalj'aa tried to kidnap her and take her to see Ifrit, snarked (with a very coarse tongue) at Ifrit and decked him in the face "Your god is awfully fuckin' cocky considering he's in face-decking range" A combination of traits, on a layered basis, drive her. On the very surface level, she likes to scrap, and the gods are the only things that are fights worth properly waking up for On a slightly deeper level, she sings - and she is most inspired when her blood is pumping and soul is singing, so she seeks adrenaline rushes On a level so deep she wouldn't admit it aloud, she notices that if the gods are manifested, the land dies - she lives in the wilderness, and she does care about it. She also, finally, likes to fuck people she saves, who she refers to as her "damsels in distress", no matter what other context exists.
Blooming Arrowroot
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Vylbrand
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Miner
Interests: Plays, particularly musicals
Identity: Apathetic (defaults to she, does not care)
Blooming Arrowroot - Arrow, to her friends - works six days a week, sunup to sundown, for the Fires of Gulg forge, filling work orders of ore. She works so hard because she insists on financially supporting her parents as well as herself, and supporting three people at once requires her to work long hours and have almost no time off or free money. She's inexperienced in interpersonal relationships, and spends her one day a week drinking cheap swill and staring wistfully at posters for plays.
Ava Riil
Spoiler Content: Stormblood
Birthplace: Dalmasca
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Bar Owner
Interests: Adrenaline, flirting, fighting
Identity: Female (She/her)
An ex-navy officer from Dalmasca, Ava was a lighthouse guard up until the day Garlemald invaded. Fleeing the country, she found her way to the Steppe, with a shocking amount of hazard back pay (that she was unaware she was getting) where she found many friends, lovers - and even a wife. Eventually, she found her way to Ul'dah, where she found herself deeply homesick. Using her funds, she purchased a bar, named it the Desert Dregs, and set it up to only sell Dalmascan food and drink - and only the lowest-quality food and drink, on the policy of wanting everybody who patronised her bar to be of a social class she was interested in hitting on.
Ban Gi
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: Nagxia
Age: 60-65
Occupation: Hotel waitstaff
Interests: Cooking, smoking
Unusual traits: Warding Scale implanted in pectoral
Identity: Male (he/him)
With a very colourful past involving being the cannoneer on the pirate ship Thal's Mercy after working various jobs on nearly a dozen other ships beforehand, Ban was victim to a shipwreck and now works full-time at the Bokairo Inn as a member of the waitstaff. Big, rough, scarred, and with a carefully-crafted facade of politeness, he is still, at heart, a pirate underneath.
Blaidd Aurgen
The Golden Wolf
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Cardinal Virtues line)
Birthplace: Holminster Switch
Age: 90-95
Occupation: Ex-Soldier
Interests: Hunting, stargazing, seeing new forests
Unusual traits: Werewolf - has a lupine, humanoid, and hybrid form. Humanoid form has wolf traits - fangs, claws, furred ears.
Identity: Male (He/him)
Once a member of the Shadowkeeper's army, Blaidd fought the Warriors of Light on the First. Eventually, a mishap with the Warriors led to him being thrown into a Hollow, and from there he found himself in the Void. Eventually, a black mage summoned him to the Source, where he promptly escaped into the wilds and woods, where he has been living ever since, more wolf than man.
Bos Tyaka
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Ul'dah
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Gang leader
Interests: Parties, drinking, breaking things
Identity: Semi-apathetic (she/her but whatever is fine)
Born in the streets of Ul'dah to a destitute father, the way that Bos watched the system chew up and leave her father - and her - for dead instilled her with a virulent hatred of every institution and monetarist in the city. When she grew older, she came to the conclusion that she didn't need a tribal letter in her name, and if things and money were more important than people, than as a person, she was morally required to destroy as many things and as much money as she could, and so formed a gang in which to do it. Also fun at parties, and actively wanted by the Flames.
Brighid Leighis
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: Old Sharlayan
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Chirurgeon
Interests: Classical music, historical fiction
Unusual traits: Archon mark on her left thigh
Identity: Female (she/her/them/it)
An Archon of medicine and anatomy in Sharlayan's ranks, Brighid consistently gets in trouble for her healing - officially for "unprofessional conduct", but the real reason is that she heals combatants using Sharlayan knowledge. However, her conduct is sometimes unprofessional - she is a gorgeous woman, and she enjoys the flustered responses of patients as she has to put her hands on them for any form of healing beyond magical, and will often use verbal barbs and teasing to make them further flustered while treating them.
Brilliant Caladium
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Cedarwood
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Adventurer
Interests: Hiking, swimming
Unusual traits: The Echo
Identity: Female (any)
The daughter of a merchant, Bril spent her early life exploring the mountains around O'Ghomoro, and as a young hiking teen, met some adventurers in the mountains. Inspired by them, she went on to become an adventurer herself, building her muscles out of pride. Very firm that she knows her limits, she refuses to overstep her life as an adventurer, no matter who asks her or for what reason. Very encouraging of other adventurers setting boundaries and limits.
Cemi'tan Jahkir
Titan of the Sands
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Central Shroud
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Gladiator
Interests: Fighting, entertaining, showmanship, street food
Identity: Male (he/him)
Tenth son of Cemi. All his older siblings were given trades or professions, from family friends - one was taught to be a blacksmith, one a hunter, one a chef, etc etc. Tan, as his siblings called him, however, was unlucky - his family had no favours left to call, no friends left to train him, so he was given the choice of working for one of his siblings, or going to find his own future. Prideful bastard that he was, Cemi'tan immediately set off. Going as far as he could before what food his mother gave him ran out, he found himself in Ul'dah. Bright and completely unlike the forest he was used to, he did odd jobs for a time before he found himself on the Bloodsands. Having twenty older siblings had made him fast, and vicious. He was good in a scrap like none of his siblings were, but this trait had never served him well back in the Shroud - his mother wanted peaceful jobs for her children. On the Bloodsands, however, he was able to conquer. Ascending quickly, he underwent every training regimen he could - in the Forest, he was Tan, but on the Sands, he was Cemi the Titan - Titan of the Sands.
Cemi Jahkir
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Central Shroud
Age: 55-60
Occupation: Unemployed
Interests: Reading, entertaining, family
Identity: Female (she/her)
Living her life in a small homestead deep in the Black Shroud, Cemi spends her days largely on her own. Mother of a long list of children with five different other parents, Cemi enjoys the ways her family have since struck out on their own in various ways - with her children having jobs in everything from gladitorial combat and mercenaries to weavers and blacksmiths.
Averse to travelling, Cemi enjoys having guests visit her mostly-empty house - and once a year, on her nameday, all of her children and their own families come to visit her, and the whole Shroud thrums with the sounds of her family once more.
Ceru Rehw-Gilda
The Burning Word
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Golmore
Age: 100-115
Occupation: Ex-Keeper of the Forest
Interests: Growing things, plants
Unusual traits: Permanently flickering with blue-hot fire
Identity: Male (he/him)
Once a Keeper of the Wood, dutiful and diligent to care for the Green Word, Ceru's life was turned upside down by an utter tragedy the day that the Garleans attacked. A detonation in the forest caused the entire wood to burn, and the burning elemental spirit found refuge in the only place it could - Ceru himself. His body is not able to support the powerful aether of the spirit forever, and he knows it, and the Word knows it - but the Word does not care. It is a beast, angry and vengeful, and compels him, stokes his anger, until he burns all of Garlemald to the ground or flames out in so doing.
Cholla
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Yok Tural
Age: 80-85
Occupation: Bounty Hunter
Interests: Shitty booze, motorbikes, leather clothing
Identity: Female (she/her)
As Cholla grew up, she watched alchemists mix what she saw as magic in bottles. As a teenager, she got good at alchemy herself, at mixing up her own concoctions. She also found, as she got older, that she had a type of person she liked to look at - people who were problems. She liked watching bounties come in - the people with bounties on their heads were her favourite. Once she was an adult, she went into bounty hunting herself. However, proud and vain, she doesn't want to risk her looks in a fight. So, she uses her skills to mix what she calls Solutions - soporifics, paralytics, things to slow the body or make the mind suggestible - to mix into drinks. She likes gardening, makes her own drugs, says she has the best ass on the continent, tells terrible jokes when turned on, wears nothing but leathers as tight as possible, likes tying people up, enjoys shitty booze, and speaks with an accent so thick that some people claim you need the Echo to understand her.
Conroy Rayne
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Skatay
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Professor
Interests: Reading, teaching, learning
Unusual traits: Archon marks tattooed on the backs of his hands, aether-burn scars spiderwebbing his hands and forearms
Identity: Apathetic (defaults to he/him, does not care)
An Archon of Aetherology, Conroy Rayne is the youngest child of the noble House Rayne in Sharlayan. Adopted from the Sharlayan streets, Conroy thrived in the environment of the Studium, able to quickly learn nearly anything he set his mind to. As an adult, he travelled for a time before eventually settling back down in Sharlayan as a Professor of Aetherology, where he teaches both classes and takes individual students every day.
Drystlona Fraefocwyn
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: Moraby
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Gleaner
Interests: Music (particularly genres she's not heard before), teas
Identity: Female (she/her)
Drystlona - Dryst, to her friends - is a gleaner by trade - a scholar specialising in the gathering of exotic goods. Her speciality is aetheric crystals from areas of high conflict - primal battle sites, and so on. She's also posessing of a non-standard body type - her shoulders are broad enough that she cannot realistically wear the standard-issue gleaner jackets, and so she spends most of her time having to be exposed to the elements somewhat, which can be troublesome for her. She enjoys meeting new people and seeing new places, and she loves listening to new music and trying new teas in particular.
Elucia
The Succubus
Spoiler Content: None
Elucia
Birthplace:
Age: Incalculable
Occupation: Dancer
Interests: Sex, flirting
Unusual traits: Shapeshifter - appearance nearly entirely mutable, able to read lustful thoughts from others' minds, projects lust into the minds of all nearby passively, drains aether from people in moments of passion or pleasure
Identity: No gender (whatever pronouns turn someone on most to say)
Formerly a servant of the Voidsent Barbariccia, the Voidsent who would eventually be known as Elucia was remarkably weak, and only kept alive due to an uncanny level of skill in reading lust from mortals.
Eventually, Lady Amandine summoned Voidsent en masse into Haukke Manor, and the Succubus in question was one of those called. Eventually, a group of adventurers kidnapped and experimented on the demon, infusing it with aether borrowed from a White Mage - giving it some capacity for rational thought and planning. Now, Elucia - a name meaning "destroys lucidity" - moonlights as an exotic dancer, and makes sure to only partially feed from those it encounters, cowardly and scared of people coming to hunt and kill it if feedings are carried out to lethality.
F'ikha Nuhn
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: F' Tribe Village
Age: 45-50
Occupation: Nuhn
Interests: Whittling, rock-climbing, sandfishing
Identity: Female (she/her)
Taking the role of Nuhn at the age of twenty-one, F'ikha served the F' village well for seven years before transitioning - and once she had transitioned, she announced that she would continue to hold the title of Nuhn until a Tia was able to take it from her. Two decades later, none has, and there has been both an exodus of Tias and women alike who are unhappy with the status of a female Nuhn, and an influx of Tias and women from other villages who wanted to live under a female Nuhn. Taking her role seriously, she still serves as the tribe's Nuhn, even if she wishes she could return to her days of adventuring and exploring caves and dungeons.
Florenne Bloomheart
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: South Shroud
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Farmer
Interests: Growing things, fireworks, festivals
Unusual traits: Blessed by Nophica to make things grow and bloom in her proximity - grass and flowers grow in her footsteps, crops are more bountiful, animals are more fecund
Identity: Female (she/her)
Living on a farm with her family, when the Calamity happened, Florenne watched the change in climate and aether cause the farm to fall fallow. As her parents abandoned the farm, leaving it to her, Florenne went to Stillglade Fane and prayed for the Matron to save her. Praying until she passed out from hunger, when she awoke, Florenne was blessed by Nophica - and now the Matron's blessing overflows from her body, infusing all living things around her, to the point of wooden chairs sprouting new growth if she sits upon one.
Florus Amaga
Spoiler Content: Endwalker
Birthplace: Garlemald
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Bartender
Interests: Brewing, radio dramas, fine wines
Identity: Male (he/him)
Born in Garlemald as a daughter to Tadius, the Garlean who would one day be Florus was raised with love and care. While serving the years of compulsory military service required of all Garleans, Florus transitioned to masculine presentation, and upon returning home, he found that Tadius had stored away all of the feminine clothing and purchased new, masculine clothing for Florus. When Garlemald fell, Florus was lucky enough to be in the basement of the brewery he worked at, listening to his radio shows - he was trapped in the basement for days, listening to the radio, before the Ilsabard Contingent found and rescued him. He then left his homeland, finding his way to Ul'dah, where he now works at the Desert Dregs, owned by Ava.
Galdra
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Nym
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Mercenary
Interests: Excitement, adrenaline, novelty
Unusual traits: Metal-and-stone body, functional reincarnative immortality, severe amnesia
Identity: Periodically changes, currently female (she/her)
(Most of the following is unknown to Galdra herself)
Once upon a time, there was a scholar of Nym who fell in love with a Viera. The Scholar loved her deeply, until one day, she died in battle. Heartbroken, the Scholar dove into his books - and through a combination of Nymian arts and principles derived from an ancient excavated artefact, was able to return his love to life. They lived happily, for a time. She was no longer flesh and blood, but metal and stone, but they were happy. And decades passed, and in time, the Scholar died. And the Viera laid down next to him, and died as well.
And then she woke up.
Galdra, as she came to be known, had been rendered immortal, in a fashion - every time she died, she would wake up again, in the location her second life had begun, with one less memory from her past. We are now ages on, and she has no memory of the Scholar, no memory of who she was. She is mostly bored, and long come to terms with her immortality, and rather reckless with her lives as a result.
Gloyn Byw
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Skatay
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Florist
Interests: Flowers, growing things, cute animals, sweet food
Unusual traits: Amnesia, the Echo, Legacy tattoo, butterfly tattoo
Identity: Female (any)
Once a Warrior of Light who fought at Carteneau, Gloyn was afflicted with amnesia due to Louisoix's spell, and her earliest memories are being a captive to the Ixal. Eventually rescued by a woman she would later come to recognise as her wife, Gloyn found that she was permanently put off of violence, and retired from adventuring. Now, she enjoys her life as a florist, and spends her time picking and selling flowers. Has a very short and mercurial attention span, and has a butterfly tattoo on her face - signifying her marriage, as long ago, she admitted to her wife that she would lose any ring.
Gologa Afaria
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Save the Queen line)
Birthplace: Bozja
Age: 65-70
Occupation: Retired
Interests: Hunting, cooking
Unusual traits: Heavy scarring, inability to use magic beyond the most basic level, missing an eye
Identity: Male (he/him)
As a soldier of Bozja, Ristan Aliteo served in the war against Garlemald right up until the day his home was destroyed in the Bozja Incident. Said Incident also killed his Queen and most of his clan, and injured him severely - after a time spent recovering, he went straight back to the war, even alone, expecting it to kill him in fairly short order. Meeting a Miqo'te named Marisol Faria, he was taken by her spirit and wound up following her, eventually marrying her.
(Endwalker Spoilers)
Alba Afaria
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (MSQ)
Birthplace: Garlemald
Age: ~5
Occupation: Child
Interests: Plush toys, fairy tales
Identity: Female (she/her)
When the Garlean Empire fell, many children were left without homes or families - and Alba was one of them. Found asleep in a ruined, bombed-out building, the young girl was freezing and starving until Gologa found her.
Taking her back to camp, Gologa tried to find anybody that knew the child he had found, but none did - and so, he adopted her himself, naming her Alba for her white hair, and going out of his way to raise her with as many Garlean traditions as he could learn - completely determined to raise her to be unashamed of her heritage.
Gwyn
The White Wolf
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Cardinal Virtues line)
Birthplace: Voeburt
Age: 80-85
Occupation: Healer
Interests: Growing herbs, astronomy
Unusual traits: Werewolf - has a lupine, humanoid, and hybrid form. Humanoid form has wolf traits - fangs, claws, furred ears.
Identity: Female (she/her)
Once a soldier in the Shadowkeeper's army, Gwyn was blessed with the Wolf by the Shadowkeeper herself, and served dutifully, thinking that they were doing the right thing. One day, she overheard the Ascian Loghrif giving instructions to the Shadowkeeper. The scales fallen from her eyes, Gwyn deserted immediately, fleeing to the woods of Lakeland, expecting to be hunted down and killed. However, the very next day, the Warriors of Light attacked and the Flood happened, and Gwyn was appalled. Feeling that she needed to repent, Gwyn has dedicated her life since to healing anybody who comes to her hut, with no care for who they are, what they may have done, or how they got hurt - a life of pacifism and healing. However, she still has the lupine instincts, and on occasion, she needs to become the feral, bestial wolf within.
Hana Ne
Mistress Hana
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Bukyo
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Okiya Matron, Dance Club Owner
Interests: Sex, Drinking, Smoking, Physical Pleasure, Hedonism
Identity: Female (she/her)
Owner of two establishments in Kugane, Mistress Hana Ne maintains a very careful public image of a matronly and motherly woman, always found watching over her employees with a pipe in her mouth, quick to take in people off of the streets and give them jobs, new clothes, and stable housing. The Golden Flower is an Okiya, in which geisha are employed, providing chaste tea services and beautiful eye and arm candy for your events. The Flowerbed is a considerably seedier establishment, a dance club and brothel. Hana is, in reality, a foul-mouthed and selfish hedonist, willing to use her connections, drug addictions, and manipulation to keep her position of power in the Hingan underworld.
The Hawk
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Bayaqud Iloh
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Mercenary
Interests: None
Unusual traits: Nearly entirely silent, Rarely removes armour
Identity: Apathetic (any)
"The Hawk" is known as a reliable mercenary for killing large things, if you find them, but almost nothing is known about them - rumours fly that they are some kind of monster or voidsent or animated armour.
Underneath the armour, however...
The mercenary now only known as The Hawk comes from the Steppe, but her family fled it from another attacking tribe. They found their way to the West, where they ultimately wound up being attacked by Ishgardians who were far afield on a skirmish with the Dravanians. As the only survivor of their family, they found herself just wandering nomadically - Hiding their apperance as much as they can in public to avoid any potential future such incidents, and getting close to very few to spare themself the emotional pain.
Himalbraena Abar
Ward-Breaker
Spoiler Content: Heavensward (Shadow of Mhach series)
Birthplace: Oakum Landing
Age: 45-50
Occupation: Sky Pirate
Interests: Flying, Good beer, Views from high places
Identity: Female (she/her)
The Black Moon Sky Pirates, once a notorious band feared across the Sea of Clouds, were seven years ago forced to disband when their Ward-Breaker - the person responsible for identifying and dissolving magical barriers and locks - went missing. Said Ward-Breaker, Himalbraena, had been investigating the barrier to Dun Scaith and had been pulled into the abandoned city entirely. However, said barrier was more difficult to cross from within, and she remained trapped there until the Warrior of Light freed her. Learning quickly not to trust Voidsent, she survived as best she could, and once freed, found that her Sky Pirate crew had disbanded. Declaring herself the last Black Moon Pirate, she now tries to rebuild their hideout and re-establish the crew, a pair of endeavours in which she is having no luck. Very traumatised.
Name/Title
Spoiler Content:
Blurb
Khusel Himaa
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Himaa Iloh
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Apprentice Tailor
Interests: None
Unusual traits: Fat tail, Bad at everything
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born as a twin to Dairalt, Khusel always found herself in her sister's shadow. Dairalt was faster, stronger, a better horse-rider, a better fighter, a better weaver - there were even people who called her prettier, despite the sisters being ostensibly identical.
Growing tired of it, Khusel eventually left the Steppe entirely, striking out to try to find her fortune elsewhere - an endeavour that was stymied largely by her being bad at everything she tried. She cannot wait tables, care for horses or chocobos, carry messages, cook food, or any other of several dozen tasks she attempted.
Eventually, she found a tailor willing to take her on as an apprentice, dealing with her issues with extreme patience, and Khusel now makes a living aiding in the haberdashery.
Kiku Hanae
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Bukyo
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Noble heiress
Interests: Plays, musicians, performers
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born into wealth as a second daughter, Kiku doesn't have to worry about inheriting anything other than money, so she is entirely able to do her own thing. She's rich, bitchy, privileged, used to getting everything she wants, and has little-to-no concept of "consequences"
Kiku doesn't really want for anything - and as such, she doesn't really want anything. She wants to continue to sit atop the privilege and power she has.
She calls suitors to entertain her, she has private plays put on to entertain her, she goes shopping and buys new clothes
She cares more about her pleasures in the moment. If she grows bored, she commands a new frivolity brought to her.
One day, one of her older sisters told her that she'd never make it "among the ijin", and she took that as a challenge, and so bought a house in Kugane immediately and decided she was going to live there.
Kin
The Gold-Furred Fox
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (The Four Lords line)
Birthplace: The Gensui Chain
Age: 1000+
Occupation: Unemployed
Interests: Novelty, New places, New people, New Sensations
Unusual traits: Auspice, is a fox who has taken humanoid form. Can manipulate senses. Can transform back into a fox.
Identity: Apathetic (any, will adopt guises that have more specific identities)
As an auspice of a small fox, Kin is primarily interested in having experiences she could not have in her natural body or her original home. As such, she travels the world, far and wide, in search of novelty, using her illusory magicks to both keep herself safe and inflict lessons on those whose paths she crosses.
Kira Chi
The Halfblood Miko
Spoiler Content: Endwalker (Mt Rokkon)
Birthplace: Daitenzan
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Miko
Interests: Tea (especially exotic teas), Old legends, Long walks
Unusual traits: Outright immune to magic, horned, taller than most Roegadyn
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born to a pairing of a monk and a smoke-oni, Kira was adopted by Master Gorai of Shojo Temple and trained in the ways of the Miko. Possessed of an intense and powerful urge to act chaotically, inherited from her inhuman mother, Kira has had to fight the urge to be violent or forceful her entire life, aided by her priesthood training. Her unique heritage makes her immune to magic - her body acting like smoke to any aetherial manipulations directed towards it - and immensely strong, traits which have both served her well in her time as a Miko, sent to calm angry spirits and Yokai.
Lihtbryda Syngwyn
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Cieladies
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Professional Bodyguard
Interests: Swimming, heavy snow
Unusual traits: Body continually burning hot to the touch, increasing as her heart rate increases
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born with an unusual confluence of aether in her body, Lihtbryda's body burns - with a concentration of fire aether, her body is always hot to the touch.
Her mother leaving at a young age due to injuries sustained when Liht was born, Liht grew up under her father's care into a fine young woman, aspiring to be a bodyguard and protect those less physical than herself - a job she always despaired of being able to do, for the fact that her touch would sear any charge she had. However, with her father's encouragement, she set out to find colder climes to work in, and now works as a professional bodyguard-for-hire, channeling her strength and intense heat into protection for those who need it. She is kind, eternally careful, and endlessly patient with those around her - even as she is touch-starved to the point that it keeps her awake at night.
Aergfarr Flazgarrsyn
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Cieladies
Age: 65-70
Occupation: Farmer
Interests: Large animals, bright sun
Unusual traits: Burn scars across his hands and arms
Identity: Male (he/him)
When his daughter Lihtbryda was born, Aergfarr was at first overjoyed - until the injuries caused by the birth caused his wife to leave and never return.
Heartbroken, the once-pirate retired, doing his best to be a single father to Liht - raising her with a strong work ethic, a fierce protective streak, and a sense of responsibility for their shared large size.
Once Liht left his home to find her own way in the world, Aergfarr tried to find what place in the world he might have, his physical dexterity ruined by the burns accrued over nearly twenty summers of raising a burningly-hot child. As such, he found a peaceful refuge on a farm in the Cieladies, and now refuses to leave for any reason, spending his days wrangling large beasts and hoeing popotoes.
Lim Rehw-Setlas
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Cere
Age: 55-60
Occupation: Pickpocket
Interests: Nature, short slender women, stealing
Identity: Male (he/him)
Born in the Village of Cere, Lim did not stick around for very long. Upon hitting puberty, he decided that he was unhappy with his role, and struck out to see the world after less than a decade - finding his way to Gridania. Finding that he got on very very well with the forest - because, unbeknownst to him, the Elementals absolutely adore him - he started a new life of being a pickpocket and evading the attentions of Adon, who came to look for him.
Maeve Blackear
Spoiler Content: Heavensward (MSQ)
Birthplace: The Isle of Val
Age: 120-130
Occupation: Research assistant
Interests: History (specifically the decline and fall of empires), reading, rainy days, hot cups of tea
Unusual traits: Extremely scatterbrained
Identity: Apathetic (any but people often default to she/her)
A research assistant in the Sharlayan colony in the Hinterlands, Maeve was an unfortunate oversight during the exodus - due to her penchant for getting lost in her books for days to weeks at a time, she was entirely missed by the exodus due to a job she was on, and returned to Idyllshire to find that her Sharlayan employers and friends had departed without her. Settling in with the new residents - gobbies and adventurers, mostly - Maeve found that her job and life had changed relatively little, and still will talk anybody's ear off if they mention Allag to her.
Nahla Delmare
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Costa del Sol
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Pirate Quartermaster
Interests: The sea, adventure fiction
Unusual traits: Magically enhanced curves, cursed tattoo (hypersensitivity to pleasure, pleasure erodes thought processes)
Identity: Female (she/her)
Kidnapped by Serpent Reavers as a child, Nahla grew up very quickly into a beautiful woman - a curse for a slave. The Serpent Reavers took notice, using magicks to enhance her body and place a tattoo on her - one that caused her sensitivity to pleasure to spike, and said pleasure to erode her capacity to think.
Eventually freed from this captivity by the captain of the pirate ship Scorpio Siren, Nahla decided to sign up for the ship, serving under the first person to ever respect her autonomy and freedom.
Sharply intelligent, incredibly self-motivated, and with a streak of cruelty when pushed, Nahla cares about herself, her captain, and the Siren, in that order, and has only one moral line - No chains, ever. Eternally tired of being underestimated for her body, Nahla turns her cruelty towards those who treat her as an object of lust in particular - a topic that has long-since become tiresome to the point of anger to her.
Nehir Baelsar
Son of the Wolf
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Birthplace: Velodyna River banks
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Ex-soldier
Interests: Outdoor runs, culturally-unique cooking
Unusual traits: Garlean third eye, inability to use magic
Identity: Male (he/him)
When his mother, a Gyr Abanian seeking refuge, died bearing him on the river's banks, Nehir was taken in by the Garlean soldiers - with his primary care quickly falling, unexpectedly, to Gaius van Baelsar, in his time as viceroy of Gyr Abania.
As he grew older, Nehir's Garlean heritage became apparent, and rumours flew if he was Gaius's child in blood, as well as in truth, but the rumours would never be confirmed or denied. Raised to be a good soldier, a fierce tactician, and a cunning strategist, Nehir was left in his post on the walls of Ala Mhigo when Gaius was reassigned. However, Nehir quickly realised that the new viceroy - Zenos yae Galvus - was a butcher, and so deserted. He now seeks to reform Garlemald into the nation that his father taught him about - a nation of meritocracy and unity - instead of the one that it is in practice.
Nith Ergi
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Nagxia
Age: 110-120
Occupation: Ronin
Interests: Poetry, landscape painting, herbal teas
Identity: None (any non-gendered pronoun)
As a young teen, Nith set out on a pilgrimage with their samurai trainer, seeking enlightenment with the old woman. The young Viera learned a lot of habits, including that of helping people wherever they went - they were taught the philosophy that being able to help means that you should do the best you can to in all contexts.
Their master was killed by a bandit who tried to rob them - their master refused to fight back against someone who was just starving, but Nith tried to defend them - which led to a fight in which their master was wounded and died.
Nith now roams the land trying to help people, and trying to spread the samurai arts that they learned - their sharp temper deliberately and carefully curbed, to prevent such tragedies happening again.
Volya Kirasch
Odori Maneki
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Kugane
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Dancer, geisha, whore
Interests: Dancing, cultures, bright sun, beaches, fancy clothes
Unusual traits: Half-hrothgar, half-Miqo'te, has traits from both - body is oddly proportioned, has claws and fangs, hair is more akin to a mane
Identity: Female (she/her)
Volya's life has always been one of "almost, but not quite" - she was born in Kugane, but not to Hingan parents - almost a Hingan. Looks like a Miqo'te, but too tall and with some body parts clearly Hrothgar - almost a Miqo'te, almost a Hrothgar. She took a job waiting tables at the Golden Flower Okiya, and eventually came to be a geisha there, but found she was too horny - almost a good geisha. When she went to Limsa to try to become a whore, she found that she enjoyed the teasing and deflection too much - almost a good whore.
She has been slowly learning to accept herself as her own entity, not almost, but it is slow going - she focuses on trying to find the things she likes, and enjoys her jobs as she flits between them.
Omikhle
Curse-Eye
Spoiler Content: Heavensward (Shadow of Mhach line)
Birthplace: Mhach
Age: 1500+
Occupation: Chirurgeon
Interests: Pie, learning, teaching, watching the sunrise
Unusual traits: Aether-sight, long-lived, one eye replaced by a demonic orb
Identity: Male (any)
For many, many years, Curse-Eye was feared across the land - a BLM who could not be stopped, terrifying and horrific. However, more than five hundred years ago, after untold decades of terror, they vanished.
Not long afterwards, Omikhle surfaced - interested in learning every healing art that he could. He will openly admit to being Curse-Eye if asked, but the pall of terror and fear hanging over Curse-Eye's reputation means that those who know enough to ask are scared to.
Omi himself is most interested in teaching new healers, and relaxing and eating pies, living at home with his partner - they have known each other since the days of Mhach, and been together for longer than the concept of marriage has existed.
Orinitt
The Blighted One
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Healer Role Quest line)
Birthplace: Tomra
Age: 150-160
Occupation: Smith
Interests: Smithing, his wife
Unusual traits: Half-blind, still has leftover side-effects from Stoneblight infection
Identity: Male (he/him)
One of the victims of Stoneblight on the First, Orinitt nearly died in the tunnels beneath Tomra as a result. Eventually, the dwarf healer Niwett - his sweetheart - came to heal him, and together they were exiled from Tomra.
A series of circumstances led to Orinitt and Niwett being sent into the Void, and they were eventually rescued by a Black Mage on the Source - and now, Orinitt has set up a forge in Limsa, and dreams of the day he can make weapons of legend to be used by grand heroes, and otherwise, lives only for his wife.
Reson
Failed Experiment
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Birthplace: Skatay
Age: Unknown
Occupation: None
Interests: Solitude, nature
Unusual traits: Has the Resonant (manifesting as extreme pain if anybody lies in his presence), prosthetic legs (metal hooves from thighs down)
Identity: Male (any)
Captured many decades ago, Experimental Subject #82 was used for an untold number of tests - tests to manipulate his aether, tests to manipulate his soul.
Eventually, Aulus mal Asina requisitioned him as a subject for his Resonance experiment, and deemed him a partial success - having given him a warped form of the Resonant.
When the Eorzean forces attacked, Reson's pod was damaged, and while he was saved, his legs were torn off in the attempt. Now, he lives in isolation, trying his best to keep away from the people whose casual lies so harm him.
R'hia Odh
Monster Fisher
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Peaks of the Wind
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Deep-Sea Fisher
Interests: Swimming, surfing, cooking
Identity: Apathetic (any, defaults to she/her)
Born into a fishing family, R'hia was always unsatisfied with the way that her family members would catch their dinner - she could see the fish in the water, why not just go and get them?
Leaving her family to go the city of Limsa Lominsa itself, where she found a group of "Monster Fishers" - and her life was changed.
Now, she spends her days chartering ships to the location of sea trenches and will dive in, spearing the largest sea life she can find and wrestling it back to the surface, a difficult and exhilerating job that she loves every single day she gets to do it.
Rho Keenblade
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Golmore
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Samurai
Interests: Geisha, floriography, painting landscapes
Identity: Female (she/her)
Found in the woods by a travelling Hingan noble, Rho was "saved" from her "savage life" and taken to Hingashi. Raised (mostly by his guards, rather than the noble himself), she has a very Hingan view of things now. She has accepted a very calm, even, level view of her life, and does genuinely love her father - it is the only life she remembers. She serves him dutifully as a samurai, going where he bids and enacting the tasks he requires of her, and lives her life as a Hingan as best she can, while ashamed of her Viera traits.
Sajati Sunvoice
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Yedlihmad
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Alchemist, Actor
Interests: Acting, dancing, spicy food
Unusual traits: Potion-enhanced body (inhuman long tongue, widened thighs and hips)
Identity: Female (any)
An Alchemist by trade, Sajati likes to experiment - specifically in the field of transformative potions. While she does have hobbies - namely, acting and dancing - when she's not partaking in them, she will be tinkering in a small backroom of the Great Work, mixing up some experimental concoction or other. An unexpected result of one of her experiments caused her tongue and hips to warp and exaggerate, and as a result, Sajati has adopted a policy of only ever making temporary potions since - every effect wearing off within twenty-four hours.
A skilled alchemist, kind, but too soft-hearted to ask anybody but herself to be the test subjects of her potions. She aspires to have potions that make her form mutable and meaningless enough that she can use them for her true passion of acting - if you need a monster, or a dragon, or someone of this height or that bodily form, Sajati aspires to be able to mix up the potion to give your actors - ideally herself - that form.
Saldlona Sathsatzwyn
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Silver Bazaar
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Gambler
Interests: Gaming, gambling, magic shows
Identity: Female (she/her)
Saldlona is a full-time professional gambler - born to a middle-class family in Ul'dah, she has no particular need to work for her supper, and so, she spends her days in the Saucer, gambling. She is friendly, cheerful, bouncy, upbeat, flirtatious, and chipper. She has a particular streak with her luck - she breaks even on her bets, 90% of the time, to the point where she thinks it is odd if she ends a day without breaking even.
Saldlona is well-off enough from her family to never need to work, and she has a small apartment in the Goblet all to her own, travelling between the city and the Saucer every morning and night. Other than gambling, she likes to see performances - magic shows and things - but she doesn't like seeing combat. She is a fan of good food but doesn't cook that much herself - she mainly cooks quick, simple things - and she particularly loves eating her father's cooking, which she only does rarely.
Saltsong
Ocean Spirit
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: N/A
Age: N/A
Occupation: Deity
Interests: N/A
Unusual traits: Literal ocean-deity, manifestation of the aether of the sea
Identity: N/A
The Kami of the Sea, a manifestion of the aether of the entire ocean, often takes forms to interact with those who cross the seas. The most common such manifestion is known as Saltsong, but it is always important to remember - the ocean does not care about people, the ocean does not care about individuals. It is uncaring, and will occasionally use for you for some purpose, but you should always remember the vast, inhuman churn that is underneath the face presented.
Soft Nerium
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Vesper Bay
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Tailor
Interests: Unusual people, far-away locales, new styles of dress
Identity: Female (any)
Born in Thanalan, Soft Nerium - "Soft" to her lovers, "Neri" to her friends/family - didn't have much to begin with. She was pretty poor and could only make a living by doing odd jobs/menial tasks. As she grew up, she had an apprenticeship at the Weaver's Guild, and she recently managed to start her own clothing brand.
She specialises in making clothing for women with one or more body parts that are endowed such that they cannot wear normal-fitted clothes - busty women, or fat women, or women with big tails, so on. She believes that the best advertisement is for her to wear them, she cares very much about her appearance. She's very kind-hearted, but she has learned to project an air of sternness and dispassion when dealing with potential investors, etc.
The Starblinded One
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: The Isle of Haam
Age: 50-60
Occupation: None
Interests: Reading
Unusual traits: Continual and involuntary future sight, distorted body (unusually tall, some proportions off, extremely fast-growing hair), star-filled eyes
Identity: Unknown (any)
When she was young, the Viera who would later be known as Starblind was impatient, and excited to attune to the heavens - and relied on her natural skills to see her through it without the aid of a mentor - and her overconfidence led her to try to attune to the Seventh Heaven, unsupervised and unaided. When she did, futures rushed into her head - the sensation of being attacked by beasts in the wilderness, the taste of every meal she could eat, the scent of every flower she could walk past.
She was discovered by her fellow students, catatonic in the wilderness, and brought back to Old Sharlayan for treatment. Slowly, over the course of years, she managed to gain some degree of function again, finally reaching the point where she could get up and walk around. She now studies Astromancy in an attempt to pick through the myriad, shifting, and infinite futures she continually experiences, unable to remember which name of the thousands she hears constantly is hers - and so, she goes by the moniker of "Starblind".
Statera Numen
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Birthplace: Ala Gannha
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Engineer, Student
Interests: Tinkering, machinery, coffee
Unusual traits: Heavily scarred on half her body, ceruleum-burned hands, blinded eye
Identity: Female (she/her)
Statera Numen was born in the small village of Ala Gannha to a mother who died in childbirth and a father who died not long after. Adopted by the collective community, she was a very curious little child, wandering the village and sticking her nose and hands everywhere. Mainly, she found herself helping on the farms - working with the people whose job it was to eke a living out of the arid land. Planting crops, breaking rocks, moving stumps - gruelling labour for vanishingly small returns.
When she was about fifteen or sixteen, there was one day when a Garlean convoy came through the area she had just spent sixteen hours tilling and planting with the farmers. A Magitek walker - a behemoth of iron and steel, spewing sparks - came tromping through, and in seconds, destroyed the crop that had taken so long to plant. And Statera's mind, always more tuned to metal and gears, began to whir.
If such a machine could destroy a crop so easily, surely that same strength could be turned to planting a crop. Machines were not inherently destructive - they were just tools. And so, she has spent her life since trying to learn how to make that happen. Reckless but fiercely intelligent, she has injured herself heavily, but learned from every such mistake.
Surya
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (MSQ)
Birthplace: Lands now lost to the Flood
Age: 60-65
Occupation: Entertainer
Interests: Hedonism, Parties, Singing, Tista-Bie
Identity: None (any non-gendered)
Back when Eulmore was more militant, a patrol of their army found the displaced Surya after their homeland was destroyed. Surya travelled with them back to their city, and as the city went from militant and defiant to hedonistic and lush, Surya went from depressed and shellshocked to similarly hedonistic and lush.
Surya was in favour, by and large, of the mindset of hedonism that Eulmore used to have, and not having concerns for the future.
After Eulmore changes, they are... Conflicted. But they're doing their best to adjust, and by and large keeping the Beehive as a place of respite from the stresses of the outside world.
Surya still doesn't like thinking about the future, but has taken the present being better than the past very much as a reason to party, amongst the many such reasons they already had.
Taraine Brightshield
Spoiler Content: Heavensward (MSQ)
Birthplace: The Holy See
Age: 35-40
Occupation: Knight
Interests: Her hounds, Deep snow, Good meat
Unusual traits: Is able to change between an Elezen and Draconic form at-will due to imbibing Dragon Blood
Identity: Genderfluid - Female (she/her) when in Elezen form, Male (he/him) in Draconic form
A Knight and a Heretic both, Taraine was a double-agent in the Dragonsong War, acting seemingly on behalf of Ishgard but in reality aiding the Dravanians - because she considered what the Ishgardians were doing to be unjust.
Once the War ended, however, Taraine found herself somewhat adrift. The rest of her House was dead (by her hand), and ostensibly, the Holy See and the Dravanians are at peace.
(Endwalker spoilers)
U'zhia Skyta
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Limsa Lominsa
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Pirate captain
Interests: Good whiskey, clear skies, stargazing
Unusual traits: Half-Roegadyn Half-Miqo'te, has a body with a mixture of both proportions
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born to a Roegadyn mother in Limsa, worked the docks when she was young, and eventually she set out as a deckhand on a ship. Over time, she hopped ships many times until she wound up on a pirate ship, and over more time, she became Captain. Highly energetic, has a good rapport with her sister Volya and her father Skyta, likes pranks, takes in castaways and survivors of shipwrecks as crew.
Reaching Viscaria
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Swiftperch
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Courier
Interests: Dancing, flirting, flowers, floriography
Identity: Female (any)
As a teenager, Vis decided that she wanted to learn floriography - the art of saying things to people with flowers. In so doing, she learned that the flower she was named after - Viscaria - means "will you dance with me?", and she decided to use it as a pick-up line for the rest of her life.
Employed as a courier, Vis works to deliver packages and letters that people will not trust to moogles for whatever reason. Often forced to work alongside moogles, she has a distaste for their low work ethic, and she enjoys seeing new places, and then dancing and flirting with whoever she finds there.
Waemhearz Ahldstahl
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Daitenzan
Age: 40-45
Occupation: None
Interests: Carpentry, sunsets, building things that last
Unusual traits: Heavily scarred, full-body tattoo
Identity: Male (he/him)
Scarred and tattooed, Waemhearz lives a largely quiet life in Kugane - but was once an enforcer for one of the crime syndicates on its streets. Taciturn and careful, he still holds a lot of the same habits, and he cares fiercely about the people who he considers important, often to the point of violence - but always out of the sight of the innocent.
W'lahka Nuhn
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: W' Tribe Village
Age: 60-65
Occupation: Nuhn
Interests: Whittling, Caring for others, Campfire cooking
Identity: Male (he/him)
Having been Nuhn for nearly fourty years, W'lahka has led the W' Tribe well and strongly, keeping it safe from threats and ensuring the future of the tribe - but he also now wishes to retire, something which he is incapable of doing until a Tia steps up as strong enough to best him, which no Tia yet is capable of doing.
He's old, crotchety, grouchy, and has no patience for young upstarts trying to best him before they're ready - he essentially wants to retire into the mountains with a few of his favourite women from the tribe, and never be heard of again.
Name/Title
Spoiler Content:
Blurb
M'abha Vhon
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Birthplace: Gyr Kehim
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Jeweller
Interests: Things of beauty, Jewellery, Gemstones
Unusual traits: Capable of making enchanted pieces of jewellery that alter perception, the Echo
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born to the monks of Gyr Kehim in the last days of the monastery's occupation, M'abha was taken in by the nearby Vira Ananta when her parents had to flee before the Garleans. Hidden amongst the snakefolk for the formative years of her life, M'abha grew up worshipping Sri Lakshmi, and aspiring to be as beautiful as the Lady of Bliss.
Growing up, the young Miqo'te found that she was a deft hand with creating elegant pieces of gold and silver jewellery, and developed her own spell to imbue them with Lakshmi's power - making anybody who wears them more confident in their own beauty, which makes those around them view them as beautiful in turn.
Hedon Andijaz
Spoiler Content: None
Birthplace: Dimwold
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Pleasure Girl
Interests: Pleasure, sex
Identity: None (any)
Nobody knows what drove the woman named Andijaz to work on the streets of Ul'dah and Limsa as a pleasure girl, but she is very driven to it. Afflicted with a form of anhedonia, she adoped the name Hedon - not just as a stage name, but as her identity wholesale - to reflect that she is only capable of feeling happiness when she is aware she is giving someone else sexual pleasure or satisfaction. Nothing else has ever brought her joy or satisfaction, and she has given up trying, finding what meager pleasure she can in the moments where a client will inform her that she has pleased them.
Tama
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Tama Aibou
Birthplace: Onokoro
Age: 40-45
Occupation: Healer, chirurgeon
Interests: Sweet foods, hot baths, sunset views
Identity: Male (he/him)
As a young man living as a healer in Kugane, Tama would heal any who came in his door - a penchant which came back to bite him, hard, when he healed a Miqo'te woman who was wanted by the authorities for assault upon Lord Kageyama.
Immediately, the Sekiseigumi pinned a myriad of crimes upon him, and Tama was forced to hide out in the gang hideouts in the sewers. His entire life uprooted, he became extremely jaded and now lives as a healer for the underground elements of the city of Kugane, asking no questions and respected by all factions of the various crime families and syndicates.
Chikiri
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (MSQ)
Birthplace: Prism Lake
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Poet
Interests: Dango, Nature, Strength
Identity: Female (any)
Born under Garlean occupation into a family of seven, Chikiri watched as her older siblings were all, one by one, either conscripted or killed by Garleans - and she wanted none of it. Spending the remainder of the occupation trying to hide from Garlean patrols, with only one Viera for company, Chikiri wrote poetry - heart-wrenching, emotional poetry, depicting the pain and desolation of the occupation in uncompromising, stark terms.
Once the occupation ended, she found, to her furious anger, that the Doman people as a whole did not want her poetry - preferring to ignore the occupation and act like it never happened, an act that offended Chikiri - and so, now she spends her days fighting to get her poetry recognised as valid and important artistic expression, a task she'd rather not have to do - she is a poet, not a diplomat.
Muzathgara
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Save the Queen line)
Birthplace: Bozja
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Lounge Singer
Interests: Music, spicy food
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born in Bozja a scant few years before the Bozja incident, a mere quirk of fate led to the young Muzathgara being away from the country at the time of the incident - having been sent by her parents to Thavnair for a music camp.
Her parents never arrived to collect her, and while the Hannish music teachers kept her safe for a time, they could not support her forever - and so she, as well as the other children who were left orphans by the Incident, were given into the care of an orphanage.
However, for Muzathgara and her best friend Nijole both chafed at the orphanage and struck out on their own, finding their way into the jungles of Thavnair, where they were taken in and raised by the Hippo Riders of the deep jungle.
Upon reaching her late teens, this lifestyle too was too stifling for the young woman, and so Muz left again - taking Nijole with her - and went to make her own way in the world, finding work as a travelling singer, going from city to city and performing at each.
Feal Illimit
The Immovable
Spoiler Content: Dawntrail (The Arcadion line)
Birthplace: Yyasulani
Age: 45-50
Occupation: Arcadion Fighter
Interests: Cooking, gardening
Identity: Apathetic (any, defaults to he/him)
Living in Solution Nine, Feal spends the majority of his time out of the ring entertaining the families of his friends - Gifted by Queen Sphene with a large house, replete with four bedrooms and the facilities to support a large number of guests, there is nothing he loves more than entertaining families. His house is equipped with three children's bedrooms, allowing him to babysit for his friends, at need, and while he is unsure why he was selected for such a large house, living as he does with no loved ones, he is always delighted to entertain, although profoundly lonely in a way he doesn't know how to articulate.
In the ring at the Arcadion, he is known as The Immovable, and uses the feral soul of a gelatinous beast to withstand any and all blows that may come his way, allowing him to soundly trounce any opponent he wishes, in his sporadic yet highly-marketed matches.
Kahdan Queenless
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Save the Queen line)
Birthplace: Bozja
Age: 65-70
Occupation: Retired Queensguard
Interests: Novels, travelling
Identity: Male (he/him)
Once a Queensguard to the Hrothgar Queen Vlatka, Kahdan spent a lifetime doing her bidding - keeping her safe, fighting her wars, defending her children. Garleans, voidsent, beasts, Eikons - all threats that Kahdan would lay low before they could harm one hair of Vlatka’s head. Many decades passed, with Kahdan never doing a single thing of his own volition or desires - always putting Vlatka before himself.
This life of devotion did not go unnoticed by his Queen, and on her deathbed, she gave him one final command - To release him from his life of service. He was now free - free of guarding her, freed from any wars or causes. Her final command was for him to follow his heart, for the remainder of his days, and feel beholden to none - a command which he took to obeying the very next day, with the same zeal with which he had always followed her words.
Now, he spends his life travelling as the wind takes him, unconcerned with the affairs surrounding him - occasionally helping people he meets, but always because he wants to, and never because he feels he must.
Dahsa
Spoiler Content: Dawntrail (MSQ)
Birthplace: Mehwahhetsoan
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Train Engineer
Interests: Fishing, Trains
Unusual traits: Cursed with extreme attraction and appeal
Identity: Female (she/her)
As a young child, Dahsa was always fascinated by the strangers who came to Shaaloani in search of ceruleum - as a teenager, she would earn some extra coin acting as a guide to some of them, making sure they did not get lost in the trackless desert - coin which she would spend studying as an apprentice engineer.
Once, during her twentieth year, one of the men she was guiding - a mage from Ul’dah - took a shine to her, and offered her beauty for a night with him. She accepted, and was subjected to a powerful enchantment - an enchantment which became more of a curse; one which caused her body to be attractive to that one mage’s standards. Her hair became silky and luxurious, her body curvaceous, and the very scent of her became a point of attraction.
After the one night, the Ul’dahn mage did not want to accept her refusal to go back to the eastern lands with him, and she was forced to flee into the wilderness - and so he was never able to remove the curse. In the years since, she has lived with the curse, unable to change her body no matter how hard she tries, and still giving off a scent that makes anybody who smells it attracted to her - and as a result, she spends her time working as an engineer in the bellies of locomotives and trains, far enough that none can smell her, and wearing thick coveralls to prevent others catching it incidentally.
Vei Thun
Spoiler Content: Shadowbringers (Save the Queen line)
Birthplace: Nagxia
Age: 140-150
Occupation: Cook
Interests: Cooking, Philosophy, Alchemy
Identity: Loosely Female (Any, mild preference for she)
Nearly a full century ago, the Garlean war machine, in one of its campaigns through Nagxia, conscripted a village of Viera - folding them into the Garlean legions as it was wont to do. The young apprentice chef who would one day be known as Vei Thun was sent far afield, to the IVth Legion in Bozja.
Chafing under Imperial command, she held close to her heart the words her mother once taught her as a talisman - "Mercy is the gift of the strong". Always looking for chances to be merciful to the enemies that the Imperials pointed her at, she spared a great many people in her time as a soldier, often defying the orders of her cruel and merciless commanding officer to do so.
One day, having had enough of her quiet insubordination, the commanding officer called her to his office and issued an ultimatum: She would, upon reporting to the front lines, lead the charge into the next stronghold and personally execute the Bozjan leader, or she herself would be executed. Meeting his eye and nodding in understanding, she left his office - and immediately went to the kitchens where she spent her time off-duty, and slipped a large dose of poison into the commander's wine.
If he would not give her the option to be strong, she would be weak - Vei Thun, in her native tongue - and she would start with him. Her skin crawled with the act of so mercilessly executing someone, but she was forced into the issue, and had no choice - so she kept insisting to herself.
Managing to escape Bozja in the chaos of the Resistance, coinciding with the untimely death of her CO, Vei Thun travelled across the sea until she found a place of relative peace - Limsa Lominsa, where she took up studying culinary arts, determined to never again raise arms against another.
Uzume
Birthplace: Shirogane
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Retainer and Blossom
Interests: Landscape painting, Singing
Identity: Female (She/her)
Taken in as a homeless teenager, Uzume has spent the past decade of her life living in the comparative lap of luxury - but building up a debt the entire time to the okiya matron known as Hana. One night, she did the math and realised that she would be working for Hana for nigh on a decade to pay down her debt, let alone the problem of paying for new lodging out from under Hana's thumb.
Putting her nose to the grindstone, Uzume immediately started to study and refine her skills in every discipline she could find until she qualified with the Retainer's Guild - spending her days working as a Retainer for adventurers, her evenings working as a Blossom for Hana, and saving every gil she can, hopefully without burning herself out entirely.
Lady Noia Pai
Birthplace: Aleport
Age: 40-50
Occupation: Drug Den Owner (actual)/"Rest House Matron" (front)
Interests: Fine teas, Live music, Intense emotions
Identity: Female (Any)
There is a common whisper, in the streets of Limsa - that no matter how stressed your crewmates are, no matter how high-strung or tightly-wound they are, Lady Noia's Rest House can always refresh and rejuvenate them in a single night - and nobody is quite sure if it is through drugs, alcohol, pleasurable company, or some combination.
The truth, of course, is both more and less interesting than the rumours. Lady Noia Pai, quite aside from anything else, is clever - and nearly a decade ago, she stuck a deal with a Voidsent, and has benefited from it since. Given the ability to draw out any emotion with a touch and turn it to a liquid, the Lady - once only a weaver's daughter - found herself setting up a den of iniquity, sampling the strong emotions of all those who sail through the great port of Limsa Lominsa, and selling those she does not keep for herself as incredibly potent elixirs, able to flood the minds of those who imbibe them with the emotion from which they are derived.
Maki
Birthplace: Isari
Age: 30-40
Occupation: Forge Assistant
Interests: Decorative metalwork, Stargazing
Unusual Traits: Passively devours aether
Identity: Female-adjacent (She/her/they/it)
Born in the small fishing village of Isari, the Miqo'te known as Makiko lived a happy life in her early years. Not long out of her teenaged years, she married her childhood sweetheart and had two beautiful children, as well as being granted an apprenticeship under the master artisan Shinto - everything was beautiful in her life, and she was happy.
During a holiday to celebrate her new career, however, she and her family travelled to the faraway land of Ul'dah - and while there, disaster struck. Voidsent, used for the bloodsports in the city of sands, had broken free of their restraints, and attacked the family in the streets. Throwing herself in front of her spouse, Makiko felt the demon's maw close on her very soul and begin to tear, and she thought she was about to die - only to feel the monster torn from her aether by the daggers of a passing rogue.
Initially grateful, she and her family immediately set out back home, but upon the return voyage, a most horrific truth came to light - Makiko's soul had been torn in the moment of rescue, and now it acted like an opened drain, passively pulling all the aether around her down it.
By the time she reached the city of Kugane, her spouse and children had both died more than a week prior, their aether entirely drained away from her proximity. This broke the Miqo'te somewhat, and renaming herself Maki - "kindling" - she showed up to the forge the next morning, ready to do the job that was going to complete her life, and considers herself barely a person.
She now spends her days mourning the losses of her family, hating the rogue who "saved" her, and trying to find what distraction and joy she can, her attitude brusque and harsh to all around her - with the occasional flashes of the happy, friendly woman she once was showing through.
Zuki
Birthplace: Bukyo
Age: 50-60
Occupation: Sword-trainer
Interests: Swordplay, Combat, Ikebana
Identity: None (Any)
For nearly three decades, the archipelago of Hingashi was haunted by a spree-killer - elusive as smoke, powerful as a thunderclap, and the subject of fear that edged into modern myth, the killer, referred to in hushed whispers in alleys and taverns simply as "Demise", was feared by all. Emperor Reigen, in his wisdom, offered a handsome reward to any who could put an end to the killings, and so issued a writ of execution onto the killer's head, to be carried out on sight.
One of the Daimyo holding land under the Emperor, a young Lord Zashi, had no heir but was clever and attentive, and so formulated an idea - determined to keep his holdings away from the neighbouring Daimyo who wanted to take it from him.
Finding the killer one night, a hair's breadth from being killed, the young Lord Zashi offered the killer a deal - a stay of execution from the net of Samurai and Sekiseigumi that were closing in: If the killer agreed to never leave the Zashi estate, and to train the guards and samurai under Lord Zashi's provenance to be as skilled and powerful as the killer was, then Lord Zashi would use his reward to prevent the death sentence from being carried out.
Agreeing to what seemed to him like an easy life and cushy job, the newly-named Zuki has since trained every single swordsman to pass through the Zashi estate's employ with all the techniques that he knows - but themself makes almost no use of them, finding them to make combat too easy and boring, and getting in the way of seeking "A true challenge."
B'ihna
Birthplace: Mor Dhona
Age: 20-25
Occupation: Scholar, Engineer
Interests: History, Tinkering
Identity: Female (she/her/they/it)
Born to the nomadic B' tribe, B'ihna was a troublesome child - Beset by a lack of focus and mental clarity, she did not fit in well with the tribe's ways. Forgetting vital tasks, unable to concentrate on things that needed her attention, the young B'ihna's parents were at a loss.
Eventually, late in her teen years, she decided that she would strike out on her own, and discovered a topic that was capable of holding her interest - Allagan technology. If such incredible feats were capable hundreds of years ago, she reasoned, what could be done if the principles were understood in this day and age?
As such, she has spent her time and energy trying to reverse-engineer and understand the principles behind Allagan technology, specialising in neurolinks - creating her own "B'ihna-Links" as the culmination of three years of effort. The first thing she did with them was create one for herself and use it to streamline her own mental processes, to great success.
Ras
Ruin-touched
Spoiler Content: Stormblood (Return to Ivalice storyline)
Birthplace: Radz-at-Han
Age: 30-35
Occupation: Former Adventurer, Presently Retired
Interests: Homebrewing, Whittling
Unusual Traits: Infected by Ruinous aether, unable to cast any magic other than Ruin magic
Identity: Female (she/her)
A Paladin from a young age, Ras was proud of her abilities to heal and protect her comrades - her skill with protective and curative magicks being nearly-unparalleled.
Joining the attack on Orbonne along with a cadre of other adventurers, Ras was proud to be the line of defense between the Warrior of Light and allies, and Ultima, the High Seraph. On her shield, she bore the brunt of the ruinous magicks, defending those behind her - but leaving herself vulnerable.
When the High Seraph was defeated, her aether dissipated - but a not-insignificant portion of it found its way into Ras's own aether, touched by Ruin as it was. Ever since, the Hrothgar has found that her magick all is that of pure Ruination - she can no longer heal or protect with her aether, instead only annihilating whatever touches her aether. Forced to retire from her position as adventurer, she has withdrawn heavily into herself, her friends all leaving her side in fear, and forcing herself to keep a tight lid on her temper at all times - in fear of reducing everything and everyone around her into dust.
Alitya
Seaborn
Birthplace: At sea
Age: 95-100
Occupation: Ship Captain
Interests: Gardening, Embroidery
Identity: Female (she/her)
As the child of two sailors, Alitya was born on the deck of the ship Duskstar - considered to be an omen of good luck in her life by her parents. Growing up with ropes in her hands and salt on her lips, Alitya was always comfortable on deck from a very young age, and ascended the ranks of the Duskstar under her parents. When she was old enough, she eagerly left the ship she'd been born on and purchased her own - a small craft called the Wavekisser that she turned into a shipping vessel, hiring a crew to work for her.
As she passed puberty, she became rather insecure in her appearance - having grown up around other Viera, she found her own lack of bodily development upsetting, taking multiple decades to come to terms with it - eventually settling on a combination of cockiness and envy that caused her to be inordinately proud of her own appearance.
Countess Maëlle d'Escorsi
Birthplace: The Holy See of Ishgard
Age: 25-30
Occupation: Countess
Interests: Duelling, Floristry
Identity: Female (she/her)
Born the fourth child of the Count of House Escorsi - a Lower House of Ishgard - Maëlle always chafed against the way her father acted. The Miqo'te-led House being viewed disfavourably by many Ishgardians, the Count Escorsi doubled down on the racist, xenophobic rhetoric of the city - and so Maëlle always volunteered for the tasks that took her far from the Holy See - overseeing outlying outposts, diplomatic functions in distant estates, and so forth.
While on one of these travels, however, she received a letter from her home - informing her that, in the transition of government that Ishgard had undergone, all of those before her in the line of succession had perished, together with the Count of the House. Saddened by her father's death, and intimidated by the news that she was now unexpectedly Countess, Maëlle immediately returned home and did her best to reshape her life to the image of a good Countess - albeit one that is trying to steer her House into the new age, against the prevailing currents of many factions within it.
What upsets her most is the desire to be able to challenge people who anger her to duels - behaviour unbecoming a Countess, as she is continually informed.