Name: Nabura
Titles: Silence
Age: 22
Appearance: Despite her age, Nabura is on the short side, barely 5’4 in height. Years of both training and survival in the desert has left her extremely thin, barely weighing 100 pounds, giving her the appearance of a very malnourished child. Naburas years under the sun has only darkened her skin from her naturally dark skin, her hair bleached whitish yellow from the sun, a few strands of red mixing into. She tends to keep her long hair pulled into a single ponytail, held back by a simple bandage wrapped around her head to hide her ruined left eye. Her right eye is a startling blue color, which many find unnerving and at odds with the rest of her appearance.
Along her back is a half finished tattoo scar, a swirling pattern that ends just at the middle of her spine, the skin flayed pink as part of her peoples rite of passage into adulthood.
Nabura tends to go wear a simple dirty smock of a shirt, paired with a frayed green skirt that falls around her knees. She tends to wear lighter clothes to keep cool and allow her to blend into the downtrodden that several pass by. She doesn’t wear shoes, preferring do go barefoot despite the hard stones and sharp rocks, as she has lost most of the sensation in her feet from the burning sands.
Skills:
Macaw- Nabura can mimic others voices and even alter her own, making it impossible to pin down her own voice. She uses this to great effect to startle and unnerve her opponents during fights.
Deaths Embrace- Having been pushed to the edge of death and despair herself, Nabura does not fear the end of her life, or losing her life in a death. This in itself has made her fearless, allowing her to push beyond where others would reasonably flee for their lives.
I’m you, you’re Me- Nabura is extremely talented in blending into the background, her lack of both weight and height allowing her to hide among even the most bland commoner. She carries such little presence that few can keep track of her during long drawn battles.
I can see your soul- Nabura easily picks up on people's movements and small details, things that most would allow them to pass by. Even with her one good eye, she is always watching and studying people.
Personality: Nabura is a blank slate when it comes to emotions and personage. She tends to mimic what people will find either most approachable, or will push people away from her. She leaves little impression on others and tends to remain quiet and uncaring until she is needed to work.
When actually on her own, Nabura is a very demure and silent person. Having survived so long on her own, she cherishes loyalty and drive, doing what is required with no hesitation to repay those who have saved her life. When left on her own, she comes across as rather feral, relying on body language and actions to tell how she feels about others and people, knowing that words can lie, the body the only thing one can truly trust.
History: Nabura was born to the desert tribe of Heneras, people who have made a living in the burning sands and sparse landscapes. She was raised upon their ideals and teachings, knowing that one needed to be strong no matter what, to battle the desert they lived in. At the age of 5, she was taken upon her first hunt to find food, which during that time she lost her left eye during a hunt against their meals. She survived the fight and continued to help on hunts and watch over the people.
At 10, she was placed upon the night watch, a common occurrence for the younger soldiers so the adults could rest during the longer days. She was another soldier in the army by then, cold hearted and skilled with a dagger and short sword as they needed to defend their people against the night time creatures that could threaten their lives.
Upon the age of 13, she was to undertake the rite of age by her people, where her birth symbol would be carved into her flesh during high noon, a test to show that she could endure any pain that might come her way. She failed, crying out in pain as the flaying dagger passed over her spine, sending a shock through her system. She was banished from her tribe as was common in her people, given the dagger used to flay her skin, and a skein of water.
For 6 years she did everything she could to survive, struggling to hunt enough meals to live, stealing from wary travelers and even the most fierce creatures of the desert to just survive, her drive to prove herself stronger than her people would allow. She almost died several times, both from starvation and sickness, her body shaped by the harsh winds and burning sands.
Eventually she was rescued by an army of bandits, having been just about dead on her feet, sick from venom and dehydration. In return, she offered her life to the man who had saved her, her tribal histories stating that her life was in his hands, as she would have already been dead at her own skills. Her body didn’t recover from the time under the blazing suns, but she proved invaluable to the men. While not accepted like most, she found a tribe to protect again, and would not fail her bloodline again.
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