Appearance

Physical Description

Shai's body is in good condition, with no abnormalities or illnesses. While she is not very fit, she makes up for it by being extremely agile.

Body Features

Slightly tanned skin tone. Hair is blond and grown out to the shoulders, not very maintained outside of keeping it straight. Eyes are circular, with a dark green color.

Facial Features

Oval face, small nose, small eyebrows. Face is beaten up, having some small scars here and there.

Identifying Characteristics

Back of the right hand has a red tattoo/scar of an X with a circle around it.
(This is a symbol of the Shian tribe, signalling that she has left the tribe and should not be welcome back)

Apparel & Accessories

Usually is wearing traveling clothing, with a dark red cloak on top for social situations. When doing something that requires a change of color, she has a similar cloak in black.

Specialized Equipment

Specialized in sword-like weapons (rapiers, daggers, shortswords) and the shortbow. Trains in a "hit-and-run" style of combat

Special abilities

Possesses the ability to create minor illusions (via the spell Minor Illusion).
Has a connection to dreams, like other gnomes, but nothing else comes out of it.

Mentality

Personal history

The Soran Tribe could almost be considered a strict family, with how they made their rules. While happiness and joy is still to be had, there were strict rules. No one was to betray another. No one was to intentionally hurt one another. And most importantly: If you abandon the tribe, you can never return.


This was the place Shai Sora was born. But from the start, she knew she wasn't like the rest. While her tribe was full of people who loved the tribe, she wanted to leave almost instantly. She found the jungle far more inviting then the tribe. Every day she tried to escape, with her family always bringing her back, until the day when Shai could make the decision to leave by herself without her parents forcing her back.


It was the worst mistake she ever made.


She realized very quickly that the wilds was not friendly. The beasts of the jungle are not your friends, the plants disobeyed your wishes, and the only way to survive is to become an animal yourself. The horrors she had to do disgusted her, and the things that she took for granted eventually became her deepest desire, as she pleaded with the tribe to be taken back. But she already made her decision, and there was no going back. So in the jungles she learned to survive, hanging onto life as best as she could.


The only was Shai could keep her humanity was to purge from her mind what she was doing, but she still slowly killed her mental spirit. The classic gnomish spirit of happiness almost completely left her, and she became much more "primal" and depressed as she went on, and at her lowest state she almost left the world in favor of the more appealing dream realm. But in this state of hopelessness, she also learned of the beauty of the brutality of the wilds. The seemingly innocent creatures all had their dark sides, and it somehow amazed her. And what amazed her more is throughout all of this, some creatures still cared and supported one another. Not one of the creatures ever betrayed each other, and for the most part supported one another. Through this, she learned to love nature for what it was. She realized her calling to life.


On the day she finally found a road to civilization, she knew exactly what she was going to do. While she still holds a strong feeling of guilt towards her selfish decision creating a permanent gap between the only family she ever knew, she wishes to help whatever cause comes her way, and to protect the beauty of nature in any way she can.

Education

None

Accomplishments & Achievements

Overcoming her depressed state,
Finding a new light in herself,
Bringing justice to a doppelganger

Failures & Embarrassments

Leaving the tribe,
Many horrible experiences in the Khao jungles,
Being robbed by a doppelganger

Mental Trauma

Slightly Anxious at all time, even in safe locations

Intellectual Characteristics

Focused, Primal, Selfless

Morality & Philosophy

Shai believes that there are two types of people in the world: the people who help others, and the people who help the ones who can't help themselves. She belongs in the latter.

Taboos

If she must kill an animal, she does so with respect. Anyone who hunt/kills animals with no respect is a threat to nature for Shai.

Known Languages

Common/Leaf, Gnomish/Simple, Thieves' Cant, Dwarven

Personality

Motivation

She hopes to one day live in a world where civilization and the wilds can live together without conflict, so she can leave this world with no worries of what will become of the jungles she used to call home.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

+: Extremely quick on her feet and with her hands.
-: Clueless to civilization norms

Likes & Dislikes

Loves animals and nature.

Likes long walks on the beach in the forests and jungles.

Hates killing animals, even if necessary.

Despises people who kill animals without respect

Virtues & Personality perks

When she has a goal, she is focused on completing that goal, no matter the cost.

Vices & Personality flaws

Is extremely shy around many people, leading her to seclude herself.

Personality Quirks

Always looking around, and always looking for danger, even in a safe area.

Hygiene

While she will keep basic hygiene up (showers and the like), she is not a clean person

Social

Birthplace

Shaian tribe, a tribal village in the jungles of Khao

Wealth & Financial state

Shai has a interesting quirk of collecting gold, so she usually isn't without spare change. Other then that, she usually doesn't have much on her, and doesn't hesitate to spend it on something she finds would help her.

Religious Views

Has lip service to Silloway, and generally supports the Green Pantheon. Otherwise holds no strong feelings one way or another to the rest of the deities, besides generally despising evil deities.

Social Aptitude

Secluded and shy. Will talk if spoken to, but otherwise doesn't initiate conversation very often.

Hobbies & Pets

Loves animals, but doesn't actually own a pet (yet gloryScheme).

Speech

Stutters and repeats sentences occasionally, and uses the word "like" commonly as a filler.
Is very straight to the point. Doesn't curse often, but isn't opposed to cursing.