Kasita Quenthel (Ka-si-ta)
Reality is merely a veil between what is possible and what is impossible. Strip that away and who knows where your dreams may lead you.
The Phantasmist bard Kasita is a famed wayfarer and much celebrated illusionary entertainer.
Intrepid entertainer and playwright, Kasita Quenthel is a famed illusory story teller, her reputation well known throughout The Sunless Realms. Weaving fantastical scenes using her illusionary magic, and phantasms to play the parts of her stories, mystifying and confounding her audience, suspending disbelief as they are drawn in. Infamous for her tongue and cheek verses, inflammatory story telling that often finds her deep in the thick of trouble. Always keen to share her tales, while keenly on the lookout for new mischief and adventure. Known to frequently accompany cavern raiders, relic hunters, delvers and tag along with merchant caravans across the underworld. Visiting numerous places and peoples across the lightless of Evalaw, always on the lookout for inspiration to stoke her muse.
While many of her contemporaries are more concerned about using their art as leverage for other more subversive or carnal motivations. Kasita's interested purely lies with the pursuit of the arts and muse of inspiration, to bring new untold stories to life before her audience. The stories and performances Kasita prefers to bring to life before her audiences are purposefully inflammatory and evocative.
The entire auditorium came to life in an instant, like nothing I'd ever seen before, a beautiful tapestry of colour and imagery emerged before me. It was as if my fantasies had come true, as life was breathed into all sorts of hideous beasts and shimmering apparitions, as if I were experiencing the world for the first time through the eyes of a child. Every fear and anxiety I had melted away as these inconceivable events unfolded in front of me.
Background
Unlike the delusions of her kin, the trappings of wealth would not weigh her down.
Born 5095TW, Kasita began her life as the third daughter of a petty Riek'norian merchentile house, spending in her formative years travelling from settlement to settlement on her families caravan train before being enrolled into education. Kasita's innate talent in the illusory arts became clear to her magic masters during this impressionable early age. With significant expectations from her family to begin her role in the family business after finishing her official schooling, Kasita chose to continue her studies and enrol at Serrish'balaa, Zhennu'janais academy of the arts at the behest of her Jhera'viaan grandmother. Though she didn't realise it at the time, her grandmother's push was an attempt to shield her granddaughter from the trappings of commerce that poisoned the minds of the rest of her household.
Whilst being heralded as one of the most prominent Alumni, in truth, Kasita has had little to nothing to do with the academy since her graduation. Despite the fact that her time among the academy's illusionists was mostly uneventful, she learned the principles of her skill here. Ultimately leading her to disobey her family once again and seek out further tutelage in the illusory arts. Not that she knew it then, but her journey to becoming a Phantasmist began when she up sticks and left her family behind, joining the first Caravan out of Zhennu'janai going wherever wanderlust would carry her off.
On hearing the news of her dissent, Kasita's Matron Mother allegedly flew into a blind fury for the shame, pain and tragedy, she had brought down upon them. She was completely disowned for abandoning her family for the life of a penniless vagabond with the troupe of musicians she had chosen to follow.
A Student of the Mists.
Her art was used throughout her early travels as an effective bartering tool. Capable of masking caravans or groups she travels with in a veil of illusion, she was invaluable. Leaving her never short of food or having to pay fare for travel. These slights and illusions earned her notice, especially when she entered the city-state of Rie'shae. It was here that much of Kasita's whereabouts entirely vanish for a number of decades. When she remerged almost thirty years later, her former talents were but a mere shadow of what she could now do. Referring to herself now as a Phantasmist, it is believed that Kasita had been taken in and trained by the illusive "Palace of mists", a well-known urban myth amongst the residence of Rie'shae of a school of illusionary mages that for all the evidence does not exist.
Kasita was eager to leave Rie'shae as soon as possible for reasons she would never disclose to anybody. It was around this time that she began to wear the Opal headpiece she would become famous for. In an unexpected turn of events, she ran across and rejoined the troupe of musicians she had first started out with over thirty years before, who were travelling through the city. Continuing her journeys into the underworld, she gained renown and notoriety wherever the group travelled. She could not only show the audience the stories her companions were sharing, but she could also duplicate the sights and sounds of places and people she had met and visited. Kasita's unique talent to write and bring music to life was also a factor. Kasita's extraordinary talent to compose and bring to life music and instruments would also gradually sow a schism between her and her friends, finally driving them apart.
The Mistweaver.
The rumour of her involvement in the mysterious palace of mists, and Kasitas uncanny ability to completely shroud and distort reality almost at a whim earnt her the moniker Mistweaver, among those she travelled with.
There is far more truth to the threads I weave in my stories than mere fiction. If you know where to look of course...
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Year of Birth
28095 TW
131 Years old
Children
Height
5'3
