Director Sashine- Onyx Wind

Director Onyx-wind exempifies the physical peak that is expected for operatives in the Shadows, she is fit, though covered in scars from her youth. She is a healthy combination of muscle and tone.

Surgical scars cover her body like lines on a map, though most are thousands of years old, the ghosts of the worst of them still linger on her flesh alongside the more recent scars of injuries received fighting during the exodus, in two wars, and on operations.

She has strong features, but they are edged with soft warmth. She appears to be in her early 30's by human standards, but her deep green eyes defy the youth of her face. She has two small, black horns growing just above her hairline, and a slight bend in her strong nose that tells the story of one of her many experiences with a broken nose. She has a few old scars on her face, and a noticable scar curving up about two centimeters from the corner of her left lip. Her right ear has a very small nick carved out of it from a battle against the Zevemlyan fleet roughly fifty years prior.

She has a tendency of pulling her spectacles down her nose when she is in deep thought, as if looking down her nose at her problems.

Extreme mental flexibility

slight psionic defenses

Millenia of experience

Onyx wind typically wears black, well-trimmed outfits while on the job, typically including a stylish mid-thigh cloak that buttons closed in the front. When she takes her holidays to spend with family and friends, Sashine prefers to wear green dresses, and large, wide-brimmed hats. Her spectacles for work are simple, wood and metal frames. When on vacation, she prefers a pair with tinted lenses, and jade frames.

Full access to all equipment in the Tranquil sanctum for any clearance level of operative.

Ghost-sight spectacles

Dual-quilled pens (various)

Old Man Dirt's Cane.

Sashine was given the name Molten at birth. Sashine's personal history is one of pain and overcoming hardship, as is the case with many Aulvi. Molten suffered at the hands of the Tyiilur̀. Her earliest memories are of her mother's melodic laugh, and her father's warm stoicism. They were both taken by the Tyiilur̀ at an early age. She was experimented on repeatedly, as were many others. The physical experimentation was something she could deal with after a time, but the mental terrors were unbearable. They took her good memories, but left the hole open, so she knew the value of what she had lost, and where it was.

If it had not been for Old Man Dirt, her mentor, she surely would have broken. He was kind, but firm, and taught her the value of using what you had. He initiated her into his growing organization of like-minded aulvi: The Tranquil Shadows . She proved her skills repeatedly. Often she had to relearn skills due to her memories being taken away often. Her muscle memory helped her in this, and her skills grew quickly, albeit in strange ways, as each time shewas forced to forget, she would learn in a different way than the prior time.

When The One-eyed prince (at that time simply known as "Spear") began the rebellion that would would quickly evolve into the exodus Molten barged into her experimenter's chambers and pinned him to the wall. She took his scalpel and carved her memories from his glowing flesh and took them back into her. She was flooded with the thousands of ways she had learned each skill, with each chuckle, each giggle of laughter. She was gifted with each pleased response from Old Man Dirt, and the last smiles of many of each of her lost friends, but most importantly she was gifted with the memory of her mother's laugh. She cried at the influx of memories hitting her at once, Her body havng forgotten the goodness in the world.

She let her experimenter live after cutting the memories from his flesh, stating that she wanted to see him again someday to see how he fared. She egressed with the remaining aulvi, and began the exodus. Along with the other members of the Tranquil Shadows, she provided knowledge and records for the fleeing aulvi during the thousand year exodus from the eldritch core of the world to the surface. When Dirt died from a curse placed upon him by the Tyiilur̀ only a few years before reaching the surface, she was quickly given the title of leader. She refused the title, but could not give up leadership, her people needed her, so she took the title of director. She would direct her friends, but they would work together.

When the Aulvi reached the surface, it was day, but by the time she reached the surface, it was night and a dark, hot breeze carressed her skin like the warmth of her ancestors. That was the day she chose the name Onyx-Wind, to remember that sensation. Since reaching the surface, she has directed the Shadows, and grown her number. They have created psionic safe spaces, and are among the world's greatest therapists, infiltrators and scientists. They have crafted the Lexicon Tranquilus to maintain their notes, and shaped the Tranquil Sanctum on a hidden island, to maintain their progress. She took the name Sashine as her operatice designator, as it reminded her of the sound that wind makes through grass.

Wherever secrets hide, she will find them. Wherever forgotten lore resides, she will uncover it... for no one on Vyům knows the value of forgotten memories quite like Onyx Wind.

Like many aulvi, gender is a spectrum rather than a construct. So to say that anyone is one gender or another among the aulvi is more a matter of the moment than a matter of life. That said, Sashine has shown a serious preference to maintaining a feminine gender with a serious edge. The AUlvi sense of gender has allowed her to see people for their value rather than the constructs of a society based on gender norms.

Sashine is a sapiosexual with no preference for sexuality on her partners. Sashine is not asuxual and enjoys relationships of that form as much as the next aulvi, but for Sashine the biology of her partner does not matter nearly as much as their mind.

Sashine was taught all the skills of the Tranquil Shadows by her mentor, and the organization's prior leader; Old Man Dirt. She had a unique experience, in that she was forced to forget the good aspects of her training often, and has, upon getting her memories back, the added advantage of perspective that most people can never get. This affect on her allows her to accept new ways of thinking more readily than almost any aulvinoid on the planet, and has proven an invaluable tool in leading an organization dealing specifically with the unknown.

Aulvi are not so much employed as driven. Aulven culture does not have an economic aspect within the culture itself, and as such Sashine is driven to do a good job in her role as Director not for economic benefit, but for the intrinsic value of what her organization brings to Daebzat. She does her job not out of a misguided corporate mentality as might exist in Huetopia , nor the need for economy that might exist elsewhere in Hechesoieh, or places like Faernyr or Kaigara , but the communal need to know and become better in a life well lived.

Defeated K'Krukk her experimenter, reclaiming her memories

Survived the exodus

Became director of the Tranquil Shadows by unanimous vote

Hundreds of successful missions

Has separately learned how to succeed at many skills, giving a unique approach and understanding of the flexibility of learning, and an understanding that there is no "one correct way" to do anything.

Consistent loss of memories due to experimentation

Inability to find a cure for Old Man Dirt's curse

Inability to recover parents' aulvistones

Loss of dozens of agents over the past century.

Continued loss of memories caused loss of chrono-spacial awareness. (mostly recovered with occasional bouts of forgetting space in time)

murder by experimentation of childhood friends and parents

untold horrors suffered during the Exodus from the below

physical experimentation by Tyiilur̀ experimenters leading to physical mental trauma.

Loss of operatives weighs heavily on her mind.

Very quick-witted

possesses unmatched ability for mental flexibility on subjects

ability to manage a large organization empathetically and efficiently

good eye for character

The way of the aulvi is empathy, the was of the scientist is knowledge, the way of the operative is cunning and skill. Sashine is the perfect melding of these disciplines, and it was no wonder that she was unanimously voted as the director over a century ago by the few dozen surviving members of Old Man Dirt's original Tranquil shadows.

Let harm come to another if you can prevent it

Gaslight anyone, ever

Knowingly betray anyone who has trust in you.

Bring danger to the Tranquil Shadows.

Leave an operative alone

Allow yourself to forget anything willingly.

Onyx-Wind is motivated by both her past and her future.

Her past motivates her because she remembers losing her memories, and losing those close to her. Both motivate her to learn things multiple times, and to fight hard to keep those chosen family close.

She is motivated by the future, because, despite the darkness of the past, the surface is so bright and full of hope. No matter the darkness of her operations, or the cryptids she and her oragnization hunts, she seeks to shine a light on their secrets.

Very good at mental flexibility

Less good at dealing with ignorance

Likes:

• open-mindedness
• dedication
• friendship
• making and maintaining memories
• learning secrets
• aulvi politics

Dislikes

• Close mindedness
• betrayal
• cold-emotionless science
• econmics
• gaslighting
• keeping secrets from people who should know them
• Non-aulvi politics

Generosity

Temperance

Kindness

Diligence

Courage

Justice

Sincerity

Pride

Meticulously organized, but not obsessed with cleaning

Archivist Dlethraun Vey, Tranquil Shadows Oral Wing

Arrow- Sylvestra Oral wing archivist, Reality division apprentice

Ashen Sky- Yssima

Chief Therapist Singing Stone- Psychosocial division

Duskstone- Talenos

Elderberry- Silath

Elir Maulien, 2nd Circle Dreamwalker

Fatine-River Veil

Field Captain Lirä Veinlight

Field Commander Eriq Aven-Veil

Fog-Sickle - Greisha

Henry Mirath- psychosocial Division

Jujube- Therapeutic Division

Linguist Sèyru- On Glass.

Mistletoe, Psychosocial Division

Oakroot-Diassi

Old Man Dirt (Deceased)

Ocean Mist, 3rd circle dreamwalker

Operative Ashen Bough- Kerian

Operative Halwen - Silent Bough

Scribe-Warden Ellsabeth of the Tranquil Shadows Central Archive*

Seaglass

Serane- Dawn-Shroud, 2nd Division Dreamlight Exorcist*

Ṣhèen Vahlirë- Watershed, Linguistics Division

Snowball-Containment Division

Tallow

Veylan- MossFrog

Vhiul-Teth Sharktooth-Reality Archive Division

Typical aulven view that Aeosh created the cosmos, but an understanding that no god should be seen as a god, not even Aeosh, and that Aulvi can respect the gods as powerful peers of enemies, but never above them.

Above average social skills trained as an operative.

Her pets areTwo Twitch-lizards names Zip and Zap

Her hobbies include going over reports, reading fiction, dancing, singing, and travelling.

Onyx-Wind has a warm, husky, and characterful voice that has an underlying solidness due more to her character than her vocal chords.

Accumulated assets of the Tranquil Shadows