Description
His dress is largely plain - mostly humble leather goods, showing the wear
of years - save for some detailed embroidery on the cloak, its folds wrapped
loosely around him in the style so common in Hamsah Mu'tazz. Yet his long
hands, though rough and pliant from work, lack the bronzed and dotted
appearance borne proudly by caravan drivers and desert shepherds. His hair,
too - almost like spun metal, though more streaks of a green, copper-patina
hue now appear each passing year - is of a fashion and color not found in
desert folk, cropped short and left untamed, just barely long enough to
screen otherwise unmistakably elven ears.
Some of the lean athleticism common to his folk seems lacking here. His
frame is built sturdy enough - somewhat broad in the shoulders and thick in
the leg - but it seems almost collapsed in on itself, as if knees, arms, and
neck all grew toward each other, much like a tree's strange, rigid postures
subjected to years of dry winds.
Although blunted somewhat with age, the sharp lines and quick movements of
the faces of all elven folk remain visible, but when you study his eyes,
though deep and green in color, they seem silent and blank.
Role
Mourning
Added Sun Jan 24 17:34:11 2021 at level 26:
...wash the wounds, wash the face.
A woman's work, they said.
...cut the cloth, braid the hair, bind the arms
across the chest.
That's what comes from a father too old, they said.
Come out from behind your mother's skirts, they said,
but no one dared breach the tent while the women prepared the body for its
rest.
The men who kept the histories and raised the glasses of honey wine told of
the deceased's glory in battle, of his charm, his daring exploits, or the
strength of his seed bearing generations of fruit. This is one way to honor
the dead.
Tears are for the women, they said.
And so they let them weep, trembling together in a close circle, like doves
crowding around cast grains of wheat. But inside this circle of tears? No
muffled whimpers. There, washing the corpse, the women joke about the size
of his sexual organs. They worry over their unmarried daughters.
They remember a night of youthful dancing.
They fear their son will be next.
When the time comes to display the body, washed, bound, and pure now, their
tears change again. Now the women lash out, their mouths filled with venom
for the bringer of this death. A foul sorcerer had cursed him, surely. A
lecherous soldier cut her life short. Or we perhaps we ourselves were at
fault, our recent lapse into idleness or wickedness surely the cause. No one
is spared blame.
It is these words I learned.
These shrieks and cries for justice.
That bitter venom.
Those small memories.
These words lend the dead more dignity than any chiseled monument.
As a child they let me stay near and I braided this music into my own mind,
but a grown man could not linger in the funeral hut. Women's work, they
called it when I was young, but that women's work was now all I knew, yet I
was unfit to practice. My hands knew not the heft of a spear or curve of the
bow, so elsewhere must I seek my fortune.
May my body return here to these green peaks when it is my time to washed,
braided, and bound.
PK Wins
Feb 26, 2021|Lv 51|The Dragon Sea|Seraxan vs 4: [51] Zorellaia (28%), [51] Geruscleudo (40%, claw), [51] Alendross (31%), [51] Natilyan (0%)
Feb 26, 2021|Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Atrellio vs 4: [51] Natilyan (44%), [51] Alendross (5%), [51] Zydeki (42%, earth-rending tremors), [51] Geruscleudo (7%)
PK Deaths
Jan 28, 2021|Lv 36|The Battlefield|vs 1: [40] Harguk (100%, cranial hit)
Jan 29, 2021|Lv 36|Evermoon Hollow|vs 2: [41] Talvok (61%, bleeding), [41] Lussuria (38%)
Jan 30, 2021|Lv 38|The Imperial Palace|vs 1: [40] Atrellio (100%, reverberating blast)
Feb 10, 2021|Lv 45|The Outlander Refuge|vs 2: [51] Primdella (40%), [51] Hikadata (59%, slash)
Feb 10, 2021|Lv 46|Ruins of Maethien|vs 1: [51] Hikadata (0%, ) *Assassinated*
Feb 10, 2021|Lv 48|Ruins of Maethien|vs 1: [51] Asaigai (100%, punch)
Feb 11, 2021|Lv 48|The Coastal Plains|vs 1: [51] Asaigai (100%, punch)
Feb 17, 2021|Lv 51|The Outlander Refuge|vs 2: [51] Kira (87%, KB), [51] Ahinu (12%)
Feb 20, 2021|Lv 51|The Aryth Ocean|vs 2: [51] Englemaris (24%), [51] Kira (75%, iceball)
Feb 26, 2021|Lv 51|A Virgin Forest|vs 1: [51] Asaigai (100%, punch)
Feb 27, 2021|Lv 51|Forest of Prosimy|vs 1: [51] Kithervroy (100%, peck)
Feb 28, 2021|Lv 51|Organia, the Veil of Shadow|Natilyan committed suicide
Mar 1, 2021 |Lv 51|Forest of Prosimy|vs 1: [51] Ahinu (100%, claw)