Deist Fah'raak

==Stats==
Retired (now NPC)
===Mark Tracker===
Marks: 3T 2W 2I (TTWTWII)
Afflictions: 
* (W) Back Injury
* (I) Terror of the Broken Lands
===Advances===
*Respect of the Dragonborn tribes (Voting, +1 Governance)
*Super-Researcher (+1 to Living Library)
Previous Advances:
* Whisper Knight's Sword
** Handed to the Lady for protection, thus no longer in Athesian hands.
* Secured Knowledge of Dragon Library (Voting, +1 Academia)
** Gifted to Lionel for protection
== Background==
=== Origin ===
Deist Fah'raak is a tall, full-blooded female dragonborn, standing at around 8 feet tall at rest. Once pallid and thin, with sunken eyes and weathered lines in her face, withered flesh and blemished scales have come to heal in time and even her battered wings have begun to hold strength again. Simple robes cover her diminished frame, and at rest her breath shimmers gently. Strangely, she carries no armaments, but her fangs and claws have a brutal glimmer as she speaks. Any non-dragonborn would place her as a senior of her race by look alone, but she speaks with a naivete and - in the right company, unbecoming temper - that belies her apparent age, and even with little in the way of combat experience, she has learned ways to deal with her enemy. Truly, by dragonborn years, she is considered young, in her mid-forties, and had known very little of Athesia beyond records held in her temple in the Vale of Kama, and the horrors experienced in her five long years of Athesian life before rescue. With more than a rocky beginning to her acclimation, a mixture of newfound freedoms and dedicated study has begun to unfold her usefulness to the Athesian council.
Once gaining a quaint respect as an academic of her temple, she yearned to leave the Vale and its constant state of war, filled with bright purpose and childish optimism. Naturally gifted, perhaps cursed, with a great sense of empathy and unyielding kindness, she became modestly popular with many visitors to the temple, though shielded greatly from the world outside of the walls. Without hesitation, she undertook the Fall five years ago, intending to seek records of the Dragon Wars, and to find meaning in the madness of her people's conflicts. In a bargain with the Great Fang, she joined a naval mission, with the protection of a small envoy on a ship removed from the rest. Unfortunately, her status as a matriarchal good luck charm quickly rang hollow as the expedition went horribly off-course, killing many within moments of breaching the skies. Crashing in the Dead Wastes, she alone seems to have survived the onslaught of the Fall and the horrors of the desert, found sealed in a ruin filled with the coded secrets of the true dragons and their wars in the Athesia archipelago. Found with bizarre patterns across her flesh and near-entirely bereft of life, she awakens with clouded memories and a surprisingly kind heart.
Since being recovered, she has opted to join the council in order to further mutual goals of discovery, to unravel secrets burned into her mind and body, and to make the best possible of her new home. Such goals are sadly not always in alignment, and her natural tendency toward philanthropy and responsibility put her most focused goals in constant flux.
=== Career as Hero of Athesia ===
In her first year of Athesian citizenship, she worked aimlessly in defence of her erstwhile home, culminating in a central contribution to the defeat of the Empress at the side of Tacitus Silvanus. Her second year saw a much greater development in both her cultural understanding and her focus on her original goals of the defence and discovery of dragon-related history, as well as the displaced peoples of her land. Overcoming many of their differences, the Athesian-placed tribes of the Dragonborn worked together during the fall of the Vales. The success was possible thanks to Deist's extremely questionable and potentially disasterous decision to hatch several dragon eggs, of whom mostly all contributed to the direction of the isles into their new spot. The full consequences of this action are as of yet unknown.
Despite her now mild-to-extreme distrust from several members of the Council, Deist has been integral to the burgeoning Athesian-Dragonborn relations and the quelling of troubles old and new with her peoples. As a distinguished governer and academic with a renewed loyalty to the now-expanded lands of Athesia, she is (for now) indispensible for continued diplomacy with many factions she has grown ties to.
There are rumours that she may be operating under the infamous pen-name "Frozenscales," credited with producing the ill-written and confusingly indecent fiction that has begun finding its way into several libraries across the continent. Such rumours should be kept outside of open discussion, as allegations could prove disasterous for Athesian-Dragonborn relations much like the fiction itself.
=== Defection from Athesia ===
During the Convergence crisis, Deist's loyalties to her religion and her people lead her to a major personal conflict with the Athesian council's policy of neutrality towards the Empire, who mortally threatened both. This was added to by the careless decision to execute a dragon without, to her reckoning, due process, and the lack of interest in her people's desperate needs. With the death of sympathetic leader Santiago, her childish tempers finally boiled over mid-meeting, storming out with claims of coming vengeance at the hands of the good, loyal, and devout Dragonborn.
== Significant Relationships ==
Jak'kar Au'Brai
Respected elder and military ally, despite many conflicts of personality and experience. An official and reluctantly faithful sponsor. Once her protector, Deist secretly considers Jak'kar a hero, even with (or possibly moreso because of) his abandonment of Athesia. She considers his final actions to be nothing short of holy martyrdom, perhaps foolishly emulating them.
Arianna Thistledown
Fellow scholar of the strange and the draconic, honourable rescuer and only Dwarf-Dragonborn friendship not yet involving significant personal property damage. Arianna is both Deist's original discoverer and rescuer, and her initial sponsor, against some undermining fear. Their relationship has worsened over time, coming to a potential breaking point on hatching the dragons. Deist remained thoughtlessly friendly until her eventual defection, though still feels she could never harm her once-friend.
Gill'Gem Flametongues
Fellow Dragon War scholar and disciple-by-proxy, Gill'Gem has managed to succeed at everything Deist has failed to do, and more. Their shared faith has been a point of much contention and an unlikely font of strength. Gill'Gem and Deist shared some friendship on his retirement, leaving the torch of Dragonborn problem-making with her.
Tacitus Ajax Liber Silvanus
Empathically tied for a moment during the mission to sever the Empress from the Annihilatus hordes. While successful, Tacitus's incalculable loss was great enough to wound Deist on a mental and spiritual level, aftershocks lingering briefly between the two afterward. Tacitus's seeming immortality and masterful use of legendary items was once an inspiration.
Dragonborn tribes
Despite religious differences (to understate matters) there is a much greater peace between them since Deist's first Fall, and she has semi-reluctantly struck agreements with the majority of the leaders on Athesia to ensure the survival and renewal of Dragonborn culture. These relationships are her strings to pull on in her vengeful campaign.
=== Other Relationships ===
Melizenn of Tamlin
Don't curl with the Winter Court. Retrieved a magic blade to help; it really didn't help.
Fulgrim Ironheart
Still owes him for the damage done to his workshop. Best not to remind him. Currently an associate through the Collegiate.
Salthazar Hu'bar
Almost involved in a duel to the death. No hard feelings. The incident nonetheless contributed to her creative streak.
Sir Alfred Eldan
Accompanied on several important missions, including one of his final quests to renew his knightly prowess. An unlikely companionship began to grow between the two, until his unfortunate disappearance.
Tigguh and friends
Mostly harmless.
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