Zazi Rainer

Zazi Rainer is common drow girl who hails from the regions surrounding Braka Sorkai, she was invited by Garin Dul-Sansiska to join him in New Bastion in 1038AE, while originally little more than a threadspinning commoner who made their money helping Kyn harvest and mold spidersilk, while with Garin she was given access to the tools and tutelage of much more. The offer was twofold, for one, he actually fancied her and had invited her to see if their relationship could go beyond a simple friendship, as he had been in the area purchasing raw silk for some kind of project. The other part, was that Garin saw something odd in her features, silver eyes, and he thought that she might have some sort of inborn talent that would go to waste as a mere peasant.
Zazi had herself some very keen eyes and instincts, she was used to keeping well aware of her surroundings form a lifetime spent int he Silkwood, always watching for hostile spiders or beasts of the woods. She also had a sense of innate calmness to her that let her slow her breathing, clear her mind, and become nearly empty of herself that she used to control her fear of working with the spiders. Garin would ultimately prove incorrect in his idea that she had some special supernatural ability due to her eye color, she was just an odd child with weird features, that happened when the lines began to divert form the 'purity' of the aristocracy. What she did have was the capability to go into a full zen state and more on instinct instead of by thought, it was primitive, it was lackluster, but it was more than many masters had ever achieved in their entire lives and she was only in her early eighties. With training it could be perfected and maybe she could learn a thing or two, so she got a world class education funded by Garin, she got to train with House Mabusa in the martial arts, and she began to fall for Garin over the years slowly but steadily despite the ample opportunities and suitors she could choose form that were also equally taken by the strangely alluring and exotic dark elf.
Zazi would actually excel in her studies more than her training, which was mostly relegated to meditation, spiritual refinement, and trying to find a suitable weapon she could focus on. Zazi was far better as an academic and this is where she put a lot of her focus in, because she found the natural sciences and mathematics to actually be quite exhilarating. She took to languages, began writing letters just for the fun of it, and never slacked in her meditation and refinement of her spirituality. It let her open herself up to the true beauty of creation and she found it relaxing and warming as the years went on, she never actually developed any sort of martial skills with Mabusa, they tried for the early years but just simply gave up on trying to affix her with some sort of instrument, and just doubled down on her refining her inner self and finding true peace and balance, since she already had an outstanding head start.
When the Pirate War began, Zazi was one of the first to understand the true stakes, as she was the one who found Garin, his body broken, his sternum impaled by a railway tie, and the declaration of war siting on his chest. She got him help, and he would recover, painfully, and thanks to the regenerative powers of some secretive concoction given to him that Zazi was not privy to. She was there at his bedside as the war between Requiem and King Drake marched into full swing, and she was the one who greeted him when he awoke, and affirmed that the both of them were going to work together to put a stop to this war one way or another. That was the end of the discussion, and Zazi would be Garin's right hand woman from there on out, and eventually, his loving and beloved wife. Zazi would be the administrative to Garin's executive, and when it came to duo missions, she was more than what she led on in her training with Mabusa, and held her won int he face of danger, though she rarely ever actually fought anyone, instead she'd almost dismissively deflect attacks and doge away form fire as if it was just air swirling around her.
When anyone actually got near enough to her, she'd disarm them with simply holds and twists, her strong dark elvish muscles and her practiced memories of spinning the super tough and unbreaking strands of spidersilk ensuring that no amount of resistance would save your joints and bones for suffering a lot of torsion as she spun your flesh like it were parts of a rope. she didn't need weapons, and she didn't need to be an actual fighter, she was perfectly terrifying using the skills of a threadspinner to intimidate anyone foolish enough to get near her. She was instead more inclined to do the less glamorous work of Garin, and organize all of his assets and forces, for while he was a good commander and an excellent combatant, he slacked on the intellectual side. Not for lack of intellect, but from the loss of the luster and zeal that came with bureaucracy. By the end of the war, Zazi had suffered no injuries, and had been an invaluable help to Garin, and the two would be allowed to fully explore the depths of a romantic relationship together in 1052AE.
Zazi has not changed overmuch from that point, she still regularly meditates, quests ever onward for spiritual perfection, and she still has an inability to find herself attuned to anything resembling a weapon. The most major accomplishment she made was becoming an educator, a private tutor for nobles who needed their children to be given a premium education without having to send them off to the official schools of the monarchy. This would end at the rise of the republic, and she has now instead been spending her time essentially jobless but living the life of a minor noble int he shadow of the much more dominating House Dul-Sansiska. she does not drink over much, she does partake in orc fist, and she likes to attend minor parties and social gatherings because it's something to do, but in the end she typically just keeps doing what she's been doing for decades of her life already. She sometimes acts as the babysitter to the wild trio of Reyani, Ashlyn, and Divana, and that is when they cannot get away with hooliganism, as attempting to outmaneuver, outsmart, or persuade Madam Rainer is always a losing proposition. however, her life does not revolve around these children and thus she is only one of many who are given the task.
Though she has been married to Garin for two decades now, she never took up his namesake, as she believed he lied to himself in calling himself a Dul-Sansiska, and she did not wish to partake in said lie. Instead she retains her maiden name and so some are confused when first meeting her. Zazi adores her husband and makes the most of any time he is actually back at home, and understands that while it would be nice to travel around with him and be the helping hand that she always has been, there's more important things to do at home that he can only trust her with. Zazi has been instrumental in organizing any leads, information, or movements of the Divanism Cult, she's been the go to contact for informants, she's the quiet processing of everything Garin has accomplished in ten years working on this crusade, and she's the only thing holding everything together, lest Garin let it devolve into a chaotic mess. she refuses to let her husband be that ignorant, so she take sup the work instead on his behalf.
The system has seemed to work, just as it always has, and will continue working well on into the future, Zazi is one of Garin's most avid supporters and trusts that he can get what he needs to get done, done, and that she can be trusted to do the same for him on the other side of the coin.
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