Inara Serra

## Appearance

Inara is 5'7 and willowy, with long curly black hair, brown eyes, and warm, caramel skin. She's classically beautiful, exuding grace and patient etiquette. She dresses in flowing silks and gorgeously colorful dresses, as well as expensive jewelry.

Her posture is almost always erect, her movements graceful and purposeful. She is thoughtful with each step, each motion, and very rarely reacts impulsively. With a soft smile and a patient hand, she greets each customer.

## Talents

Inara was trained and educated at a young age to be the perfect hostess in all things, from sex and seduction to social graces, massage and psychology. She knows how to charm and read people, especially their needs.

In addition, Inara is trained in more practical matters as well. She's adept at archery and swordplay, dancing, playing the dulcimer, and art. She can also speak Mandarin, but that's due to the fact that the worlds she comes from are bilingual.

## Interests

Buddhism, Chinese calligraphy, herbalism, meditation, painting

## History

Inara grew up on the third planet of the White Sun System, Sihnon, one of the most sophisticated and beautiful worlds in the five systems. When Inara was twelve, she was inducted into House Madrassa, a training house for Companions, who are trained members of a guild who offer escort and sex services. In Alliance society, Companions are part of the social elite, often accompanying the wealthy and powerful. They have considerable ritual and ceremony surrounding their services, which even extend beyond sex to nurturing psychological and emotional well being.

Inara spent many years at the training house learning discipline and the arts before she was ever instructed in the ways of pleasure. After that, she quickly became a rising member of Companion House Madrassa, possibly in contention for house priestess, when she took a client who happened to be a secret informant for one side of the civil war currently ongoing. He let slip details about a rebel base, and hoping to avoid bloodshed, she alerted the authorities. The base was dealt with and destroyed, but the house priestess banished Inara from House Madrassa. She was allowed to keep her license as a Companion, but could no longer be associated with their House due to the fact that she violated the Companions' confidentiality law.

With nowhere else to go, Inara contracted with the captain of the spaceship Serenity, to lease one of its shuttles for transportation, living space, and workspace. This provided Inara with some mobility independent of Serenity, and the captain with some respectability that helped to open doors that he might not otherwise achieve as an ordinary smuggler. Inara had a number of frequent clients throughout the Allied worlds due to this, and took both female and male clients, although most of her clients were male.

For about a year, Inara continued to live aboard Serenity, sometimes at odds with the captain over their different sensibilities and morals. Even so, she began to develop feelings for him, and in her line of work, that's not an easy thing to reconcile. In fact, she began to develop attachments to many on the ship, and found herself faced with the possibility of their deaths (and her own) on more than one occasion. Due to this, she decided to leave the ship and begin teaching at a Companion training house on one of the outer planets.

She was stepping through a doorway only three weeks after arriving at the training house when she suddenly found herself in Wall. Rather than despair, she told herself it was an opportunity, and began renting a room at a local pleasure house. It was clean, though mediocre in her eyes, but it allowed her to make connections and choose private clients, just as she had as a Companion.

## Within Wall

When she first arrived, Inara rented a room within a clean, run of the mill pleasure house in the Bells called The Secret Garden. Rather than work with the other girls, she took private clients on her own, relying on word of mouth and social gatherings to discover new business. She chose her clients carefully, often offering more services than simply sex. Sometimes she would offer her arm as an escort, or will simply keep someone company and offer them tea and a relaxing room of incense and soft light.

However, once she'd made enough coin, Inara decided to purchase an establishment in The Terrace - a boarding house which housed beneath it an old, forgotten bath house. She refurbished the establishment, calling it The Lotus Moon, and now runs the bath house with some of the proceeds she receives from her personal clients and the boarders she takes in the building above. She's good friends with **Caden Hynes** and **Jaskier**, with frequent clients in **Geralt of Rivia** and **Essek Thelyss.**

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