Thalia Saltblood

Her halo burns brightly, particularly when upset or nervous.

Thalia wants to be great like her sister Baran. She has no doubts that Baran will one day be a fearsome fighter who could level villages without breaking a sweat. So she uses the motivation to want to rise up alongside Baran to push her forward, to drive her further and further. She does not want to fall to the shadows, nor be forgotten forever. She wants, more than anything, to shine so brightly that she builds a legacy for herself.

## Appearance:

Thalia has auburn hair that touches her shoulders, bright green eyes with brown specks, and a tan complexion brought about by her days exploring as a child in the afternoon heat. She also has nails which change colors depending on her mood, a thing which he hides with dark gloves to prevent being given away.

She often wears a scholar's robes, finding comfort in the familiar garments. The robes are a deep shade of cobalt blue, with a golden pendant at the top which means that she is a graduate of a prestigious Academy that taught her all the skills in being a bard that she knows.

Often, she is smiling gently at those she passes, being a friendly face to all, and her Aasimar nature comes through in her kind expression and eyes that look calm, as if she is one to be trusted and relied on. Because of this feature, she often attracts the tired and the sorrowful, but she doesn't quite mind.

## Personality

Having grown up as the older and more agreeable sister, Thalia prides herself on her agreeable and mature nature, and her ability to be patient and understanding with others. Growing up as the "good child", she learned to be pliant and keep to herself, finding a good outlet for her loneliness through her music. After the training she received in the Academy, she is often rather disciplined in her response to crises, knowing how to hide her emotions until she has time to process them.

She's easily bored, however, and prone to bouts of restlessness and flights of fancy because of her nature. She is filled with a wanderlust for the world, wanting to explore more, see more, experience more, *be* more than she is, so when she cannot satiate this need, she feels desolate and downtrodden until she can find something else to fill that void of hers.

## Family Life

Thalia's family is not a conventional one by any standards. Her family mainly consists of her mother Elyna, her twin sister Baran, and her. However, what is odd about this is how her sister is a tiefling, and she is an aasimar. The reason this came to be is that her mother was a well-known night performer which captured the eye of a a demon known as Izzamid. Shortly after said demon leaves, another being comes along, a dazzling Azata named Crisostomo who was charmed by Elyna's performance and intrigued by her. One thing led to another and soon, Elyna and Crisostomo spend the night together. Still quite struck by her, Crisostomo decides to stay, up until his offspring is born.

But when he sees his offspring- and, indeed, the twin of his offspring- a ***tiefling***- he hesitates. He understands what happened, of course, but as he stares at the crying frail creatures, he doesn't think that he could help raise such a fragile thing, knowing how mortal and weak humans are. So he leaves Thalia to Elyna, promising to help her out as she grows up, which he does in secret, sending packages and trying to keep thugs off of Thalia's case.

Most of her life, Thalia was satisfied with having only her mother and her mother's parents as family, seeing nothing wrong with it. She sought comfort in being with her grandfather, who taught her to use her words carefully, to stand tall and proud, to act like someone deserving to stand before the gods. While Baran learns to use her fists to win fights, Thalia learns to defuse them, to tilt them one way or another with her words, her wits, her charm.

They are different, yes, as all twins with two different fathers would be, particularly if one of those is a demon, the other of which is an Azata, but they get along and they are close as could be expected for twins. Thalia loves Baran with all of her heart and would not be who she is without her.

## Childhood

She was raised up as the "good child", the one who followed orders without question, who did her schoolwork for the tutor quite quickly and without complaint. However, as her mother, tired from work and having to face whoever was complaining over Baran, Thalia couldn't deny that she felt almost left in the shadows.

While Baran would fight and would rage and would go wilder than Thalia's ever seen anyone get on the playground, Thalia would be to her schoolwork, to keep to herself, because her mother trusted her to behave while she felt the need to keep an eye on Baran when she wasn't working.

"I cannot keep hovering over the two of you forever," her mother said once in anger after Thalia made a mistake, "Thalia- I am too tired to deal with this. You're supposed to be the mature one, I can't handle it if both of you- if you're also..."
She looked away as the words refused to leave her lips, but Thalia understood: she had a role, and it was to be responsible because her mother couldn't handle the both of them. As it was, her mother had already someone she loved, and she would remember it each time she looked at her own daughter. With a cold feeling in her stomach, Thalia realizes that it's the least she can do to be good.
Being the mature child, she learned to be proud of her maturity and gift in music, as it was what helped distinguish her. And at the age of 14, it pays off, and she enters a prestigious Academy to learn how to master her skills as a bard and learn more to help her achieve her goals.

## The Academy

Quite the stuffy and strict place, the Academy is built on the beliefs that discipline, honor, and ambition is what makes someone powerful. In simple terms, it was an excrutiating experience that pushed Thalia to her very limits until she felt like she couldn't do it anymore- and it kept pushing her past that until she went even further beyond what she thought she could take until she found her inner strength and decided that, out of spite and anger if nothing else, she would finalize her dream and see it to fruition even if it kills her.

Using old and painful methods to teach new students, Thalia gains new fears, such as one of the dark, though spending time in a dark room that she was told contained some kind of shadow-creature did help her master the *Dancing Lights* spell much faster than she expected.

## Trivia

* She has a pet dog, named Po. Po is a yorkie and quite an adorable, albeit stupid, pet. Loveable and affectionate, he often accompanies Thalia wherever she may go.
* She owns a house a bit outside of Port Doom, a large place with only her and her pet. She keeps a small garden, and a small crab house for her sister's crab, Snappy.
* Her occupation is an entertainer, oft writing songs to perform in noble courts or in taverns. Her favorite topics include her sister, loneliness, and dreams. She writes these songs in a leather journal that she always carries with her.
* Her maternal grandfather was a noble, and maternal grandmother an Half-Ogre.