Sarnai

**Sarnai** is the wife of Baatar, mother of Alsantset and Falling Rain, and Speaker of *the People*.

## Appearance

Sarnai looks to be in her late forties when her actual age was 73 years old. After her husband's promotion, she takes to wearing a veil and gloves when in public.

## Personality

Sarnai is stern, always trying to ensure the best for everyone, regardless of the difficulty it poses, both to herself and everyone else. She has a acerbic tongue when distressed or annoyed, something she passed on to her daughter.

Sarnai has started to feel anxiety due to how elderly she is, especially when compared to her husband.

## Background

A decade after marrying her husband, Sarnai joined Akanai as the Chief Provost led *the Sentinels* in defending an Imperial border fortress besieged by fifty-thousand Defiled. Sarnai assumed that they wouldn't make it in time to participate, but was surprised to see that they were in fact the only reinforcements to arrive to assist the few defenders of the border fortress. She realized that the fortress was abandoned by the closest commanders and that by saving the survivors, *the Sentinels* will become targets for resentment and vilification from the Imperial Army Officers serving nearby who did nothing After the battle, Sarnai tried to explain this to Akanai, who was adamant in travelling to Central to respond to the summons for winning this battle.

## Chronology

She accepted Rustram as her disciple in Nan Ping.

## Powers and Abilities

Sarnai favors fighting defensively in order to avoid talking any unnecessary injuries, and to help keep her husband alive when they fight together, matching his raw power with control and foresight. She fights fierce and quick before fading away. A dance, forward and back, left and right, avoiding the enemy until striking decisively.

After waking up from her comatose state, she discovered a Talent that allowed her to fire Honed Chi from her fingers, near instantly piercing her target. BoShui later dubbed this Talent the Deadly Thorns of the Mountain Rose, something Sarnai secretly loved. She demonstrated the versatility of her Talent by showing that she can fire multiple Deadly Thorns at once at multiple targets through Guiding, and that they are nigh unblockable by anyone lacking a Domain. She can also keep them fixed to the tips of her fingers like deadly talons, albeit ones she had to ‘regrow’ every time they were used, so she keeps two on each hand at time, situated on her second and middle fingers in order to maintain efficiency.

Sarnai later gained an Insight from watching Luo-Luo fight Mitsue Hideo, and was able to combine the mechanics of the Mountain Collapsing Stomp with the Deadly Thorns of the Mountain Rose, creating a new attack she called a Thorny Bush of Honed Chi. She releases a Deadly Thorn from the tip of her spear, utilizing the full-extent of her Domain to project a Honed, pulsating blade of Chi that stretched well over a metre long. Once it hits its target, it explodes into a Thorny Bush of Honed Chi that leaves thousands of cuts in and out of the target's body.

## Relationships

### The Bekhai

#### Baatar

Sarnai and Baatar have been together since their childhood. They were friends and rivals before becoming a couple.

#### Charok

Sarnai greatly approves of Charok and sees that he puts family above all else.

#### Falling Rain

Sarnai was initially wary of Falling Rain, believing him to potentially be Defiled. As such, she kept him at arms length, even secretly following him when he went alone into the forest to look for any signs of Defilement. Only after seeing how kind he was with his family, especially Tate and Tali, did she come to accept him as her son.

### Others

#### Tong Da Fung

Sarnai acknowledges that Fung is a good and trustworthy friend of Rain and *the People*. However, she also blames him for corrupting Rain by showing him the joys of alcohol and women.

## Trivia

* Rain describes her job as mayor/lawyer/clerk/city planner/judge of the Village.
* She is privy to Rain's parentage after checking the records and accounting for all children born around his age. However, she lied to Rain, saying that she did not know.
* Sarnai supported Charok and Alsantset's betrothal, while Baatar thought Charok wasn’t good enough for their little girl.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Chapter 640
2. ↑ Chapter 14
3. ↑ Chapter 681
4. ↑ Chapter 16
5. ↑ Chapter 9