Shai Kalmus

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> ### Name
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> Shai Huldah Kalmus
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> ### Alias
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> * Shi-shi (nickname)
> * Aunty Shi
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> ### Birth
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> August 5th, 1979 in Foxtail Island, Basilius County, Avalon
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> ### Age
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> * 37 (as of 2016)
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Brown
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> Hazel
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> AB
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> ### Height
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> 5'5" ft
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Tuya Kalmus (mother) †
> * Satiah Kalmus (younger twin sister)
> * Meritamun Kalmus (older sister) †
> * Sekhmet Kalamus (second older sister)
> * Tetisheri Kalmus (oldest sister)
> * Nefertari Kalmus (niece)
> * Ziggy Kalmus (great-nephew)
> * Lourdes Gandillon (great-niece)
> * Atreus Gandillon (great-nephew)
> * Benerib Kalmus (maternal great aunt) †
> * Sinuhe Kalmus (maternal great aunt) †
> * Bithiah Kalmus (maternal great-great grandmother) †
> * Seth Kalmus (maternal great-great-uncle) †
> * Hemsut the Prophet (maternal ancestor) †
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> “I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.”
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> ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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**Shai Huldah Kalmus** is the second youngest child of Tuya, the younger sister to Tetisheri, Sekhmet and Meritamun. She is the older twin sister to Satiah.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Mystiokinesis** - Shai is a hereditary witch of an unknown blood status, like other members of her family Shai would be classified more as a seer.
	+ **Mana Healing** -
	+ **Death Sense** - Shai can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces the user sees. She developed this later in life around her early thirties.
	+ **Flawless Precognition** - Shai can foresee the exact futures, observe and interact with future events, adapt and prepare for what’s to come, and possess absolute knowledge and brilliant insight of the future, with no mistakes and 100% certainty. Even if the future is changed by someone, it will mean nothing, as even the change in the future was already predicted by the user.
		- **Precognition Crafting** - Shai can see the future and reveal an image of it through crafting. Shai can use multiple kinds of craft.
	+ **Sensory Scrying** - Shai can "hitch-hike" other beings' senses and experience what happens as they were them. This power grants the user with the ability to taste, feel, smell, see and/or hear from other senses. It allows the user to experience the world as their target would.

### Possessions

* **Balianne** - Shai's wand is Balianne which is 151/3" inches, crafted from a weeping willow tree and banshee hair. Its twin is Brigitte.

## Etymology

* Shai means "(that which is) ordained". In the Ancient Egyptian mythology Shai was the deification of the concept of fate and determinate the span of men's lives as such would sometimes be considered female (in which case he would sometimes be called Shait).
	+ Shai is either from Hebrew *שַׁי (Shai)* meaning "gift" or else a Hebrew diminutive of Isaiah which is from the Hebrew name *יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (Yesha'yahu)* meaning "Yahweh is salvation", from the roots *יָשַׁע (yasha')* meaning "to save" and *יָה (yah)* referring to the Hebrew God.
* Huldah means "weasel, mole" in Hebrew. This name appears in the Old Testament belonging to a prophetess.
* Kalmus means "sweet flag" in Estonian. Sweet flag is one of the many names of Acorus Calamus which is a species of flowering plant with psychoactive chemicals.

## Trivia

* Shai is associated with the Asphodel Lily, its full meaning/symbol is "*my regrets follow you to the grave*".
* Shai is of African, Creole, Estonian and Irish descent.
* She speaks English and Gullah.
* She practices Voodoo and identifies as a Catholic.
* Shai is a vegetarian.
* Her favorite meal is sweet sour and spicy vegetable gravy with a variety of vegetables in tamarind sauce.
	+ Shai's second favorite meal is French onion soup with turnip cakes.
* She loves gardening.
* Shai like's grunge and rock music.