Tena

Tena is AxeliustheGreat’s first and most often used character. She was first introduced during the Seven Day War, when she helped create a temporary alliance between TUBA and the Ghostbloods. During the Sixteen Year Peace, she adopted Silas (bees?) and left TUBA. In Era 2 she participated in the Ghostbloods Ball and made a relationship with, then married, Anthony Nightshade (Ark1002). She was inactive during Eras 3, 4, and 5. In Era 6, she returned from a vacation to Nalthis with a new baby and was made leader of the Ghostbloods, who were rebranded to the Mirrorshades.

## Character Sheets

### Era 5

[Note: This is the most recent iteration of Tena and should be considered the "true" version of her.]

**Name:** Tenareo Nightshade “Tena” (formerly Kezeras)

**Sex:** Female; has all typical female human characteristics

**Gender:** Female; she/her

**Age:** Forty-three

**Sexuality:** Biromantic, bisexual (monogamous)

**Species:** Three-quarters Alethi human, eighth Scadrian noble human, eighth Terris human

**Birthplace:** Kharbranth, Roshar

**Physical description:** Five feet eight inches tall. Lean, broad-shouldered build; strong upper body; curvy hips. Medium brown skin; warm-tinted. Oval face; full lips. Short, semi-mohawk hair; 2a hair type. Dark brown eyes. Wears a long-sleeved pale shirt, dark vest, long trousers, and boots at work; wears sweatpants and a tank top at home.

**Personality:** Tena usually comes across to others as a very capable, confident person, if a bit too aggressive. To herself, she is often worried about being a good mother and focusing too much on work, and has to purposefully make time to spend with her family, lest she works all the time. She works well in professional and combat-oriented situations; she is uncomfortable and sometimes incompetent in emotional and personal situations. She is introverted and dominant in conversation. She has long term depression and this manifests in an inability to trust her emotions and reticence to making personal connections.

**Motivations:** Tena has the goals of raising her daughter well and paying attention to her husband and son. She is encouraged to seek these motivations when she is given plenty of space and can do a lot of exercise. She appreciates affection in the form of service being done for her-- such as her husband cooking and cleaning-- and respectful, mild praise.

**Weaknesses:** Tena immaterially fears her own emotional removal from her family and having all her problems be her own fault. Materially, she fears very enclosed spaces and is annoyed by very tall people. Her immaterial fears cause her to cling moreso to her family than she feels is appropriate and her material fears cause her to avoid being inside as often as possible. She’s insecure about her own emotions and avoids expressing them for this reason. She gets angry when people are ignorant or behave stupidly, and she responds to anger by growing more aggressive and deadpan, then eventually becoming violent.

**Habits:** When nervous or stressed, Tena tries to get out and exercise, and if she can’t do that, she paces and grows visibly frustrated. She consciously tries to be calm and focused regardless of situation; she unconsciously talks very little and acts emotionally removed from what she is doing. While talking, she walks around and makes intermittent eye contact; while thinking, she moves very little and stares into the distance with an intense expression. In public with her family, she is protective and assumes responsibility, but avoids acting in an emotional manner; in private, she is more relaxed, but still tends to not initiate affection. She snores rarely and quite loudly.

**Family:** Parents-- Yomin (mother, sixty-one); Sova (father, sixty-five). Siblings-- Ajamin (sister, forty-one); Loto (brother, thirty-six). Spouse-- Anthony Nightshade (husband). Children-- two miscarriages; Silas (son, twenty-nine); Idokai (daughter, one month old). Extended relations-- Zeyeom (grandfather, eighty-nine); Tashut (ex-boyfriend, thirty-nine); Shethilin (bonded spren, deceased).

**Relationships:** Tena is very close to Anthony and spends as much of her time with him as she can, though she gets annoyed with him when he’s too emotional (her nickname for him is Ani). She doesn’t spend a lot of time with Silas, but wishes that she could see him more often. She loves her daughter very much, but feels like she’ll go mad if she has to listen to any more crying. Her grandfather stops by to help out with her daughter from time to time, which she appreciates very much, but she doesn’t see him often otherwise, though she has a good deal of affection for him. She uses her Shardaxe, made from the body of her dead spren Shethilin, very rarely, and doesn’t like thinking about it. She hasn’t seen her siblings or parents in more than twenty years.

**Skills:** Average charisma. Powerful common sense. Average intelligence. Average memory. Powerful physical prowess. Average sensory abilities. Expert with the use of her Allomantic steel and Feruchemical iron. Expert with the spear and axe; skilled with the sword. Skilled with throwing knives; amateur with rifles. Skilled boxer and general unarmed fighter. Amateur communicator. Poor cook. Skilled investigator. Amateur labourer. Skilled liar. Skilled thief. Skilled at tolerating pain; poor at tolerating other adults’ misbehaviour.

**Biography:** Tena was born to the name Kezeras and her lower-class parents in Kharbranth. She grew up expected to learn how to be lady-like so she could further her parents’ business of shoe-making, and didn’t enjoy this fate at all. In her free time, she learned how to fight by wrestling with other kids her age and lessons from sailors. At the age of fourteen, she ran away from home and started doing errands and giving messages for a gang in a different part of the city, enjoying the freedom of being allowed to behave wildly. When she was sixteen, she was raped by a gang member, causing her to Snap, and shortly after kill him. She spent the following months of her life terrified and furious in turns, rising through the ranks of her gang and using her newfound powers to further her interests. During this, she gave birth to a stillborn girl, and afterward attracted a Cultivationspren named Shethilin, who she bonded with. At the age of eighteen, she attempted to rob a noble’s manor with her gang and was caught and sentenced to death. Her grandfather, Zeyeom, appeared for the trial and found her quite intriguing, and so bailed her out, took her to various planets, and taught her how to use her powers and how to fight on the way, as well as renaming her by her insistence. During this time, she had various encounters with the organisations and magic systems that exist throughout the cosmere. When she was twenty-three, she settled down on Scadrial after falling in love with a rancher out in the Roughs-- Tashut-- and got pregnant a few months after. She was terrified for the following months, until she again gave birth to a stillborn girl. She left in a rage and didn’t return, finding the Alleyplanet and joining the Ghostbloods to distract herself. Three years later, she participated in the Seven Day War, and shortly after adopted a young boy named Silas. She raised him peacefully for the following sixteen years while working with the Ghostbloods. She was working and accidentally tapped the wrong Tia card, ending up near Hellbent while he was burning down a town and killing civilians. After doing this, he attempted to kill himself in shame, and she saved him using Progression, which caused her spren to die, after a long period of them drifting apart. Hellbent woke up as Anthony and without his memories of being a sociopath, then fell in love with Tena, and she shortly after fell in love with him back. He lived with her for a year since he didn’t have anywhere else to live, she became pregnant, and they got married. They left to vacation on Nalthis for a few months and Tena gave birth there, naming her baby in the style her grandfather had named her. After she gave birth, she returned to the Alleyplanet with her husband and child.

**Stories:** N/A

**Possessions:** Tena has a Shardaxe made from Shethilin.

**Notes:** Tena smells like sweat, her husband, and dust. Her voice is a middling tenor. She is right-hand dominant.

### Era 3

[Note: The "Investiture" section of this one is really wacky.]

**Name:** Tenareo Nightshade (formerly Kezeras)

**Nationality:** Three-quarters Alethi, eighth Scadrian noble, eighth Terris

**Birthplace:** Kharbranth, Roshar

**Appearance:** Female. Forty-six years old, though she looks like she’s in her early thirties. Five feet eight inches tall. Sleek, muscular build. Tan skin. Hawkish face; prominent cheekbones, sharp jaw. Pixie-cut black hair. Light blue eyes.

**Investiture:** Allomantical aluminum, Feruchemical steel. Nightwatcher boon/bane (boon: takes away her powers as a Mistborn, save for one random metal. Bane: if her heart rate rises enough (high enough that she would usually have to take artificial adrenaline to get there), she ‘Snaps’ again, then is once again able to use all but one of the sixteen metals until she falls asleep. Additionally, her mind is reverted back to its sixteen year-old stage during her time as a Mistborn).

**Strengths:** Skilled with staffs and axes in combat. Excellent acrobat. Always in control of herself. Has a Tia card that will teleport her to her house when she taps it. Has a variety of useful tools on her belt and in her pack. Excellent thief, though she won't steal under most circumstances.

**Weaknesses:** Pollen allergies. Hates being a Mistborn, and suffers from nigh-uncontrollable incredibly-debilitating PTSD whenever she ‘Snaps’, making her hate and fear any man she meets. During any time she has as a Mistborn, she is completely clueless about how to effectively use her metals. Cares about Anthony deeply and would do anything to protect him. Has to take care of her child, and is so unavailable in most combat situations, unless she has Anthony with her to hold Solstice.

**Backstory:** Kezeras was born in Kharbranth to her well-respected Lighteyed parents. At age ten, she ran away from home because she hated having to train to be a Lighteyed woman. She learned to steal on the streets with the help of her ‘lucky spren’ and formed a gang. She Snapped as a Mistborn at age fifteen when one of those gangmembers raped her, and she killed him. She gave birth to a girl when she was sixteen, but the baby was stillborn. A month later, she was caught after robbing her own family’s mansion, then sentenced to death. Her grandfather, a Worldhopper from Scadrial, heard of it and bailed her out, surprised and impressed at Kezeras's accidental evasion of the Skybreakers, then brought her to Nalthis, bought her a hundred Breaths, and trained her with weapons. After that, he brought her to a combat training camp in Scadrial, where she was trained in acrobatics and weapons to be a perfect killing machine. She stayed there against her will for five years, then escaped to Kharbranth, restoring her position as gangleader and plaguing the city for another five years. After that, she got tired of thieving and went back to Scadrial, meeting a half-Koloss and dating him for two years. During that, she moved in with him to his ranch in the Northern Roughs and gave birth to a girl. The half-Koloss helped her deliver, then told her that the baby died a few minutes after birth because of a problem in its heart. Kezeras left, almost killing him in a rage, then went to Roshar and asked the Nightwatcher to make her anyone but herself. The Nightwatcher granted her that boon and gave Kezeras a new name, Tenareo, to go with it. After that, Tena went to the Alleyplanet and fought in the Seven-Day War. She adopted Silas during the Sixteen-Year Peace, and raised him in her house in the Alleycity. She met Anthony Nightshade (whom she calls Ani) about a year after the Sixteen-Year Peace ended, after she accidentally tapped the wrong Tia card and teleported to Solace. Anthony had been calling himself Hellbent at the time, and had been an incredibly violent psychopath, but he realized what he'd done after burning down a town and killing nearly everyone there, then being knocked over by Tena. He tried to kill himself by pulling out all his spikes, and nearly succeeded, but Tena saved him with Progression. Anthony forgot nearly all of his memories as a result of the trauma to his brain, and fell in love with Tena, who quickly returned his affection. They lived together for a year, during which Tena became pregnant, then Anthony proposed and she accepted. She was successfully married to him a month later, and their daughter, Solstice, was born three months after that.

**Guild Affiliations:** Ghostbloods, TUBA

### Era 2

**Name:** Tena

**Sex:** Female

**Age:** Forty-five

**Nationality:** Three-quarters Alethi, eighth Scadrian nobility, eighth Terris

**Birthplace:** Kharbranth, Roshar

**Family:** Mother- unimportant. Father- unimportant. Siblings- unimportant (brother). Spouse- none. Children- Silas (son, adopted). Extended relations- unimportant.

**Appearance:** Five feet eight inches tall. Sleek, muscular build. Tan skin. Hawkish face; prominent cheekbones, sharp jaw. Pixie-cut black hair. Light blue eyes.

**Investiture:** Steel Misting, steel Ferring; steel Compounder. First Heightening Awakener; one hundred-fifty BioChromatic Breaths. Fourth Ideal Edgedancer; spren’s name is Iffina. Nightwatcher boon/bane.

**Strengths:** Skilled with staffs and axes in combat. Excellent acrobat. Always in control of herself.

**Weaknesses:** Pollen allergies. Touchy about her age.

**Guild Affiliations:** Ghostbloods, TUBA

**Backstory:** Tena was born in Kharbranth to her well-respected Lighteyed parents. She was trained in the ways of a noblewoman until she was ten years-old, when she ran away from home and learned how to survive on the streets, starting a gang and quickly becoming an important criminal as the result of several infamous heists. She began Bonding a Cultivationspren, but only recognized it as an odd spren that followed her around, and called it her ‘lucky spren’. After six years and rising into the top ranks among the thieves of Kharbranth, she robbed her own family’s mansion, and was caught in the act. She was sentenced to death, but her Worldhopper grandfather, Lenare, heard of it and bailed her out. He noticed that she had managed to evade the Skybreakers despite her obvious spren Bond, and told her of her powers, then took her to Nalthis and brought her one hundred Breaths. He trained her to use her Investitures and taught her how to fight with axes and staffs. He brought her to Scadrial and left her there, where she learned to use her Feruchemy and Allomancy on her own. After five years, she decided to leave and did so, going to Roshar again and reasserting her place in the criminal hierarchy. She stayed for another five years, during which she swore the second and third Ideals of the Edgedancers, then tired of crime and went back to Scadrial. She met a half-Koloss man in the Northern Roughs and dated him for a few years while she worked various jobs assisted by her skill with the Metallic Arts, then left to go the Alleyplanet. She joined the Ghostbloods and TUBA, and fought during the Seven Day War. After that, she built a house in the Canyon Ward and adopted Silas.

### Era 1

[Note: This character sheet is the least accurate out of all of them and should not be trusted.]

**Name:** Tena

**Sex:** Female

**Age:** 29 Rosharan years

**Birthplace:** Kharbranth

**Current location:** Urithiru unless otherwise specified

**Investiture:** She, her sister, and her mother are Windrunners, trained under Teft, the sisters of the second ideal and the mother of the first.

**Physical appearance:** She is 5'8,'' rather thin, and has black Alethi-seeming hair. Her eyes are a light blue color, so that when she summons her spren, the color barely changes. She is often seen making ridiculous faces.

**Strengths:** Her father taught her basics on how to defend herself with a spear. Her mother taught her how to create codes and forge handwriting, as well as teaching her to speak and write in Alethi and how to speak in Veden. She is proficient in the Surge of Gravitation.

**Weaknesses:** She has no knowledge of normal womanly arts, save for the fact that she can write. She is awful at using the Surge of Abrasion.

**Basic history:** Tena lived in the city of Kharbranth until she was 23. When the war on the Shattered Plains began, her low-ranking Lighteyed parents took her and her sister, Elis, to work as scouts for the Alethi highprince Ruthar. Her father died in the first Everstorm, during the battle with the Parshendi. After doing nothing except being depressed and overwhelmed in Urithiru, they all signed on to become Windrunners.