Sura-Tanh

## Basic Information

Sura-Tanh, of the Turisian Tanhs, is the Player Character of Lauren, and a member of The Party.

'*Character quote*' - Sura-Tanh, Game Session

Race: Half-Elf

Class: Rogue

Gender: Female

Age: Somehow, legally, an adult

## Appearance

Not fully dishevelled, but always >21% unshevelled.

## Personality

Content to overstay her welcome as long as she likes being with you - or likes you more than present alternatives. Prefers 'cirripod' to 'gods-damn barnacle'. Then again, who are you asking? There are some people who'd very much like her to stop understaying it. Some person. Maybe. Who wants to know? What's with all the questions, huh?
Seems to be a bit suspicious of people.

Past success is not an indicator of future performance. Read the PDS before deciding if Sura-Tanh is right for you.

## Plot Progression

i.e how Sura-Tanh has felt/interacted with the plot so far, and also backstory cause why not. Are we sure she has progressed the plot? I heard that was some fellow called Missuya running around.
If she does have a backstory - and evidence to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty should be provided to substantiate such a claim - it might be unravelled somewhat in the playlist based on it.

After Zandri's separation from the main Party, Sura-Tanh has been an exemplar of needless(?) hostility towards figures of power who probably ought not to be aggravated. Thankfully Wilhelm, at least, has not killed anyone over it yet.

## Extradiegetics

### Name

In an ocurrence unintentional but appreciated, the 'Tanh' of Sura-Tanh's name is Vietnamese for 'having the smell of fresh fish' (腥). 'Thursan', an anagram, is the lenited form of 'journeys' or 'voyages' in Scottish Gaelic.

### Playlist - Nach Eil Thu Aonar?

*Nach Eil Thu Aonar?* (Scottish Gaelic: *Are You Not Alone?*) is a chronological Sura-Tanh playlist, though actual events described predate Party participation (feelings flow on). The playlist is on YouTube.

#### Track list

1. Divers - Joanna Newsom
2. Move Away Jimmy Blue - Del Amitri
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3. Ged a Sheòl Mi Air M' Aineol - Julie Fowlis
4. You Sound Like Louis Burdett - The Whitlams (NSFW. Ignore the weird sexual lines 2:06-2:17)
5. Stone Cold Sober - Del Amitri
6. My Happiness - Powderfinger
7. Goose Eggs - Joanna Newsom
8. Gràdh Geal Mo Chridh' - Ishbel MacAskill
9. The Things I Say - Joanna Newsom

Two songs included therein have appeared in canon: Sura-Tanh sung *Gràdh Geal Mo Chridh'*, the first, to herself in captivity en route to Lord Thorik "Thukh'fa" Ironfoot and in her cell on the night before The Party's scheduled execution. The second, *Ged a Sheòl Mi Air M' Aineol*, was given a rowdy, rousing rendition as a shanty-cum-drinking song by the Scarred Sons and Sura-Tanh on the evening the Sons and Party first met.

## Companions

Osthrynna
Sura Tanh's horse.

* Original image of Sura-Tanh
* sura's new fit
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## Footnotes

1. ↑ is my humour n snark excessive? If we're going for a scholarly vibe I'll delete it all dw
2. ↑ http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/TD/td/index.php?word=tanh&db=ve (Accessed 2018/04/03 09:51 AEST)
3. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tanh (Accessed 2018/04/03 09:52 AEST) - Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%85%A5#Chinese (Accessed 2018/04/03 09:52 AEST) http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=8165 (Accessed 2018/04/03 09:49 AEST)
4. ↑ Anagrams, strictly speaking, do not have to use letters exactly once; fight me.
5. ↑ Yes, yes, 'sea shanties' as they are generally understood were not commonplace until the 1830s (and they owe a lot to Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean work songs - it's interesting if you have the time to read up on it). A) this does not preclude their existence in a fantasy setting,

B) work songs can be fairly common anyway,

C) in the real world it was actually penned by a single author, not a traditional song (though also used as a milling song),

and D) anything can be a drinking/working song if you put your mind to it.