Raavi Jin

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Raavi Jin (*she/they*) is a hobgoblin blood-hunter. As an NPC, Raavi is played by GM Connie Chang in The Second Stranger.

Raavi Jin is a skilled bloodhunter, monsterologist, and is a long-time mentor to Øka. She resides in Dabathati, the capital city of Talmaad, and works in the Udjval Mines. She has a gruff exterior, but is deeply loyal and has committed her life to teaching young blood-hunters and supporting their community of miners.

## *Description*

### Appearance

Raavi is broad and heavy-set, with a strong jaw and thick eyebrows over deep red skin. She has short dark hair cropped in a no-nonsense bob, and she's covered in blood weapon tattoos, the most prominent of which is a bladed whip. They had deep, dark red eyes and are often covered in a layer of soot from working in the mines. In later Arcs, she also has prominent lightning scars and walks with a sturdy but simple cane.

### Personality

Raavi is intimidating to those who don't know her. To those she choses to love and call family, they are fiercely loyal, brave, and are an exemplary leader and teacher. Despite a hard and unapproachable exterior, Raavi is warm and has the best interests of those she loves at the forefront of their mind.

## *Biography*

### Backstory

Raavi was born in a remote village in the Godspine, north-west of Dabathati in Talmaad. It was during her upbringing that she learned to hunt monsters, and discovered a proclivity for the remote art of bloodhunting. They sought a blood-hunting mentor and traveled across Andake with them, eventually finding Mercy wandering the Badlands of Talmaad. The two young women joined forces and created the first ever iteration of the Hounds of Mercy. Despite the deep love and understanding they shared, both Raavi and Mercy were young and immature; the clashed often and disagreed on how best to help people. When Raavi wanted to settle in Dabathati and start building a real community, Mercy saw that as a sign of rejection and the two broke up.

### Campaign

In Arc 1, Øka, Manaia, Dewey and Vee set out to quell the rage and riots in the Ujjval Mines in Dabathati. When they reach the mines, they find out that Raavi has been missing for three weeks, and it's unknown whether they were lost to the rage in the mines or are laying low in the underbelly of the city.

The party tracks Raavi down to the Tomb of the Giants in the bottom of the mines, and they find Raavi surrounded by gold and gems, and suspended in mid-air. Raavi isn't catatonic like the other victims. There are bolts of lightning shooting out of her body, and she's screaming in pain. The party discovers that Raavi is a vessel for Vinaash, one of the three god shards of Yuddhabathi. Øka rushes to her aid, and convinces Vinaash to take them instead. Dewey heals Raavi on the brink of death, and as the mines start to collapse, the party escapes.

After spending some time in the medical ward healing, Raavi agrees to give Øka their first blood weapon tattoo, Culling Edge.

In Arc 5, The Hounds of mercy return to Dabathati. Øka reunites with Raavi, who is recovered, albeit scarred, from her encounter with Vinaash. She volunteers to help the party investigate and eventually take down The Chrysalis. She goes to The Chrysalis Conference with them, and gets paired up with Jaran for reconnaissance. Jaran manages to control some of the empty beasts that they encounter together, and knows his way around well. Raavi becomes suspicious of them, but she persists. She encounters Adam and a newly not-missing Citlalli and Old Mama Lightning in the main arena of the conference, where a miracle from the Chrysalis is supposed to happen.

As Mercy, Raavi, and Øka battle with an empty beast on the dais, Jaran is grappling with his own problems and power. He attempts to pit the empty beast against Adam and to kill Old Mama Lightning, the Paragon of Yuddhabathi, so that the Paragon prophecy doesn't come true. As he orders: "No, she has to die," the empty beast kills Raavi, who was fighting it, with ten, twenty, forty stab wounds. Raavi couldn't fight back. As her soul travels to the Nothing plane, Øka and Citlalli manage to put Raavi's soul into Øka's soul chisel that they acquired from the Paragon Killer. Øka plans to give Raavi's soul to Rev when they reunite, so that she can reap it into Grim, and it can be safe until the Now is reunited with the After.

Mercy and Øka take Raavi's body to the Temple of Thismun, in the Jhaadidan Scrublands. For the funeral, they let Raavi's body drain of blood in a basin and statue dedicated to Bhazuul, the first Paragon of Yuddhabathi and the first bloodhunter of Andake. Mercy and Øka both say their eulogies, and return to Dabbathati.

#### Arc 6

During the Arc 6 interlude, the Pargons and Keepers manage to reconnect the After with the Now, and Rev releases all of the souls that she reaped from Grim. Raavi is one of those people, and reconnects with Mercy and Øka before she returns to the After.

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## Trivia

* Raavi and Mercy were each other's first kisses.
* Despite their expertise in bloodhunting, Raavi was actually an adept miner and was promoted to foreman before her death.
* Raavi found Øka hiding in an animal den just beyond the walls of the Temple of Thismun, and took them in.
* It was implied that Raavi also mentored *Intrigue*, who is a guest character featured in the SYOS game 'Hazard Pay'.