Rozani Marian Znanga

*"In my earliest years I would dream of what had happened to the 92nd and 94th Stars to cause them to collapse. Little did I know that one day I would be on a world full of people wondering just how my own world, the 93rd, had gone that same way."*
*~Rozani Marian Znanga~*

Rozani Marian Znanga is an ancient Kulzama mage who originally hailed from Kulak-Fe, prior to its destruction. While she has maintained her childlike appearance, she is actually several thousand years old and has lived out this immortal life as a high-ranking member of the Imperial Koldizé Mages' Guild. While the dark elves were referred to as Kulzama, upon arriving on Mencu, she took on the Mencuan term for them, and thus refers to herself as a Kumenza.

## History

### Early Life

Rozani was born during a tumultuous time at the latter end of the 196th Age. By this point, her home star of Kulak-Fe was already unravelling, and the resident Jalenga that had made it their new home were fighting desperately to keep it intact. They had managed to stave off the inevitable end for almost 200 years, but by the time Rozani had nearly reached puberty, it was clear that the efforts of the Jalenga were going to be for naught. As such, she and a few other inhabitants of Kulak-Fe were chosen by some of the most powerful Jalenga wizards to be sent off to other Facsimiles as survivors and as a legacy of their fallen world. While this was partly a benevolent act, it was also the vestiges of an egotistical race that hoped the people they could save would speak positively of them in their final days.

Dark elves on most Facsimiles and the Archetype all hailed the Jalenga as something of deities, and Rozani was no exception. She was one of many people that believed the Jalenga had done nothing to set Kulak-Fe off balance, and that it was a result of many other natural phenomena the same way most stars' disappearances were. Whether or not this is true is still a hotly contested mystery, but those who know the truth are long gone, apart from Zivia herself.

### Life on Mencu

When Rozani arrived on Mencu, she found herself north of the Sayenzi Greatwood where an old Facsimile Nexus once stood. After getting her bearings in order, she mapped out the landscape and travelled towards Koldia, which was located in the same geographic area that the Republic of Sasara occupied on Kulak-Fe. She and her older sister Nessa worked to gain entry into the Imperial Capital, where the two parted ways. Nessa disappeared southward, while Rozani became an apprentice at the Mage's Guild. She swiftly rose through the ranks as she gained knowledge, and her immortality allowed her to live for hundreds of years and become a veritable wellspring of knowledge, a role that she still proudly carries to this day.

While Rozani's youthful appearance persists even thousands of years later, her mind has matured far beyond the appearance of her physical form, to the point of being one of the wisest people in the entire empire. Her youthful form keeps most people from developing sexual attraction to her, and this feeling is mutual, with Rozani exhibiting ample asexual behaviour. Instead she prefers to devote her time to studying magic and genetics, the way the ancient Jalenga did so many centuries ago.

She later played a pivotal role in extracting the supercharged Aether from Tzakani Nezami to prevent it from overloading her body. It was also here that she revealed her origins and her true nature as a woman who was not a native inhabitant of the 52nd.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Rozani is a small and unassuming woman whose unimposing size is extremely deceptive as to who she truly is. Since she was genetically modified by the Jalenga during the final days of Kulak-Fe at the age of 12, her body remained in a physical state of stasis, thus locking her appearance as the form of a preteen girl. Since she does not age, she still retains this form nearly 4700 years later.