Saira Agama

> *"Welcome to the Violet Rose Cafe, may I take your order? We have tea for everything that ails you, flowers for any message you need to send, and other methods for problems that can't be solved with tea and flowers."*
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## Saira Agama

Head of the Agama Tea Company, Absalom Branch

## Description

Saira Agama can be found in three different forms, depending on the time of day and when you find her. Her default appearance is that of a 5'2 human. She is thin and a little on the frail side, and appears perpetually clean due to a series of Aasimar mutations. Saira is also capable of invoking her angelic heritage and divine power to attain a more celestial appearance. In this state she looks as normal, but is significantly taller, her skin has a very slight golden tinge, and she is unnaturally cold to the touch due to reactions between her divine and kinetic powers. Finally, without the cosmetic changes that she applies to herself, Saira is a 5'7 Aasimar that still looks mostly human. The entire left side of her face, along with her left arm and most of her chest are covered in scarring. Part of this leads to difficulty for Saira in seeing out of her left eye, something that carries over across transformations.

Saira's left arm is not natural, but rather a prosthetic made to resemble a real arm using Saira's ability to manipulate flesh. If threatened, the limb rapidly unravels to reveal a blade formed entirely out of bone or a mass of stinging vines, depending on Saira's current needs and preferences. In her angelic form she generally avoids concealing this, instead leaving her arm in its blade form until she returns to normal. She is also known to occasionally cause flowers to bloom along her arm when she's showing off.

## History

Saira Agama is the third of three Agama siblings, who are next in line to inherit the Agama Tea company. Being only third in line and liking her siblings too much to try and plot against them, from a young age Saira accepted that she would never truly inherit the company. She kept away from lofty ambitions and tried to focus on the world around her. Instead of attending meetings on how to run a company, Saira spent her days tending to the family gardens, where she formed a lifelong love of flowers.

Saira would have a relatively peaceful life for most of her childhood. Due to her unwillingness to take on any meaningful authority in the company and her parent's desire to let her have some say in how it was run anyways, Saira eventually was given the go ahead to open a store of her own. This store was in Absalom, a place where the company could test a new market and Saira could tend to her flowers and make tea without having to care what her parents and siblings in Andoran were worrying about.

When Saira was 19 and getting ready to move to Absalom, a fire happened to break out. In attempting to rescue several of the castle staff, sire was struck by a beam that had collapsed in the flame. The resulting injuries left her with permanent scarring all along her face and down the left side of her torso, and cost her her left arm and most of the use of her left eye.

It is around this time that Saira gained her divine powers, and she took it as a sign to not let the loss of a good portion of her body stop her. She sought to develop kinetic abilities, learning to manipulate flesh in order to restore her arm and plant life in order to help gardening. She trained for five years, until her power became strong enough that she could not only restore her lost limb, but conceal her injuries from the general public. Saira eventually developed a habit of concealing the strength she's developed during her training, out of modesty more than anything.

Once she was 24, Saira finally landed in Absalom along with her personal attendant Iris and a few other assorted staff. She opened the Violet Rose cafe near the Puddles as she felt that was where she would be most needed. Saira runs the cafe as a cafe, but she also tries to use it as a way to try and fulfill the duty given to her by her divine power. With a warm smile from behind the counter, Saira listens to all of the city's problems, and she does her best to try and alleviate them in any way she can. Even if sometimes that just means giving people some nice tea and a kind ear for their troubles.

## Personality

Saira is typically kind, calm, and soft spoken. She isn't the type to take forceful action against anything unless it's a last resort. Despite her apparent calm and lack of concern, though, Saira is always looking for a way to deal with the problem in front of her. And once she has a solution, she can be extremely quick to act. The woman that most people know as a mild-mannered gardener can be surprisingly brutal and efficient whenever her shop or her friends are threatened. She is, after all, the same girl who almost died to save several inconsequential servants from a house fire.

## Family Legacy

The Agama family is mostly known for the Agama Tea Company, which is based out of Andoran. The company ships tea leaves in from all over and primarily sells them to cafes and inns throughout Andoran. The Violet Rose cafe operated by Saira represents their first attempt at selling to establishments outside of Andoran, and Saira does occaisonally let other stores sample her products.

While Saira remains the company's highest authority in Absalom, she is fourth in line to inherit the company proper after her parents and three siblings. This means that beyond managing her little tea shop in Absalom and having its running costs covered for her, Saira has very little in say in what her family decides to do. Saira is completely fine with this, a lack of corporate responsibility being one of the reasons she asked for her position in Absalom.