Yetherna

# **Yetherna Shoko'ti**

Pets:

* Sama Shoko'ti (Yellow Cat with White Band)
* Kaloka (maned wolf)
* "Turtle", daughter of Sama (Yellow Cat with White Band)
* "Dove" (Yellow Cat with White Band)
* "Rave"n (all black, white boots)

**Mother:** *Kiritina Shoko'ti*

**Father:** *Tes Haro Xinnem*

**Aliases:**

* Witch of the Deep Forest
* Green Witch
* Queen Moonflower
* Queen of the Sixteen Cities
* Ua-bet
* The Shadow with Four Faces
* Hubima
* Nesharia Masitenne

## Organize

Yetherna is ecology.

Anthropogenic stressors - humans, more recently the Reddamnish people

Sexuality: Bisexual (heteroromantic)

Amalia - Yetherna raised a female black jaguar from infancy, Amalia (from the word Amal'kies meaning woes). Amalia was one of the main allies of Yetherna.

Nemesis: There is a red horse on fire, and its eyes of moonlight following me - the enemy of the forest. ❤️🔥🌳💀

## Third Millenia

1600 years ago, Yetherna has lived for many many eons and craves a successor.

She stylized herself as Queen of the Moons of the Sixteen Cities.

A few hundred years after the dissolvement of the Sixteen Cities, rose the Forumar Tapir empire from its ashes.

Eventually this empire broke up as well. Alliances centered around the river once again but no central government or structured unity was established, not until the formation of the State of Tametebes.

## Fourth Millenia

On the anniversary of her birthday, 4000 years later, Yetherna appeared as Nesharia.

109 years ago, a women sat naked and bear along the shore of what seemed like an infinite river. She looked for clothes and found none. The women eventually stumbled upon the camp of a people who called themselves the Zokoti and spoke the Zo-kosh language. There was a language barrier between the Zo-kosh and the language that this woman could remember, so all she could communicate was that she was thirsty or hungry.

She had no idea of knowing who they were, or where she was ... or who she was. The woman had forgotten everything about herself. Her identity, her family, her wishes, her desires, her mother and father. Did she ever have a mother of father.

Eventually the women began picking up on the language of the Zokoti arond her. “nyuu sai”, she learned to say before every meal, a thanks. “Kah” she learned meant water, and “datin” food “Nish aria” they began calling her, a word in Zakosh that meant “Strange Woman”. For she was much taller than any of the locals. Her eyes were a bright green, in contrast to the brown of any women or man she had seen. Her body was covered in ancient script and ink outlining multiple flowers andanimals, and the script was written in a language apparently even the Zokoti could not decipher. Eventually, the woman began going by the name Nesharia, and lived among the Zokoti people who began treating her as family.

One day, the Zokoti were encountered by pale men, who looked much different than the Zokoti and the locals. These men, in an attempt to claim their resources, killed nearly all of the Zokoti except for a few kids who Yetherna was able to save by creating an illusion. She chose the lives of the kids over fighting the men. (Without using names, imply that she saved Rena'eti Zokoti - wet nurse of Telana.)

Nesharia learns of the war going on the Southern Continent, and the *prologue* ends with her leaving to the City of Masekora for the first time. She makes the long trek walking to the capital, walking the shore of the ocean until she made it to Masekora. (Chapter 1 begins with Temo entering Masekora for the first time, instead with a River Palanquin boat paid by the royal family).

Eramnos witnesses her calm a group of elephants and even ride a wild-one, something that even he has never done. He finds she has a way with nature like he has never seen.  Her interactions with nature are the few memories Nesharia carries with her still.  She remembers nothing of the people she once knew, only the memories that came with them. She looks at the moonflowers (invasive) growing rampant among a tree, choking out its leaves. She smells the flower and feels conflicted.

She lived for 4 years before her mortal death.