Nadir Saros

Nadir with her beloved gunblade.

Nadir is a friend of the Eulmore Girls and occasionally works as a bouncer when the establishment is understaffed.

## Appearance

Nadir stands at about 5'1 with yellow eyes and dark blue hair, ears, and tail. He sports a variety of scars all over his face and body. He is most often seen covered in dust (or blood), wearing some variation of a dark jacket and boots and never without his prized gunblade.

After the events of Stormblood and becoming a machinist, he loses the use of his right eye and wears a dark eyepatch.

## Personality

Nadir is driven primarily by a love of combat and conflict. He often enjoys taunting his enemies and showing off for the fun of it. Hhe fights hard and plays hard—and will never turn down a drinking competition. Nadir is a thrillseeker at heart, and though he has excellent instincts as a hunter, is susceptible to biting off more than he can chew out of habitual risk-taking (coupled with stubborn pride.) He is often restless and always on the prowl for the next physical challenge. Nadir has never received a traditional education and only knows how to write some Meracydian aside from being fluent in both that and Eorzean common. Though he is very animated, the only means he has of expressing his true feelings is through violence. Sadness, anger, joy—he cannot communicate these through anything other than bloodshed. Nadir learns to reign in these urges (and become more 'civilized') after he travels to Eorzea, but after finding a kindred spirit in the Garlean crown prince, his former nature makes a full comeback.

This however, does not last, and with the presumed death of the only person who has ever truly understood him outside of his own family— Nadir becomes more somber and withdrawn in the events of Shadowbringers.

## Background

Nadir is from one of the last surviving Meracydian Miqo'te clans that remained after the fall of the Allaghan Empire during the Fifth Umbral Era. He is the 7th of 10; his brothers and sisters are named Algol, Naos, Vega, Menkib, Mirfak, Auriga, Tiaki, Saiph, and Izar. They are not all related by blood, as the majority are all orphans under the care of local witch doctors. Throughout his childhood, Nadir was naturally rambunctious and quick-tempered; he spent much of his time hunting dangerous endemic vilekin. This, coupled with the fact that he had 9 other siblings meant he was often left to his own devices.

In her early childhood, Nadir often went exploring by himself—this was how he found his first gunblade; a near-ancient Garlean model left behind by imperial forces. He once explored the ruins of what was formerly Azys Lla and stumbled across a temple of Sephirot. After mortally injuring himself on the sacrificial structure near the altar, a fragment of his consciousness fused with Nadir's aether to lend him his regenerative abilities. Not only was his life saved, Nadir gained regenerative abilities that surpassed those of his siblings as a result—in exchange for essentially sharing a body with an eikon. Sephirot was able to speak to him inside his own head, though others could not hear him except in events where he possessed Nadir's consciousness completely. For fear of what experiments Algol would conduct on him after finding out he's merged with an eikon, Nadir fled his homeland on the back of a Mahi Mahi, losing his aetheric connection with Sephirot due to Hydaelyn's blessing.

## Story

Nadir first arrived in Southern Thanalan, where she made her way up to Ul'dah. The culture shock was huge; Nadir was arrested by Brass Blades almost immediately after she set foot in the city for assaulting a random passerby. It was a confusing and difficult time for her, as Nadir's naturally violent nature belies her good intentions. Her first years in Eorzea were spent in the company of thieves and murderers, and led her to a life of crime herself. She became notorious as *Yariv,*the leader of the Aldebaran -- the most successful gang of thieves in the Ul'dahn underworld. However, as her reputation grew, the use of her signature gunblade drew suspicion from the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. After a confrontation with Thancred Waters and her arrest at the hands of the Immortal Flames, Nadir was offered amnesty in exchange for putting down eikonic disturbances across the whole of Eorzea -- an offer she begrudgingly accepted.