Khojin Dortharl

## Personal Background

### Nameday:

22nd of 3rd Astral Moon, year unknown (assumed to be 1554 6AE, roughly 23 years old)

## External Blogs

### Website:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/26296880/

   Khojin is a dark blueish-grey Au Ra, short in stature, even among the women of her people, but there is a wiry strength in her frame, and her amber eyes hold a mischievous challenge to them. She hails from the fierce Dotharl tribe, spiritualistic warriors who believe in continuous reincarnation throughout the ages.

Khojin spent much of her youth training with the other children of her clan, seeking to relearn the skill of arms her prior incarnations had attained, as was tradition. Still, it was of no surprise to the elders of the when she ignored the games of her peers and spent her free time exploring, clambering through rock and shrub. She was particularly attracted to the ruins of the steppe, especially those dedicated to the patron goddess of the Dotharl, Nhaama, known as the Dusk Mother.

The reason for this was soon made clear to Khojin—for she was the reincarnation of a great shaman, one who had wandered the Steppe seeking locations and objects sacred to Nhaama. Known as the Seeker of Dusk, this shaman hadn’t been born in centuries—and Khojin was keen to resume her ancient task. One of her earliest discoveries was a strange crystal known as a “Nhaama’s tear”, or so the memories of the shaman within claimed. Knowing that more of these crystals existed, each teasing the location of the long absent goddess.

Upon her coming of age ceremony, Khojin declared to the clan that she was leaving, not just to continue her task, but to seek out and find the Dusk Mother herself. This pilgrimage would see her leave the Steppe, in order to find the touch of the Dusk Mother in foriegn lands.

She left without looking back, knowing in her heart that she’ll return, if not in this life, then in the next one.

She has travelled to many different lands in her search for her Goddess, and faced many dangers in the form of monsters, bandits and Garlean troops. But she also met many people of a peaceful nature, and she saw the touch of Nhaama in their ways, even if they called her by different names. Realising the Goddess was all around her, Khojin began to learn and catalogue her experiences, building a journal of the people and places she met—as well as their fighting styles. Finding and attuning to “Nhaama’s tears” allowed her to adopt these styles for herself, absorbing the memories within. The call of Nhaama often led her into places of danger, and for all her academic curiosity, she was still a warrior of the Dortharl. A reputation for monster slaying quickly followed in her wake.

It was at sea that she first heard the voice of Nhaama. A storm had blown in, threatening to shake the ship appart, when a starswarm appeared in the sky. Gazing at the bright, falling lights that pierced the clouds, scattering the storm, Khojin saw the light of the moon, and heard the voice of her goddess.

“Hear… Feel… Think…”

When the merchant ship arrived in the exotic port of Limsa Lominsa, she was emboldened in her search for the Dusk Mother, and now explores the wilds of Eorzea, seeking more clues to her distant deity—whilst also becoming involved in the struggles of the locals.