Nethali

Nethali

## Description

'Lithe', 'swoll', 'ragamuffin'. All applicable to the small, physically honed human woman with sun-touched skin perpetually crisscrossed by scars, scrapes and bruising, and unruly dusty brown hair.

Notable on her patchworked canvas is a full-mouthed bite from some fanged creature in the soft of her right shoulder. She occasionally rubs at this as an almost nervous tick.

### Armor

Nethali dons a mix of leather and plate, partially from necessity (given her distinct lack of funds), but also for maneuverability.

### Arms

Nethali goes well armed with a plethora of weaponry. She, most days, is caught with a dirk at her hip, a dagger in her boot, two axes or a single two-handed battle axe holstered on her back

## History

From bits and pieces of her own telling, she was raised in a crowded city, rife with both the wickedness of humanity and predatory magicks.

She swears she was banished while enacting retribution on a sexual aggressor who just happened to be a sorcerer. She wears her horrific proof on a lanyard, quite proudly.

## Skills

**Hardy** - Nethali's no stranger to pain, suffering, or the way a shitty meal sits through a sleepless night on the cold, hard ground. A lifetime of hard knocks has calloused body and soul.

**Athletic** - If one doesn't have their health, one doesn't have anything. Nethali devotes much of her time to peak physical form: training, mundane but robust exercises such as chopping wood, complicated as weapon drills, *real* full body push-ups, cow tipping.

**Culinary Specialist** - Nethali can make almost anything palatable to the standard humanoid palate... just don't ask how.

## Major Flaw/Flaws:

**Boisterous** - She gets bored, and people are the most unpredictable (and thereby interesting) playthings.

**Paranoid** - There's danger in all things, especially the things most people wouldn't suspect. Her trust, her faith, is hard to earn.

## Minor Flaw/Flaws:

**Rebel Without a Cause** - Don't tell her what to do. Nethali does what she wants when she wants. Screw expectation.

**Hot-headed** - When Nethali gets her ire up, there's hell to pay before anyone can get it to back down.

**Attention-whore** - Good, bad, lewd or humorous, Nethali thrives on peer validation, and there's very little she won't do to get it when she wants it.

## Personality

Like a schoolyard bully, Nethali teases the ones she likes...and the ones she doesn't like...and the ones she's still figuring out whether she likes or not. 'Teasing' may or may not include sexual harassment, verbal abuse and/or physical altercation.

### Beliefs

Survive. If you have to steal to eat, it's justified. If you have to kill to live, so be it. Stealing that axe to defend yourself, taking that wool-for-brains hostage to ensure a safe getaway... all in the name of survival.

Thieving is better than dying. Whoring is better than starving.

Minor indiscretions of character leverage naught on the conscience of Nethali.

### Quirks

* Hot baths are the utmost lap of luxury.

* Forced intimacy is punishable by vigilante sterilization.

## Relationships

*OOC Disclaimer: These are in Nethali's perspective, so therefore unlikely to reflect reality.*

Kiera - "Hawkmomma": A strange hermit woman who first dubbed Nethali 'little hyena' and now guides her through this mess of wilderness and evil. She wears the skull of a hyena that she killed in *naked* *hand-to-hand combat*. Respect. They share a strong distrust for magics and magical things/beings/weird shit.

Balthazar - "Balthico": An odd, clean-shaven sellsword that smelled of honey and lavender. Nethali initially met in Crann, and subsequently challenged him to a duel. No one's really quite sure who actually lost and who won- but the match resulted in Balthazar tagging along with Nethali and Kiera for a time. The two developed an odd relationship in this proximity, fraught with fight and fire.

Lorcan Mac Tíre - "Lord Crann": When Nethali was thrown from her horse in her early days in Kullinzios, it was the mountain chief Lorcan that tended her wounds. She spent some time in affiliation with Crann resulting of this, but it seems Lorcan has done something that's brought her to bear nothing but distrust and disdain for the man and his clan.

Sahasan - "Stallion", "Sassy": the first entity that Nethali permitted to perform magicks upon her-- she requested his shaman powers so that she could force Balthazar to face her in a duel.