Chazira Von Highland (Zandaka)

A vampire bat who looks almost entirely human at first glance. Chazi is a sweet girl who loathes a very specific paladin. I pray that she never meets him... *for his sake, not hers.*

## Appearance

Chazi is an adorable feathered Kyodai who's personality is as fluffy as her golden locks. With pale skin and piercing red eyes, many think her to be a vampire on sight. While she bears much resemblance, wicked fangs and all, she's very much alive unlike the undead she's compared to. While she stands pretty short, around 5'1", her massive black wings are each her height in length, easily tripling the space she takes up when unfolded.

It's because of her want to keep her stature small, that she folds her wings up into the layers of her sweater to hide them. Similarly enough, she has massive bat ears which hide in the beautiful curls she keeps tied up in pony tails.

## This is For You

Chazira is the local currier of Zandaka, and is hence in charge of getting most things where they need to go. Thanks to her swift flight, she is capable of getting most anywhere on time, so long as its not raining too hard. Poor weather means no deliveries since the poor girl is horribly afraid of lightning. The story behind that is unraveled within her memories from her forgotten skin.

Chazi's best clients are Tikoku, Eros, Mihara, and of course Miyagi himself when he's around. All all them ask for favors or deliveries on the regular, but Chazi doesn't seem to mind one bit.

## Forgotten Skin

Chazi, like most other Kyodai, is a victim of unfortunate circumstances. Her entire family was slaughtered in front of her while she was spared because she was seen as irrelevant.

Chazira Von Highland gets her name from the long forgotten Von Highland family, who rules over an area as Dukes for a while. They had a large mansion, sprawling grounds, maids, butlers and the sort. Duke and Duchess Von Highland were kind people, and they gave birth to a daughter early in their relationship. When the daughter reached the age of seven, she was given a pet for her birthday. This pet, was Chazi.

Chazi was very young at the time, and was very fond of her owner, to the point that they would stay up together all night and play, then quickly run to bed when the sun began to rise. Elizabeth, her owner, would bring her white rabbits to drink from, as a snack sometimes. The two spent a couple years just being friends, hanging out while Lizzy grew up. But... it all fell apart one day.

During a pretty bad storm one evening, Chazi was comforting Lizzy. The lightning rumbled and the distant sound of a horse galloping could be heard outside. It wasn't much later that the front door was kicked in and the screaming started. Guards went first to the slaughter, handmaidens next, doors were being ripped off their hinges... The Duke could be heard yelling for his wife to escape, but that was shortly silenced by the sound of a blade hacking and the rolling of another body down the stairs. The Duke cried out in a shriek of horror, while another man unfamiliar to her called out "In the Name of Iomedae."

What came next was horrible... The man, clad in steel plate ripped Lizzy from her bed, dragging her by the arm with searing cracks of lightning to the downstairs foyer, tossed her to the floor before her father who was gagged and bound. A symbol was burned into his bare chest as if to prevent him from moving, like a seal of some kind. Chazi watched from the ceiling as the man sat Lizzy upright, preparing to slay her by beheading. There was not much Chazi could do, but with all her fleeting strength, she threw her delicate body at the man... only to be swatted to the floor like an insignificant animal.

Elizabeth's head rolled across the floor and the Duke's cries were only silenced after a long monologue about the great and holy purifier Iomedae... His body lay next to Lizzy's one the man was done, and Chazi could do nothing but whimper. The man had the audacity to approach her, "Hm. No more than an animal." He said, "Best to leave it be. Iomedae cares only for the slaughter of the evil."

And with that, he left. Chazi stayed in the mansion until the bodies turned to ash and the walls crumpled into a dilapidated mess. The things she enjoyed no longer brought her happiness, and she could not comprehend why the man had done such things to such nice people...

Miyagi found the abandoned ruin after a few years, finding Chazi in it, curled up in the bed that once held her owner so tightly. He took her, pet her, fed her and comforted her, like Lizzy once had... so she stayed with him. And that is how she came to become a Kyodai.