Ava Spyefel

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Info

Name: Ava Spyefel
Concept: An Air-Aspected Sijanese Funerist hoping to heal the world and find out the truth about herself at the same time.
Motivation: Heal the innocent, stop the wicked, one village at a time if necessary.

Age: 28
Height: 5' 10"
Hair: Deep blonde, the color of honey or ripe wheat, instead of the pale blonde more common in the North. It is waist-length, surprisingly straight and thicker than one might expect. She usually wears it loose.
Eyes: Her eyes are a rich deep blue, more like the sea than the sky. Lightning shimmers there, always manifesting as a constantly shifting net of yellow bands crisscrossing her blue irises.
Elemental Markings: Lightning is Ava's constant companion and it drips off her skin when she's not paying attention. Her wake leaves sparkles and cracks behind and she routinely shocks people when shaking hands. Only with the greatest mental effort can she avoid that effect but her eyes retain their electric current. When she's angry or greatly impassioned, she visibly glows with a golden radiance, not sunlight but incandescent energy. Wind often accompanies her and, if she's agitated, it can blow strongly enough to put out torches. Unlike many Air-Aspects, Ava isn't blue or cold to the touch nor is cold an effect of her Elemental Markings but she's not capable of passing for human unless she covers up and stays calm.
Dress: Ava dresses rather differently, depending on where she is. When on the road, she favors a full hooded cloak and robe to keep the rain off and the chill out. In a city, she favors a respectable scholar's robe without a cloak, usually gray or black. For formal occasions, or to make a good impression, she'll wear one of her two good dresses: one a vibrant blue embroidered with gold thread and the other a deep deep black with stitched roses done with white thread. Despite her liking for dark colors, her smiling face keeps such attire from being too somber.

Personality

Ava often has a friendly smile and laughs easily. Though she has a relaxed humor about her, she tends toward a quiet retiring nature. Ava doesn't generally seek out the company of others and, while warm when around people, is generally content to occupy herself when no one's paying attention to her. She's not especially needy when it comes to attention.

In truth, Ava is a kind and compassionate woman who hates to see evil and rejoices to see people happy. She's steadfast and cares very much for the lives of complete strangers. She heals others at any opportunity and makes her way in the world by being charitable, occasionally at her own expense. She's not naive but she trusts more easily than some. Unlike most Dragon-Blooded, Ava was raised away from nearly any others and lacks any sense of divine entitlement, though she's learned that her obvious powers inspire respect and awe in others. She's been firmly determined not to let it go to her head.

Secretly, Ava is very much a romantic who especially loves children and watching couples get together. Even more secretly, Ava yearns to find someone to fall in love with like the stories she's always read...and has resolved to wait until she finds him. As rare as her Elemental potency is, her virginity at her age might be just as rare.

Backstory

Ava Spyefel grew up in Sijan, raised by a pair of Deathspeaker Observance Funerists. Her earliest memories were of helping with some simple rituals and learning to both be happy in life but to honor the dead. Ava grew out of childhood into young adulthood, bringing a smile and kindness to everyone who knew her. Many said she had an unusual lightness of spirit in a place as grim as Sijan and everyone knew the name of Ava Spyefel.

Magic was as much her birthright as the Deathspeaker Observance she eventually entered into. Ava grew up with an affinity to lightning and wind, as well as the simple thamuturgical rituals her parents taught her. Only later did she learn that every other Dragon-Blood Exalted at some point, a moment of awakened connection with the Elemental Dragons. There was no record in any history book she could find of a child Exalting earlier than the age of seven...which made her unique in the world.

Ava grew skilled in the arts of funerary rites and rose in renown as one of Sijan's greatest healers, until the day came that her parents passed away. Once they were accepted into the ranks of the ghostly Observances, Ava was finally told the truth; that she wasn't born to them but taken. Decades ago, forces of Sijan seized an egg from the hands of Deathlord Nemissaries. Not knowing what it was, they took it to Sijan. Once it passed out of the Shadowland and into the world of the living, the egg broke apart to reveal an infant with lightning in her eyes. No one knew where she'd come from or what the Deathlords intended...but Ava decided she couldn't stay in Sijan any longer. Somewhere out in Creation was the truth of what she was, of what she was meant to do.