tanding 5ft 7inches, Viskyia is of average height, slim muscled build, and has the physical fitness of a girl well accustomed to physical training. She has incredibly pale skin, bordering on white. Viskyia can be best described as pleasant looking. She isn't a striking beauty, but there is an exotic look about her features because of her unusual eye color and her pale hair. Her hair is long smooth length of shimmering white locks that seem more translucent than anything. Since it's grown out over the winter, she's started wearing it plaited into a braid when she's working. Viskyia痴 eyes are a warm citrine yellow. She has long thin fingers, well calloused, and heavily scared with tiny cuts from working with gems and jewels. Viskyia is normally found wearing black trousers, a colorful blouse, low boots, a black leather belt, and a black cloak or coat depending upon the weather. She always goes armed with a dwarven steel dagger and two throwing ones. Viskyia also has a tattoo of a crow swooping with both wings open on the small of her back. On her left wrist is a tattoo of Kaimelea's open eye. It marks her as a follower of the Planetar of Dreams.
The brand on her right inner ear, burned into the cartilage, is the symbol of the small Esh値ahier House of Gha誰alis has disappeared since her first visit to Demios and her time in the Dream Halo. Viskyia since then has been moving with more confidence, meeting others with a gaze straight to their eyes. She's gained confidence in her movements, her dialog, and her dreams. Especially within her Dreams, Viskyia is slowly blooming. Her new found faith has gave her the courage to start a group in Demios that has similar beliefs to her own. Some might call it a cult, but Viskyia prefers the term sorority. It is a sisterhood that she'd never have had the courage to lead before loosing her brand and her mental chains.
iskyia was raised sheltered in her slavery. Because of this, her entire view on life is a bit naive. She has yet to experience heartbreak, extreme violence, and she hasn't been extensively lied too. So as a result, she has a somewhat innocent outlook on life. She believes, in general, what people tell her and takes it at face value. She's a happy person, finding laughter in almost everything, though she keeps this to herself. She is often found being helpful to others, providing guidance, or acting as a listener for those in need of an ear. She always gives beggars any spare coins she might have, and doesn't believe in letting anyone go hungry. Just because she is innocent, doesn't mean she's stupid. As time passed in Nexus Prime, shes slowly started to see the underworld for what it is and realize there are truly people out there that can and will take advantage of people and their circumstances. Once she adopted six kids from Paxia, Viskyia decided to move her family to Demios to raise the children in a safer environment.
Viskyia is a fierce fighter, unafraid and bearing an outlook that reflects the fact that her life is a gift and she's enjoyed it so far. She's been training in martial arts because she's afraid her small stature makes her appear to be an easy victim on her morning runs through the city streets or Demios' beaches. Viskyia is fastidious about cleanliness, though her appearance is less than pleasing most of the time. Though clean, she dislikes cosmetics, or 'dressing up', this being something she precieves as a sort of armor or weapon which need only be used in 'war'. She's often described as a tom boy, and its an image she likes to maintain. When it comes to fighting, Viskyia has a cold clear-headed style. She doesn't hesitate to kill if its necessary, and has done so before multiple times. Viskyia is very good in social situations, reacting pleasantly and often times warding off trouble before it comes to a head. This is because the whole of her young life included social training and hostessing. However, when confronted with face to face interactions, especially with the opposite sex, she can be defensive or come across as cold and emotionless unless the setting is somewhat orientated towards her chosen profession of Jewel crafting. Folks that see her true nature, the laughing happy woman, are often only those that she trusts implicatively.
Birthplace
The Gha誰alis Estate near the outskirts of Vortex
Parents
Lord Kedrinus Laskinu Gha誰alis (Esh値ahier)
Maria, Female Human Slave (Rhagrhnd)
Other Noteable NPCs
The Lady Megunitha Timushi Gha誰alis (Grandmother, often called Meg)
Grintil (Megs Dwarven Bodyguard)
Skylis (Distant cousin Meg sent to NP to keep an eye out on Viskyia)
Present LocationDemios, The Fire Isle Jewelry & Stormwatch Manor
Experience: 1 Point for skill use in a thread (requires GM approval)
Level up threads : 2 points (requires GM approval)
Job Thread: 2 Points per season (requires GM approval)
Intensive Experience: 2 Point (requires GM approval)
Brilliance/Intense Thread: 3 Point (requires GM approval)
Arms
Time
Arcana
Time
Trade
Time
Basic
One Cycle
Initiate
One Cycle
Apprentice
One Cycle
Professional
One Month
Apprentice
One Month
Journeyman
One Month
Elite
Two Months
Adept
Three Months
Master
Two Months
Master
Three Months
Master
Six Months
Sage
Three Months
Grandmaster
Six Months
Archmage
Twelve Months
Authority
Six Months
You can follow one of the following skill pathways:
(5/4),3/3/2(infinite); in this skill path, a very hard working person might maintain several career skills, and be at the peak of their game regarding their main skill, which will constantly oscillate between level 4 and level 5. This is known as a focused path, and is the basic template of maximum achievable levels.
4/4/3/3/2 (infinite); in this skill path, the character has spread his skills more evenly, and is not aiming so constantly high with his first skill. This is known as a broad path.
(3/3), 3/3/3/2 (infinite); in this skill path, the character is very similar to the focused path, in that he has chosen to focus on arcana, but attends to two schools of arcana (hedgemagery), the combined might of which is the equivalent to a level 5 skill. This is known as the path of hedgemagery and is *only* applicable to arcana.
Level To Be Achieved
Experience Points Needed
1
2
2
6
3
12
4
24
5
36
Secrets :
Jewelcrafting Awards for Shop Management = 13, 1
Shopkeeping Awards for Shop Management = 1
"We are living the history of our future right now. Make the most of it." - V.C.
iskyia was born into slavery upon the Gha’Nalis estate. She was raised in servitude there, though the matriarch of the estate, Lady Megunitha Timushi Gha’Nalis took an avid interest in her upbringing and made sure she was well educated. She was given a trade to learn and was worked almost exclusively in that trade (gem cutting). She provided gems for the Lord of the House, Kedrinus Laskinu Gha’Nalis, which was mainly used for mysterious arcane purposes of a dark bent. She grew up extremely sheltered and naive, trapped between a dark arcanist and a loving elderly Esh elf. When she was very young, Lord Kedrinus had her branded and put her through an arcane ritual that allowed him to tap into her energies for his own spellwork. The ritual turned her eyes yellow. All Gha’Nalis slaves and bondsman and women have yellow eyes. The ritual infuriated the Lady Megunitha as he did it when she was away on a trip and not keeping an eye on Viskyia. Consequently Viskyia grew up being nothing more than a tool for the Lord Kedrinus.
When she turned nineteen, Lord Kedrinus took an interest in Viskyia physically, and the Lady Megunitha Timushi Gha’Nalis intervened. Subsequently she told Viskyia that Kedrinus was her father, and that she herself was Viskyia’s grandmother. At that point, since Kedrinus had no other living heirs, Meg sent Viskyia away (with money, and a visa) to live anywhere else but with the Gha’Nalis’ estate. She was supposed to report back to her grandmother on her choice of hiding places. She never has. Viskyia’s father was enraged. Though, to this day he doesn’t know Viskyia is his daughter. Her greatest fear is that Kedrinus will find her in Nexus Prime or send one of his other servants after her. She still has no idea if her father ever married, or if he produced any legitmate children. She hoped he did, because if so no one would ever have the need to come for her if the secret was discovered. All her claim on her father’s inheritance would go to his direct blood children. Lord Kedrinus wants her back though. He doesn't take lightly to loosing property.
iskyia fled to Nexus Prime, as far as her meager resources could get her, and using the fake visa Meg gave her, she spent the last of her money on an apprenticeship in The Nexus Gem and Jewelry, where she met Master Titus whom eventually adopted her into his family. Viskyia soon became a permanent fixture in Nexus Prime, spending a full year there working in the gemshop and developing her personality. That was rather hard for her, since most of her life she'd done what she'd been told, quietly, without opinion or thought. Once on her own, Viskyia discovered an obsession with physical fitness and an almost borderline paranoia for keeping herself safe. That manifested in her learning Shaasskah and becoming a lifelong student of the artform. In addition, she developed a fondness for daggers and is normally found with multiple weapons concealed upon her person. Viskyia loves to run. She runs in the morning before opening the shop, and at night before she retires for the day. She also loves good quality food, and indulges whenever she can because she finds herself constantly hungry due to her physical training. She dislikes sweets, though the half-esh does harbor a fondness for berry scones. In terms of her relationships, Viskyia seems openly friendly and approachable, but she doesn't always maintain her friends. Early on, she did... but because they kept leaving Nexus Prime, she invests very little time into others because of the anticipation of them often leaving. To those that don't know her, they'd say she was a very good listener (many people wander by the gemshop to talk to her about their problems), but is otherwise cold... unapproachable, and often intimidating to men. The half-esh never sees herself being seriously involved with anyone. She has a inherant fear of ever being owned by a male again.
Instead, Viskyia finds release in her gemstones. The half-esh has a true passion for them, loving every minute of her time spent among them and in many ways considering them her children. She loves nothing more than to produce a wedding set, or an anniversary pendant, knowing it will be going to someone who gifts it in love and someone who receives it that will cherish it for always.
During her era with Titus, she discovered Titus was a priest of Aslan, from a monestary called The White Crane who'd been fighting an age old battle against the followers of Jorel. Subsequently Viskyia took part in the Arium war, fighting side by side with Titus where her mind remembered another time... of a life from before where she was a priestess of Keeval Shores. In that life she wore a Katana and wasn't a martial artist, but it still drove her to a deeper reflection of faith... a faith that is wholly undeveloped as yet. She feels a calling, but its something she cannot put her finger on. In Demios, she's discovering a new pathway, one that will lead her straight to the Planetar of Dreams.
Once Titus was out of her life (his death was reported falsely multiple times, went into hiding twice, then finally disappeared completely), Viskyia slowly started roaming far and wide. She set off to Paxia to find a missing friend (which she never did find), and ended up adopting 6 children there. Bringing them home to Nexus made her realize how dangerous the city was, and set into her mind the idea to move.
Viskyia returned from Nexus, Viskyia moved her entire family to Demios and set up a jewelry shop there. Once there, she's slowly working her way into the community, joining the Paedia, making friends (or trying too), and doing what's best for the children. Demios turns out to be all Viskyia could hope for. While she was vacationing there in the early Spring, she dreamed of Kaimelea and was taken on as a student by Sykodi, a Dream Walker of the Goddess of Dreams. Viskyia soon conceived of an idea to create a Botanical Resort and Spa in order to front a cult of Kaimelea. Viskyia takes mysticism training and begins to grow in leaps and bounds in her faith. She develops a natural intuitism for seeking out like minded people, and soon has five very strong women surrounding her. Adelyn, Jasmyn, M'caiyah, and Hay'aan all come into their own in Demios as well, undergoing a very similar transformation to Viskyia. Slowly the time passes and Viskyia travels to Zinn'Sunn to visit Amelia and bring her back to the Paedia to give Klue, a local gadgeteer, some help with his hauntings. Later in the winter, Viskyia's whole life changes. During Thane Tristan's masquerade ball in the Winter, Viskyia meets Michael Poe. Michael becomes a good friend and lover all in the course of a day, and the Reverie gains its first male member. Others trickle in, some willing to help with the Resort, and some will eventually join the Reverie. Regardless, plans move forward, and the micro community inside the Crystal Gardens expands. Viskyia very much looks forward to Spring and all the changes it will bring.
Artwork: Elwen The White by VyLr
Last edited by Viskyia Crow; August 2, 2008 at 06:58 AM.
"Treat everything you own like its the last thing you'll ever have in regards to its
care and storage, and odds are it will be the last thing you'll ever need." - V.C.
KAIMELEA - The Planetar of Dreams, Kaimelea is not widely worshiped outside of the Greater Elfish Basin and neighboring regions, but her power is said to extend to all inhabitants of the world. Portrayed as the Giver of Dreams, Kaimelea is also known as "She Who Opens the Eye". Her elusive and subtle magic was given to her by Phedos; from this gift, she developed what Aelyrians have come to call mysticism. Kaimelea is a neutral deity; she is just as likely to give terrifying nightmares as sweet dreams. Her followers include illusionists, mystics, and those who interpret dreams. Although she is constantly drifting through the dreams of all people of Telath, she rarely finds the mortals she seeks - waking dreamers. At this time, there are less than one hundred waking dreamers in the entire world. These few people are imbued with incredible powers over time; the most powerful of them can walk with Kaimelea through the dreams of others. Kaimelea manifests as many things to many people, almost always in the dreams of deep sleep, and usually looks misty or gradually changes appearances. The Plane of Dreams, her personal dominion, is said to be an airy wonderland filled with both serene tranquility as well as sudden fright, with opportunities and treasures beyond all imagination.
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Since her move to Demios, Viskyia has embarked on a rather different journey in her life. Having been spending most of her life seeking a pathway for her spirituality, Viskyia has been tapped by Kaimelea in this thread. Her future, if she can get past her slavery and move on with her life involves becoming a Dream Walker and Priestess of Kaimelea, and using those skills coupled with her Jewelcrafting to navigate the world and find her particular niche. To that end, Viskyia is perusing Mysticism training with an emphasis on the realm of dreams.
tanding 5ft 7inches, Viskyia is of average height, slim muscled build, and has the physical fitness of a girl well accustomed to physical training. She has incredibly pale skin, bordering on white. Viskyia can be best described as pleasant looking. She isn't a striking beauty, but there is an exotic look about her features because of her unusual eye color and her pale hair. Her hair is long smooth length of shimmering white locks that seem more translucent than anything. Since it's grown out over the winter, she's started wearing it plaited into a braid when she's working. Viskyia痴 eyes are a warm citrine yellow. She has long thin fingers, well calloused, and heavily scared with tiny cuts from working with gems and jewels. Viskyia is normally found wearing black trousers, a colorful blouse, low boots, a black leather belt, and a black cloak or coat depending upon the weather. She always goes armed with a dwarven steel dagger and two throwing ones. Viskyia also has a 
iskyia was raised sheltered in her slavery. Because of this, her entire view on life is a bit naive. She has yet to experience heartbreak, extreme violence, and she hasn't been extensively lied too. So as a result, she has a somewhat innocent outlook on life. She believes, in general, what people tell her and takes it at face value. She's a happy person, finding laughter in almost everything, though she keeps this to herself. She is often found being helpful to others, providing guidance, or acting as a listener for those in need of an ear. She always gives beggars any spare coins she might have, and doesn't believe in letting anyone go hungry. Just because she is innocent, doesn't mean she's stupid. As time passed in Nexus Prime, shes slowly started to see the underworld for what it is and realize there are truly people out there that can and will take advantage of people and their circumstances. Once she adopted six kids from Paxia, Viskyia decided to move her family to Demios to raise the children in a safer environment. 
