earth mother

Faraz Aghavni is the reincarnation/reboot of Foxbird; she's 6'6", making her my tallest human character in any story. (Kupric is taller- he's around 7 foot- but he's a half-elf, and when I say half elf, I mean half elf, half giant hybrid.) She's the youngest of the soulless (not of the demographic, just of the particular small group of them that I'm generally concerned with), having obtained her soul at the age of six. Since she hadn't hit puberty or finished devloping a personality or any of that jazz, it wasn't all that traumatic for her. She remembers the time before the Tower opened as a boring, flat, colorless time. Then there was the year or so between her reawakening and her friends' reawakenings, and that was even more boring, if slightly more colorful.

She's still incredibly strange, of course. She's got no interest in people outside of her personal circle of "family," except as temporary amusements. She spends most of her evenings out a bars, hooking up with strangers. By the time she's twenty four, she's acquired as many notches in her bedpost as Silverlock had at fifty, which is a number that is not slight.

Jay has given up on getting her to stop- she can more than take care of herself, under any circumstances. She's easily bored by most people, unless they're actively working to entertain her. Most of the time, she's able to relate more to plants than people.

She's got a degree in biology and is getting her AD in arcane botany; she is, essentially, a druid. She speaks to trees. She wants to reintegrate greenery in the city- Redmark used to house a fantastic park, but most of it is gone now; the DeLavrey manor, too, was once located in the middle of a forest, inside the city. She spends a great deal of time working with members of Lesser Faery- the elves in the Fifth Era have largely lost touch with nature, but the Lesser Fae still maintain that connection.

She's a bit feral- fiercely protective of her family, but not inclined to give a shit about anything else. She's almost a mother figure- but I don't actually have any mother figures in my cast of characters (Shanreth doesn't count). She ends up taking care of Tim and adopting him as her protege/little brother.

She fights with her fists, mostly, and on certain memorable occasions, her teeth. Generally, once Faraz gets involved in a brawl, the brawl is over. She's been known to incapacitate entire teams of murderball players in under ten minutes. She's the second best fighter of the five of them- Eleth still floors her two out of three times, but she can take out Ravi and Lindra easily. She's never actually been in a serious fight with Orrin.

For all that she's a crazy Amazon, she's actually fairly mellow, and not all that different, personality-wise, from Foxbird. Not as well socialized, though that's more her own personal choice than anything to do with the way she was raised, and not as inclined to build up a harem of cranky men. But they're similar in their take-no-crap attitude towards the world.

And, y'know, she's six and a half feet tall. I'd probably be immensely fond of her for that reason alone.