Balindren Amshedra

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Age: 52
DoB: Born in 823
Gender: female
Orientation: straight
Race: human
Origin: Shanshiire
Height: 5’10’’
Weight: 135 lbs
Build: stocky
Home town: Singing Sands/Palanderin
Group Affiliation: Chant of Metal
Occupation/Rank: Sage
Known Family Members:

Personality

She’s a no nonsense kind of person. She’s very serious. She’s not a very social person and is often overly blunt when dealing with people. She prefers the solitude of her calling to dealing with large groups of people. She can handle people for brief periods of time, but in general prefers to be alone.

She has no tolerance for the cold. She can’t handle crowds or deal with people for long periods of time.

Appearance

Like all of the Kasheran people, she has black hair and dark skin. Her hair is long, reaching to the ground. Normally, she wears it tied back in a long tail or braid, but has been known to tie part of it up in three rings at the top of her head with two long cloth wrapped tails trailing down. That style is mostly worn for important occasions or ceremonies.

Clothing Style

When she’s out roaming around, she wears a long, white, hooded robe belted at the waist with a braided black leather belt. Underneath it, she typically wears long pants, sleeveless shirts, and vests. Her boots are typical for desert dwellers with thick, insulated soles.

Ceremonial Robes

Ceremonial Robes: She wears a black pectoral collar similar to the ones worn by the Emperors, though hers is smaller and not metallic. Her silver shirt is sleeveless and goes down past her hips. It slits up to her belly button in the front. No skin peeks through as she has a longer undershirt made of thinner, lighter black fabric. This shirt goes just a little past her knees and slits up the front of her right leg. A black belt keeps both shirts in place. Under the black shirt is a floor length silver skirt that slits up on the outside of her right leg. For ceremonies, she goes barefoot and she ties her hair up in the three ring and two tail hair style, wrapping the tails in silver fabric.

Likes

She loves cloud watching. Cats are her favorite animal and she’s often followed around by at least one. She enjoys dancing and her favorite music tends to be heavily percussive. She enjoys solitude.

Dislikes

She has a strong dislike of rain. She can handle wear, but there’s something about water falling on her head that she can’t handle.

Abilities

She has the ability to manipulate reality. Not reality itself, but rather a person’s perception of it. She can make you think that you’re seeing someone or something or that you’re somewhere other than where you are. This ability is much stronger when she’s in her home country. When she’s elsewhere, it’s not quite so strong. The farther away she gets from Shanshiire, the weaker it gets.

Illusions have no effect on her. They can’t be cast on her (save by herself) and they can’t fool her.

History

She’s a survivor of the massacre at Singing Sands. None of the survivors claimed a kinship to her, though they did know who she was.
Taulin found her sitting in the burned wreckage of her house, covered in ashes and crying because she couldn't wake up her mother. She fought her when Taulin tried to take her out of there, but not for long, especially once she saw other children leaving town. It took a long time afterwards for her to stop looking for her parents, for her to stop asking if they were ever going to come find her.
She and the other survivors were sent to live at the sanctuary in Palanderin, becoming wards of the priesthood until they come of age.
Balindren had no designs of entering the priesthood and was told by the sanctuary’s head priestess that under no circumstances was she to allow Balindren’s entry.