Date of Birth: 4th Delenthar 907
Gender: Female
Eyes: Ammolite (Multi colour irridescence) https://geology.com/stories/13/ammolite/
Skin Tone/Pigmentation: Skin the colour of smoky quartz and gemstones of amethyst and citrine https://geology.com/gemstones/smoky-quartz/ https://geology.com/minerals/quartz/ametrine.shtml
Height: 5'11" / 1m80
Weight: 155 lbs / 70 kg

Appearance

Physical Description

Very tall for her species but she does not know it and she is smaller than most in her family of Firbolg and Goliath.
She's thin and lanky, often hunched over unless chided into standing straighter.

Body Features

Very striking features, she's of course very unique in Eshana.
Her skin is the colour of smoky quartz and feels like leather.
Brightly purple (amethyst) and golden yellow (citrine) gemstones protrudes in several places on her body: around the head, on top of the shoulders, the elbows and knees, back of the hands and feet.

Facial Features

Aside from the striking purple-yellow gemstones protruding out of her dragonborn skull, she has a strong jaw and deep slanted eyes which shine with all of the colours of the rainbow, like the irridescent colours of the ammolite gemstone.

Identifying Characteristics

The gemstones can be broken but they slowly grow overtime.

Physical quirks

She walks hunched over, and her hands tend to grab whatever's in the vicinity to fiddle with it when she's lost in thought.
Also her emotions can be read like an open book - a surprising feat considering she's the only one of her species in the area.

Apparel & Accessories

Basic Yakonian outfit
Good shoes that she made herself
Always with her tool bet

Mentality

Personal history

Kallik means Lightning
A young woman confident in herself and her abilities
Come from the mining village of K'eyush in the Shadow Waste
Her Nahil is Ahnmuyak (Nala's Nahil) = means Steadfast or Brave.
Her egg was found in the mines, abandoned for who knows how long.
She has been destined to become a cobbler
But she wanted to LEARN and ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE.
She wanted to join the Illiivat and Hiin Academies (astronomy and science learning center in Ikiaq) but her school did not deemed her good enough.
She doesn't really want to reject her Nahil or to become a wayward, but she believes the world has much more to offer to her than what she's being promised, and that she can become much more. So she sets out, alone, to leave Eshana...

Because of her species, she matured way faster than other children.
At age 3 she had the intelligence of an 8 year old child and went to school (normally starting at 8 years old). School lasts from 8 to 14. Coming of age at 15.
She did the curriculum in 4 years instead of 6, because she technically became an adult much sooner than everyone else (7 years old). Also she worked really hard.
She left school at 7 years old, an adult.
She works the next 4 years as a cobbler.
She leaves the village at 11 years old.

Life events:
A relative bequeathed me with a weapon (family heirloom)

Once I went to the spirit well and prayed to the spirits

Made an enemy of an adventurer, a human ranger: I’m to blame for it. They are a famous person somehow.
The ranger had left her clockwork servant in the village and it got stuck. I tried to repair it but I was flabbergasted by the level of intelligence of that creature and tried to get it to rebel. Obviously it did not go well.
The ranger was named Lila Atwater and the creature Phineas.

Education

Basic Yakonian education as well as self taught in several topics.

Employment

Cobbler

Working as a cobbler, she has always had curiosity for all kinds of craftmanship, tinkering with every object she could put her hands on.
It was a sort of side gig - she did it as a child to craft toys for her and others, and as she grew up, she even traded some of the items she tinkered with and was known as very good at repairing things.
She likes to tinker with things in the mammoth barn - plenty of space there

Accomplishments & Achievements

She is a decent cobbler but the village people respect her more for her ability to repair pretty much any object.

Failures & Embarrassments

Her biggest failure was to be rejected from the Academy because she wasn't good enough in astronomy.

Intellectual Characteristics

Excellent engineering skills but not a lot of appetite for sitting behind a desk and listening to a lecture for hours.
She did not perform well in astronomy; she doesn't care much for looking up at the stars, instead she'd spend hours hunched over her workbench.

Morality & Philosophy

Like a true Yakonian she believes that everyone has a place in the community. However being rejected by the Academy was an event that transformed her vision of the world. She never even imagined she would not go to the Academy. Being kicked out without even being given a chance to prove herself, and without any recourse, has made her reconsider her place within this world. Since she firmly believes in her own worth and abilities, the only explanation is that the Academy made a mistake in rejecting her, and she will have to prove them, to prove everyone, what she is capable of.

person.sexuality

Unknown as of yet.

person.gender_identity

Identifies as a woman

Taboos

Extremely against the idea of throwing broken objects away. She could potentially turn into a hoarder.

Known Languages

Yakonian, Common Tongue
Draconic (inate understanding but cannot write/read it).

Personality

Motivation

She's heard that the Spire is the place were the most brilliant minds of the Continent are trained, so she intends to go there to perfect her knowledge, even though she doesn't really know where it's located yet. She'll find, and she'll prove to everyone that she does not need the Academy to become who she's meant to become.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Not now I'm busy"
"Of course I can repair it"
"Maybe I can make it better if I just tweak this..."

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Very good with all things engineering
Her inate curiosity, open mindedness, as well as just being generally helpful by repairing things, has made her pretty easy going with other people. However she is stubborn as fuck and that got her into a lot of troubles.
Decent cobbler.
She's terrible at astronomy and hunting.

Likes & Dislikes

Loves tinkering with objects
Has a fascination for the clockwork creatures from the Thusian Empire.
Dislikes people who tell her not to do something
Dislikes the taste of red berries.

Virtues & Personality perks

Open minded
Adaptative
Knows what she wants
Confident

Vices & Personality flaws

Stubborn
Big mouth

Personality Quirks

Fiddles with random things when thinking
Her irridescent eyes can be disconcerting when she's staring at someone.

View

39 Burmyk 2484 SE

A life's end and a jump into the unknown

by Qallik na Ahnmuyak

It's the morning before I’m set to go on my journey.

Aklaq, my younger Goliath sister which I’m very close to has waited for me before going to school.
She offers me a gift: a multicoloured stone disk necklace. Inscription etched by our father: "a reminder of those who miss you, for the hard times".

After a hearty breakfast of moose stew, I pick up my carefully prepared backpack and head out for the ritual that will see me ceremoniously cast out of the nahil, my family.
Anyone who leaves Eshana for a significant number of times, without necessarily planning to return, is ritually not part of the nahil anymore.

My whole family is here, including the head of the nahil, Tusa, a tall Goliath. I don't remember seeing them before but they will head this very important ceremony.
Only my brother Amaruq, member of the order of Kassuk, is not in the village.

The ritual leads me to deconstruct my ritual family bracelet, the maujun. Each small bead has been carved to represent a member of the close or extended family.
The 80+ beads are thrown in the fire under supervision of the Tupileks, but I get to keep the beads from my "blood" family in a small chest, as remembrance and wish for safe return.
I am now a Chulyin. A wayward.

My brother Kenoko, who works at the Sparkling Drop Inn as an entertainer, offers to accompany me on the first part of my journey since he is heading out to Suliniq.
First, I go around the village, saying good bye to everyone I know. Then I head to the Inn, where Tusa is also waiting to give me something.
They give me a glaive made from dark red wood and the sigil of our Nahil etched into it. Tusa insists on me taking this ancient weapon, called Atla's Honour.
They say I will need it when I leave Eshana.
They offer to train me to use it; I learn the stances quickly but putting them into actual practice is much harder than I expect! The weapon is so heavy...

Time to go. My mind is set, but my heart is heavy. It is hard to leave everyone behind, knowing months of travels are ahead of me and I will probably not see them again for years.
However my choice is to go and do everything I can to reach the Spire, or to stay and settle down as a cobbler.
Not much of a choice in my opinion!

I join up with Kenoko by the bridge out of K'eyush, trying really hard not to look back at the village, and send a quick and silent prayer to Meriwa to watch over my travels, as we start walking...

The major events and journals in Qallik's history, from the beginning to today.