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Khali Anstar

Year 568, era of the Movement

Meeraz in layers by Catoblepon

Seen by the Stars

A side profile silhouette of a person with scales and tendrils.
Khali Anstar by Catoblepon
The one who swam with the corpses and reached the stars.

Khali was a scaled person that loved the Stars so much that she spent most of her life preparing to go visit them. A decade later after her departure towards the stars, a Star came back with her body. If her story was from a real person or simply a children bed story is not sure.

Khali Anstar

Khali's described as a scaly person of green small scales, with bigger, thicker, orange scales around her neck, on her cheeks, and down her back. She had a small wide nose, a small mouth, and round eyes. Her most distinctive trait are the tendril-like structure that was born on top of her nose and grew back towards the top of her head.

Known as a pure-hearted energetic person, Khali is said to not always having the best ideas, but making it up with sheer determination.

A green person laying in a giant black tentacle with spots of coloured light.
Return of Khali by Catoblepon

Her story

Since a small girl, Khali loved all the stories about the stars that were told in her village, always asking questions about them. She quickly memorized all the stories. She always said she would go meet the stars and make them return.

When she grew up, the adults of her villager made her stop having such "childish" dream, and for a couple of years, she kept quiet of her dreams and talked with no one about it, but she never stopped planning in secret.

No-one can say why, but suddently one day she started making her own boat, a strange one that didn't float on rivers like her town's boats, but floated in space. After a couple tests, and many hardships, she gathered some of her stuff as well as many provisions, climbed her boat, and started her travel to the stars.

For the next decade, nothing was known from Khali. Her family and close friends had finally finished grieving when a star approached their small island. Different stories talk of different stars, but they all agree that the star, carefully, left Khali's corpse on the island, and left without saying much.

It is said that Khali's corpse didn't look a day older from when she left and that it is still preserved as a Corpses's body wherever she was buried.



Cover image: Khali Anstar (cover) by Catoblepon

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Apr 23, 2024 09:27

Oh no she kinda dead

Hoo~ Hoo
Apr 23, 2024 09:29 by Catoblepon

A tad bit

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Apr 23, 2024 10:14

Aw such a bittersweet tale. At least we know she met the stars and hopefully during her life.

Apr 23, 2024 11:20 by Catoblepon

I'm glad you liked it :D

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Apr 25, 2024 17:22

This feels so magical and sad at the same time. Great writing!

Apr 26, 2024 09:10 by Catoblepon

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it <3

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Apr 27, 2024 15:02 by Rin Garnett

"Khali is said to not always having the best ideas, but making it up with sheer determination." Sometimes the only thing separating a good idea from a bad idea is the willpower to make it work, right? :D

Apr 29, 2024 16:39 by Catoblepon

Hell yeah!

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Apr 29, 2024 11:41 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

Aww, both sad and sweet. I love the art.

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Apr 29, 2024 16:39 by Catoblepon

Thank you <3

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