Ntabi Handler

Ntabi Handler

An Adventure

The Handler family line had a strong tradition of pottery. The family focused their efforts and tried to outdo their current wealth status. They tried to draw many a Taung centre eye, but no one would sponsor them and let them grow.
The Handlers left their clan young in order to seek out a new life in Sedibeng on the mythical God Trees.

It is not a land many do to as many, many things can kill you, most especially if one does not have impenetrable skin.

Still they toon on the adventure, meeting with cousins already there.

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Useful Child

As a child, her life was filled with travel at first for her older sister, then later on for herself. She saw what felt like was the world, it eventually became a world of faces.

She met so many that remembers people and dealing with them well became a skill of hers.

Moving from level to level, she met the boy that would be her husband.

The negotiations were done early. The moment the family found someone compatible. They moved him to the upper levels.

They were raised together with the contractual expectation of marriage. Culturally the sexes have limited meaning. If anything the value of a woman is greater.

Bondage

Sindiswa Handler was born of a family of coopers and Ntabi, a family of potters. Though thrown together by family, real effort was put into them gaining the skills needed to survive and through the year their bond developed and grew until they were a cohesive unit. They combined metal work with furnace blasting that allowed them to try unique artistic pieces.

They broke into the scene as a couple, completely unbreakable.

Marriage

They had their official marriage later than most but with more backing them than others their age. But it was not the limit of their potential. There was rumor and talk of restrictions being limited in The Jongiwe Tree that things held a little more opportunity there.

The new family took the journey under dual invitations to The Jongiwe Tree. These being brought by extended Lehare family. The Jongiwe Tree was an open bustling community. The beating and flow were overwhelming and one of a kind.

It was unanimous they needed to stay, already plans for the rest of their lives being made.

But, like every tree. There were still rules, standards that left all outside species isolated, the strict policies of immigration.

Thankfully their host were distant cousins on Sandile’s side, the coopers. So they were safe but stuck and they needed to secure land.

Most especially in North Sibini.

The best way to secure either time or land was through a marriage contract, which they were desperate to avoid, despite marriage and polygamy being an expectation, with Lehare culture in Sedibeng, most especially in The Jongiwe Tree.

There was one more opportunity that likely would not hurt their marriage. Inner species marriage.

Time Limits

Their time and status as legal citizens running out. They sacrificed their savings to become ‘sociable’ enter the gauntlet of attending Galas, any they could.

Sindiswa was a man where very few could be born that was a point of interest but Ntabi was the one needed to become best guest, bringing care gifts putting the family name on the lips of every prospect.

Before she knew it, she was wrapped in the embrace of the two youngest daughters of The Ndlovu-Sana House. To say they were of Nobility wouldn’t been an understatement.

They ran North Sibini, and were one of the largest, most influential of all time.

These Noble women wanted her. It was beyond being a part of any plan and things could go so very wrong. She could not be weak or slow. Nobility was fickle.

Ntabi being Lehare, a species famous for their sense of order, and their quickly thinking stood little chance against a family of well researched geniuses who were Chui Yetsimbi, a species famous for their long memories.

So Ntabi did what many a child(and the occasional scholar) did.

Trusted her tail.

The Choice

It said what best to do and she listened, picking the youngest and spending her time seducing Thato Ndlovu-Sana, something she's never regretted. But it wasn't what she expected, what awaited her under the older Ndlovu-Sana daughter was prestige and comfort, but under the Thato House there was so much more than what met the eye, and her tail knew it. It was in the way Thato spoke, it wasn't about the artistry of Nandi's work as a family so much as the quality of their creations. How big, small, quick, and consistent she could work. What materials would be needed? The woman was already making plans based on her and she'd yet to gain trust. Doors only partly opened. The work of their lives, their legacy was all about to kick off. But that involved a wedding ring. One she has yet to put on the hidden queen's finger. But will dedicate her family to doing.

Settling

The family settled down in North Sibini, a marriage contract settled.

Mental characteristics

Employment

She's a fulltime potter. But can work metal along with her husband, able to smith iron and steel, though through their connections with the Ndlovu-Sana house. She has been experimenting with creating tools even she does not understand the purpose for, in dimensions that are hard to predict.

Social

Family Ties

Daughter: Chuma

Current Location

North Sibini

Species

The Lehare

Ethnicity

North Sibini Lehare

Gender

Female