Levia Astali
"The YA" Levia Tyne Astali (a.k.a. Lia)
Shrewd yet articulate, the scholarly Water Shamiri, Levia Astali takes an idealistic view on life and the world around her. Though at times, her curiosity and arrogance may tower over her, her aura of control gives a sense of stability for those who are around her. Without fail, she retains a sense of levity, humor, and passion in everything that she does, be it the conjuring of a simple meal or conjuring of a potent familiar, making a great friend and councilor in time of need. Drastic need.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
She is very physical fit and capable of pulling her weight in combat.
Specialized Equipment
Given that she is the Water Shamiri, she channels her Therion's power into a water staff, dubbing it "Thyrsin"
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Levia lived a simple herbalist life with her parents and older sister, Iara. In early school, she made few friends, as she was always coddled by her teachers, as her mother was a noble. She would always stand up for those close to her and those who are being victimized. After she and her family relocated to Cithia from Marsil due to political tension, she began to love the landscape of Cithia, taking up the skills of botany from her mother and aunt. However, her mother was forced to leave to fight in the Malefic Crusade. Without her mother, she began to struggle with her self-identity. Yet, unlike her sister, this permeated into her being more secluded and growing quiet, growing into hatred.
In joining as an apprentice to Ward Y’lan, she would become the Young Astali, becoming the youngest Master in recorded history in the Iratian Scholars. She quickly grew sick and cynical about this title. She hated being the center of attention. She would die beneath a collapsed tree during the Second Calamity, her legs pinned and crushed, awaiting the return of her unrequited lover, Y’lan, that would never happen. She would revive and awaken in a testing facility, finding herself in a different body. She would not become the center of attention, not again. She was tired of being a test subject in life and in death; she needed to escape. She escaped with Pyromontis and learned about her bearing the soul of the Water Therion, Quoren. She reunited and traveled with Iara to Nalendi and became an O’mari monk. She broke her limits as a person and found herself smiling. Unfortunately, the new courage to approach her mother would be to her detriment, fanning the flames of her hatred. Her mother tells her, “You aren’t Levia; you are a shell of who she was.” She bitterly remained with the other Shamiri until tragedy would strike again in the form of the Omni-Knight. Nothing about her life made sense until she saw her closest people get hurt as the hands of evil incarnate. With Pyro and Xoltair, they managed to seal their adversary within the Unending Pyramid.
Gender Identity
Levia equates gender with creation and discovery. To her, it doesn't how someone is born or what sex that they assigned at birth; their role in life is to grow, adapt, and discover things outside of their own understanding. She uses her gender as leverage to strengthen her role as a woman in society, given that the current weight of political influence is split 50/50 world-wide.
Sexuality
Heterosexual; in the role assigned at birth, she believes that, with regard to children, women and mothers have a very important role in society. They sow seeds into the future for the generations to come, which thereby affects how the future is decided.
Education
She studied under Master Y'lan for eight years to become a Master under the Iratian Scholars in Cithia. Being an acquired scholar from her early botanist days, she remain in partial shock of how circumstances fell into her lap. To remedy this, she remain in study mode the majority of the time also as an homage to her late master and love interest
Employment
She is an effective tradeswomen, traveling about and keeping constant tabs on the flow of resources and what places need different things. She genuinely a good mentor on finances of smaller businesses and tries to help jumpstart them where she can.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Failures & Embarrassments
Mental Trauma
Levia's relationship between her mother, Alemonia Astali, is a very shaky one. Levia tried to make friends when she was little, but due to her mother's military status, many of her friendships were fraglie and superficial. After she became an adult, her mother being absent from home because of war got to Levia. She approached her mother with anger in her heart and when her mother told her, "I don't even know who you are anymore, but you are NOT my daughter, the one that I raised," this tipped off Levia, never to return to her mother after this.
She genuinely tries to avoid being the center of conversation or the subject of something. Given her prior experiences being exalted on a societal pedestal, she dreads the day that she is in that position.
Morality & Philosophy
Levia is a firm believer of who those toil deserve the world. Though the world may not give them anything, everyone who works hard and has determination should have a chance. As an antithesis, those who do nothing and are lazy should want for nothing. Levia understands that "luck" is an aspect of life, which is more of a combination of unknown factors, but that's neither here nor there.
Taboos
Personality Characteristics
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Levia is very keen on her basic magical capabilities, memorizing the vast majority of 1st through 3rd level spells, and due to Quoren, is able to teach high-level water magics.
Likes & Dislikes
She enjoy botany, as he carries a foraging book and various seeds with her at all times. She is a bookworm that thoroughly loves reading mystery and fantasy fiction. Much to her personal chagrin, Levia admits to like Ryna's short stories, as she wanted to be a fiction writer at one point.
Virtues & Personality perks
She is fearless when it comes to combat, preferring to fight over fleeing. When she is in private company, she is more motherly, and more long-winded. Additionally, values on's self worth and spatial understanding/awareness above all else, making her an able mentor.
Hygiene
Bathes every day, and grooms her hair in a variety of different designs. If there is one too complicated, then she has her sister, Iara, do it for her.
Wealth & Financial state
Rather on the middle-high class on this one
Being the scholarly one of the bunch, the Water Shamiri, Levia finds joys in the exploration of life and study. Therein, her passions for the unknown thrive and occasionally get the better of her. In spite of her irascibility and candid nature, she finds reason to flourish in her friends and foes, earning their collective ire, respect, and/or admiration.
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Alignment
Neutral Good
Current Status
Trying to unearth the methods of resurrection for her dead lover
Age
75
Date of Birth
19th Sun in the Wake of Absence, 1113 PR
Birthplace
Vanasis
Children
Pronouns
She/her
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Presentation
Feminine
Eyes
Turquoise
Hair
Long, fish-tail braid, airy
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Toned white
Height
5'5"
Weight
138 lb
Quotes & Catchphrases
"If you tell me something, I'm more likely to forget. If you show me something, I'm more likely to remember."
Belief/Deity
Irori
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