Mordechai aka Chai (They/She) is a character played by Mars (They/Them) in
Arc 3: Dragon Counter Courters. They are a
Shifter Beastmaster
Ranger/Battlesmith Artifcer with the
Beast Hunter background.
Description
Chai is 5'1" when not shifted and 5'3" when going "whole milk" as she likes to say. They're covered in little scratches and scars, and often wears long sleeves to cover them up and keeps a mask on to hide the suction marks on her face from an encounter with something along the southwestern coastline of Kauvet. Chai often dresses very old westernly androgynous-masculine, and often hides her tail when not fully shifted. Her ears are like that of a cows, but she doesn't show any signs of horns once being on her body.
Chai is very sweet but shy. Her appearance makes her very self conscious of those around her, so she often acts very timid and stays a distance away. This is especially apparent with her fighting style, prefering to stay away from close-up fights.
Backstory
Chai's adventuring days didn't really start until just before her 30s. Growing up on the eastern side of the continent, Chai has never been known to stay in one spot. Sometimes her family would be domestic, others laborers and hunters. And even now, her family is that of adventurers. A shame such a nice person was always so cursed, losing family almost every decade. Her biological family died to a vicious storm when she was around 13. Chai then watched their second family burn in a forge accident when they was 24. Only her steel defender, Honey, was able to escape the shop as the fires charred the remaining memories of this life.
Life was.... relatively peaceful after that for a bit, as they traveled the country side for the next six years picking up odd jobs here and there. During this time is when she met her first animal companion sugar, but he was lost to her along with her third family in the swamps on the eastern side of Kauvet. At the age of 37, Chai lost her third family - a group of adventurers she had become grouped with after years of nomadicism, turned bounty hunters, turned monster hunters. Wisened from years of travel, with a plethora of experiences to go with it, they were no match for a beast such as a dracohydra. This figt is the closest Chai has ever come to death itself, only being saved by her dog, Sugar, as each of the hydras heads tore her family apart, leaving Honey to drag her away screaming. Some would say it was almost a blessing when that intellect devourer latched itself on to her face, just long enough to take away a majority of those hurtful memories. But scars and pains are hard to erase, and beasthunter Mordechai is stock full of them. Now 42, she's become an adventurer once more, vowing to always help when needed, and slaying any beast that threatens a good family function. It's rumored that Chai took a hunters oath, for when the day comes that Kauvet needs to be revamped and its monsters put to rest, they and her creatures will be there. For here there be monsters and there will always be monster hunters.
During Arc 3
Trivia
Chai at the age of 41 decided to cover up the suction marks on her face with a tatto resembling tentacles that looked like kraken arms! She often wears a mask to cover it up still, but one can often see the arms curling up over her mask.
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