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The gods speak to me. Lofa ah'sha ah'banwamun cha.They always have. Lofa holk ah'cha.I just never listened. Lofa ah'sha jocha.I should have listened all along. Lofa id ah'sha cha chana.I can hear them so clearly now. Aantha ah'cha lofa.They have great plans for us. Th'ok kaawa hotha ban ah'cha.The voice of the goddess of the moon is so clear and simple. Maj aantha lofa ah'Sulwamun.I can hear her loudest of all. Th'lofa Ah'Sulwamun teek.She speaks like a bell rings, unmistakable and beautiful. Aantha des majokik, ah'motha bells Sul'lofa.She has told me my child would be special. Ikkoka, ah'mun funna cha Sul'lofa owa.The goddess says he will hold many secrets and many more truths. Kaawa'motha ah'soya ja'hori, maj kaa'motha, ah'sha marrin.I must not let the others know. Yayumu jo'marrin oma waarr'tha ban.They will never understand the goddess. Marrin Sulwamun ah'cha jo'chuuna.They cannot hear her as I do. Sul'lofa ah'cha jo'chuuna.I am choosen, Hades is choosen. Katha Hades teek, katha holk ah'sha.We are special. Ikkoka ah'banu.Isohel speaks to me like a great rolling thunder. Ah'motha th'lofa buumbo, Isowamun owa.It rumbles and the ground shakes and his words are clear and wise. Midew des aantha ah th'lofa Isowamun owa.He knows all that is true. Kaa'motha teek ah'sha Isowamun marrin.He knows Sulena has blessed Hades and me. Mun ah'banuHe has told me the future he sees. Fuuna Isowamun marrin, Isowamun athoka.My son will be great. Th'ok Hades funna.He will be powerful. Marrik Hades funna.He will rule over man. Kaawa Hades funna.He will take this world for his own. Ah'thokchura Hades funna.I will make him wise and just. Kaa'Motha des kaakoum ah'sha korefunnaThe gods have told me. Ah'lofa banwamun owa.They do not lie.Kaa'Motha ah'cha cha jo.They have told me everything. Lofawa ah'sha punna.
It all makes such perfect sense. Marrin aantha ah'sha cha.
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Name: Haara’ta “Hara” Torrelk’Horta
Age: 27 [AV 47 - Nov 2015]
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Dark coppery skin with straight black hair that falls below her shoulders, but she generally keeps in a short but messy braid. She has almond shaped, brown eyes, and often will paint markings on her face. Hara doesn’t dress in Ko’ban garb, usually though she will wear Ko’ban styled necklaces and adornments. She wears earrings in her right ear, but all the piercings on the left have been ripped out leaving her ear scared and her partially deaf on that side. Small scars from fighting and accidents while working dot her body.
Personality:
Hara has never had a problem talking to people. Infact most people have a problem with her talking to them. She’s open and chatty, but this causes conflict more often than not, and it seems through intention on her part. What makes her antagonization so effective is her keen perceptiveness and her somewhat stubborn pragmatism. She has little interest in making friends or meaningful connections, but theres no way of knowing if she wants to get to know someone or find something to use against them when talking to her. One thing that becomes clear is her love of provoking reactions from people, both good and bad. It’s just unfortunate she doesn’t know when to stop prodding people, as this often can and does escalate into violence. Violence which she has no problem participating in, and perhaps maybe even the goal for her.
She’s not impossible to get along with or even befriend, but it takes a certain willingness to overlook her brutal sense of humor to see the woman she actually is. Which isn’t really all that great either. She’s almost dangerously reckless and seems to have little care for her own well being. But oddly enough should she befriend someone she can show a great deal of selflessness in their favor, but never enough to halt her dangerous behavior and reckless habits. She does have a want for companionship but if her behavior doesn’t ward suitors off then her abusive nature usually finishes the job. It’s not that she sets out with the intention to harm the ones she cares about, but she doesn’t do anything in half measures and that includes emotions and love. She gives her all or nothing and this is often causes her problems.
Her heedless approach to life is aided by her being callously apathetic towards consequence. A lot of her behavior betrays that the only thing she gives less of a thought to than consequences, is authority. She’s always of the opinion that whoever is in charge isn’t good enough, and often feels the desire to voice this as rudely as possible.
All in all, Hara isn’t a good person, nor does she pretend to be. She does however have her own dreams and wants for life. She desires on some level to better herself but is still young enough to resent the idea of ‘settling down’ but old enough to know there is no future for how she currently lives. Intelligent but not wise, she’s a strange and somewhat dangerous mix. It’s a fair bet that a lot of this comes from deep guilt in regards to her history, and said guilt leads her to the defensive nature and a lifestyle that may put her in an early grave. Though she doesn’t personally believe in suicide, nor does her naturally pugnacious attitude imply she’s in anyway unwilling to fight for survival. But she’s far too intelligent not to know her behavior maybe the end of her.
During the worst stent of infighting among the clans of the Ko’ban, Haara’ta (Hara) was born. A blessing to a young chief names Haro, and his wife Wohota. Haro was a good leader whose battle tactics and peacemaking has thus far managed to keep his tribe alive and afloat in spite of the civil fighting both in the clans and outside of them. Though they still had enemies and battles to fight. But regardless of this troubled time, Hara’s birth was celebrated.
The addition to his family redoubled Haro’s efforts to find peace and balance for the tribes, and he strove to unite first his clan. This took years. By the time the Ban’Torrelk had unified, the tribes that had called themselves the Ban’Kinnta Clan had fallen into chaos. The fighting reached it’s bloodiest for those outside the Ban’Torrelk while Hara was still a little girl.
This blood shed resulted in Hara starting to learn how to defend herself very young. When she was 8 she started to study how to defend herself. Though trying all manor of weapon with the girl she only ever showed interest in the way the Ban’Torrelk raiders faught, which was unarmed. Haro was begrudged to let his daughter become a raider but he let her start her training there for the sake of her to be able to defend herself at the least.
Both Wohota and Haro were concerned with Hara’s interest in the raiding parties, so they agreed to teach her how to build and create as well. For Haro it was important that she learn that the Ko’ban make almost everything they needed, the Ban’Torrelk especially, and that the raids on the settlements outside their lands where only in desperate times. Haro was trying to groom his daughter to one day be chief.
As Hara grew though it became clear that inspite of her aptitude with the work provided to her, she enjoyed fighting more. She would constantly be sparing or outright starting fights with the other children, and sometimes those much older than she. She wasn’t the best fighter, but her tenacity had at the very least earned her fathers respect in the matter. He let her continue her raider training so long as she also worked to help build and maintain homes between training and raids.
All Ban’Torrelk tribes tend to raid infrequently, and most have their own way of doing it, for the Ban’Horta (Hara’s tribe) they relied on stealth and came into the town unarmed, secured and subdued obstacles (IE, people) without the noise of weapons, the intention was to sneak close or drop down on them. The raider training included not only how to fight but how to climb, move silently and use the traditional building styles of the Mesalian people to their advantage. For the most part, raids were about medicine, metal tools, and winter food. Haro managed to keep the raids to a minimum, knowing the risk to his entire tribe each one gambled.
The years of training Hara and the other raiders got was part of mitigating this risk to the Ban’Horta people. Though there were plenty of aspects of it Hara found dull, she enjoyed the risk. By 12, the proud Hara was determined to prove herself ready for actual raids. So one day, she and the other students were to observe the neighboring village from a hill top, hidden in the long grass and trees. This was an all day activity to teach patience. Something Hara had and still has, little of. Hara started to creep closer and closer to town. Until finally it became a contest between her and the others in training to get as close to the town as possible undetected.
This act of disobedience put her and the four other Ko’ban youth in training nearly in the town when the town was suddenly attacked. By then the civil fighting in the clans had been quelled and for the most part there was peace. For the youth’s it was easy to overlook or forget the rest of the mainlands had not got that far just yet. The small group found themselves in the middle of chaos and war, they, like the villagers tried to escape.
Only one of the children escaped to reach the tribe to tell Haro and the warriors what had happened. Hara had left behind her friends as they were dragged off and beat by soldiers. She had been nearest to town, and saw the fighting first, and she had the good fortune of being small finding a wheel barrel to over turn and hide under. She had to listen until the soldiers had moved on before she could run back to the safety the sunflower plains alone. She would never forgive herself for abandoning her friends. Her father and his men went to save the children, at the end of the day, it had been for naught. The children were lost and Haro’s attempts to retrieve them cost him another three warriors, and grievously wounded two more.
The loss of children for the Ko’ban is a serious matter, so much so that Haro’s leadership was called into question. The village that was raided was raised to the ground, the neighboring towns only saw Haro and his men carrying the wounded and dead Ko’ban from the remains, It was inevitable that they would be blamed for the pillaging. Hara’s father was shamed, and stripped of his title, and their tribe dissolved into neighboring ones. Hara had a hard time appreciating this, upset and angry at herself to such a degree she didn’t appreciate what was happening until they had to move to a new tribe.
Things did not improve there, Hara was helpless to fix matters, her father started to waste away, sickness soon set in. He was dying, and all she could do was confess her fault in the matter to him. She tearfully begged his forgiveness for her disobedience and he just gave a sickly smile and ran a hand through her hair.
'You are brave, and powerful, you survived when others did not. You know your own limitations and you were just testing them. You meant no harm my little one. You meant for none of this, but don’t stop pushing yourself. Always do better.' Was all he said on the matter. Hara and Wohota spent their time trying to help him recover, but soon, he passed away to sickness. Leaving Hara and Wohota to forge a new life with only one another in a new tribe. While they weren’t treated poorly in the tribe, they never felt home as they had in the Ban’Horta.
Hara wasn’t trusted enough to be made a raider so she only worked on her building and with her free time, she would widdle small figurines of the gods. As if their presence would offer guidance. But they never did. She had remained feeling lost and guilty as her rite of passage came up when she was 14. With no love for her tribe she decides it’s time she leaves when it comes. She gives her mother her final farewell and sets out on her own. She leaves the Ko’ban lands and presses out into the world. At first wary of the villages and towns she soon found herself with an apprenticeship buildings houses.
The apprenticeship didn’t pay. Hara wasn’t aware at the time that she was being used as free labor, she was far more skilled than the other apprentices and even more so than some of the regular laborers. Hara grew restless with this position, and at first tried to find people willing to spar with her in her off time. A few one sided fist fights later and no one would give her the time of day.
By the time she was 16 she not only knew she was being used and was at the least a laborer, though she was making less than the rest due to the simple fact that she was Ko’Ban. Hara finally had enough, so she went to ‘discuss’ her wages with her foremen. In this instance, she decided to start the conversation with a punch. Needless to say, she got into a fight with the foremen and won. But the foremen had her arrested for it. After her stay in jail she left town and went to find some fair work somewhere else.
Hara started to travel around floating from one jobsite to the next. She made sure she was paid fairly, and during her nights she would challenge people to fights and take bets. She ended up with more wins than losses but not everyone was a honorable challenger or fought fair. It was a bar fight at the end of the day. So she would often arrive to work beat up with fresh bruises and bandages. After a while, no one questioned it. Her floating around continued until late in her 17th year when she met someone.
She fell in love with a man named Rodrick. Rodrick was a good man, and he’d been captivated by Hara’s strength. But the drawback to this was that Hara didn’t know how to manage a relationship, or even how to treat him. She ended up an abuser, mistreating the man she loved in emotional outbursts that sometimes weren’t even his fault. Though Rodrick loved Hara he knew she was unhealthy for him, and eventually left her. She had spent three years with him, living in one spot and still fighting with strangers in the bar at night after work. Her lifestyle didn’t do well for the stability that Rodrick offered and wanted. So when he left her, the now 20 year old Hara went back to floating from town to town.
Over the course of a long meandering year she found herself at the coast. She poked around the port for a while, finding she generally got along with the sailors and they they where fun to be around. Most of which more understanding of the occasional bar brawl. Finally she picked a lengthy trip to the forbidden lands and a little known town. She needed something new, and different.. The way she’d been living was no longer fulfilling after losing Rodrick to her poor self control.
0 AV Ko’ban have freedom.
0-13 AV Ko’ban struggle to rebuild clans and hunt chase outsiders from their lands.
13-20 AV Civil war breaks out among the clans.
20 AV Hara is born
21 AV Lucin and Xitian Shamen falls out of practice.
24-29 AV The Ban’Kinnta falls into chaos and starts to destablize.
30 AV The Ban’Horrek and Ban’Moraantha form from the remains of Ban’Kinnta.
32 AV Hara disobeys [12]
33 AV Civil War ends
34 AV Hara’s rite of adulthood [14]
36 AV Hara leaves apprenticeship. [16]
37 AV Hara fights for money and works during the day [17]
40 AV Hara grows restless after losing love and starts traveling again [20]
41 AV Hara arrives
*41 AV is November/December.
The addition to his family redoubled Haro’s efforts to find peace and balance for the tribes, and he strove to unite first his clan. This took years. By the time the Ban’Torrelk had unified, the tribes that had called themselves the Ban’Kinnta Clan had fallen into chaos. The fighting reached it’s bloodiest for those outside the Ban’Torrelk while Hara was still a little girl.
This blood shed resulted in Hara starting to learn how to defend herself very young. When she was 8 she started to study how to defend herself. Though trying all manor of weapon with the girl she only ever showed interest in the way the Ban’Torrelk raiders faught, which was unarmed. Haro was begrudged to let his daughter become a raider but he let her start her training there for the sake of her to be able to defend herself at the least.
Both Wohota and Haro were concerned with Hara’s interest in the raiding parties, so they agreed to teach her how to build and create as well. For Haro it was important that she learn that the Ko’ban make almost everything they needed, the Ban’Torrelk especially, and that the raids on the settlements outside their lands where only in desperate times. Haro was trying to groom his daughter to one day be chief.
As Hara grew though it became clear that inspite of her aptitude with the work provided to her, she enjoyed fighting more. She would constantly be sparing or outright starting fights with the other children, and sometimes those much older than she. She wasn’t the best fighter, but her tenacity had at the very least earned her fathers respect in the matter. He let her continue her raider training so long as she also worked to help build and maintain homes between training and raids.
All Ban’Torrelk tribes tend to raid infrequently, and most have their own way of doing it, for the Ban’Horta (Hara’s tribe) they relied on stealth and came into the town unarmed, secured and subdued obstacles (IE, people) without the noise of weapons, the intention was to sneak close or drop down on them. The raider training included not only how to fight but how to climb, move silently and use the traditional building styles of the Mesalian people to their advantage. For the most part, raids were about medicine, metal tools, and winter food. Haro managed to keep the raids to a minimum, knowing the risk to his entire tribe each one gambled.
The years of training Hara and the other raiders got was part of mitigating this risk to the Ban’Horta people. Though there were plenty of aspects of it Hara found dull, she enjoyed the risk. By 12, the proud Hara was determined to prove herself ready for actual raids. So one day, she and the other students were to observe the neighboring village from a hill top, hidden in the long grass and trees. This was an all day activity to teach patience. Something Hara had and still has, little of. Hara started to creep closer and closer to town. Until finally it became a contest between her and the others in training to get as close to the town as possible undetected.
This act of disobedience put her and the four other Ko’ban youth in training nearly in the town when the town was suddenly attacked. By then the civil fighting in the clans had been quelled and for the most part there was peace. For the youth’s it was easy to overlook or forget the rest of the mainlands had not got that far just yet. The small group found themselves in the middle of chaos and war, they, like the villagers tried to escape.
Only one of the children escaped to reach the tribe to tell Haro and the warriors what had happened. Hara had left behind her friends as they were dragged off and beat by soldiers. She had been nearest to town, and saw the fighting first, and she had the good fortune of being small finding a wheel barrel to over turn and hide under. She had to listen until the soldiers had moved on before she could run back to the safety the sunflower plains alone. She would never forgive herself for abandoning her friends. Her father and his men went to save the children, at the end of the day, it had been for naught. The children were lost and Haro’s attempts to retrieve them cost him another three warriors, and grievously wounded two more.
The loss of children for the Ko’ban is a serious matter, so much so that Haro’s leadership was called into question. The village that was raided was raised to the ground, the neighboring towns only saw Haro and his men carrying the wounded and dead Ko’ban from the remains, It was inevitable that they would be blamed for the pillaging. Hara’s father was shamed, and stripped of his title, and their tribe dissolved into neighboring ones. Hara had a hard time appreciating this, upset and angry at herself to such a degree she didn’t appreciate what was happening until they had to move to a new tribe.
Things did not improve there, Hara was helpless to fix matters, her father started to waste away, sickness soon set in. He was dying, and all she could do was confess her fault in the matter to him. She tearfully begged his forgiveness for her disobedience and he just gave a sickly smile and ran a hand through her hair.
'You are brave, and powerful, you survived when others did not. You know your own limitations and you were just testing them. You meant no harm my little one. You meant for none of this, but don’t stop pushing yourself. Always do better.' Was all he said on the matter. Hara and Wohota spent their time trying to help him recover, but soon, he passed away to sickness. Leaving Hara and Wohota to forge a new life with only one another in a new tribe. While they weren’t treated poorly in the tribe, they never felt home as they had in the Ban’Horta.
Hara wasn’t trusted enough to be made a raider so she only worked on her building and with her free time, she would widdle small figurines of the gods. As if their presence would offer guidance. But they never did. She had remained feeling lost and guilty as her rite of passage came up when she was 14. With no love for her tribe she decides it’s time she leaves when it comes. She gives her mother her final farewell and sets out on her own. She leaves the Ko’ban lands and presses out into the world. At first wary of the villages and towns she soon found herself with an apprenticeship buildings houses.
The apprenticeship didn’t pay. Hara wasn’t aware at the time that she was being used as free labor, she was far more skilled than the other apprentices and even more so than some of the regular laborers. Hara grew restless with this position, and at first tried to find people willing to spar with her in her off time. A few one sided fist fights later and no one would give her the time of day.
By the time she was 16 she not only knew she was being used and was at the least a laborer, though she was making less than the rest due to the simple fact that she was Ko’Ban. Hara finally had enough, so she went to ‘discuss’ her wages with her foremen. In this instance, she decided to start the conversation with a punch. Needless to say, she got into a fight with the foremen and won. But the foremen had her arrested for it. After her stay in jail she left town and went to find some fair work somewhere else.
Hara started to travel around floating from one jobsite to the next. She made sure she was paid fairly, and during her nights she would challenge people to fights and take bets. She ended up with more wins than losses but not everyone was a honorable challenger or fought fair. It was a bar fight at the end of the day. So she would often arrive to work beat up with fresh bruises and bandages. After a while, no one questioned it. Her floating around continued until late in her 17th year when she met someone.
She fell in love with a man named Rodrick. Rodrick was a good man, and he’d been captivated by Hara’s strength. But the drawback to this was that Hara didn’t know how to manage a relationship, or even how to treat him. She ended up an abuser, mistreating the man she loved in emotional outbursts that sometimes weren’t even his fault. Though Rodrick loved Hara he knew she was unhealthy for him, and eventually left her. She had spent three years with him, living in one spot and still fighting with strangers in the bar at night after work. Her lifestyle didn’t do well for the stability that Rodrick offered and wanted. So when he left her, the now 20 year old Hara went back to floating from town to town.
Over the course of a long meandering year she found herself at the coast. She poked around the port for a while, finding she generally got along with the sailors and they they where fun to be around. Most of which more understanding of the occasional bar brawl. Finally she picked a lengthy trip to the forbidden lands and a little known town. She needed something new, and different.. The way she’d been living was no longer fulfilling after losing Rodrick to her poor self control.
0 AV Ko’ban have freedom.
0-13 AV Ko’ban struggle to rebuild clans and hunt chase outsiders from their lands.
13-20 AV Civil war breaks out among the clans.
20 AV Hara is born
21 AV Lucin and Xitian Shamen falls out of practice.
24-29 AV The Ban’Kinnta falls into chaos and starts to destablize.
30 AV The Ban’Horrek and Ban’Moraantha form from the remains of Ban’Kinnta.
32 AV Hara disobeys [12]
33 AV Civil War ends
34 AV Hara’s rite of adulthood [14]
36 AV Hara leaves apprenticeship. [16]
37 AV Hara fights for money and works during the day [17]
40 AV Hara grows restless after losing love and starts traveling again [20]
41 AV Hara arrives
*41 AV is November/December.
Capabilities:
Unarmed Combat - Competent
As a child she started to learn how to move quickly, deftly and quietly. The most silent way to move, is to not carry weapons that rattle and knock into things. As a result she learned how to fight with fist, foot and joint. Hara never become the raider she’d envisioned as a child, but she never forgot her training and has continued to advance this skill since she was 8. She fought for years for money in bar bets, her style involves brutal grapples and disarms (not unlike Krav Maga) and a healthy amount of kickboxing. Her marital skill focuses on either disarming and subduing foes as quickly as possible or, failing that, beating the ever living tar out of them with fist and foot. She’s not only deadly in combat but her body remains nimble and capable of impressive physical feats of agility and flexibility.
Carpentry - Competent
Building houses, furniture, whittling and small crafting projects. Primarily she knows how to build in the most traditional sense, everything from homes, shacks, outhouses, sheds, treehouses, furniture, carts, and all points between. Her spare time is often spent alone, whittling. While she strictly builds with wood, clay, and stone, she’ll whittle with everything from bone to wax and potatoes.
Masonry - Apprentice
She has a strong foundation in masonry and she actually learned this before her carpentry, she works well with clay and simple cobblestone foundations and structures. Hara’s relatively limited use of bricks in her work keeps this skill from advancing further.
Handicrafts - Novice
Simple crafts like basket weaving, candle making, bead making, her whittling and her dye making (that extends past what’s strictly needed for her carpentry). Most of which she learned pursuing her job fields or just being raised Ko’ban. On their own not worthy of a skill but collectively weigh enough to count as something additional.
Knowlage:
Ko’Ban Language - Advanced
Hara understands Ko’ban flawlessly, she was raised speaking it and inspite of not using it much she retains the ability and often thinks or speaks to herself in it. Her time in training as a raider taught her some simple hand signals to communicate movements without words. The Ko’ban believe this is how sign language started. Theres no evidence to support their claim.
Common Language - Compatent
Hara started learning common young, though didn’t use it much until after she left home. Some of the reason her first foremen could screw her over on wages was because she didn’t fully understand him when they spoke. Which doubled her efforts to learn the language until she was fluent.
Common Writing - Apprentice
With the help of Zarkaylia, Hara's ability to read and write in common has come leaps and bounds ahead of where it was. She can read and write now though it takes her time as it is still a new skill for her.
Leadership - Apprentice
Leading people is difficult, and while Hara still has to work on some of the social skills it takes to do so well, she has a firm understanding of the logistical obligations in leading a town or community. This includes trade obligations, expansion, revenue management and more. This is entirely due to her training under Zarkaylia.
Additional Comments:
I hate the term martial art, but since the Ko’ban don’t have a style of fighting strictly native to them I had to mesh things that would be appropriate for what she’d be using the skill for as a raider. I am more than aware Krav Maga wasn’t a thing until the 1900’s, which is why I only use it’s reference in regards to the brutality of the style, you could also draw similarities to judo but in some cases judo doesn’t really go far enough. The idea is that instead of twisting an arm to get a dagger out of someone’s hand, it’d be dislocated or broken. The style isn’t designed to be pretty or for competition, it’s to hurt people, quickly. And I’m aware this will never actually work in RP, but that doesn’t change the nature of her skill. The boxing element is close to savate in style in which it utilizes fist, foot, shin and knee.
Savate is an element of Krav Maga as is Judo, Jujitsu, wrestling, grapples and Mai Tai. The two styles can and do mesh well together. This also sort of helps reinforce the slightly disjointed nature of the style as the Ko’ban sort of borrowed whatever effective martial move they could find to develop something for their incursions. At least, the tribe she was from did, anyway. Other Ban’Torrelk tribes may have different methods which is why I didn’t feel I didn’t need to update my lore, but I can and will if necessary.