Nisnivani
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The Basics
Name: Nisnivani (Nees-nee-vah-nee) of the Arashanti (name means “Star of Water" or "Starfish")
Nickname: Vani
Title(s): Vishna of Water
Professions/Skills: Tailoring (375), Skinning (375), Cooking (375), Fishing (305), First Aid (375)
Languages: Arashanti (300), Common (300), Elemental (300)
Hobbies: Loves to craft things from cloth and needle, cook, reflect, sing, and write poetry
Career: Tailor/shopkeeper (Runs a shop in SW called "Arashanti Tailors")
Class: Frost Mage
Race: Arashanti (Human)
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Birthplace: Jungles of Northern Stranglethorn Vale
Birthday: February 24th
Age : 28
Family : Sharasvati (sister), Shantala (deceased sister), Naija (grandmother), Bir (deceased grandfather), Parvati (deceased mother), Kaviraj (deceased father)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Religion/Spiritual Beliefs: Druid disguised as a mage. Nature is the divine and it is in all things. Balance is what life needs, balance in the elemental star of nature (fire, light, air, water, shadow, earth, with spirit--all in one--at the center), balance in all life, balance between good and evil, balance between chaos and order. Everything is everything else there is no true separate, we are all the same entity, as though the entire universe is a being and we are all its parts, we are it from every humanoid to an invisible one-celled being. Everything has life in it, whether we sense that life or not. There is also a strong belief in reincarnation. For more in detail, see: Arashanti.
Affiliation: None
Character Description
Physical Description
Nisnivani's mannerisms are both calm and peaceful, almost the sort of patient movements one would expect from the longer lived kaldorei. Rather than expressing the rigidness of ice in her movements and behaviour, she more reflects the fluidity and serenity of water. Even the way she casts is different, seeming more like the devoted cooperation one finds in a druid working with nature, rather than the control and force one usually finds among mages.
A circle-cut sapphire, about the size of a pea, sparkles from its place In the middle of her forhead, just above and between the eyebrows. It glows with a soft blue light whenever she uses her magic. Her hair is worn down, save for a half-inch thick braid that starts behind her left ear, the bottom half of which is decorated with alternating white and sapphire beads.
Voice
When she speaks, her voice is obviously accented, and very proper, the speech one would expect from a fluent non-native speaker of common. Those who may have heard it, can place the accent with one of the dispersed human tribes of Northern Stranglethorn Vale. The accent is not as heavy as some, like the dwarven accents, but noticeable. Sharper vowels are more rounded (such as pronouncing "cat" as "caht" instead) and harsher consonants are made softer and more fluid (like the ch sound would come out closer to the sh sound and so forth).
Personality
History
Nisnivani (whose name means Star of Water) was born one of a set of identical triplets, the second to be born, her mother died right afterwards (the youngest triplet, Shantala, had to be cut out after they realized she was still in the womb). From birth the Arashanti tribe Sage (the only Vishna at the time) knew that these sisters had the precious gift of nature to call the elements. A week after their birth, the infants were put through the ritual giving them over to their specific element, the ritual that marked them as Vishna as well. A focus gem (about the size of a pea) was permanently set into their forehead, just above and between the eyebrows, through ancient methods that are kept shrouded in mystery (the vishna usually do not know how it was done, only that even if they were to try as hard as they could, the gems will not come off). Such gems were cut in a fashion to best channel the forces they would work with, also causing the gem to sparkle like a piece of jewelry.
Nisnivani was given the gem of the waters (a blue sapphire), as the Sage could sense that element strongest within her and her training over the years focused mostly on working with the element of water. Nisnivani grew up wishing to do the best by her people, to make them all proud of her, which in turn caused her to be the sister most controlled by tradition, including obedience without question to men and her elders. However, she has always been a bit of a dreamer.
On her 10th birthday she had to bid farewell to the youngest triplet, Shantala, who was promised to the church after an outsider priestess came (too late to save or revive the mother) and realized there was still a child inside to be removed. It was a sad farewell in which letters to and from were not allowed to give Shantala totally over to the church.
The Sage, a Vishna of Earth passed away two years after that (when Vani was 12 year old), leaving the girls responsible for training their own abilities (which was more just practice now).
It was four years after that, just passed the sisters’ 16th birthday when their father finally found the panther responsible for the critical wound that had ultimately been the cause of her mother’s death. A panther had attacked the mother only a week before she gave birth, while she was gathering food near the village. It was a miracle she survived the attack to give birth, but the wounds had caused complications during the birth to result in her death. Unfortunately, revenge was not to be had and they lost their father to the quest for it.
Shortly after the cremation of her father’s remains and personal belongings, their grandmother moved them to the safety of Stormwind City. The tribe had been weakening over the years with all the murlocs, dangerous animals, ogres, and trolls to contend with. However, the lure of safer living in cities also took its toll on the number of Arashanti staying in the village. Grandma Naija (their father’s mother) was the triplet’s only surviving relative, and she reasoned that an old woman like her couldn’t hope to insure the safety of her granddaughters. She also reasoned that the Vishna would have better training in the city, she had heard of other elementally gifted people there. It was agreed that they should go, as they might also get access to greater connection with the elements than any Vishna before them, return to Arashanti lands and issue the tribe into a period of peace and prosperity.
However, as the years passed the tribe became even more dispersed until the physical tie of a village for her people were no more, all had moved into cities around Azeroth. Her grandmother, with Nisnivani’s help, had opened up a shop in the Stormwind Park District called “Arashanti Tailors” in which mostly clothing items were made, but a variety of other things could be purchased as well, including a wide variety of potions that Sharasvati (the oldest triplet) had learned to craft.
Present Day
Categories: Alliance | Human | Mage | Medic (A) | Fisher (A) | Cook (A) | Skinner (A) | Tailor (A)
