Sharasvati
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The Basics
Name: Sharasvati (Shah-ruhs-vah-tee) of the Arashanti (name means “Heart of Fire”)
Nickname: Shara, Shar
Title(s): Vishna of Fire
Professions/Skills: Alchemy (300), Herbalism (230), Cooking (260), Fishing (18), First Aid (181)
Languages: Arashanti (300), Common (300), Elemental (300), Demonic (200)
Career: Spiritual healer, researcher
Class: Fire & Shadow Vishna
Race: Human (Arashanti)
Hair color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Birthplace: Jungles of Northern Stranglethorn Vale
Birthday: February 24th
Age : 26
Family : Shivani (sister), Shantala (sister), Naija (grandmother), Bir (deceased grandfather), Parvati (deceased mother), Kaviraj (deceased father)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Religion/Spiritual Beliefs: 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.
Affiliation: Fal Belore
Character Description
Physical Description
A circle-shaped garnet (about the size of a pea), cut to sparkle, is permanently set into her forhead, just above and between her eyebrows, glowing with an inner light whenever she is using her magic. She wears her raven-black hair down save for a half-inch thick braid that starts just behind her right ear, the bottom half of which is decorated with alternating beads of deep red garnet and obsidian. Her skin is a naturally dark shade of tan.
Voice
Her voice is obviously accented, though not to the point that she is difficult to understand. Those who have heard it before can place her as a native of the Northern Stranglethorn Vale area. Her grammar is precise and proper, the things one would expect from a fluent, non-native speaker of common. The accent is most noticeable in its absence of the sharper vowel sounds (like in cat, which would be caht instead) and in its softening of the harsher consonants (ch comes out more like sh).
Personality
Extremely studious. Though she is not completely unaware of her surroundings (and is on guard when traveling), Sharasvati can almost always be seen walking around towns and friendly areas with her nose in a book (the book forever changes). When paying attention she seems to be very warm, open-minded, studious, and extremely curious. When she is interested in something, it is very obvious and she can get rather passionate about it at times.
The way she uses her magic is different, more like the respectful cooperation druids have with nature than the usual attitude of control and command that so many other casters adopt. Indeed, some may find it unsettling the way she treats the magics of the shadow and fire as though they are a natural thing. Oddly enough, she gives off an aura and personality similar to a caring druid rather than the typical evil and corrupted aura of many warlocks, this is perhaps the most unsettling thing about her for some who consider the practice nothing but evil.
History
Sharasvati (whose name means “Heart of Fire”) was born the first of a set of identical triplets. 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.
Sharasvati was given the gem of fire (a deep red garnet), as the Sage could sense that element strongest within her and her training over the years focused mostly on working with that element. Sharasvati grew up extremely curious with a thirst and desire for learning and experience. As such she sometimes parted from tradition in the name of learning and advancing, but not to the point of causing scandal.
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 Shara was 12 years 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 was no more, all had moved into cities around Azeroth. Her grandmother, with Shivani’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 has learned to craft.
Sharasvati joined Band of the Silver Leaf with Shivani for a time until she met Renawyn and was quite taken by the idea of a band of adventurers all from another world. In order to her pursue her curiosity, she joined Renawyn’s house, the Outworlders. She spent several months learning of these other worlds when the house grew quiet and Renawyn disbanded it with a heavy heart. After only a few weeks without a house, Sharasvati followed Renawyn into the embrace of the Sunpath Riders, enjoying a new found family in them.
It was recently upon the opening of the dark portal when demons flooded Azeroth and their threat became imminent, Shara decided to walk a different path. After much meditation she chose to become a Vishna of Shadow, or a warlock in order to better study the demonic beings with the hope of restoring balance once more. She traveled to a crashed space ship called The Exodar to work among beings known as Draenei, as they knew the most about these demons and this new world beyond the portal.
During her training as a demonologist, the physical ties between the Sunpath Riders were released.
Present Day
After the disbanding of the Sunpath Riders, Sharasvati has joined her sister, Shivani in picking up Sennin’s and Saronai’s declaration of Fal Belore. It is an old Darnassian term that means “Our Pledge” and is a separation from established governments in the name of peace for all life and/or an alliance with prior “enemies” in order to fight a more dangerous threat to both sides.
Connections
((alts))
Renawyn, Saronai, Lesara, Alasgida, Shivani, Shantala, Ianoras, Celest, Ceraia
((ex-alts and non-alt characters made up for story-lines))
Rhysa, Lunasea, Aleksey, Briannon
((guilds))
Band of the Silver Leaf, Outworlders, Sunpath Riders, Fal Belore
Categories: Alliance | Human | Warlock | Medic (A) | Fisher (A) | Cook (A) | Herbalist (A) | Alchemist (A)
