Ishani
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Overview
This woman has an unusual build in that she is muscular and solid; even her long hands are strong and firm. Still, she has suffered no loss of feminine qualities, managing to keep a quiet beauty about her. Her temperment is almost always pleasant and cheerful, and she usually appears quite energetic.
Ishani is a cheerful vivacious woman with the capacity to turn no-nonsense business woman in but a moment. She was unusual for her former clan, the Gold Dragons, rumored to have been an unappologetic polytheist, and a talented smith, dedicated to her craft. Flirtatious and independent, she seems to have the kind of carefree attitude that can only come from belief in providence.
Background
I was only five when the Shamibelians invaded and the Great War was upon us. I remember that my father went off to fight them, and never came back. And you know, I really expected him to. My father was a soldier by trade when he wasn't working a farm, and he had once fought under Elianos as a young man in the wars during which our clan reclaimed Anarinuell from the Griffon Clan. I had always heard the stories of his battles when I was a little girl, and I even remember that he gave each of his children a little bracelet of colorful material that he said came from his very first uniform. I loved my father, but the truth is, if he had come back, my life would be very different than what it is today. He was controlling and powerful and he had very strong beliefs about what women could be. I'd have been like the wilting women of my generation, meek and subservient. But because he didn't come back from that war, my whole life changed. My mother died in childbirth, with my little brother Udix, leaving me orphaned. We had hardly enough time to mourn, for the invasion was upon us. A lot of grief at one time. But the priestesses at the temple of Kamnestra took care of me. They brought me to the Caldera City, where I stayed until I was 13.
The thing about being taken in by the temple of Kamnestra is that they always teach you something useful, so that you can do something with your life. In my case, I wanted to learn smithing. Everyone assumed that it was because I had a crush on the master smith in the Caldera City, who was, I grant you, a fine specimen of a man. But really, I wanted to learn! I thought it was wonderful. The way the fire changed everything, taking something rigid and unbending and giving it a chance to become something beautiful and altogether changed. I met an apprentice smith there, Ankit, who was my age, and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time to get married. But we were so young. I mean really young and innocent. There was really no intimacy between us that way. Ankit wanted to make his way in Anarinuell, and so we traveled to this city together. I remember that I was very excited to come here, to a new place, but still, the city of my birth. But things were not very happy. Ankit was, like all the other men from my clan, always trying to control me and boss me around, and he didn't want me to learn to smith. Moreover, he was always preaching monotheistic Zutivianism to me. He made it quite plain that I was an unacceptable wife for a member of the Gold Dragon Clan. I told him fine, then I'd rather choose a new clan, and he actually tried to hit me. Well, let me tell you, I gave him a good walloping. Nobody's ever going to beat me down, I can tell you that right now! Every day he'd come home and try to beat me, and every day he left with a new bruise. I wanted a divorce, and he wouldn't grant one, and then, a miracle happened. He went off to war and a Shamibelian ran him through with a spear. I told you, the Goddess always watches over me. See? So, I got all his inheritance, because we were childless, and I got my freedom too.
I kept smithing, and became very well-respected, and I also married a man I truly loved and who truly loved and respected me (at least back then), Indigos Tanelish. It was rocky for a while, when he disappeared for a year after insulting the Oshta and Jia disowned him. I had to support the children myself, as a Gold Dragon female smith. But I survived, and he came back and we joined the Tanelish Family again, and I joined the Eagle Clan. After a few years, the family was granted nobility, so now I am Lady Ishani Tanelish Family, and no longer formally a smith. The absence of crafting in my life left more time than I really knew what to do with. I became more involved in my beloved goddess Kamnestra's Temple, earning my way to Priestess. Her Honor Zeysani, before the war against those bastards Pavan and Draugik, named me as one of the Proxies for the Eagle Clan as well as High General for our military. With Her Honor gone, I have a duty to protect her children and ensure their rightful place in our Clan. It is the least I can do, after all, since I could do little but stand by and watch their mother's final stand against the Hydra. And my marriage what it is...well, let's say I have plenty of time to devote myself to these duties.
Ranks & Offices
- Former Eagle Clan Proxy
- High General, Eagle Clan
- Former Commander of the Republic Fifth Division
- Priestess of Kamnestra
- Minister of Defence, Eagle Clan
- Former Delegate
Family Life
Siblings
- Suki
- Udix
Marriage
- Ankit (d)
- Indigos
Children
Accomplishments
- First Delegate elected to Clan Proxy
- Fought alongside Clan Leader Zeysani in the second Hydran Civil War, known more commonly as Zeysani's War
- Armored half the current princes of the Republic
Enemies
- All have this habit of dying.
Allies
Scandals
- Kamen's Parentage
Miscellany
Logs & Speeches
- Kamen made a speech titled [Lord Kamen's Resignation] on Firan time: 11:47:31 AM on Thu Jul 30, in the year 36 A.U. in Scirlut: City Center
- Ishani made a speech titled [Reply To My Son] on Firan time: 02:28:52 PM on Thu Jul 30, in the year 36 A.U. in Anarinuell: Eagle District -- Civic Avenue West
- Kamen made a speech titled [Lady Proxy Ishani] on Firan time: 04:18:13 PM on Thu Jul 30, in the year 36 A.U. in Scirlut: City Center
- Ishani made a speech titled [Another Untruth] on Firan time: 08:07:58 PM on Thu Jul 30, in the year 36 A.U. in Anarinuell: Eagle District -- Civic Avenue West
