Ahe'ssta
From The Yuriban Encyclopedia
| Ahe'ssta Jennestas | |
|---|---|
| IC Information | |
| Gender/Sexuality: | Female/Lesbian |
| Species: | Yuan-Ti |
| Place of Origin: | Tashalar, Faerun |
| Birthdate: | Uncertain, due to dimensional transfer, but believed to be approximately 22 |
| Height: | 5'6" |
| Hair Color: | Pale brown |
| Eye Color: | Dark claret red |
| Romantic Status: | Single, not looking |
| Occupation: | Glassblower and whitesmith, former mercenary |
| OOC Information | |
| Source: | Original Character based on Forgotten Realms campaign setting for D&D |
Ahe'ssta Jennestas is a Yuan-Ti traveler who has lived in Yuriba for over four years. A rather intense woman, she spends nearly all of her time in isolation at her home, Wyvernspur Hearth, working on various forms of artisan crafts, tending to emerge only when she is driven to such restlessness that she can no longer bear her self-imposed confinement. When she ventures into public, it is often at the Dragon's Brew, where she always sits as near to the stove as possible.
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Physical Description
Ahe'ssta is a very muscular, lean woman; always in good shape. Her skin has a golden hue, deepened by a constant suntan. Nearly always kept in a multitude of tiny braids, Ahe'ssta's hair is a light brown hue with some lighter sun bleached streaks. Her heritage can be detected if she has on short sleeves or pants, betrayed by the very faint scaling that occurs on her major joints. Additionally, her teeth are all slightly too sharp, something she usually conceals by only smiling with her lips closed.
Due to her heritage, Ahe'ssta is particularly sensitive to cold temperatures. Once the temperature drops below 60 degrees Fahrenheit she only appears outdoors if bundled up. She has, in fact, even been heard to refer to temperatures in the low 90s as being "a bit cooler than ideal".
Psychological profile
General personality
Ahe'ssta is a fairly reserved woman. While she is generally polite in her conversation, she rarely seems to let anyone in close to her. Despite the rather civil, cultured manner of her speaking and etiquette, she often speaks of a time spent in the wilderness and of her work as an artisan. Generally, for her, this civilized veneer is the surface; what she dearly wants to be and struggles to obtain, but always against the rougher and dark facets of herself she keeps hidden.
Ahe'ssta has an absolutely iron will and an almost as unshakable certainty in herself. She has, on rare occasions, shown evidence of a volcanic temper that lurks under her surface but it is usually kept tightly in rein. Very dedicated and stubborn in general, she is impossible to sway once she makes her mind up.
Romantic preferences
Ahe'ssta identifies as a stone butch, despite some feminine touches to her style. On the whole, her approach to relationships is brusque, cool, and only minimally based on touch. She is uncomfortable with sexual contact and is also not very physically affectionate with friends. It seems very unlikely that there is the making of an affectionate partner in her; she seems little inclined to make effort in the direction of romance anyway.
In general, she vastly prefers friends to romantic partners, having been burned in that region before and currently feeling herself unreliable as a partner, not to mention the sort of person that no one stable and sane in their perceptions would choose to become involved with.
History
Ahe'ssta arrived in Yuriba through an event that she refers to as a combination of a teleportation mishap and deific intervention. She seems deeply reluctant to discuss her past before coming to the island. What fragments she has let slip indicates that she lived alone and supported herself for much of her youth, likely the source of her skill at survival techniques. Futhermore, she's indicated she'd widely traveled, possibly even amongst multiple dimensions. Outside of this, it seems her past is a sore point for her.
Skills and employment
Ahe'ssta follows a wide variety of crafts. Her favorite and her main focus lies in glass blowing and the manufacture of glass beads. However, she is also a reasonably competent jeweler and blacksmith, having dabbled in other crafts to a far less degree of skill. Most of her home is given over to areas to work on these crafts and others. She is willing to do work for commission, but has not opened a formal store.
In other fields, Ahe'ssta is a psion. Contrary to the usual association, her abilities are primarily based on movement and teleportation, not reading minds. However, she does have a talent for picking up on psychic residue or seeing 'ghosts'. Despite this, she considers her main survival skills to be physical. Ahe'ssta is an accomplished dervish (sword dancer). She always wears two scimitars although she refuses to wield them in public areas of the island.
Relationships
Ahe'ssta's closest (some might argue only) friend is Ceridwen Underwood. In the past she was friendly with the Tam woman Sauda as well, although this friend appears to have left Yuriba. She seems to have a history with Genesis Magite, not one of a particularly friendly sort. She bears a deep grudge against the doctor because of something that happened between them; this distaste and disdain seems to spread to the doctor's close companions as well, most notably Kaslin.
Ahe'ssta was at one point involved with a woman named Cassandra after her arrival to Yuriba. She seems not to carry positive memories of the relationship.
