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[b]NIERI MAHTAR[/b]
[i](nee-EH-ree MAH-tahr)[/i]
[b][ Female | 2392 | Edhel-Uialie Ranger ][/b]
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[b]Race[/b]
[indent]Half-Edhel [i](Mother)[/i]
Half-Uialie [i](Father)[/i][/indent]

[b]Appearance[/b]
[indent]5'2"
107 lbs.
Lithe, petite, leanly muscled
Long, straight white hair
Large, almond-shaped eyes, colour changes depending on angle of view
Dark, rounded brows
Full lips
Heart-shaped face
Fair skin marked by thin scars all over her back and thighs[/indent]

[b]Class(es)[/b]
[indent]Pildae [i](Thief)[/i]
Rautoth [i](Ranger)[/i][/indent]

[b]Abilities/Skills[/b]
[indent]Agility
Aim
Archery
Concealment
Evasion
Illusion Magic
- [i]Within range, can cast glamour/illusions over herself, others, objects, and places[/i]
Poison Knowledge [i](effects, not creation)[/i]
Shadow Magic
- [i]Can summon existing shadows for concealment or confusion[/i]
Speed
Stealth
Surprise
Thievery
Tracking
Traps [i](Creating, Finding, Disarming, and Setting)[/i]
Use of knives, daggers, and lighter swords
Use of ranged weapons[/indent]

[b]Armor, Gear, and Weapons[/b]
[indent]Brown, Sturdy Leather Boots
Dark Green, Leather Vest
Dark Green, Leather Vambraces
Fletched Arrows
Recurve Bow
Quiver
Variety of Throwing Knives[/indent]

[b]Personality[/b]
[indent]Nieri Mahtar was once gentle and nurturing while simultaneously being a prankster who loved a good romp. Life was once extremely beautiful to her, and while it still holds a great deal of meaning, it has become infinitely darker. Her pranking days are over. She struggles with an obsession to find more Uialien survivors in the hopes that half of her culture can be restored. She also struggles with the intense desire to seek revenge on the Fatanen, especially the High Royals of Eriston. She is logically satisfied that the man who ordered the genocide of her people died in the process, but she also wishes he had lived so she could kill him herself. After the Nogyth were driven from the mountain ranges of Stegros, she decided the entire family was the disease that should be eliminated. 

She has been counseled that the path of revenge leads to a darkness that will taint her very soul, and while she doesn't necessarily fear that darkness, she does fear never being able to find the light again. Instead, she does her best to aid the Edhil Resistance and help those who have been harmed by Fatanen rule. This helps to at least focus her mind away from desires for revenge while she's doing good work. In this way, she has become an excellent leader who would die for her followers as they would die for her. She does her best to make sure that whatever groups she leads are inclusive and fosters close knit relationships.

Even so, she has lost so much that it has been difficult for her to form close relationships in the last forty-eight years. Even those trusted few who advise her are kept at a moderate distance.[/indent]

[b]History[/b]
[indent]It could be said that the first couple of thousand years of Nieri's life were peaceful and flew by quicker than anyone would have liked. Even though she was of two different people and often felt a bit like an outsider, she made friends with relative ease, and her family was always accepting of her dual-lineage despite her somewhat strange appearance. It was also true that she'd received her father's Uialie libido, for she took many lovers over the years even if she none of them were the ones with whom she wanted to spend her life.

Nieri split her time between Aliudea and Inen, never spending more than a century in any one place. She often liked to travel to Eriston and Vonga and was occasionally permitted within the mines of the Stegros mountain ranges. While in Vonga, she met a wealthy Fatanen woman named Hui Ahn and the woman's greatest love, Vantze Syrus, a Calva man. The pair may have been different races, but they were in love. Having been the product of a mixed union, Nieri believed in their love and helped them join together as one.

It was when she had situated herself in Aliudea for a time that she encountered her first true tragedy. Unexpectedly and without provocation, Eriston sent an army to intimidate the Uialien. Neither Nieri nor her parents were members of the inner Court circles, so they didn't truly understand what the Fatanen wanted. Instead, they found it strange and simply dismissed it. The Uialien were an old and powerful race, and facing the Fatanen felt much like playing a children's game.

Underestimating the Fatanen was the Uialien downfall. When the war began, Nieri donned her armor and raised her bow to fight for her people. At first, it seemed they would win. Even with their superior numbers, they couldn't handle the magics the Uialien possessed until the High King stepped forward. She never saw him from her position, but there were whispers. Nieri's mother, Aeweth, and her father, Einrial, came for her. She tried to protest that she would fight, but they used force and magic to make her comply. They used a powerful spell to seal her within a Uialie-made cave. All Nieri recalls from that time is a chorus of agony accompanied by a blinding flash of light that knocked her unconscious. When she awoke, the cave's magic had been broken, and she was sore and sick feeling, but none remained in Aliudea but the corpses of Fatanen and Uialien alike.

Nieri traveled to Inen where she told the Council of Elders what she knew about what had occurred. Once she had healed physically, she went with a group of Edhil to collect artifacts left behind by the Uialien. It appeared a small area had been looted, but there were old magics in place to deter non-Uialien from entering their homesteads without permission. She understood those magics, and she was able to help collect a large number of things, including heirlooms passed through her family. Many things were left where they were. It would have been dire to the health of the forests within Aliudea to move them. Instead, she and her group simply strengthened the existing magics that were in place. While they were there, they found no signs of Uialien survivors, so they believed Nieri was all that was left of that race.

Twenty-nine years later, Nogyth came to Inen seeking shelter from Fatanen attacks. They had been driven from their mountains, and all of Stegros had been claimed by Eriston. It was then that the Edhil learned just what the Fatanen wanted - the Bracelet of Lim - and how they'd succeeded so successfully in the Uialien genocide - they already possessed the Bracelet of Duath. They put their best scholars to work searching for a way to stop the Fatanen from gaining the second bracelet, meanwhile continuing to take in refugees from Stegros and Vonga. Nieri joined groups intended to free many people from the rule of the Fatanen in Eriston, and it was in this way that they discovered more Uialien who had not been destroyed but enslaved. 

In her attempt to save as many captives as possible, Nieri herself was captured. She spent ten months being tortured by Fatanen soldiers, and while she wished for death, she did not break. They received no information from her, and at the beginning of what would have been the eleventh month, the Resistance came for her. The motley group of Calva, Edhil, Nogyth, and one Fatanen saved her from the darkness and brought her back into the light. A few lost their lives in the effort, but they also managed to free more than just the Edhel-Uialie in the process. It took time, but as soon as she was healed and ready, she continued her efforts in helping free captives. As terrifying as it was, she felt it was important to help as many as possible and to find as many living Uialien as she could. Though they were too few to ever be their own race again, they could at least pass their genes and knowledge through the mixing of other races so as not to die out completely.[/indent]

[b]Relationships[/b]
[indent]Aeweth Mahtar | Female | 4,421 | Deceased | Edhel | Mother
Einrial | Male | 11,289 | Deceased | Uialie, Seelie Court | Father
Hui Ahn-Syrus | Female | Deceased | Fatanen | Friend
Vantze Syrus | Male | Deceased | Calva, Wolf | Friend [/indent]