Name: Raadia  

Sex: Female

Race: Djinn

Age: 97

Appearance:
Raadia is Djinn, and as such, she is prone to shapeshifting.  In her own preferred form, she appears as a woman dressed in red clothing.

Religion: Raadia follows the Path of the Sacred Flame, although not exactly in an orthodox fashion.

Backstory: Raadia spent her first years travelling the Barrens with a nomadic band of Djinni merchants, stopping at the fringes of settled civilization to trade and broker with human cities.  She was given a basic education in magic and shape-shifting at twenty, as is custom for Djinni children.  Once she passed her first tests, she was sent to the hidden city of Vargos to further train in magic.  Although she spent all of her required twenty years at the institution, she did not prove a talent in any magic except shape-shifting, which she excelled at.  Presented to the Red Council at fifty-three, they denied her an extended stay in the city and relegated to the same merchant band that she was born into.

Raadia did not take this rejection well.  She snuck into the exalted halls of the Elder Ones after the black sun had set, stealing ten of the oldest souls stored within.  Knowing the heavy price of her blasphemous act, she attempted to flee the city before anyone took note of the theft, but she was discovered by a watcher of Vargos.  The watcher cast a spell to annihilate Raadia, but she was able to deflect it at the last moment.  She escaped, but the magic seared into her flesh and marked her as a traitor to the Red Council and to the Sacred Flame.  She ran far from the sifting city, far from the barrens, and far from her family.  

Raadia spent the next thirty years in hiding, moving from place to place in a desperate attempt to keep the souls in her own hands and away from the Watchers that had been dispatched to obliterate her.  They found on the eve of her eighty-fifth year, committing to a duel and forcing her to retreat yet again.  She spent three of the souls merely keeping the watchers at bay, and collapsed outside the walls of Zal Drudakk.  The young master of the tower, Zalhedias, ordered her brought into the city, knowing that the Djinn watchers are forbidden from entering a city other than ancient Vargos.  Raadia gave him the rest of her stolen souls as thanks for saving her life and pledged her service to his throne.  

She became a spy for Zalhedias, keeping tabs and reporting on his many enemies.  She spent years of her life entrenched in the courts of the elves, the humans, and even some of the undead.  When she returned from a particularly murderous mission in Zelamoyod, she discovered that the master of Zal Drudakk had finally found a use for her stolen souls.  The army of Zalheider was created, and when the finest soldiers rose from their ranks, Zalhedias placed her in a special unit dedicated to the destruction of all other contenders to the prophecy that he believed belonged to him.  

Motivation: Raadia wants to survive, and so, she's chosen the faction that she sees as the most likely to win.

Magic: Some fire magic.  The spells cast that marked her as an adolescent have marred her ability to extensively use the arcane arts.

Skills/Strengths: Raadia is a Djinn, and so, she is able to change her appearance incredibly easily.  She is able to use magic as well, albeit not as effectively as others of her kind.  

Weaknesses:  Raadia is fairly arrogant in her ability to deceive, and as such, she underestimates most of her enemies.  The patterns that were burned into her skin by the Watchers stay with her in every form, and although she is very good at covering them up, they can sometimes cause her trouble.

Gear:  Her red clothes, pistol, and dagger.

Other: Nothin'