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[center][h1][color=a0410d]Cai-Su of the Jade Plains Tribe[/color][/h1]
[i]Freedom lies in accepting the present.[/i]
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[color=a0410d]P R O F I L E[/color]
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[sub]Age[/sub]
[indent][sub]15 (Mokeu) / 27 (Human)[/sub][/indent]
[sub]Race[/sub]
[indent][sub]Mokeu[/sub][/indent]
[sub]Sex[/sub]
[indent][sub]Male[/sub][/indent]
[sub]Height[/sub]
[indent][sub]191cm [6'3''][/sub][/indent]
[sub]Weight[/sub]
[indent][sub]105kg [232lbs][/sub][/indent]
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[sub]Level[/sub]
[indent][sub]3[/sub][/indent]
[sub]Health Points[/sub]
[indent][sub]30[/sub][/indent]
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[color=a0410d]I N V E N T O R Y[/color]
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- Waterskin
- Coin purse

Note: Cai doesn’t feel the need to keep a lot on his person as it might hinder his work. He and his mentor share a dwelling in Bianwei where the small number of possessions he does own are stored.
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[color=a0410d]E Q U I P M E N T[/color]
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- Bo staff (2 meters, wood, painted red with golden handles on either end)
- Green obsidian dagger (bone handle)
- Armor: Cai has little need for armor; his enemies are rarely quick enough to reach past his staff. Aside from simple poplin cloth pants, he wears only red leather vambraces.
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[color=a0410d]A T T R I B U T E S[/color]
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Might: 15
Dexterity: 15 
Perception: 14 
Wisdom: 12
Charisma: 10
Constitution: 16

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[color=a0410d]APPEARANCE[/color]
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Although far from abnormally large by Mokeu standards, Cai has grown accustomed to his large stature in comparison to the Folk and Hofokun that call Yongcun home. He towers over them with well-defined and hardened muscles rippling through bronze colored fur. While the velvet soft fur covering his body remains mostly short, a thick mane with crimson streaks halos his crown.
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[color=a0410d]BACKSTORY[/color]
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The Jade Plains Tribe was a small one, situated in central Banhet between a vast marshland and the edge of a thick, lush forest. Cai’s father, Su-Chin, served as their overly optimistic Chief. The band of roughly 100 were also advised by a sage, [url= https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/e8/41/e2e84134fde902a822c71a8e9c88cacb.jpg]Zhao-Fu[/url], well versed in the teachings of his own Master, following the Banhet traditions of honoring both the land and their ancestors through sacred rituals, ceremonies, and the worship of hallowed shrines and natural formations.

Su-Chin held the honorable dream of reuniting the waring Mokeu lands and restoring them to their previous power. While his father was away pursuing his attempts to establish peaceful relations with surrounding tribes, Cai was taught and mentored by Zhao-Fu, who aside from schooling him in numerous studies, trained the growing boy in the way of the staff, and often took him on pilgrimage to numerous honored sites. As the oldest son, he was expected to take up the mantle after his father, so was expected to be well versed in strategy and leadership as well as a strong and capable fighter.

Su-Chin’s goal, while lofty in its promise to benefit all, was unwelcome by other Banhet tribes. After his fruitless attempts to secure alliances with both neighboring and distant tribes alike, he came to the realization that he would first need to succeed in establishing allied relations with a tribe from Ko’Ang to convince the others to reconsider his offer. This did not end well. 

The Ko’Ang tribe he encountered was radicalized and fully devout to Duazhi. After feigning interest in Su-Chin’s blasphemy, they retaliated in righteous anger, performing the will of their God in eliminating the Jade Plains Tribe and wreaking havoc to any other Banhet tribes they encountered along their path as retribution for their faithlessness. 

On the day of the attack, Cai was returning from a long journey with Zhao-Fu. As they neared his tribe’s lands, they were met with the sounds of battle. Screams and the hard clacking of wooden staffs along with moans and wails of pain and grief greeted their return. Zhao-Fu was unable to prevent Cai from rushing to the edge of the forest to witness the massacre. What Cai saw that day, hidden from the top of the swaying branches high in the canopy, still haunts his dreams. His people, his tribe, friends and family alike were butchered ruthlessly by Ko’Ang. Decimated entirely, the bodies that lay slaughtered included even the youngest among the Jade Plains.

The pair remained in hiding until their victors departed, at which point they walked among the carnage and mutilated bodies of their loved ones to pay their respects and perform the final rites for their passage from their current physical forms. 

No other tribes in Banhet allowed them to join their ranks. Wary and mistrustful of them and the ideas their tribe was known for none wanted to suffer any similar retaliations from Ko’Ang for harboring two survivors of what became known as an infamous attack. 

With no other options, Cai and Zhao-Fu fled as exiles to Yongcun. They remained briefly in Namhu before moving on to Sucheng and Xiao Yichan before settling in Bianwei, where the opportunities for work were plenty and the two outcasts found the necessary distance from their homeland. 

Five years have passed since that fateful day. Cai and Zhao-Fu share a small dwelling in the outskirts of the city. His mentor, already advanced in years, is now incapable of providing the manual labor and odd mercenary duties that both are often sought after for, and Cai alone works to earn their living. 
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[color=a0410d]PERSONALITY[/color]
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Cai is affable, though largely reticent. He deflects with sarcasm and humor, though he doesn’t have many close relationships outside of his mentor, whom he respects. While he gives Zhao-Fu a hard time about his beliefs, Cai abides by them and their values, trying to live his life honorably. He is hard-working and calm, confident in himself and his abilities. Though not considered particularly brave, as he won’t charge forward on behalf of others, he fears very little and depending on the situation, may defend those smaller and weaker if there is need. Cai often refuses to take a stance on many debated subjects, preferring instead to consider both sides of the argument. He lives for the present moment and takes pleasure in small things. The warmth of the sun on his fur or the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves, for example.
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[color=a0410d]MOTIVATION AND OUTLOOK[/color]
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Disillusioned by the ideals of his father, Cai holds no lofty goals or dreams of his own. He finds such planning to be ill advised and instead seeks only to perform the duties he must to live as comfortably as possible. Having no motivation to create any large- or small-scale changes to his own life and even less to society as a whole, Cai accepts the present as it is, finding attempts at revolution futile. He tends to avoid other Mokeu, though not as a rule.
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[color=a0410d]MISC[/color]
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Cai was deeply traumatized by his past and feels resentment toward his father for the decisions he made which lead to the demise of their tribe. As such, much to the chagrin of his mentor, he prefers to be called only Cai, to distance himself from both his father and his haunted past.
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