Twenty-nine years ago, Jid-Jahara Varik was born to a lowly tribe within the Black Marsh, deep within the Black Marsh with dense jungle and hostile wildlife all around. It was discovered that she may not be a hatchling that would live to see the next year due to how frail she was, her parents sought a way to have their only daughter survive. They brought the hatchling to their shaman, a wise old man who at first was very skeptical on even his own abilities to help this child survive. Though, whatever he did, it worked and Jid-Jahara was allowed to live another year and several more. However, she still did not remain healthy and required additional visits to this shaman, Al-Nerriz, who continued to help her. In these childhood years, Jin-Jahara would go on to learn more and more about the shaman’s extraordinary power.
Eventually, the two came to a point where Al-Nerriz took Jid-Jahara under his wing and began to properly teach her the ways of being a shaman for the tribe. Through him, she learned the mystical ways of the Argonian people and their reliance to the Hist, learning even more on the importance of the trees to both her and her people. Magic was introduced to her and all of its terrifyingly awesome powers were shown to her and once she understood the dangers of all magic, her training would begin proper.
Firstly came magical art of Mysticism so that she may protect herself and Hist from those who sought to use magic against them all, learning patience and how all life is connected. It was in this time when Jid-Jahara had grown her love for nature and the serene qualities of all of it, including lands she had not seen yet. In these times, she was often sent into the wilderness as well, forcing her to meditate and discover just how everything was bound together; from the frog who ate the bug, to the tree which was connected to the earth, and most importantly just how the Argonian people were connected with each other and the Hist. These were all important realizations as it gave her insight into just how the world worked, allowing her patience with both what she would continue doing and what would come in the future.
Next was the great powers of Alchemy; while not magic, it was important to realize how useful a potion could be as it could save a life of anyone she came across. She did not spend enough time within the subject to become a true expert in it, but she learned and learned many potions and even some that the common man would not know. However, it was also time for her to be shown the destructive side of magic and just how it was able to harm someone. This she studied as well, however, this was the time in which she discovered that violence was not the first solution for anyone. Within her time going through the market of her tribe and buying alchemy ingredients, a neighborhood bully had come across her and decided to try and steal her bartering items. Out of instinct, she struck back with ball of fire, accidentally killing the boy who had not deserved death for his acts. Jid-Jahara grieved for weeks, vowing never to use violence if she could avoid it.
After grieving and learning how to destroy, she learned how to create by conjuration and learned how the dead could come back to protect the Hist. However, this was not a skill she liked, having to deal with the dead; though it was a natural part of nature for death to occur and she understood that. Jid-Jahara would agree that she knew the dead would most certainly fight to protect the Hist once more if they could. In fact, it was through conversing with ghosts of the dead that she learned much in the ways of strange people outside of the Black Marsh and learned of many different languages, granted she was not very good at speaking in different tongues. Al-Nerriz found it was time to show her how to use a physical weapon so that she might fight without the use magic should she exhaust herself, this she excelled with for the staff was a weapon of pure skill and not one of raw strength, in fact she even sparred with ghosts that she summoned as well just to improve herself.
Then it came time, as a final writ of passage, Jid-Jahara was sent off on a spiritual quest upon reaching the age of twenty. Her goal was to simply find herself and then return to the tribe with new experiences and to discover more of herself. For nine years did she travel, picking up small trades and techniques that may better herself.
Once she met an interesting orsimer when she had reached Cyrodil, one by the name of Uzuan Gasel, a warrior who was on a similar quest except to find powerful foes and bring himself honor. The great one challenged Jid-Jahara to a duel and it was found that the argonian lass had given him a run for his money, yet proved victorious through his raw strength and resolve. The two had become friends who began to travel through Cyrodil together, fighting bandits and helping townspeople as much as they could. Everything was well for a change, no training or lessons or stress of teachers.
However, the two had to part ways one night after it was discovered that Uzuan’s clan needed him to return to his home and defend it. Jid-Jahara understood why he had to go, but it still saddened her to see such a friend leave and be forced to go to a completely different part of the world. Though, it was time for the two to go separate paths for if they continued onwards, Jid-Jahara feared that she may never want to return home to her tribe. So she continued to press onwards until one day she came across Kvatch, wanting more experiences, she investigated the town, which would lead her history up to the present.
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