Val's Menagerie
Writer and Photographer
A man with too much free time and far too many characters.
Val Ongaku
Age: 24
Race: Au'ra (Xaela)
Marital Status: Married
Bio: Born and raised in the Azim Steppe, Val grew up in a slightly impoverished tribe of Xaela. Taught to wield the axe at a young age and how to be a warrior, he stood strong for many years as a stalwart protector of his people from invaders and fiends alike. Until the day he turned 18 when a Sharlayan Sage took him under his wing, turning his entire life around and taking him to Old Sharalayan where he began training and learning how nurture his inherent ability to command and sense aether.
Svonin Hafrost
Age: 20
Race: Veena Viera
Marital Status: Taken
Bio: (DAWNTRAIL SPOILERS)
Born in the town of Yyasulani, Svonin grew up with his mother and sister, Nyra, until one fateful day when the merging between worlds ripped him and his family from their usual lives after boarding the train back home. It was in this whirlwind of events that tragedy struck him and his family, an Arcadion fighter breaking into his home, berserk off the excess animal soul within his resonator, and murdered his mother and sister. Training himself to become an immensely powerful Ice mage, he eventually entered the Arcadion as a fighter of his own, hell-bent on getting revenge for his slain family.
Takumi Yuudai
Age: 25
Race: Kitsune
Marital Status: Taken
Bio: Born and raised in a small village in Yanxia, Takumi was raised by loving parents and a community that embraced him for his differences from them all as a Kitsune. That was until hunters from the invading Garlean Empire raided his village, murdering every single citizen as they helped the young Kitsune to escape. Living his life on the run, Taku came to know little to know contact, always keeping himself to the shadows and fighting off the aetherial hunger that gripped as his soul and body.
Emilia Varlith
Age: 19
Race: Elezen/Viera
Marital Status: Single
Bio: Born to an Elezen and Viera in Coerthas, Emilia found herself to be a lover of all things Astronomy, constantly staying up to watch the various stars from her father's telescope on the roof. It was this fascination with the movements of the heavens that drew her towards her Astrologian mentor. Although still young and inexperienced, Emilia has taken to the craft like a lemming to water although she still has very much to learn!
Iona Adair
Age: 28
Race: Miqo/Kitsune
Marital Status: Give me your Gil and Aether.
Bio: Born to parents that didn't want her, the Kitsune/Miqo'te hybrid was left alone in the woods as a small girl only to be found by a wandering Sharlayan Sage who took her in and raised her until she was old enough to go out on her own. Finding a life in Kugane as an alchemical merchant, she has resided there escaping into the night to gorge herself on the aether of travelers or swindle them into giving her exactly what she wants: their hard-earned gil.
Hinatsuki Miwa
Age: ???
Race: Fox Spirit
Marital Status: A woman always keeps her secrets.
Bio: Hidden deep beneath Kugane exists a market of sorts, where powerful beings reside and command citizens who have turned to darkness to commit acts of self-service and greed. Chief among these beings is a fox spirit known only to those who have never seen her as "Oiran Miwa". Perhaps one day she will reveal herself to those she deems worthy, or perhaps she will stay lurking in the night; watching, analyzing, and despising those of the common cloth.
Lathril Valenwood
Age: 22
Race: Elezen/Hyur
Marital Status: Single
Bio: Born and raised in the Twelveswood, Lathril was raised by her mother and father as a powerful conjurer; her ability to manipulate natural aether apparent from the very moment she was brought into this world. Eventually, she surpassed even her teachers and earned the mantle of a true White Mage, being sent into the ruins of Ampador deep underground to retrieve a set of aether-infused clothes that helped her with her self-proclaimed task of being the protector and healer of the deep Twelveswood.