At a Glance:
Name: Nitya
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Ethnicity: Essyrni (mostly)
Height: 5 foot 10
Occupation: Travelling Trader
Not-So-Basic Information:
Looks:
Nitya is a very beautiful, but traditional, Essyrni woman. She has dark skin and red-brown eyes. Her hair is full of volume and beautiful curls that she often leaves untamed. Her hair, unlike most Essyrni women, is not quite black. Although only noticeable under sunshine by perceptive eyes, there are undertones of brown and even red. She has almost curves and her face is sharp, allowing her to pass herself off as male (something she must do when trading in Essyrn). Nitya matches her fashion to where she currently is residing, but has a preference for beautiful, colorful, and delicate dresses. She also loves wearing golden jewelry and has a number of hair accessories that show her wealth. When she is dressing as a male, she pulls back her hair (sometimes in a hat) and wears, of course, traditional male clothing.
Personality:
Nitya is charismatic, passionate, and quite affable. There are three main reasons she is a successful trader: her personality, her beauty, and her magic. She knows this, and takes full advantage of each. In the end, she is a successful and manipulative business woman. However, she refuses to betray her morals for money. Despite all of this, Nitya has trouble forming connections with other people. She has very few long term friendships and has never been in a serious relationship. Her magic and her past are to blame for this.
Magic/Abilities:
Nitya has unique strain of mind magic. It had been slowly developing until she was thirteen, and then it stopped. The history of this magic will be written in her history below, for a lot of it has to do with her development. Nitya's magic is not done developing, though she does not know that herself. Currently, she is able to hear "wants" of people. If she makes eye contact with someone, she can hear—and very rarely see—what they want. In many cases, these are abstract things. Love, happiness, beauty... occasionally, it will be something specific. She uses this knowledge to pander what she sells and appeal to people's wants. If someone wants beauty, she'll compliment them and tell them how this one pin or that one dress will make them look gorgeous and irresistible. Nitya does not look in the eyes of strangers without reason. Too often she hears the ugliness of jealousy and hatred. She also avoids going near slaves and homeless people—their cries for help are too loud and painful for her to bear.
Nitya's magic will develop very soon, but I will write about that when it happens.
History:
Nitya was the eighth and last child in a very poor and very desperate household. When she was very young, she would hear whispers at the back of her head whenever she locked eyes with someone. She couldn't understand them, but it led her to avoid looking at others in the eyes—even her family. When she turned four, she started to question where her three oldest siblings were. Her parents just said they went on a trip. When she was six, the whispers started to make sense. She could hear the words money and comfort repeating in her head. Her fourth and fifth siblings had disappeared. A couple years later, her sixth sibling was gone. Nitya knew they weren't on a trip. But by now, the whisper had turned into a voice and she could hear her parents asking for money. By now, she knew where her sisters all went. She turned nine and her last sister disappeared. Her parents were living wealthier, no longer with eight daughters to take care of and with their bonus payment. Nitya turned ten and cried as she woke up. She missed her sisters but she couldn't do anything. She heard a knock on their door and knew what was happening. Nitya tried to run outside the second her parents unlocked the door, but the burly slave trader just picked her up. He handed a little bit of money to her parents and left with.
Nitya was too young to be sold as a concubine, but she was too pretty to be sold as a normal slave. She was therefore sold to a family with a similarly aged son as an assistant. She could hear them though, she knew she wasn't just to be a helper. As soon as she was old enough, she was to be a concubine. After she turned eleven and bled for the first time, she ran away. The other servants helped her escape, all of whom she had helped in one way or another in the past year.
Nitya stayed on the streets, begging, for a few years. Her powers now allowed her to hear full sentences and sometimes even see what people wanted. Eventually, she met a trader who was enamored by her beauty. Tricking him into believing he would satisfy his wants of her body, she learned the tricks of trading in a day. Since then, she has been a traveling trader—the base of her operations staying in Essyrn.
