—✧ Tehi, The Selkie Seeker

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—✧ Tehi

The Selkie Seeker

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The Basics

Name
Tehi

Nicknames & Titles
N/A

Age
22

Gender
Female

Species
Selkie

Ethnicity
Serenian

Height
6'2"

Physicality

Physical Description
Tehi's skin is mottled with a dark grey colour, mimicking the markings of a grey seal, but is otherwise a fair tone. Her hair hangs long and straight, sometimes across her face—also grey. Body-wise, she has wider hips and shoulders a little too, with round thighs and an ample bust—much like the blubber of a seal.

Height
6'2"

Weight
~90kg

Mentality

Personality
Tehi is a curious young woman, longing to know more about the world of the land dwellers. She's rather naïve, however, particularly about the ways of the land. There are many dangers on land and she is unaware of many of them. Her inquisitive nature is often at odds with this apprehension of the people she finds, and due to her upbringing she doesn't know much about land-dwellers. She can be, as a result, a little  shy.

In her heart, she's a gentle soul, or she would like to be. Sometimes, people are not genuine with her—selkies are easy to trap if you can take their pelts—and she is not averse to calling upon the powers of nature to teach those who would abuse her trust a lesson. She loves the simple pleasures in life; fresh fish, the feeling of grass on her feet, warm basking weather, and interesting creatures. Tiring land-dweller customs, dull days and loud hustle and bustle she isn't quite so fond of.


Fears
Having her pelt stolen, or not completing her task and returning home empty-handed.

Goals
To find the pelt of Ysbal.

Life

Relationships
Her mother, Breeshey, and her father, Finbar, as well as the friends she had back in her clein. None on land currently.

History
Tehi grew up in a very full family, as selkie cleins often co-parent pups. She was the eldest of those she grew up alongside. Ever the mischievous one, or rather the one everyone else called mischievous, she rather enjoyed foraying into places she perhaps shouldn't go, like dangerous sea caves, and of course further onto land. Her clein suspected that one day she would end up leading land-dwellers back to them, leaving them to defend themselves against those that may mean them harm.

She grew into becoming a healer for her clein, much like her mother, but her connection to the land and sea was truly deeper than many other selkies. The power granted to her by nature meant she yearned to discover more, to protect both land and sea, and it led her away from her role as a medicine woman learning her craft, into fanciful time spent lying in the grass or playing with the water of the waves as they came into shore. Her clein did not like this curiosity of the land being so well-fostered. And so it was that the elders of the clein took Tehi aside one day, asking her to complete a task for them; find the pelt of Ysbal, and return it to them. Little did she know that the elders did not believe the pelt was real, or at least that it still existed, and had merely sent her away to learn the hard way about the ways of the land.

Occupation
Healer, seeker of lost things.

Residence
None.

Inventory

Clothing
Tehi currently wears little else other than a white shift dress, given to her by a kind woman not wanting her to wander around unclothed, and her seal pelt, worn with the head peeking over her shoulder. Her feet are bare.

Weapons
A simple wooden staff, gnarled and not perfectly straight, made out of a piece of driftwood.

Items
A little pendant on a long string that she wears round her waist that holds some fresh salt water from her home, used when she heals.

Abilities

Sealshifting
Tehi can don her seal pelt and change shape into a seal at any time, along with changing back at any time.

Call of the Wilds
Tehi can transform into an animal no bigger than she is that she is familiar with. Currently this is limited to once a day with her magical skill and energy pool.

Nature's Wrath
With her connection to nature, Tehi possesses magical control over elemental forces and life, such as water, air and plants. Fire, she's... working on. She can currently only manipulate (or create) up to roughly a cubic metre of material, or a large bush's worth of plantlife.

Healing Touch
Her affinity for nature and life gives her minor healing magic, capable of healing minor wounds currently.

Skills
Foraging, non-magical healing, singing, druidic magic somewhat, swimming and hunting seafood.

Weaknesses
Knowledge of land flora/fauna, anything mechanical, land-dweller social rules, anything more than the most basic staff combat, mathematics.

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