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Laeni, Chi Manipulator

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__________________QUICK STATS
Name Laeni
Age 16
Gender Female
Species Human?
Ethnicity Mutt
Height 5'5"
Orientation Bisexual
Occupation Student
Residence Currently Serendipity

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Physical Description
Laeni is a rather innocuous person, pretty enough in a nondescript sort of way, with brown hair that falls to about the middle of her back and gentle hazel eyes. She's of a fairly average height, not too slender and not too curvy, not too fair but not too tan, not too...well, not too anything, really. Yet somehow, Laeni seems to draw attention; there's a kind of air about her that just draws people toward her, and somehow makes her nondescript little self beautiful.

Notably, on her right collar bone is a strange birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon. She also bears a few scars along her arms and legs, and even some on her ribs and back, from a childhood spent accumulating scrapes and bruises.

Personality
She's a sweet girl, if a little shy- and surprisingly charismatic. Though she may take a while to open up, once she has she can be incredibly charming, and people tend to find themselves craving time spent with her.

Laeni is actually less than thrilled about this particular quirk, and as a consequence tends not to make friends very easily. She feel manipulative, that something she can't control and doesn't understand seems to make people like her.

Magic/Abilities
Chi manipulation: Laeni has the ability to manipulate, transfer, or absorb chi, a person's life-energy, their essence if you will. If she has enough power stored, she can perform interesting feats of magic, but the most applicable skill that comes with this ability is healing.

Of course, if she absorbs too much of someone's chi, she can seriously hurt them, or kill them.

Relationships
Her adoptive parents, Kanah and Isryn

Her familiar, Rey
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History
Left at the doorstep of a little house built into the thinner bands of trees at the edges of the Kishahn jungle, Laeni was raised by the hermits Kanah and Isryn. She grew, learned, and played like a human child, so that's what they assumed she was.

When she was barely five years old, Laeni got lost in the trees as it grew dark. Her parents had told her all manor of cautionary tales about strange creatures of the jungle who would eat her if she stayed out too late, and she was sure she was going to be gobbled up.

One of those strange creatures found her. Luckily, it was Rey, a feline creature with the coloration and patches of feathers of a peacock. The cat stayed with her until her crying allowed her parents to find her, and then both girl and strange panther were a part of the family.

Though she had no particular magical gift, Laeni referred to Rey as her familiar, so her parents went along with it. She learned to hunt and track and sew and cook, and by the time she was fourteen she was pulling her weight around the household, helping her parents trek whatever game they caught or clothes they made to the market at the edge of the jungle every week.

It was around the time she turned fifteen that her magical gift made itself known. On one weekly market trip, Laeni ran off with one of the boys whose parents ran a market stall, and they stole a quick kiss.

The kiss changed from "quick" to "lingering"- and then to terror, as Laeni felt herself filling with golden energy while the boy fell unconscious. She couldn't stop the power, and by the time anyone heard her crying out for help it was nearly too late.

Her parents quickly ushered her away home, trying to talk her through what had happened. When they finally got the story out of her, there was quiet in the house. Then Kanah admitted that they had brought Laeni to a faith healer when she was a little girl, wondering if the abandoned child had been a changeling or something similar.

To the best of the healer's understand, Laeni was half human, and half...something else. His closest guess was that she was the child of a succubus.

With the revelation came the knowledge that Laeni must learn to control her powers, for fear of hurting someone else. Having known an adventurer in his youth who settled down to teach at an arcane academy in Serendipity, her father sent her to Wyrdwood.

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