Tengri was born in the Castle District of Kugane to upper-class merchants, Ko and Kayra Od-ana. She is second in line to inherit the Od-ana Zaibatsu, a conglomerate of companies all centered around silk cultivation, fabric craftsmanship, and maritime distribution. The zaibatsu is known more outside of Kugane's investment and business worlds by its colloquial name, 'Kuwa-hime'. Once largely restricted to Hingashi, the 7th Umbral Calamity created an opportunity to move into foreign markets and made them into a worldwide brand, competing with the silk traders of Radz-at-Han.

She always had a distant relationship with her parents, but had a closer relationship to her elder sister, Aisyt, 'Ai' for short, twelve years her senior. Ko and Kayra spent significant effort and time developing Ai as their heir, especially with a decade-plus gap between children. Ten was a surprise, conceived after they thought Kayra was barren. The girl was raised largely via hired help, with the intent that she would simply be a representative of the family during many polite social functions and take on supportive duties within the zaibatsu, perhaps helping her older sister after Tengri came of age.

One of the 'hired help' who ended up partially raising Tengri was her Aetherology instructor, Akari Sano, a retired Roe member of the Hingashi military who reluctantly took on the task of teaching noble brats Aetherology in return for a comfortable place to live out the rest of her life. She was one of many who were hired as a part of her general education. At the highest levels of Kugane's class structure, it is considered fashionable for children to have talents and skills only accessible to those with gil, time, and influence. And mastering, or appearing to master, aether manipulation, something usually limited in the forced peace of Kugane to the priestly class, the military, or Sekiseigumi, was a particularly attractive option. Her parents and family, however, did not expect for this to become Tengri's almost sole focus from the moment she started learning from 'Akari-sensei'. All of her family that is except Ai, who noticed, but did not comment one way or another.

Did Akari keep on pushing her young pupil, quickly becoming a grown woman, to improve and gain more power because she was simply doing her job, or was it because she saw hints of what might come next? Either way, by the time Tengri was nineteen, she had mastered the intermediary portions of Hingan Thaumaturgy, already touching on advanced skills. This was her life, not being a 'helper' in the zaibatsu. Her parents and extended family were not pleased to learn of this development and banned her from further instruction. Tengri made plans to leave Kugane, everything she'd known, for Eorzea. She met with her older sister, Ai, one last time before anonymously purchasing passage on a ship heading toward Vesper Bay. Akari-sensei was waiting for her at the docks, giving her a final gift, a book containing the aetheric concepts she hadn't had time to teach her yet. And so, Tengri left for her new life.

Age: 21
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She / Her
Sexuality: Bisexual / Polyamorous
Marital Status: In a relationship. 'Open' in some ways, more closed in others.
Race: Au Ra, Xaela
Birthplace: Kugane, Castle District ("Jōkamachi")
Cultural Origin: Upper Class Hingan
Current Residence: Limsa Lominsa
Former Residences: Kugane, Ul'dah, Gridania (briefly), Ishgard
Current Occupations: Studium Researcher (theoretical astromancy), signing up to help with the Gleaners once travel to Tural opens up wider.
Former Occupations: Mercenary, Thaumaturgy Guild grunt, Retainer, social lounge Hostess

Here are some general ideas and concepts that often get me interested to write, or have drawn people into scenes with Tengri in the past!

  • Getting into people's business after you just met them at the Quicksand, or wherever!

  • A character thinks Ten is cute and asks her out, or vice versa. Most of the time this goes well! Sometimes it doesn't! Either way, entertaining!

  • She hates Voidsent!

  • No, I mean it, she really really hates Voidsent.

  • Related, even though Ten considers herself a generally broad-minded person, she has an inquisitorial bent when it comes to beliefs and practices that could produce unstable primals, voidsent, and basically anything 'dark', including Black Magic, Reapers, and certain sorts of Dark Knights.

  • Tengri enjoys talking shop with other adventurers, mercenaries, Red Mages, Astrologians--even though she doesn't consider herself one, per se--etc.

  • She takes great pride in being a Red Mage, despite only being inducted for just over two years.

  • Tengri admires people who are curious, generous, ask insightful questions, find connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, listen well, are patient with a wide variety of people, and are distrustful of entrenched self-perpetuating authority.

  • Ten's particularly put off by the, 'quiet, aloof, bristly, and mysterious, but hiding a heart of gold,' persona given by many adventurers. It annoys the hell out of her. She doesn't give a damn what kind of metallic alloy someone's heart is made out of if it's impossible to have a productive conversation with them. If that's your character, and you wanna see a cranky lizard, feel free to engage her in conversation! Or, if your character is not like this, but wants to hear a perhaps too-impassioned rant on emotionally stunted mercenaries, mention this general topic and watch what happens. Tengri hasn't yet realized that she can come off like this, and who knows if she'll ever have that revelation.

  • She has a soft-spot for recent immigrants to Eorzea, since she was one not so long ago.

  • Ten wishes that the Sultana's dream of an Ul'dahn Republic had come true, and still thinks this is possible. Even though she is looking forward to her future elsewhere on the Star, a part of her wishes she was still back in the city and helping with the reform movement.

  • Related, she hates the Monetarists.

  • Monetarist financial backing of the Thaumaturgy Guild was the primary reason she left her life with the Guild and looked for new opportunities, eventually stumbling, somewhat literally, into becoming a member of the Red.

  • Similarly, she dislikes the social stratification of Ishgard and for that reason soured on the city the longer she was there.

  • Despite everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen on Etheirys, she believes that the Kami, the Twelve, the ability to control aether, are solely the products of a unifying collective unconscious, that everything miraculous in the world, even her own abilities, are ultimately a product of the beliefs of all those who live and have lived on the star.

  • That said, she recently had an intense experience getting dunked head first into astromancy and saw things. Things that have rattled her materialist perspective. She's determined to believe that sensing intent from the stars above, and a vision of an enormous woman dressed in white gently caressing her shoulder while she was overwhelmed at feeling that Intent, do not violate the foundations of her atheistic beliefs and are all still founded, somehow, in the collective experience of the people of Etheirys. This experience has become a focus of her personal studies.

  • She loves to fish! After learning how in the frozen wilds of Coerthas, she's taking full advantage of living only fulms away from a fishing pier on a tropical white-sand beach.

  • She's a big fan of the book Aether Manipulation in Daily Life, a somewhat controversial book about the use of aether and casting in all parts of life, apart from combat or pure field-utility.

  • She's sun-bathing and enjoying the 'fruits' of the wine-cellar she and her housemates have inherited on that previously mentioned white-sand beach as often as possible.

  • Tengri wants to explore her new city, Limsa!

  • She definitely isn't heavily considering adopting a vigilante persona to right wrongs that she wouldn't be able to help with as herself. Even more, if you have a problem that an anonymous member of the Red Mage order (upholders of truth and justice across Etheirys) might feel compelled to assist with, she would tell you to go through the proper channels and help you contact local authorities. Poking around, unlocking doors in the middle of the night, finding answers, looking for patterns of corruption, intimidating gutless scum who hide behind class and riches, and attempting to expose traitors of common decency to the harsh sunlight of public knowledge is their job, not Tengri's.

Hey! Thanks for checking all this out. Some basic information about me: I'm over 21, been writing and roleplaying for over a decade.I write with a wide range of post lengths, from tiny fragment sentences to multi-paragraph, depending on what I feel is necessary in the moment. I always try my best to write with accurate spelling and grammar and expect writing partners to do the same, while understanding that typos always happen. You will absolutely see me accidentally switching between past or present tense, or any number of additional errors, because I'm focusing on getting a post out promptly. Generally, I'm not a grammar critic, but my hope is that the technical linguistic details of what's holding our writing together can kinda get out of their own way. My ideal is that reading each other's posts is easy and uncomplicated, everyone involved doesn't care about hitting a specified length or 'post quality', and having fun expressing yourself and your character in a scene can be the main priority.I'm fine with writing SFW scenes and topics with people 18+, but anything even approaching NSFW, I only write with people 21 and over.I do all kinds of RP, but I want to know beforehand if you want to do anything darker or NSFW, so that clear communication can go both ways!IC does not equal OOC, etc, etc. You've probably heard that before. It's happened rarely, but I've found that when in-character emotions about Tengri get associated with me OOC, I pretty much immediately move on because it creeps me out! I hope you can empathize with that feeling lol. I'm really big on keeping a thick wall between IC and OOC interaction.The one relatively 'hard' rule I have is that I enjoy writing Ten strictly in character. If something's proposed that she wouldn't like, or wouldn't participate in, that doesn't necessarily mean a scene doesn't happen, it just means she's probably not going to comply in character. And that can be fun, but just keep that in mind. Again, communication is king!Also, I do not RP on Discord. That works for a lot of people of course, but for me, when I've written on Discord before, I've felt pressure to write all day every day, reply as quickly as possible at all hours, and so on. So, I keep my writing with Tengri strictly in game.Finally, just for fun, here's my youtube music playlist for her.