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Lavina Taldir - Eldorai Pyromancer

Lavina Taldir

NAME: Lavina Taldir
FACTION: Omega Pyre/Protectorate
RANK: Lieutenant
SPECIES: Eldorai
AGE: 55
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 175cm
WEIGHT: 60kg
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blonde
SKIN: Pale
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes

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Strengths:
  • Lavina has received extensive weapons and combat experience during her training to be an Angelii. She is extremely proficient in melee and ranged combat, and can fight using even unfamiliar weapons if given time to examine them.
  • Lavina’s Force abilities manifest themselves in elemental fire. Using this she can summon flames, transfer heat, or control existing fires.
  • Lavina is extremely self-disciplined and has been trained by the Angelii to resist temptatons and the lure of the ‘Dashdae Sciia’ or Dark (Side of the) Force.
  • Lavina is extremely brave both physically and morally. She is not afraid to make hard decisions.
Weaknesses:
  • Like all Eldorai, Lavina is both weaker and less resilient than a comparable human. Her increased metabolism and low pain tolerance means she cannot keep up a fight or resist interrogation as well as a human.
  • Having grown up her entire life on Kaeshana, suddenly going into the galaxy has been a shock to her. She is rather naïve about other races and finds it hard to understand some of the customs and new realities around her.
  • While better than most of her kin, Lavina is still deeply racist and sexist. It is so ingrained by culture it is done without thinking. For instance, she expects a male to give up his seat for her, and finds that when they don’t, the result is uncomfortable.
  • Lavina’s younger sister Kaida is the person she loves most in the entire galaxy. Anything bad happening to Kaida would severely affect Lavina.
  • Lavina has some resentment of those born into wealth and privilege, remembering the attitude of those on Kaeshana. She respects those who earn their way up the tree, not who are born to it.
  • Lavina has quite a temper if thwarted or irritated, and in the hands of a pyromancer, this is not always a winning combination!

BIOGRAPHY:
Lavina Taldir was born into a lower caste, but not common, family. Her parents were administrators in the city of Naldasa, about 100km from Santaissa. Her mother, Divya, was in a good job, while her father was a data entry clerk.
Lavina was born at a time when outsiders were starting to return to Kaeshana after a long absence due to the plague and 400 year darkness. These outsiders were bringing new technology, new threats, and new opportunities to the Eldorai. In their homes though, the Taldir family never saw any of these off-worlders, being concerned mainly with survival.
Lavina grew up in a very traditional system of education and childhood. As a young girl she learned from a male servant how to read and write, and began her junior schooling at age ten. While intelligent, Lavina was not brilliant, being most interested in history, and less in theology and mathematics. Her sister Kaida was born soon after beginning school.
At the age of 18 she was enrolled into a private school, paid for by her mother’s high position. She was looked down on though by the other girls of more aristocratic background and suffered from bullying. After one such incident she fought back, using her Sciia (the Force to the rest of the galaxy) to set fire to her tormenter’s hair.
Being a Sciian, or Force user, was not a stigma in Eldorai society, and was much more common than with humans. Indeed, being a Force user was one of the few ways for the lowest ranks of society to advance themselves. Lavina was no exception; she was taken out of the private school and enrolled at one of the government schools designed to help train and manage Sciians before they could become a potential threat. Her affinity for fire meant that she was enrolled primarily as a potential soldier in the future. Over the next twelve years she continued her education in the ‘Academy of the Four Powers’, performing well.
During this time tragedy struck when a terrible flood, common on Kaeshana, swept into the city of Naldasa. Lavina’s sister Kaida was present and watched her parents swept away. In doing so she unleashed her own Sciiac powers and froze the waters, showing her own powers. Lavina arrived too late, but took Kaida with her back to the Academy as they were the only two members of the family left.

By the age of 30, Lavina was a young adult who had done passably well at school and her studies at the Academy. She was then enrolled with the Angelii Istrai or young angels, where she was taught to use her powers offensively, trained with weapons and in combat situations. After ten years of this, on and off, she became a full Angelii, and began a tour of duty in the outer lands near the western sea.
It was when she was 44 that she saw her first combat. Outsider slavers had preyed on the Eldoraii for many years, but they became emboldened by the relative weakness of Eldorai technology and attacked more often. In this first battle Lavina fearlessly led an attack on some human and Trandoshan slavers and used her powers to roast one of them, and then spear a second. Her courage was noticed and she was promoted to Wing Leader, the equivalent of a corporal.
As more and more outsiders and their tech came into Santaissa, Lavina became very interested in the outsiders, learning the language slowly and talking with the travellers when she could. She resolved one day that she would leave Kaeshana and venture into the stars.

When she was fifty, and nearing the end of her compulsory term of service, Lavina was promoted to Host Leader, or Lieutenant, and given extra responsibilities. She was tasked with being an ambassador of sorts with the off-worlders in the city, and to act as translator. With the choice of either returning to lower caste civilian life or staying and learning more about the galaxy, she accepted the post eagerly.

It was in this position, at age 55 that she met Siobhan Kerrigan and Phylis Alince during their journey to Kaeshana and decided to go with them when they left the planet and begin her adventures. With her went her sister Kaida, and the two Eldorai were entering out onto a much larger stage than they could have imagined.
 

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