Nalia Karru
Wizard
Nalia Karru
Species
Human
Appearance
Nalia looks like someone who has spent more time hauling sacks than attending lectures. Her hands are broad-knuckled and permanently dusted with pale chalk, while her posture has the wary forward lean of a person accustomed to ducking beneath low beams. She moves quietly, but not delicately, placing each foot with the care of someone crossing a sleeping floor. Her face is plain at first glance, then increasingly memorable: a nick through her left eyebrow, a small burn scar at the corner of her mouth, and a left ear slightly flattened from an old accident. Her clothing suggests a poor village clerk, yet she wears a precise silver ring worth more than everything else she owns. The unexpected contradiction is her smile, which is startlingly bright and youthful when it appears, despite the tired severity of the rest of her face.
“Plainspoken and exact, with a low, quick cadence. She favors concrete nouns, dislikes ornamental praise, and occasionally slips into a soft proverb from her mother's village dialect when frightened or sincere.”
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Distinguishing Features
A pale burn scar curves from the left corner of her mouth toward her cheek.
Her left ear is flattened at the top and decorated with three mismatched copper studs.
Chalk has permanently settled into the creases of her palms.
Her silver signet ring bears the seal of a magistrate whose archive she burned.
A red thread bracelet contains a tiny folded scrap of her brother's handwriting.
Voice
“A low, dry voice with a river-country accent, usually calm enough to sound bored. When casting, she speaks more softly rather than more loudly, as if trying not to wake something beneath the world.”
Clothing
A patched indigo wool coat with reinforced elbows, a linen shirt stained by ink, a broad leather belt carrying chalk and salt, work trousers tucked into mud-caked boots, and a red thread bracelet hidden beneath her left cuff. The silver ring on her finger bears the seal of a disgraced magistrate.
Body Language
Nalia keeps her shoulders slightly hunched and her elbows close to her ribs. When listening, she tilts her head as though weighing the sound of each word. Her fingers quietly count under her sleeve when she is calculating risk. In a fight, her movements become startlingly economical, with no flourish except the sudden snap of her wrist when releasing a spell.
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