Aya

Name
Aya meaning 'Red' - named after her mother.

Physical Appearance
Slender but strong, tall for a female. she's told she looks just as her mother did...

Her tusks are large and pronounced for a female. A lone raptor tooth necklace hangs around her neck, her earrings are carved from bone and her hair is bound into a high-tail with leather. A single braid runs from behind her ears and round her neck

Race &amp; Class
Troll Huntress

Background
Aya was born on the Darkspear Isles somewhere between 15 and 17 years ago and raised by an elderly female of the tribe called Kiai - Although never truely explained to her it was implied that her mother had died during childbirth - And that apparently somehow this was for the best.

Years passed happily enough, and mostly without incedent. As Aya grew she became aware that there was something about her looks that made her adoptive mother nervous.

One evening shortly after the Orcs had arrived a tall female had burst into the hut to talk with Kiai. Aya peered around the woven reed wall that seperated her bunk from the main living area and watched them.

The stranger had her back to Aya, but in the firelight the female seemed huge, much taller than most. Her shock of crimson hair was tied in braids with a traditional crest. Aya strained to hear the whispered and urgent conversation but could not catch many words except 'Jin' which Kiai addressed the female as. But this could not be right, no female was ever honored or greeted as Jin. perhaps it was Jen instead...

Aya decided she had misheard and leaned closer to hear more, as she did she knocked a small herb pot from the pile against the reed wall and it fell. and rolled towards the firelight and the two elders.

The stranger spun around and in one movement had strung her bow and was pointing it straight at Aya. Both of them froze for a moment, before the stranger lowered her weapon and crouched down to see Aya better.

"Yas shoulds be sleepin young one. I be sorry if i wakes ya." she paused and smiled a moment before jerking her head in the way of the bunk, "Ya get back t' sleeps now, I goin now anyways". The stranger known as Jin or possibly Jen looked thoughtfull for a moment and snapped a raptor tooth pendant from around her neck and retied it on Aya.

"Ya's be good fo Kiai now." And without another word she stood up and walked to the fire and nodded towards Kiai before leaving.

Aya lay back in her bunk and watched the shadows under the reeds. moments later Kiai followed the stranger out of the hut and Aya went to sleep.

A number of days later some of the tribe left the isles with the new allies of the orcs. Aya stood with Kiai on the edge of the village and watched the boats fill up and leave.

It would be more than a year before Aya and Kiai would make the journey to Kalimdor with the main evacutation. By which time the red-haired stranger was nothing but a vague memory.

Years later when Aya entered womanhood Kiai, by now grey and frail, called her in and bade her to open a wooden crate they had brought from the Isles. Within it was a hunting bow, old in years and dusty from lack of use, It seemed to be carved entirely from Ivory.

Kiai begged Aya's forgiveness as she explained it had been her daughters, Aya's mothers. She had brought it to the hut and insisted Kiai take it for Aya, as she would be leaving on the first ship to Kalimdor.

Thoughts raged around Aya, fury at the lies, at that it was her mother who had stood illuminated by the firelight, who had given her the raptor tooth pendant, Who had not died at aya's birth but handed her over to Kiai instead.

Kiai said that Aya had shamed the tribe, she would not submit to be wife and to cook and pray and mother as a females place was. And when she knew that Aya grew within her she had spoken to Kiai and insisted she take the child, lest the child have shame brought upon her life too.

"Yas look so likes her..." Kiai smiled sadly through her tears and Aya understood why how she looked was a problem. It would not have been long before she was recognised. Aya packed and left that night and has been wandering since, searching for any who knew her mother.

Guild
Between things at the moment

Companions
[to be updated]

Status
Alive

OOC Information
For more information on Jin'aya, her creator or other characters from the same player please see

Nihala Clearksy