Cathira


 * Birth Name: Cathira Rishylr
 * Screen Name: Cathira
 * Proffession: Alchemist
 * Home: Seradane, Hinterlands
 * Birthday: Unknown
 * Species: Human
 * Gender: Female
 * Age: 35'ish
 * Body: 5’4, Athletic
 * Eye Colour: Pale Blue/Gray
 * Skin Colour: Light Chocolate
 * Hair Colour: Wavy Black, Long
 * Current Guild: Five Deadly Venoms
 * Alignment: Neutral

=Personality= Most are taken off guard by her blunt honesty that seems to intimidate most who have never spoken to her before. She wastes very little time in business conversations, and shoots straight to the point at hand rather then linger on informalities. This makes her a cut-throat in debates and work, but a difficult person to try and converse with. Finding out any information about her past or personal life is a difficult task indeed. She beleives in 'treating others as you want to be treated', so is very respectful when meeting new people and a fiercly loyal friend when trust is earned.

Due to the psychological effects inflicted by the 'cure', her psyche seems more bland and primitive then most. Her perception of the world around her is seen as a dominance heirarchy, rating people in her mind by how dominant and submissive they are. Her mind seems rewired, and set to a more animalistic state then most, having extremely basic needs that are easily fulfilled, which results in her contentness. Feelings such as hate and regret she is incapable of feeling, and lives in the present instead of past or future. When threatened, she seems more 'untamed' and aggressive, and will use whatever resources she has as a weapon. The most disturbing thing about this state of mind, is that she sees all living things as simple animals, humans included, so has cannibalistic tendencies if the situation presents itself.

Although it is uncertain if she can feel love, she is extremely loyal to whatever mate she has and demands the same treatment. A challange is normally issued when courting as a test of strength to see how fit and strong the subject is, and prove how compotent of a mate they would be. This is such a forign concept to the normal dating scene, that most can't seem to grasp this primtive dance. She is a gentle and sometimes violent lover, and although biting, scratching, and sometimes scarring occurs from this, her mates contentness is her main concern.

=History= She was born assumingly in a small settlement originated around mining. As a very young child, a freak disease began to contaminate some of the community, including herself. It was unknown officially where it originated from, but most judged that a miner unearthed it during an excavation. The virus seemed to eat away at the person's muscles, organs, and brain at a painfully slow pace, and frantically the settlement feared for their lives. The physicians struggled to find a cure but could do little. Beleiving it was earths anger, the towns witchdoctor, Revilo, began studying organic and herbal treatments that can be given to the infected that would seek forgiveness from the earth and be cured. In a vision, he saw several kinds of animals and demons. Beleiving these to be the key, he seeked them all out.... a wolf, deer, wyvern, panther, imp, and satyr. He carved the innards of the beasts and selected certain organs to grind then mix together. By the time he produced the end result, most had died from the virus as it devoured them. Desperate, they accepted the cure from Revilo and drank it.

It worked to everyones surprise. The cure caused the virus to come to a complete halt, yet it could not recover what was lost. Some still died from the damage done, and those who survuved still had scarring inside. What should have been the end of the suffering in the community, a new dilema unfolded; The cure was competeing over the persons body. An inner war waged, and some fell into insanity. Some ended their suffering through suicide, and the rest tried to win over the cure that was trying to take over their minds and threaten to destroy their humanity.