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Full Name: Alséurei Târiel
Nicknames: Tari, Rose
Species: Safir
Gender: Ažaras (see text)
Age: 58
Arrival Method: Migrant
Player: Halian

Physical Profile:
- Default
  • Height & Weight: 185 cm, 75 kg (6'1
  • Apparent Age: 25
  • Character Build: Toned
  • Body Type: Bipedal
  • Usual Clothing: Jeans and long-sleeved T-shirts
  • Voice: Smooth, feminine, contralto
  • Usual Scent: Petrichor, apples
    - Picture
    User Image

Full Description
Târiel is an hourglass-figured ažaras safir (that is to say, essentially, a blue four-armed psychic space elf), with red eyes and knee-length wavy white hair; ve has a heart-shaped face, round calm eyes, and long pointed ears, though kept close to the sides of vis head. Vis skin is somewhat pale, and flawless. At the time of vis migration, ve's wearing faded and well-worn carpenter's jeans with a hole on one knee, a black long-sleeved T-shirt, black slip-on work shoes, and a silver wristwatch.

Ažaraw (sg. ažar) are a gynomorphic third sex of safir; that is, they present as outwardly female, but can both sire and bear children. While some are demigirls, most use they/them or ve/vis/ver pronouns in English; Târiel is in the latter camp.

Inventory
- Items
  • - Wallet
    Description
    A brown hemp wallet containing the photocard part of Târiel's driving license, National Insurance card, other important cards, and about 100 Firnerámnese ârei (sg. âri) in cash.
  • - Hand Terminal
    Description
    A device analogous to a modern smartphone, with a slide-out keyboard of Safir Alliance-standard layout with Âirumâli legends. Main apps include various instant messaging clients and a newsgroup/forum aggregator.
  • - Keychain
    Description
    A large metal ring with the following items on it: a blue tag that says "Remove Before Flight" in Classical Âirumâli, a half dozen or so keys, a multitool, and a small electroluminescent flashlight.
  • - Backpack
    Description
    A black backpack with yellow trim and lightning-bolt motif, with a main pocket and two front pockets, containing: A stainless steel fountain pen with black ink; another one with blue ink; four 7H pencils, all sharpened; several small notebooks, filled to varying degrees with notes in vis native Modern Âirumâli; one qeþýr (4.6 m) of paracord-like rope; a Zippo-style lighter; five sleeved decks of cards that appear to be from a Daian-native trading card game, each in a composite deck box; a deck of Italian-pattern playing cards; and some dice, including d7, 12, 19, and 24, all with Âirumâli legends.
  • - Truck
    Description
    A silver four-door electric pickup truck with tracks instead of wheels, beige interior, and a long bed. Requisite accessories (charge cable, etc.) are kept in the cabin.
  • - Computer
    Description
    A desktop computer in a composite case of distinctly inhuman design, along with a holograph, left-handed mouse, mechanical keyboard with Safir Alliance-standard layout plus Âirumâli/English legends, and the requisite cables — all in white.
  • - Bin
    Description
    A purple composite bin, about 30 x 40 x 30 cm, with vis name scribbled on the top with a permanent marker in the Âirumâli script. Usually holds the computer.
- Weapons
  • - Switchblade
    Description
    A 5" long, sharp stainless steel switchblade in a textured black composite case.

Skills & Abilities
- Language Fluency
  • Telepathy (native)
  • Modern Âirumâli (native)
  • Înêmâli (native; birdsong-like)
  • Classical Âirumâli
  • English
- Vocational History
  • - Firnerámnese telecom
    Description
    Thirty years experience, presently as a senior computer/network/support technician, with an eye on becoming a network engineer.
- Education History
  • Târiel completed secondary school, and holds a bachelor's degree-equivalent in computer science.
- Noncombat Skills
  • - Computer building/repair
    Description
    Târiel is skilled at building & repairing safir computers, and vaguely competent with alien (mainly human) ones.
- Comb Training/Skills/Experience
  • - Knife
    Description
    While not formally trained in any martial arts, Târiel is familiar with knives, and could competently defend verself if given one.

Paranormal Abilities

- Ability List (6 abilities)
  • - Teleportation
    Effect
    Moving from one location to another.
    Limits
    Requires 20 to 30 seconds of concentration, and can only be to places within 1 km with which Târiel has a well-formed emotional bond, or if ve is at such a place, to places within 1 km that ve has visited before.
    Repercussions
    This power takes about an hour to recharge.
  • - Aura Reading
    Effect
    Perceive energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.
    Limits
    Cannot read aurae of things more than 10 m away, and ve has to concentrate on the object(s) for a few seconds.
  • - Retrocognition
    Effect
    Târiel is prone, after a minute or two standing in a given area or touching a given object, to sometimes receiving visions about its past. Ve has never received more than two visions of the same area, and that only once, during a week-long camping trip.
    Limits
    These visions are never voluntary.
  • - Telekinesis
    Effect
    Lifting and moving 10 kg (22 lb) with vis mind, and has a fine grain of control over anything so affected.
    Limits
    Requires 10 to 15 seconds' concentration. Târiel cannot move more than 10 kg (22 lb) this way, and any item ve wishes to move must be within line of sight and 100 m. Vis telekinesis cannot be executed beyond the surface of a solid.
    Repercussions
    This power can take anywhere from two minutes to several hours to recharge, depending on the mass and location of the object being moved, as well as the distance and force required to move it.
  • - Telepathy
    Effect
    Capable of communicating telepathically, and can manifest fully-formed images and dreamscapes in doing so. Ve can also pick up "vocalized" surface thoughts, and target vis sending to (a) specific mind(s); targeted sending is the general case.
    Limits
    Cannot so communicate with mindless beings, or any being more than 100 m away.
  • - Inhuman Senses
    Effect
    As a safir, Târiel is capable of sensing electrical currents, magnetic fields, and psychic energy flows, as well as seeing infrared and ultraviolet, and is capable of hearing higher- and lower-pitched sounds than humans.
    Limits
    The ranges of the latter two senses are about the same as human sight and hearing; and 100 m for the others.

Background


World Information:
The Safir Alliance is a space-opera conworld, with technology about the same as modern-day Earth (or maybe a little bit ahead), psionics, and faster-than-light travel. The safir are first among equals in the government, etc. of the eponymous supraplanetary organization, though they are far from its only species; on the safir homeworlds of Daia and Lessa alone, one can find dragons, nagas, humans, avens, coralfolk, dolphin-like sapients, and giant sapient psychic spiders. Its present day is the same time as Earth';s, though its days are only 20 hours long, and its year 15 Earth months. Also of note is that since first contact with Earth in 1799 AD, there has been significant economic, etc. interchange between Earth and the Safir Alliance, including safir sovereignty over the formerly French territory of Louisiana.

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Halian
Oct 26, 2023 5:14 AM
Re: Als&eacute-$3M1-urei T&acirc-$3M1-riel
demangling name
Halian
Oct 26, 2023 5:12 AM
Re: Alséurei Târiel
very minor tweaks, also testing fixes to the website
Halian
Oct 26, 2023 3:36 AM
Re: Alséurei Târiel
Spelling tweaks and other very minor updates
Halian
May 20, 2023 1:15 PM
Re: Alséurei Târiel
adding picture
Halian
Jun 13, 2022 11:25 PM
Re: Alséurei Târiel
updating age; todo: set a birthday
Halian
Apr 9, 2022 2:53 PM
Re: Alséurei Târiel
fixing ?s
Halian
Apr 9, 2022 2:49 PM
Re: Alseurei Tariel
testing circumflex, since I recently changed the way Âirumâli long vowels are romanized
Halian
Nov 18, 2021 3:18 PM
Re: Alséurei Tāriel
removing mojibake from name and disclaiming absence of diacritical marks in description
Halian
Nov 1, 2021 2:03 PM
Re: Alse?urei Ta?riel
missed a “her”
Halian
Oct 25, 2021 6:41 PM
Re: Alse?urei Ta?riel
added computer building/repair again
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