Name: Issa Chu<br/>Race: Human<br/>Actual Age: 25<br/>Appearance:<br/>(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/shit_brick/Character%20Pix/chick_with_eagle_by_aozorize-d43x7ps.jpg)<br/>Her clothes would be a lot less intricate. She's usually in dresses that are easy to put on and simple shoes without any heels (or she simply has no shoes on at all). In her hands she always has a long, heavy staff that serves as a weapon and an over-sized cane.  Another item that is always on her person is a large satchel with all sorts of herbs and charms with various uses.<br/>Affiliation: None for now, she is a drifter.<br/><br/>Personality: As expected of an individual who grew up in this wild and chaotic world, Issa is alert and observant. She thrives under pressure and in difficult situations; whenever she is idle she becomes confused, agitated, and at times downright intolerable.<br/>While she may come across as arrogant and haughty, by nature Issa is a an emphatic protector, always ready to aid the weak and vulnerable.<br/><br/><strong>Back story:</strong><br/>Issa was not always blind. In fact she can still picture the last festival she ever saw.  At that point she was mostly blind, but that one night she could see her mother dancing around the fire as clear as day. She reached out to her daughter and they danced the night away. When she woke up the next morning she was greeted by darkness.<br/>That was eighteen years ago.<br/><br/>Issa grew up as a gypsy, surrounded by a small but capable family of traveling wiccans, wanderers and rogues, all worshipers of the energies of the Earth. When she started losing her vision her family tried to use their gifts to heal her in vain. She would be lying if she said that she was unaffected by it, but Issa took to her fate relatively well. On some level she understood that losing her sight was both a gift and a curse. It was the price she would have to pay to gain a connection to the Earth Mother that even the most gifted witches in her family did not have. As her sight went she noticed that along with the sharpening of her other senses she developed other abilities such as a level of telepathy (limited to anything living or natural, even rocks), animal ken, and a shroud-like ability while forests (as if the trees themselves actively shielded her). These gifts became apparent to her family as well, and her training immediately resumed tenfold.<br/>When Issa turned seventeen she felt compelled to leave her family and travel on her own. These abilities had been given to her for a reason, and she was not going to find it nestled comfortably in her family's arms.<br/><br/>Issa and her trust hawk named Sandata (Data for short) have been wandering ever since. Her travels seem to have no real pattern, simply hopping from caravan to caravan, but generally she seemed to gravitate towards groups of people in need, becoming either a miracle worker or purger of minor demon camps.<br/><br/>Because of her school of magic and background, she feels most at home with her feet on natural surfaces full of life and energies. It is through these energies that Issa is able to 'see' the world around her. Many acquaintances do not even notice her disability immediately.<br/>Data also acts as her eyes, going beyond the range of her powers (which is about thirty meters all around) or to scout of entities of the undead which Issa cannot actually 'see' with her own senses.