<div class="floatright">(https://i.postimg.cc/BnvqVwCr/DF81-AF1-B-8531-4-E10-A55-D-B8784-DED7-A6-A.jpg)</div><strong>Name</strong>: Zeksi Hasah<br/><br/><strong>Race</strong>: Souillure (One of many dangers that roam the dunes of the rose desert, they are one of the few “domesticated” by the Pantazian empire.<br/><br/>Despite Zeksi’s mostly human appearance, her cold blood and forked tongue betrays something unnatural in her parentage. Some tend towards the other side of their heritage more than human.<br/><br/>Hailing from the Rose Desert originally, the bulk of their dwindling number are now located within Chatari. Their guild is utilized by the empire for their unique skills in divination as scouts, assassins and tax collectors.<br/><br/>Under the blistering desert sun centuries ago, their ancestors traded ragged bits of their own humanity for “gifts” from something very old and nameless that lurks beneath the dunes.)<br/><br/><strong>Class</strong>: Imperial Surveyor and Cartographer to the Rose Throne<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 32<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: With an obsessive attention to detail brought on by decades in service to the Throne, Zeksi wears the deep crimson and black uniform of a Pantazian soldier. Her buckles gleam merrily and the crisp lines of her form hugging suit are freshly pressed.<br/><br/>The slender woman has the kind of casual and carefree beauty that can only be had after hours of preparation. Every strand of pale blonde hair is curated and placed with a meticulous deliberation.<br/><br/>Strapped to her back is a Chatari style longbow and quiver, the glossy lacquered wood of the bow marking it as either very well tended or rarely ever brought into service. Possibly both!<br/><br/>Of greater interest is a large tome bound in water proofed waxed leather. A heavy strap is affixed to the spine, and is always slung over Zeksi’s shoulder. She often seems more protective of it than her own well being…<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Zeksi is considerably more cordial than most of her kind, which in conjunction with her more human appearance is why she was encouraged towards espionage and negotiation by the guild to take advantage of her strengths.<br/><br/>Bright and charming, her heritage as a souillure does show through in that she has little patience for talking small or trivialities, conducting herself in a straightforward manner at all times.<br/><br/>It is well known that her race is unable to lie and though she has an unsettling capacity for violence when she deems the situation calls for it, she refuses to kill under ANY circumstances, despite her many years in the imperial military. This, of course, does not mean she will stand in the path of others who would…<br/><br/>Agreements are based on compromise and mutual benefits and she tries to be agreeable whenever possible. Regrettably, she is sometimes forced to over see disagreeable situations. Though she holds herself to an exacting standard and unwavering set of ethics, she is a pragmatist when dealing with the morality of other cultures.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>:<br/><br/>Educated and raised within the walls of the Souillure Guild, she did not set foot outside of the compound until they found a purpose for her at the age of 15. She spent her first years in the service of the Throne as a tax collector’s assistant, using her abilities to divine the coins desperately hidden beneath floorboards of the impoverished. More satisfying for her and lucrative for the Throne was when they were called to collect from the greedy merchants in the Chatari bazaars.<br/><br/>Eventually her distinguished service saw her promoted when her skills caught the eye of an Imperial commander. She served as an Pantazian scout and messenger for the better part of a decade, before being forced away from the frontline for insubordination.<br/><br/>The reputation of her cartography skills during her time as a scout landed her at her latest assignment has been as a surveyor and map maker for the empire. While this has been a boon for her insofar as allowing her the greatest freedom she had ever enjoyed, Zeksi often takes odd jobs in her travels given that her stipend is painfully small. Perhaps she also misses her days as the guiding light at the edge of the empire’s reach.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Skills</strong>: Zeksi is one of the greatest dowsers in the empire. She can locate anything or anyone she puts her mind to within a few miles, sensing the direction and distance with precision. Her scrying becomes less reliable the further away, though she claims to be able to sniff out the direction from dozens of miles away.<br/><br/>While she is not skilled in combat or melee fighting, the souillure has a supernatural advantage when utilizing a longbow, her dowsing abilities allowing her to feel the target even beyond her line of sight making her a dangerous marksman. Regrettably… she never seems to use this skill in actual battle, insisting that it isn’t her place to kill another.<br/><br/>Her more mundane skills lie in the area of espionage and bureaucracy, ranging from forgery, lock picking, mercantile trade and a fluency in most varieties of legalese. She also has a vast knowledge of world history and geography as well as limited authority amongst Pantazian military and nobles.<br/><br/>She is something of a polyglot due to her travels, speaking a handful of languages fluently and another handful that she knows a few key phrases like, “Where is the inn?” Or “How many coins is that?” Or “Please don’t bloody your knife in my back. Thank you kindly.”<br/><br/><strong>Language(s)</strong>: Common, Pantazian, Zawla' Yazani (with a strong accent),  “Dirt Tongue” (a sort of Chatari cockney spoken between thieves and merchants.)<br/><br/><strong>Extras</strong>: Her uniform, in addition to identifying her as a marshal with the authority of the throne, is enchanted to keep her body temperature regulated in a variety of climates. Zeksi is not a fan of colder climates, her physiology better suited to desert settings.<br/><br/>Other oddities include a serpentine flexibility far beyond that of humans and a resistance to most venoms and poisons.