Name: Priyantha Samatya-Dharmayu<br/><br/>Race: Human<br/><br/>Class: In D&D terms, a monk.  The Vijnayan term is better translated as "mystic".<br/><br/>Age: 26<br/><br/>Background: In Priya's homeland, Vijnaya, adults take as a surname the name of their chosen vocational Path.  Samatya-Dharmayu is the path of Harmony Through Rightness.  Followers of Samatya-Prasada, the more common branch of Samatya, aim to achieve harmony with the cosmos through equanimity, acceptance of what is.  Followers of Samatya-Dharmayu, by contrast, aim to promote harmony in the cosmos by striving to harmonize unharmonious elements in themselves and, when feasible, in other people and the world.  Priya, gifted or cursed with more curiosity about the outside world than most Vijnayans, chose to pursue her path beyond Vijnaya's borders.  She variously describes herself as an explorer, a wanderer, and an adventurer.<br/><br/>Appearance: Priya is small: barely over five feet tall, with a lean, wiry build.  Her skin is dark honey-almond, her eyes very dark brown, her hair black and straight and nearly waist-length, usually in a single tight braid.  Her typical attire, customary for a Vijnayan mystic, consists of a simple shirt and trousers of plain brown fabric, with a belt of ordinary rope.  She dons simple sandals when appropriate, but mystics prefer to go barefoot when possible, to be in contact with the earth.<br/><br/>Personality: Priya is almost annoyingly even-tempered, cheerful but not exuberant.  She's polite and tries to be considerate, though cultural differences get in the way more often than she would wish.  The diversity of the world outside Vijnaya is much greater than she imagined, and it's often unfortunately difficult to understand how such a wide range of perspectives might be brought into mutual harmony.<br/><br/>Skills: Vijnayan mystics train their bodies, minds, and most importantly their spirits, to give themselves as many means as possible of achieving their goals.  They wield the energies of apana (the grounding force, associated with earth and water) and prana (the uplifting force, associated with the elements of air and fire) to accomplish feats that many non-Vijnayan cultures would describe as magical (but magic is a quite different energy) or "supernatural" (a concept that makes no sense to Vijnayans).<br/><br/>Priya has developed the skills she needs to survive alone in the wilderness, but she can rely on spiritual energy to satisfy most of her physical needs, so in harsher environments, she can't necessarily provide for others, only for herself.  She has not been trained in any trade (in Vijnaya those are their own Paths), nor does she dabble in any other arts, preferring to focus on her own.<br/><br/>Language(s): Vijnayan, Common, and bits of the languages of any region she's been traveling through for a significant time.  (She tries her best to learn at least a little.)