Tshaya

Tshaya is a member of the Bar Sinister Coterie and walker on the Road of Humanity.

Biography

Just another villager in southern Hungary, Tshaya dwelt in a small village that had the misfortune to sit in the shadow of a Tzimisce voivode's keep. By the time she was seven, the girl had already provided at least one meal for the Fiend, and both her parents had died beneath his fangs by the time she was 12. Tshaya would likely have lived her entire (short) life in that village if she had not taken to conversing with a small group of strangers who would occasionally pass through town. She took to one in particular, a handsome young man (or so he seemed) named Nikolai. To him she told her dreams, her dreams of a life away from here, and when he expressed an interest in those dreams, she began to weave colorful tales for him, stories of faraway places and future days. It was never her intention to deceive him, simply to keep his attention, but she unknowingly convinced him that she might indeed possess the gift of prognostication. That would be a useful too indeed, when the Tremere - for that was who these strangers were - made a move to destroy the Tzimisce voivode and claim the land for their own. Tshaya was Embraced soon after, but Nikolai all but tossed her aside when he learned her "gifts" were false.

Still, others of the clan begin to teach Tshaya in the ways of the Cainites and of blood magic, and the young woman took to the latter lessons much more readily than the former. She didn't care about politics, wars or geography, only about gaining the power she had lacked as a mortal. She struck out on her own far earlier than her mentors would have liked and would most probably have found herself in serious trouble due to her ignorance and naiveté had she not fallen in with the Bar Sinister.

Image

Tshaya is dusky of skin with dark eyes and black hair. She is tall, thin to the point of being gangly and rather too horse-faced to be considered particularly pretty. She would prefer to dress in a manner "befitting her station" - that is, covered in arcane symbols and announcing her mastery of magics for all to see - but her companions have convinced her that a simple tunic and skirt would be a wiser choice.

Stats

Nature: Pedagogue
Demeanor: Caretaker
Embrace: AD 1159
Apparent Age: Late teens

References

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