Miane

Biographical information

Birthplace As Nineban Born Died Age 27 Home A small keep high in the Seret mountains. Sexuality Pronouns

Physical description

Race Human Sub-Race Gender Female Height 5' 9" Mass lean and muscular Hair color light brown Eye color blue Skin color fair

Political information

Affiliation(s) Occupation Falconer Clan(s) Caste Domain Masters Apprentices Alias(es)

Out-of-character information

Writer Mistress of Feathered Dragons Created on 5/14/2021 Avatar Master of Birds by Rene Aigner

Me-anne-eh. Falconer by day, witch by night.

Miane is tall and slim, with light brown hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. Her face has a light smattering of freckles. She has a few scars across her forearms and hands from accidents with her birds over the years, though most of them are old and faded now.

Miane is skilled in management in a variety of areas: she maintains a small keep with a decent amount of private soldiers in her employ, as well as several servants who maintain the household.

Miane is a skilled swordswoman and falconer.

As a witch in hiding, Miane has not honed her numerous magical abilities as much as she would like. Her greatest magical skill, though, is her ability to merge her mind with animals for a short period of time, and see through their eyes and communicate with them. She is able to do this with greater ability and for longer amounts of time with her familiar, a barred owl she saved from an inept falconer at a market in Kherkhana a few years before. She calls her owl familiar Akea.

Miane is able to work some minor spells of various kinds, and has an un-honed talent for divination.

Miane is, above all, stoic. But if something ignites her ire she can be quite sharp-tongued. She is most content alone with her owl-familiar, deep in the wilderness.

Miane is an only child, the last of a long, ancient line of falconers. Her ancestral home is an ancient keep high in the Sereti mountains, and her family's presence there predates the formation of the Shtakmat State. While they have strived to live peaceably with the Sahiya, the women of her family have always had to hide their secret abilities as witches once the Shtakmat State established its power over the region.

Miane's mother, though, died in childbirth, despite her father's desperate attempts to get her to a physician in time. As Nineban was the closest town to their keep, and despite the physician's best efforts, only the child was able to be saved. As such, Miane is a self-taught witch, and her powers and knowledge have several gaps which need to be filled.

Her father passed away after a prolonged illness a little less than a year ago, and Miane has been managing the training and sales of the falcons since that time, though she'd been studying the art at her father's side for her entire life. They maintain a small household with a few servants and several armed guards, all of whom are fiercely loyal to Miane, though none of them know she is secretly a witch. A couple of them suspect, however.

Soon, Miane will have to make some choices about where she wants to take her life: whether she wishes to continue her family's business and continue raising falcons, or seek out a teacher to hone her powers.

While witchery is a craft passed down on her mother's side of the family, falconry comes from her father's side, and the two skillsets found a home within Miane. However, she rarely combines her magical abilities with her actual falconry unless she needs to urgently communicate with one of the birds she is raising/training.

Every couple of years, she (and her father, when he was still alive) would take the birds they've trained and travel to either deliver trained falcons that had been commissioned by people, or to outright sell them in markets. They tended to travel most often to, of course, As Nineban (since it is closest to their home), and then a circuitous route to Kherkana, Lazular, and then Elbion, before returning home.