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Character Profile: Rakesha Thorne

By: Luneaus

Full Name: Rakesha Thorne
Name at birth: --
Aliases/Nicknames (if any): ‘Kesha
Title(s): --
Age/Date of Birth: Mid to late twenties
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity: Ambiguous
Race/Ethnicity: Human
Skin Tone: Fair
Height: 5’ 4”
Weight: slender
Build: fit but not muscular
Eyes: amber-yellow
Hair: scarlet red
Clothes Style:
Fancy, light fabrics like silk and veneer. Bright colors and lots of accessories. She almost looks like a gypsy or a bellydancer might dress.

Tattoos, Piercings, Marks, Scars, etc.:
Nothing visible.

Appearance:
She’s confident, a little arrogant in her posture. She dresses somewhat loudly, as if ready to make a performance at any time. It almost seems like an act to mask her real personality...

Religion:
Not devoted to any one god.

Political Affiliation:
She avoids the nuisance of politics. Her Uncle is a politician, and she hates the endless drama and squabble. it seems like they just waste time and money on useless things.

Education:
Well educated, her Uncle is a wealthy politician from Divinity’s Reach.

Languages spoken:
Common

Weapons (if any):
A stave, or a small scepter and focus.

Occupation(s):
She “volunteers” at the local archive to sort and retrieve books for the noblefolk of Divinity’s Reach. It’s a forced job her Uncle set her at to try to keep her busy and out of trouble.

Past Occupation(s):
None

Special Abilities/Skills:
Officially: Mesmer
She’s an amateur “Illusionist”, or so she claims, proudly and not really understanding the meaning. She learned bits and pieces of tricks through her father’s books, when she would read them with him as a child. The books were hidden away when he passed away and went to live with her Uncle.

Activities/Organizations:
Partying, getting into trouble. Not a part of any organization.

Hobbies:
Parlour tricks of illusion, she uses to either entertain or get away with something when she’s getting into business she shouldn’t. She keeps it strictly hidden from her Uncle, usually.

Interests:
She likes to learn of music and poetry from other cultures and races that make their way to Divinity’s Reach. She loves to hear the stories from travelling carnies who have visited the far away lands she’s never seen.

Serious Problems/Flaws/Addictions/Disorders/Disabilities:
She’s intelligent but unfocused. She’s restless and seeking a purpose in life, and spends most of her days partying with the riff raff or asking questions she’s not supposed to, or just generally being a pain to any authority figure who’s trying to decide for her what she should do with her life.

Citizenship: Divinity’s Reach
Place of Birth: Divinity’s Reach
Now lives: … Divinity’s Reach
Lives with: Her Uncle and his army of waitstaff.
Current Relationship Status: none
Relationship History:
Nothing serious. Relationships with others are just another tool to fill the time.

Family:
Rakesha Thorne was the daughter of Douglas and Sara Thorne, upper-middle class citizens of Divinity’s Reach. Douglas was a renowned Illusionist, and often called to consult his talents, either for entertainment or … other reasons, throughout Divinity’s Reach and surrounding areas. On the surface, his skills were used for mostly frivolous means, but anyone that knew the true depth of an Illusionist’s skill would be aware of what it could really do.

When Rakesha was 6, her family travelled outside the walls of the city to accompany her father to a job a few miles away. Usually he travelled alone, but this time he allowed his daughter and wife to ride along after a day of annoying begging by his daugher. They were attacked by “bandits” during the journey, who brutally murdered her father. Rakesha survived by her mother hiding her away in a hidden compartment in the wagon.

A day later, the remains of the wagon was found, her mother in a catatonic state but alive, and the crying 6 year old in the compartment. Her mother was sent to the healers to help her come to, but she never did. The loss of her husband was too much and she died a few weeks later in her sleep.

That was the first and last time Rakesha left the walls of Divinity’s Reach.

Rakesha was sent to live with her Uncle, her mother’s brother, a single wealthy man involved in the politics of Divinity’s Reach. He took responsibility of the young girl as a favor to his sister - he never approved of her marrying that strange magic-using man that was Rakesha’s father. He took the belongings of her parents, and stored them away, out of sight and mind, and never mentioned them to Rakesha, in fear she would want to follow in his footsteps, or worse, learn of her father’s duties to his country.