Shadhee

Shadhee hails from a distant land, a stranger to your ways, your customs and your traditions. Be gentle with her, teach her the ways of your land and perhaps let her have the recognition she could not claim in her homeland.
But on that note let us start at the beginning. Her story started at the foundling house of a desert wrapped city, where a girl who never knew her parentage dreamed of being something more. It was for that reason she listened raptly to the tales of wonder spun each night, and for that reason she connived to learn her letters. Words were a dubious tool for the destitute, where quick hands, a strong back, fast feet or a comely smile were often of far more worth. Though it's not to say that Shadhee did not employ quick hands and even faster feet to keep her belly full and her mind sated. But even a street urchin of clever wits would not have amounted to much without the audacity to risk it all.
Why couldn't she be as the sorcerers and magi of the stories, and call forth spirits to traffic with in favour, boon and offering. So one day she went out into the wild spaces with offering and tools of ritual, and there she dwelt for many days as her tongue dried and her belly groaned. She tried ritual after ritual, each permutation ending in failure, but she refused to give up and return to her life before. Seven nights did she spend where spirits made their home before she got her answer, where many less lucky might of perished she called forth a spirit and made her deal. Not for wealth, water or meal even though such things were pressing but for knowledge.
And so she began her path, with hard bartered tidbits and pilfered scrolls she gained the rudiments of skill and then when ready sought after a teacher. She was confident that her talent would shine through, and so went to the door of each magi in the city in turn only to receive their scorn. It was only when she saw the boy who pressed his case beside her get apprenticeship despite his seeming nonexistent talent for the craft that Shadhee knew the truth of it.
Perhaps if she had not given in so deeply to disappointment she would of seen coming what happened next. For she was at last accepted as apprentice by a sorceror yes, but his reasons became clear when the wizened magi bid her to his bed chamber. Only quick wits and ample wine saved her that night, but she knew she could not stay or he would ply his case again. And so she fled, in anger taking many trinkets from the sorceror's abode to aid her escape. It was this last rebuke that provoked her former master most of all, a great evil was conjured, a spirit of death that would pursue her without rest. She fled it, fought it, survived it, but knew that respite would be brief so asked of the spirits for aid. Flee, they said, for the spirit being of death cannot cross the water which is of its opposite..
And so it was that Shadhee has come to these shores, she cannot return until she is ready to face the spirit and then after its master. But perhaps things are for the best, she would never receive the respect she deserves in the lands of her birth.
Shadhee is fetching enough to look at that she could have taken up the oldest profession had she had so low an ambition, 5' 2” and slender with skin a darker lustrous shade of olive and eyes a subtle shade of green. Her hair is coal black, shoulder length and typically bound with several cords to keep it from going astray.
Clothing wise, she sticks to a fairly flowing dress the skirts of which part and do not actually reach her ankles (handy for a quick turn of speed). The dress leaves her arms exposed though giving her room for the more magical jewelry to work. Speaking magic, she has on a belt work over the dress that holds a great many interesting, and dangerous, things. Perhaps her most prominent magical item though is the magnificent flying carpet.

On RP:
fantasy settings only, no park settings, developing character.
Shadhee as predator: Absolutely can happen! Though Shadhee generally requires a good reason to think you have it coming if you don't already want it, she's not yet a subscriber to 'predator morality' though that may yet change
Shadhee as prey: Not out of the question, but persuading her into being willing or other indirect means are probably more likely to work than brute force, she's not helpless.
Shadhee as student: Shadhee's goals require more arcane power. So for lessons, artifacts or other arcane means Shadhee would do a great deal. This might actually be a good way to get her to submit to being prey in payment.

goal:
Gain enough arcane lore and power to return to her homeland, confront the spirit her old master sent to hunt her, bind or kill it(shadhee doesn't know if its sufficiently mortal to die) then humble her master and force the respect of the other sorcerors of her homeland.
OOC:
a Warped_Realities production
picture by Malyna