Avenrhi Zanthella

Perrenial Providence

Avenrhi moves with the growing seasons, working to plant, prune, take in and preserve Nophica's bounty. She often takes up light adventuring (see: Pest Control) in exchange for extra surplus to send to her 'extended' family of Duskwights who took her in as a young girl.She is grown now. The ways she has adapted, dedicated herself to surviving, are more honest than they have been in her past. Each turn passes quicker than the last, and challenges her physical limits a little more.To see her at work in summer's zenith, you would never imagine the toll it takes on her. She is a lively and cheerful presence in the Noscean farms and Nophica's wells, with a seemingly tireless work ethic and winsome nature.Her carefree zeal withers with the frost into fatigue and fret over scarcity, as she retreats to her underground haven from the cold. She overwinters with the Zanthella family, in a neighboring of Issom-Har, where they run a small grocery.She remembers fading horrors of the times before, of conflict in the mountains, birdmen descending in balloons to raid caches and drive her people hungry out of the highlands. She remembers the Mad King of Ala Mhigo and the ones he sent out, also, to slaughter them in their sleep.The peace beneath the deep roots holds her safely now.It is a home worth keeping on with.

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Shroud Folk Blues (Hooks)

Thematic Exploration
- Loose Concept: "What if the Persephone Myth was metaphor for Seasonal Affective Disorder?"
- Scarcity Mindset / Food Insecurity
- Migrant Labor Struggles
- Crossing Cultures
- Intersectional Marginality
- Community Obligations & BurnoutBotanists, Herbalists, Farmers
Avenrhi is known to many growers in La Noscea, Nophica's Wells in Thanalan, and some agricultural settlements in The Black Shroud & The Fringes. She has a sturdy reputation for being a strong-backed worker with a pleasant disposition, and is often looking for temporary opportunities to do day labor in exchange for a share of the harvest.While she is not a member of the Botanist's Guild, and therefore not subject to guild rates & conditions, she is handily skilled compared to many fresher faces to farm work, would sooner take her day's wages in produce rather than gil, and returns in fairly reliable cycles if folk treat her well.She is known to be especially resourceful with canning and preservation, and knows her way around the in & outs of storing foodstuffs.Gridanians
There was a family of Duskwights known as the Lazarets, who kept a small settlement close to the surface up near Peacegarden. Over 20 years ago, they gained notoriety for thieving from the Twelveswood's storehouses. They had an insider accomplice.A refugee girl, sheltered underground during the winter moons, and in the growing seasons sent topside to find a resourced household that would take her in. In a cuckoo scheme to siphon supplies from the surface-dwelling Gridanians, she would assist in sneaking goods to drop points, and when her benefactors grew suspicious, she would find another unsuspecting foster family in the following turn to steal from.This persisted for several years until the Lazarets were caught and tried for banditry, sentanced to suffering the Wood's fury. The girl, somehow, was spared the Greenwrath and disappeared into the Southern Shroud.Gelmorrans ( Gévaudan)
Avenrhi currently overwinters with the Zanthella household of Gévaudan, a small Duskwight settlement nearby the ruins of Issom-Har. Although she is Hyuran, she has generally been accepted by the neighborhood as one of their own who has greater access to the outer world, and has lived with the community for about twenty years now, playing a key role in its aboveground supply chain.Although she usually spends a majority of the darker moons at home in a restorative slump after toilsome seasons of productivity, the Zanthellas and their two children treat her as a tertiary adult of the household, and run a store for dry goods and other shelf-stable foodstuffs. They are no strangers to winter rationing which has allowed Gévaudan to endure in the wake of the 6th Umbral Calamity.Gyr Abanians
Avenrhi was born to a Highlander clan that hailed from the mountainous Abalathia's Spine region bordering Coerthas, Ixal Territory and what was then Ala Mhigo. Some 27 years ago, a family scattered by hardship was pushed down into the Northeastern reaches of the Black Shroud. While she's not particularly looking to reconnect with the remnant of her people, perhaps someone remembers a lost sister, a child left behind in the snows.

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OOC

Players under 18, I do engage with mature themes in storytelling, so while I will run game content with you and encourage you to explore your own creative works, please do not engage in roleplay with this character.Player Handle: Puli
Pronouns: She/Her
Time Zone: EST (GMT-5)
Discord: Whippetpuli
Data Center/Home World: Aether (NA) Sargatanas- lore-friendly, grounded and immersive RP
Gévaudan is a co-created Gelmorran RP community with shared history alongside several friends with Duskwight alts. Their story is meant to be interwoven with Avenrhi's. While their story engages with the Shroud setting's in-world racism and systemic challenged access to resources, we're hopefully handling this in a sensitive, mature way. Please don't hesitate to reach out it you have concerns.- open world & venues
While I'm okay with writing longer prose scenes on discord, I prefer to RP in real time and in a group setting than privately unless we have already established character and OOC contact.- vanilla
I play FFXIV on console and do not have access to 3rd party tools, so please be mindful when sending longer links with randomized characters strings via /tell that it will take me a tick to copy that into a browser. Please do not ask me to swap mooncodes. If your character is visually distinct from their in-game appearance the best way to convey that to me is in text narration or sliding me an image over discord.- recurring development & continuity
I'm interested in building long-term friendships, rivalries, romance, mentorships, trading partners, adventuring aquaintances and found family. While 1-off RP is a good time, I'm most interested in investing in building relationship gradually over multiple encounters.