Ketewa Tsali
Sunika of the Shaded Garden
Tsalagiyehli
Occluded Paths
Brave of the Yunwi Tsundsi
Description
Mortal Seeming
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 110 lb.
Ethnicity: Native American
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Tan ethnic
Comportment/Cadence: Bashful
Distinctions: Ketewa is rarely seen, preferring to lurk in the hedges and on the edges of woodlands, but when the beautiful Cherokee girl does emerge, she appears to be a short and shapely woman of clear indigenous heritage by both her distinct and pleasing manner of dress and copper skin color
Supernatural Qualities: none
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 5 (comely); Style 2
Fae Mien
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 110 lb.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Tan ethnic
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Supernatural Qualities: In her true form, the Yunwi Tsundsi is more comfortable and confident in her true skin and voile; she's also thinner if not much taller, and possessing of a superlative grace and beauty, far more given to smiles and laughter
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry, deerhorn knife (chimerical)
Traits: Appearance 5 (comely); Style 2
“The earth does not adapt to us. We adapt to her.”
History
Date of Birth: September 27th, 1984
Home: Fairfield, Oklahoma, United States
Family: Nootau and Awinita Tsali (parents), Taregan (younger brother); Etu (son)
Chrysalis: Preordainment (Ketewa grew up on the Cherokee Reservation in Oklahoma, raised mostly by her Grandma after her parents split up and left the area; from her grandmother, she learned much about traditional Cherokee life, gardening, jewel-crafting, and herbalism; her mother also turned out to be Kinain to the Nunnehi Family, and led young Ketewa on a vision-quest to stir her faerie soul; after Grandma's herbs stirred her spirit, she went onto a real vision quest and regained her past lives' memories of her faerie truth), 2002
Mentor: Chepi Clearsky
The Test: Trial by Influence (her Grandma directed her to visit a national indigenous festival, and there Ketewa met other Nunnehi who taught her all the basics of faerie life and the craft she would need to both survive and complete her holy role)
Comrades: Anevay Greenwood, Aiyana Greenwood, Sunhawk, Vai Veahtoish, Namida Apiatan, Pana Ohanzee
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (Ketewa began to travel the land, mostly the Midwest, beautifying nature and public land as she went)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (then she met Sunhawk and the two Nunnehi fell in love, though their romance was often volatile and argumentative, as despite her shyness she was more open and the Canotili more mistrustful)
Transition: Loss of Companions (during their romance, they had a son in 2005, which they named Etu; together, on the fringes of civilization, they carefully raised their boy; she and Sunhawk still had occasional arguments, sometimes even leading her to take Etu and flee back to the reservation, but she always returned to her true heart, plus she's troubled by some of the grim and apocalyptic dreams she had been having of late...)
Vision
Magnitude: Ketewa can remember back to when White Man first arrived.
Details: Unsurprisingly, the Trail of Tears stands out in particular, and the role she played as a medicine woman trying to keep her people alive on that forced march west.
Chimera
Knife
Appearance: A one-sided iron knife set in a carved deer-horn hilt, as much an herbalist's tool as it is a self-defense weapon
Origin: Inherent
Bunk Styles
Style: Arts & Crafts
Examples: Make jewelry, mold natural greenscape, tell a tribal tale, make willowbark tea
Significant Other
Name: Sunhawk, 2004
Nature: Volatile
Sunhawk
Weakness
Maker's Fingers
Ketewa feels obliged to always be creating and improving on the world around her. She considers it a sacred duty, and so she always keeps busy (by contrast, consider Sunhawk's frequent layabout lifestyle). But sometimes, things must simply be left be.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
She's far too busy with her family and sacred duty to worry herself about the greed of European-Americans or the dark spirits they summon.
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