Okiye Nanyihe
Ganohali of the Canopied Quiver
Lakota
Red Ring
Brave of the Canotili
Description
Mortal Seeming
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 122 lb.
Ethnicity: Native American
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long wild black
Clothing: Tan Lakota ethnic
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Teenager that looks and acts older than she looks
Supernatural Qualities: Cold almost predatory edge to her eyes
Accoutrements: Always arrmed with at least a knife
Traits: Appearance 4 (wild)
Fae Mien
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 101 lb.
Ethnicity: Native American
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long wild black
Clothing: Tan Lakota ethnic
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Teenager that looks and acts older than she looks
Supernatural Qualities: Eyes shine when light hits them like a cat's; her fingers and toes lengthen dexterously; her body diminishes in height and weight, with more angular facial features
Accoutrements: A carefully crafted bow, tomahawk, and knife
Traits: Appearance 4 (wild)
"I am both pride and shame."
History
Date of Birth: April 7th, 1993
Home: Fort Yates, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, United States
Family: Mahkah and Chapa Nanyihe (parents), Ehawee (younger sister), Wachiwi (younger sister)
Chrysalis: Preordainment (born and raised on the Standing Rock Lakota reservation in the Dakotas, learning of her tribe's traditional ways in an often vilified context of modern America, and even as a small child she dreamed of primal hunts, until one day she speared a porcupine in the woods, and so while laughed at for hunting such a helpless creature, she was a freshly minted Canotili youngling), 2006
Mentor: Mahkpia Luta
The Test: Trial by Games (an aging Canotili Elder took her into his Lodge with one other young Canotili and taught her how to follow the ways of the Family, sacred Medicine, and the spirit world)
Comrades: Mahkpia Luta, Zonta Host
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (after earning the approval of Whitewater, she fled her reservation home once recognized as an "adult", following the Missouri River south until the spirits whispered of trouble ahead)
Key Event #2: Personal Tragedy (the spirits guided her to the Smithville Woods outside Kansas City and to the Red Ring glade, but savvy Kithain woodsmen captured her before she could have an impact or even stand a chance of liberating this sacred place)
Transition: Defeat (held captive, she decided to try to change these foreign fae from within their ranks by pretending at being an ally)
Vision
Magnitude: Before the Pure Lands Shattering (circa 14th-century)
Details: She recalls adventures and battles against encroaching Families and terrible beasts she famously fell
Chimera
Hunter's Bow
Appearance: A recurved short bow of polished ram horn with a quiver of hawk-feathered arrows
Origin: Inherent
Knife
Appearance: A bone-handled iron-bladed single-edged knife
Origin: Inherent
Tomahawk
Appearance: A perfectly-balanced iron-headed hatchet tied to a shaft of solid unstained poplar
Origin: Inherent
Bunk Styles
Style: Extreme Survival
Examples: Bite the head off a snake, search the clouds for a way, run until exhausted, bury self under natural forest debris
Significant Other
Name: Martin Anderson; 2008
Nature: Volatile
Martin
Weakness
Fierce Gaze
Okiye was born and bred on a heavy dose of hate of the European interlopers. But she's inexperienced and green and in no way ready to confront this nemesis and rival. She tried and tries anyway, to her terrible, inexorable failure.
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
Though she listens to good advice from the spirit world, she's surrounded by a lot of bad.
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