Tikba (prime)

Tikba Liwan Tikba, portrayed with Midjourney by Kayse's player Race Aelotoi Culture Gaeh'deh Hometown Wehnimer's Landing Class Cleric Profession Dark Crusader Religion Marlu Affiliation(s) The Order of Eternal Light, Wehnimer's Landing Militia, Black Thorn Resistance, Black Hand Trading Company Demeanor Polite Hobbies Knitting Best Friend Kayse Thaellian

Tikba Liwan is an aelotoi cleric of Marlu who resides in Wehnimer's Landing.

Appearance

You see Arena Occultist Tikba Liwan the Dark Crusader of Marlu.
She appears to be an Aelotoi of the Gaeh'deh Clan.
She is taller than average.  She appears to be in the prime of life.  She has almond-shaped sea green eyes and sun-bronzed, coppery skin.  She has unevenly cut, tangled raven black hair pulled into a messy finger-raked bun and pinned haphazardly with a horn-slatted ornamental fan displaying a semicircular array of verlok feathers, leaving a few loose strands to hang about her face.  She has a perfectly symmetrical, delicately featured face and an irregular scar across her collarbone.  She has a pair of jade green wings adorned with some aqua sea glass ornaments striated with silvery threads.
Superimposed over Tikba's form is the ghostly silhouette of an aelotoi slave, a defiant expression on her face.
A blackened sigil has been branded into the flesh of her palm, the mark seeping tendrils of ebony smoke across a strand of prayerbeads wrapped around her wrist.
She gives off a contemplative demeanor.
She is holding a faewood crosier crowned with a dark iron six-tentacled star in her right hand.
She is wearing a six-tentacled star etched into a baystone cabochon, a threadbare paeline shroud covered in faded bloodstains, a stark white flyrsilk toqua spattered with detritus along its frayed hem, a lacquered kohl zydris back-scabbard, an ensigiled silk robe, a pale grey surplice sleeved with gossamer wisps, a black leather belt, a punched suede sack drawn by feathered ties, an etched glass cylinder containing a malformed kiramon egg, a pair of knitted multihued socks under a pair of hematite paeline wide-cuffed boots lofted on vor'taz horn heels.
The ground beneath Tikba writhes in swells of shadow, the demonic visages rising across her form before disappearing in a silent scream of dark mist.

Backstory

Tikba spent the first twenty years of her life on Bre'Naere in a mining colony, being forced by the kiramon to dig for increasingly rare gems in Bre'Naere's crust. When the portal to Elanthia opened, she escaped along with other aelotoi in her colony.

After arriving in Elanthia, Tikba lived in Cysaegir for several years, helping teach aelotoi children. At some point she decided to pursue a clerical vocation and became a Marluvian priest, a pursuit that required trips to Ta'Illistim to study relevant texts. Her dedication to Marlu caused some concern with her family, and after a frank discussion with them and the village elders, she departed Cysaegir for Wehnimer's Landing.

Current Events

Tikba was a campaign manager on Kayse's 5122 campaign for the Wehnimer's Landing Town Council. She is often seen near the warehouse belonging to Kayse's shipping concern, the Black Hand Trading Company.

Tikba attended the funeral of Spensor Caulfield, the Baron of Bourth, and spent some time talking with Larsya Caulfield and encouraging her to attend.

During the events of North by Northwest, Tikba joined the Wehnimer's Landing Militia. She is also known to have attended many meetings of the Black Thorn Resistance. Some of the documents posted on Moot Hall under the black thorn bear her careful handwriting.

Vignettes and Documents

Vignettes

• /Holidays -- Tikba writes her parents.

Public Documents

• /Sires and Mothers -- for the Thorns, on the right to speak.
• /None Are Blameless -- for the Thorns, on the right to worship.
• /Peace, For the Landing -- advocating for peace with the reivers.

Timeline

(This information is mostly for my benefit, and would probably not be known in detail to most people, but might be useful for you to identify when you happened to be in the same location at the same time as Tikba.)

Year	Event
5082	Tikba is born on Bre'Naere
5088	Tikba begins working in the mines
5097	A small revolt on Tikba's mining crew is put down by the kiramon
5103	Tikba comes through the portal to Elanthia. She settles in Cysaegir and becomes a teacher
5107	In Cysaegir, Tikba experiences the events of Revenge of the Kiramon
5108	Tikba travels to Ta'Illistim and begins studying magical principles at the Library Aies
5110	Tikba begins studying theology and divine magic at the Library Aies
5120	Tikba leaves Ta'Illistim and returns to Cysaegir
5121	Tikba becomes a cleric of Marlu
5122	Tikba departs Cysaegir and moves to Wehnimer's Landing

Pictures

Tikba, portrayed with Midjourney by Kayse's player