White Tower - Diamanda din Urein - Accepted

[Jagen Sedai]

Name:

Diamanda din Urein

Age:

37 (Born in 961 NE)

Place of birth:

Aryth Ocean, on the ship Blue Star

 

Physical Description: Diamanda has the typical dark skin of the Sea Folk, black wavy hair past her shoulders and dark brown eyes. Her face is round and soft, and she is of a 5'4 height, making her look a bit younger than she actually is. She has a six pointed blue star tattooed between thumb and forefinger on her right hand, along with a couple of other smaller tattoos there. On her left hand are stars and seagulls among stylized waves, showing her clan and family line. She wears no jewelry, but sometimes ties her hair back with a simple ribbon.

Diamanda also walks with a grace obtained from her life growing up on ships.

 

Personality:

Diamanda has a friendly personality, but is stubborn in the sense she likes getting her way, especially when it comes to pursuing her goals and interests. She would rather read or draw than converse with others, often feeling on the outside of any social group she is actually in. However, she also had a strong desire to be admired, and to be powerful, and so was studious in any goal she pursued.

 

Character History:

While she performed well as a crew member growing up on ships, she had dreams of seeing more than just the ocean from the decks. It was, for a while, her ambition to become a Sailmistress, but many around her did not think she had what it would take. Instead, she got into the habit of reading books about different cultures and lands, and thus that wish to command a ship waned in favor of adventure elsewhere. Around the age of sixteen, with both pressure from her older sister and a desire to be something more than she was, Diamanda asked to be tested three times to become a Windfinder. She did not think she'd actually be able to channel anymore than she'd manage to go off and have adventures, so it was quite a shock when the test confirmed she had the ability to learn. Diamanda spent the next five years as a Windfinder apprentice on three different ships. But as she neared the end of her first stage of apprenticeship, she had the epiphany that she did not want to be stuck rising and falling in rank for the rest of what would be a long life, and if she became a Windfinder she would never be able to see the lands as she wished. Thus, at twenty-one, in 982 NE, during a port call in Bandar Eban, she snuck her things off-board while helping to move cargo, and simply did not return to the ship.

 

Diamanda made for the other side of the city without looking back, lest she question her own actions. Knowing she had to get away as fast and far as possible, she spent days in an inn until she overheard word of a trading caravan heading for Saldaea. She offered this caravan her skills as a guard (fighting skills had to be learned by all to help fight off pirates, if any were silly enough to attack their ship) and so secured her passage. She stayed with the caravan for a year, until they found themselves in Shol Arbela in Arafel. It was in this capital city Diamanda heard of Aes Sedai visiting the king, and it was this simple comment that made her think she could become Aes Sedai herself--what better way to become more than what she was?

 

Thus in 983 NE, she found herself in Tar Valon, and she wanted nothing more than to become one of the powerful women of the White Tower. When Diamanda arrived at the Tower, she lied about her age and said she was sixteen. Soon after was put in novice white, it did not take long for the only other two Sea Folk in the Tower to find her. Both older Brown Ajah sisters, they made contact with Diamanda early on to assess her. When they realized she had not been sent to the Tower as they had, they admonished her rather harshly, and would variously visit her while she was still a novice to make sure she was doing her duty to keep the secret of Windfinders. Both her own honor and fear of their wraith guaranteed her secrecy.

 

Character Reputation:

As a novice and Accepted, Diamanda did her best but sometimes had trouble focusing and truly absorbing her learning, and with learning to channel she was fairly mediocre even with previous training. Diamanda is known to be stubborn, impatient and for being compulsive, rather than carefully planning anything out too far. She has a lively personality and can be out going, but refuses to talk about her past on the salt (the term Sea Folk use for the ocean). Unfortunately her insistence on this secrecy earned her few close friends. She spent eight years as a novice even working as hard as she could. Diamanda is known to be reliable, organized and practical in her decision making, but her impatience and desire to get to results quickly often worked against her.

In 991 she was raised to Accepted. As she matured, she also came to be known as being rather productive, liking to keep herself busy and finish any projects assigned to her by her teachers. She has somewhat grown more patient but not by much. She spends time in the library when she can, studying about other cultures or reading history. Diamanda is known among the novices to settle disputes they don't want the Mistress of Novices finding out about, and on the other side is also known for being a somewhat strict, results-oriented teacher who does not like laziness in novices.

The older Sea Folk sisters still contact her once in a while, trying to guide her into choosing Brown when she is raised, but Diamanda thinks she will chose another Ajah.

Edited November 29, 2021 by Jagen Sedai

[Cass]

Love it Jagen, no issues that I can see - and such a great backstory!

[Jagen Sedai]

Thanks! I'll have to RP her soon then!

[Arie]

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