#Why yes I did incorporate my decision to be a dragoon instead of a paladin into the lore

[sterling-starlight]

Letisya Dagasi 2.0

Aka: Do you know how hard it is to find Au Ri and Isgardian lore? I never had 7this problem in ESO

Name: Letisya Dagasi

Name day: 31st Sun of the Sixth Astral Moon (11/29)

Race & Clan: Au Ra, Xeala

Guardian: Halone, The Fury

City-State: Ul’dah

Grand Company: Order of the Twin Adder

Class: Lancer -> Dragoon

Background:  In roughly the 1553rd year of the Sixth Astral Era, Letisya was born into the Tumet Tribe of the Azim Steppe- although she was not given a name at that time. In keeping with tribal traditions, she was designated as “Nergui” -Nameless one- and would remain so unless she passed her Trial.  When she reached her tenth summer, she and two other children were bound to a sacred ash tree, with the expectation that they would be able to free themselves and track the tribe to their new location. 

On the second day, one of the children managed to escape. 

On the fourth day, the second child died of exposure.

On the fifth day, Nergui managed to free herself, starving and dehydrated but alive.  She wandered the Steppe for another five days, trying desperately to follow the trail left behind by her tribe, but the trail had gone cold. The winds had swept away any foot prints, and beasts that would have no qualms about eating her alive prowled the area.  On the morn of the fifth day, Nergui finally collapsed, not even having enough water in her body to cry about her pitiable state.  But fate was kind to this lost child, as she had collapsed just outside Reunion, where she was found by the lalafell, Nolulu Nolu, and her elezan lover,  Vallerin Dagasi.  An artesian and a healer respectfully, they were members of one of the foreign merchant caravans who made annual visits to Reunion to trade with the Xaela tribes.  That they had managed to find this tiny, emaciated girl before she died of exposure was nothing short of a miracle. 

Nergui rested in one of the yurts in Reunion for three days. The only timesshe was conscious was when the healers all but forced her to eat and drink. Nolulu, having studied multiple languages thanks to years working in the Sapphire Avenue Exchange, was able to piece together from one of the non- Qestir healers that the child was a Tumet-Khakhüü- a Lost Child of the Tumet Tribe.  Even if anyone knew where the Tumet tribe currently was, Nolulu would not stand for letting Nergui go back out to try and find them. 

“She’s a baby,” She said in between furious tears. “I’m not letting her back out there.” 

In contrast to Nolulu’s gentle altruism, Vallerin could only surmise that meeting a lost Xaela girl like this was The Fury’s way of offering him redemption. He had once counted himself among the Dragoon Knights of Ishgard, and served his homeland with pride and loyalty. He was also one of the soldiers responsible for the Crusade of Coerthas, wherein countless men, women, and even children died in agony on his lance. (Settlers. They had been Xaela settlers, not unholy abominations of men and dragons. Of course the truth came far too late; long after his lance was dyed red with their blood).  If he could save at least one life, then perhaps....

The choice was, ultimately, Nergui’s. She could either go with Nolulu and Vallerin and have a stable life, if not one disconnected from her Xaela heritage. On the other hand, she could regain her strength and continue her search for her tribe in earnest. She chose the former. She was, after all, still just a child. Rather than be given a name by someone else, she was allowed to choose her own name: Letisya (the name of one of the Xaela healers assisting Vellerin; it sounded pretty).  The three returned to Gridania as a new, mismatched family. 

The Calamity tore through their world and burned down everything around them. Nolulu had been rendered blind from the ash and cinders of Primal Bahamut’s wrath. Vallerin was caught underneath some burning rubble while trying to evacuate friends and neighbors, leaving the right side of his body horrifically scarred, and costing him that leg.  Bloodied, blind, and hopeless, the three of them clung to each other in the Twin Adder Barracks. Vellerin whispered prayers to Halone in between his sobs and gasps of pain. 

Somehow, they all survived the end of the world. 

Five years later, Letisya had continued her training as a lancer in earnest. She eventually resolved to become a mercenary, and set off for Ul’dah.

#final fantasy 14 #au ra oc #au ra girl #Why yes I did incorporate my decision to be a dragoon instead of a paladin into the lore #I had originally planned to write Nolulu out entirely but Tiny Mom was having none of that #WoL #Warrior of Light