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Character Bio:

Note: The characters are given a birth date to place them in a timeline, but are not given
a death date. The purpose of this bio is to provide a foundation for the character leading
up to the character’s first appearance.

Rahli Prince

Race: Daitari
Born: 1943 YGE
Height: 4’ 1”
Weight: 70 lbs
Eyes: purple-blue with gold flecks
Hair: Blond, straight
Skin: Pale, but not albino
Origin: Arynstar Undercity

Rahli is a Daitari; one of the unholy hybrid crosses between the linyth race and
the human race. Like all Daitari, his entire being, Body and Soul, is mixed in a cursed
tangle of supernatural genetics.
The first story that he appears in is “The Hunt of Anim,” and he is introduced at
the age of thirty, though his disfigurement makes it hard to place his actual age.
Thelembi and Rahli were born to a human mother and a Linyth father. They were the
product of an obscene ritual to the demon Ruex, the Master of Hounds, and the consort of
Anim. The mother was a temple prostitute, selected for this particular sacrifice. The
father had been captured in the desert. He had endured the removal of his horn before the
ritual, and then turned loose after the ritual, as the demon Ruex demands.
The mother died in childbirth. The children were offered up to Anim as a
sacrifice and left alive at an oasis in the desert for the wild animals to consume. They
were discovered by an atheist slaver who paired them with one of his girls.
Unfortunately, on his trip to Arynstar, he was assassinated by a rival on his third day at
the slave auction, right in front of the market square in the Undercity’s C district. The
public assassination resulted in a riot that freed all of the slaves at the market.
Free from bondage, the woman decided to keep the children rather than smother
them. She began to work for a living, though the wage of the Undercity barely kept the
small family from starvation. After a couple of years doing whatever people would pay
her to do, and once Thelembi and Rahli could fend for themselves, she finally got a
permanent job working at one of the public baths. Unfortunately, the cost of taking such
a job was her vision. Servants at the public baths were always blinded or deafened by
law, though by allowing themselves to be disabled, they, were guaranteed a living wage
for themselves and their dependant children until they reached the age of majority at 15.
For a few more years, the boys helped their mother home, keeping her safe from
the cruel streets. Then, in 1957 YGE, fire swept through C district. The mother died as
she tried to escape. Rahli was trapped under a fallen housebeam, and though Thelembi
rescued him, Rahli lost his legs at the knees. For the next 15 years, they would live as
homeless youths in C district. Thelembi cared for his brother with renewed attention. He
carries Rahli on his back in a dirty sling at nearly all times, which earned him the
surname “Porter.”
Rahli is Surnamed “prince” not just because he is carried everywhere, but because
his hideous appearance reminds people of the stories of the half-demons. Rahli’s skin is
not scarred, but he is absolutely disfigured. He is missing his legs at the knees, and the
skin of his forehead and his hands have seemingly melted down as a result of the fire. He
is hairless. He lacks outer ears, though he does not have trouble hearing, and the skin of
his forehead melted down over his left eye. Though it does work, it takes effort for him
to open that eye. He is lacking the cartilage on his nose, and the skin of his left cheek
hangs off, so it looks as if his face had been made of clay and them marred by being
pulled down on one side. His hands look like misshapen claws, where the flesh has
melted downward, fusing his digits together. He can still use his hands, though they look
troubling.
Rahli has strong arms, but is weak in comparison to Thelembi, because walking
on his stumps or on all fours causes him a great deal of pain. Instead of developing as an
athletic youth, he has learned to read and write, and even with his twisted hands he has
learned to hold a brush or a charcoal. Though the undercity is a place of impoverished,
uneducated people who are considered subhuman by the surface, all of the old houses and
city supports have ancient writing on it that is now the language of the priesthood of both
pantheons and of the upper class. By learning this language, Rahli has learned the
ancient shortcuts through the district, and has discovered arcane hiding holes and places
where they can keep safe from spirits, magic, demons, and even the priests of the demon
pantheon.
Through the ancient language, he deciphered the common language. Because of
this literacy, he has kept his brother alive on numerous occasions, though he has to be
careful. The ability to read is a very rare thing among the citizens of the Undercity, and
though it has the potential to earn money, it also increases the risk of assassination or
indoctrination into the pantheon of man’s clergy. The God-Emperor’s law has made it
illegal for any lay citizen of the undercity to read the ancient language. Thelembi has
pilfered bits of scrap and broken stone with writing on it over the years for Rahli to read
in hopes that someday they might escape the undercity.

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