Nandi Zubane Aluhlaza
“The Long Tale”
Tilau of the Swara
Day of the Ghost Tails
Description
Homid
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 135 lb.
Ethnicity: Black
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Green and blue casual
Comportment/Cadence: Welcoming
Distinctions: Dreamy African girl whose open-hearted compassion, understanding, and grace are plain to see
Supernatural Qualities: She is clearly of solid breeding
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 5 (delightful); Style 3; Pure Breed 3; Culture Knack; Ferocity 3, Honor 5, Cleverness 7
Sokto
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 148 lb.
Eyes: Light-brown
Hair: Long wild black
Supernatural Qualities: She is clearly of solid breeding in spite of, or because of, her fiercer look in this form
Traits: Appearance 5 (delightful); Style 3; Pure Breed 3; Culture Knack; Ferocity 3, Honor 5, Cleverness 7
Crinos
Height: 6'10"
Weight: 265 lb.
Eyes: Golden
Hair: Tawny-yellow black-spotted fur
Supernatural Qualities: She is clearly of solid breeding, evidenced in the elegance of her tall, lithe, and deadly catwoman war-form
Traits: Appearance 0; Pure Breed 3; Ferocity 3, Honor 5, Cleverness 7; Reduced Delirium
Chatro
Height: 7'2"
Weight: 285 lb.
Eyes: Golden
Hair: Tawny-yellow black-spotted fur
Supernatural Qualities: Though of solid breeding, this massive cheetah-like "cave cat" sports a pair of terrifying saber-like teeth
Traits: Appearance 0; Pure Breed 3; Ferocity 3, Honor 5, Cleverness 7; Full Delirium
Feline
Height: 4'8"
Weight: 145 lb.
Eyes: Golden
Hair: Tawny-yellow black-spotted fur
Supernatural Qualities: She is clearly of solid breeding, this sleek and swift predatory cheetah
Traits: Appearance 5 (delightful); Pure Breed 3; Ferocity 3, Honor 5, Cleverness 7; Reduced Delirium
"I could sit and listen to your story all day but I really need to run."
History
Date of Birth: February 18th, 1984
Home: Chiredzi, Masvingo, Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
Family: Daza and Elethu Aluhlaza (parents), Zibu (younger sister)
First Change: Personal Tragedy (she proved a bright young mind from the beginning, and earned a charity scholarship to attend school at the Great Zimbabwe University, where she studied hard for her exams, but the stress and exhaustion spurred a series of hallucinatory visions that culminated in her first change as a cheetah that had her frantically flee the campus into the wilderness beyond town), 2002
Mentor: Edzai Ibwe
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (in senseless confusion and fear, she wandered the rugged scrublands of Gonarezhou National Park until Edzai, a fellow Swara, tracked her down and taught her all she needed to know about Bastet life over the next year)
Comrades: Isuba Amadi, Lulama Yongose Dikela, Kaaria Rhudo
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (she returned to school but filled her free time with Swara duties, acting as a scout for Killi who needed a guide for the wilderness; her studies shifted into a focus on indigenous literature and myths, which she by far loved the most; her thoughtful mind drew the patronage of the Jamak, Whispers)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (Nandi next volunteered to teach African literature overseas and was hired as a professor at Kansas City University, where she met fellow emeritus Kaaria Rhudo; she aided his own research, proving to be a human mage and shaman, and her assistance often pitted her against the demons he sought to thwart or vanquish)
Transition: Shift in Purpose (she fell in love with Kaaria and married him; they planned a family together, but they both also decided to retire to South Africa, taking up university roles in Durban; here she hoped to help fellow Africans recover their history and stories; she also eavesdropped and learned plenty of dirty secrets about the rest of the university's faculty)
Past Life
Magnitude: Her excellent connection to her ancestral past facilitates her authentic knowledge of African myths and stories, reaching back long before the Great Bantu Expansion (BCE).
Details: She can name numerous Swara heroes and leaders, including one of the first great heroes, Running Spots, as well as Kwiza Shadow-Leaper (a great Umbral pioneer). She also has an enemy who has yet to reveal himself, linked to her ancestry from the royal Dombo family that repelled the Portuguese invaders in the 17th-century. This enemy is the Sabbat priscus, Calixto Diego de Costa Guimarăes, charged with "conquering the Dark Continent" for the sect. This Lasombra vampire is aware of the "Lupines" and their feline cousins' ability to reincarnate their past heroes and swore revenge against the Swara line that dared to support the Rozvi Empire against his mortal pawns.
Trinkets
Spirit Tracer
Appearance: A human hair suspended in and through a tiny iron ingot.
Origin: Gift
Effects: Track a spirit.
Activation: One must hold the fetish by the hair and let the ingot move and point in the direction it tracks.
Significant Other
Name: Kaaria Rhudo, 2005
Nature: Romantic
Kaaria
Weakness
Catch-and-Release
She may be a Swara, a werecheetah, and a predator, but she's also got quite a kind heart. She is the kind of cat who will pounce its prey but then lackadaisically let the victim, quivering in terror, slip away. And she's always been like this. It's one of the reasons she's got an ancient vampire enemy looking for her...
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Not only is Nandi a sweetheart who keeps out of trouble, her man helps keep an eye out and on her.
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