Riya Jhangiani
"Gathers-the-Past"
Tilau of the Bagheera
Steel Assistant Historian
Twilight of the Silver Chain
Lantern of the Gray Gloaming
Ethereal Phantom of the Court of Bamboo Talons
Description
Homid
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 123 lb.
Ethnicity: Indian
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Red Indian ethnic
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: A lovely young woman
Supernatural Qualities: Of fine breeding and pedigree (surely a high caste)
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry, henna tattoos
Traits: Appearance 4 (captivating); Style 1; Pure Breed 3; Glory 4, Virtue 4, Wisdom 5
Sokto
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 167 lb.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long wild black
Clothing: Red Indian ethnic
Distinctions: A lovely young woman
Supernatural Qualities: Of fine breeding and pedigree (surely a high caste) with curious and striking feline characteristics
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry, henna tattoos
Traits: Appearance 3; Style 1; Pure Breed 3; Glory 4, Virtue 4, Wisdom 5
Crinos
Height: 7'7"
Weight: 483 lb.
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Inky-black fur
Supernatural Qualities: Of fine breeding and pedigree, but also a terrifying panther-woman hybrid
Traits: Appearance 0; Pure Breed 3; Reduced Delirium; Glory 4, Virtue 4, Wisdom 5
Chatro
Height: 7'1"
Weight: 431 lb.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Inky-black fur
Supernatural Qualities: Of fine breeding and pedigree, but also a terrifying sabre-toothed panther
Traits: Appearance 0; Pure Breed 3; Full Delirium; Glory 4, Virtue 4, Wisdom 5
Feline
Height: 3'3"
Weight: 59 lb.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Inky-black fur
Supernatural Qualities: Of fine breeding and pedigree, but also a full-grown prowling panther
Traits: Appearance 4 (captivating); Pure Breed 3; Glory 4, Virtue 4, Wisdom 5
"The Phantom Vedas will always guide us to prosperity and victory."
History
Date of Birth: April 21st, 1982
Home: Agra, Utter Pradesh, India
Family: Ganesh and Kanti Jhangiani (parents), Shinu (younger sister)
First Change: Personal Tragedy (grew up in a middle-class Vaisya family, father a banker and mother an educated housewife who emphasized literature study, and Riya got into Delhi University, studied hard, and the pressure to succeed edged her closer and closer to a breaking point, filling her dreams with scary primal thoughts, such that when her college boyfriend Ranjan tried to push her into sex, she snapped and Raged, killing the poor lad), 2000
Mentor: Yogarasa the Over-Thinker
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (luckily, a Bagheera Kinfolk was in the dorm and disovered the mess and alerted her Trueborn relative, who came and picked up the frantic kit in order to teach her the Bastet ways; Yogarasa took Riya from DU and away from the area, up into the foothills of the Himalayas, and ultimately urged her to choose her own path in life)
Comrades: Yogarasa the Over-Thinker, Chandi Vind, Lais Jivvel
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (still hungry to learn, she decided to return to school to finish her degree, but also studied her own Bastet history, mostly through introspective ancestral reflections)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (at taghairms, she often gave good advice to fellow Bagheera and Khan about future threats to avoid as learned from understanding the past; she was encouraged to take up the Great Burden and represent the Bagheera among the hengeyokai)
Transition: Shift in Purpose (she agreed, and a Makara guru guided her to the new Beast-Court in distant Little Asia of Kansas City in America; there she went, making friends easily, serving a noble purpose, even bloodying her claws against the Centipede, and also starting a family with a handsome if troublesome man, and their now 7-year old daughter, Asoka)
Past Life
Magnitude: Well into the 4th Age easily (10th-century)
Details: Remembers traveling the Silk Road farther west and east, remembers the last of the mythic heroes, and remembers the rise of the Mughals and their friends and foes
Fetishes
Kinship Doll
Appearance: A Thanjavur doll of an androgynous individual in traditional male Hindi wedding attire
Origin: Gift
Effects: Detect the location of the Kinfolk bound to the doll (currently, Lais)
Activation: The doll must be placed and allowed to "bobble" for a bit
Significant Others
Names: Lais Jivvel, 2003; Chandi Vind, 2010
Nature: Romantic; Companionship
Lais
Chandi
Weakness
Presentism
As an avid and scholarly historian, Riya knows to take care when it comes to judging the past or speculating about the future based on the facts of history. Yet, it's not something to be avoided (or else what is the use of history?), but rather carefully balanced with wisdom. This then is forever the challenge.
Likelihood of Corruption
Very low.
Riya doesn't get herself into sticky situations with Yomispawn and she ranks in a Beast-Court with many careful eyes on its members.
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