Appearance

Physical Description

average height, tanned skin, scaled flesh, shaggy red hair cut short above the shoulders

Identifying Characteristics

scar on bridge of nose, tanned skin, scaled flesh

Apparel & Accessories

leather etched armor with uniform trimmings, occasionally draped in a hooded cloak

Mentality

Personal history

Akhana admits she was not attractive as a teenager, did not stand out in a crowd, and did not care one way or another about life, her future, or her studies when she was in grade school. She grew up in Yoke around tools and metallurgy curiosity with a flair for learning secrets and sneaking about.
Her colorlessness, she now realizes, made her the ideal candidate as an informer for the Lockstitch Academy when she was just 17. That and her willingness to fit in and do as she was told.
 
“It was out of the blue,” she recalls, still slightly nervous, decades later.
 
“I was asked to come to the headmaster’s office. There I met a man who was in his mid-20s. All I knew about him was he was from the ruling class of Yoke. I was surprised. I did not guess then what he wanted. He asked me if I was prepared to help Yoke, and because I was impatient to start a new adventure, I agreed”.
 
Three months after this first meeting with her handler, Akhana became one of Yokes’ 200 informers and child spies who were under the age of 18.
 
Akhana is politically astute and sensitive to the fluctuations of power through information. Spies have been around since power has been around, but what we think of as modern spy craft—codes, enigma machines, undercover operations, sleeper agents—was still in its infancy in this post-academy period.
There was a strong feeling in some parts of Yokan society that a revolution force would have animosity against the ruling class if they had not been betrayed—by traitors, by refugees, by so-called degenerates. In 1921, the Yokan revolution movement was just beginning. Calling themselves the Free Corps this fluid group of people gathered all the disaffected, angry, disappointed Yokans—mostly former miners—and gave them purpose through a shared hatred.
 
This revolution movement was a direct response to poor working conditions, substandard living conditions, and general grief with distrust for the ruling class. These ideas also informed other cultural changes, the most interesting of which, for me, is the changing place of women in Liminal society.

Education

Akhana had a typical grade school experience, then was recruited to join the Lockstitch Academy.

Employment

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Intellectual Characteristics

Akhana thinks on her feet, has acute analysis ability, likes to be challenged to solve puzzles or sticky situations.

Morality & Philosophy

Religion of Metallurgy
Besides the celestial sacredness of the sky, immanent in meteorites, there was now the telluric sacredness of the earth, in which mines and ore share. Metals grow in the bosom of the earth. Caves and mines are assimilated to the womb of Mother [planet name that Liminal exists].
 
The ores extracted from mines are in some sense embryos. They grow slowly, as if obeying a temporal rhythm different from that of vegetable and animal organisms; nevertheless, they do grow, they ripen in the telluric darkness. Hence, their extraction from Mother Earth is an operation performed prematurely. If they had been given the time to develop (that is, if they were to come to term in geological time), ores would become ripe, or perfect metals. Belief in the natural growth, and thus in the metamorphosis, of metals is of very ancient origin in Liminal.
 
Yokans in the Metallurgy religion have a strong sense of self and the believe that our lands will provide for our needs.

person.sexuality

open to new ideas but most experience with male partners

person.gender_identity

Female

Personality

Motivation

My motivation is to succeed against all odds, be instrumental in securing a 'win'. I'm easy going but always keep my guard up.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies: stealth, manipulation, power of suggestion, trusting
 
Ineptitudes: foreseeing complications

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: tinkering, metal work, solving puzzles
 
Dislikes: public speaking, being the center of attention or in the spotlight, inefficiency

Vices & Personality flaws

Vices: drinking a bit, smoking
 
Flaws: overthinking conundrums

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