Chani Muraabe
Chani Muraabe
Alina Muraabe, Head Warden of the Absalom Menagerie, loves her son Chani more than any of the creatures she has ever captured and put on display, but together the responsibility of caring for all of her animals sometimes outbalances her responsibility to care for her son, and as a result the boy bounces between several authority figures, all of whom have their own designs for his future. The 11-year-old only child lost his father to an animal attack at the menagerie when Chani was but an infant. Chani himself nearly suffered the same fate as a toddler when he was once accidentally left in the cage of a jungle drake by an inattentive sub-warden, only to be discovered unharmed the next morning, the usually dangerous drake wrapped around him protectively as he slept. The affair became a minor sensation in the broadsheets, and for a short while the child with a preternatural rapport with some of the menagerie’s fiercest captive creatures drew larger crowds than the animals themselves ever had. The attention of Absalom is fickle, however, and by the time Chani turned 7 the novelty of his animal-whispering routine had grown stale, both with the public and with Chani himself.
A strong influence on young Chani is his mother’s friend, Scion Lord Yamthar of House Ormuz, who cares for him over the months when his mother is away hunting monsters for the menagerie (something that happens quite frequently). During these periods, the wily noble trains young Chani for his own purposes, seeing the child as something of a precocious protégé. Alina naturally wants and expects Chani to take over the Absalom Menagerie when he is old enough, but the boy has no interest in that fate, far preferring Lord Yamthar’s encouragement to train himself in the arts of diplomacy and mingle with the most dangerous animal of all—high nobility. Yamthar sponsored the boy’s Endiron School education (and bribes his instructors there to pay him special attention), and hopes to one day initiate him as a scion of Ormuz. Chani’s best friend at the academy is Lady Chandarin of House Morilla.
A strong influence on young Chani is his mother’s friend, Scion Lord Yamthar of House Ormuz, who cares for him over the months when his mother is away hunting monsters for the menagerie (something that happens quite frequently). During these periods, the wily noble trains young Chani for his own purposes, seeing the child as something of a precocious protégé. Alina naturally wants and expects Chani to take over the Absalom Menagerie when he is old enough, but the boy has no interest in that fate, far preferring Lord Yamthar’s encouragement to train himself in the arts of diplomacy and mingle with the most dangerous animal of all—high nobility. Yamthar sponsored the boy’s Endiron School education (and bribes his instructors there to pay him special attention), and hopes to one day initiate him as a scion of Ormuz. Chani’s best friend at the academy is Lady Chandarin of House Morilla.
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