Merchant Princess Shiva Keshavarz
Merchant Princess Shiva Keshavarz (a.k.a. The Witch Princess, The Bitch Princess)
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Shiva Keshavarz was was gifted from a young age with a craving for knowledge and craving for knowledge and power that unsettled her father who had high hopes of marrying her to a wealthy man. Luckily for her Shiva's mother had long learned how to manipulate her weak willed father and ensured that Shiva was allowed to practically devour every book, scroll and tome she could. Soon her talent for wizardry became obvious and her mother convinced her father to have her tutored in arcane magic (a rare occurrence for a Lumian Woman in the Principalities) and Shiva took to this like a duck to water blending a latent talent for wind magic with studious esoteric study.
Though women wizards are not unheard in the Principalities many still struggle with cultural hold overs from pervious eras when women has less freedoms in Western Lumaic culture and so it was for Shiva for in spite of her being a genius of rare mental acuity she had to work twice as hard for her tutors to acknowledge her. By the time she was acknowledged as a wizard by her peers she had become a focused woman unwilling to relent in the face of adversity.
Needing ever greater funding for her research and mastery of magic she turned her mind towards adventure and lost magic in the eons old ruins that dot the great waste. Abandoning any chance of being married off by her father she set out to spite the people who had looked down on her intellect and magical prowess by becoming better then all of them. With in a few short months she had doubled her magical powers and formed an adventuring guild of skilled companions who traveled the region working as mercenaries hunting monsters and investigating supernatural phenomena. The wizard discovered she had a knack for making money and management and her guild became well regarded for their professional approach to the adventuring profession.
As the guild branched into several towns and cities Shiva set her mind on a new goal, she would be the first female wizard to be a Merchant Princess and sit on the council of Princes. As determined as anything else in her life she dedicated herself to building her guild and support businesses into an endeavor that when combined with her growing power over arcane magic allowed her to become very wealthy very rapidly.
When she applied to run for merchant princess it was with such an overwhelming number of assets that none could deny her the right. More so when the bulk of her own employees and their families voted her into power those who balked at a woman wizard could not deny she had fairly and legally attained her new rank.
A genius with few peers and a mage of no small power she leaves many ill at ease for her ability to dismantle nearly any foe with her mental prowess and her master over the arcane have left many quietly wondering the extent of her ability or what powers she might call upon to any who dare to oppose her. She has a number of unfavorable nick names but to her friends and employees she is a fair woman with a passion for learning and magic who never gives up and has the power to approach nearly any problem with unbiased emotionless clarity.
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