Chryssa
"Cheer up! I know the whole world is falling apart around us, but, it isn't all bad! We still have each other!"
Chryssa Sil is a girl from the Mountains of Sil in central Vreathe.
Saya and
Myles found her one day, crying over the body of a dead troll. Months later, after learning how to speak the common language of Eastern Vreathe, Chryssa explained that she came from a different land and was the last of her kind. There are no more golden humans left on Vreathe except for her.
Chryssa is being hunted by the Inakan Elves to fulfil a prophecy about capturing the last golden human, a prophecy about summoning the dark god Tazil and ending the world. Chryssa has been traveling with Saya, Myles, and Raini for the last seven years, and she has been pretty sucessful at evading capture, though as the Inakans press on in their efforts to conquer all human lands, her options for escape are rapidly shrinking.
Personality
Chryssa has always been cheery and optimistic, and very little has been able to change that. She has every right to be a hateful person and lose all hope, seeing as she is the last of her kind, almost everyone she knows is dead, and when she was younger she watched her mother give up on this world and fade into another plane of existence before her eyes. The sadness of these events have all been temporary though, and she remains optimistic that everything will turn out alright in the end.
Physical description
Even though she is from an entirely different race of humans, Chryssa doesn't look very different from ethnic Yurrians with her golden hair and green eyes, which is part of the reason she has been able to evade capture for so long. Where she differs is that her skin can't burn or tan even under the most intense sunlight. Her hair will gradually darken over time the less she is in the sun as if it requires light to keep its brilliance. Like many powerful spellcasters on Vreathe, her hair and eyes will glow when she uses magic.
Chryssa usually has her hair in a loose braid. She always wears light clothing and doesn't have a need for armor. When traveling she wears more fuctional clothes like boots, gloves, and pants, but when in town, she is always seen wearing a light dress of some kind and is often barefoot, even in the winter, as cold icy weather has about as little of an effect on her as intense summer heat does.
...I just went through a linguistics crisis last week. I decided I did, in fact, need at least one ancient language, something akin to how modern US English uses Latin or Greek for a lot of its roots. This led me down a linguistics rabbit hole of epic proportions. The problem I encountered is that all of my world-building is based on the setting for my novel, which has a main character. So once I added in this language, Siobhan, my MC with the VERY OBVIOUSLY Gaelic spelling (it's the proper spelling of the American name Chevonne or Shevonne, in case you've never encountered it in writing)...couldn't be named that anymore! Because those phenomes didn't exist in this new language. Fortunately, I was able to fiddle with a couple of word definitions and came up with a very satisfactory solution which appeased both my head ('she simply cannot have a Gaelic name, now') and my heart ('but THAT IS HER NAME!'), so she is now Shiv, and alllll the voices are at peace. About that. This is all my long-winded way of saying that I completely understand allllll of the complicated feelings that go along with the delicate balance of character Name. <3
Haly, the Moonlight Bard
Thanks for the insight and thanks for reading! I haven't tried inventing a whole language for this world yet. I mostly just been using Latin to sort of represent the ancient language. I've been kind of butchering the more recent ones as sort of Spanish and sort of French and so on, but yeah, its gonna be a struggle if and when I do.
When I explored the language template, I found a link there for VulgarLang.com, which is a linguistics-based language generator. You can just click a button and get a 400 word fantasy language and it's even really easy to import the whole thing into WA. IF you want to get fancy with it, you can even go in and really edit and fidgit with alllllllll the settings. But you don't NEED to know ANYTHING about linguistics to get a good, solid language. (I was so impressed, that I went ahead and shelled out the like...I think $20....for a lifetime subscription. But, that's what worked and was convenient for me, your results and needs may vary!)
Haly, the Moonlight Bard