▍ ❝   RULE ONE.
As stated above, this is my little ffxiv universe that I've interpreted and potentially altered to my own liking and tastes. Most MSQ beats remain as far as I've poked so far, but this is a creative outlet for me and so it can and will change in the future! Please be respectful to the creative liberties that I (and other creatives in general) have taken. Thank you! <3▍ ❝   RULE TWO.
I do not tolerate any bigoted or hateful behavior or beliefs. My characters are queer. I am queer. Don't like that, move on. Therefore, none of the following will be tolerated: transphobia, homophobia, racism, pedophilia, antisemitism, zionism, ableism, xenophobia, zoophilia, etc.

▍ ❝   RULE THREE.
I do not really collab/rp/erp. I will only do so potentially with friends and at my own discretion. I just do this in spare time for fun! Wanna collab? Be my friend first!▍ ❝   RULE FOUR.
Be nice to me, I am so small...

▍ ❝   SOCIALS.
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GENERAL .•   name   :   Sariel Varlineau-Kha
•   age   :   33 as of DT
•   pronouns   :   she/her
•   orientation   :   bisexual
•   species   :   au ra raen
•  nameday  :  3rd Sun of the 1st Umbral Moon
•  patron diety  :   Menphina, the moon and the loverPHYSICAL .•   eyes   :   brilliant orange with one golden limbal ring in her left eye, right eye is slightly darker and has a burn scar
•   hair   :    short dark wavy deepwood green with long bangs and fringe covering most of her eyes
•   height   :   5'0"
•   weight   :   ~220lbs
•   build   :   chubby hourglass with muscle underneath
•   skin   :   pale ivory skin with cream-colored scales, many more scales than normally seen on auri people. she has a blue raen mouth and some fangs
•   clothing   :   typically black tattered Troian mage robes, gold accents
•  fighting style   :   all-rounder but excels in magic. she uses void magic and fire/thunder magic in most roles
(BLM/RPR/AST/DRK)MENTAL .•   traits   :   demure, strange, graceful, exceedingly kind, firm, just
•   likes   :   fishing, reading, quiet places, anything and everything occult
•   dislikes   :   most Sharlayan food (much too dense and bland...)

BACKGROUND.•   birthplace   :   Thavnair
•   current residence   :   a small remote isle off of the coast of Thavnair
•   family   :   two adoptive elderly parents, one son as of the end of Dawntrail
•   extended family   :   considers all of the Scions her extended family <3
•   significant other   :   Estinien Varlineau   ❝ + BONDS :•  Y'shtola Rhul  :  one of Sariel's closest friends, often picks her brain about thoughts on aether manipulation, voidsent, void gates, and the like.•  Krile Baldesion  :  another close friend of Sariel's, who she often also collaborates regarding ideas surrounding aether manipulation and the Echo, as well as their bonds with Hydaelyn.•  Nidhana  :  childhood friends who knew each other when they were both young, when Sariel lived in Thavnair. Sariel often picks Nidhana's brain regarding her alchemical background, void gates, and dynamis/akasa.

❝Voidsent BLM Contract: REM As Sariel battled with Ququruka, she had taken a great deal of damage due to being a novice in the art matched against a master. She saw spell casting like never even fathomed before. As her eyesight was blown away with a blast, the voidgate in the deepest crevices of the cave began spilling voidsent. A stray ahriman, a curious type, flew past… The voidsent offered to restore her eyesight, only partially, if it could also watch her adventures from afar, if they survived… Sariel agreed and thus her first voidsent pact was formed. Thankfully Rem does not mean ill, as Sariel’s endeavors as the Warrior of light keeps Rem well fed in both aether and entertainment.
Temperament: lackadaisical yet extremely curious at times. tends to wander at inopportune times but will come in clutch when needed. It transports more often than fights.❝Voidsent RPR Contract: KERES Sariel heard familiar sounds of voidsent amongst the melancholic violence during the Final Days in Thavnair. In mythology, Keres were known to be drawn to bloody battlefields, which was how this voidsent earned its name. It was found amongst the fray, tearing at the blasphemies hungry for aether but finding none. Sariel approached with caution, interested in the stray starving voidsent. It lunged at her to size up her strength and quickly realized that it was outmatched. Keres smelled the stench of voidsent on Sariel already… It so emboldened it as to propose a deal with her, feasting off of her foes as it was starving… Sariel, having dealt with voidsent before accepted the pact, knowing that she also needed additional aide in the upcoming turmoil. She also knew well that the strongest allies tended to be her closest companions, and wished to show compassion towards all, especially the starving and misshapen.
Temperament: much more violent and duty-bound, enjoys the rush and blood of battle and so is satisfied with the deal she made. Keres does end up softening slightly, becoming a tsundere type of personality at times.

❝ Sariel was not originally from the Source. She was born on the Tenth Shard in the year 1500. Upon the Tenth Shard, she was taught thaumaturgy and black magic by her mother. One evening before their lessons, young Sariel tried summoning a 'little monster' to impress her mother. Something went wrong and the voidgate that Sariel had opened linked to one of the many that Mhachi mages were opening to fuel voidsent for the war. An adolescent Sariel was ripped from her home and was summoned to the Source amid Mhach during the War of the Magi. She was transformed into a chimerical voidbeast, as her affinity for the arts became apparent; subsequently, she lost most sense of self as she was used for Mhachi warmongering.But the end of the War of the Magi came quickly for Sariel, the calamity claiming her life--the forced Rejoining of the Tenth taking her parents. Then Hydaelyn reached out to her. "Come, my child, for it is not your time." Hydaelyn's warm embrace found Sariel within the aetherial sea, plucking her soul from it to deliver her to the Source, reborn anew. Sariel would be fully unaware of her origin on the Tenth until she began assisting Leofard and his Redbills aboard the Void Ark. She had painful wracks of the Echo, as she was given glimpses into her time on the Tenth, flashes of a long past war she fought within, as well as words shared with Hydaelyn upon her rebirth.Sariel was born again in Thavnair and grew up within a Thavnairian orphanage surrounded by community until she was around ten years old. She was adopted by a traveling couple of aging xaelan fishmongers of the Kha clan. The two showered her in love, moving to the Black Shroud in their elderly age to retire.Sariel then joined the Adventurer's Guild as a means to help out around the house, learning how to wield a spear as a weapon instead of a fishing tool from the Lancer's Guild. As she adventured, she realized her natural aptitude with magic and searched for further knowledge.

She then began studies into thaumaturgy, which evolved into black magic. Through her quests into black magics, she reawakened her innate expertise with void magic. In her battle with the Ququruka, wherein a voidgate was opened in the back of Nald's Reflection. Barbatos was summoned and Sariel had underestimated her enemy. As she lied close to defeat, a curious ahriman wriggled its way through the voidgate. Curious and drawn to Sariel's aether, the voidsent offered her a contract. This was the first, but not the last pact she would consign herself to. Not long after, she delved into healing magics, realizing that she wouldn't be able to save everyone around her without it. She studied astrology intently in response.Her self-esteem had always been average; at times she felt a bit inadequate as the Warrior of Light as tragedies befell around her. When her and the Scions began to combat the efforts of Zenos yae Galvus, these feelings began to complicate especially due to Zenos's persistence. It bothered her. She did not agree with any of his actions although she could see how someone, exposed to the conditions he was, could end up as warped as he had become. She thought that refusing him would make him to change his actions… she thought it a harsh kindness. She saw how she could be seen as the same type of monster from a different perspective. She had done atrocious things in the name of ‘greater good’. This, combined with her knowledge of her previous life on the Tenth, her unusual aptitude with voidsent and void magic… She was a force to be reckoned with and this shook her perception of herself. She eventually accepted it, not feeling so much like an imposter put up against titans.Throughout her adventures, she filled most any role she needed. Her changed self-perception morphed into martyrdom beneath the pressure. When she traveled to the First, that was when she delved into the ways of a Dark Knight, realizing that she would be potentially the only one who could defend against the sineaters... Both her and Dhoro were sent to the First, Sariel was the only one able to absorb the excessive Astrally aspected aether from the sineaters of the two of them. She absorbed each of the sin eaters as they were defeated, with the exception of the last one, Vauthry.

Dhoro took it upon himself to step in, believing that the power of the Echo would assist him, but alas he was wrong. His tumble into the light pushed Sariel into her own crisis as she reached out to help him herself. She survived the instance and a great deal of the light aspected aether within her was used in their fight with Hades, himself. Although she did use a great portion of said aether, it was not her that Ardbert had fused himself with, but Dhoro. Sariel carries the consequences of said aether with her to the Source. As light aether represents stasis, Sariel does age at a slower rate and would live until about 160 years old as a result. In her early 40s, her bones and joints begin to truly feel the chronic effects of stasis, partially crystallizing and requiring her to walk with her staff often.Continuing, after she processed the events of Endwalker and many events before on a remote island gifted to her by another fortuitous Scion member, Sariel accepted her otherworldly nature and truly seemed to settle into herself. This also created a monster within her during combat as a result. The chaotic nature within was also part of her.Sariel and Estinien, having fallen in love throughout their journeys together, decided to tie the knot once the events of Endwalker settled down. Later amidst the events of Dawntrail, they decided to have their first born child together.

GENERAL .•   name   :   Dhoro Moks
•   age   :   20
•   pronouns   :   he/him
•   orientation   :   bisexual
•   species   :   au ra xaela
•  nameday  :  5th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon
•  patron diety  :   The Dawn Father and Dusk MotherPHYSICAL .•   eyes   :   draconic green eyes with electric green limbal rings and black sceleras
•  hair   :    long and black with burnt orange at the ends, typically has it up and braided
•   height   :   7'0"
•   weight   :   ~300lbs
•   build   :   broad shouldered and muscular
•  skin   :   pale skin with greyish undertones with dark inky blue scales. his face is covered with freckles, especially across his nose and cheeks. he also has sharp fangs
•   clothing   :   all black all the time
• fighting style   :   all-rounder, zero aptitude with magic
(WAR/DRK/DRG/SAM/NIN/MNK/BRD)MENTAL .•   traits   :   naive, hot-headed, stoic, big softie on the inside
•   likes   :   rivers, reading, drawing, writing (poetry especially), small animals
•   dislikes   :   cold weather

BACKGROUND.•   birthplace   :   Azim Steppe
•   current residence   :   Limsa Lominsa/tbd
•   nuclear family   :   older sister (Tuya Moks) and two younger twin sisters
•   extended family   :   wouldn't admit it openly, but considers the Scions as his family
•   significant other   :   G'raha Tia   ❝ + BONDS :•  Tataru Taru  :  Although he wouldn't admit it, he confides in Tataru after she pokes and prods at him to tell her what's wrong. He's very fond of her devilish nature although he finds her persistence sometimes irritating.•  Thancred Waters  :  Dhoro secretly thinks that Thancred's really cool, but wouldn't tell him to his face ever. He admires his rougish skills, admiring him moreso on their adventure to the First wherein the both of them grew emotionally on their own personal journeys.•  Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur  :  He loves these kids because they remind him of his two younger twin sisters. He finds them annoying in the most endearing way. His life wouldn't be the same without irritating younger siblings--they bring him comfort every time he needs it.

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❝ Dhoro was born within the Azim Steppe to a loving family, destined to carry the mantle as the Source's Warrior of Light. He had an older sister, Tuya, who was five years older than him. Then another five years after him, his twin sisters were born. When Dhoro was about fifteen, his parents' died in a hunt gone poorly. Although the surrounding tribes assisted the now orphaned children, they were unable to remain within the Steppe and caught a ship to Eorzea. Both Dhoro and Tuya joined the Lominsan Adventurers' Guild, both of them having apt hunting skills from living on the Steppe, especially alone for a time.Dhoro is actually an extremely talented craftsman. All of such skills he honed within the Steppe, taking care of his family before and after his parents' passing. He is an apt carpenter, leatherworker, blacksmith, armorer, weaver, goldsmith, and culinarian (although his older sister is much more skilled in culinary arts than he is). Mining, botany, and fishing are also skills that he has honed to professionalism as well.

Dhoro was whisked away to the First by the Exarch, as well as Sariel. The two were destined to be there to stop the oncoming events. Dhoro, being a poor conduit for aether aside from his weak Echo, struggled to feel useful. He stood on the sidelines as Sariel consumed the excessive aether expelled from the Lightwardens they faced. As their journey continued, he couldn't help but overhear Y'shtola beg Sariel to consider the consequences, as well as her conversation with Thanred within Slitherburough. The conversations echoed in his mind until he couldn't take it anymore upon Vaunthry's defeat. He pushed Sariel aside and consumed the aether himself, seeing that she was at her limit already.Unfortunately, this single instance was too much for Dhoro as well. The two risked becoming Lightwardens in that moment and it was Dhoro who ended up combining with Ardbert in order to balance himself once more. As they fought Hades, it was Dhoro who struck the final blow, using the entirety of the aether he had consumed as well as the help he received from the rest of the Scions and Sariel.

More tbd... <3