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General InformationGiven Name: Sui Kune
Birth Name: Umeko Kuwanui
Born: 19th Sun of the 1st Astral Moon 1557 6AE
Age: 20 years as of 5 7UE [A Realm Reborn], 32/Eternal as of 17 7AE [Shadowbringers]
Race: Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te (Source born) / Feol Viera (complete form)
Height: 150cm / 4'11"
Hair Color: Orange
Eye Color: Purple
Laterality: Right
Eorzean Patron: Azeyma the Warden — Fire
Doman-Hingan Calendar Zodiac: Moon of the Tiger — Wood
Void Alignment: Aquarius — First Moon — AirDefining Scars/Marks☀ Brown facial stripes [until Shadowbringers]
☀ Small scar across bridge of nose [until Shadowbringers]
☀ Aetherial purple face paint smears under both eyes
☀ Scions of the Seventh Dawn (eye) tattoo on back [Stormblood]
☀ Massive laceration and cauterization burn scar down left side of torso [Stormblood]
☀ Dhemberk-Belias sigil on forehead [Echoes of a Fallen Star]Alternate names or aliases☀ The Lynx of Doma
Epithet for her deeds in standing up to Zenos in Yanxia [Stormblood]
☀ Amaterasu
Auspice moniker [Echoes of a Fallen Star]Family TreeFather: J'atoh Favre
Mother: Umeha Kuwanui (✝), Gūji Sakaki Inoue [Adoptive] (✝)Siblings: C'johra and C'sohzu Atoh, X'qara Atoh, Amoh XutsuMarital Status: Married
Spouses: Adalbert Hume & Guhthaerz Kune-Hume
Blood Family
Having lived in Kaiko for as far back as anyone could remember, the Kuwanuis were very uncommon Othardian miqo’te, of whom could be distantly descended from the Seeker of the Sun X tribe based upon traits and migration patterns, though this would be difficult to know for sure. Umeha was an uncommon only child, and lost her parents young to an outbreak of the bloody flux, but she held a fierce will to survive and thrive carrying on their legacy of weaving textiles and sewing garments to eke out a living. She wasn’t alone, however; the community of Kaiko supported one another, and her in turn, as they collectively produced and exported textiles and clothing of a wide variety of quality, from the everyday hemps to silks chosen by Emperor Kaien himself for the palace and Doman imperial family. Umeha even became such an accomplished weaver and seamstress in herself that she was amongst those chosen to represent the products of Kaiko to work out trade deals during an event across the Ruby Sea in Kugane.It was then that, via pure fate, she happened upon a foreign miqo’te adventurer named J’atoh Favre while they both stayed at the Bokairo Inn. He swept her off her feet and they engaged in a secret, brief, but passionate romance, where he attempted to coax her to leave Othard behind to travel the world with him. As moved as she was, she chose to stay loyal to her obligations to Kaiko and her community, and the two parted ways. Thanks to the Garlean Imperials making intercontinental contact more or less impossible, J'atoh never knew he had conceived another daughter until nearly three decades later.Some moons later, Umeha would give birth to her sole kitten: a daughter with fiery-orange hair and striking levinbolt eyes that she named Umeko. While overall the community was supportive, there were still whispers of judgment behind closed doors of Umeha having had a kitten with no father in the picture. Rumors further abound when the kitten soon became very sickly, some likening it to an ill omen of fire given her unusual appearance, but Umeha remained steadfast in her love and care for little Umeko. She quickly took the little one under her wing as well, teaching her to weave and stitch as soon as she could safely hold a needle, which gave the sickly kitten something to pour her passions into while too weak to be able to partake in the everyday activities of children, and to help her mother. Oft the kitten struggled with fever, and even wayward static electricity-like discharges of aether, which at least gave Umeha the clue that the girl had a potential gift for aetherial manipulation.When the events of the Battle of Silvertear Skies came to pass on the other side of the world, young Umeko, at barely five summers, grew gravely ill with a horrid aethersickness. Though Umeha and her neighbors poured their all into caring for the kitten, nothing seemed to touch the sickness. In desperation, Umeha prayed to the kami, and sought out a temple operating in secret under Garlean Imperial law forbidding religious worship. As fate would have it, the temple was run by close confidants of one Sakaki Inoue of Shintaisan Temple on the Hingan isle of Koshu. After a period of covert letter exchange via falcon porter, Sakaki proposed taking in the ailing Umeko.Umeha knew in her heart this meant she would never see her daughter again. But it also meant an unprecedented opportunity not only to prise her from beneath the thumb of Imperial scrutiny and rule, but to give her the best possible chance of finding answers and treatment for her chronic ailment. As the mechanisms were put into place to smuggle Umeko across the Ruby Sea, mother and daughter spent one of their last suns together at their favorite place: an isolated spring nestled within the peaks of the Gensui Chain filled with fragrant plum trees. It would be a memory that would stick with both miqo’te for the rest of their lives, mourning what would have been.Sui would only learn the fate of her mother nearly three decades later as she and Guhthaerz helped evacuate and give aid to the residents of the Doman enclave as the operation to wrest control of Doma from Viceroy Yotsuyu and the Imperials was put into motion. As fate would have it, they would encounter one of Umeha’s close friends and neighbors, and what turned out to be one of the last remaining survivors of the village of Kaiko, which had been put to the torch during Yotsuyu’s scorched-earth campaign after Lord Kaien’s failed rebellion. Those who weren’t immediately killed in the aftermath or had escaped, as he and a handful of survivors had, were taken into forced conscription and ultimately worked to death. It sadly isn’t entirely clear what Umeha’s fate was, but she was never heard from again, nor amongst the later recovered conscripted prisoners, and is presumed to have died. But for the rest of her life, Umeha had hoped and prayed for the health and safety of her daughter, and forever heartbroken at having lost her. (The official story she had given her fellow villagers had been that the little kitten had succumb to illness.)
Sakaki Inoue & Shintaisan Temple
Having inherited the shrine from her father and position of Gūji upon his death, Far Eastern roegadyn Sakaki Inoue was highly unusual in that even as a woman, she was raised from birth to inherit her family’s legacy as caretaker to the shrine and chief priestess. Taking her father’s progressive beliefs to heart, Sakaki always had a strong sense of justice, and chaffed against the Bakufu’s isolationist and neutrality policies as Garlemald rose to power and swept through Othard in conquest. As such, she not only worked in long-distance and secret with the Doman Liberation Front, but also took in those who would otherwise have been cast out from society in the Far East. And so, Shintaisan Temple became a haven of peace in the great primordial forest at the foot of Daitenzan, where the devout come on pilgrimage to shrines to the kami such as this, and those who were taken in to live on the grounds as lower-ranked priests (Negi) to serve them and learn and hone their art in the practice of Geomancy.Sakaki first learned of young Umeko and her plight through a contact in her Doman Liberation Front network, which also keeps alive the practice of Geomancy and worship of the kami in Yanxia in secret even whilst under Garlean occupation, and knew she had to do what she could to help her. And so, she adopted the miqo’te kitten and began training her in earnest as a Miko (shrine maiden) in Geomancy while also doing what she could to treat her acute aethersickness and unravel the mystery behind it. The girl, now known as Sui, would live a rich, peaceful life there, given so much love from her new adoptive mother/mentor and the elderly Negi as well, albeit physically burdened by such severe malaise. Much of her days were spent in training and treatment, and in servitude to the kami, while her passions in weaving, sewing, calligraphy, and brushpainting were all also nurtured. Sakaki also nurtured a very strong sense of justice in Sui, planting the seeds in her fiery soul to fight tooth and claw against the cruelty and injustices of the world, and against the Garlean Empire in particular.Around three summers later, Sakaki received another missive; this time from Tamamizu, of a male raen au ra infant from Sui-no-Sato that had been orphaned when his parents defied the village to fight for the Doman Liberation Front and unceremoniously abandoned at the kojin of the Blues’ doorstep. Having washed their hands of this helpless soul, there was no home for him in Sui-no-Sato, and so Sakaki took him in as her own son. Sui and the boy, now named Yuugao, quickly grew close as siblings, the young miqo’te quickly learning on her feet how to raise a “little dragon.” He always fondly called her “nee-san,” and greatly looked up to her and her gentle lessons in the way of the kami as he himself trained as a Gonnegi (junior priest).When Dalamud fell and Sui in turn fell life-threateningly ill, Yuugao was a constant fixture at her bedside, as was Sakaki and the Negi as they struggled to treat her blisteringly-high fever and convulsions. As her condition had already been steadily declining as she had grown and her monstrous aetherwell continued to develop, Sakaki knew her own knowledge, and that of her Negi as well, were straining for answers for her chosen daughter. And so she began research into foreign conjury and apothecary throughout the known world, and eventually settled upon the great Twelveswood in Aldenard, and their tradition of conjury, as a possible new font of knowledge.And so she reached out to E-Sumi Yan.A great sadness settled into the shrine when it came time for Sui to journey to the other side of the world so she could further find answers for her malaise and receive further training in conjury and apothecary, but Sakaki always felt a hope that she’d find her answers in the end. But even years upon years later, the guilt Sui felt for leaving would remain, and leaving Yuugao especially weighed heavy upon her heart.In the year 5 7AE, when the Doman Liberation Front attempted to take back Doma from Imperial occupation during the Garlean throne's war of succession and was ultimately brutally slaughtered, many that were so much as suspected of being sympathetic to the cause were purged as well. Shintaisan Temple in Koshu, along with Sakaki and the few elderly Negi, were among the purged when it came to light they were supporters of the Doman Resistance Front, Sakaki in particular being the most outspoken. It had come to light when one of the Negi turned and sold their secrets to the Bakufu and the Doman Viceroy Yotsuyu, which was a betrayal that utterly destroyed Sakaki. Gonnegi Yuugao, now 13 summers old, was the sole survivor, having been captured and spared for the value of a young, able body for work, and as a “novelty” as an au ra pet to the Garlean primus pilus sent to put Shintaisan Temple to the torch. Eventually Yuugao would win his freedom when he at last found an opportunity to murder his captor, only to find himself forced into working the rice paddies of Namai in Yanxia. But there were silver linings at least; he found and adopted two war-orphaned children as his own, named Isse and Asami.
Yuugao Inoue Guhthaerzsyn
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Guhthaerz Wiltbrydasyn Kune-Hume
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Adalbert Hume
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