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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.
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Dekoko Lo'Deko
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Guhthaerz Wiltbrydasyn Kune-Hume
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Adalbert Hume
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Wyznuwil Keteninghilsyn
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Before Meteor
In the year 1557, Umeko Kuwanui was born in Kaiko (蚕), an old village within the region of Yanxia, nestled near the One River and a half-days' walk from the gates of Doma. Named for the humble but prized silkworm, it boasted a tradition of weaving high-quality textiles using techniques and styles passed through the generations, most of the population made their living through the industry, be it weaving, dyeing, or sewing. Umeko's mother Umeha, being single, was among these people, her family descended from a long line of textilers.Strong of will and stubborn to a fault, it also quickly became clear at a young age that the young miqo'te bore an incredibly unusual amount of magical potential. However, it also appeared to come with a heavy cost; her body suffered a debilitating weakness and fatigue that nothing could touch. She also struggled with the impossible task of wielding and controlling an aetherial reserve that healthy, fully-grown beings would be hard-pressed to master.Upon reaching her fifth year, and the events of the Battle of Silvertear and the resulting release of a massive pocket of aether and the unsealing of the Primals coming to pass on the other side of the star, Umeko fell inexplicably and seriously ill. Desperate for treatment and answers, Umeha finally turned to a local underground temple to see what could possibly be done. It was there she was referred to the Hingan island of Koshu, well renowned for its rich flora abundant in uncommon and sought-after medicinal herbs and its own centuries-old sect of conjury, known as Geomancy. Arrangements would then be made to smuggle her out of Yanxia and to a small, isolated shrine that was willing to take her, taking extraordinary care to avoid the Imperial gaze. It was there at Shintaisan Temple (神体山神社) that she would undergo training and initiation into the rites of magicks and servitude to the balance of nature and the kami as a shrine maiden, in some ways not unlike the conjury of Gridania, in the hope that control of her ability would bring with it relief from her malaise.And with it, she was given a new name: Sui Kune.As she aged, Sui's malaise seemed to only worsen as her body strained under an aetherial potency she continued to struggle to control. With the coming of the fall of Dalamud, and the ripple of effects felt even on the other side of the world, once again Sui fell seriously ill ten years later at the age of 15 summers and became bedbound for weeks. Not at all helping matters was the Garlean occupation of Doma, which despite the shrine's isolation in Koshu was still well-felt, and seemed to only grow more aggressive in asserting itself as time went on. More and more did the threads of fate seem to point to Sui having to uproot and flee once again in the back of Sakaki Inoue, the Gūji (Head Priestess's) mind; this time, far to the west, where another great primordial forest thrived, with its own sect of conjury. And so, once Sui had come of age at just 20 years, once more were arrangements made for her to be smuggled into the Hingan port-city Kugane, the only port in Othard open to the rest of the world, to make her journey to Eorzea. It would be a massive culture-shock, and a shock of a whole different sort when The Echo fully manifested in her upon reaching the region. Not at all helping matters would be the horrid aethersickness of that region's unusually potent ambient aether, which plagued her from the moment she arrived.Of course, between her absolute naïve recklessness in helping out others, her rather alarming ambient aether patterns, and just plain being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it wasn't long at all before Sui caught the notice of Yda and Papalymo of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Her role there she herself would describe as “glorified errandcat” and “official experiment;” in exchange for assistance in finding answers (or even a treatment that works) for her condition, she'd offer herself up as a living aetherial research project, and her services as an adventurer. This would inevitably lead to her meeting her best friend and chosen sister Skotyrfedar Keteninghilwyn (aka “Swift Feather”), the seasoned Free Paladin Guhthaerz Wiltbrydasyn, and Dekoko Lo’Deko, the veteran White Mage whom would take her under her wing as her new mentor of conjury (and later White magic).
A Realm Reborn
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Seventh Astral Era
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Heavensward
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The Far Edge of Fate
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Stormblood
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Rise of a New Sun
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A Requiem for Heroes
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Shadowbringers
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Death Before Dawn
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Endwalker
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Miscellaneous Facts
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☀ To balance out the overabundance of the Fire element within her (her very being harbors an overaspect of fire aether; even right down to her fiery-orange hair), the name Sui is derived from 水 sui, meaning “water.” Her new “familial” name Kune (really more of a pseudonym to protect her mother from the possibility of Imperials tracing her identity back to her and the resulting retribution), came from the onomatopoeia for “winding,” くねくね kunekune. Altogether, her name could be read as meaning “winding/twisting water.”☀ Sui was raised in Yanxian, but upon her adoption to Shintaisan Temple by Gūji Sakaki Inoue, was also immersed in and raised in Common Hydaellic, for the purposes of “understanding the Garlean enemy,” so to speak.☀ When not adventuring, Sui enjoys a myriad of hobbies. Weaving and sewing is right at the top of the list, having learned from a young age thanks to her mother's background and it being one of her go-to passions in her idle time at the shrine. This is also big point of bonding with Swift, who also shares the passion of weaving fabrics with aetherically-charged fibers. In addition, while her handwriting of Eorzean Hydaellic script can best be described as “atrocious”, Yanxian calligraphy and brushpainting became another hobby and ritual of relaxation for her during her time at the shrine, and something she has a bit of a talent for.☀ Also having an insatiable curiosity in medicine and healing, she also does her best to round out her knowledge and experience in healing and offensive magicks, and expand upon her knowledge in Doman and Hingan apothecary (known as kanpō) with apothecary of various other traditions, including Abalathian from Swift, Mor Dhonan from Dekoko, and Gyr Abanian from Adalbert. She is also a pupil of thaumaturgy under Orpheaux as a form of therapy to help balance her natural overaspect in Astral aether through Umbral-aspected magicks.☀ She also enjoys seeking out springs for therapeutic and ritualistic purposes, especially hot ones for the former. Camp Bronze Springs has become a favorite haunt for her for this reason, and frequently volunteers her time there as a healer and chirurgeon in addition to taking advantage of the springs to help rejuvenate her health.☀ Remaining devout to the religious traditions and rituals she was raised in, meditation is an important part of her routine. It has the added benefit of helping to stabilize her oft-irregular aetherial patterns, and thus aids in her magical training and slightly helps her day-to-day function. This is often coupled with her ritualistic bathing for purification, including standing under waterfalls to meditate (a practice known as misogi).☀ Once her typical adventuring days came to an end when she suffered a grievous and disabling injury at the hands of Zenos in Yanxia, Sui turned her focus to training as a field chirurgeon as an effort to rely less on using healing magicks to lessen the strain on her ailing body. In particular, she's taken a keen interest to the war-torn field of Ishgardian field medicine and emerging field of surgery there, coupled with Orpheaux's research and study of bloodwork, blood types, and infusion.
Personality
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