Jondera
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Szaiya was not raised in the comforts normally associated with the dynastic families - the Denovah line of the family had only produced a single exalt in generations, and Avaku - while notable - had not yet had time to significantly raise the family's standing significantly. Besides which, he was only a cousin - her mother's nephew. Szaiya's parents didn't have the ability to bribe a proper school into accepting their daughter, so her future appeared no less bleak then their own.
Desperate to make something of herself, at 19 Szaiya managed to work her way into house Cynis' spy network - after working for a year as a prostitute under Cynis Belar Rokujai, before she was reassigned to more traditional intelligence gathering. Trained in basic combat - both armed and unarmed - as well as stealth and observation, Szaiya spent several years serving house Cynis in the shadows, gathering information on its business rivals, customers, and enemies.
When she was 24, one of Szaiya's assignments went south - she was on her way out of the compound with the information she had been sent to retrieve when a guard came out of a side room and the two ran directly into each other. It wasn't a regular patrol, or even a scheduled check - the man was off duty and taking a walk to clear his head, but it was enough to blow her stealth. He quickly raised the alarm as Szaiya sprinted for the exit, and the house's guards mobilized to catch her. They would have succeeded, if she hadn't exalted on her way out - arriving in the entrance courtyard, the main gate was swinging closed with half a dozen guards between her and the quickly closing doors. Desperate to escape and survive, Szaiya sprinted for the gate, and seemed to vanish in a flicker of golden light, reappearing only moments later outside the gate, still sprinting away faster than they could possibly follow. Szaiya had escaped.
But she could not return to house Cynis - not now that she had been chosen by the Unconquered Sun. Years of dynastic and immaculate teachings warred in her mind with ancient memories of other people, and she knew that she was now Anathema - she would find only fire and death at the hands of her former allies. So she fled - she visited several local house Cynis drop points and collected as much money and equipment as she could to give her an edge, then she did her best to vanish entirely. The house spymasters quickly realized that she had gone rogue, and dispatched several agents to find her and bring her back for questioning - though her pursuers are unaware of her Exalted nature, Szaiya is still working to avoid them as best she can; she is enough of a threat as a rogue spy, with as much knowledge as she has of the house's intelligence network, and if they realized that she was now Anathema as well, they would quickly mobilize forces to find and destroy her, to protect both their secrets and reputation.
While her short term goals mostly involve survival and escape, she has given some thought to more long-term ideas, including the formation of an independent intelligence network that would be able to infiltrate the Realm and perhaps co-opt parts of the Dynastic society to support (openly or not) whatever allies and causes she ends up siding with.
Motivation: create the most powerful intelligence network in Creation.
Theme song: [media]
[/media] (in reference to the conflict between her old mindset - dynastic upbringing and immaculate training - and her new position as a Solar exalt)
Concept pic:
Yes, I'm using Balsa from Seirei no Moribito as my character model. She fits.
Desperate to make something of herself, at 19 Szaiya managed to work her way into house Cynis' spy network - after working for a year as a prostitute under Cynis Belar Rokujai, before she was reassigned to more traditional intelligence gathering. Trained in basic combat - both armed and unarmed - as well as stealth and observation, Szaiya spent several years serving house Cynis in the shadows, gathering information on its business rivals, customers, and enemies.
When she was 24, one of Szaiya's assignments went south - she was on her way out of the compound with the information she had been sent to retrieve when a guard came out of a side room and the two ran directly into each other. It wasn't a regular patrol, or even a scheduled check - the man was off duty and taking a walk to clear his head, but it was enough to blow her stealth. He quickly raised the alarm as Szaiya sprinted for the exit, and the house's guards mobilized to catch her. They would have succeeded, if she hadn't exalted on her way out - arriving in the entrance courtyard, the main gate was swinging closed with half a dozen guards between her and the quickly closing doors. Desperate to escape and survive, Szaiya sprinted for the gate, and seemed to vanish in a flicker of golden light, reappearing only moments later outside the gate, still sprinting away faster than they could possibly follow. Szaiya had escaped.
But she could not return to house Cynis - not now that she had been chosen by the Unconquered Sun. Years of dynastic and immaculate teachings warred in her mind with ancient memories of other people, and she knew that she was now Anathema - she would find only fire and death at the hands of her former allies. So she fled - she visited several local house Cynis drop points and collected as much money and equipment as she could to give her an edge, then she did her best to vanish entirely. The house spymasters quickly realized that she had gone rogue, and dispatched several agents to find her and bring her back for questioning - though her pursuers are unaware of her Exalted nature, Szaiya is still working to avoid them as best she can; she is enough of a threat as a rogue spy, with as much knowledge as she has of the house's intelligence network, and if they realized that she was now Anathema as well, they would quickly mobilize forces to find and destroy her, to protect both their secrets and reputation.
While her short term goals mostly involve survival and escape, she has given some thought to more long-term ideas, including the formation of an independent intelligence network that would be able to infiltrate the Realm and perhaps co-opt parts of the Dynastic society to support (openly or not) whatever allies and causes she ends up siding with.
Motivation: create the most powerful intelligence network in Creation.
Theme song: [media]
[/media] (in reference to the conflict between her old mindset - dynastic upbringing and immaculate training - and her new position as a Solar exalt)
Concept pic:
Yes, I'm using Balsa from Seirei no Moribito as my character model. She fits.
