Companion
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Banner art from The City of Salt.They cry with one voice, few of them though there are, out in the high-noon sun. One voice, bird-voices, sharp and wild and arcane, making weird harmonics in the shadows of the great stones, and one, a bolt of violent red in twine and tattered, diaphanous skins, streaks from the heart of the crowd--and her voice is loudest of all; the flash of white at a razor's edge. The Dancer. The Dancer, Shj'ish, with her sharp eyes and sharp tongue, calling to a figure she thinks she knows. Too late, she sees the snake's tail. Too late, she sees the child's body for what it is--too late to stop the name leaving her hard, scaled lips. She skids to a stop; tall, imperious, incandescent and taut as wire, and barks in dicey common, voice like balsam, bitter and cutting as the agave that flecks her hands, bled dry and pulped for its juice: "Stranger!"
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Alias: Ssihash, Rose.
Birth Name: Unknown.
.................................Sex/Gender: Female. Unknown.
Presents herself in a largely gender-neutral manner.
.................................Age: Early twenties.
Waifish, but unmistakably an adult woman.
.................................Species: Naga.
Albino human, leucistic ball python.
.................................Height: Five feet.
Fourteen feet in length, from her head to the tip of her tail.
.................................Build: Waifish and slim; long in the neck and torso. Possessed of a muscular snake's tail from the waist down.
Complexion: From the waist up, thin-skinned and pale as milk. Scaled along her tail.
Orientation: Unknown. Seems largely disinterested. Whether her relationship with Saluda is more than platonic is uncertain.
Personality: Enigmatic; silent; steadfast; unperturbed; unflappable. She is the serene counterpart to Saluda's constant querulousness.
Mannerisms: Withdrawn and somewhat cold. Communicates through broad gesture alone, when she deigns to do so at all.
Alignment: True Neutral. By and large prefers to communicate with Saluda, to the exclusion of others.
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Languages Spoken: Seems to understand Common. Whether she knows any other languages is uncertain.
Voice: Does not speak, though the occasional wordless exclamation can be coaxed from her. On such occasions, her voice is a hoarse, but ringing soprano.
Defining Tarot: The Hanged Man. Shades of the Moon.
Archetype: Hermetic, with Hecatean aspects.
Social Class: Outcast, vagrant.
Occupation: Unknown. Does not seem to have one.
Family: Unknown.
Even Saluda is unaware of any family Ssihash might have. Much to his chagrin, however, she feels a kinship for Valish, who provided her alias.
By and large, she considers Saluda to be her family.
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