Character Profile: Niara

STORY: What the Bones Say

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Name: Niara

Role in Story: Protagonist

Occupation: Priest

Personality: Easy-going until her switch gets flipped. Then she’s a freaking machine.

Habits/Mannerisms: Niara smokes the sensi way too much. Always has her long, thin pipe twisting between her fingers.

Background:

Niara’s father died from a disease when she was young. When she was ten, her mother went on the hunt and never returned. Fellow hunters say she was eaten by a lion and the only thing recovered from the scene was her bloody armband and a finger bone. Since then, she’s been an apprentice and foster-daughter to Baba Gen, who at the beginning of the story, was already old and at the end of her life.

Internal Conflicts:

Niara was chosen for the priesthood as an adolescent. She doesn’t like the notion of having her destiny chosen for her so she’s a bit of a heretic. She does like the sensi though. Although she doesn’t feel any fundamental attachment to the priesthood, she loves her people and serves out of concern for their well-being.

External Conflicts:

Resources are dwindling and her people are barely eking out an existence within the walled zone. The Doan restrict humans to the walled zone but in order for her people to survive, Niara will need to defy the Doan and venture into non-human territory.

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