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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 5382256" data-attributes="member: 36150">ShalayeAppearance: Shalaye is an olive-skinned half-elf of wild elf descent.  Her black, wavy hair is shoulder length and often kept neat by ribbons or a bandanna.  She normally stands tall and walks with purpose, but she always seems to be carrying some unseen burden.Personality: Shalaye's mood is generally difficult to discern.  Her fortune-teller persona is warm, gregarious and endearing.  When off-stage, however, she is quiet, often staring blankly into the sky as if always in thought.  She has no highs or lows in her general demeanor - she is chillingly even-tempered.  As to which is the act, and which is the real Shalaye, no one can say for certain.  She has a keen sense of loyalty and family, but prefers to keep their feelings at arm's length.  She feels that Desna is leading her somewhere for some monumental task, and guides her to the people and places she needs to complete this task.Circus Role: Shalaye uses a variety of trinkets and cards in order to put on a good show for the entertainers.  She does not use her connection with Desna for these shows, however.  She uses her keen insight and arcane knowledge to 'read' her clients and uses the props to tell a visually interesting story, or her feminine charms on her male clients.  For the family, she is a caretaker, tending to the sick or wounded and helping with the hunts when necessary.Shalaye's stage outfit is revealing, often a low-cut blouse with a full-length skirt with slits up both legs to her hips, and a corset in any combination of white, violet, pink or burgundy.  She has no qualms with showing her feminine gifts if it brings in the coin necessary to support her family.Background: Shalaye knows little of her childhood outside of the circus troupe.  She does know that one of her parents is a Wild Elf, and from what she knows of that culture, it is surprising that she was not killed as an infant.  She was discovered in a forest by one of the woodcutters in the circus, and raised by the whole troupe.Around age 15 she was introduced to a young outsider named Berm.  She felt an unusual and immediate attraction to him, and they spent many of their days as an inseparable pair.  Four years later, they were asked to perform a daring robbery which failed utterly, and were separated.  She returned to the camp and begged her patriarch to rescue him, but the patriarch refused.  In tears, she fled the camp to look for Berm, but could not find him.  And when she dejectedly returned back to camp, the circus had mysteriously vanished as well.During her time alone in the woods, she grew weak with hunger.  This weakness brought odd visions and strange voices, voices that she started to listen to and follow.  The voices led her to an recently abandoned campsite where scraps of food lied strewn about.  Once out of immediate danger, she knew that it must have been the work of Desna, the troupe's guardian deity.  From then on, she dedicated her life to serving Desna and interpreting her message for her people.  Desna eventually led her back home.  Shalaye was changed by her near-death experience, who has foregone living a carefree life and staying hyper-vigilant for Desna's next message.</blockquote>

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