Character Information

Name: Akayuki Dratri
Alias: Yuki
Race: Au Ra
Clan: Xaela
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Nameday: 4th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon, 1566 Sixth Astral Era
Guardian: Azeyma, The Warden
Eye Color: Red
Hair Color: Red
Height: 4'7"
Weight: 95lbs
Build: Petite
Place of Birth: The Dravanian Forelands
Alignment: Neutral-Good
Attunement: Fire
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Distinguishing Features:

  • Long Spikey Tail

  • Dark Blue Scales that are hard as steel

  • Very pale skin

Relationship Status: Divorced
Political Affiliation: Ishgard
Occupation: Dragoon/Valkyrie
Personality: Sassy, Friendly, Adventurous, Assertive, Playful, Youthful

Combat Style

Melee
For melee, she uses her speed and powerful legs to perform high acrobatic jumps and her spear is utilized to deadly efficiency in her jabs, stabs and slices. She also utilizes her tail in combat as a weapon with its sharp spikes and hardened natural armor.Magic
Magic for her is internally based, since she is fire aspected, her attacks often utilizes the fire element to enhance her attacks though she is able to manipulate her aether to simulate dragon wings or even a dragon like mask over her face, those are purely for show to strike fear into her enemies hearts. The wings offer no form of flight, she merely uses her high jump to trick her opponents into thinking she has taken to air.

Character History

Year 1566 - Akayuki is born in Dratri Village high atop the mountain in The Dravanian Forelands. She is the second born as she has a twin sister who entered the world first.
Year 1573 - Akayuki's parents are killed when a wounded dragon crashes down on their hut. She climbs onto the dragon and pulls the spear that wounded it out. The elder seeing this, realizes her destiny is to become a Valkyrie of the Spear. She and her sister begin living with the elder, and the dragon is taken by the village to his kin for healing.
Year 1579 - Akayuki starts her combat training in this year, learning from the village's best warrior and a dragon that has taken a liking to the village for saving their brethren.
Year 1581 - Akayuki tries her hand at cooking stew one night. The elder swears it was the most vile thing he ever tasted and suggested she avoid trying to cook again.
Year 1585 - Before her 18th nameday, is sent on a trial to assertain if the news of Ishgard's change and the end of the Dragonsong War are true. She arrives in Ishgard, learns and reports back to her people and is granted permission to leave the village again, to learn more of the greater world of Eorzea. She ends up eventually in La Noscea and joins the Gilded Compass Free Company and begins making a life for herself. However as time went on, she came to no longer wish to remain with the company after certain actions happened, and thus she left the Gilded Compass for good. She also realized that she'd have trouble reintegrating with her tribe in Dravania. So she boarded a ship for Kugane
Year 1586 - After staying in Kugane for the better part of the last year, she finally earned enough gil to purchase an apartment. She ended up dating a man from La Noscea for a time but they had a bad breakup and she returned to Kugane to find employment. She found it in the form of a company called Soul of the Sword. Another xaela tried to adopt her, even though she was an adult and for a time she agreed to the adoption under the condition that she never betrays her trust. She also met Tutuaoix Auberlaint. The two started dating and midway through the year, the two were married. She assisted him in taking over his family that were quite racist. However the xaela that had adopted her, ended up betraying her trust by becoming a voidsent. And with her husband also leaving the company she followed. However towards the end of the year her husband was wounded and can no longer produce an heir. This has severely strained their relationship considerably. Also during this time, the Garlean Empire had kidnapped most of her tribe and from last she heard, her tribe were being escorted into one of the mysterious towers around Garlemald. However after several long months of her husband withdrawing from interacting with everyone, especially her, she filed for divorce making herself single once again.
Year 1587 - She finally broke off her contract with the noble house she was serving, and has decided to return to her roots, taking up residence and work with the Phoenix Free Company.

Dratri Tribe

Beliefs: The stories of the originThe Dratri Tribe began its history like many other steppe tribes during the early ages of the Xaela. What made their tribe unique was that they believed father Azim and mother Nhaama, were actually great dragon spirits that birthed the au ra to fight for them in their war for domination. They believed they were given the form of men because men were small and agile, and they could better grasp weapons in which to use against their enemies.But much like the other tribes, their stories say that when the children of the two great wyrms came together in peace and love, the two wyrm too fell in love and decided to give the world to their children, thus did they fly high into the heavens, never to see each other again, for Azim became the sun, and Nhaama the moon.And thus did the Dratri live with the beliefs of love of fellow Au Ra, for they saw in all life, kindred spirits. They believed every creature's soul was that of a great dragon spirit. And around them, the very elements around them too, were dragon spirits, of lesser nature. Thus they prayed to the spirits they named and gave form:
The Dragon of Air was a great serpentine dragon that swam through the air greating the breeze
The Dragon of Water was also a serpentine dragon that sent forth water, creating lakes and rivers.
The Dragon of Fire was said to be a great red dragon that blessed the land with warmth and the gift of fire so that they may keep warm and cook their meats and light the dark.
The Dragon of Earth is said to be a great wingless drake that burrows beneath the very land it represents, creating life, such as the plants, and absorbing the bodies of the fallen so that they may be reborn anew.
The Dragon of Light is without form, for his radiance is blinding and thus none can behold his true nature.
The Dragon of Darkness, much like light, is without form, and resides within the shadows and dark places. It is not evil, it merely is the balance to the Dragon of Light.
The Dragon of Chaos too, is without form, this one being of unpredictable nature, as it is essentially, time. It creates the events of every second of every day in unpredictable ways to challenge life and makes the world about interesting in many ways.Origins: Azim SteppesWhile the Dratri's history began much like the other tribes, the true history has long been forgotten, replaced instead, with the origin stories. What is known though is that some thousand years ago, a great black dragon came to the Azim Steppes, and her great form became the banner of the Dratri Tribe. Even back then, the tribe was small, yet relatively peaceful much like the Mol. They often traded with the other tribes but also intermingled with the Domans. It was not unheard of for a member of the Dratri Tribe to also marry a Doman. Even the Doman naming convention was adopted after a sort by the tribe.However the other tribes viewed the Dratri with disdain, and impure, leading to attacks by the various other larger tribes forcing the Dratri to flee into the mountains towards Doma. However when Garlemald began its invasion of Doma, the Dratri followed the Orl, leaving the Azim Steppes behind they traveled west, to Abalathia's Spine.The Great Migration: Coming to IshgardWhen the tribes began their migration, they passed through the burn, and through the southern tips of Garlemald, avoiding detection until at last they came to Abalathia's Spine. The Orl tribe at this time, had gone far ahead of the slower Dratri Tribe, and thus when the Dratri beheld Ishgardian soldiers slaughtering the poor Orl, they chose another route around Coerthas and soon found themselves in the mountains of Dravania.Founding of the Village: There be Dragons!The Dratri soon found themselves in a clearing on the largest mountain of Dravania, with Sohm Al rising high above them, they founded their village in secret. They beheld the dragons in the distance, and knew they waged war with the men of Ishgard, and thus wished to remain out of the war.And they succeeded for the most part, living in peace for 15 years, until a wounded dragon fell from the sky into their village, landing on a yurt crushing the occupants inside. A single girl, Akayuki, climbed from the rubble, taking hold of the spear that wounded the dragon and removed it. The tribe shaman then approached the wyrm, offering to heal his wounds. Surprised that the village existed, and that the inhabitants were friendly and did not fear him, he allowed them to cast their healing magics upon him.This dragon, spoke to the tribe elder, telling the story of how Ishgard had betrayed the dragons a thousand years ago, and thus beginning the Dragonsong war. The elder told the dragon then, that while they sympathized with the dragons, they wished to remain out of the war, but should Ishgard find their village and attack, only then would they join the dragons.The dragon understood this and and learned more of their culture, remarking how the Valkyrie of the tribe, moved much like Ishgard's dragoons, and how they could shape aether into the form of great serpentine dragons for the telling of their tales. The dragon soon left the village in peace, allowing the tribe to live their lives.