Tyri Vidal
Return to Aether's Heart
Creator: AlyTheBookworm
Roleplay: Aether's Heart
Nickname:
Name: Tyri Vidal (pronounced Tie-ree Vee-doll)
Age: 22
Gender: Female
UFL: Sure
Prophecy Role: The Seer
Appearance: Tyri is short and slender. She has long, curly black hair, often pulled back into a ponytail or braid. Her skin is freckled and very pale, while her eyes are almond-shaped and a cloudy bluish-grey as a result of her blindness. A round face, soft, rounded features, and large eyes give her a childish look. She’s a melancholic, but often smiley person.
Tyri wears a short-sleeved knee-length blue dress, a brown leather braided belt and vest, a long-sleeved white undershirt, brown leggings, and a pair of woven sandals. She carries a plain, unadorned wooden staff that she uses for spellcasting.
Personality: Tyri is easygoing, curious, mature, introspective, and introverted. She's honest, compassionate, and humble- a selfless and fiercely loyal person who holds other people's wellbeing and comfort above her own. She's relaxed and is able to stay calm even in stressful or dangerous situations. She’s generous and will never turn away from someone in need of her help, and loves exploring, learning new things, and meeting interesting people.
However, due to her sheltered upbringing and lack of real-world experience outside of books, she’s also overly idealistic, naïve, and ignorant of how the world really works. She believes the best of people and trusts too easily, which has made her an easy target for opportunistic con-artists, pickpockets, and thieves along her travels.
Despite her bravery and selflessness in most situations, she’s afraid of failing others and not being able to meet their expectations for her. She isn’t very confident and can be self-deprecating, which causes her to be soft-spoken and often withdrawn or reserved. This insecurity worsened after Tyri lost her eyesight and “failed” her mother when she wasn’t able to become a historian.
Tyri’s greatest fear is helplessness. While she’s able to maintain an outward appearance of calm stoicism and composure, abruptly losing her sight or the ability to use magic in a battle would cause her to freeze and panic.
Powers: Able to read hidden magical texts as a result of her role of "Seer" in the prophecy. She can also cast spells and use primal sense.
Strengths: Tyri is intelligent, works well in a team, and can stay calm in stressful/dangerous situations. Despite her blindness, she's still extremely well-read from her years of studying to become a historian. She’s fluent in multiple languages and knowledgeable about many different topics. She’s also a skilled spellcaster.
Weaknesses: Tyri is blind, though she’s able to somewhat overcome this weakness through use of primal sense (a form of magic that allows her to sense what is around her). Otherwise, she isn't very confident. Though she's book-smart, she doesn't have much real, hands-on experience. Tyri is also physically weak and slow, relying on magic to defend herself. Her curiosity can cause her to nose into dangerous things that might be better left alone, and she is sometimes recklessly decisive when something catches her interest.
Personal Quest: Tyri wants to preserve peace and save lives by retrieving Aether's Heart. A secondary quest: She’s always had a wanderlust and longing for adventure. She now wants to overcome her blindness and fulfill her childhood dream of exploring the world she's only read about in books. More than anything, she’d like to give her life meaning by devoting herself to a cause, and takes joy in helping people she meets throughout her travels.
Personal Secret: Tyri abandoned her mother and everyone/everything she knew in order to travel the world, leaving them on bad terms. This secret sits in the back of her head like a nagging itch, but she tries not to think about it and justifies running away to herself to avoid the feeling of guilt.
History: Tyri was born in Synua, the capital of Synilas, but raised in the city of Syna. All of her family members were magic-users, and were persecuted by the Idora family because of this. After her older brother and father were killed by the Idoras, Tyri (four years old at the time) and her mother fled the city and found sanctuary in Syna.
As Tyri's family was quite wealthy, her mother was able to afford for Tyri to get an extensive education. From a young age, she was groomed to become a scholar and historian, taught by a range of tutors in different subjects. In addition to this education, she was taught magic by her mother. It seemed certain that Tyri had a bright future as a skilled spellcaster and historian.
Unfortunately, Tyri became very sick five years into her apprenticeship. Though she survived her illness, the disease caused her to become blind in both eyes. Realizing that she’d never be able to read or write again, Tyri was devastated. Her entire life had been single-mindedly devoted towards this goal, and was now made pointless.
Tyri persuaded her mother to teach her the magic of primal sense, which now allows her to somewhat sense what is around her- though the skill isn’t as reliable as sight and requires a lot of focus and energy. With her mother’s help, Tyri continued to study magic and came to terms with her blindness.
With this year of change came the realization that her sheltered life of constant study and training under her mother’s firm control made her feel stifled and lonely, and having to start from the ground up as a primal sense user had made her lose heart. She confronted her mother about it and asked to leave and make a life for herself on her own. When her mother refused, Tyri left anyways, determined never to return.
Since then, she has spent the past year and a half traveling Syna, selling her services as a spellcaster to make her living.