Airavata

AIRAVATA

Relatives	Taakat (father), Daya (mother), Kamazor (brother)
Languages	Common, Loxodon
Affiliations	Protectors of the People (council member)
Aliases	Wings of the People
Place of Birth	Pteris
Species	Loxodon
Gender	Female
Height	7'5
Weight	350 lbs
Eye Color	deep brown, nearly black

Airavata is a Path of the Totem barbarian loxodon, who comes from a farm in Pteris and currently serves as the Wings of the People on the council of the Protectors of the People.

Physical Appearance

Airavata is a female loxodon, so she carries herself at a height of 7'5 feet and a weight of 350 lbs roughly. She has deep grey skin is starting to just show some wear from her 76 years of life. Her eyes are a deep brown that almost always show as pure black, and little to no hair to speak of. She is often found wearing a dress or a skirt made of long slits of fabric for ease of movement and ability to gird so that she may run into action and rage at any time. These fabrics are usually hand dyed with dyes created from plants at her families farm and come in a variety of colors.

Airavata, while tough and ready to serve justice, still cares highly for her outward appearance and has had the tips of her ears dyed blue, as is tradition in her family on the female side, and can normally be found with a warpaint around her eyes that matches whatever color her dress is.

Airavata gained three claw mark scars on her abdomen from a fight with the gold dragon, Bazzniagalvinica

Personality

Airavata is noble-hearted, looking out for the best interest of those who did not grow up in the stable home and comfortable life she did. She has put aside her place as heiress to her family's farm to take time to serve the people of Isonhound to learn how to become a better leader and learn more of the Northern lands to her home. She has a deep sense of calm and often practices meditation and writes letters to her family often of her adventures and journeys.

In battle, Airavata uses either her sense of calm to make level-headed decisions to protect those in her party and other bystanders, but when enraged, she will take justice into her own hands and let righteous anger lead her attacks.

History

When she was only 48, Airavata was out in her family's fields with some farmhands when three bulettes burrowed up from the far end of a field and began to attack a herd of cattle and killed one of the human farm hands. Without a second thought, Airavata took up a stone hammer used for fixing the walls on the farm's border and ran head first into battle, just narrowly defeating all three single handedly in an intense moment of rage over the death of her friend. With this, her first fight, her name began to be whispered among the other workers and nearby farms as "Airavata, the Avenging" and become somewhat of a folk hero in their midst in Pteris.

When she came of age at 60, her father, Taakat announced that Airavata would inherit the family's property and farm when he passed instead of her brother, who had been the expected heir. It caused a rift in their family that drove her brother to leave with no intention to return or to ever speak to them again. It greatly wounded their mother, Daya, and angered Taakat, to the point where he recanted the name they'd given her brother at birth, and only called him Kamazor instead, or "weak".

Her brother's reaction caused Airavata to doubt her worth and position as the next owner of the Khandit land, so she left home while her father was still young, only in his early 200s, and take that name she'd made for herself that day on the farm with the bulettes and really turn it into something that mattered and stood for peace and justice, a name worthy of her brother's approval, that might bring him back.

She spent the first 10 years traveling Pteris, learning the land she'd almost called home. She then spent the next 5 years training under another Loxodon barbarian, learning to fighting and defend and use that rage she felt in battle to her advantage. Her teacher taught her the path of the Totem, the strengths of the wolf, bear, and eagle, and how to apply those into the way she fought.

When her teacher had felt her training was complete, Airavata returned home to have her ears dyed in a ceremony sacred to their family, and then set out for the next continent, Isonhound.

Languages

Airvata can speak, read, and write in both Loxodon and Common.

Powers and Abilities

Like any barbarian, Airavata can rage and attack recklessly, but prides herself on being a team player. Using her connection to the spirit of the Wolf, she can give advantage to any of her allies when she is close to a hostile while she is enraged.

Attacks and Weapons 

Airavata is a simple woman when it comes to weaponry, but is most proud of her warhammer, an heirloom passed down from her father's father, called Okusala or "judgement". She was gifted it when her ears were dyed.

She also has recently acquired a lightning javelin, but is weary to use it, as she is not quite used to the idea of magic as a part of her fighting abilities.

Adventures

Mothers III

For Airavata’s first adventure in Isonhound, she found herself on the receiving end of an invitation from The Protectors of the People to come and help them with an issue they were having with a local cult. Airavata came to the then Headquarters of the PotP and met with Archie and a begrudging Brenna who requested that they go out and get rid of an evil cult that had been hanging around their area. Brenna was hesitant to bring in the adventurers after the last group had not delivered on some the goods they had promised or returned the wagon.

After some convincing, Archie was allowed to give the adventurers, including Airavata, the quest to head into the ruined temple area and seek out cult activity

Bazzniagalvinica II

Airavata was on this quest