Social Rank: 8
Concept: Blind Seer
Fealty: Redrain
Family: Drugain
Gender: female
Marital Status: single
Age: 21
Birthday: 4/3
Religion: Shaman
Vocation: Charlatan
Height: average height
Hair Color: jet
Eye Color: opaline
Skintone: alabaster

Description: Zuraida is modest in height for a Northern woman and stands at only a firm 5'8", though she is built with a hearty frame and healthy feminine figure as a solid foundation and she commands herself with an economy of motion that's nothing short of practiced. Her face is youthful and bears no features that would echo of age, but she does stand just past the threshold of womanhood.
     Her alabaster skin has a distinctly cool undertone and provides perfect canvas for her blackwork tattoos that tell the story of a life spread out across all of Arvum. This strangely compliments her long locks of obsidian that reaches right down past her hips - smooth and painstakingly cared for, her hair does bear a number of dreadlocked tresses here and there that are decorated with beads of bone, precious stone or silver, and ochre feathers.
     Her face is a striking tableau of features, chiefly characterized by a pair of very large opaline eyes that strangely have neither iris or pupil. Smoky khol dramatically accentuates them and are further frames her aimless gaze with dark lashes, adding punctuation to her strange (and sometimes unnerving) gaze. Her pair of full lips are crowned with a delicate cupid's bow and are stained deep red, and more often than not a hint of amusement tugs at their corners in the form of a lingering smile.

Personality: Affable, gregarious, energetic, playful and eccentric, she is prone to display a wide spectrum of emotion from one moment to the next. Her smiles are genuine and plentiful, her laughter loud and very rarely is she ever serious - except when she has to be. She doesn't seem to be affected by the loss of her sight in a negative way and is never broody or dark as a result of it.

Background: Born to a nomadic tribe that claims their origin to be from the area of The Red Run, near Farhaven from their earliest recollections (though during their travels many people from all over Arvum joined them, leading to many varied and mixed histories), Zuraida led a life of wanderlust with her family. Performers, sooth-sayers, musicians - they were a wide and varied bunch and their colors rubbed off on her in the womb. As a result of these travels and her family's penchant for their arts, her family is rather well known in the North - even respected in some circles.

But her life hasn't always been sunshine and bliss. Her life was significantly changed when her twin brother died of natural causes when she was only 5 and an accident left her stricken blind in her teens.

She comes to Arx as a refugee, saved from the wilds of the Gray Forest by Fergus and Freja from the Silent War after having been a victim of a Shav/Bringer ambush that stole her family away from her. She was so overcome with gratefulness that she bent her knee and swore her fealty to Redrain.