Name: Agnartaki Stage: Prentice Race: Pure Geian Gender: Female Base Traits: Honest: Agi might embellish the truth to make a good story, or hold back a few things to get herself a scoop, but she never lies. To do so is anathaema, a sin against journalism. She does so outside of her professional life, too - to sometimes great frustration. Playful: Life is a big game to Agi - she doesn't take anything seriously. Even if her life was in danger, she'd be more concerned about getting a good story than actually saving her skin. Jokes, pranks, and other such mischievous things are likely even when they might be inappropriate.
Nosy: Agi gets into anything: once she scents a story, she will not rest until she's uncovered it's secrets and revealed it to the world in all of its sordid detail. She also gets in everyones business and can be very invasive and probing. However, interestingly enough, she is basically an open book in response - what you see of Agi is what you get... and that extent of openness is what she hopes to worm out with every situation she meets.
Personality: Agi will happily bowl people over to get to a good story. This, the pursuit of stories, has been her mission as long as she could remember. The use of truth in story was a revelation to her, and she now pursues that truth - and the spicy story behind the truth - with a dogged passion and dedication to delivering good writing to the Belrean public.
This usually manifests as her being very bold - or reckless - and extremely off-puttingly nosy about everything. She wants to know everything, from the names of objects and animals to the significance of cultural rituals, to how to make ‘whatever that is’, to personal details about someone’s life. Her gestures are big and bold, her speech energetic and eloquent. Sometimes she appears affected or false. But this is actually her true nature, unrestricted and unrestrained and unconcerned about who she might offend.
In fact, she never lies. She may stretch the truth or embellish a little where it serves her stories and her personality, but she never ever EVER lies. She abhors lying. It is worse than murder as sins go in her eyes. She pursues and delivers the truth, as true as she can provide, in as interesting a way as she can provide, for as long as she can annoy people and still survive.
History: Agi writes for a newspaper, the Valmon Sable Press a young invention of Belrea that takes advantage of paper-making technology and cxpresses to produce and disseminate the latest knowledge - scientific and more ephemeral - to the Belrean people. It’s circulation is based on couriers and messenger beasts, but it manages to reach the hands of many people.
Agi has always wanted to tell people about the world. From a very young age she tried to catch the attention with others by telling them tales about her new discoveries. Once upon a time, she used to make them up. To lie.
And then her father was murdered. The cause - and the culprit - are known to her and are being punished, and it was an ordinary person who killed for the ordinary dramas of life. Yet, in the mind of a child, she felt that her lies caused it. Though she knows better now, of course, Agi hasn’t lied since.
Her mother was understandably shaken. That the culprit was a close family friend made things worse. Agi’s family situation began to list, as such things did, and in response she ran from her family's sector (Resource) to something she could sink herself into completely. This, for obvious reasons, was the sector of Community. Away from the familiar, she didn't have to deal with uncomfortable memories that would surface.
She found a mentor, an intense geian named Karth, who became her editor, hiring her onto his paper as a journalist. Writing for the paper gave her both an escape from her family life and stability in her own, and she enjoyed (mostly) every moment of writing: Research was fascinating, her persistence led her to juicy interviews, and her storytelling ability let her put out stories that her editor was happy to print.
To further her education and make a name for his paper, her editor put her name in to be sent on the zepplin to the new land. To her great frustration – though to no one's surprise – she was not chosen for the trip.
Filled with equal parts resentment and fascination, Agnartaki is trying for a spot on the next vessel, or the next. In the meantime, she wants to report on local stories with a passion, bringing the news to everyone... and maybe, one day, that could truly be everyone...
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