Tara

Some tenacious hunters find Bahsk's desert sands to be bountiful - Tara is one. In buried relics and Birdfolk bodies she seeks magical power ceaselessly. While her father's side of the family claims treasury keepers and renowned teachers among their ranks, her mother is descended from cultish nobles and band leaders. Much of Tara's upbringing was with her mother - until her father found out about her and bound the family together through marrying Tara's mother despite his stuffier relatives' protests. Tara still bears more resemblance to the dark, arcane side and spends her days in cities longing to be among the dunes.

Many who know Tara wish she would stay out of the city, too. She's gifted magically and notably well-read, but can often be overly serious and domineering. She disregards those with little magic no matter their other talents, and reveres those with a lot no matter how twisted they might be. The experimental rituals she's done and the amount of death she's seen with the desert folk among her family have lent Tara a morbid humor and a cynical outlook. Little binds her to her father beyond blood, but that is enough for her to make the effort to spend time among his family too.

In her natural habitat, Tara is a beauty and a menace. She has little regard for animal life beyond its magical worth and can kill without hesitation. Swift silence lends her an edge in races to track down treasured relics. Even in gambling, Tara has an edge because her magic lends her select fleeting glimpses of the possible future. Most others might protest the fairness of this, but Tara's desert family has taught her to press every advantage. Power of every nature is useful in some way.