Andromeda Divine

Born into the Dalamiq clan of Othard, one of the few Xaela clans to have a permanent settlement, Andromeda spent much of her life worshipping the lesser moon Dalamud, weaving tales of gods and stars into tapestries with her mother. As a child, she would often slip out before dawn and climb to the roof of her small home to watch the glittering heavens above her, trying to spy the faces of those in her stories. More than once, she fell asleep up there and woke to a nasty noontime sunburn and angry parents. When she was just a few summers old, she began to demonstrate a talent for the aetheric arts, already able to heal small scratches from the children's roughhousing. This caught the eye of the Dalamiq udgan, and she was taken under her wing to begin training in the healing arts, as well as learning the intricacies of their spiritual ceremonies.

Andromeda excelled in her studies, and by her 19th year, she was often the one most would go to when they needed a little healing, or if they cared to have their horns talked off by stories of the stars. She had also shown a surprising aptitude for battle, helping defend her village during the Nadaam, though she had yet to enter Bardam's Mettle. She was admired, respected by the rest of her clan, well on her way to becoming the next Dalamiq udgan -- until the moon she so worshipped swelled red in the sky, like a festering wound, and the Seventh Umbral Calamity fell upon Hydaelyn.

In the days after Dalamud's fall, as her clan watched the roiling horizon, as the aether seized and the night sky loomed empty and foreboding, Adya Dalamiq questioned. Her folk songs and her tales did not hold answers, neither her tapestries, nor even her udgan. And so she resolved to find the answers herself, no matter how far it took her, letting her faith in the stars guide her way.