Niya

The seventh Embertongue of her line, Niya was born into a promise of great reputation and station. Her proud father had arranged a meticulous regimen of societal grooming that exceeded even that of Aurumel princes. Long before she donned the crown of her position, she had mastered the forms of tribal debate and custom and composed sweeping poetries of love for her Folk and her shard. As Niya unfolded into a master of the Embertongue method, all of her teachers swelled with pride with each mark of her limitless potential.

After she began study under her final tutor, the Teryxian Xoctli, her future shifted. For Xoctli too was Skyborn, and with long hours of study spent looking into the mirrored gaze of another’s iridescent eyes, the two found the inherent call of their kind harder and harder to resist. When Niya told her father of her intentions to leave the shard, the old Pyroi patriarch wept, for all his hopes and designs for his prodigal daughter evaporated like the rain upon volcanic stone. He at first thought to deny Niya her wishes, but in the end decided that Xoctli was now more her kin than he. With a heavy heart, he sent them away so that Niya could become what the Overlight had ordained.

Niya is the very model of an Embertongue. Despite her hulking Pyroi frame, she is a being of grace on all levels. Her personality is less a wildfire and more a dancing and smoothly shifting flame, while her patience exceeds what most would expect of a Pyroi noble. Knowing full well what it is like to be cast from comfort, she defends underdogs and outcasts alike with her razor wit and honeyed poetic words.

After meeting Davke and Algir in the Tea Gardens, she and Xoctli stumbled upon Faradon Lux and helped him rescue Shatu Hak from the Hanging Prison of Haark. During this adventure she set Algir on fire, pleasured the insatiable Aurumel twins Pontius and Portia and played a key role in the escape of Shatu Hak. She was last seen flying away from the Hanging Prisons on a Great Mist Ray...