Xoctli

Like any ambitious tutor of Quill, the Teryxian Xoctli had grand aspirations of discovery and revelation amidst the archives of the Last Spire. Alas, he lacked the required discipline of his studies and, as he began to embrace his Skyborn nature, his masters were fearful of the uncertainty his spiritual becoming would bring. So, after long deliberation, they sent the young pedagogue abroad unto the magma-scarred plains of Pyre. There, his intellect would learn rigor and force, despite his attunement to the green luminescence of Compassion.

Upon arrival, Xoctli was overwhelmed. The hardened ways of the Pyroi were new to him and scared him more than a little. Between his soaring intellect, pedantic method, and open heart, the social perils of Pyroi society were in some ways more challenging for him than the brutal terrain of the shard. If not for the notice of an Embertongue patriarch, it is unlikely that Xoctli would have acclimated to the ways of that strange society.

The Embertongue had a daughter named Niya and she was, in her father’s words, a child of exceptional promise, expected to inherit his role and fulfill its obligations. Xoctli was hired to teach the young Pyroi woman the ways of the world and the Embertongue’s traditional role within it. So it was with terror that, when Niya decided to heed the call of her Skyborn nature and leave the path her Folk had set out for her, her father disowned her, stripped her of her familial inheritance, and cast out the Teryxian tutor alongside her. The futures of both Xoctli and Niya are uncertain.

Xoctli is a kind-hearted Teryxian but can be as pedantic as any of the Folk of Quill. Nonetheless, he has a deep sympathy for other Skyborn (though a bit less if the Skyborn is Banyari) and, in his academic way, will help them whenever he can. Despite his soft exile, Xoctli still dreams of being a great master of his Folk’s lore and history.

Xoctli joined his Skyborn companions Algir, Davke, Niya and Faradon Lux to rescue Shatu Hak, Mahan of the Green Light of Compassion from the Hanging Prison of Haark. While he often felt uncomfortable on this adventure, he ensured the group found its way through the Hanging Prisons effortlessly and released Shatu Hak. He has not been seen since the group fled the City Magnificent aboard a Great Mist Ray...