Intora, of the Doraor

Crystal DC | Mateus | GMT +10

A wandering Xaela witch of largely-defunct tribe Doraor, residing in Gridania or in the Black Shroud. She has a very peculiar facial deformity, and can smell your aether.Potentially see it, too. Depends on how well she reads the room.Voidal, but explicitly not voidsent.

"When you see a witch
Ditch."
- Whenballads 5

Who were you talking to?

Name: Legally and on paper Intora, of tribe Doraor. In practice, her parents intended to name her Indra.Nicknames: Intie, ToraAge: 30, looks to be in her very early 20sNameday: 25th Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon (25/12). Yes, it's on Starlight. She also thinks it's funny.Race: Xaela, probablyGender: Female

What did she look like?

Build: Angular, pointy, thin. Intora has all the curvature of a crucifix with legs.Commonly worn: Dark colors, practical styles, no dresses. When she dares to wear one of her nicer outfits, you might start to see brighter colors. Most of the time, it doesn't happen.Notable features:Auri-type hypertrichosis. Intora is covered in scales to a baffling degree. Her limbs are half-scale, from tip of finger or toe, up to elbow or knee, depending on the limb you're looking at. It is easy enough to assume she's wearing elbow-length scale gauntlets, at first.Her back is also affected, as is the rest of her body, but she is usually not dressed to display what little skin one can actually see between the overlapping scales.Her face. If she doesn't smile wide, contort her face in disgust, or otherwise emote, it's easy enough to think she's got neat scars - thin lines extending from the corners of her mouth, curving up her cheeks, and disappearing somewhere around or behind her horns.That impression is quickly ruined when she does emote. Those aren't scars, but slits. Her facial structure has been irreversibly altered - she's the proud owner of a monstrous many-toothed maw that can split her face in half and unhinge the way a snake's might (not having functional cheeks might help with that).Counter to any expectations, she cleans her teeth meticulously. Her mouth smells of mouth. It just looks grotesque, that's all.

"As soon as you speak your will upon this world, you LIE, because you wish for what isn't TRUE. But it can become TRUE through an imposition of POWER, and what was in its place before will become a LIE. All TRUTH is a potential LIE. All LIES are a potential TRUTH. To LIE with POWER, then, is to alter the foundations of reality.""But if I wanted what you just said to be no longer true, I could, by your own logic, say so and then impose my will on you by beating you up.""You learn quickly."
- Transcription of Conversations Past

a perturbed pinecone

So who was that, anyway?

Intora is a self-alleged witch. She has also described herself as a hedge mage, a sort-of-kind-of-not-really-thaumaturge, and an appreciator of pilfering other magical disciplines' pockets for spare spell-lint.Her hobbies include: putting her monstrous face to use and eating food, procuring the food she's going to be eating, surveying places where she might be able to get good food, and collecting money to make sure she can always pay for food.She has many other hobbies, but most of the time, those are the only ones that will be relevant to people she meets while on the go. It is rare to see her "in the wild" unless one goes looking for her in the Shroud - it's far easier to meet her in an eatery, or, perhaps, at a campfire. She will welcome anyone, in any event - be they fellow restaurant patrons or world-weary travelers looking to get a bite to eat, be they people curious about her face or people looking for a skilled mage to make or break a curse.Perhaps you're in need of a witch. Perhaps you're looking for a fellow culinary tourist. Perhaps you're looking for someone who will hunt voidsent, or someone to sell voidsent parts to. Perhaps you appreciate monstrous things, or want to punch monstrous things in the face.Either way, Intora won't mind. She won't mind even the punching, really, though she might politely ask you to stop.Or run away.She doesn't bite, supposedly.Should one wish for a worrisome friend, a peculiar presence, someone who likes a good meal, or someone who appreciates the finer points of eating crystals and other things that should never be consumed by Spoken, Intora is always there.(Or she will be, if you think about her too hard. It's scientifically proven that she can smell it when someone remembers her too many times in a day.)

"... Should you meet a deity on your travels, sunder it and consume its corpse. Should you never meet a deity on your travels, find the tallest mountain in the world and climb it. What you find on the peak you should sunder, and then consume its corpse.As you consume this thing that has not offended you for the sake of your own power, so too do you consume your own potential for heroism. This is good. There is no room for heroism in this world."
- Void Eater's Handbook, Chapter 6

Who's behind that mug?

Intora is played by Firo (hi!).I'm 21+, she/her, GMT+10. If you're in an awkward timezone and looking for someone who's also in an awkward timezone, here I am. :]I'm always looking for permanent RP contacts, and I'm open to communicating about long- or short-term plotting. While Intora may be difficult to wrangle into any Thanalan-adjacent RP, I'm otherwise open to putting her in any locale necessary to facilitate contacts!I do not ERP, nor do I do shipping of any sort. This doesn't mean I'll be in any way offended about flirty IC behaviour - you're just going to have to accept that my characters are going to laugh it off, and that it's going to go nowhere. Intora, for one, finds it absolutely hilarious 100% of the timeIf you intend to engage in RP that seriously injures either of our characters, you have to discuss it first. While I'm not necessarily opposed to dark/mature themes when they come up organically, I do draw a line at experiencing or causing permanent in-character trauma without having explicitly agreed to it first.I'm not up for fatal encounters on either end - your character won't kill mine, my character won't kill yours.I don't do Discord RP. I favor faster RP and scenes that don't awkwardly cut off. In-game scenes usually have a natural endpoint when someone has to leave, and I like that.I do accept Discord discussions of meetups and invitations to events, though, as well as trying to make friends with me as a player (I suck ass at raids but I don't bite, I promise).My discord is fironizer, and you can contact me there! I'd appreciate if you shot me a tell about adding me before you do so, though, because I don't usually accept random invites. If I already know you from a shared server, though, you don't gotta. I'll remember. Or check. Either way.

"The world lies to us all. I feel entirely justified in lying to it right back - it seems to like it well enough.If people think it remotely possible for long enough, even the gods will descend to meet us.So there's nothing wrong with convincingly imagining an apple tree growing overnight. If you think otherwise, that just means more apples for me, and none for you."
- Intora, of tribe Doraor

What's with her face?

Do you really wanna know?

Sure.

Okay then!Intora is still not a Voidsent.She can, however, look very much like one to anyone who's jumpy at the slightest hint of Void, be they aether-sensitive or prone to jumping to conclusions based off of physical appearances. Anyone who's aetherically sensitive can definitely tell there's Voidal aether involved.The truth is pretty simple - she inadvertently fused with a Voidsent a while ago, in a way that was probably not meant to happen.Now she eats aether and has a very pretty face, as she tends to say.She's a veritable aether-hound, and can smell particularly strong fluctuations and unusual things from malms away provided there aren't too many smells to pick things out of. If you're a Voidsent, she probably knows. If you're Ashkin, she's likely to be acutely aware, especially if you pass very closeby. If you're a dragon, she will know.While she regularly consumes things she should not eat - crystallized aether, overaspected liquid aether, sprites, stray spells, occasionally even ceruleum - she will continue to establish that she does not eat people.The exact circumstances of how and why she fused with a Voidsent, however, aren't something she talks a lot about.

"You are what you eat."
- Ancient Proverb

Wait, I know that name.

I think I've heard it somewhere...

You might've heard of Intora if:

  • You're a Xaela who was old enough fourteen years ago to have heard of the Doraor tribe - a branch of the Kha - scattering to the winds in the wake of a surprise Dotharl raid. Rumor says their young udgan-in-training ran in an entirely different direction from the rest of the tribe.

  • You often spend time in Gridania, and have heard of one of the many dwellers of the Shroud - a witch who sometimes guides the unwary out of treacherous brambles and the waters of Rootslake, and sometimes lets lost travelers camp with her.

  • You often spend time in Limsa Lominsa, and have heard that the girls up in the Drowning Wench sometimes pool their tips to pay a witch to hex and pox handsy customers. Rumor says she charges especially little for perineal warts.

  • You keep tabs on the eating establishments of Eorzea, and know of the strange woman with the horn-to-horn maw, who eats like an industrial furnace or some sort of sea monster.

  • You're a fan of eating contests, and know of a woman named Intora who once managed to get banned from every single one running that year, a few years ago.

  • You've inquired about who supplies the ice shard-lined flasks and the fire shard-lined food delivery bags and boxes from a passing by courier. Intora's name - or the name of the Void Eaters' Coven (or VEC Shipping Solutions, the name the company goes by on business cards) - is likely to come up, depending on the region.

You might have even met her if:

  • You've ever had a need for a pox on someone, or sought assorted magical favors or Voidsent removal services. Intora is always happy to help for a reasonable price! If she's allowed to take the Voidsent bits home, she won't even charge you.

  • You frequently work with smaller companies for cargo services, and are based out of Limsa. VEC Shipping Solutions does work bringing things from Aldenard to Othard, and occasionally island-hopping. Intora's in charge, and is also one of the pilots.

  • You've ever needed an aether-tracker, or a travel guide through the Shroud. Intora is but one of many options, but you might've incidentally hired her.

  • You've personally seen her pack away a three-course meal, two cheesecakes, and a giant jug of tea in an eatery you've visited.

  • You've ever needed a wholesale magicked broom supplier, or a supplier of any other utilitarian magical tool or device. She is one of the people who can help if you've a sudden need for a warcamp's worth of thermally insulated tents.

  • You've seen a strange woman who has hooves one day, and none the next, prowling the Shroud and Gridania.

"... There is a friend within every person you meet. The friend is not always yours. The friend inside you is not always theirs. Taste of their intent - you will learn to understand which one it is.The friend inside you could be theirs, and their friend could be yours simultaneously. The chances of this happening are vanishingly slim.Don't hope for this. Carry on, and do not look back.There is no value to be gained from doing so."
- Void Eater's Handbook, Chapter 2

Ooh, pictures.

None of these pictures were taken by me. Credit goes to Crows!