Thelian
Thelian is a Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. boy of about twelve, raised in the tower-city of Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe..., who works a training shift at the Udhafa ISEMH Technology ISEMH System The Infrastructure for Synthetic Emergence and Matter Hosting, the planet-scale Inarin-era system that underlies the fallen world: an identity, logistics, fabrication, and senso... node on the sixtieth floor. He moves through the canal-block streets with the practiced invisibility of someone who has learned that silence is safety and that his mere existence is an inconvenience. His deep, vivid blue eyes mark him as unlike everyone around him, drawing stares and hostility in a city where that colour carries weight.
Key traits
- Maan, male, approximately twelve winters old, small and lean at about 137 cm.
- Deep vivid blue eyes that consistently draw fear, contempt, and suspicion from strangers.
- Lives in a canal-block apartment on the sixtieth floor of Udhafa with his household.
- Works a practice training shift at the Udhafa ISEMH node under the yard lead Aeron Character Aeron Aeron is a Maan man of about sixty-five, yard lead and corpse-handler at the Udhafa ISEMH node on the sixtieth floor, with the posture and instincts of a former soldier whatever....
- Reflexively apologetic, moves quietly, counts by threes under stress, and folds waste into small squares.
- Cares for his gravely ill younger sister Elle Character Elle Elle is a small girl of three years in Thelian's household, gravely ill with heart-fever that has held her low for weeks. in the hours when he is not on shift.
- Wears a worn dark shirt bearing a pale angular script graphic he cannot read, heavy cargo trousers, and scuffed boots.
Among everyone in the crowded canal-blocks, Thelian is marked out most of all by the deep, vivid blue of his eyes, a colour that draws fear and suspicion wherever he is seen. He learned young that the safest thing to do with a face like his is to keep it lowered and keep moving.