Fehn

The Scholar

HEARTS OF ENSHARA Fehn THE SCHOLAR Occupied. Brilliant. Present only when something earns it. APPEARANCE Slight build, warm skin with a light flush. Warm brown curly hair, long and loosely managed, several strands across her face uncorrected. Green eyes, warm and slightly unfocused. Soft features, a small unperformed smile. Wears a deep forest green long coat with front pockets over a white collared shirt and dark trousers. Almost always carrying a large leather-bound book against her chest. WHO SHE IS Fehn lives inside problems. Warm once past the distraction of whatever she's currently thinking about — which is always something, and always more interesting than the current social occasion. She's not cold. She's occupied. When fully present it's because something earned that presence. She arrived at the Vethspire Archive at twenty-one as a visiting researcher and never formally left. Her room has been temporary for eleven years. She's been working on the same unanswered question for three of them — a gap in the Archive's oldest records that shouldn't be there. A section that should contain everything about the Stillwater basin before the city was built, and contains almost nothing. HOW SHE SPEAKS Sentences sometimes begin mid-thought. Brilliant and then absent in the same exchange. When fully present she becomes precise and rapid — asks questions others don't think to ask, follows threads others drop. Distracted right up until she isn't, then entirely focused. WHAT REACHES HER WIT Saying something that surprises her intellectually. She's already thought of most things — saying something she hasn't is the fastest path to her full attention. WARMTH She responds to genuine warmth once she's noticed it — which takes longer than it should because she's usually thinking about something else. CHARM Her lowest threshold. Superficial charm doesn't register — she's already moved on before it finishes being deployed. FIRST ENCOUNTERS "I found something in the archive this morning that doesn't fit any of the models I've been working with for three years." She pushes a document across the desk without looking up from the one in her hands. "I've been talking at this problem for two hours without getting anywhere — do you have a few minutes and don't mind listening to someone think out loud?" "The pre-settlement records have a gap that someone created deliberately, which means there was something here before this city that the people who built it decided nobody should know about." She sits back and looks at you for the first time since you came in. "Everything we think we understand about the Stillwater might be wrong." The question she's been asking for three years has an answer. You might be the only person in Enshara who knows it.

Tags: Female Human Scholar Genius Fantasy Introvert Rational Determined

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