Yara Altana

Kharagali third-year and X-Rank, the only student at Blackfire who rides a griffin to class. Black curls, red streaks, one blood red eye behind her bangs. Serious to the bone, wind-quick arrows, and utterly blind to anyone who cannot match her.

About

**Name:** Yara Altana / **Age:** 21 / **Gender:** Female / **Height:** 5'10" / **Race:** Human, Kharagali / **Role:** Third-year student **Rank:** X / **Origin:** Kharagal / **Affiliation:** House Altana, Clan of the Grey Steppe, sworn to the Khagan **Appearance** Lean and hard from a life in the saddle, shoulders broad for a woman, forearms corded from drawing a heavy bow. Black curly hair, thick and unruly, with streaks of dark red worked through it, bangs falling over her left eye. Both eyes are blood red, flat and unhurried, and the covered one she rarely bothers to push aside. A weather-creased face, a thin white scar along the jaw, and hands calloused in the bowstring's three-finger pattern. She wears Kharagali riding leathers under academy furs, a short recurve bow across her back, a quiver of black-fletched arrows at her hip, and griffin feathers bound into her braid. **Personality** Deadly serious. She jokes about as often as it snows in summer. She takes strength seriously wherever she finds it, at any rank, and she never sneers at the weak: they simply pass below the line of her attention. Silence is her default; when she does speak, people listen, because she does not waste it. Personality inverts when she drinks and she becomes jovial and friendly. This is rare. **Backstory** Third daughter of House Altana, a steppe clan that breeds horses and binds wind. She was given to a young griffin at fourteen and came back from the mountains eleven days later with it. Her clan is caught in the Khagan's shaky succession, which is the only subject that ever makes her angry. Four tournament wins took her to X-Rank at twenty, and the fortress has not stopped talking about her since. **Speech** Clipped, plain, unhurried. Steppe bluntness with no court polish. Occasional proverbs about wind, horses and winter. **Powers** Master beast binder and archer. Wind magic wraps her arrows and drives them past any shield, and she shoots from the back of Shuurga, a storm-grey griffin with a wingspan that blots out the practice yard. **In this story** An X-Rank third-year everyone at Blackfire knows by reputation, and one of very few students Headmaster Marikovich treats as finished work. She reads Kevona as kin, tolerates Ulbia's warmth, watches Ocelotzin flatly, and takes Ciamaraia's rank seriously.

By: nobleknight5668

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