PLAYED BY: Alex Eder (they/them)
CHARACTER NAME: Najji Alhuzen-Neh’ruu Al’Rah’hel Lotus-Al’Sahra
- Given Name
- Najji (Survivor)
- Family Name
- Alhuzen-neh’ruu (Neh’ruu being the family name and meaning “river”, the prefix “Alhuzen” meaning grief in this context indicating that the family has suffered a great tragedy and is in grieving)
- Used Name
- Al’Rah’Hel (The Wanderer)
- Tribe:
- Lotus-Al’Sahra (indicating membership in the Desert Lotus tribe
GENDER: Nonbinary
PRONOUN(S): They/them
CLASS: Rogue
AGE: 23
RACE: Human
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Green
OCCUPATION: Al’Rah’hel has spent the past 8 years working in their father’s medicine shop, mixing medicines and treating patients for illnesses. Recently an interest in assisting the war effort has seen them leave home for the front lines to take up work as a battlefield medic.
KNOWN SKILLS: Al’Rah’hel is a proficient medicine mixer and healer, even if most of their experience is with common illnesses and not bloody battle wounds (Trade: Healer and Lore: Disease). Their limited experience in the past few weeks has taught them to quickly clean and treat wounds, although there is still so much they wish to learn (First Aid).
While they do carry their mother’s old weapon with them, they have never been trained in combat.
BIRTHPLACE: Al’Rah’hel was born in Faedrun in the winter of the year 252, although the family fled to Mardrun when they were only an infant and they carry no memory of their fallen homeland. Their childhood was spent in New Aldoria.
APPEARANCE: Al’Rah’hel is a short, androgynous human with light skin, brown hair, and green eyes. They carry a number of decorated trinkets handmade by their mother. They favor the purple and lotus symbol of their family’s heritage, as well as the blue and green and compass symbol of their new home, Aylin’s Reach.
NOTABLE TRAITS: None
RELATIONSHIPS: Al’Rah’hel, having recently left home, has met very few of the soldiers and staff on the frontlines in the alliance. Their father, Al’Saydalia, is their only surviving family.
- Father: Thabit (Steadfast) Alhuzen-Neh’ruu Al’Saydalial (The Apothecary) Lotus-Al’Sahra
- Mother: Rakaz (Focus) Alhuzen-Neh’ruu Al’Hamia (The Protector) Lotus-Al’Sahra
- Brother: Yamal (Hope) Alhuzen-Neh’ruu Al’Daw (The Light) Lotus-Al’Sahra
RUMORS: Word around camp is that Al’Rah’hel left home after a nasty fight with their father and that they have dishonored their family.
BIO / BACKGROUND HISTORY:
Amidst the chaos and carnage of Faedrun’s last years, a child was born to two Kae’rim parents. The healer, Al’Saydalial, and the soldier, Al’Hamia. Al’Rah’hel was the second child of the family, but their older brother did not survive the voyage to Faedrun, leaving them to grow up in New Aldoria as an only child with no memory of their lost family, heritage, or homeland.
Despite the grief of their parents and the family’s adjustment to a new life and home, these first years were happy and prosperous for the family. Relative peace, after so many long years of fighting, was a blessing. Al’Saydalial opened his own medicine shop in the city, and Al’Hamia took up work as a guard. Together the parents taught Al’Rah’hel what they could of the Kae’rim’s history, culture, and religion. It was through these lessons that Al’Rah’hel learned the sanctity of life, peace, and healing.
It was when Al’Rah’hel was 10 that things began to change for the family. In the year 262, with the New Hope colonies stepping up their involvement in the war, their mother decided to join the war efforts, working again as a soldier and taking on more dangerous work. Al’Rah’hel’s parents began to fight, the mother insisting that they could not let this home crumble too when Clan Nightriver was all that stood to protect them, their father pleading both for her safety and a return to the peaceful traditions of the Kae’rim people.
Three years later Al’Hamia was dead, her life taken by the Creeping Corruption her husband could not stop. This was thirteen year old Al’Rah’hel’s first experience with true loss, and the experience shook them greatly. While their father fell into a depressed grief, blaming both himself and his wife, Al’Rah’hel sought out an apprenticeship as a healer in New Aldoria, spending their days learning medicines and their nights managing the household in place of their father. In these quiet, grief filled months they vowed to become a force against loss and suffering. The world had taken enough from everyone. They would become more than a healer. They would become the guardian that stood fast at the line between life and death.
Two years later in 267 the family moved to Aylin’s Reach, Al’Saydalial wanting to start the family fresh. He opened a new medicine shop, but unlike before, he refused to treat combatants. While it is not the Kae’rim way to heal those who war against the living, Al’Saydalial had kept the habit of doing just that from his days as a medic in the wars against undead, but no more. He began teaching Al’Rah’hel healing now, and they two would spend the better part of the next decade running the shop together.
But Al’Rah’hel never forgot the vow they had made to themselves. In 273 they were 21 and working as a fully trained healer besides their father when war between the ulven broke out once more. Tired of the suffering and violence that seemed to accent their very existence, Al’Rah’hel decided they had had enough and began paying house calls to those in the city their father refused to treat. They would sneak bits of medicine from the shop- pain salves to heal the aches of those returned from battle, cleansing creams to fight off infections, and do what they could to ease the suffering that just would not end.
And then their father caught them. The two, who had never so much as raised voices, exploded at each other. Their father’s fury at Al’Rah’hel’s betrayal fell full force against their own fury that he would let anyone suffer when he had the means to help. Furious stubborn and idealistic, Al’Rah’hel took their mother’s blade, their modest savings, and left to join the medics on the frontlines.