Miriyan Araluen
Disciple of the Dreamspeakers
Keeper of the Sacred Fire of the Kolohe
Description
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 121 lb.
Ethnicity: Aboriginal
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Linen-white casual
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Quiet yet alluring and hungry look to her exotic beauty
Supernatural Qualities: Blends smartly into any crowd
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 4 (wild); Arcane 3; Animal Magnetism
"Smell that, the resin of the carrol? Let it lift your senses next to mine."
History
Date of Birth: May 16th, 1990
Home: Tumbarumba, New South Wales, Australia
Family: Esikeli and Careby Araluen (parents), Oubin (older brother), Jage (grandmother)
The Awakening: Preordainment (small town life, parents scraped by working in tourist industry, often visited her grandmother "Granny Jage", who kept old Wiradjuri-Narrandera traditions alive; when she came of age, grandma revealed the secrets of Dreaming through hallucinogenic herbal fumes), 2004
Mentor: Jage Araluen
The Test: Trial by Influence (she learned the secrets of mystickal herbalism from grandmother, who shared the spirit world with her, and she learned much of the inhabitans of the Dreaming, till Jage tested her knowledge and friendship with family totems, especially mountain dragon lizard-spirits)
Comrades: Melody Moran, Crystal Oh, Willow Wills, Amber Hess, Missy Hess
Key Event #1: War (Granny Jage introduced Miriyan to other Aboriginal Dreamspeakers and she joined a cabal of them living wild in the Gondwana Rainforests, where they tried to make peace and allies with the native shapeshifters, but European-born Garou assaulted them for inadvertently disrupting their totemic rites; Miriyan escaped but most of her comrades perished)
Key Event #2: Treachery (she resettled in Brisbane away from the wilds for a time, making friends among poor immigrant communities, adopting her knowledge of natural narcotics into underworld trading, though she only sought subsistence trade)
Transition: Defeat (Sleeper authorities grew wise to her activities and she slipped out of the country with streetwise friends' help, smuggled aboard a fruit cargo freighter all the way to Hawai'i, where she resettled among new friends)
Kannbera (Sanctum)
Location: Opua Rock (Sea Stack), Lana'i Island, Hawai'i, United States
Structure: Shrine
Stock: Possum-skin cloak heirloom laid out as a blanket; potted Wollemi pines and herb gardens; burbung tree root lattice forms the roof in correspondence to the Milky Way constellation
Traits: Arcane 4
Significant Other
Name: Melody Moran; 2011
Nature: Erotic
Melody
Weakness
Pituri Girl
Miriyan relies on herbs for wisdom, knowledge, self-awareness, and self-gratification. Another word for "herbs" is "drugs". This reliance on an external stimulant is both an advantage and a crutch.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
She keeps to herself in a very neutral location. By having a low-impact life, so too may she be ignored by those who would seek to corrupt her.
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