Qudrah Mansood

Personality
It’s easy to startle someone like Qudrah Mansood. The Oracle’s mind is often stuck in the future while her feet pace around in the present, leading her to odd places at the behest of her impulses and a desire to move beyond the confines of the past. A sudden movement and a loud shout will have her jump an inch in the air with a girlish “eep!” of panic. Qudrah is an anxious woman, though that’s evident even if you didn’t scare her. She fiddles with her clothing, stammers when talking to people, can’t address a stranger to save her life, and caves into silence when authority figures come into the picture. Qudrah starts each morning with a centering meditation. If that’s disturbed she’s on shaky knees for the rest of her waking hours. Much of her mood depends on her future sight. If she sees a pleasant day she's chipper and if she sees a bad one be prepared to be hit with rambles of evil omens. It’s hard to tell if her devoted worship of the G-ddess of bad fortunes, Xalious, makes this fluctuating anxiety better or worse for her.

Past all these nerves, however, is a very friendly woman seeking to make the world a better place. Qudrah is extremely open minded due to her sheltered childhood as a noblewoman and her genuine well of compassion for others. The wizard is extremely intelligent as well given how she relies on complex runes for her magic, has problem solving skills from deciphering her Visions, and has a general aptitude for critical thinking. She makes sure to use her Sight for good: visions of frozen orphans turn into a drive to make an orphanage, the image of her home city turned into a wasteland is a call to prepare for a sandstorm, and the phantom sound of her close friends broken bones become warnings in the heat of combat.

Horror aside, Qudrah is rather innocent in many aspects of life. She is somewhat impulsive when it comes to new experiences. With romance she has already broken traditional Ashlite customs of chaperoning and courting by sneaking her boyfriend into her room and then… cuddling with him! She’s a very physically affectionate person. She’s also slowly realizing people see her as worthwhile and interesting beyond her powers- a fact that excites and surprised her in equal measures.

What You All Know
Qudrah is a minor noblewoman Diviner from Southwest Ashlite. She has a father and mother as well as three older siblings. The eldest brother is Jamil, who is training to take over the family legacy. Safa is her oldest sister who’s an illusionist that makes sensational art pieces. Museeb, whose only two years older than Qudrah, is an evocation wizard serving the Ashlite home guard. Qudrah worked for her family by predicting fortunes and futures for the government and those who would pay for her services. She also did ‘pro bono’ Divination work when she had the instinct to.

Backstory Details
Qudrah gets aggravated and begins to panic when someone says or implies she's "crazy" or mentally unstable. She has lamented on many an occasion about never getting good suitors in Ashlite. The Diviner has also mentioned she has a ‘purpose’ in the Rift but hasn’t yet said what it is.

Arcane Focus; The Mansood Dagger
Qudrah's father gave her this family spell casting heirloom when she left for the Rift. She's never taken it off of her person- save for when she's certain she doesn't need it.

Divination Focus; Runic Cards
A set of 30 cards with runes meant for beginner Diviners. Qudrah has made every single one of them by hand. She uses these cards for spell casting rituals, especially those from the divination school, as the runes are tailored to provide the Weave a smooth access point to the material plane. She is excited for the day she can master the full Divination set of 120 runes for specialized invocation.

Breckham
"He’s my first for a lot of things in my life now that I think about it. He’s my first mutual crush, then my first partner, then my first kiss, then the first boy I’ve cuddled with! I’m so lucky he likes me back. I’m not sure if we have is love though? Rationally I know that first relationships are usually experimental experiences. I really hope that isn’t the case with Breckham. He’s such a gentleman! And he is so suave and engagingly intelligent but not arrogant about it at all. Besides, we get along so well! I mean, why would we ever split apart? Willingly, I-I mean. Sometimes I forget our jobs have us go into a giant death hole every other week…”

Daisy
“Should I make her my apprentice? She seems interested in magic. She’s also a good listener. She’s at the age for arcane exploration… I don’t know! The idea is scary. What good would I be as a teacher? I had tutors, practiced Diviners, and my family to help me. All Daisy would have is just Qudrah Mansood. Would that be enough for her? I need to wait for a vision to know what to do. I-I-I can’t- I can’t jump into t-teaching her without it. What I know to do is build the orphanage. Maybe adoption is where her path will lead. Who wouldn’t adopt her? Daisy’s such a good kid. She’s so sweet, you have no idea. I wish her sister could come back to see her safe. She can’t though. I Saw her broken, bloody skull deep within the Rift. I haven’t even told Daisy about it yet. I shouldn’t be a teacher if I can’t t-tell her even that! Excuse me, I-I need to calm down…!”

Guild master; Hari Voidbrand
“I trust in the Guild master. When she told us to go into the Rift to retrieve a bag I knew that she meant well. I don’t usually speak against Tah’sar or Makana, who were both questioning her, but I did then to have them follow her order. My instinct paid off in the end, so I’ll keep having faith in her from now on. I’m still intimidated by her though, even if she’s shown her humanity and isn’t a towering authority like before. She has such a terrible burden on her very soul that the sheer weight of the pain scares me. I have no idea what to say to her. I can’t even stop her from drinking. When I think about if my own siblings had the curse her brother did I just… I don’t know. I think I would break tradition and begin to drink too.”

Lashag Kharazug
“She’s pretty nice. Everyone calls her stupid, including her, and she is, but she’s not stupid in a bad way! In fact, it’s a good kind. She doesn’t care, or notice, that Tah’sar is an elf. She’s blunt and takes words at face value, which means I know she’s not a liar and her emotions are easy to understand. I hope she likes me in return!”

Liadrin
"Liadrin is nice! Odd, but nice. I don’t know if I like her as a person given she jumps all over the place, but I like her attitude! Everyone should be as open minded as her. Well. Maybe not that open minded. Uhm. Don’t drink any milk she offers you. Trust me.”

Lyonel Railron
“I haven’t talked to Lyonel much. He seems to have… a lot going on. I think that’s a fair statement to make about someone who put a Rift artifact in his eye and ran away from town in the same day. He must be a good man though. He wouldn’t be Tah’sar’s lover if he wasn’t! Also, he did help Breckham and I get together so I am grateful for him on that front alone.”

Makana Loni
"Makana is utterly brilliant. I’ve never seen someone come up with such innovative, death-defying adventuring solutions before. I know I’m inexperienced in the field but I just- I’m stunned by her mind. She’s truly exceptional! She has so much confidence and vivacity towards life! Our first conversations alone were beyond engaging. She gets me in a way others don’t. Do you know how rare it is to find someone who understands ‘crazy’ like she does?! There’s so much wisdom in a person able to create their own idea of sanity that doesn’t involve them shoving away who they are to appeal to a world who’d rip a mind apart before they fix it!! Th-That was a lot of words but- the point here is- I feel a very intense connection to her. We agreed to see each other and be seen, you know. Honestly, I had developed such a crush on her after that. I mean, mental skills aside, just on a physical level her sharp toothed smile and texture of her draconic scales are very attractive.

But Makana has parts to her that really scare me. She doesn’t value her own life very much. Many of her amazingly creative solutions involve her being directly in danger. When I tell her this she just says it’s “part of the job” and waves off the risk. Her magic is also near completely evocation and fire based. That’s fine in theory but she nearly used it to burn down an old man’s house to catch a necromantic fetus. She also doesn’t communicate very well. When she has a plan she runs off and doesn’t explain it, leaving Tah’sar and I to play guess work while she’s already sprinting towards the maw of a beast. Makana is brilliant but she’s reckless and not careful enough. My crush really fizzled out when she let herself be carried by owl bear monsters into the sky without telling me that she had a back up plan. Though she didn’t even have one since I had to protect her unconscious body while my own was bleeding out from- augh! I feel like I’ll have a heart attack from the stress of watching her recklessness! She’s a wonderful friend no matter what though. I only hope I can show her how valuable she actually is, because she doesn’t believe it herself just yet.”

Rayanna
“Rayanna’s like the calm, cool aunt I wish I had. My mother’s sister just yells at me for being so anxious which m-makes me more anxious and- uhm- back to Rayanna! At first I was very intimidated by her. She’s a High Priestess of Izris imbued with divine beauty who gives counsel to the Sultan! H-How are people not nervous talking to her?! It took me at least five times of staying in her peripheral vision trying to get her attention before I actually… was… able to. By that I mean I eventually forced myself to go up and talk to her like a normal person. I’m very grateful I got over my nerves. She’s given me a lot of comfort throughout my time here. She counseled me when I found Daisy, she’s helping me make the orphanage, her sermons of love guide me, she teases me in a kind way, and she’s just relaxing to talk to. I’ve been able to take her off the pedestal I made of her in my mind. Rayanna is blessed but she’s also human. She gets tired and stressed like anyone does. So, I’ve been helping her as I can to make sure she doesn’t bear such great burdens alone.

It was scary seeing her fight off the King’s curse too. I never want to see her so gaunt and in pain ever again. When I get anxious about the future I remember how grateful she was to be free. All the nerves disappear. Seeing her happy is more important than my fears.”

Safiya
“I’ve only been near Safiya twice. The first was us working on Rift artifacts together where she was very brass and kind of rude to me. The second was her stapling squirrels to a tree in front of her mother’s Church. Of course, I don’t consider the squirrel incident to be her since she was under the King’s curse at the time. Still though, the imagery makes me shudder. I generally avoid her which works well because she’s not the type to notice wallflowers.”

Tah'Sar
"Xalios, Xadia, and Jur have a destiny for Tah’sar. Why else would he be surrounded by Seers all his life? His mother, baby sister, and now me? It’s pure Fate, I know it. I’ve attempted to See his destiny on my own many times before, but the strands of events that his soul leaves are difficult to follow. Going back to the present, I see him as an elder brother figure. He acts so much like my own that I can’t separate the two sometimes, hehe! Tah’sar is much quieter and serious than Jamil though. He’s been through a lot and has an air of wise dedication to his G-d to prove it. I’m not sure if his politeness is just natural or if it’s a shield sometimes, like he doesn’t want to show us he can break. He’s a softie at heart regardless- though his pride dips into arrogance on occasion. I owe so much to him, though he will insist I don’t, because his presence alone enlightens me. It’s because of him that I realized the plight of the Rift natives and my own human biases. I only hope I have been a good comfort to him in return. I truly care for Tah’sar. I hope one day I can show him Ashlite properly as a hostess- and as a sister made from friendship.”