Suhla Black-Rope (Suu-hLa)

Summary

Born to the Rotalhm Great House of Adhmad-Kar, of Clan Hardwood, of family Black-Rope, Suhla had a cushy life as a future carpenter and weaver. Her family's legacy has ever been practical and reliable silk crafts, especially those usable in construction. Suhla, however, felt drawn to a different calling, one that would take her into dark forests and dangerous encounters. She desired to be a huntress, something all sorts of talltales and fantasies of greatness fed into. Although her family wasn't encouraging, they nonetheless supported her endeavors so she'd have an honest chance.   Sadly, for as capable as she became, Suhla ever failed to match the insane abilities of Evaryn Crimson-Silk, her would-be rival. Although initially Evaryn's senior, the other rachtoh's innovations and boundless ferocity completely supplanted her. It fostered a deep and ever lasting resentment, one that made Suhla reject Evaryn's 'mana training' techniques that swept Rotalhm by storm.   Finding herself amongst strangers and unreasonable circumstances, Suhla elected to leave Rotalhm on a journey of her own. A way to find something comparable or competitive to Evaryn's methods, one she'd achieve with her own four hands. Electing to head southward, she ventured beyond Rotalhm's forests and into the domains of others. A rachtoh mercenary of any kind would draw attention, and she never wanted for work opportunities. One such contract is how she crossed paths with Zai, a wandering scholar from Aochen.   The two got on well, and Zai paid Suhla her fair share as a body guard and escort. For Suhla, Zai's wandering interests meant going to strange and bizarre places, which might contain opportunities she could use. It would be on one of these excurisons they ran across a particularly strange matter concerning a baarham Dominion-era artifact. They soon ran into the adventurer group, Fearless Ananpae, led by Alexandre.   Pulled in by Zai, the two of them joined to help Alexandre hunt down the baarham chasing the artifact. That wild excursion, myriad adventures, and even the Traitors' War she landed into, showed Suhla more of the world (or at least, Aerthen) than she'd ever imagined. Still nowhere closer to finding something to usurp Evaryn, she keeps pace with Zai and the others, always on the hunt for what could be her big breakthrough.   Although, what she'd have to do once she 'got it', Suhla wasn't sure still.