Of the black thread

Basics

Full Name: Irhya Pendhula
Race: Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te
Age: 26 (at beginning of 2.0), 31 (at end of 6.0)
Gender: Cis female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Hometown: North Shroud, slightly outside Hyrstmill

Personal history

I'm not going to recount all of FFXIV's MSQ, because... no. This section is for stuff that was different from or extra-canon to MSQ.Irhya was born the second of four children of a fairly on-again off-again Keeper couple in Hyrstmill, where her mother plied her trade by selling a multitude of handmade sundries and supplies to the Gods' Quiver members who frequently came to restock, as well as any passing travelers. From the time she was very little, she'd taken a keen interest in the crafts of her mother, first taught how to knit on a child's loom for her tiny hands and gradually moving up from there. She was always close to her father and her older sister, although her younger sister frequently did not see eye to eye with her, and her baby brother proved to be a frustrating and overly-impressionable doormat at best. However, despite the fact that it was her mother that inspired her passion for crafting, the clashes between parent and child proved explosive, in part due to the fact they were very similar in personality at their worst: fierce independent streaks and emotional volatility that meant either of them could be happy one moment and lashing out the next; spouting off bile at each other from without while tearing themselves down inside on the inside... the list goes on.Things only got more tenuous as Irhya became a teenager, and once she finally entered adulthood, she'd had enough. As soon as she was able, around the age of 20 or so, she left for Gridania to become a conjurer; on the eve of her departure, she and her mother had another argument, one that took an unfortunate turn involving flower pots being chucked about and ended with Irhya spewing some impulsive, edgy vitriol to the tune of claiming she never really loved her, that she was nothing but a burden who needed to be mothered herself rather than do the mothering, that they'd all be relieved if she'd just drop dead already and break the chains she's slapped on them, etc. And while her mother seemed to take it all in stride (externally, and only if one can consider an almost soulless stare "stride"), Irhya looked back on it with regret once a cooler head prevailed, thinking to herself that she should perhaps write an apology letter, or go back to visit and smooth things over...Somewhere around the time between patch 2.55 (the coup d'état in Ul'dah by the Crystal Braves) and 3.0 (Heavensward), she learns belatedly of her mother's passing due to illness, springing to mind all the things she'd last said to her, and the fact she never did get around to issuing that apology. She ends up having to tuck it away inside, having told no one about the weight of the guilt, or the festering wound that has come from it, except for the family that she left behind to think ill of her for hurting her mother's feelings so badly before the end. Conversations with her two younger siblings have still been kept to a minimum for different reasons. As for her older sister, relations between them were initially strained, but smoothed over somewhat once Shia reinforced the fact she still loves her even if she's a total screw-up.She began in Gridania as a conjurer and then a promising white mage, then swapped to dark knight sometime mid-Heavensward, taking a short training break to get good at it. Turns out she likes hitting things with a sword more than conking them in the head with rocks. She remains a dark knight right up through Endwalker and beyond.

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