Riit Ranganasang - XERES LIVE!

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Basic Information

Full Name

Riit Ranganasang

Nickname

Long Shot

Race (Grade)

Drow Noble (E)

Class

Ranger

Height

5'6"

Birthday

Frostnight 20, 1275

Age

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Birthsign

The Twilight Phoenix

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Bloodline Ability

🔮 Unknown

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Physical Description

Riit Ranganasang

Appearance

Riit keeps her platinum-white hair long and loose beneath a deep hood she rarely lowers around strangers, framing pale lavender-grey skin and sharp, watchful eyes that miss very little. A dark angular marking traces one cheekbone, a house mark from Sillumi she has never bothered to explain to anyone who's asked. She dresses in fitted dark leather built for silence and range of motion rather than display, and she is never seen without her bow, a black, precisely maintained piece she treats with more visible affection than she extends to most people.

Unique Characteristics

Riit maps the exits and blind spots of any room within seconds of entering it, a habit so automatic she rarely notices herself doing it. She is exceptionally still when she wants to be, to the point that people occasionally startle upon realizing she has been standing in a corner for some time. She almost never laughs, and the rare times she does, people tend to remember it specifically, less because it is loud than because it is clearly, visibly rare.

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Personality & Temperament

Positive Traits

Genuinely warm once she decides to trust someone
Remembers small kindnesses with real precision
Extraordinarily patient and disciplined
Values honesty more than most people expect
Fiercely protective of the few people she keeps close

Challenging Traits

Rarely finds anything genuinely funny
Unsettlingly calm in moments that should rattle her
Slow to trust and slower to explain herself
Goes quiet and distant when pushed on her past
Coldly practical the instant she feels threatened

I don't find much funny. I've found that's different from not caring.

Sillumi taught me distance. Everything else, I had to learn on my own.

Buy me a drink, tell me something true, and I'll remember it longer than you'd expect.

Likes

A clean shot, taken and never discussed again
People who say what they mean the first time
Quiet company that doesn't require performing
A well-kept bow and a well-kept promise
Being trusted with something small

Dislikes

Being asked to explain her past
Loud rooms with no clear exit
People who perform friendliness for advantage
Being laughed at for not laughing
Owing anyone anything she can't repay in kind

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Background & History

Leaving Sillumi

Riit was born into a noble house in a small underground Drow city before her family moved to Sillumi, the current home of the Drow, and spent her early years learning the bow the way noble daughters there are expected to learn something. Three years ago, she left, without much ceremony and without a clear reason she's ever offered anyone. Those who knew her at the time describe it less as a dramatic break and more as a woman quietly deciding she had learned everything that house had to teach her and wanted to see what she could learn on her own.

Work, Wherever It Was

For three years, Riit worked as an independent contractor, taking bounty and tracking work wherever it paid well and asked few questions, moving from city to city as jobs came and went. She built a quiet reputation among the kind of people who need that sort of reputation: someone who finished a job cleanly, without theatrics, and without loose ends left behind for someone else to clean up.

Caught in Gelderai's Fall

Riit happened to be in Gelderai on a job when the undead incursion tore into the city. Whatever she had been working on there ended, unfinished, the same night the alarms went up, and she evacuated with the wave of refugees that scattered toward Goodberry. She does not discuss what the job was, and has made clear, in the small number of ways she makes anything clear, that this is not a subject she intends to revisit.

A Fresh Start, Carefully Watched

Riit has taken quick notice that Goodberry's ruling family carries a reputation for being seriously, almost inconveniently justice-minded. She has not decided yet whether that makes the city safer to settle in or simply a place to be more careful, and until she decides, she has no intention of making her profession, or the specifics of her prior work, public knowledge to anyone.

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Goals & Aspirations

Someone Who Doesn't Ask

More than anything else right now, Riit wants a handful of genuine connections in Goodberry, people she can trust without needing to explain herself to. She is not looking for a crowd. She is looking for the specific, steadying feeling of being known a little, by a few people, without interrogation. She has never been able to fully name why this matters to her as much as it does, only that she is calmer, warmer, and more herself when she has it, and considerably less so when she goes without it for too long.

Reading the New City

Riit is spending her first weeks in Goodberry watching more than acting, learning who holds real influence, who can be trusted, and how much freedom a quiet newcomer with a useful bow is likely to be given before questions start getting asked. She intends to have a clear read on the city before she decides how much of herself, professionally or otherwise, it is safe to reveal here.

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Current Status & Relationships

Residence

Goodberry

Role

Bounty Hunter

ATTENTION!

Riit is an exceptionally skilled archer capable of precise, lethal shots at extreme range, and her calm, reserved manner should not be mistaken for harmlessness. She is highly disciplined in combat, favors distance and preparation over direct confrontation, and rarely acts without having already planned three ways out of the situation.