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==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
===Ix'balam=== | ===Ix'balam=== | ||
| − | The daughter of an eastern sailor and a woman of the Silver People, born and raised among her mother's people and trained from an early age in their mystic arts. Always a precocious and secretive child, her mixed heritage and strange behavior endeared her neither to the natives of the islands nor to the foreign settlers, even before she grew up and somehow learned the taboo skill of skinwalking, seemingly all on her own. She eventually left home | + | The daughter of an eastern sailor and a woman of the Silver People, born and raised among her mother's people and trained from an early age in their mystic arts. Always a precocious and secretive child, her mixed heritage and strange behavior endeared her neither to the natives of the islands nor to the foreign settlers, even before she grew up and somehow learned the taboo skill of skinwalking, seemingly all on her own. She eventually left home with the hope that it would make things easier for her mother and joined the treasure hunters, finding that the community of outcasts and ne'er-do-wells seemed the only people she wasn't unwelcome among. |
| − | Though generally very calm and pleasant once you get past her creepier quirks | + | Though generally very calm and pleasant once you get past her creepier quirks - like the skeletal body paint she always wears - she can sometimes show a bit of a manic edge and carries personal grudges with downright frightening patience. |
Her name is pronounced ''ish-bah-lum'' and means "Jaguar Woman", which is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguars_in_Mesoamerican_cultures#Jaguars_and_the_Maya fitting], though not necessarily a compliment. The pirates tend to call her Ish for short; that part of her name is a generic feminine and/or diminutive prefix, so they're basically just calling her "Girl", but it amuses her enough that she doesn't bother correcting them. | Her name is pronounced ''ish-bah-lum'' and means "Jaguar Woman", which is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguars_in_Mesoamerican_cultures#Jaguars_and_the_Maya fitting], though not necessarily a compliment. The pirates tend to call her Ish for short; that part of her name is a generic feminine and/or diminutive prefix, so they're basically just calling her "Girl", but it amuses her enough that she doesn't bother correcting them. | ||
