"You stand before me, fists clenched in pride, shouting 'strength is something fate provides!'
But weapons made without the pain, shatters worthless beneath the strain."

RP themes / info / seeking

  • IC walk ups in game (when RP tag is on)

  • All themes and scenes are open! Mature, horror, casual, erp, romance, platonic, you name it I'm likely down to write with you!

  • Discord rp is a-ok with me!

  • Minor or major injury in rp is good with me, but anything permanent or life altering must be discussed with me prior (likely I'm open to it! Just ask pls!)

  • Abusive relationships or themes are okay with me, please note that this character is not abusive to others, however.

  • Fair spars and fights, I tend to take disadvantage on things that need to be accurate and precise hits, and I'm more than happy to lose fights but I prefer them to be realistically balanced alongside /random rolls. I'm open to fights without rolls with the right people.

  • Anything not listed here that you're curious about, please feel free to ask! I am generally open to most topics and themes.

  • Please be sure to ask if I'm free to hang out if you're wanting to chat in game. I'm usually off doing things and they can be put down in most cases, but I don't want to be followed around or crowded when I'm online, I prefer to plan my time spent with others.

  • Note: Please remember, Reva is not me, she is not a stand in for me ooc. Anything that happens ic between our characters is just that, our characters, and I would like this separation to be respected. ic feelings are not the same as ooc, and one or two conversations ooc does not mean I am your best friend.

  • I am not looking for ooc relationships or romance.

  • Metagaming/Godmodding or omnipotence.

  • All powerful / unbeatable characters. Just not fun to interact with for me, sorry!

  • I do not want to rp with characters who are: the WoL, ancients, sineaters or voidsent, characters from other franchises such as WoW, or notable NPC's.

  • total lore breaking. i prefer to keep my rp close to or lore strict, with some bending here and there to keep things fun and creative. I'd like my own rp and those I engage with to be at least plausible and easily explained in the setting of FFXIV.

  • I do not follow the Viera fanon at all, this character is not to be reduced to an animal, she is a fully sapient person.

"There's a girl sleeping under the river."

Reva is a traditional woman hailing from Golmore, often distant, cryptic, and somewhat odd, she isn't an immediately friendly sort.Blunt at times, often running her words in circles, she can be a little hard to parse on first encounters. Passed that, however, once she has properly deemed someone worth her words, she slowly becomes more open and straightforward in her statements. She isn't particularly warm, nor is she cruel. She simply is, often doing her best to conduct herself in a way many would describe as neutral and unknowable yet direct and calculated. She walks closely alongside death within her life, she chooses to act as such, to present not just as the companion, but the gentle hold of the end.Many know her to be a conjurer, though it would be short sighted to assume she is only a healer. Much of her spellwork can be tipped toward offensive, and much like nature, she is red in tooth and claw, destroying every beautiful thing she'd ever create. She has long since mastered the magical arts, with few things she truly needs to hone within it, her long life giving her the time to truly know and find the end of what there is to learn. But she doesn't find magic boring, even still.It's rare she travels via aetheryte, finding it more preferable to walk wherever she goes. Her wanderings into city states tends to be fairly shortlived, often passing through only to access transportation between locales and not lingering overlong. She does, however, linger when the company is
agreeable.
She has maintained her role in caretaking the dead and dying, often acting as a companion to those who are actively taking their last breaths by sitting vigil and soothing them. She also occasionally ventures out to destroy any ashkin she happens to find, or remove lingering aether so that the soul may more easily pass on into the aetherial sea.Much of her time is spent working, whether that be through hunting, mentorship, caretaking, rescue efforts within the palace of the dead, or other odd jobs. She is known to never accept gil for her work, much preferring her payment to simply be occupying her hands.She travels with a large vulture companion, a creature from the mountains of Golmore she has raised from chick to adult. She is protective of her, often affectionately calling the scavenger 'Rattle' or other little pet names. Wherever Reva may be, Ratiljost is never far.Where her life takes her now that she is unable to return to her home in the Wood is completely up in the air. She has finally settled into her new life, and has become somewhat more interested in making friendships, however these are slow starting and she tends to take up a majority of her social time with the various beast folk she has befriended in her travels.She views herself very much as a forge for others to temper their strengths and grow into whatever tool they are trying to craft themselves into. She often speaks in metaphors relating to this concept, and can become quite fired up when she sees someone she can temper. Currently she only has one apprentice, perhaps one day she will accept more.Many details of this character have been left out of this carrd and can be found out through interaction! If you would like to RP and you see me online, send me a /tell!

  • Name: Reva (Rey-Vah)

  • Forest name(s): [Unknown]

  • Race: Viera, Rava/Veena mix

  • Gender: Gender Neutral / Female

  • Pronouns: She/Her

  • Age: 182

  • Nameday: 21st Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon (4/20)

  • Sexuality: Bisexual (fem preference)

  • Birth Village: Draugaá (Golmore, Rava village)

  • Hair Color: Blonde

  • Eye Colour: Milky white, absent pupil.

  • Height: 6'2"

  • Guardian: Unknown - Golmorran pantheon

  • Alignment: True Neutral

  • Myer's Briggs: INFP

  • Language: Golmorran(fluent), Common Eorzean(fluent), Gobbiespeak(fluent)

  • Occupation: Mentor, 'retired' mage, adventurer

  • Residence: Various campsites, travels often, frequently stays in the Hermit's Hovel and various cave systems

  • Theme: Rot Next To You

  • Voice claim / Accent Ref: Heilung - Othan / Hrafna - youtuber

  • Reva is heavily freckled, with patches of vitiligo, much of it shaped and patterned through aetheric manipulation.

  • Missing her right eye, she is left with an empty, open socket. Her left eye is in tact and functional, however it is a milky white, giving her a somewhat off-putting stare. She is currently going blind.

  • She has a thick Golmorran (icelandic) accent. Think trilled R's, V's spoken as soft W's and the like.

  • She has a short hare tail, and short, rounded ears. While she is not lop-eared, she does often hold her ears down.

  • Soft, powdery antlers sit just in front of her ears. Rare to be left to grow out, she often files them down.

  • Often she is caked in mud to various degrees, especially so in times of heavy rains.

  • She typically wears robes, dresses, skirts, and light clothing. Most of her clothing, if not all, are hand made by herself with whatever she happened to have available to her.

  • She is usually wearing a dark shade of lipstick, the makeup one she had made herself.

  • She never leaves her campsites without her bag, which is usually full of anything she might need in the day. More of a survival bag than a purse or some such, she carries meals, medicines, healing kits, books, rope, knives, you name it, it's probably in there.

  • She is soft spoken and calm in her wording in most cases, though her spellwork often takes on musical cadence, firm enunciation, or even soft humming in place of the words to alter the spell and it's effects. Those sensitive to aether and magic would likely be able to tell she is competent in her spellwork, though her reserves are no more or less potent than what one would find on average.

"No fire burns forever if it's left to stand alone, no blade is ever sharpened if it's never felt the stone.
Strength is not a birthright, nor a gift from kings or Gods.
"

History and Timeline

Note: Many details are left out of this background and history page. Further details of this character can be learned through interaction only, some being easier to learn than others. For characters who may have known her in the past (such as from the same village / old enough to have met her in some compacity) we can discuss!

I.

Childhood
0-16


Reva grew up in a traditional home in Golmore, spending a great deal of time in tune with the jungle around her and its gifts. She studied under her mother, along with another child, Ljot, and began her path in conjury.

II.

Training
16-57


Upon reaching adulthood, she fled into the forest and found a woman sleeping under the river. She waited there for weeks, feeding her and pouring small amounts of water into her mouth until she finally woke up. She had found her mentor, and decided to stay below the river with her and learn all she could.
These were the years she was gifted knowledge of both necromancy and curse magic.

III.

Cryptwarden
57-173


A vast majority of her life was spent in solitude, her mentor dying suddenly and leaving her to tend the cave alone.
She became her villages caretaker, travelling into the village to retrieve the dead so she could put them to rest, as well as finding distressed wood warders to bring them to sanctuary, so that they could continue to protect the wood.

IV.

Leaving Golmore
178


Reva had made a promise to someone important to her early in her life, and unfortunately, that promise lead her to leaving her home in Golmore. She regrets doing so, but she does not regret holding true to her word. She rarely shares the details of said promise, only that it was made, kept, and she remains an oathkeeper.

V.

A new path to walk
178-182


It took her a while to settle down and find herself a new path to walk within the outside world. After a few years of struggling with accepting her new home, she has now intergraded herself. She now works as a hunter and mentor, though for the moment she only has one student.

VI.

Crossroads
182-current


She knew it would come to be, that lingering so long outside of Golmore would corrupt her soul and her mind, that she would care for it and the people who call it home. She's seen Golmore reject her, she's lost.
But where can she go, now? Who can she be? Does she let it all go, wallow in self pity and anger for being so weak to the influence she thought she was above? Or, can she recover her meaning, her purpose, and find a new one? Does she even want to?
Only time and fate hold her now, and where her story leads she is blind to.

"It is the fire in your heart that defies the odds!
It is the pain of failure, the lessons from each scar. It is the anvil's judgement that speaks to who you are!
"

Hooks

Golmorran Conjurer

  • SFW/NSFW themes available

  • Main cities

  • Long or short term plotlines

Reva is a skilled conjurer, or, similar enough to one to use the name. She is a healer of both body and land, maintaining the balance and mending what she can. Though like nature, she is red in tooth and claw, just as ready to destroy every beautiful thing she's ever created.
She uses the 6 elements and their polarities in her spell casting, not limiting herself to a select few as she's seen other mages do in their craft. She enjoys twisting spellwork commonly used for protection and healing into harmful ailments, such as turning a spell of stoneskin inward to restrict movement or crush bone.

Simple Walk-ups

  • SFW/NSFW themes available

  • Main cities / Outland

  • Long or short term plotlines

  • Casual scenes and walk ups

While she can be a little prickly occasionally, with the right approach one can quickly find her guard down.
She is usually found in the outland, though you may chance her within the city states if you're lucky.
Give me a /tell if you'd like, I'd be happy to give you idea's for starters or write one myself.

Romance

  • SFW/NSFW themes available

  • Long or short term plotlines

Romance is certainly open, but Reva is the type to make someone work for her affection, or at least earn it. She wants to be proven not to be wasting her time with someone she has distaste for, but she isn't overly avoidant of allowing a romance to blossom.
Find the right way to go about it and things can progress quite fast, or, a slower path can be taken, either way, with the right approach one can gain her affection.

Do you want to be mentored?

  • SFW/Mature themes available

  • Outland

  • Long or short term plotlines

  • Casual plotlines and walk ups

If you are seeking a mentor in avenues of magery or just growth, and you manage to get within her graces, she is likely to be willing to mentor you. She has a number of skills she's willing to teach.

Deep Dungeons

  • SFW/Mature themes available

  • Main cities

  • Long or short term plotlines

  • Casual plotlines and walk ups

Reva has recently signed up to head into the various deep dungeons as part of small rescue teams to retrieve adventurers either lost or dead. She usually posts in adventurer guilds looking for company.

Deaths Companion

  • SFW/Mature themes available

  • Main cities

  • Long or short term plotlines

  • Need a teacher?

Reva works closely with the natural world, and that includes the lingering souls still hanging onto it. Her main work in her Golmorran home was that of a companion, escort, and soother of the dead.
She sat vigil over the dying, performed funerary rites for her village, and tended to the final disposition and removal of lingering souls to ensure they pass on.

Treasure / Monster Hunting

  • SFW themes available

  • Outside settlements and area's

  • Long or short term plotlines

  • Casual plotlines

Much of her day she is monster hunting, and she quite enjoys it. She usually goes out on her own for this, but anyone can ask to tag along.

I knew you in Golmore!

  • SFW/NSFW themes available

  • Main cities / Outland

  • Longterm plotlines

  • Casual scenes and walk ups

Discuss with me first, I may have different views on Vieran society than you do. I do NOT follow the viera fanon.

Seeking Adventure Buds

  • SFW/Mature themes available

  • Main cities / Outland

  • Longterm plotlines

  • Casual scenes and walk ups

Wanna go to the outland? Let's do it! I often have things to DM and can write us lengthy adventures or one shots. I have a system for fights based around the /random dice roll feature.

More to come!

These are all only ideas! If you have something you want to rp that isn't on the list, feel free to ask! I enjoy all rp themes and plotlines and I might be able to swing something.

Relationships

Key:
♥ = Romantic attraction
❥ = Physical attraction
✔ = Friend
✘ = Dislike/Foe

Note: these are relating to her feelings, not the mutual feelings between characters in each relationship that follows. Where she may think of someone as a friend, they may not, or vice versa for example.
Updated often! Keep an eye out for changes in details or views on characters!


Ratiljóst

Familiar


A bearded vulture native to the Skatay Range and mountains in Golmore. Not a magical construct, but deeply bonded and tied to the conjurer. A companion and familiar earned and tended to, she is her eyes.


✔❥♥ Shono Kagon

Companions, Mentorship


Outwardly, it seems that the two have a somewhat turbulent friendship, and while true, this seems to be a benefit to their companionship. Deep, strong bonds have been well forged between them, some of which Reva would even describe as unbreakable despite the Kagon's worries that's not the case. They can be seen travelling together through the nights, felling ashkin and voidsent, escorting souls to the aetherial sea, and simply spending time together within the city states.
Reva is not certain on her true feelings for the Kagon, but she does care deeply for her.


✔❥ Leo Valentine

Friendship


They're close, in a way, Reva holds respect for him and appreciates his care with her. She doesn't often share the details of their friendship or why they are close, but he is her brothers partner. She holds him in high regard. She trusts him entirely, knowing anyone her brother could fall in love with is someone who can be trusted. The two are often seen dancing together, she attends his shows often.


✔♥ Sage

Friendship


While initially the man irritated her greatly, nowadays all she finds within him is a deep appreciation. She travels to spend time with him often, enjoying the time she can slow down with him and talk philosophy. She loves his stories and the way he goes about life, his focus on the living a stark contrast to her own devotion to the dead, but despite what many would describe as opposites, she finds value in their time together and has come to view him as a fated friend. He helped her in accepting her new path in life, and she will perhaps repay the debt to him.


Ilvex

Top contender for Warder of the Year, but not for her.


A loss too great, too painful, to speak. What once was is no longer, she regrets losing him deeply. Perhaps mending can be done, perhaps not, regardless, Reva is incredibly pained by the loss of this friendship and sees very little in what can be recovered, and she only has herself to blame.


Vrev Honeyheart

Siblings


Vrev is her brother, who she was as close to as one could be when one sees a loved one every 10 or so years. Which, in this case, is closer than anyone. He left Golmore before she had, but he has been helping her in finding her footing.

OOC info / contact

Hi, I'm Elegy
(he/him/she/her/it/its), I'm 30+, my active hours vary but I am in GMT-6 timezone. I have been RPing in different formats since 2006, and on ffxiv RPing here since ARR released!
I RP, do content (roulettes, treasure hunting, deep dungeons, and ex trials mainly), gather and craft, and enjoy helping sprouts. I main WAR/WHM/BLM/RPR. I'm also an omnicrafter and gatherer and can make or gather near anything in game, so please feel free to ask for help if you need something made!If you would like to contact me on discord, please ask for it, I will not be posting it publicly here on this carrd.I take art commissions! Please see my ko-fi for details!