High Priestess Aja Daktari
“I was chosen to see the truth. No one prepared me for what it would cost.”
Age: 60
Chosen at seven lucas from the kinsmen of the Camu tribe by the Superior Guardians of the Fold of Aluke, Aja Daktari was shaped from childhood into vision and service. Gifted with sight beyond time, she was entrusted with guarding queens, guiding bloodlines, and protecting the future of Nu Oarren itself.
For decades, she fulfilled that role with precision and reverence. Until loyalty demanded silence. And silence became unbearable.
As Royal Seer to Empress Subira, Aja stood at the highest spiritual rank within the kingdom. Her marriage to Duke, the Imperial Officer, bound her to both prophecy and power, a union celebrated publicly and questioned privately.
When Duke was banished and declared dead, something within Aja shifted. Loss fractured her certainty. Faith hardened into control. Her allegiance to the royal family, once absolute, became conditional; eroded by grief, unanswered questions, and a growing sense of betrayal.
Aja still serves vision.
But no longer unquestioningly.
Background & Loyalties
Intelligent, commanding, and deeply complex, Aja balances grace with volatility. She is capable of profound compassion and sudden cruelty, charm and threat, calm and fury; often within the same moment.
She despises losing control and moves constantly to stay ahead of consequence. Her humour is dark, her laughter unsettling. Though once guided by devotion, her decisions are now sharpened by pain and a need to reclaim agency.
Aja does not fear truth.
She fears being powerless before it.
Personality
Light brown skinned with piercing emerald-green eyes, Aja’s presence is unmistakable. Her long white dreadlocks trail nearly to the floor a visual testament to time, initiation, and spiritual weight.
Tall, slender, and deliberate in movement, she walks with entitlement earned through vision and sacrifice. Even in stillness, she commands space.
Appearance
Aja is one of the most powerful seers of her age. Her abilities include foresight, retrosight through touch, and advanced conjuring. She can summon and dismiss matter, bend perception, and exert influence over certain animals.
Her power is vast but not limitless. The further she moves from balance, the more unstable her sight becomes. Vision, once her anchor, now mirrors her inner unrest.
Aja does not merely see the future.
She struggles with what she has already seen.
