Characters in Caligo

[Kathryn Lacey]

• Kathryn Lacey as Kaliska Makya and Shyam
  

[Kathryn Lacey]

Name
Kaliska Makya
((pronounced kuh-LEE-skuh MAH-kee-uh))

Sex
Female

Age
417

Date of Birth
November 22nd, 1593

Heritage
Native Caligoan

Profession/Vocation
Archivist

Appearance
Kaliska has long hair that cascades in soft waves almost to her derriere. It's such a light hue of blonde that there are times when it almost appears to be white. She tends to wear braids throughout it as well as adornments such as random feathers she finds attractive and pieces of twisted metal that often serve to keep her fair braids secure. Along her hairline is a very small widow's peak that is difficult to discern against her fair skin.

Her brows, which are actually a darker blonde colour that almost looks brown next to the contrast of her hair, are nicely arched and neither too full nor too thin. Beneath them sit a pair of eyes which are wont to appear anywhere from a silver-blue to an almost green colour depending on the lighting. However, they usually appear to be a dark, grey-blue. They're surrounded by long, dark-blonde lashes.

The bridge of her nose is straight, ending in broader, slightly turned-up base. From a profile view, her nose is a bit long, but it works well for her face. Her cheekbones are a bit high which suit her heart shaped face well, and her lips while not very full are well shaped.

Kaliska stands at about five feet and five inches, weighing about one hundred twenty-four pounds. Her body is fit and agile, and while it's clear she's female, her curves are small with her body shape being more like a rectangle.

Her skin is fair and mostly blemish free. A few scars mark her, namely two lines beneath her chin, a small burn scar on her right arm, and almost imperceptible lines along her wrists from when she had hard times during her earlier years.

She has a small mole just along the side of her left cheekbone, and a small freckle beside the left peak of her upper lip. There's a mole at the base of her throat and a few random freckles here-and-there along her body.

She loves jewelry, and she always wears something. Her favorite pieces are her silver thumb ring she wears on her left hand, a small band of silver she wears on her right ring finger, a silver band that curves around her right bicep, and a quarts crystal pendant that hangs from a black cord that she wears around her neck.

Her clothing style is very eclectic. She prefers many different styles though her most utilized tend to run along a more bohemian front. She loves colour, and she'll wear any combination she likes, but her favorite groups of colours are cool colours ((blues, greens, purples)) and earth tones ((browns, earthy greens, etc.)).

Personality Traits
Kaliska is a bit of a conundrum. At times, she is brash and hotheaded while at others she can be calm and more diplomatic. Like her mother before her, she has times of positive emotions and times of negative emotions, all in the extremes. However, unlike Huyana, it's easier for her to become neutral once more, and she can more quickly calm her intense joy or her fiery anger.

The blonde has a good balance between academic intellect and common sense though there are times when one or the other of those seems to lack like with any other normal person. This namely happens when she's in a state of high emotion, for she finds it difficult to think clearly when she's too impassioned.

While Kaliska is a bit selfish, namely when her emotions are running high, she can be a kind and generous friend as well as a loyal one. She stick up for her friends when she feels they're right or if they've been wronged. However, she isn't afraid to let them know when she feels they aren't right because she knows that she would want her friends to do the same for her.

All in all, the makes her seem blunt and undiplomatic, but she doesn't mind. It's who she is.

She strives for knowledge, and she severely dislikes not knowing something, even if it's not anything of consequence. Secrets irritate her, and she values honesty above all else though this may make her a bit of a hypocrite, as she often keeps things from others.

There's a darkness to Kaliska that has been growing with each new tragedy she must face. Her view of the world is no longer good and pure, and she often questions life, her goals, and the things she does. What is good any more? What is right when everyone seems to die around her?

Many of the things she does could be perceived as cruel though she doesn't necessarily view them this way. Other things she does could be perceived as wonderful. Kaliska is sort of a neutral person. She could go either way on the scale of good to bad at any given moment.

Family
● PARENTS ●
▪ Huyana Makya - Mother (deceased)
▪ Sharva Savitri - Father

Huyana Makya could be a bit manic. One moment, she could be happy and joyful, and the next one would encounter a fury like none other. It was rare to catch her in a middle ground, a point of calm existence.

This wasn’t to say the single mother of two wasn’t a decent parent. She had been wild in her youth, and she took it upon herself to always be open with her children, so they would always feel they could be open with her. She also allowed them to follow their own paths whether they have something to do with religion, with sexuality, or with making their own choices and their own mistakes so long as they weren’t too terrible. Huyana simply tried to guide her children in a direction of understanding and learning.

Despite this, the woman frequently fought with her children. Her unstable emotions served to make a confusing atmosphere for her son Sewati and for her daughter Kaliska. As the children grew older, they began to see their mother as flawed though they continued to love her. Sadly, it was clear that of her two children, Kaliska was her favorite, and that is probably part of what prompted Sewati to long for their grandmother to be his mother instead of Huyana.


Sharva Savitri was a drifter. He frequently moved between cities on Caligo with little to no money, but he always managed to survive. He had very little responsibility, and he liked it that way. The man was young when he met Huyana, and he only had fun in mind. When he discovered he’d impregnated her, he split. Kaliska didn’t have him in her life until fourteen years later, and by then, he had settled down and had become more responsible, but having a daughter whose life he’d essentially missed prevented them from ever becoming close – even after Huyana passed into the spirit realm.

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● SIBLINGS ●
▪ Sewati Makya - Older Half-Brother (deceased)
▪ Chitra Savitri - Younger Half-Sister

Sewati Makya was Kaliska’s idol for a long time. He was only three years older than her, and she always wanted to be around him even when he didn’t want her to hang with his friends and himself. Like any siblings, they had their rivalries, but they loved one another.

Sewati was fiercely protective of her, even going so far as to get into trouble trying to protect her from the evils of their world. He always seemed to have knowledge that exceeded what normal kids his age would know about the world which enabled him to know what it meant when people could potentially harm his little sister.

It wasn’t just world knowledge of which he seemed to have an abundance, for he was also academically superior to kids his age. He skipped a grade in his early years, and he was an honor student who took advanced courses for a while. Kaliska always felt intellectually inferior to her older brother, but instead of crying about it, she only worked harder in an attempt to catch up to Sewati.

He began going through a hard time in his forties when he began to get involved with drugs. He began to hang around the wrong crowd, and he began to grow depressed as life felt it wasn’t going where he’d hoped. A couple of decades later, he committed suicide with his shade companion, leaving his family devastated.


Chitra Savitri and Kaliska were never fully as close as they could have been. Because Kaliska was on speaking terms with their father, she didn’t serve much of a purpose in Chitra’s life until the girl reached adulthood. The two girls are on good terms with one another, but they’re more like acquaintances than sisters, for they aren’t very close. They only see one another once every few months.

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● GRANDPARENTS ●
▪ Honon Makya - Mother's Father (deceased)
▪ Penina Makya - Mother's Mother

Nanny Penina and Papa Honon practically raised Kaliska and Sewati in their youth until Huyana began moving all over the place without them. Honon was the peacemaker in the family, always trying to resolve issues amicably while Honon was the boisterous sort.

Though the two loved both of their grandchildren, Penina’s favorite grandchild was Sewati, and Honon’s favorite was Kaliska though the former had a tendency to be stuck with the less appealing jobs that concerned the two children while the latter got to show off his adorable granddaughter.

The two adults separated when Kaliska was still a child due to irreconcilable differences (namely Honon’s adultery), and he moved to another city to care for his aging mother whose shade had passed away decades earlier. However, the children were able to see their grandfather during holidays and vacations until he passed away from sickness after his shade had mysteriously disappeared.

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● SIGNIFICANT OTHER(S) ●
▪ Sang Minh - First Husband, Divorced
▪ Uras Zabu - Second Husband (deceased)

Kaliska and Sang met when she moved into her first apartment by herself. Their relationship progressed quickly, and after only a short time, the two married. However, their relationship didn’t take long to sour, for he was her first serious partner, and their communication skills were lacking. He also had a tendency to lie and purposely make her feel inferior, especially after they learned of her inability to bear children. Though Sang strung her along for almost a year after they separated, she gained some self-confidence, and she insured the divorce was finalized.


Uras Zabu was a little shy of Kaliska at first when he saw her working at a library. It was a small establishment, and though there were larger, better libraries in the area, he couldn’t resist coming to the one where she was employed. After a while, he sucked up his courage and asked her on a date.

Having learned from her last serious relationship to take things slow, they dated for a five years before marrying, but it was worth it. Their marriage was happy and comfortable, and they loved each other deeply. The only thing that separated them was when Uras who was a firefighter ended up perishing on the job along with his shade who was trying to help.

Since then, Kaliska has never been involved in a serious relationship, choosing to date casually rather than allow her heart to be consumed and broken again.

Friends and Enemies
● Mali Bussaba ●
Mali and Kaliska were fast friends ever since they met when Kaliska's family moved to Mali's town. They met at a summer camp when they were still children, and they've been fast friends ever since. Even when Kaliska moved all over the place, Mali was the only person who tried to keep in touch with her, something for which Kaliska has always been grateful.


With Mali's Brownyte, Niran, a sort of balance exists between the girls and their shades. Mali and Niran are cool and collected while Kaliska can sometimes be an impulsive hothead.

The four have been friends for over four hundred years with no foreseeable end in sight.

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● Luminita Liviu ●
While Kaliska has known Mali longer than Luminita, she feels that Luli ((as Kaliska has nicknamed her)) is her best friend though the three women have formed a bit of a trinity for their friendship.


Luminita's shade is an Inklaw named Ionel, and he gets along with both Kaliska's Grimalkin and Mali's Brownyte.

Kaliska and Mali both met Luli at the same time while they were in college, and they all became fast friends. Their friendship with one another has never faltered, and they are closer than she is to her own sister. Luminita often even has sisterly squabbles with Kaliska - started by one or both at any given time - but they quickly make up with one another once the latter has had time to calm her fury.

Luli is the pacifist and the peacemaker of the group. While Mali would rather ignore something and Kaliska would rather confront it, Luli wants to try to smooth things over in the way that gets the least amount of people hurt.

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● Enam Vakasa ●

Kaliska has a strange friendship with Enam. When they first met when she was in her thirties, she was instantly attracted to him, and he was attracted to her. However, there was always a road block of some kind preventing them from becoming anything more than friends.

As time progressed, their attraction never left, but it became weaker as both realized neither would be a good mate for the other. Instead, they overcame their mutual, physical desires and transformed them into a stronger friendship.

They're very open with one another, so much that they can talk about things with each other than even Luli and Mali wouldn't be able to understand. Enam sees the darkness in Kaliska and accepts it as part of whom she is though he doesn't try to exploit it or encourage it.


Like her, his shade companion is a Grimalkin though his is a female named Nomble.

Likes
▪ Adrenaline Rushes
▪ Books
▪ Fire
▪ Intelligence
▪ Inward Reflection
▪ Laughing
▪ Libraries
▪ Nature
▪ Organization
▪ Reading
▪ Water
▪ Writing

● HOBBIES ●
▪ Dancing
▪ Parkour
▪ Singing
▪ Sparring

Dislikes
▪ Being Pitied
▪ Being Undermined
▪ Being Taken for Granted
▪ Being Wrong
▪ Betrayal
▪ Blue Trinity
▪ Dishonesty
▪ Drifters
▪ Feeling Stupid
▪ Feeling Trapped
▪ Ignorance
▪ Kiwi Fruit
▪ Not Knowing Something
▪ Senseless Destruction
▪ Stupidity

Weapons
▪ Neurolash
When deactivated, this weapon looks like a small, black cylinder with silver details. There's a button at the base which, when pressed, will cause a plug to protrude from it where it can be plugged into an outlet to recharge.

Along the shaft is a button that is activated by Kaliska's finger prints alone. When this button recognizes her finger prints, the cylinder will elongate into a baton-like weapon, and the abilities of this weapon will be simultaneously activated.

Excruciating nerve pain will be caused when any part of the baton other than the handle touches a person. Another, smaller button is revealed when the baton is activated. Pressing it will cause threaded plastic and metal wires to sprout from the end which can then be used more like a short whip with the same results as the baton itself only spread over more area. These glow in the darkness unlike the baton itself, and they cause the same pain.

If a baton is held to a person long enough, it's possible to inflict nerve damage.

Even without the nerve pain, it still makes a pretty useful blunt-force and whip-like weapon.

Because this weapon is so dangerous, Kaliska had to take extensive training to use it, and she must own a permit to carry one which she has.

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▪ Tegmen Shield

A force field that covers the entire body of the one who possess it like a second skin. It permits air flow to enable to wearer to breathe, but it deflects projectiles. It also serves as a light-weight armor against falls or physical blows though her body will still feel pain from the blows if they're hard enough. For instance, if she was to be shot by a gun, she would likely have a large bruise where she was shot, but it wouldn't have penetrated her body. If she was hit by a moving vehicle, she would also have bruises and potentially fractures depending on the speeds, but the shield would protect her from the worst of the blow.

Equipment
▪ Jaunt Pack

This lightweight, durable pack overs a great way to store the essentials a person needs whether they intend to travel in the wild or in the cities. It has one strap that crosses diagonally over the chest and attaches at the top of the pack over the right shoulder and at the base of the pack under the left arm.

The pack itself is able to plug into an outlet to store large amounts of energy in case the owner needs to charge something while (s)he is away from home. Kaliska has added an upgrade that allows her hoverboard to be attached for when she chooses to walk or to free-run.

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▪ Causerie Transmitter
This device fits snugly about the ear, and it works much like today's blue-tooth ear devices. The difference is that the Causerie is a phone in and of itself, and it does other things such as describe the weather. It also acts as a verbal GPS if one becomes lost. It's voice activated and directed.

This device is also special in that it picks up even a small whisper of words rather than needing one to speak loudly and clearly. It also keeps outside noise out so one can better hear through the speaker. On the opposite end of that, it also keeps the speaker noise from being heard outside it.

Vehicles
▪ Hoverboard

Kaliska's been flying hoverboards since she was a teenager, and she's owned her current one for over a century. Enam is mechanically inclined, and she pays her friend for upgrades and repairs on her hoverboard. Though it's been through a lot with her, it's shiny black exterior with silver decals and blue-green lights are still in great shape with only a few scratches and scars that couldn't be repaired marring the surface.

It's a large, complex board made of metal that hovers above the ground. One rides it much as they would a skateboard except it floats rather than having wheels to help it move. To ride it, one must wear a pair of cuff-like bracelets and a sensor that clips to one's naval.

The bracelets are a safety precaution in case one should fall from the board. They will keep a person levitated by the wrists at the same height as the board though falling from too high could result in dislocations. The naval sensor allows the board to read a person's center of gravity to adjust the movement of the board.

This mode of transportation also has white lights on the front and red lights on back like any other kind of car though they can be disabled. The blue-green lights running along the bottom are more for decoration.

Over water, the hoverboard can ride along the waves much like a surfboard.

The board itself is large enough that it can be hold two riders though only the one wearing the naval sensor can direct it. Kaliska had Enam make a harness for Shyam that works much like her crash bracelets so Shyam - only in his critter form - can ride on the back with her.

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▪ Tempest Hover Bike
Kaliska owns a two-seater hover bike from the popular Tempest series. It's powered by the wind, and it can reach speeds of five hundred miles per hour. It can either be an open vehicle, or it can be enclosed like a pod. It works much like a motorcycle with the exception that it hover above the ground. It can seat up to two people though Shyam tends to be her passenger while he's in his critter form.

The Past
● THE PAST ●

Kaliska Makya was born as the second child to Huyana Makya . At the time, Huyana was fifty years of age, and Sharva Savitri, the father, was forty-three. The single mother was instantly attracted to Sharva's chiseled body, handsome features, and jaw-length hair - so light as to be almost white. They had a blast while it lasted, but when he discovered Huyana was pregnant, he disappeared.

Eight months later, he returned to the mother of his child, and he asked her to marry him, to give the child his name, and to be with him. However, he was changed. His chiseled form had become too thin, and his changeling, blue eyes had become darkly shadowed and sunken. Huyana realized he must be using some kind of drug, and she decided that she would neither support that kind of habit nor allow her daughter to be raised by a man like that. Sharva disappeared into the mists once more, leaving Huyana to raise two children with only the help of her parents.

Kaliska’s youth was relatively normal. She had friends, attended school, and loved her family. Very few bad things seemed to happen to her though there were a couple of times as a child when extremely unsavory things almost happened to her. However, her older brother, Sewati, was always there to protect her no matter what the cost – even becoming suspended from school for trying to stab an older boy who had tried to coerce Kaliska into things she was too young to fully comprehend.

Huyana frequently moved from city to city on Caligo, trying to obtain a fresh start for herself and her children though she couldn’t comprehend that she needed to change herself to keep from causing people to shun her or to obtain a lover who wasn’t a creep. The moves enabled Kaliska to adapt to new situations very easily though, as she aged, she hated moving more and more. Though she moved all over the island, one of her childhood friends, Mali, maintained contact with her through it all, and they’ve remained fast friends for life.

In 1607, Fourteen years after Sharva had disappeared into the mists, Huyana sought and found him. She decided that her daughter needed a real father figure in her life, not one she couldn't respect. She figured by this time, the man would have changed, and she was half right.

He had ceased his drug use, married a woman, and had a young daughter with her. It was as if he was able to start fresh on a life he had been unable to keep a decade earlier - though he claimed he couldn’t remember having gotten Huyana pregnant. His young daughter was a newborn, and his new wife had a young son of her own. The stress of having a teenage daughter in his life only added to his pressure, for he'd only been sober and clean for half a decade.

In the beginning, it seemed as if he really tried. They spoke frequently and visited with one another frequently. Even his wife and step-son accepted Kaliska into their family.

However, he had missed an important chunk of her developing life, and soon, the two grew apart. There were a couple of occasions when he wronged his oldest child as well, so the two stopped being on speaking terms.

As time passed, it became more and more apparent that her older brother was getting into some bad things, and they affected him so much that he fell into a deep depression. Sadly, no one was able to realize the true extend of his pain, for he hid it well behind jokes and laughter.

When Kaliska was fifty-eight years old in 1651, she watched her brother die. He didn't realize she was in sight, for he thought he was alone with his shade Gimmik. Pain was written all over his face though he had no physical wounds, and Gimmik's demeanor matched with equal intensity. Before she could call to Sewati, his dark blue eyes flashed a blue white, his arms rose, Gimmik's body tensed with power, and the man and Grimalkin were swallowed into the shadows that only Gimmik had previously been able to conjure.

When the shadows cleared, only the body of a man remained leaving Kaliska stunned at what she had witnessed.

The entire family and his friends were stunned, and a heavy cloud of depression hung over them all. Everyone blamed themselves, and Huyana and Nanny Penina grew distant from everyone in their misery, and the only offspring left was forced to play the role of the strong one for them though it tore her apart.

Having been forced into the role of the beacon of strength, Kaliska lived her life as normal, and she was almost able to forget the pain of losing her brother, of having to watch him die while she stood there, doing nothing. She attended college where she met one of her best friends, and she got her degree in Library Science.

When her education was complete, she met and married Sang Minh. She thought he was beautiful, and she loved him. However, their relationship progress quickly, and as soon as it burned itself out, he began to display great cruelty where her emotions were concerned. He never physically harmed her, but they fought frequently, and he did things to purposely hurt her feelings. He also began using drugs and lied to her about it. Their verbal fights became so vicious that Shyam - her Grimalkin - and Tien – his Brownyte – would battle as physical manifestations of their raging emotions.

Despite it all, Kaliska still loved him, and she wasn't willing to give up on their relationship though he had already thrown in the towel. He left her, and they lived separately while their divorce was settled.

Sadly, he missed the company. It wasn't necessarily HER company that was missed, but hers was the easiest to acquire. He strung her along, making her think they could end the divorce and get back together without any intention of doing so. This happened for a year until Kaliska finally obtained the strength to stop it.

Life continued as normal until Kaliska was ninety-six. Her grandfather's shade disappeared, and he became sick. After about a year, he passed into the spirit realm as his grandson had several decades earlier. Now, Nanny Penina was left without her favorite grandchild, and Kaliska was left without the grandparent who favored her. Still, the two left living loved one another, and they became closer than ever.

In 1712, when Kaliska was one hundred and nineteen years of age, her mother's shade was somehow killed in an accident about which Huyana loathed to speak. Her daughter always suspected that a spurned lover had been the cause. Soon after, the woman became sick with a similar illness as Papa Honon, and within a year, the woman passed entered the spirit realm.

To Kaliska, it was as if the world and the gods were conspiring against her, taking away any family she had. What if Nanny Penina, the only true family she felt she had left, was also taken from her life? Who would be left? What if her two best friends, Luli and Mali were also taken from her? Worse, what if she ever lost Shyam? It seemed too terrible a thing about which to think. For people who could live forever, too many people around her had died.

A little under a century later, one shining light entered her life. He was a voice of reason to cut through her illogical ponderings. He made her darkness seem to dissipate, and she could finally feel happy and whole and fulfilled again. Uras was a great influence on her and her life. She was able to progress in so many ways, and he enabled her to feel things she hadn’t felt in a very long time.

However, it wasn’t to last. After fifteen years of a beautiful relationship, he and his Inklaw, Ri, perished in a fire they were trying to stop. Depression and darkness took hold of Kaliska once more. She began to feel as if she wasn’t deserving of good things, as if happiness would only be stolen from her once she obtained it. There was naught she could do to remedy this, and for a long time, she simply felt as if she existed rather than truly lived.



● THE FUTURE ●

Kaliska would live the next two centuries relatively peacefully. Her pain would lessen though it would never fully leave her.

She would use this time to improve various areas of talent she enjoys such as dancing, parkour, and singing. She would also improve her fighting skills which would prove to be a very good thing considering that bad things would begin to brew for a couple of decades leading up to a war she would have no idea would ever happen.

The war will be a complete surprise to Kaliska, for though she will have been aware that strange things will have been happening, she will not have anticipated its escalating into such violence. She will try to pretend the war will not be as bad as it will be for a year, but this will not last.

One day, Shyam, her friends, and their shades will be threatened, and she will be filled with fury and enlist herself int he war effort. This will enable her to see more and more of the brutality of the Drifters and their Blue Trinity organization, and she will show no mercy.

She will refuse projectile weapons, instead choosing to be stealthy until she can get close enough to instigate melee combat, namely with her neurolash. Her background in parkour and dancing will enable her to be graceful, quick, and sneaky, to get into areas that will normally be difficult for anyone to enter.

With Shyam and his explosive ability as well as with her skill and daring, Kaliska will save lives, but she will also take them, and she will do and see other things about which she will only rarely speak, things that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

When the Outsider War will end with the Caligoans being victorious, she will celebrate with the others and mourn their losses. Luckily for Kaliska, all of the people who she will have lost will have been long dead before the war. Perhaps the only thing Kaliska will truly lose during the war will be any clear-cut sense of right-and-wrong which will allow the darkness within her to move a little closer to the surface, enough that it will be seen in her eyes and not just something one who is attuned to people will be able to sense.

Kaliska will continue to live as normal though things will never be completely normal again. For the most part, she will be able to hide this from the general public.

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●PAST TIMELINE ●
▪ November 14th, 1590 - Sewati, Kaliska's brother, is born
▪ November 22nd, 1593 - Kaliska and Shyam are born
▪ June 4th, 1600 - Kaliska and Mali meet
▪ February 7th, 1607 - Chitra, Kaliska's sister, is born
▪ June 9th, 1607 - Kaliska meets her father, Sharva
▪ September 18th, 1611 - Kaliska and Mali meet Luminita
▪ November 23rd, 1627 - Kaliska meets Enam
▪ July 17th, 1651 - Kaliska's brother dies
▪ February 2nd, 1653 - Kaliska meets Sang
▪ May 30th, 1653 - Kaliska and Sang marry
▪ August 3rd, 1653 - Kaliska and Sang separate
▪ July 29th, 1654 - Kaliska and Sang divorce
▪ April 1st, 1690 - Kaliska's grandfather, Honon, dies
▪ May 17th, 1713 - Kaliska's mother, Huyana, dies
▪ September 1st, 1805 - Kaliska meets Uras
▪ December 16th, 1810 - Kaliska and Uras marry
▪ March 5th, 1821 - Uras dies

●FUTURE TIMELINE ●
▪ 2025 - Blue Trinity will begin the Outsider's War
▪ 2026 - Kaliska will join the war effort
▪ 2030 - Caligoans will win the Outsider's War
▪ 2040 - Days to Come ((http://www.footstepsofghosts.com/t3630-caligo-days-to-come))

Shade Name
Shyam
((pronounced shy-AWM))

Shade Species

Grimalkin

Shade Sex
Male

Shade Ability
Kinetic Energy Manipulation
The ability to charge the kinetic energy in inanimate objects through touch, causing said objects to explode on impact or after a controlled amount of time.

Shyam's blue-green eyes flash momentarily brighter whenever he charges the kinetic energy an object.

Shade Biography
Shyam was born five minutes after his companion, Kaliska, and he found her immediately. They both loved one another instantly, and they were always there for one another.

In the beginning, he would switch back and forth between fire and earth abilities, never sure just what suited him best, but over time, he began to feel more and more connected to the fire.

When Kaliska and Shyam were nineteen, his ability finally developed in an explosive way. Luckily, no one was hurt, and though this power wasn't shared by Kaliska, she helped her shade companion to master this ability to insure that it wouldn't cause senseless destruction.

As far as personality goes, Shyam is calmer overall than Kaliska. Though he is as quick to anger as she is, he is also much quicker to calm, and he is able to calm her return far more quickly than she could have on her own.

He is, in a way, her voice of reason when he's calm, but if they're both angry, they should be avoided, for they can be a vicious pair.

Like his companion, there's a darker side to Shyam, but for now, he's in the neutral ground.

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