Ixcali Amaxal

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Ixcali is of average height and slender but does have some muscle. Her skin is of a caramel colour and she keeps her hair short and dyes it a white blond. Her eyes are a dark brown colour, which can almost look black in some lighting. While she has a charming smile, she often wears a serious or stern face.

Cali often wears clothes that are functional but with added flair through details or accessories. As she is outside a lot, wandering through the jungle, looking for herbs and other ingredients, she needs to be able to move around freely and not care if there will be inevitable tears and stains. The colours she prefers are darker ones: black, greys, greens. In case of a celebration or other occasions, she does not have anything against wearing a dress or colourful clothing, doing everything to present the right image to her customers.

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Ixcali is a herbalist and specialises in both healing and poisons. Her magic aids her in extracting the magic properties of plants, be it for a good cause or a bad one. She has already gathered an extensive amount of information on all sorts of plants in her journals and small library. Aside from her magic, she also practises mithridatism to avoid getting poisoned by her own or someone else's work.

Ixcali was born to two druid parents in Aeredale as part of the Lost Serpent Tribe. Unfortunately, her mother, Tlalli, died in childbirth, leaving Cali alone with her father. While Ikal never voiced his thoughts outright, he resented his daughter from the moment she drew breath instead of his wife. He had no trouble delivering the small babe to one of the Tribe elders, forsaking the care of his daughter.

Nenetl was a strict 'mother', but Ixcali adored her all the same. As she grew older, she tried to seek out her father on multiple occasions, but she was always turned down. At some point, she quit looking for his affection, focussing solely on the training that had been offered to her by Nenetl. The old woman had noticed Cali's talent for herbalism at a young age and was determined to make her reach her full potential. Because Ixcali was such an enthusiastic student, her training went further than the regular lessons taught on healing plants and poisons. Hidden in the back of Nenetl's house was a book on corpse medicine that was soon added to Ixcali's repertoire of healing methods.

Disaster struck when Nenetl got ill. Ixcali tried everything within her power to heal her, but nothing worked. When it became clear there was no way to cure the old woman, and her pain would not ease anymore, Ixcali was asked to make her poison for a quick death. She obliged. Being 20 years old, she did not have to look for someone else to take care of her, but the fact that she was alone still stung.

During her period of grief, Ixcali kept working on her magic and her work. She set up a shop outside Aeredale to be able to take strangers as customers instead of only people from her tribe.

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