Day 14 — Sakaren Tanaki
Or Tanaquil... That’s technically her name in the original version of my Eien stories, but the more I think about it, the more I’m inclined to keep ‘Tanaquil’ as the name people give her, and ‘Tanaki’ as her actual name. For Reasons. Not entirely sure which ones.
Tanaki is a Kellenin, and a Kazari attached to the School of Messhara, along with her twin brothers, Shields Taeru and Tamaku. They operate in a subdivision of Messhara that works closely with the Charter Council of Pwrgham to ensure all Kazarim respect the laws (mostly ‘thou shalt not use kaaru to fight’ and ‘thou shalt not fuck with the minds of the non-telepaths’). Ironically, that makes her the Llenan equivalent of a Watcher, although Kazaran rules are more... lax in many ways, starting with the Shields (”So we can’t use kaaru to fight? Okay, then we’ll use kaaru on our Shields to boost them. I’m not technically fighting, right?”).
She isn’t present in the first volumes, at least not visibly. The legacy of her actions are, though, in that she’s been involved in certain dealings with the Controller/Mokuren, as well as Kaellan and who/what he’s a representative of. She harbours plenty of interest for Ren and Kheril, both for different reasons.
The sort of dark symbols on her left arms aren’t tattoos, but her kazai, which she ‘wears’ this way—these living stones have a weird tendency to change shape with time, reflecting their relationships with their owners, and some even happen to start fusing with their host organism.