Entry 17- a description of your OC’s family by a future historian
There isn’t much to be found about the Watcher of Caed Nua’s family. All we know of the woman herself before she claimed Caed Nua and stopped the Hollowborn Plague is that she was a drifter, likely from Old Vailia. With copious, persistent digging, some records of a Tavia Illani have been found. If this is indeed the Watcher, then her family appears to be as follows.
Parents were Aevryn and Raquelle, merchants of general assorted goods. Brothers were Malachi, Casius, and Khellin, all younger than Tavia. There is nothing exciting or noteworthy to be found about any of them. All recovered information agrees that they were not rabble rousers, not anything but ordinary. School records show that Malachi and Casius were both scholars, while Tavia and Khellin struggled with academics and often skipped lessons, a problem their teachers frequently note mentioning to their parents. Whether this issue was ever actually discussed with the eldest and youngest Illani children, it persisted through both of their school careers.
If the rest of her family was content to keep their heads down and not make waves, Tavia was the exact opposite. There are multiple incident reports among the authorities’ records of bar fights and street brawls. The few cases where Tavia is not cited as throwing the first punch, she goaded it into being thrown. Ruffled feathers were always soothed by Aevryn, who had a gift for mediation.
Records are even more sparse once Tavia and her brothers aged out of school (or just stopped going, in Tavia’s case), but there are indications Aevryn was a very accommodating merchant who went out of his way to appease his customers. There are scattered mentions of Malachi attending a lore college, but not enough to confirm the truth of them. Raquelle and Casius are all but absent from any records, implying a habit of introversion.
The last mention of the Illani family is the report of a fire that consumed both the store and the family’s home before it was doused. No reported survivors.
~first draft of an historian’s findings regarding the early life of Tavi Illani
