| Backstory |
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Anija comes from a big merchant family that often travels between many counties in the former world of Sky Archipelago.
Since her parents comes from two diffent countries, it wasn't a surprise that Anija grow up with an appearance different from her peers, which often drew wanted and unwanted attention.
As a child of two merchants, Anija had to learn tocalculate and write, but before she could learn more, her life took an unexpected turn.
When she was 11 years old, Anija was suddenly kidnapped and sold into slavery. Fortunately she wasn't sent into the red-light district but instead she ended up as a slave dancer for a traveling troop. While they were moving one place to another, Anija was forced to train rigorously harsh in her dancing skill. As she became a better dancer over time she also gained some previleges and managed to take time to train acrobatic techniques on her own initiative.
It was seven years later, that Anija became famous, her stage name "The Dancing Flame" became known to many people, yet her real name was unknown to most.
One day, Anija overheard that she was be sold to a very rich merchant, it was something had she never heard from the troop master himself nor was it she consented to. Such a case was surposed to happen for slaves of low value or to those who had never managed to earn a name for themselves despite their long servicetie. The fact she will be sold against her will regardless whether she has gained a reputation, made her feel angry for this betrayal and deeply humiliated.
She was only missing a few years to earn her freedom, yet at this moment, she will be sold to an unknown fate that probrably wouldn't be kind to her. Unwilling to give in, Anija decided enough was enough and escaped the day before she will be sold out.
With everything of value and information she managed to gather over the years, she traveled a long distance towards her childhood home. What she didn't expect was how a big searching operation will be started in order to find her, it was on a scale simply too big to be worth for her value.
It wasn't until she had found her parent's home that she came to know the reason for why. As it turns out, her father was the same rich merchant who planned to get her that day. In order to find his missing daugther, Anija's father worked hard to widen his connection in order to find a lead back to her, as a result, he became much more successful merhant compared to before.
Her mother instead remained nearby theirs home most of the time, for she found out to be pregnant shortly after Anija's disappearance. After she gave birth, she stayed behind in order to takt care of the child and in case her daughter was to return by herself.
In the end, by the irony of fate Anija reunited with the same man she worked so hard to escape from, that man also happened to be her very own father...
In the coming year, Anija did her best to catch up with her family, but it didn't take long for her to realize that trading wasn't something she was interested in anymore.
From the the beginning, her mixed origin made Anija feel she was never connected to either country her parents came from. After the kidnapping accident, she felt that disconnection even stronger as she never could stay in one place for long.
Anija knows she couldn't continue the peaceful life of a rich merchant daugther unlike her younger days, but she was also unwilling to go back to be a simple dancer.
In her dilemma on what to do, Anija happened to hear about the Archipelago's floting isles and the strange ogination called adventure guild. Interested in the mysterous country, Anija took a trip to the floting islands.
It wasn't long after an ancident took place on those isles. |
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