Kyanoko Portrait

Character Name: Kyanoko

Character Age: 330

Character Species: Tanuki

Hair color: No hair, but brown fur

Eye color: Green

Brief Biography:

 Kyanoko was raised in a small tanuki community outside of a human trading post village. The tanukis and the village folk often engaged in trade and Kyanoko took great enjoyment in the act of bartering. She was 20 when she strapped on her favorite sandals, pulled on her lucky green jacket, and kissed her mother goodbye. She set off on her personal journey, expanding her trade and finding delight in all of the new goods that she came across- new spices, new arts, new artisanal goods. Kyanoko loved them all.

To keep herself occupied on the road, Kyanoko took up brewing. She found over time that some ingredients would react together in interesting ways, creating mystical effects for those who would drink them. She always travels with a special barrel, which somehow always knows what the drinker wants from a brew. Some would pour from the barrel and get coffee, others tea, and some even would get alcoholic brews like mead.

But after a few hundred years, trading became boring. Kyanoko felt like everything had become a routine, even her brewing. Sure, it was exciting when a spice that took a decade to grow created a new harvest when she was 50, and ten years was a fifth of her life span. She would make a life-changing decision- she was going to explore other worlds. Kyanoko hugged her mother, regathered her essential supplies, and held her breath as she walked through her first portal.