The Waylanders Update #38 – Nazhedja

The Waylanders, Gato Salvaje Studio’s upcoming Dragon Age-inspired RPG, will feature plenty of time travel. The character of Nazhedja the Seer will reflect that by being able to see through time. And if you’d like to know what this particular character is all about, you should check out the game’s latest Kickstarter update. Have a look:

The Seer is considered to be timeless- she has existed for as long as anyone can remember, and has held the highest position within Mourian society for hundreds of years. Due to her magickal abilities and confident personality, she’s regarded as the world’s foremost magickal authority, and she absolutely loves it. No one knows magick quite like Nazhedja. She can see every aspect of the past and the future… well, until she meets you.

Nazhedja is the epitome of confident elegance. She is performatively feminine and loves being that way. She’s also a bit goofy, silly, ditzy, and vain at times because she knows that engaging in fun won’t undermine her authority. Nazhedja aways dresses impeccably- every hair in place, every piece of jewelry carefully selected, even in the heat of battle.

She knows herself- she knows who she is, what she wants, and she knows that she can and will do anything she needs to in order to get it. She’s been in charge and recognized for her superior magick abilities for so long that the idea of being powerless is totally foreign to her. She knows she doesn’t have to play games in order to keep her high position in society- she can just exist and be herself, and things will work out. There’s a sense of, “do you know who I am” in every request and order. Her immortality is something that has become such a core part of her personality that she has a hard time reconciling the fact that some people don’t understand it.

As the Seer, she views all possible past and future timelines simultaneously, and sometimes has difficulty anchoring herself to the reality she’s currently experiencing. This tends to confuse just about everyone around her, unless they can comprehend how she gently nudges the world in specific directions with her decisions. She often becomes frustrated with others who can’t see all the possibilities that she can’t stop seeing.

Because of this, Nazhedja has many friends and political allies, but few very close friends… and she tells herself that she likes it that way. She’s seen empires fall and countless generations of mortals die, so she tries not to get too attached… but in some ways, she can’t help it. She cares too much. She’s lost so many lovers and friends along the way that she has realized she needs to keep people at arm’s length in order to protect her own heart, but she loves people more than she loves protecting herself.

Nazhedja will happily have sex with anyone she deems worthy of being able to please her (and you have to be pretty spectacular for her to deem you worthy), but she’s been alive long enough that the idea of true love is something she tells herself that she’s put behind her. If you can manage to romance her, she’ll say she wants to keep things casual, and will even push you to date or sleep with other people so that she doesn’t have the “pressure” of being your only lover.