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<\/a><\/p>\nWhile we’re exploring Tellest, we’re trying to venture into the high fantasy elements of the world a little bit more.\u00a0 We’ve already seen avarians in a few books, but Kazuri is a bit different those other ones.\u00a0 Keota and Kyrie and the birdfolk from the aerie in Lord of Thunder,<\/em> and Odawa and the Halia from Heart of the Forest<\/em> had a bit of a native american feel to\u00a0them.\u00a0 Kazuri, on the other hand, hails from a place in Tellest that we’ve spoken about but never seen firsthand called Numasa.\u00a0 It’s a bit East Asian-mythology-feeling, which gives Kazuri and her allies, the tentatively-named Protectors of Numasa, a bit of a larger-than-life, mystical feeling.<\/p>\n Kazuri has lived one heck of a life.\u00a0 She’s been touched by the strain, so she has a power that her people didn’t quite understand.\u00a0 That lack of understanding of course led to fear, which led to her being ostracized and eventually exiled.<\/p>\n She learned to survive by taking what she needed, and that led her to a life of piracy.\u00a0 She moved up the ranks, and eventually captained her own ship!\u00a0 Kazuri’s power, the ability to summon powerful wind blades, may have ended up sending her away from the other avarians, but it made her a very valuable asset in naval combat.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n