Hiriko Hirayama

Hiriko Hirayama is a forsaken artificer/warlock hailing from the Shaladarian Federation northwest of the Five Lakes Valley and the active spokesperson of Procurements United.

Appearance
Hiriko, being a Forsaken Undead, is covered in patchy grey skin, displays yellow pupiless eyes and flowing black hair. Her face carries the fading war paint curving in from all corners. Despite her undead nature, Hiriko remains rather handsome for a human woman in her early-mid twenties.

Hiriko typically wears a brown leather workshop coat adorn in her various hand tools, components and pouches, along with a matching pair of longpants and boots.

Personality
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Early Life
The offspring of a noblewoman and a drifter, Hiriko grew up as part of the House of Hirayama noble family in one of the city states of the Shaladarian Federation, the noble house being a modest but respected family compared to the criminal families that sat a tier above in the governing council. As Hiriko's direct family specialised in Multiverse Divination and wasn't too far in direct success to the house Hierarchy, they didn't get pulled into politics unless they chose to be, allowing Hiriko to study as an Artificer.

During her teens however, her family and their staff began to grow distant from Hiriko as the house politics began to clash with city politics, which led to Hiriko developing a more earthy experience with the commoners of the city. Slowly engrossing herself in streetlife, Hiriko lost herself in the wonders she found, making friends with some of the street kids and even briefly working with the Ghosts of Lady Luck, a small gang in service to Tyrian - The Goddess of Fortune and Luck.

Shortly after her eighteenth birthday some aggressive, spoiled no-name noble took Hiriko for a normal street urchin and tried to press a claim for her virtue only to be rejected over several weeks. a few days later however Hiriko returned home to find her mother overly stressed and that a council house had filed a grievance against her and the House of Hirayama but not wanting to the house elders to sacrifice Hiriko, her mother begged her to go into hiding with her two must trusted apprentices, however the night Hiriko intended to leave, an assassin struck.

Hiriko awoke a couple days later in the family tomb, much to her shock discovering her new undead nature and even more so that her mother and her apprentices were dead, Hiriko's father and closest cousin vanished on separate nights and the House of Hirayama was in a directly open conflict a house on the council. Despite her undead nature, she managed to convince the last of her friends and the leader of the Ghosts to help her leave the city discreetly, but was heavily advised to not return in her current stat.

Hiriko would spend 4-5 years on the road, slowly building up her contacts and reputation, and narrowly avoiding unhappy (and possibly fanatical) clerics and paladins, demonstrating she could be trusted. it wouldn't be long before she'd catch wind of a protection job heading into the Five Lakes Valley, a chance to find a place to begin again and build her own path.