Arona Moyah

Roni Moyah is an art thief who can go inside the paintings she steals. She's searching for a message from her sister, who was supposed to be the savior of their people but vanished.

Personality
Despite her height and youth, Roni can be quite intimidating to those who don't know her. She keeps her identity a general secret, so most don't know she's a 5'4" Linao-Claran girl. She's very reserved, and doesn't trust easily. She doesn't talk a huge amount, particularly about her feelings, even to those who she's close with. She's very protective of those she loves, and doesn't like to upset them. As a result of always being Theresa's support, she's very supportive once you get to know her. She's fairly clever and quick-witted, and has a natural talent for heists.

She is very skeptical of religious things and superstition, mostly as a result of what she saw Theresa go through because of the Lino-Claran priesthood. When she followed Lino-Claran religion, her patron deity was Caitres, although she has the power of envisioning, which is believed to stem from Nes, but she renounced it and considers herself an atheist.

Appearance
She has thick dark wavy hair that's usually braided back so that it doesn't get in her eyes. She's 19, but looks younger. She has a very intense stare that she uses to get people's attention and make them listen to her. She's fairly short at 5'4", but very strong (like a coiled up spring or a cat that's about to pounce), and very quick. Most of her physical traits are typical for Li Clara - her dark hair, green eyes, smaller size, and tanned skin (with a couple light freckles). The way she moves isn't exactly graceful (not the way Theresa is), but she is very deliberate with her movement, and makes movements that are difficult or complicated look smooth and easy.

Early Life
She was born in 1547 to Roena and Abdiel Moyah, four years after her sister, Theresa Moyah. At the age of six, Theresa manifested her powers, which would change their family's lives forever. Her parents did their best to make her not feel forgotten, or feel resentful towards Theresa because of her receiving more attention, but she still spent a lot of her childhood being in Theresa's shadow. She never minded that too much, though, and used it in her explorations, escaping notice when she could, and name dropping her sister when she couldn't.

When she was very young, she had dreams of being an acrobat, and even tried to run away and join the circus at age 8. The circus performers had to explain to her that she couldn't actually run away to join the circus at 8, especially when she had a perfectly nice family, but she became friends with some of the acrobats and they started teaching her whenever they passed through town. Eventually she learned enough that she was able to practice on her own, and even teach herself some tricks.

She had the power of envisioning, and was trained in that throughout her childhood. She was advised to choose Nes as her patron deity, because her soul was already attuned to his power, but she chose Caitres.

As they got older, Theresa started to become more and more stressed because of the pressure on her as "the savior," which also affected Roni and the rest of the family. Roni always treated her needs as second to Theresa's, and became a lot more reserved as a result. She was never resentful of Theresa for this, or particularly upset with her parents for it, but it did cause her to distrust the Lino-Claran priesthood, which would lead to her renouncing the religion in later years.

Recent years
The year she was 14 was the year everything changed. Theresa grew increasingly unstable, prone to going off (both emotionally, and sometimes with her magic) at random occurrences, and refused to talk to the members of the priesthood anymore. One day shortly after Theresa turned 19, she agreed to talk to the priests. When she came back, she was visibly upset, and refused to talk to anyone. The next day she had vanished.

After that, their family withdrew completely from society. Roni and her parents barely interacted, all caught up in their own worlds and their own worries about Theresa. Roni was also hiding that Theresa had left her a clue. It referred to a set of nine paintings by Andra Manon that the two of them had loved when they were younger, and indicated that she had left a message for Roni inside one of them, and not to tell anyone.

Half a year after Theresa's disappearance, Roni left home to try and investigate Theresa's message, and track down which painting the clue was in. She intended to be gone only for a month or two, about as long as it would take her to travel to a couple of the museums the paintings could be found at, but she was caught sneaking into one of the museums and put on a list of criminals, so she couldn't return home. Instead, she joined the underground and continued to work at tracking down the paintings of the collection.

After her first unsuccessful attempt at stealing the painting, she found a master thief - Dres Weling, to teach her the tricks of the trade. She apprenticed with him for almost 3 years, and then set off on her own.

Current
Out of the nine paintings she had on her list to check, she has checked three of them off. She gained a name for herself as an art thief (called the Manon Thief because she stole three of his paintings), and started gaining respect in the underground. She struck up a friendship with Candor Telys after getting his help in one of her heists, and he is now one of the only people she trusts.

Seb Kerr
Seb annoys Roni to no end, and enjoys doing so, but they are good friends.

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