Type: Plateau Kaasht
Gender: Male
Base Colour: Translucent
Age: 78 (Level 4)
Length: 5'9"
Height: 7'1"
Automatic Abilties: Wings of the Sky, Add On More
Special Abilities: Attention Slip, Eagle Eye, Find Home, Link, Perceive, Reflex, Shape Change, Telepathy, Track, Travel, Ward, Diamond Body, Kangaroo Leap, Light Dragon, Multiply, Slow
Appearance: Baikal is a very colorful Plateau, so much so that trying to guess his base color would be near impossible if not for the faded quality of his fur marking him as translucent. His body is colored a dusty blue, fading down to white on his belly and hips, and at his shoulders where his forelegs join the rest of him. Each paw is a dark, slightly iridescent green, then lined with black as it travels up to his knees and hocks, stark against the white farther up. The same green colors the tuft of his tail and makes a single, wide stripe curving from eye to neck, looping around to make a mirror of the same on the other side of his face. Black glare stripes lined with white on either side extend back from his eyes, as well, over the green stripe to line the edges of his ears, splitting a patch of sandy tan over his muzzle and down over his throat. A smudge of blue marks the top of his muzzle and envelopes his nose.
Over the thin, young mane that makes his narrow chest seem just slightly more substantial is a patch of peachy pink, fading into the white of his belly between his forelegs. A patch of light umber brown starts between his ears and runs down over his back, extending over his ribs in three curving stripes, each highlighted with first a thin stripe of black and then another of white, and pooling over his hips until it fades into the blue there. His tail is black with six white rings near the tip, ending in that shaggy green tuft. Finally, white makes a slightly curving stripe over each shoulder, following the line of his mane, and three stripes on the knee joint of each hind leg. His eyes are large, and a warm brown color.
History: Baikal spent his first two levels with a small group of Plateau kaasht and one particularly peaceful Plains kaasht, the latter of which stayed with them only occasionally. She was a member of an organization called the Cohort, of the Messenger branch, and was often sent away with messages to carry or interrupted during tasks with a telepathic message to relay to the next sending point, for messages which had a very long distance to cross. Baikal always respected her, in part because she was so strong, and in part because she was so different from the scholarly Plateaus. He was a particularly scrawny kaasht, very long limbed and skinny, not even as filled out as most of his breed, and though he was hardly powerful, he was quick. Trying to keep up with his Plains mentor made him even faster, and occasionally he would "cheat", making a clever use of his Light Dragon form to manipulate his speed.
When he reached his third level, the Plains kaalaa introduced him to the leader of the Messenger branch of the Cohort. Impressed with his running speed and telepathic range, the leader accepted him easily and set him to work immediately running written messages between clans and cities on his home continent Kyisna. He loved being able to travel, and was moved near the end of his third level to also travel Mirran and occasionally venture into Weskain. He has even once carried personal messages for an Alcaine elder to distant relatives.
Baikal is a dependable runner and responsible kaasht, despite his young age. He is good at keeping secrets, as much of necessity as out of personality, for he has been trusted with verbal messages when written words might be too easily misplaced and found by the wrong parties. He is friendly and good-natured, eager to help others and always polite. Kits hold a soft spot for him, and he loves playing with the kits of the individuals he delivers letters to. He daydreams on occasion about when he'll be able to settle down and have a family, but he doesn't expect that time to come anytime soon; he is enjoying travel too much, and wants to save up enough claws and teeth to make a comfortable home.
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