Madari
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| Level | 2 |
| Race | Human |
| Class | Sorceress |
| Armor | TBA |
| Weapon(s) | TBA |
| Hometown | Fenefeld |
Haurra 
Madari Lorea Melokotoi-Baratz is a human sorceress. She is 4'3", 85 lbs, and 29 years old. Her birthday is 4-2 Heavenfall ???? FI. She is abnormally short in stature for a human and her mother attributes this to her being a fragile baby and child. She has light brownish blonde hair, dark green eyes and medium mocha skin (inherited from her mother who has a slightly darker skin tone).
Since her birth she has been called Madari (mah-DAR-ee) as it is tradition in her mother's family for the first name of females to be largely ceremonial.
Madari is played by HelenAngel.
Campaign: Fenefeld Fighters
SPOILER: Madari's Character Sheet
Contents
History
Madari was born to Tikoak ("Tiki") Melokotoi and Enbor Bernard Baratz. She is the youngest of nine children. Her mother is the oldest daughter of a prosperous fruit and spice merchant while her father is one of seven siblings who inherited his family's fruit orchards.
The Merchant and The Farmer
The Melokotoi family is known for peddling their wares to towns all up and down the Rimen river. While initially only selling imported fruit at the beginning, as the family grew their wares grew as well. During the Fourth Interregnum, the family found that despite the population of Fenefeld growing the demand for fruit was not what it was. Dorrea Melokotoi, the family matriarch and shrewd businesswoman, uncovered that the wealthy Baratz family had moved into the area to avoid war taxes in western duchies and purchased a large area of land. There they cultivated pear orchards and opened store in Fenefeld with not only fresh pears but wines, jams, compotes, and pastries also from their pear cultivars. Dorrea attempted to approach the patriarch of the Baratz family but due to his paranoia of being discovered for draft and war tax dodging, he refused all meetings.
After the turmoil following the Fourth Interregnum had passed, Tiki attempted to succeed where Dorrea had not. Young and beautiful, she quickly charmed one of the heirs, Enbor Baratz. While the official story told is that the two fell in love and thus began the perfect union of farmer and merchant, Tiki's sister believes that the courtship and romance was strictly business strategy to gain access to the Baratz pear empire. After Tiki and Enbor were married, Tiki shut down the Baratzs' shop in Fenefeld and instead had their pears and pear products distributed through the Melokotoi Trading Company.
Unlike his brothers, Enbor actually preferred to tend to his orchards himself and enjoyed the quiet and simplicity of their house at the orchards. Tiki, however, became a staple of the small but glitzy Fenefeld socialite scene and they purchased a manor in Fenefeld proper where she spent most of her time "attending to business." After the birth of their sixth child, Enbor insisted the children be raised at the house on the orchards in order to experience a more "wholesome" childhood in pastoral settings. Tiki would bounce back and forth between the houses but preferred to leave the child rearing to her husband and the nannies. After the birth of their eighth child, Tiki began spending more and more time in Arabelle in order to strike up a deal with the prominent Zapadri trading family there. After a lengthy stay, she returned to the orchards and complained of feeling ill. Tiki was actually pregnant, though took care to not publicize this fact. Rumors swirled about due to Tiki's "surprise" pregnancy, her lengthy dalliances with the Zapadri halfling merchant in Arabelle, and Madari's substantially smaller size compared to her siblings. If Enbor had any doubts about Madari's paternity, however, he did not show it and adored the little girl as he did all his children.
Childhood
As both the youngest and by far the smallest, Madari was constantly tailing after her older siblings. The age difference also played a role, as her closest sibling was a brother 5 years her senior.
Her siblings in age order:
- Dorrea "Calendrille" Melokotoi-Baratz Blutsen (16 years older)
- Antonija Agnija ("Aggie") Sorjenz (15 years older)
- Miran Estera ("Tera") Doroteja Melokotoi-Baratz (13 years older)
- "Denis" Primoz Melokotoi-Baratz (11 years older)
- Evzen ("Evz") Rostislav Melokotoi-Baratz (10 years older)
- Braniz ("Branz") Jevrem (8 years older)
- "Erik" Rihard (7 years older)
- Vlad "Drago" (5 years older)
She spent the most time with Drago and her father, though Tera often took on a motherly role towards her. She spent her days playing in the orchards and her evenings being educated with her siblings. Her father doted on her, which occasionally garnered the disdain of her eldest sister, Calendrille. As Calendrille mimicked her mother in both attitude and appearance, she was far from her father's favorite.
Teenage Years
Madari was awkward and shy and, unlike her sisters, held little interest in cotillions, balls, and other social events that her mother attempted to parade her at in order to find her a "suitable" suitor. She preferred reading, going to bookstores with her brother, and entertaining her father with little magic tricks. Her father at first discouraged her, fearing her manipulative mother would notice and try to capitalize on it, but then realized his daughter had a true gift. After finally convincing her it would be for the best, she set off with her brother to the University of Fresia to develop her magic and study the arcane arts. Drago, ever protective of his little sister, also enrolled at the university but in woodworking in hopes to branch out the family business into wood items and furniture from pearwood.
Adulthood
As Madari's talents increased, so did her confidence. Her brother left the University after completing his woodworking degree and founded the Baratz Pearwoodworks in Fenefeld. Madari excelled at her studies and went on to complete her Magister Degree as well as her Master of Craft in Arcane Studies.
After receiving her Master of Craft degree, she returned to help father with the orchards after he fell in a picking accident. She arrived to find that her brothers had it well-handled and her older sister, Tera, moved back in with their father to help care for him. Not long after her return, her mother began pushing her to assist Calendrille with the trading business. Due to Madari's overall dislike for her mother, and her shaky relationship with her eldest sister, Madari quickly moved into Fenefeld proper and claimed she was helping Drago with his furniture business.
Tiki, already feeling angered and rebuffed due to her failure to utilize Tera to further the family business through strategic marriage as she had her other daughters (primarily due to Tera secretly being a lesbian), sent droves of suitors to Madari's flat. In order to appease her mother and make the visits stop, she chose the least offensive one, a ferryman owner's son named Georg. He was gone often and therefore she rarely had to see him. Drago became increasingly worried about his sister and her lack of sense of purpose, as well as her "arranged" marriage.
Soon after Madari's betrothal, rumors in town emerged of Georg being a playboy and constantly cheating on Madari. Drago enlisted his father's help and the two had a heart-to-heart with Madari about her depression and miserable relationship. Refreshed by her father and brother's support, she broke off the engagement and decided to seek out adventure and a better way to utilize her talents. As Drago said, there is a whole world out there and Fenefeld is too small for her talent to shine.
Trivia
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