Akasha is... well, theatrical. How many actors have you met? She's a bit too much like most of them. If she's enthusiastic, she's exuberant. If she's sad, she's despondent. If she's angry, she's infuriated. While not unaccustomed to hard living and not getting everything she wants, she still frequently seems to think she can do anything. Sometimes it's admirable, other times she merely seems deluded. Rarely does anyone have a truly unkind word to say about her, though. Oddly-enough, her frequently over- exuberant attitude is rarely the first thing you'd notice about her. That'd more likely be the pipe and the odd smoke emitting from it. Akasha's primary means of bringing food to her table is that of a performer and storyteller. A talent at which she excels. Whispering tales and secrets with such earnest conviction one sometimes forgets they could ever be fabrications. She weaves her words as she weaves her smoke, tendrils of the dark vapors cascading into another, twisting together and blossoming apart to create anything she can imagine. Great monsters, huge and terrible, to something as small as a breezie or less, hundreds if needed. Sometimes she even sets up great bonfires, and breathes her pipe smoke into the inferno to craft the smoke into castles and giants far above. She's not known to ever be without her pipe, wisps of smoke twisting around her in innumerable patterns and shapes, obeying her whims even without the theatrics and reflecting the thoughts and desires of the chain-smoking zebra. The smoke, for its part, isn't bad-smelling. A bit like burning pine and nettles. If asked Akasha generally replies it's zebra alchemy and, respecting a magician's secrets, most leave it at that (and get a bit of their own animated-smoke pipe stuffing for their interest).

Blue-green eyes and a fairly dark grey, even for a zebra, coat with darker stripes that complement the tendrils of smoke idly twisting about her very nicely. Her mane's composed of white and black, but "styles" as more of a mop than a mowhawk. Her tail has a bit of a messy braid that quickly undoes itself not far from the base.

While she wears jewelry from time to time, especially for a performance, her only consistent adornment is a necklace with many colorful, eclectic, irregular beads. If asked she'd admit that while many of the beads bring memories of places, people, moments, stories or jokes, many more are simply very pretty. The resulting piece, though... is less so:

Her birthplace is Agister.

Inventory

Akasha carries a lot of stuff, though most of the following is kept in one of three trunks in her trailer.

Money: $527 in bits, with $29,200 worth of masterwork jewelry/gems and $143,143 of precious metal coins/bullion (gold, silver and platinum).

Her necklace: Her necklace contains many precious, semi-precious and non-precious materials, but looks fairly dirty and cluttered such that it's difficult to tell what it's made out of at a glance. A high-quality magic-sensing totem, small lapus lazuli gemstone, a small loop of light and shiny metal, a hornstar, two hornrings set with garnets, a bent bit, eight beads consisting of one of each of the primary and secondary colors, an uncut diamond, two small shells (one black clam and one swirled pink/orange conch), a minotaur's tooth, a very low-quality and malformed pearl, a crystal forest crystal stained with blood, a geode, an emerald, a polished piece of coal, the petrified tail of a small lizard, two lumps of amber (both deep red-orange), a rainbow-colored beetle shell, a catseye marble, the sun-bleached head of a small fish, a chestnut, a hoof-sized wooden claw with its tip clipped off, a key to the trailer, a key to her locked trunk, and a small red cinnabar crystal. All of this held together by dried reeds and ropes with a bit of alchemy mixed in to keep anything from falling out or degrading. The necklace obscures skrying of itself and blocks TK used upon it.

Her armor: Very attractive-looking white leather armor with gold trim.

Her bags: Weather resistant, obscures skrying of its contents, blocks attempts to manipulate it with TK, latches are coated with a contact fear-poison. In it she mostly just carries products of alchemy, food, money, and quest items. Namely:

• A Shamir she's named Silky (a tiny squiggly worm thing about the size of a grain of barley) in a wooden, lead-lined box with cotton padding inside.
• Brush of the Astrolabe
• Crown of Honesty (and +1 Charisma)

• Icon of Fluttershy ( https://derpibooru.org/114785 ) hangs from the bags on her left side.

• Two smoke pipes, one somewhat ornate and the other rough-hewn.
• Two small dolls, one of a zebra and the other of a dragon.
• A large wool blanket, large-enough for a queen-sized bed, strapped loosely to her back outside of her bags, alchemically enhanced to stay clean and never wrinkle or tear under normal conditions.
• A canteen, the inside metal of which has been alchemically treated to sterilize liquids placed in it.
• ...and the following products of her alchemy:

  • One potion that makes a plant grow to full maturity within a minute.

  • An adhesive that, when applied to her hooves, allows her to traverse walls or even ceilings.
  • Perfume that smells like wildflowers and alchemically amplified to smell particularly fresh and suppress all other smells.
  • Incense that compels those that breathe it tell the truth.
  • Incense that erodes the will of others and compels them to obey the one who's magic infuses the smoke.
  • Incense that keeps bugs and some other simple-minded predators away.
  • Roughly half a pound of "story dust" in a saffron bag.
  • Alchemical earplugs.
  • An alchemical pellet of currently-unidentified usage

Her trunks (all trunks have enchanted wheels that allows them to travel along behind her as she travels)

• Trunk 1 (sturdy, expensive-looking, with an un-pickable lock)
  • The majority of her wealth and jewelry.

  • A brilliant, silver sphere that is surrounded by three gimbals and has a mounting point on its base. The gimbals have markings and fine adjustment screws. The sphere has a clear portal on one side and a magical sensor of some kind on the other. Through the portal can be seen a battered golden tiara, in which a star-shaped purple gem is set. Pulses of harmonic magic escape the sphere at irregular intervals.

  • A non-magical silver medallion on a nylon ribbon that reads "KINGSLEY XI REGINA LEONUM" with the image of a lion.
• Trunk 1.1 (large trunk made of ivory)
  • Roughly $60,000 in ivory treasures depicting figures from religions, myth, and folklore
• Trunk 2 (red, simple, taken from a dorm in a tower)
  • Obscure magical equipment obtained from a mage's tower
  • Alchemy equipment
  • A fairly large supply of various alchemical components as well as a supply of native zebra herbs and spices, including:
    • A set of changeling fangs, ichor and chitin.
    • One big pod of silver poppy seeds and a mess of additional seeds in a jar.
  • Several jars of various colors to hold potions.
  • A Null Box containing unfinished and unstable versions of the hoofrot cure.
  • Several versions of a super healing potion.
• Trunk 3 (green, simple, taken from a dorm in a tower)
  • One large, overstuffed, battered and weatherworn book of both stories and alchemy written in zebra.
  • A set of alchemy tomes.
  • A very detailed alchemical reference book.
  • A storybook Gabrio bought her.
  • "The Magical Properties of Zebra Arts."
  • A very boring, very shiny book, as well as White Eyes' diary about his second daughter, the one that would be born an alicorn (Princess Nova).
  • About two dozen pamphlets to different religions, and pages ripped from books containing myths and legends.
  • A crushed, simple green dress, alchemically enhance to stay clean and never wrinkle or tear under normal conditions.
  • An armored, ceremonial white robe.

Her trailer

• Three two-pony beds, a sink, cabinets, countertops, and a non-working gas stove. Oh, and a cannon that fires a wrestling ring on top.

• Bauble with a continually burning flame inside hangs from the ceiling in this alchemical workshop area.

• A set of spiked horseshoes.
• A buckler

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