Chetan
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- 1. Appearance
- 1.1 Essentials
- 2. Personality
- 2.1 Interaction
- 2.2 Details
- 3. Skills
- 4. Relationships
- 5. History
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Chetan was an old Buddhist guru and a master in Angampora. Spending much of her life traveling the world and promoting acceptance and understanding, she finally settled down in Krokar where she lived out her remaining months overseeing her students, Keabetswe and Bramble Parhelion, as they practiced the art of Angampora.
Weakened by her many months of travel and the hardships of survival, Chetan fell ill in the winter of 2018 and passed away peacefully on March 3rd, 2018.
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1. Appearance
1.1 Essentials
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PaletteEbony Clay (#242D36)
Rolling Stone (#70797E)
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Gray Nurse (#ECEEEB)
Donkey Brown (#A99678)
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2. Personality
2.1 Interaction
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2.2 Details
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3. Skills
- Angampora: Chetan is a master in the Sri Lankan martial arts of Angampora.
- Meditation: A daily practice, Chetan finds significant use and merit in meditation and recommends it for everyone.
4. Relationships
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5. History
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Duration | December 2005 - March 2011 |
Chetan was born in Sri Lanka to Buddhist parents. Her father, well-studied in Angampora, taught his children early on the ways of the martial art while her mother, devout in her belief, was tasked with teaching the children the traditions and practices of Buddhism.
Her training, both in Angampora and with the teachings of Buddhism, were long and required great patience but Chetan, in her youth, was restless and weary. She pushed limits and challenged authority. She created her own problems in an effort to expand upon her choices of solving them. She hungered for variety and adversity.
When she was five, Chetan killed her brother during a sparring match. Though unintentional, her community determined exile would be in their best interest and sent Chetan away to live out her days atoning for her sins.
Exile
Duration | March 2011 - August 2016 |
Chetan fell into life as a vagabond with some difficulty, for despite her desires for variety and adventure, she was little prepared mentally for the solitary life of a loner. She was quick to seek out others, offering to help them in any way that she could if only to be in their company for a short time. As the months bled into years, Chetan discovered that she was quite good at helping and made this her life's goal.
Southern Africa
Southern African Dog Tribe
Duration | August 2016 - March 2017 |
Eventually, her travels took her to Southern Africa where, some years before her birth, Chetan took refuge with Keabetwe's tribe following an attack from a gang of hyenas. The dogs of the tribe were weary of jackals, for jackals preyed upon the dogs for slaves and sometimes took over entire tribes. But Chetan's gentle, helpful nature soothed them and she enjoyed their company as well, enough to remain until fate intervened again.
Keabetswe was still very young when a pack of jackals sacked her parents' tribe. Promising the leaders to keep their daughter safe, Chetan and Keabetswe sought refuge with a neighboring pack of African wild dogs with which their tribe had been friendly. But the wild dogs could not harbor them forever and, after only a short time, Chetan and Keabetswe departed from the pack and searched for someplace safe.
Refugees
Duration | March 2017 - September 2017 |
Chetan returned to the wandering life again, moving Keabetswe from place to place, territory to territory, and, eventually, from continent to continent. There was restless anger in Keabetswe that Chetan hoped would dissolve if they started fresh somewhere new, somewhere different. She trained the girl long and hard, just as she had been taught as a girl herself, but still the anger and the restlessness remains.
Krokar
Duration | September 2017 - March 2018 |
Residence | Fiskebyn cottage #30 |
Rank | Old Salt (20 September 2017) |
Toward the end of September, after many months of travel, Chetan and Keabetswe found themselves in 'Souls. Exhausted, sore, and thin, they came upon Krokar, where they were welcomed into the pack by Quartermaster Milos Parhelion and his son, Bramble.
They integrated themselves easily into the peaceful, quiet life of Krokar and Chetan accepted Bramble her second student. Though much too old and frail to spar with him herself, she took to watching and critiquing Bramble and Keabetswe as they practiced Angampora. Focusing heavily on meditation with Bramble, who she found to be suffering significant trauma and self-doubt following an incident earlier in the summer, Chetan spent much of her time helping the young man believe in his worth.
Weakened by her many months of travel and the hardships of survival, the harsh winter was particularly hard on the Old Salt. She developed a cough early in the season that progressively worsened over the course of a few months. Despite the hope that the warm spring winds would improve her health, Chetan quickly deteriorated toward the end of February and passed away peacefully at the beginning of March.