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== Appearance and Personality ==
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|This woman spoke. A lot. People did that back on the Eelakin Islands. Her skin was dark, like his, and she had the sound of his people.
|Dusk, on Vathi{{book ref|sotd}}
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She has dark skin and dark, curly hair, and is seen wearing a tight vest and green linen skirts. In the jungle, she carries a pack and her white and green [[Aviar]], [[Mirris]]. After her journey back to her camp, Dusk notes that she wears a new dress and "smells of flowers", although her hair still has snarls.{{book ref|sixth}}
Although traveling in the jungle at night usually led to certain death, Sixth demanded that Vathi immediately leave with him to stop the Company from activating the device again. She declined, and Sixth allowed Sak to show Vathi visions of her death, revealing that Sak granted a talent even though she was not a known species of Aviar. Vathi quickly realized that Sak was a bird from the mainland and had somehow gained a talent on Patji. She also learned that [[Patji's Finger]] was a type of tree that had blossoms with a mental signature. She was shocked by these revelations and wanted to learn more. Leaving Mirris behind to heal, she agreed to travel to the Company fortress.{{book ref|sixth}}
At one point Vathi saw a mating plume from an Aviar and grabbed it, setting off a trap, but she and Sixth avoided serious injury. After he admonished her, he realized that he was treating her like an apprentice and opened up to her a bit more, even telling her the true meaning of his name. A [[nightmaw]] attacked, and Sixth was dumbfounded when Vathi was able to kill it with her spear cannon. However, the noise attracted other nightmaws, and the pair recklessly fled through the jungle, ending up at [[Patji's Eye]]. Vathi was incredulous when she saw hundreds of Aviar around the lake, and she deduced that the birds gained their talents from
=== Return to the Company ===
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|We'll lose it all. We can’t fight them. They’ll find an excuse, they’ll seize the Aviar. It makes perfect sense. The Aviar use the worms. We use the Aviar. The Ones Above use us. It’s inevitable, isn’t it?
|Vathi{{book ref|sotd}}
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Vathi and Sixth made it back to the fortress, and she quickly told [[Winds]] not to activate the machine again, only to learn that it was never turned on - only opened. After considering some suspicious actions by the Ones Above, Dusk and Vathi realized that the technology was essentially a trap. The Ones Above wanted to rapidly advance society on First of the Sun to the point that they would not violate their "rules" by taking the Aviar. Dusk agreed to help Vathi foil this plan.{{book ref|sixth}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
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|She was not a trapper. A scholar should not have been able to do what she did.
|Dusk, on Vathi{{book ref|sotd}}
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Vathi is knowledgeable, confident, and resourceful. With the help of her cognitive shroud Aviar, she is able to move through the jungle on Patji without being killed. Sixth notes that she is fast and agile, and even believes that he is tracking a young trapper when he first comes across her path. She appears to a very high level of academic knowledge about the Pantheon, and is limited only by her lack of real-life experience on the islands. She is able to figure out several key pieces of information even when she only has a few clues to work with.{{book ref|sixth}}
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