NEFERTKAW SAND-SEER
Desert ScholarsProphet and Fortune Teller
"The future is written in sand. I merely read what the wind has not yet erased.""
Identity
- Residence
- Market of Al-Zahra
- Civilization
- Desert Scholars
Appearance
• Physical: Ancient and mysterious with eyes that seem to see the future. Her movements are slow and deliberate. • Clothing: Colorful fortune-teller's robes heavy with divination tools, a veil that covers her face, and jewelry that jingles when she moves. • Distinguishing Marks: Her eyes are completely white from cataracts but she claims to see better than the sighted; her hands are gnarled from arthritis.
Relationships
- Family - None living; considers her regular clients her family
- Allies - Other prophets who share visions, clients who heed her warnings
- Rivals - False fortune tellers who give her profession a bad name, officials who fear her influence
Personality
- Traits: Cryptic and mysterious, genuinely believes in her visions, surprisingly practical about business, terrified of her own prophecies
- Mannerisms: Shuffles her divination tools constantly; speaks in riddles; touches her veil when receiving visions
- Voice: Soft and distant, becoming sharp when someone dismisses her predictions
Backstory
Nefertkaw discovered her prophetic abilities as a child when she predicted a sandstorm that saved her village. She has spent sixty years reading fortunes and interpreting visions. Her predictions are eerily accurate, though often misunderstood until too late.
Daily Life
Spends mornings reading fortunes for clients, afternoons interpreting visions and recording prophecies, evenings in meditation seeking new visions. She rarely leaves her market stall, considering it her window to the world.
Secret
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Story Hooks
- 1 Her catastrophe vision is beginning to come true, and she needs help preventing or surviving it.
- 2 Someone is trying to force her to predict specific outcomes, and she needs help escaping them.