Master for Light Praetors. She works under Johan Redstone teaching young Praetors in ways of using Light with their Weapons, working alongside the twins Faven & Diya Redstone. Both can be approached by any apprentice with a Light spirit for lessons.

SPIRIT INFORMATION

[Base Element: Light]

 [FIRST SPIRIT]

Name: Dhaval
Element: Light
 Dhaval has never changed in his appearance as a golden bengal tiger, emitting postive glows as he watches his Praetor teach the newly pacted young Light Praetors in the Crystal Gardens and Classroom. His calm and quiet personality mirrors Esha's almost exactly, but he provides the lighting guidance in her decision making when she is lost. He likes to curl around his Praetor defensively, before resting his head in her lap for a nap but ears alert for danger...and ear scritches.

  

 [SECOND SPIRIT]

Name: Marshmallow
Element: Fire

 Marshmallow doesn't speak, rather he just emits small plumes of clouds and hums accordingly when spoken to. He seems very content and rather happy, though, and doesn't mind providing as a means of transport for Esha (as he was sometimes the get-away Rhino during her adventures with Naina and Zhian). Sometimes Marshmallow will think he's smaller than he is and will just barge his way in thinking he can fit in a small room, box, or anything despite it being slightly bigger than just his head. If his head can fits, then he sits.

 No one exactly knows Marshmallow's birth name, not even Marshmallow himself, but he seemed to respond well to marshmallows as it was the main thing he wanted to eat and would do anything willingly for as he followed Esha around during her training days. Dhaval was first to notice him, pointing his presence out to Esha and he was soon to pact with her during her travels to find Dulcedomum's current location at the time providing a warm prescence to her and her two traveling friends.


 [THIRD SPIRIT]
Name: Akasha
Element: Wind

  She is the most mischevious of Esha's spirits, normally gaining an idea and then following through with that idea without consequence or abandon. She takes the appearance of an off-green near-black cobra Sometimes she goes by the alter ego "Black Mamba", as an anti-hero who does that tongue thing.

 Akasha was a sneak, slithering around nipping at people while providing multiple aliases. It was during her times of acting like a big-shot that she slithered onto the scene of Esha coming across a naked blonde man. Akasha bit him in the butt to make her presence known and Esha booped her on the snout. Appaled by a human touching her precious snout, Akasha sputtered vengence and many tales of how she would bite them both into submission. Esha readied her fist yet again while wagging a finger with the other to chide her that: "it wasn't proper nor very nice to bite Joseph's tush. Apologize." They argued back and fourth for a good hour, enough time for Joey to finally find his pants, and Esha grew bored of the fight, changing tactics to switch the conversation to something else. Akasha thought she was being ignored and forced to pact with the woman so she would be listened to. Esha smiled, using reverse psychology helped in her favor with this spirit and weeks later after their pact, Akasha finally realized she was tricked into it. She got over it a day after their meeting but now finds the small spat funny and does make a small nipping notion at Joey when he isn't looking--but doesn't follow through since Esha packs a good punch.



 [FOURTH SPIRIT]
Name: Niraj
Element: Water 

 The smallest of her spirits, Niraj is essentially the Tad Cooper of the bunch. Esha super believes in her little dragon pal and will defend that he is a dragon. This fearsome spirit is usually found underneath Esha's hair on her shoulders, sometimes in her hairloops, but he is almost always present. And yes he does sometimes hide in her clevage, what of it?

 He's no bigger than the inside of her palm and gives the most intimidating squeaks, but Esha understands him perfectly. He can fly through the air while in his chosen form, similarly mimicking an actual flying dragon. Tiny Flying Water Dragon.  During her travels with her friends, Esha was charged to barter in the local market with a rare gem Naina found which would give the three some excellent funds for the future. Esha got distracted very easily by the promise of a map that led to a Challenging Beast that hoarded many jewels and clearly took the better deal than what she was intended to trade for in the first place. There was also the bonus that if she slayed the beast, there'd also be a handsome reward on top of the riches the beast held in its lair. Naina believed her, Zhian didn't, so Esha set out on her own. She followed the map to a very wide river, spending all day and night looking for the meddlesome beast all the while making friends with a very small, miniscule creature inside the river's waters. He talked with her as she searched, providing excellent company and then as night grew into the wee hours of morning twilight, asked to take a look at the map. Niraj explained that the beast the map told of was himself, and Esha had quite a good chuckle with the small spirit because in hindsight, what a better beast than a spirit who will diligently stay and talk with it's company? He found her company quite charming and asked to come along with her, since she did come to all this trouble to find him (and he was getting rather bored of making the locals wet their trousers). There were no riches to be found in the monetary sense but a rich friendship instead.

  [FIFTH SPIRIT]

Name: Prithvi
Element: Earth
 Her underbelly is soft like sand while her outershell is almost harder than the toughest boulders and gems. She's about the same length as Esha's forearm, and curls around it as her own perch whenever she appears. Her tongue tends to fall out due to pure habit but she is capable of perfect speech, it's just whenever she's quiet, the tongue will eventually slip out. Esha thinks it's adorable.

 Prithvi is actually a very old spirit, about as old as Dhaval, as she was first pacted with Esha's father, Mahatma Shyama. Esha recognized her immediately when out in the forest and nearly broke down in tears as to why the spirit was alone. The tears went from melancholy to happy as she learned her father's passing wasn't sad but a happy one, as he was able to not only fufill his own wishes to live out the rest of his years of his wife, but that he kept close tabs on Esha during her travels and always spoke highly of her back home. Prithvi provided not only as the last piece for Esha's Master training but also the literary closure she needed in knowing how her parents fared when she left them.

 

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

_{Calm and collected, Esha is an old soul that's older than her actual age. She's quiet and polite, she gives off a very friendly and easy personality to hang around. Easy to talk to as she doesn't judge, she'll quietly listen and provide her own response when needed. Esha has a habit of looking very aloof as if she's not listening, which can be the case sometimes, but she usually is, she's trained to keep her attention in the now and present better than what it used to be. She's amicable but no stranger to sarcasm, dishing some very easily and simply like breathing. A few of her friends have dubbed her the "Quiet Shade-Bender" because of this, because while she means well, if one deserves it she will definitely criticize them in order to help them improve better. She's truthful and kind but won't sugar coat things for you if you're terrible. She doesn't get mad, she just gets disappointed.}

<sub>Esha's father, Mahatma Shyama, was a well-known traveler in his time as he was one of the many descendents of Shyama Praetors that helped aid the Redstone family Wizards. He was a simple man, providing as a rock of comfort to his wizard while they traveled across the globe to where they were needed, but eventually dimissed their pact once he met the love of his life, Imamu, when he visited back home and found her in the company of a trader who was using her as his personal slave for Housekeeping. Her language was limited as she hailed from Africa but Mahatma being no stranger to diversity fell in love with her anyway, managed to purchase her freedom and their marriage was ordained by his close Wizard friend. In the company of his Praetor-filled family, Imamu began to open up more and provided as a welcomed addition to the Shyama family. They enjoyed each other's company immensely, content with their life together but also wanted to expand on their family more as Mahatma's many siblings and cousins have done so. It was trying but they were finally blessed with only one daughter, named Esha. Imamu thought it'd be fitting to give her the  second given name (middle name) of Abeni, literally meaning "We asked for her and behold, we got her". 

The Shyama family branch, however, also had a minor detail in their role as Family Praetors, in that while they revered all genders of the spectrum, but it was generally preferred that the males of the children would grow to become Full Fledged Praetors while the women (still encouraged to have some form of self defense training) were to stay at home to be mothers for future descendents to carry on the name. Esha didn't have any brothers to fill in for this title her father left behind years ago, so Esha trained herself along with her male cousins. At first it was a necessary hobby as one would find in knitting, dancing or cooking, but Esha soon became enthused in it as much as she loved activities mostly known for women of her age. Mahatma and Imamu were thrilled for her, wishing only for her happiness and it was also a load off of Mahatma's worry since his father hoped he'd add to the Shyama branch of Praetors once his child was of age. Mahatma's brothers however were dodgy of the Esha's sudden interest in combating with her cousins when offered the chance of sparring, more or less concerned out of the girl's credibilty when finding a suitor in the future for her to marry. Esha herself wasn't too concerned about it at all, preferring to live in the moment now rather than worry for marital and familial affairs in the future. She remained content as she was, even as she grew into a young woman and her parents entrusted her into the care of a Ghotok, the local matchmaker who was also a close friend, believing the older woman would know any men suitable for Esha. The first meeting went terrible, ending in a fire and a tea spill, and the second and third meetings that followed were nearly just as bad. The Ghotok installed fear into Esha's parents even as the younger woman tried to ease their worries, but Esha didn't feel comfortable with the looming stress within the household. Not just that, but within the same year, many of her cousins were moving onto the magical household of Dulcedomum to begin their apprenticeship, as a number of Vanguards were coming by for recruitment.  Esha contemplated on joining, but she didn't want to leave her family behind, but she also wanted them to be proud of her and yet--

It was too much to think about and she began to go for walks a little too often to clear her head. During one of her nightly musings, Esha went out for a long walk in the forest and aimlessly began to wander out beyond her usual path. There was a light beyond the trees in the dense wood. She followed it out, welcoming this new distraction into her life. The ghostly apparition formed before her as a golden bengal tiger by the name of Dhaval, and as she spent the entire night sitting and talking with the spirit, her worries began to melt into a newer resolve. She arrived back home that morning with her first piercing, a new pact and a new purpose. She wasn't the marrying type but she'd be the defending type. 

Over the next year or so, she made the acquaintance and friendship with another pair of traveler: Naina Rangan, a wizard, and Zhian Al-Farsi, a fellow praetor. Naina was running away from home herself in order to find adventure and Zhian nearly escaped an arranged marriage himself, Esha went along for the ride. They made an awkward trio, usually falling into the habit of the two girls out-ruling whatever Zhian wanted to do and all three of them usually getting lost or just barely missing the house once it moved locations. Esha got along with her two companions just fine despite this, deeming herself as the tie-breaker in any argument and as an effective sparring partner for Zhian since he lacked in the Praetor experience she grew up with as a child. Since it was always the three of them during their apprenticeship, the whole dread of who-would-pact-would-who began to dread in the back of their minds. Neither of them wanted to break up the threesome friendship, but Esha was well aware her two friends had grown fond of each other (in fact she encouraged them to get it on already!!) but they figured out a system relatively early. Naina and Esha pacted first as Wizard and Praetor while Zhian later married Naina, thus keeping the trio living long and prosperous together. She enjoyed tagging along with the lovebirds, eventually becoming as a second parent to their kids, sometimes called as Dad #2.

One of Naina's cousins also made the acquaintance of Esha over the years, they came across each other each time by pure accident but each meeting was never a dull one. Most notably he kept misplacing his pants effectively catching the woman off guard the first two times, then not so much the next ten times. Joey Redstone was a bit of an odd one, very relaxed and chill and nearly not unlike herself spare the recreational habits he was more used to performing. They kept in touch frequently, sometimes spending entire days together in each other's company and other times, Esha having to save him from any accidental misfires-turned-misery situations, usually the latter, but she never minded and their friendship continued into the next century and a half. Naina was the second to notice the "small" instances from Joey invoking interest in Esha, the first being Zhian but he didn't want to lose his sister figure to "The Dangerous White Man" who really would rather smoke weed with the fly than hurt it. Naina was also skeptical of letting her friend go after they've spent so long together, but she figured she could just as well keep an eye on the man in her own "subtle" way. Esha on the other hand weighed her friend's advice since it'd be something new to try and Joey needed all the help he could get. Esha also weighed in that since Zhian was also a praetor, Naina would still be fine with her husband acting as both since now he could put that training to good use. Upon finding Joey again, Esha proposed the idea of pacting and he was more than thrilled to accept.

Well, his version of being thrilled was to "kiss on it" but she said no. It'd be better to hug and shake hands intstead.

She didn't show it much, but the sudden realization of more-than-friendly feelings for the wizard was beginning to hit her like a ton of bricks so she wanted to take their new level of friendship slowly as she could first. They literally have all the time in the world now, and when they went back to Dulcedomum to train together as Pact-Partners, Esha was approached to fill in the vacancy of Light Praetor Master. She accepted with a smile and has been teaching for the past two years.</sub>