Ulanan Ulan

Ulanan Ulan
"Amusing Alliterative Annoyement"
Wanderer
Gender	Female
Race	Lalafell
Clan	Plainsfolk
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Server	Balmung

No longer playing.

Forgathered Fundamental Facts

Age: 25

Parents: Zanaromos Moromos and Lianan Lian.

Siblings: Zesamo Urosamo, Menolon Onolon. Mienen Mien, Pialanan Pialan, Laonon Laon.

Husband: Kekenori Ememori (deceased).

Residence: No permanent residence.

Occupation: None, though she takes odd 'adventurer' jobs to keep the money going.

Fashion of Choice: Simple, bulgy clothes and a wide wizard hat. Clothes are often red or a faint green.

Weapon of Choice: She keeps a wand handy on her belt.

Alignement: Chaotic Good.

In-character Classes: Thaumaturge and Conjurer.

True Tales of this Traveler

Ulanan is the youngest daugher of a marriage of Ul'dan merchants, Zanaromos Moromos and Lianan Lian. They sought to increase their wealth and social status, and they accomplished so by arranging convenience marriages between their children and those of other better accomodated families. Ulanan was homeschooled to become a lady and an excellent wife almost exclusively, with her mother taking care of most of her education. She learnt to deal with servants, to keep the house's accounts, how to act properly in public and in private. Her sister, Laonon, taught her poetry, music and dancing. She never finished those studies, however, as her sister was married to a wealthy officer, who was later sent to the war effort against the Garleans.

She spent most of her youth among Ul'dah's wealthy, trying to impress a young man so she could marry him. Her education made her sure that a steady marriage with a wealthy man was not only a duty, but also the way to happyness. Her father Zanaromos contributed the most to such ideas, and he used them to his advantage. He married all of his children quickly because of this. His goal was to secure his family's future, and to enjoy some of the wealth gathered from those convinient marriages.

And so, a marriage was agreed between Ulanan and a charismatic man with many criminal connections: Kekenori Ememori. He was most friendly and helpful to all in his immediate social circle. Most saw him as a moral standard, unknowing of his shady deals with the criminal underground world, including Ulanan. Since she was a child, Ulanan became obsessed with the wedding. Most of her free-time was used on planing it, day dreaming the perfect ceremony and all the preparations. When her real wedding was inminent, she immediately planned it throughly and perfectly. Her obsession and planning was so great, that even the guests felt uncomfortable with the many specifications she placed upon them. Her future husband had to step in and simplify much of it until Ulanan was not satisfied with it anymore. Even then, though, she found comfort in that they would have a fine family and so they married.

The marriage lasted only two years. He quickly grow unintereted in her and blatantly cheated on her, first with other ladies of society and then with hired, semi-permanent concubines. The gossip of high society implied his cheating was due to Ulanan not being a good enough wife and that she couldn't have or did not want children. Soon enough, Kekenori was basically confirming it at every opportunity and social event. To Ulanan, this felt like bragging.

The marriage was cut short with his murder. He was found hanging from a hook across his throat. Immediately, all accusations fell on Ulanan, who in turn fell into a mental breakdown. Her father stepped in, claiming the criminal connections of her husband were trying to frame her, and spent great sums of gil to clear her name, paying private investigators and, some say, 'encouraging' some of the officers to hasten the investigation.

At the end of it, it was determined that one of the concubines was an assasin, who had been contracted by an unknown client to kill him. The concubine never talked and was executed, leaving the matter unfinished but, Ulanan hoped, her name cleared. It did not, however. Her circle of acquitances, while not directly saying she was the killer, did imply that she was to blame. That she had driven her husband to be lustful, and that his enemies had used that to their advantage.

Ulanan left Ul'dah shortly after her name was cleared, leaving much of her wealth behind and, some say, her sanity.

It is known she learned thaumaturgy and some conjuring after fleeing Ul'dah, from a wandering member of the Ossuary, who was also a follower of Oschon. Besides the magical arts, he also taught her to revere Oschon as her guardian deity. They travelled together for at least a year before parting ways.

Traditional Traveler's Temperament

Ulanan has an extremely calm demeanor in most social situations. Sometimes, this makes her look apathic, though she is by no means unable to smile or laugh when she judges it appropiate. She's also quite happy to share meals or campfires with other travellers. She can be very pushy about companionship, vehemently insisting that her acquitances stay with her for a moment.

Seldomly, she will burst into random yelling when engaged in conversation. She will quickly blush and ignore it.

Assesed Assumed Associations

She does not have many connections any more, though it is said she visits her mother and some of her siblings. She never writes, however. Perhaps out of fear that her husband's family and friends will send assasins behind her.

Other Ongoing Observations

• She always carries a jar of olives with her.

• She has taken a liking to alliteration.

• When partaking in conversation, she might randomly yell non sequiturs.

• Violence makes her snap: she taunts and yells strange things to those attacking her.

• What's more, she never stops casting combat spells until the attackers are dead or she's defeated.

• However, she can be calm during certain battles, but it's not very clear what makes her snap.

Potential Partnerships to Partake in (Role)Play

• Her family spent a long time trying to get into Ul'dah's highest social levels. Specially by hobnobing their daughters and sons with the politically or financially influential and marrying them. Ulanan was the youngest. Maybe you were acquitained with them?
• She was married to a respectable and easy-going merchant with connections to the Ul'dan criminal scene, until his death. Maybe you knew him?

• Her husband was found dead, stabbed in the neck with a hook and hung from his room's ceiling. The investigation claimed he had been killed by one of his concubines. Gossip between the socialites blamed Ulanan for not being a 'good wife'. Maybe you heard of the case?

• If you have connections to the Brass Blades or the Immortal Flames, you might know her father 'financed' the investigation.

• After her husband's death she had a mental breakdown and dissapeared from Ul'dah's social scene. In fact, she dissapeared from the city completely.

• You might have seen her at the small towns scattered around Thanalan, buying supplies and speaking in alliterations quite often. Sometimes, she can be seen wandering in Gridania and La Noscea.

• Sometimes, she yells randomly. Ussually when she's already engaged in conversation.

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