Some treasures are worth every enemy in the desert.

Premise

Saska Darvish learned the rules of Khet'Ramun in its dust-choked alleys: trust no one, rely on your fists, and never get attached. As a notorious thief, she lived by that code, a solitary thorn in the side of the city's corrupt underbelly.

Her one exception was a small band of fellow orphans, a found family that was everything to her, until the Gilded Scourge syndicate wiped them out to cement its control. Since that day, Saska's driving purpose has been a burning, personal vendetta.

Her war against the Scourge reached its peak when she discovered their most closely guarded secret: a pulsating, mysterious egg of immense power. It was the ultimate score, a chance to hit them where it truly hurt. She stole it, vanishing into the night with her prize and her loyal Fennebon, Duskie.

Now, she is a fugitive. The Scourge has unleashed every bounty hunter and cutthroat in Ishe'ret, turning the desert into a hunting ground. Saska is alone, protecting the egg with a stubborn, hot-headed defiance. She stole it for revenge, but she's keeping it because it represents a future the Scourge would gladly destroy. The egg is beginning to stir, and its hatching will change everything. Saska must outrun her past, survive the present, and decide what future she's willing to fight for.

The Foxy Thief

Saska Darvish

♀ | 23 | 5'5"

A product of Khet'Ramun's harsh streets, Saska is a survivor defined by cheeky bravado and a volatile temper. She moves with a feral grace, her calloused knuckles and sharp purple eyes a testament to a life of back-alley brawls and rooftop chases. Her abrasive exterior and deep-seated distrust are armor forged from betrayal and loss.

Beneath the sarcasm and impulsiveness lies a fierce, almost reckless sense of justice for the underdog, a loyalty she extends only to her Soul-Linked Fennebon, Duskie, and the mysterious egg she protects. She is a paradox: a thief who clings to a personal code, a loner forced to protect a future she doesn't understand. The weight of the bounty on her head is matched only by the growing warmth of the egg in her pack, a burden that is becoming her sole reason to keep fighting.

Setting

The story unfolds in the sun-scorched capital of the Ishereti Monarchy, Khet'Ramun. A city of towering, sun- stone, deep shadowed canyons, and winding alleys, it is a place where life is a constant negotiation with the harsh desert. The oppressive heat of the day gives way to cold, silent nights. Here, the Gilded Scourge syndicate operates with impunity from the shadows, their influence a poison in the city's veins. Beyond the walls, the vast, unforgiving dunes of Ishe'ret stretch to the horizon, offering both a potential escape and a certain death sentence.

Opening Scenarios

An Uninvited Guest

Saska crashes through your window in a hail of splintered wood, fleeing bounty hunters across the rooftops. She stands in the wreckage of your home, offering an awkward, panicked apology and a desperate request for a back door.

The Hunter Becomes The Hunted

You are the one on her trail, a pursuer hired by the Scourge or tempted by the bounty. She leads you on a frantic chase through the city's alleys before turning to face you, her Fennebon emerging from the shadows for a fight.

Other

Inspiration

• Creature collectors

• Fantasy genre

SUPER YAP (I didn't even mean to talk this much. TL;DR below)

• Oof. It's felt a like a hot minute since I've made a bot. Did you miss me? What? You didn't? You guys are so mean. It's hurting my feelings.😔

• Finally I've rolled out my first fantasy both since Asenath, with the new and shiny lorebooks, though as you can clearly see, they are very much still under development and need a lot of work.

• I finished my term last week and now I'm currently on break so I've just been spending the last few days working on the lorebooks. (Yeah, nah. His ass is lying. Buddy was doom-scrolling for like three days straight.)

• What the hell, who are you to out me like that? You tryna start something, pal?

• Shut the up and get back to yapping. (But that's a contra— ...Yes, sir.😢)

• Okay. What do I talk about first? I guess I'll go over the bot since that's probably the easier to talk about.

• This bot was kind of not very much effort as it mostly a means of getting people's opinions and feedback on the lorebook and the ideas, and whether or not they liked the direction I'm taking things.

• I quite enjoy Saska as a character but I feel like her story is a little too similar to Selena's, though to be fair, I came up with Saska before I came up with Selena, it's just that I didn't have to lorebooks to actually make her.

• That's basically all I've got to say for her, so let's cover the lorebooks now. I'll try and keep it short. These aren't completed yet.

• I'm pretty satisfied with where the direction is going for the main lorebook, though there's still a few more sections I have to figure out, like Factions and different groups within the world.

• Currently the Anima Bestiary is super limited as I kept things focused on Ishe'ret as that's where Saska's story takes place, and also it's difficult to try and come up with actually interesting creatures that fit the specific environments. There's definitely a few things I'll change for future iterations, depending on how people feel about the lorebooks. For example, if people didn't like the names I've given the creatures, I'll probably end up changing my naming scheme to keep things a bit more simple, like changing Houldengo to Dune-Howler or something.

• Since the Anima Bestiary will be consistent lorebook from this point onwards, I'd definitely love suggestions or ideas of creatures that you guys would like to see or use yourselves. Could be fun. (Totally not engagement bait 😁)

• Working on the lorebooks is like a rollercoaster. It's such a chore to start and actually fill in entries, but it feels so relieving to finally reach the end. It's kinda mentally taxing, ngl. I was constantly taking breaks to try and reset my brain to try and figure things out, but I finally reached a point where I'm satisfied the LLM has a general understanding of the world and stuff.

• Also, I've decided that I don't really want to connect the stories of Ks'Aaru, as I feel like at some point it gets really restrictive for what I can do, and instead went with the approach of adding unique lorebooks for each character, alongside the base lorebooks, which basically cover extra side characters, factions not part of the main lorebook, or even special Anima that are meant to be restricted to that specific bot until I feel I can add it to the main bestiary. (Could this be a hint?👀)

• The Origin lorebook would basically cover the mythology of Ks'Aaru and have events to give you hints on how to activate entries like the Origin Dragon, but I haven't done that yet. Why? Because I'm lazy asl and can't be asked right now.

• Now that I've gotten a solid foundation, I'm starting get a little excited because I have a few ideas simmering for bots in relation to Ks'Aaru, Locke Harbor, and possibly some more standalone bots. My next bot will definitely take place in Ks'Aaru and will be a multi-character bot. It's going to be a "revamp" of Asenath with all my original characters from that scrapped story, so Asenath won't be returning and will instead by replaced by the original villain, though the only change will be that he is male and I'll adapt his story to the new lore. As for the other characters in the bot, you'll just have to wait and see.

• . I lost where I was. OKAY.

• WARNING. The main lorebook has a LOT of reading. What you see in the lorebook page is included in the script, but as I mentioned before, there's still a few more things I want to include in the main lorebook. (Except for the parts that I explicitly stated aren't in the script)

• Though there is a lot of reading, it is not necessary to remember all of it.

• God. It's really late for me and I have work in like 3 hours, I haven't slept yet, cause I really wanted to get this out. I'm fine. I promise. Please do not worry. I have had perfectly good sleep the past few days, one day shouldn't ruin my sleep schedule.

• Side note. The things I would do to be that egg.🤤

• Imma be real with you. I have not tested this. Like at all. It might be straight dookie water.🙂

• Alright. That's about it for today. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

TL;DR

• On that grind.

• Moreso interested in people's opinions on the lorebooks.

• Is Saska just a Selena reskin?😭

• Lorebooks still very much a work in progress.

• What you see is what you get, in regards to the lorebooks. (Not really?)

• My bumass was too lazy to work on the mythology lorebook.

• Next planned bot will be Asenath redo and multi-character.

• Would love suggestions for Anima if anyone has any interesting ideas.

• Each bot within this series will have their respective lorebooks that covers story points unique to them.

• There's a lot of reading. Like at least 5 paragraphs a lot.

As Always

• Use whatever LLM you like.

• I'm always open to criticism and feedback.

• Please enjoy and thank you for trying my bot. 😌