Akko Soleth

Akko Soleth (IGN: Ankhitsu) was a Goblin scholar living in the city of Grisa (in the Uraki Imperium) who moved to the Vulperium in February of 2022. She’s written books, drawn many maps, and has since become both a City Planner for the capital city of Aroforn and a Government Minister during her time within the Vulperium.

Appearance
Akko Soleth is a short goblin with a multi-hued green skin covered in dark patches and black oil stains. She has short ashy brown hair and aureolin (yellow) eyes. Her main outfit is a reddish-brown travel poncho with slacks and workman's boots, but she is also known to dress in many other outfits due to her love of fashion. One of her more common outfits is a burgundy coat she wears for her job as Head Archivist of the library in Aroforn.

Personality
Though she once kept shyly to herself growing up, she tries to move past her old hesitancies and maintain a friendly air around others who cross her path. Her religious and cultural principles guide her to help others who need it even if it’s at the expense of herself. She also finds it hard to be shrewd in her dealings, although people often attribute that to her kind. With the wisdom gained on her travels she finds herself giving advice to others, meeting a situation with her own kind of wit, and writing many books supported by the cultural knowledge she has gained. The biggest drawback to her personality is that because of events in her past, in personal conflicts she’ll often be eager for battle or bloodshed even if peace remains an option, and because of her intense connections she creates with other people, she can drive herself into a passionate fury if she sees something she perceives as an injustice to a person. Though she also struggles to temper these reactions in her everyday work.

Her Faith
In keeping with her original tribe’s beliefs, she believed that spirits inhabit everything, from the plants, trees, rocks, to even mountains or a running river. It is these spirits that were to be respected as if one were a guest in their house as her tribe would forage and make its across the forests.

In a belief unique from but still playing into her people’s faith in nature, she has as a result of a revelation in her travels come to believe that the sun itself is the divine source of everything, giving daily worship and praise to it alongside incorporating it into each of her personal philosophies, even changing her original tribal family name to “Soleth” to reflect this belief.

Because of her now living in a majority-Vulpur city where other cultures used to be frowned upon, she keeps personal details on her faith to herself only.

Early Youth
Akko was born in the late years of Eldham's colonization to the Lebahki tribe of Jungle Goblins, located within the Phoros region. Different from the Rathnir goblins of other far-off cultures though, she was raised in a culture which lacked ideas of personal property, as life within the jungle meant that there was an abundance of food and goods to go around and to be shared willingly between members of the tribe. She was also raised in their religious tradition which worshipped the nature that sustained them, believing there to be spirits in every living object aswell that were to be respected. It was these values that were instilled within her as a young goblin growing up, but even though her people thrived off this lifestyle, they knew that the bounty of the jungles wasn't infinite and it was healthier for them to travel across their continent of Phoros to other jungle forest regions. Other jungle goblin tribes would also seasonally migrate into their own land aswell putting strain on the resources and their culture.

When she was about 12 years of age, her tribe would set off for one of these journeys, known to be dangerous for the many monsters or settled peoples who would see them as a threat. Their destination was the jungles of Pheonaria in the east but they first had to pass through the sandy dry plains of Azuma-Zi. The goblins sustained themselves with food from their storage and whatever they could scavenge along the way. So while she was on the desert plains, Akko took the initiative to head to what looked like a village destroyed in an old war with dilapidated wood houses. As she was searching a dusty cabinet in the kitchen of one of these homes, she heard the cracks and strains of wood and the second floor beams collapsed in on itself, blocking the doorway and exit to the building. Failing to find a way to escape and despite her calls for any kind of help, one unfortunate fact stuck in her head that had been hammered in for the past several months: The migration was one of the most important things to the tribe, and she would be left behind.

She was stuck in the wreckage for three days, surviving only off her ration packs of berries, bugs, & packed boar meat. Desperate and afraid, at noon of the third day there was the sound of an axe breaking down through the rubble as the sun shone in on the goblin. A gruff-looking human with cobalt blue hair had found her along with his looting party, as they had been trailing the trail of the other goblins for the scattered resources they were leaving behind in their camps. The blue-haired man, an ex-knight of the Auroran Order known by the name of Talin Feydh, brought the fearful & alone goblin Akko into his custody and became something of a father figure to her, training her to fight with a sword and help in the "jobs" his groups would undertake.