Tayori Kudoyuki

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Name: Tayori Kudoyuki [♀] ( "Yori" for short but only by those she deems VERY close friends or loved ones)Age: 26 Eorzean yearsNameday: 13st Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon (roughly the year of 1551)Race: Half Midlander Hyur & Half RoegadynHome Town: Kugane, HingashiResidences:
💚 Lavendar Beds, Ward 20, Subdivision Apartment#35
💚 Kudoyuki Curatives Clinic (Eorzean Branch), Lavendar Beds, Ward 4, Plot 57, FC Room#2
💚 Kudoyuki Curatives Clinic (MAIN Branch & Estate), Shirogane, Ward 20, Plot 14

Favorite Color: Green (Obviously....)Favorite Drink: Flavored SakeFavorite Food: Takoyaki & Lemon Cakes

❤💕♥ ♡ For those who like reading NOVEL-LONG, in-depth backstories to feed some insatiable and masochistic curiosity, the buttons below links to Tayori's full history up to the current expansion in the story, hooks, the novels she is most fond of, and her family's treatments and history. If you're interested in a long read, feel free to read them! ♡ ♥💕❤

• Hooks

• In-Depth Background & History

• The Kudoyuki Family Clan Info

• Tayori's Favorite Books

Sexual Preferences: Male

Canon Class(s): Astro & SamuraiCanon Artificer(s): Botanist & AlchemistAffiliations (Past & Present):
💚 Scions of the Seventh Dawn
💚 The Studium - Sharlayan
💚 Order of the Twin Adders (Rank: Serpent Captain)
💚 Kudoyuki Curatives (family-run Far Eastern company of healers)
💚 Frondale's Phrontistery
💚 Hammer-N-Ale (FC)

Family Connections:
💚 Tokuda Kudoyuki (Hellsguard, Father)
💚 Illane Leuvenogh (Midlander Hyur, Mother)
💚 Hiromitsu Kudoyuki (Hellsguard, Paternal Grandfather)
💚 Jemmont Leuvenogh (Midlander Hyur, Maternal Grandmother)
💚 Edreanne Leuvenogh (Midlander Hyur, Maternal Grandfather)Social Connections & Contacts:
💚 Noriko (Retainer & House Attendant)
💚 Samga (Squadron Member - Conjurer)
💚 Meuliaire (Squadron Member - Rogue)
💚 Yehn Amariyo (Squadron Member - Gladiator)
💚 Mujen Polajen (Squadron Member - Archer)

RP Hooks :

If you read all those hooks and I'm not AFK, to win 1,000,000gil the secret code is BLACK MAGICKA.👌

A Few of Her Favorite Books:

If you read this far and I'm not AFK, to win 1,000,000gil the secret code is LEMON CAKES. 🙌

"Kudoyuki Curatives" Trademarked Treatments and Tinctures:

Ēteru Seiryū Acupuncture

Black Truffle Ginseng Tablet

Kuro Kinoko Extract

Truffle Aphrodisiac

Tayori's Contributions:

Aetheric Sightbrew

Yoru no Hana Elixir

The Kiyosai Kugutsu Rite

Yanxia Tenkai-Nuru Salve

Moonshadow Tonic

Birth & Origins:

Tayori was born on the 13th Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon (roughly the year 1551) to a Roegadyn father named Tokuda Kudoyuki and Midlander Hyur named Illane Leuvenogh in Kugane, Hingashi. An odd pairing to say the least, thus a small recap of their fateful meeting will be provided to explain how exactly Tayori, the miracle baby, came to be:-Illane Leuvenogh was born in the year 1528 during the Sixth Astral Era, almost 30 years after the Autumn War ended in Gridania. This young hyur’s family worked at the Mirror Plank Docks in Central Shroud, loading and unloading the small ships that passed through, transporting logs or other building materials, occasionally fishing to pass the time or put food on the table. Illane would often visit the Mirror while her parents were working to fawn over the Lily flowers that grew on the lake waters as a child. On the crux of her 14th year, on a day where she is visiting the Mirror to pick some of the lily flowers in the winter of 1542, she was struck with a sudden fever that raged throughout her body, causing her to faint and be brought back to Gridania. From then on, she was no longer able to make regular trips outside of the city to Lake Mirror like before. Her illness was later determined to be the incurable Aetherspurn sickness, a rare disease wherein the body becomes unable to draw aether from food resulting in the body growing weaker and weaker with every passing moment until they inevitably pass away. With no known cure for this mysterious disease, Illane was forced to remain in the city where she received palliative treatment from the mages of the Conjurer’s Guild, communing with the elementals every so often to attempt to delay the aetherial decay her body was undergoing. Yet, such rituals were not cheap nor were they any permanent means of adapting to her condition. Her parents attempted to spare every gil they earned on the treatments, Illane eventually opting to serve as a waitress in Carline Canopy, the tavern and adventurer’s guild, to help afford the ritual treatments to delay the decay and medicines that reduced her fevers attributed to the illness. It was challenging at times, but the work was not too strenuous. She was able to endure the disease for 6 long years making it now 1548 when waiting on the table of an Ishgardian nobleman travelling abroad after living a life of seclusion. He boasted and raved about the magickal medicines of the Far East, of a family of royal physicians who created miracle cure-all potions and magicked charms to ward off evil spirits or grant good fortune. This Ishgardian noble was afflicted with what was commonly referred to as “Red Throat” (similar to tuberculosis) and after paying a hefty sum of money to commission potions from the Far East was miraculously cured after just a few doses. He was no longer contagious nor had any symptoms, he was entirely cured and planned to see the realm, a dream never thought possible when nearly on his deathbed. Hearing his words, Illane put all of her hopes and prayers into the wish that it were true. The past few years have nearly driven her and her family broke. She decided to travel to the Far East in search of this noble family of physicians in hopes they would be able to cure her disease, and if not, she would not trouble her family any longer and allow herself to succumb to the sickness. This new goal took her two years to accomplish, saving gil to pay for the trip and what medicine she could afford to keep herself going until she got there. She lands upon the docks of Kugane at the age of 22, the only city in the Far East that was open to foreigners in the year 1550.-Tokuda Kudoyuki was born in the spring of 1526, of the Sixth Astral Era in Hingashi. He was born to a proud and aristocratic family of Hellsguard Roegadyn who served as the ruling family’s primary physicians for many generations after the Mitsurugi Clan founded the Bakufu which was 600 years after the Age of Blood. The Kudoyuki clan was small, and in order to survive the fires of war, they allied themselves with Kanzan of the Mitsurugi clan, rulers of Onokuni, who, with their help, came to power. The Kudoyuki family’s knowledge of medicinal herbs, potions, and even poisons was extremely helpful to the Mitsurugi clan’s leader, Kanzan, who was not skilled in the arts of war, but was a peerless politician and strategist. Kanzan forged alliances through marriage and employed ninja to gain vital intelligence. Ninja who would return injured but healed by the Kudoyuki family's expertise. Kanzan restored the imperial house to power, declaring that the mandate he had to rule had been bequeathed to him by Emperor Hingan. Thus, the Mitsurugi clan became the true power behind the throne, and the Kudoyuki family secured a favorable position as royal physicians for many centuries to come, later establishing their own company and naming it “Kudoyuki Curatives”.Tokuda was a gentle, and soft-spoken man. Given their family history, he had a lot to live up to. His father, the head of the Kudoyuki household Hiromitsu Kudoyuki, was a harsh and patriotic to a fault type of man. He forced his son to learn many fields of research, which ranged from acupuncture, medicine, agriculture, foraging and botany, spending time abroad in Thavnair to study their alchemical potions, poisons and teachings, blood to aether transfusions, conjury, curses, charms, aether ailments, and Geomancy (a Far Eastern art of reading the future, with many similarities to the arts of the White Mage and Astrologian by reading the stars and the movements of the earth, water and other elements), along with many, many other techniques and practices. His medicines and procedures were as legendary as the family he came from, his knowledge was unmatched. At one point the Sharlayan forum had sent an invitation letter to Tokuda in his prime years after word of his miraculous treatments and brilliant mind for illnesses had reached them all the way across to the Northern Empty to the far north of Eorzea. His grandfather received the letter on his behalf and vehemently refused due to the very strict isolationist policies Hingashi had. And likely out of pride.Yet, this young 24-year-old Roegadyn was at a complete impasse in 1550 when a foreign Midlander Hyur woman appeared on the doorstep of the small shop he was tending to at the time in the Kogane Dori markets. She was frail, weak, and burning to the touch with a fever that defied physical limits. When she appeared, she was unable to speak, and Tokuda was forced to give her emergency treatment on the floor of the shop, yet nothing he tried seemed to revitalize her. It became quickly apparent her condition was not physical, but aetherial in nature. After lowering her fever, providing pain medication, food, and water she was able to regain consciousness and explain the aetherspurn sickness she was cursed with. Her condition was unlike anything he had ever encountered before, yet once she had explained what it was, he knew that her treatment would not be simple. Nor would it be cheap. His father, the family head, was horrified to find the foreign woman was given FREE treatment by his usually ever-so-obedient son, not only because they were not being paid, but that she was an Ijin of foreign culture and foreign blood who dared impose herself on their business unannounced and so shamelessly. Yet, Tokuda could hardly blame the woman, she was dying, desperate and......just OOOHHHH so pretty to look at......Professional curiosity regarding her condition aside, he found the hyur woman breathtaking, and felt it a pity she should die before her time to such a fascinating yet cruel disease. Thus, did he defy his father, something he had never done before, and treated the woman in secret. He bought her an apartment to stay in and treated her there often using Geomancy to attune to the aether of the elementals (much like the rituals back in Gridania) in conjunction with what was known as a muscmaloi plant, an herb that possessed potent aether-fortifying properties whose cultivation was outlawed in Sharlayan for various dangerous reasons but completely legal outside of. Thankfully since his father denied the invitation to join the Forum, Tokuda had no reservations about using the plant. He would visit her often, grind herbs in her new home, and take her on trips around the city to attune to the elements where they were the strongest. In their time spent together, for the next year, her condition marginally improved, but she was not CURED (this is important). She became well enough to laugh, work as a waitress at the Umineko Tea House and even developed a relationship with the soft-spoken man. Perhaps thanks to the forbidden plant he used to amplify her aether, she ultimately was able to conceive a child with Tokuda and 9 months later Tayori was born, 1551.

From Childhood to Becoming an Adventurer:

Tayori’s birth was met with aggressive and heated arguments between the once soft-spoken Tokuda, who now had a will of his own, and his strict, ever-traditional father, Hiromitsu. Tokuda had kept the nature of his relationship with Illane secret for months until the very moment Tayori was born to be sure his father would not force Illane to get rid of the baby prematurely (either through bribe, manipulation, or threat on her life for this very purpose). Once Tayori was born, the deed would have already been done, and any arranged marriages Tokuda had were null and void now that he had a child born out of wedlock. To save face, Hiromitsu had no other choice than to permit Tokuda and Illane to marry. By the time Tayori was a month or two old she was officially part of the Kudoyuki household, but neither she nor her mother were allowed into Hingashi’s capital city of Koshu, home to the capital city of Bukyo. Koshu being the seat of Hingashi's Bakufu, rich with traded goods such as silks and spices and currently inaccessible to foreigners due to the isolationist policy passed by Emperor Reigen in 1552 shortly after Doma is conquered by the Garlean Empire. While Tokuda could come and go as he pleased from Kugane and the capital city, Tayori and her mother were forced to stay in Kugane, apart from the rest of the family, and treated like the illegitimate bastards of the Kudoyuki household that everyone thought they were. Not only that, but the mixed blood of a Midlander Hyur and Roegadyn ran through her veins, making her tiny, dainty stature the subject of public mockery and bullying at times when she was young (specifically by the other children and adults within the Kudoyuki family that valued appearances. Children around the city who didn’t know her family treated her like every other kid but she was too scared they would treat her differently to interact with them often and made very little friends in her youth). Tokuda and Illane loved her unconditionally, but the harsh scrutiny of her grandfather and extended family was not exactly pleasant to grow up with in Kugane.Given her mother was afflicted with aetherspurn, to be born with aether at all was a miracle, since Illane’s illness prevented the consumption of it. Having enough to carry a child and give the child the needed nutrients and energy to grow as a fetus and be born would have been an impossible feat were it not for Tokuda’s aether transfusion techniques and the muscmaloi plant-based potions he gave Illane, thinking that they were curing her condition when in truth, they weren’t. Tokuda came to solve the mystery of how Tayori was able to be born and why his wife’s illness returned a few months after their baby was born when Illane’s health began to decline again. At first he thought that the stress of dealing with his father’s ridicule and family judgement along with the new responsibilities a newborn called for while in a land she was not familiar with away from her own parents who she missed dearly made her feel ill, but as the years passed and Tayori grew into a toddler, Illane grew so ill it was like when she first arrived. She became bedridden, unable to absorb aether from food or other energies once again. Thinking back to when and how she got better, Tokuda came to the conclusion that the only reason she had gotten better during that time before Tayori was born was because of the aether transfusions and the muscmaloi plant potions he was giving her. They weren’t what soothed most of her conditions, they were being transmitted to the unborn baby she had inside her, rather than herself. Her body was being sustained by the aetherial energy of the baby inside her, the aether the baby was getting was from the transfusions and potions Illane was being treated with. Had she not been pregnant, the treatments most likely would have only delayed the inevitable. Tokuda did have a modicum of knowledge of aether magicks to know his daughter had developed aether sight and (from his time studying in Thavnair) had a sneaking suspicion that this was only the beginning of the type of skills or power his daughter would have after being exposed to muscmaloi in the womb. Unlike her mother who had very little aether, if any at all, Tayori was born with a plentiful amount of it thanks to her father's treatments.Around 1562, when Tayori is just about 11 years old, Illane's aetherspurn sickness worsens to a point that causes her to lose consciousness with a burning fever while home alone at the apartment, waiting for her daughter and husband to come home from their work at the shop. When Tayori and her father return home after a day spent learning to harness magick with alchemy, they see Illane lying unconscious in a damp pool of sweat on the bed and fever running rampant throughout her body. After a few stressful days watching her mother be treated by her father but never seeming to improve, seemingly never to wake, unable to speak or move, Tayori couldn’t help the feelings of dread, fear, and pain that were also mirrored by what her father was feeling as he watched his beloved wife grow weaker and weaker by the day. At the same time, after being rejected plenty of times yet another letter arrived from the Forum, one of many they had sent over the years, but her grandfather, in his stingy ways, refused working with them for years. Yet, this time her grandfather did not turn them away. He was aware the girl struggled controlling her growing aether and saw this as an opportunity to make use of Tokuda's daughter as a tool to be used for the family. Old Sharlayan, for all its arrogance, could teach her how to wield her magicks effectively and in doing so her potions and treatments would earn the family more money. Accepting the Forum’s long-standing request, he agreed to participate in an exchange program on one condition: Tayori would be the one to go, despite her young age. And to Tokuda’s surprise, Tayori accepted when her grandfather ordered her to go. Dreading her powerlessness, if there was a chance at getting better in order to help her mother recover, she took it.

From ARR to CURRENT:

Tayori sent a letter to her father in Kugane saying she’d be staying a little longer, who then expressed his parental worry that she was in a foreign country alone. However, considering how livid her grandfather had become that the family prodigy that he once spurned, mind you, had gone off on her own, thinking she’d run away, Tokuda thought it better for her to stay in Eorzea for the sake of getting her away from her stifling Hingan family. Tokuda sent her more than enough money to get settled, which she used to buy a home there in Gridania. Tayori then takes the opportunity to train with the Conjurer’s Guild to learn how healing magicks in Eorzea were performed. Despite her fumbling at first, she fit in surprisingly well with the other mages learning the techniques of white magic, even if she still preferred Astrology or nouliths since white magic was far too strong and potent, the risk to the environment she didn't really agree with.It is now 1572 of the Sixth and most recent Astral Era, where the Battle of Carteneau reshapes all of the realm. The northern empire of Garlemald amassed a great army at the heart of Eorzea, and in resistance, all of Eorzea was forced into an intense battle that subsequently led to the establishment of the Eorzean Alliance to meet their would-be conquerors in the field of battle. This alliance was comprised of the Grand Companies of Ul'dah, Gridania, and Limsa Lominsa against the forces of the VIIth Imperial Legion led by Nael van Darnus of the Garlean Empire, who were granted the go-ahead to use the dreaded Project Meteor on Eorzea as a safeguard against the emerging primal threats around the realm. Tayori is drafted into the war at age 21 now, accompanying the Gridanian forces as part of their contingent of White Mages and their lesser conjurers to tend to the wounded in battle. That isn’t to say Tayori did not have any battle skills of her own. She had trained in the art of the Astrologians and Sages in Old Sharlayan, not to mention her samurai training in her youth in Kugane, so she was able to hold her own against some of the Imperial soldiers who dared push the back lines where the wounded fled to. However, in the midst of the chaos, the Dreadwyrm Bahamut is released, who wreaks havoc on the battlefield indiscriminately. Both Imperial and Eorzean soldiers alike were caught in the wrath of the wyrm, whose massive, condensed aether swept over the field like a raging tsunami of power. Maddened after its long imprisonment, Bahamut laid waste to Eorzea. When attempting to help the wounded flee, Tayori is confronted by a Garlean soldier driven mad by the Dread Wyrm’s aether. She attempts to fight the soldier to protect the wounded who were still fleeing, but Tayori is hit and flung back by a stray Imperial cannon blast, causing her to lose consciousness in the middle of the battlefield, unable to get up or save herself. No one saw what brave soldier, recruit or hero had picked up her motionless body from the ground while the Dreadwyrm raged on, but she was safely taken back to Gridania with the other wounded Twin Adder soldiers after the great sage, Louisoix Leveilleur, summons the power of the Twelve to defeat the Primal, and in doing so, sacrificing his life to bind it.Excluding Tayori, the rest of the survivors of the battle awake to an Eorzea forever changed by Bahamut's fury and begin to rebuild as best they can. Tayori, however, remains in a coma for 6 months after being tended to by chirurgeons and mages. When she awoke, she was told that in thanks for her deeds when defending soldiers back in the battlefield almost a year ago, give or take a few months, she expertly represented the extraordinary skill she honed with her nouliths, her alchemy and magick, and was offered enlistment into the Order of the Twin Adders. Tayori hesitated at first, unsure of accepting the offer, as that meant she’d be abandoning her family’s business in the Far East to be part of the organizations of Eorzea. She wasn’t sure how her father would take that, but knew her grandfather would be furious, that was for sure. It didn’t take long for her to come to a decision, though. She readily accepted the Elder Seedseer’s offer to join the Order of the Twin Adders and, with her healing capabilities as an Astro/Sage and skill with potions, herbs, and alchemy, soared through the ranks of the Adders rather quickly and with relative ease.For her accomplishments when handling the missions assigned to her with skill and expertise, the Elder Seedseer wanted to thank her personally once again, but it happened to be in the presence of two Scions of the Seventh Dawn agents who attended the meeting to discuss other matters with the Seedseer, who just so happened to recognize her. It was Papalymo who was the one that recognized her from her time studying in Sharlayan when she was a child. Seeing this as some kind of fated meeting, he decided to invite her to join the Scions and when Tayori agreed to meet them in Vesper Bay, she learned quite a few of the legendary Circle of Knowing members she had heard rumors of when she was a child from her exchange program in Old Sharlayan had joined this organization. Young and inexperienced that she was, they recognized her good will and they opened their arms to her anyway and from that point on, she was a member of the Scions in addition to her Twin Adders position as Captain.Her journey with the Scions consisted of supporting them in defeating the XIVth Legion by halting Gaius van Baelsar during the massive mission titled Operation: Archon by being in charge of the wounded and supplies. Afterward, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn were invited to a celebratory banquet held in Ul'dah in their honor, as everyone should already know. Tayori was invited by proxy. The gathering served as the scene of a diabolical conspiracy plot that was masterminded by a member of the Syndicate who orchestrated the attempted assassination of the Sultana, poisoning her wine and blaming it on the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. In the ensuing chaos, Tayori was forced to flee with the small group of Scions that were left, who then made an unexpected retreat to Coerthus, where they were given sanctuary by one of the high houses of Ishgard, House Fortemps.

In order to see her father and grandfather, Tayori must double down and help the Scions free Doma from Garlean reign, becoming an active participant in the main storyline of Stormblood. Helping from the side-lines to unite the Xaela tribes of Othard, defeat the acting Imperial Viceroy of Doma, Yotsuyu goe Brutus, and with the apparent death of their acting leader, the remaining Garleans retreat, and Doma is free of Imperial rule. After Doma is freed, Tayori is given a special pass into Koshu in acknowledgment of her deeds, and she uses this to confront her grandfather in person, head of the Kudoyuki family, Hiromitsu Kudoyuki. She stands her ground and demands that he acknowledge her as the rightful heir. Her grandfather has no choice but to accept her in recognition of her skill and achievements. Her father steps down as the heir and gives his responsibilities over to his daughter eagerly, proud of the woman she has become. Yet, her work is not done. He bids her to go back to Eorzea and finish her work with her new merry band of friends within the Scions while he manages the family's clients in Hingashi on her behalf. Tayori then returns to Eorzea to assist the Scions in saving the rest of the realm from the Garlemald Empire to ensure the continued safety of the rest of her family and friends. From that day on, she continued the Scions' campaign to the end, making her father, and hopefully her late mother, proud of her accomplishments.After the Final Days was thwarted by the Scions, and they disbanded after saving the world, Tayori’s mother’s illness sparked a new lifelong obsession with finding a cure for the aetherspurn disease. She starts a full-on investigation now that she has more time to spend researching when not on a mission for the Twin Adders, handling her family's business by trading their potions and treatments to the wealthy in Eorzea or to the chirurgeons in different areas of western Eorzea, or treating private clients and patients on her family's island or at their own residences if they cannot afford to travel. This is now how she spends her days, from one mission to the next with her squadron, from one client to the next, mixing potions for her family's business, and when there is downtime, foraging for ingredients, concocting remedies and researching aether to solve the mystery that killed her mother while sending her findings and reports back to her father in Hingashi and alchemists in Thavnair and professors in Old Sharlayan who have agreed to help her with her research. Her grandfather may have accepted her, but this by no means meant he was going to leave her to her own devices. Now, as the new heir, he demands that she wed and find a husband of noble standing who would benefit the business, reminiscent of the marriages of convenience and power that the Mitsurugi clan leader had employed to help him win the wars after the Age of Blood in Hingashi. Her grandfather is constantly sending her prospective marriage suitors and demanding her return to Kugane to attend dinners and meet-ups that she has artfully avoided by being busy. It's another reason why she keeps herself busy, to avoid getting hitched before achieving her goals. Woe is Tayori.