Tayori Kudoyuki

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Name: Tayori Kudoyuki [♀] ( "Yori" for short)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:
💚 Kudoyuki Condo Shirogane, Ward 27, Subdivision Apartment#63
💚 Kudoyuki Curatives Clinic (Eorzean Branch), Lavendar Beds, Ward 4, Plot 57, FC Room#2
💚 Captain Kudoyuki's Estate (Eorzean Residence), Lavender Beds, Ward 20, Plot 25

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): AstrologianCanon 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 :

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A Few of Her Favorite Books:

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"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 in the year 1551 of the Sixth Astral Era, to a Roegadyn father named Tokuda Kudoyuki and a Midlander Hyur mother 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:
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Illane Leuvenogh was born in the year 1528 during the Sixth Astral Era, almost thirty years after the Autumn War ended in Gridania. Her family worked at the Mirror Plank Docks in the Central Shroud, loading and unloading the small ships that passed through, transporting logs and other building materials, occasionally fishing to put food on the table. Illane would often visit the Mirror while her parents were working to admire the lily flowers that grew on the lake waters. On the crux of her fourteenth year, during the winter of 1542, Illane was visiting the Mirror to pick some of the lily flowers when she was struck by a sudden fever that raged throughout her body. She fainted and was brought back to Gridania. From then on, she was no longer able to make regular trips outside the city to Lake Mirror like before. Her illness was later determined to be the incurable aetherspurn, 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 the afflicted inevitably passes away. With no known cure for the mysterious disease, Illane was forced to remain in the city where she received palliative treatment from the mages of the Conjurer's Guild. She communed with the elementals every so often in an attempt to delay the aetherial decay her body was undergoing. Such rituals were not cheap, however, nor were they any permanent means of adapting to her condition. Her parents attempted to spare every gil they earned on her treatments. Illane eventually opted to serve as a waitress in Carline Canopy, the tavern and adventurer's guild, to help afford the ritual treatments and medicines that reduced the fevers attributed to her illness. It was challenging, but the work was not too strenuous. She managed to endure the disease for six long years. By 1548, Illane was waiting tables for an Ishgardian nobleman traveling abroad after living a life of seclusion. He boasted about the magical medicines of the Far East, particularly a family of royal physicians who created miracle cure-all potions and magical charms to ward off evil spirits or grant good fortune. The Ishgardian nobleman himself had suffered from what was commonly referred to as "Red Throat," a disease similar to tuberculosis. After paying a hefty sum of money to commission potions from the Far East, he was miraculously cured after only a few doses. He was no longer contagious, no longer suffered symptoms, and planned to finally see the realm, a dream he had never thought possible when he was nearly on his deathbed. Hearing his words, Illane put all of her hopes and prayers into the possibility that the same family might be able to save her. The past few years had nearly driven her and her family into poverty. Illane decided to travel to the Far East in search of this noble family of physicians. If they could cure her, she would live. If they could not, she would no longer trouble her family and would allow herself to succumb to the sickness. This new goal took her two years to accomplish. She saved gil to pay for the journey and whatever medicine she could afford to keep herself alive until she reached her destination. She eventually landed upon the docks of Kugane at the age of twenty-two, the only city in the Far East open to foreigners in the year 1550.
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Tokuda Kudoyuki was born in the spring of 1526, of the Sixth Astral Era in Hingashi. Tokuda Kudoyuki was twenty-four years old at the time. He had been born in the spring of 1526 in Hingashi to a proud and aristocratic family of Hellsguard Roegadyn who had served as the ruling family's primary physicians for many generations. The Kudoyuki clan had been small, and in order to survive the fires of war many centuries ago, they allied themselves with Kanzan of the Mitsurugi clan, rulers of Onokuni, who rose to power with their assistance. The Kudoyuki family's knowledge of medicinal herbs, potions, poisons, and various other treatments proved invaluable to Kanzan, who was not skilled in the arts of war but was a peerless politician and strategist. Through the Kudoyuki family's expertise, injured ninja could be returned to service, while the clan's medicinal knowledge helped preserve the Mitsurugi family's power. The Mitsurugi clan eventually became the true power behind the throne, while the Kudoyuki family secured a favorable position as royal physicians for many centuries. In time, they established their own company, Kudoyuki Curatives. Tokuda was a gentle, soft-spoken man. Given his family's history, he had a great deal to live up to. His father, Hiromitsu Kudoyuki, was harsh, fiercely patriotic, and traditional to a fault. At one point, the Sharlayan Forum had sent an invitation to Tokuda after word of his miraculous treatments and brilliant mind had reached them all the way across the Northern Empty. Hiromitsu received the invitation on his son's behalf and vehemently refused it, both because of Hingashi's isolationist policies and, perhaps more importantly, because of his own pride. So when a foreign Midlander Hyur woman appeared on the doorstep of the small shop Tokuda was tending in the Kogane Dori markets, he found himself caught completely off guard. Illane was frail, weak, and burning with a fever that defied physical limits. She was unable to speak, forcing Tokuda to give her emergency treatment right there on the floor of the shop. Nothing he tried seemed capable of revitalizing her. It quickly became apparent that her condition was not physical. It was aetherial.
After lowering her fever and providing pain medication, food, and water, Illane regained consciousness and explained the aetherspurn sickness that had plagued her for years. Tokuda had never encountered anything quite like it. His father was horrified when he discovered that his son had given a foreign woman free treatment. Not only had Tokuda received no payment, but Illane was an ijin, a foreigner who had walked into their business unannounced and demanded their attention. Tokuda could hardly blame her. She was dying. She was desperate. And, admittedly, he thought she was extraordinarily beautiful. Professional curiosity quickly became personal concern. Tokuda defied his father, something he had never done before, and began treating Illane in secret. He purchased an apartment for her and visited frequently, using Geomancy to attune to the aether of the elementals much like the rituals Illane had received in Gridania. He also began using muscmaloi, an herb with potent aether-fortifying properties whose cultivation was outlawed in Sharlayan for various dangerous reasons but was perfectly legal elsewhere. Thankfully, since Hiromitsu had already rejected the Forum's invitation, Tokuda had no reservations about using it. For the next year, Tokuda treated Illane in secret. He ground herbs in her apartment, prepared medicines, performed aether transfusions, and took her around Kugane to places where the elements were strongest so she could benefit from their aetherial presence. Illane's condition improved, but she was not cured. She became well enough to laugh again. She worked as a waitress at the Umineko Tea House. She and Tokuda grew closer. Eventually, they fell in love. Perhaps because of the treatments and the aether-fortifying effects of the muscmaloi, Illane was able to conceive a child with Tokuda. Nine months later, Tayori was born.

From Childhood to the Journey to Eorzea:

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, ensuring that his father could not force Illane to get rid of the baby prematurely through bribe, manipulation, or threat. Once Tayori was born, the deed had already been done. Any arranged marriages Tokuda had been promised were now null and void, as 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.Neither Tayori nor her mother, however, were allowed into Hingashi's capital city of Koshu, home to the capital city of Bukyo. While Tokuda could come and go between Kugane and the capital as he pleased, Tayori and Illane were forced to remain in Kugane, apart from the rest of the family. They were treated like the illegitimate bastards of the Kudoyuki household that everyone assumed them to be. Tayori's mixed blood only made matters worse. The blood of a Midlander Hyur and Roegadyn ran through her veins, resulting in her possessing the facial structure of a Roegadyn but a much smaller, daintier stature. Her appearance became a source of public mockery and bullying during her childhood, specifically from the children and adults within the Kudoyuki family who valued appearances above all else. Children around Kugane who did not know her family treated her like every other child. Tayori was simply too afraid that they would treat her differently if they discovered who she was, so she rarely interacted with them. She made very few friends. Tokuda and Illane loved their daughter unconditionally. The harsh scrutiny of her grandfather and extended family was another matter.Yet, despite the cruelty surrounding her, Tayori's early life contained a mystery that no one understood. She had been born with an extraordinary amount of aether. Given her mother's aetherspurn, that alone was miraculous. Illane's body could barely absorb aether from food or other sources. Carrying a child should have been nearly impossible. Had it not been for Tokuda's transfusion techniques and the muscmaloi-based treatments he administered, neither Illane nor the unborn child would likely have survived the pregnancy. But there was something else. Something no one knew.Tayori had been born with the Echo, however it was dormant.It did not manifest immediately, just as it did not for many other people blessed with it. No visions came. No voices spoke to her. There was no sudden revelation or obvious sign that she possessed anything supernatural. The Echo simply existed within her, waiting. Alongside it was another mysterious blessing, one that would later be understood as the Traveler's Ward. The Ward quietly protected Tayori's developing aether from depletion. It did not cure Illane's aetherspurn and did not magically provide Tayori with an infinite supply of aether. Rather, it helped preserve the aether Tayori already possessed, preventing the extreme conditions of her mother's pregnancy from leaving her dangerously deficient. Tokuda knew none of this. All he knew was that his daughter had survived. More than that, she had thrived. As Tayori grew, Tokuda began noticing that she possessed an unusually acute awareness of aether. She could see it in living things and sometimes described the aether surrounding plants, animals, and people without knowing that most could not perceive what she was describing. He assumed it was simply a strange side effect of the treatments she had received before birth. He had no idea that the Echo had been there all along.Around 1562, when Tayori was approximately eleven years old, Illane's aetherspurn worsened dramatically. One day, she lost consciousness with a burning fever while home alone in the apartment, waiting for Tayori and Tokuda to return from the shop. When Tayori and her father returned home after a day spent learning to harness magick through alchemy, they found Illane lying unconscious in a damp pool of sweat upon the bed, her fever running rampant throughout her body. Tokuda immediately began treating her, but nothing worked. For days, Tayori watched her father desperately attempt to stabilize the woman he loved. Illane did not wake. She could not speak. She could barely move. Tayori felt dread, fear, and helplessness as she watched her mother grow weaker, feelings that were mirrored by the anguish of her father. And then something inside Tayori changed. Her dormant Echo awakened.The first manifestation was subtle. She became aware of the aether around her in a way she never had before. It was no longer merely something she could see. She could recognize it. Every living person suddenly seemed to possess a unique aetherial signature, almost like a fingerprint. Tokuda's aether was the first she truly recognized. She knew her father better than anyone. She had spent nearly every day of her childhood with him. His aether had been around her for years. When her Echo awakened, that familiarity suddenly became instinctive. She could recognize him without seeing his face. She could tell when he entered a room without hearing him. She could distinguish his aether from everyone else's without thinking. Her mother was different. Illane's aether had been diminished by years of aetherspurn. There simply was not enough stable aether remaining for Tayori to form the same kind of strong attunement. Her grandfather, however, was another story. Tayori had spent much of her childhood around Hiromitsu, and his aether had become familiar through years of exposure. She recognized him too.Eventually, Tayori discovered something even stranger. When she spent enough time around someone and became deeply familiar with their aether, she could do more than recognize them. She could attune to them. And once attuned, her aether could resonate with theirs. The first instances happened accidentally. A person practicing with a weapon might suddenly find their movements sharper. Someone casting a spell might discover that their control became steadier. A healer might find their restorative magic more potent. Tayori did not give anyone abilities they did not already possess. She simply amplified what was already there. Tayori synchronized her own aether with theirs and strengthened them. At first, she had no idea how she was doing it.Her grandfather noticed.Hiromitsu had spent years regarding his granddaughter as an embarrassment to the Kudoyuki name. Now he saw something else. A valuable asset. At almost the exact same time, another letter arrived from the Forum. It was one of many they had sent over the years. Hiromitsu had rejected every previous request. This time, however, he recognized an opportunity. He knew the girl was struggling to control her growing aether. Old Sharlayan, for all its arrogance, could teach her how to wield her abilities effectively. And if Tayori became more skilled, her potions and treatments could potentially earn the family even more money. Hiromitsu finally accepted the Forum's long-standing request. But he had one condition, Tayori would be the one to go. Despite her young age, Tayori accepted when her grandfather ordered her to participate in the exchange. Her mother was dying. Her father was powerless to stop it. If Sharlayan could teach her enough to one day help Illane, then Tayori was willing to go. Tayori's exchange to Old Sharlayan became the turning point in her understanding of herself. She arrived as a young girl surrounded by scholars, researchers, and academics who were often twice her age. In exchange for access to the Kudoyuki family's knowledge, treatments, and patented alchemical creations, Tayori provided the Forum with information regarding her family's medical techniques. But the scholars quickly became more interested in Tayori herself. They recognized that her strange aetherial perception was not simply ordinary aether-sight. It was an unusual manifestation of the Echo. The scholars could not tell her exactly why her Echo manifested as it did, nor could they explain the mysterious protection surrounding her aether. Even so, they were able to help her understand the mechanics of what she was experiencing. Tayori began to understand her Echo as three stages:

Recognition:
A faint awareness of someone's unique aetherial signature.Attunement:
After spending sufficient time around someone, Tayori could permanently recognize their aether regardless of appearance. Disguise, clothing, masks, altered voices, and even certain magical illusions could not conceal a person whose aether she had already learned.Resonance:
Once properly attuned, Tayori could deliberately synchronize her aether with another person's and amplify the abilities they already possessed.Astrology became the discipline through which she learned to control it. Rather than allowing herself to attune indiscriminately to everyone she encountered, she learned to focus her aether deliberately. The study of celestial movements and the careful manipulation of aether gave her a framework for deciding where to direct her attention. Her cards became especially useful. Astrology allowed Tayori to regulate her Echo, allowing her to choose who she wished to resonate with and when. She could finally use her ability on demand rather than allowing it to activate unpredictably. During her time in Sharlayan, she also met several scholars and students who would eventually become familiar names to her. Her memories of this period would later become hazy following the death of her mother, but she retained vague memories of making one or two friends among the people she encountered.Eventually, however, Tayori's mother became too ill for her to remain away forever. Illane's condition continued to deteriorate. The treatments that had allowed her to survive for years were never a cure. Tokuda had eventually understood the truth. The aetherial transfusions and muscmaloi treatments had sustained Illane during her pregnancy by providing aether that was largely being passed to the unborn Tayori. Once Tayori was born, that source of aetherial support disappeared. Illane's illness returned. By the time Tayori returned from Sharlayan, there was little left that Tokuda could do. Her mother eventually died. For Tayori, the loss was devastating. Illane had been the person who loved her without condition, the person who had never treated her mixed blood as something shameful, and one of the few people in Kugane who made her feel as though she belonged somewhere. Now that person was gone. Worse still, Tayori knew that her mother's body would never receive the kind of honor she deserved in Hingashi. Illane had spent her life there as an outsider, and despite having married into the Kudoyuki family, she had never truly been accepted by it. Tayori could not bear the thought of her mother's remains being placed somewhere that had treated her as though she were less than worthy of belonging. So Tayori made a decision, and it was to take her mother's ashes to Eorzea.It was the place Illane had once called home, the place she had left behind when she traveled across the sea in search of treatment. Tayori wanted her mother to rest somewhere that had known her before the Kudoyuki family, before the judgment, before the years of illness and isolation. She wanted to give Illane something she had never been given in Hingashi, a place where she belonged. Before leaving, Tayori reached out to her mother's parents, who were still living in Eorzea. They had spent years knowing that their daughter had crossed the sea and built a life in Hingashi, but they had never had the chance to truly know what became of her. Tayori contacted them and, when they agreed to meet her, she finally stood before the grandparents she had never known. She told them everything. She explained that she was their granddaughter, Illane's daughter. She told them about her mother's journey to Hingashi, her marriage to Tokuda, her life in Kugane, her illness, and the family that had never truly accepted either of them. She told them about the years she had spent caring for her mother, about the treatments her father had tried, and finally, about Illane's death. Her grandparents listened and then, rather than questioning her, judging her, or treating her as an embarrassment, they welcomed her. There was no hesitation. No demand that she prove herself. No concern about her mixed blood. No expectation that she make herself smaller or quieter to preserve the dignity of a family name. They simply embraced her as their granddaughter. The warmth of it broke something inside Tayori. She had spent her entire childhood in Kugane believing that love could exist alongside rejection, that being tolerated was perhaps the closest she would ever come to belonging. Her father and mother had given her unconditional love, but beyond them, she had known very little of it. Now, in the home of strangers who should have been strangers but somehow felt like family, Tayori experienced a kind of acceptance she had never known from the Kudoyuki household. For the first time, she understood where her mother had come from. And she wanted to understand it more. Tayori had originally intended to return to Hingashi after spreading her mother's ashes. Instead, she decided to remain in Eorzea a little longer. She wanted to see the land her mother had once called home. She wanted to learn about its people, its customs, its healing traditions, and the life Illane might have lived before crossing the sea. Perhaps, without realizing it at first, she also wanted to stay somewhere that did not make her feel like an unwanted mistake.Her stay became longer than she expected. Eventually, Tayori settled in Gridania. With money sent by Tokuda, she purchased a small home and began training with the Conjurers' Guild, determined to understand Eorzean healing magic for herself. She initially struggled to adapt to Conjury, but gradually learned how to combine it with the medical knowledge, alchemy, and Astrology she already possessed. Astrology remained her preferred discipline, but Conjury gave her another means of helping those who needed her. What had begun as a journey to lay her mother's ashes to rest became the beginning of Tayori's life in Eorzea. She found another home.

From ARR to CURRENT:

Tayori sent a letter to her father in Kugane saying she would be staying a little longer, prompting the understandable worry of a parent whose daughter was alone in a foreign land. However, considering how livid Hiromitsu had become that the family prodigy he had once spurned had gone off on her own, Tokuda thought it better for Tayori to remain in Eorzea. Perhaps distance from her grandfather and the suffocating expectations of the Kudoyuki family would do her good. Tokuda sent her more than enough money to get settled, which she used to purchase a home in Gridania. It was there that Tayori took the opportunity to train with the Conjurer's Guild and learn how healing magicks in Eorzea were practiced. Despite fumbling at first, she adapted surprisingly well to the techniques of conjury. For the first time, she began combining her Far Eastern medical knowledge, alchemy, Astrologian training, and Eorzean healing practices. She remained an Astrologian first and foremost, however, and continued to prefer astrology over white magic due to the latter's immense potency and the potential risks it posed to the environment.It was now 1572 of the Sixth and most recent Astral Era, and the Battle of Carteneau would reshape the realm forever. The northern empire of Garlemald had 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. The 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 had been granted permission to use the dreaded Project Meteor on Eorzea. Tayori was drafted into the war at age twenty-one, accompanying the Gridanian forces as part of their contingent of conjurers and healers to tend to the wounded in battle. She also used her Astrologian abilities and her Echo to support the soldiers around her. By this point, she understood how her Aetherial Attunement worked. Those she had spent enough time around could become familiar to her on an aetherial level, allowing her to recognize their unique aetherial signatures and deliberately establish Resonance with them, allowing Tayori to bolster her allies while simultaneously tending to those injured on the battlefield.However, in the midst of the chaos, the Dreadwyrm Bahamut was released, wreaking 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. Tayori's sensitivity to aether became overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the power surrounding her. When attempting to help the wounded flee, she was confronted by a Garlean soldier driven mad by the Dreadwyrm's aether. She attempted to fight the soldier to protect the wounded who were still fleeing, but Tayori was hit and flung backward 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 summoned the power of the Twelve to defeat the Primal, sacrificing his life in the process. The survivors of the battle awoke to an Eorzea forever changed by Bahamut's fury. Tayori, however, remained in a coma for six months after being tended to by chirurgeons and mages.When she finally awoke, Tayori was told that her actions during the battle had been noticed. In thanks for her deeds defending soldiers on the battlefield, she had demonstrated extraordinary skill with her astrology, alchemy, conjury, and aetherial abilities, particularly her talent for strengthening those around her while tending to the wounded. She was offered enlistment into the Order of the Twin Adders. Tayori hesitated at first, unsure of accepting the offer, as that meant she would be abandoning her family's business in the Far East to become part of an organization in Eorzea. She was uncertain how her father would take it, though she knew her grandfather would certainly be furious. It did not take long for her to reach a decision, however. She readily accepted the Elder Seedseer's offer to join the Order of the Twin Adders and, with her healing capabilities, skill with potions, herbs, and alchemy, and her unusual Echo, she rose through the ranks of the Adders relatively quickly, eventually becoming a Serpent Captain.For her accomplishments while handling the missions assigned to her with skill and expertise, the Elder Seedseer wanted to thank her personally once again. It happened to be in the presence of two Scions of the Seventh Dawn agents who were attending a meeting to discuss other matters with the Seedseer, one of whom just so happened to recognize her. Papalymo was the one who remembered 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. When Tayori agreed to meet them in Vesper Bay, she discovered that several of the legendary members of the Circle of Knowing she had heard rumors about during her childhood exchange program in Old Sharlayan had joined this new organization. Young and inexperienced as she was, the Scions recognized her goodwill and opened their arms to her anyway, and from that point on, she became a member of the Scions in addition to her position as a Captain of the Twin Adders.Her journey with the Scions consisted of supporting them in defeating the XIVth Legion by helping halt Gaius van Baelsar during the massive mission titled Operation: Archon, where she was responsible for supporting the wounded and helping manage supplies. Afterward, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn were invited to a celebratory banquet held in Ul'dah in their honor, and Tayori was invited by proxy. The gathering served as the scene of a diabolical conspiracy plot masterminded by a member of the Syndicate, who orchestrated the attempted assassination of the Sultana by poisoning her wine and blaming the crime on the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. In the ensuing chaos, Tayori was forced to flee with the small group of Scions that remained, eventually retreating to Coerthas, where they were given sanctuary by one of the high houses of Ishgard, House Fortemps.In order to see her father and grandfather again, Tayori doubled down and helped the Scions free Doma from Garlean rule, becoming an active participant in the main events of Stormblood. She assisted from the sidelines in uniting the Xaela tribes of Othard and defeating the acting Imperial Viceroy of Doma, Yotsuyu goe Brutus. With the apparent death of their acting leader, the remaining Garlean forces retreated, and Doma was finally free of Imperial rule. After Doma was liberated, Tayori was given a special pass into Koshu in acknowledgment of her deeds, which she used to confront her grandfather in person, Hiromitsu Kudoyuki, head of the Kudoyuki family. She stood her ground and demanded that he acknowledge her as the rightful heir. Her grandfather had no choice but to accept her in recognition of her skill and achievements. Her father willingly stepped down as heir and gave his responsibilities over to his daughter, proud of the woman she had become. Yet her work was not done. Tokuda bid her return to Eorzea and finish her work with her new merry band of friends within the Scions while he managed the family's clients in Hingashi on her behalf. Tayori returned to Eorzea to assist the Scions in protecting the rest of the realm from the Garlean Empire and continued their campaign through the conflicts that followed, helping save the world alongside the people she had come to regard as family.After the Final Days were thwarted and the Scions eventually disbanded after saving the world, Tayori's mother's illness became the source of a new lifelong obsession, finding a cure for aetherspurn. She began a full investigation now that she had more time to spend researching when she was 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 chirurgeons throughout western Eorzea, or treating private clients and patients on her family's island or at their own residences if they could not afford to travel. This became how she spent her days, moving from one mission to the next with her squadron, from one client to the next, mixing potions for her family's business, and, whenever she had downtime, foraging for ingredients, concocting remedies, and researching aether to solve the mystery that had killed her mother. She regularly sent her findings and reports back to her father in Hingashi, as well as alchemists in Thavnair and professors in Old Sharlayan who had agreed to assist 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 demanded 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 was constantly sending her prospective marriage suitors and demanding her return to Kugane to attend dinners and meet-ups that she artfully avoided by being busy. It was another reason why she kept herself busy, to avoid getting hitched before achieving her goals.Woe is Tayori.

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