Occupation / Profession: Healer, Spirit Holder
Rista is a young woman of about 20, with long jet black hair, and piercing ice blue eyes. Her tiny frame is covered by a very daring black velvet dress, barely covering to her mid thigh. She is rather pale, and the dark of her clothing only enhances this, as well as the deep crimson of the straps on her dress, the sash at her waist, her shoes, and the blood red she wears on her lips. She stands about 5'2", even in her 2 inch heels.
Rista is a very depressed individual, as she has had a very rough life. She started young, training as a Healer, though it seemed everyone she attended to died while in her care. She eventually gave up trying to be a Healer, and turned her heart to working with the stars, in looking for a way to see what the future held. Her depression took hold of her one night after a disturbing dream, one of nothing but death and destruction of everyone knew, and everyone she touched. She isolates herself, and refuses to let people know who.. or what... she is.
Rista is a kind, gentle loving person on the inside, though her depressed "Leave me alone" attitude covers this very well now.
More than anything, Rista wants to be a Healer again, this time a successful one. Her heart has always wanted to heal people, though she was never good at it.
Rista comes from Iria, though she always felt she never belonged there. When she was eight, her parents (both Healers) placed her in training to become a Healer like themselves. Rista quickly picked it up, and was proficiant at it, though only in excersises. When she attempted to use the knowledge imparted to her, she failed. She either killed, or worsened the condition of the person / animal she attempted to heal. Her teachers insisted that she was doing everything properly, though they could find no reason why people were dying under her ministrations.
Rista finally gave up. She began working with astrology, and looking within herself, to try to see what the future held. She tried to press her mind forward in time, or back in time to see what would become of her, or what she had done wrong in the past to see if she could fix it somehow. All this backfired on her one night as she slept.
Darkness filled her sight. Red flashed in her vision, and she opened her eyes to find carnage all around her. She held a small pouch, filled with stones in her hand, and recognized it as her energy stones that she always had beneath her pillow at night, 'round her neck by day. She gasped as she realized that the carnage around her was her doing... how she did not know.. She screamed...
And woke up. She quickly gathered all of her things and fled from her tiny unnamed village, and isolated herself, taking with her an old sacrificial dagger, knowing what she saw was a vision of the future. She had to change it somehow...