Sword Dancer

Sword Dancer is a loose English translation of a nickname, Rjyhdjhe Chjehzzgo, given to Kihzra in her native land, Ahm Brunof, which is on a parallel Earth. Her full true name is Kihzra zge Pfarokof Jungrejhe Ezhgjugho Jhorbaghof Ahjum Brunof zgyzge Brunof Qakedof Ksahrzosktsahkof ("Kihzra, daughter of Pfarok and Jungre, from the city of Jhorbagh in Ahm Brunof, descendant of King Brun Sorcererbane"), but most people find "Kihzra" hard enough to pronounce. Kihzra is a dancer (after her mother) and a swordswoman (after her father), and combines the two for a unique fighting style. Though her attitudes are often quite alien, she seems to have fallen on the side of the heroes in Colonial Bay.

Description
As Sword Dancer: Kihzra is a woman in her twenties, 5'9" in height, with a lithe, athletic, and aesthetic figure. Her eyes are blue and her flowing hair orange. She bears herself in a confident manner, while being always light on her feet.

These things alone might make her stand out, but not as much as the fact that she's wearing a bikini of mail, and little else: a pair of sandals with straps wrapped up her calves, earrings, a necklace, and some intricate golden armbands. Strapped over her shoulder, if not in her hand, is a long, curved sword.

As Kihzra: Kihzra is a woman in her early twenties, 5'9" in height, with a lithe, athletic, and aesthetic figure. Her eyes are blue and her flowing hair orange. She bears herself in a confident manner, while being alway light on her feet.

She generally wears some sort of short, tight top and shorts, or sometimes a skirt, sandals, earrings, a necklace, and some intricate golden armbands. She carries a long cylindrical bag over her shoulder.

Origin
Kihzra's origin is a bit unclear, largely because she's presumably the only person around from her world, and initially her English hasn't been good enough to explain. She is from a parallel Earth, Earth-946 seemingly from a relatively low-technology culture but one in which there is magic, or at least is believed to be. She has mentioned that on her father's side her family are swordsmen back to "King Brun Sorcerer-Slayer", and that her mother's family were dancers back many generations. Both her parents are dead.

She was sent to this world be a sorcerer named Ghravvruhs who killed her father and his tribe (her mother's death seems to have been from another cause). She was determined to get back home and seek revenge on the sorcerer.

(Kihzra does not know her date of birth beyond year and season, but for purposes of keeping track of her age it is November 5th, 2032.)

Powers
It's not exactly clear if Kihzra has any true superpowers. To be sure, she's an extremely graceful athlete and superb swordswoman, capable of making a sword dance about her with a speed an accuracy to be wondered at, but normal humans sometimes seem to be able to reach "metahuman" levels of ability with enough training. That said, she managed to learn, with Eleven's help, to deflect bullets with her sword with only a couple of week's training, which suggests she's not quite a normal human. For that matter, her habit of walking around in skimpy clothing even in cold weather suggests she's a little more hardy than most people.

Personality
Kihzra is cautious, but confident and determined, even grimly so. She aspires to being a hero in the model of her legendary ancestor Brun, though the suspicious scepticism which is a so important to survival in her homeland is ingrained. Though normally serious, at times she lets a more playful side come through.

Kihzra mistrusts any "sorcery", including anything that shouldn't work by physical laws as she understand them, which includes most high tech ("teknorjhih"); she is having some difficulty getting used to this earth, physically and culturally. She generally has a preference for traditional methods and material, and tends to eschew (not to mention break) machinery. She's generally wary of anyone she doesn't know personally to be honorable, too.

Relations
Kihzra doesn't seem to have formed any close friendships in Colonial Bay, though she seems eager to help out heroes as need be. Early on she was closest to Fate and Dancing Coyote, who had the means to speak to her, and she seemed to get along fairly well with Eleven, too, but these connections have faded somewhat since she moved to her own apartment. She and the sorcerer Ghravvruhs are sworn enemies - though now they have made a truce.

History
Kihzra appeared in the middle of a street in Colonial Bay in late May, 2056. Despite some initial difficulties (chiefly not speaking any known language) she managed, with the help of various heroes, to get on her feet. She took a job as a dancer at The Fallen Angel, a private club adjoining Serafino's restaurant in Colonial Bay's yacht club, and lived in an attic apartment above a restaurant in west Ming Street.

In the summer of 2058 Alex Winters had determined how to reach Earth-946, and an expedition was launched to stop Ghravvruhs from attacking Kihzra and endangering Colonial Bay. Kihzra was somehow lost in yet another dimension, and the expedition ended in an unhappy agreement with once the the sorcerer's underlings.

Kihzra however somehow managed to return to her home by herself. By this point the prophecy that she would be Ghravvruhs's downfall had become known, in consequence of which those opposed to the sorcerer's rule gathered about her. But the war between these forces and the sorcerer's was bloody, for both sides. And so Kihzra proposed a truce: she would go into exile on Earth-1 and never bother the sorcerer again if he would withdraw from Ahm Brunof. Ghravvruhs accepted, and Kihzra was returned to Earth-1 in November 2060.

Kihzra briefly made her new home in Colonial Bay, this time as an immigrant, not an exile, but soon was taken by wanderlust, and left to explore Earth more. She returned to Colonial Bay in the autumn of 2065.

Language
Kihzra spoke only her native language when she first arrived in Colonial Bay, but she now speaks enough English to get by, if with a thick accent.