Tori Quistfalk

Tori Quistfalk is the main protagonist, and only Warrior of Light of her canon. She is a Highlander-Elezen Gladiator with a strong affinity for magic. Tori trained at the Gladiator's Guild in Ul'dah under the guild leader Mylla Swordsong along with her adopted family, Riina Quistfalk and Taranis Miret-moor.

Born in Bittermill, Gyr Abania, and having lost both her parents to the Garlean Empire's occupation, Tori is a prominent member of the Ala Mhigan Resistance and currently lives in The Lavender Beds to be closer to the headquarters and to command her squadron.

She is engaged to Lyse Hext.

Appearance
Tori is a 6'6" 175 ponze highlander woman with black hair and yellow eyes. When she escaped from Ala Mhigo, Tori was slashed through her left eye and due to not getting proper healing in time, has a scar from her forehead to the tip of her nose and her eye is slightly whited out and she usually wears bangs to cover that eye. She is covered in freckles from head to toe, a trait she is slightly embarrassed about but as she grows older, learns to accept. Her eyebrows are super unruly and she has a slit through one of them. Her teeth are very sharp (as described by Lyse Hext) and Tori's body is also littered with scars that she won't let any healer fix them because she finds that each one has it's own story.

During her fight with Zenos yae Galvus in Rhalgr's Reach, Tori loses her right arm and gains an one of a kind Allagan prosthetic enhanced by Cid that stretches up to her mid-upper arm. The prosthetic itself is a shiny black with gold accents and works by channeling her aether into the device.

Personality
To any outsider, Tori seems aloof and closed off but in reality she is very welcoming and soft. She did not have much socialization outside the gladiators guild, so in most situations she can be a bit awkward— for example she gets very shy when someone tells her she is attractive. Her strong physical appearance contributes to her awkwardness. Tori is very loyal to those she cares about and when she gets comfortable with someone, she shows her truer personality. She likes to ramble on about the newest tomes she has read for her magical studies or crack really bad jokes.

Despite being hailed as the savior of the realm, Tori does not feel like she does enough for the people closest to her and tries to do small acts of kindness such as bringing flowers or cooking a meal to let them know she loves them.

Early Life
Tori was born in Bittermill, Gyr Abania to a Hyur Highlander mother and a pure-blooded Garlean Elezen father. Her mother Kaia was the daughter of a farmer and during the preliminary days of the Garlean occupation of Ala Mhigo, met Decimus lux Tirnisco and the two had Tori. When Garlemald fully subjugated the people of Ala Mhigo, Decimus was executed for his relationship, leaving Kaia to raise Tori by herself.

Tori does not remember much of her early childhood. She remembers the Garlean soldiers that reminded her of her father and always being hungry, but not much else. When she was four years old her mother took her aside and told her that she loved her very much and that she would always be proud of her. Tori was initially confused by her mother’s words but accepted them. She was not aware that Kaia along with the other parents of Bittermill had found plans for a tunnel to help their children escape under Baelsar's Wall and into The Black Shroud. The parents wanted to protect the children from the harsh experimentation and testing of the Black Rose chemical that were planned for the residents of the village. Under the guise of night, the children of Ala Mhigo were rushed into the tunnels while the older citizens fought tirelessly to fend off the Garlean soldiers trying to prevent their escape. Tori did as she was told and as she was escaping, she tripped and a soldier caught up to her. The soldier slashed her across the face but not deep as an Ala Mhigan man tackled him before the soldier could do more damage, resulting in her scar across her left eye and subsequent blindness in it.

The other children split up and Tori made it to Gridania and went to The Carline Canopy, where it just so happened that Riina Quistfalk was there finishing up an important liaison with the owner Mother Miounne. She came across Tori, a small child alone in the tavern and decided that she needed to do something to help her. Riina invited Tori to her inn room and helped clean up her eye but the damage was already done. After letting Tori rest for the night, Riina decided that she was going to take her under her care and bring her back to Ul'dah with her. Having nowhere else to go, Tori accepted and started training at the Gladiator's Guild and living with Riina. Being the youngest one in the guild, Tori quickly learned to fight and toughen up until she quickly became one of the more skilled fighters in the arena, her skills almost surpassing those of Riina herself.

When Tori was 16, Riina took another teenager under her tutelage, Taranis Miret-moor. Although the two did not get along at first, they quickly formed a close bond even if it does not look like it to others.