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  BIOGRAPHY    Born in the coldness of the Skatay range but the warmth of the Himnariki clan, Halastja spend the first few day of her life roaming freely in the mountains. This idyllic existence was however, troubled by two things: The shadow of the war in Dalmasca, resulting in drones and soldier scouting near the frontiers, and the fragile health of her younger sibling, Ansar. Thus, her mom decided to escape, running and hiding until a limsan merchant escaping from the agitation took her and her kits in his boat. This skilled navigator named Rashimir took them all under his wing, acting as surrogate father to Deneb. Once in Aleports, where Rashimir hailed from, her mom started to work as a waitress in the tavern until the owners died and she took over.Ostracized by the kids not used to see a viera in those days, she plunged herself into books, reading anything she could get. She developped a fascination with myths, folklore and the old ways of eorzean. The young girl used it to help her brother often bedridden brother to escape reality. And maybe she did, too. It's how she learned the power of histories, the lessons you can learn from years pasts and how important none of it goes to waste.When of age, Deneb left Aleports with already solid base in arcanism, thanks to all the reading. The guild refined her knowledge, and being a gifted practioner of magic, she went and became a travelling adventurer. Quickly, she found her niche into finding and reselling rare artefacts to collectors and researchers, having the eye to discern the era, rarity and use of an old object. She used the money to get certificate at Sharlayan, hoping for a more stable position now that she was growing older. That's how she crossed passed with the Sons of Saint coinach, who gave her a permanent position as an archeologist and historian in her 60s. She worked roughly 15 years for them, and still take missions for this organization to this day. That's how she gained a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of anything Allgan related, fascinated by the lessons the fall of this civilisation left them with.With her reputation now preceeding her in the scholar of history circles, Y'mitra found her a perfect candidate for the recently uncovered art of summoning. That's how she noticed the occasional headaches and visions of the past she got reading recollection from the past wasn't normal. She had the Echo. Altho, a very subpar form of it, only allowing her to see flashes of the long gone when reading testimonies of it. Shaken by this news, this is how she ended up wrapped into the scions of seventh dawn, who kept giving her regular missions of managing their archives and researching others. An echo haver is always useful to them... It's also how with their help, she ended up in Ishgard to write a book about dragon's culture for the scholasticate after the war. Or how she saw the devastation of Garlemald when helping with the tower of Babil. She's still a bystander of history, not being of importance beside her gift.Nowadays, she's spending her time as a freelancer historian/archivist to hire, writing scientific articles or giving conferences. When not over burdened by work, she's accumulating everything about vieran culture to keep under lock and keys, courtesy of the green word traditions. Just in the case her whole species fall, so their ways and wisdom are never to be forgotten...