Tristan Liferiver

Tristan as Tam-illee

Zafiil's contact in Hold 9 when she arrives in Akana Ris.

Appearance and Personality

A silver Chatcaavan male with bright blue eyes.

Known Shapes

• Tam-illee: A silver Tam-illee male with summer blue eyes. He has a white patch over his throat and chest, a white tail tip, and some darker streaks in his hair/on his eyebrows but is otherwise uniform in color. On the shorter side, at about 5'8". Appears to be in his early 30s.

Biography

Tristan and Zafiil, in the Akana Ris system.

Born to a Chatcaavan system lord, who had several females (and therefore, many children; Tristan speaks of "brothers" who "loved power" as his sire did ). He left with his mother and two siblings when his sire's abuse of his mother finally crystallized all his discontent with the Chatcaavan way of doing things. They escaped to Akana Ris, after which Tristan learned to take a Pelted shape and left to be educated in the Alliance.

At the time of Zafiil's arrival to Akana Ris, Tristan is masquerading as a Tam-illee in FIA, working as a linguist.

Timeline

• He's born 142 BA, and is 17 years old when the Alliance and the Chatcaavan Empire sign the treaty.
• Three years later (about), he escapes with his mother and goes to the Academe to join Fleet, so maybe early 20s (162ish BA).
• He's in his early 30s when he meets Zafiil in around 175 BA.
• He has to "die" before his lifespan runs out in order to maintain his cover, so he retires from Fleet in his 60s, tells Fleet he wants to remain on Akana Ris (which is where he's told them he was born), and goes into hiding. That would be around 205 BA. At that point he takes on a new shape in order to resume helping refugees fleet the Empire.
• He's in his early 100s when Zafiil dies, and entrenched in his new (and more dangerous) work, which he does from a different part of Akana Ris to keep his family safe. (Around 250 BA)
• He lives to hear about the Faulfenza formally joining the Alliance (at 311 BA), at which point he is around 150ish. He meets Daqan not long after.
• He dies at 230ish years old, in 391 BA.

Quotes

• "I wish you had arrived anywhere else. The Alliance has so many wonderful worlds and places to see. This is not one of them."

Trivia

• Learned some limited Faulfenzair body language signs from Zafiil.