Editing Campaign:Golby's Beautiful Placeholder/Xian-li (section)

=== Background ===
Xian-Li grew up in the Scavenger Lands as the only daughter of traveling merchant. Her mother was a well-known and respected courtesan, before paring off with Xian-Li's father.

Since she grew up between Nexus and Lookshy, she was exposed to a great many things, like wondrous technology of the First Age and the power of commerce. When Xian-Li was old enough, her mother enrolled her in an academy by name of The Tea House of Upright Social Bearing.... However... Xian-Li didn't live up to her name.  She was far too plain, ill-mannered, obstinate, and outright intelligent to be the demure kind of woman the academy was hoping to make out of her.

To put it far more bluntly, Xian-Li was an abysmal courtesan.

After leaving that 'school', Xian-Li ran for Great Forks, leaving her parents behind and enrolling in academies of Lore and Artifice and Sorcery. Due in part to her social alienation during her time at the courtesan academy, Xian-Li closed herself off, keeping to herself and her studies, most of the time focusing on her own pursuits and goals. This had the side effect of making her even worse at human interaction.

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This in turn led her further and further away, til at one point she braved the challenges of Denandsor, but only managed, like many others, to reach the outlying workshops. There she found her short daiklaves. It was then that she also decided. 'This city will be mine.'

Since then, she hasn't had much contact with her parents, but to her knowledge, are still doing well enough. She never knew her father that well, as he was often gone while managing his merchant caravans. Her mother was and still probably a consummate socialite. Xian-Li does harbor a fair degree lingering resentment in her parents for not understanding her, more so her mother than her father. Her parents did and still do love her, but they've never really understood each other either.

Seeing courtesans tend to remind Xian-Li of her mother. On the one hand, Xian-Li idolized her mother as a picture of grace and refinement, secretly envious of her overall poise and manner. But at the same time, was utterly incapable of understanding her mother when it came to social mores. This lack of understanding drove a wedge between them.

Xian-Li, after graduating from Great Forks, summarized her overall lot in life by saying "Learning was all I was good at, but at least I learned because I wanted to." Amending to that statement. "My mother does not care for it."

<!--- xian-li is the sniper, tell this to golby. Mother is the 'Father' from Meet the Sniper, Father is 'Mother' --->