Nyala
Overview
Nyala is a Lyra Alterer and performer known for skating tricks combined with portal generation abilities. She was a childhood friend of Auraq (Awmar) before their estrangement following the death of Auraq’s mother.
Early Life
During childhood, Nyala and Awmar (later known as Auraq) would sneak into Awmar’s father’s costume studio to take fantastical clothing designs. Together they dreamed up performances, forming a duo and vowing to create their first show as a team. They spent hours devising scenarios, practicing steps, reciting lines, and juggling.
Nyala developed her Alteration powers first and teased Awmar about his slower progress. However, after Awmar’s mother died, their friendship faltered. Nyala was unsure how to help as Awmar withdrew into guilt, and she kept her distance. A mutual unease grew into a wall between them, and their paths diverged.
While Auraq stepped into her mother’s role, Nyala began staging small shows independently. They observed each other from afar without sharing the stage. After finishing her studies, Nyala attempted to reconnect with Auraq but found Auraq had vanished without trace.
Performance Style
Nyala performs skating tricks with Mana rippling at her fingertips, generating portals that enable spectacular relocation abilities. Auraq dismisses her techniques as “country fair conjuring tricks” despite their visual impact.
Timeline
393 AC - Caer Oorun Performance
Nyala performed at the Kasirga Clan celebration marking Caer Oorun reclamation and expeditionary departure. During the evening performance, she lost control of a summoned flaming wyvern Eidolon that ignited stage drapes. Auraq intervened by singing haunting baroque opera while communicating with the creature through syncopated gestures. After an exchanged glance and nod, Nyala created a dimensional portal behind Auraq allowing her to command the wyvern into the gateway. Both performers collapsed from depleted Ignescence as the audience erupted believing it was a planned duet. They departed backstage separately without speaking.
393 AC - Ice Performance at Storvhit
Nyala performed skating tricks at Storvhit with Mana rippling at fingertips generating portals. Auraq watched the performance but dismissed the techniques despite their spectacular relocation abilities.
393 AC - Lake Ice Incident
During the frozen lake incident at Storvhit, Auraq chose to save children from breaking ice rather than warning Nyala who was skating. Nyala fell through the weakened ice. Subhash Kadis rescued her by sending Marmo into the water and summoning a Walrus Eidolon with sonar rig to locate her. Afterward, Subhash summoned Little Match Girl to comfort the traumatized Nyala.
393 AC - Scheduled at The Stage
Nyala was scheduled to perform at The Stage at The Screed outpost alongside Auraq and the band BLISS!.
Relationships
- Auraq: Childhood friend and former performance partner, later estranged; collaborated during wyvern incident at Caer Oorun (393 AC)
- Subhash Kadis: Axiom Exalt who rescued Nyala from frozen lake and comforted her with Little Match Girl Eidolon (393 AC)
- Marmo: Subhash Kadis’s Chimera who dove into icy water to rescue Nyala (393 AC)
- Little Match Girl: Eidolon summoned by Subhash Kadis to comfort Nyala after her ordeal (393 AC)
- BLISS!: Band scheduled to perform alongside Nyala at The Stage (393 AC)
- The Screed: Outpost where Nyala was scheduled to perform
- The Stage: Mobile performance venue at The Screed