Za

= Appearance =

Height: 7'8''

Age: Claims to be 40-45, documentation makes age 70-80 depending on sources (?)

Weight: 350 lbs.

Hair: Dyed White

Eyes: Black sclera, yellow iris

Skin/fur color: Dark blue, almost grey.

Tattoos: Stylized jaguar spots over shoulders to the shoulder blade. Veve of Mueh'zala and Samedi on the inside of bicep. Full facial tattoo, death head of a Samedi (Samdi) priest. Pictograms and geometric rings from wrist to elbow. Snake and lightning bolt motif on the side of his neck. Mark of Fon pictogram between upper shoulder blades, and a highly stylized scroll-style illustration of Papa Ghede (Gede), Samedi, and Mueh'zala on his back.



= History =

Early
Cho'wa of Zuldazar (b. -42, d. 40) served tirelessly in the role of ambassador to the outlying tribes, born into a prestigious line of Zandalari trolls. After one particularly lengthy stay in Zul'farrak during the Festival season, Cho'wa boarded a ship destined for the home island of Zuldazar, heavily laden with gifts and winnings from the Sandfury tribe. Amongst his spoils was several Sandfury slaves, one of which was heavily pregnant. She had been a extremely early present to the ambassador, presented as a chamber servant upon his entry into the City of Sands.

The slave girl gave birth to a son early before arrival in Zuldazar. Upon the ship's landing, Cho'wa and his household entourage travelled to Zuldazar, the capitol. The child- one of many of Cho'wa's bastards- was taken to the other mountain of the great island, the snowy Mount Mugamba. In a village just below the tree-line, the whelp was raised. The unnamed settlement was primarily a small training outpost for the Rasta'shi (Warrior Caste), about as far away from Zuldazar one could get.

As was customary with the mix of Zandalari and ice trolls in that village, the boy was merely referred to as Whelp or Boy before his whelping day. At some point he was bestowed the name Zha, which meant Little One, Whelp or, just as easily, Of Dirt. He was the smallest of a small group of juvenile boys in the village, being half-Sandfury, and his mixed heritage gave him a very strange coloration, a splotchy blue-brown.

When eighteen and as part of his whelping trials, Zha pledged himself to the service of the Loa Ghede, benign aspect of Samedi. His name changed, subtly, to Zii, which means 'Friend.'

-This is where Cho'wa forgot about checking on the progress of his bastard son. For thirty years Zii's history is unknown. The next mention of him in writing is a census of households in Zuldazar that lists him as Za'zii, Rasta'shi- Three wives, three sons.

The year of 40 saw the destruction of the entire Cho'wa household by illness, a strange trembling fever that killed most of his servants, six of Zii's seven legitimate half-brothers (The seventh, Kanji, was away from Zuldazar for his whelping trial and spared from sickness.) The year also saw Zii's dismissal from the Rasta'shi elite guard and arrest, shortly after the death of his father. After a short imprisonment his execution is reported, his name listed with 5 other criminals.

Reappearance
A Za'zii is listed in the payrolls of Juju's Nightclub LLC, Main Branch, Gadgetzan, earliest mention being one year after the execution of Zii. For ten years the cartel branch that operated Juju's Nightclub kept records of Za'zii working in various capacities- bouncer, bartender, 'event coordinator'.

Current
Za lives in the mountains buttressing the northern edge of Feralas. He is listed as a member of a small auxillary unit organized under Garrosh Hellscream's standing army.

= Character =

Za has an extremely short temper. In social situations he tends to be loud and boisterous. He's quick to smile, but also very easily become sullen and withdrawn. Marked with all the trappings of a man who has dedicated his life to the service of Samedi/Samdi, he is almost as lecherous and shameless as his Loa, though he has enough social graces to curtail it in civilized company. Depending on the situation his affectation can swing from oafish to cunning.

His alignment is Lawful Evil.