Zuhrovet Sikandaret

Zuhrovet Sikandaret (Sasha) (born c. 200, subjective age 27) is an information security specialist in the Rebellion.

Family and early life

Sasha was born on Naxarat, of mixed Naxorian and Kirrish heritage. Her parents divorced when she was 19. She has one full sibling, a brother 10 years younger than her, and one half-sibling on her father's side whom she has never met. She remains attached to her childhood nanny, an ethnically Kirrish woman, and occasionally corresponds with her.

Sasha's father and mother both held partial shares in Fountain House, and she retains a 5/8 share. Her father had made significant investments in rail transit as part of his Fountain House activities; Sasha grew up on her father's estate near a mountain pass. The pass gave access to an area mined for rare minerals. As a child, Sasha participated in Junior Mining Engineers, a Naxorian leadership program designed to prepare participants for a future supervisory role in the mines. Surviving records describe her as mechanically adept but prone to conflict with the other children.

Exotic abilities and heretical beliefs

Sasha is, on average, luckier than she ought to be; the effect is particularly noticeable when she is under heightened stress or engaged in games of chance. Though it is not entirely under her conscious control, Sasha can manipulate this ability to some extent by using her knowledge of Kirrish folklore and calendrical traditions.

Sasha has also been influenced by Naxorian religion, although she identifies as an atheist. This influence is most obvious in her choice of profanity and her adherence to the pre-conquest Naxorian tradition of covering one's hair in public.

Heptarchate and Rebellion

At the age of 18, Sasha traveled to the heptarchate and applied for Nirai training. She failed the entrance exam three times, after pointing out significant errors in the problems posed. She then joined a private information security firm as an analyst.

Agents of the Rebellion posing as foreign diplomats contracted with Sasha's firm for security protection and local intelligence. After serving as a liaison for several missions and deducing part of the agents' true identity, Sasha volunteered to become an agent herself.

Hobbies

Sasha is interested in mathematical models for cryptography. In her spare time she has pursued hobbies such as birding, watching frogs and salamanders, karaoke, weightlifting, and marksmanship.

Signifier

Sasha's signifier is Broken-Winged Moth. This signifier is common among Nirai who lack access to social or intellectual community.

Life Lessons

Sasha has learned the following (not comprehensive) list of facts about other humans through trial and error:

• Don't lecture people about probability while you're beating them at jeng-zai.
• Do not make an eight-item report to members of the heptarchate.
• Do not use your security skills to read the personal records of people whom you find attractive.