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Crada Jokai
Profile: Hailing from the to-do nation of Amadicia, Craed Jobri is a mild-mannered people person with a kind heart and soft tone. Craed ties his deep brown hair into a short tail at the nape of his neck, leaving wispy bangs over his forehead to help cover his eyes, developing his shy demeanour. By a womanÕs standards, Craed would be considered to be extremely attractive, resulting in many self-invitations of young women to dinner in his home where his parents delight in setting up match-making meetings. Schooled in the art of business-making, Craed works for his father as a clerk in one of the stores that the Jobri family owns. This particular shop is a supplier of ornamental furniture and minor trinkets that most people would regard as antiques. This suits Craed well, providing him with a peaceful atmosphere that allows him to remain calm and collected. He is extremely fluent in speech and very articulate. He has the annoying habit of correcting others when they speak will bad grammar or ill manner, though when he does he gets embarrassed and apologises immediately. In fact, he apologises for things that arenÕt even his fault! He has never been in a ÔrelationshipÕ before, despite his parentsÕ attempts to organise such things and he has no real intention of starting any anytime soon. Biography: With both his parents working in the Children-ridden capitol of Amador, it is no surprise that the Jobris are of conservative decent and law-abiding citizens. As such, they are held in high regard with merchants and minor nobles, allowing them freedom enough to not worry about the hands of the Children. Craed led a perfectly normally childhood with his older sister, Kara, and found himself growing into the young, capable business man that had been destined for him since birth.While his studies were coming along exceptionally well and he was ready to take up standing with other clerks in his fatherÕs businesses at the age of fourteen, not much could be said for his sister. Her concentration and will to become the noble woman that she aspired to be waned and collapsed on itself during this time and on her twentieth name-day the reasons for this became startlingly apparent. A single, hastily scrawled letter was left behind on the day that Kara Jobri disappeared, but its message was so clear and horrific that it was burned upon the moment it was read: ÔI am leaving like this because any other way might bring pain on you all. I need to be in Tar Valon with other people like me. I will love you always. Kara.ÕCraedÕs parents immediately wove stories of their daughterÕs emigration to Cairhein, claiming that she was to marry a handsome noble there and that her life in Amadicia was left behind for good. Many people congratulated the girlÕs parents on this ÔwonderfulÕ news but Craed kept his feelings to himself. He was scared. If even one hint of his sisterÕs true reasons for departure came into the open, he would be forced to flee also. Him and his parents both. After all, the Children did not take kindly to family of the ÔTar Valon witchesÕ. Since then, five years have passed and no letters have reached the Jobri family despite tens of them being sent in the hope of finding their estranged daughter and sister. Craed is a man of reason and logic, though not a slave to it, and calmly addresses his life with the steady hand of any successful businessman. However, inside his skin, the young man is constantly petrified. In fear of the Children of the Light discovering his missing sisterÕs identity and bringing down unjust chaos on his family, Craed began doing what careful research he could into what the White Tower stood for and how his sister may be faring so far from her family. Once tales of men channelling reached Amadicia and he discovered that channelling tends to run in families, Craed made a swift exit from Amador and Amadicia. The chance to leave came to him much faster than he had thought in the form of his father sending him to take a business order from a merchant in Murandy. However, Murandy was not the young manÕs destination. Travelling hard and fast with the little coin he had managed to bring together while working as a clerk in one of his fatherÕs many stores, Craed found himself at the doors of the Grey Tower, asking to be tested for the ability to channel. Once there, however, his immediate action was not to ask them to test him, but to inform him of his sisterÕs condition. The name ÔKara JobriÕ, however, was not among the Novices for the past ten years. Determined to discover the truth about his sisterÕs location, Craed was subsequently tested and enroled with the Soldiers of the AshaÕman and not a moment to soon, for in this mild teen was the spark of a man who would have started to channel at some point whether he liked it or not. Immediately, he changed his name, casting aside his old shell of a life in the hope that his parents would not fall foul of the Children, should they learn of his Power-weilding abilities. Surprisingly, his natural fear of saidin from being raised in Amador evaporated when he learned of his condition and now he is focused on his own future. The future of Crada Jokai.
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