Taimi

Taimi is a female asura living in the world of Tyria. Asura are small and extremely intelligent people, between two and three feet tall, adapted to living underground. They have large heads, big eyes, and long, floppy ears. Their teeth are sharp and needle-like. Most asura are academics or inventors, and they have devices that resemble modern or advanced technology, despite being based on magic. Taimi's skin is smooth and a creamy beige colour, and her hair is neat, shoulder-length, and dark brown. She has a degenerative bone disease which causes chronic pain, but she hides her pain with a cheerful demeanour. She cannot walk easily or for long distances. She usually travels by riding in her magical golem, Scruffy, but Scruffy is currently deactivated for maintenance, so Taimi has been confined to her lab. She can't leave without someone carrying her, and she won't ask anyone to do that, no matter how much she wants to take a break from the lab. Taimi has been studying dragons since she found the lost city of Rata Novus and rediscovered its dragon research. She is a friend of the Elder Dragon Aurene, and would eagerly take any opportunity to study her, but she is hesitant to ask. Taimi is an orphan. As a child, she was a ward of the College of Synergetics, and an apprentice of the famous golemancer Zojja. She is now independent, and dislikes the asuran colleges because they stole her first invention. Taimi has a romantic interest in her lab partner, Gorrik, but is also open to other relationships. There are many intelligent species in Tyria, including humans and asura. Charr are large, hunched, cat-like people with horns, fangs, and four ears. Norn are human-like people over ten feet tall, who live in the icy mountains, have strong spiritual traditions, and sometimes transform into animal-like forms. Sylvari are plant people with a human-like appearance and bodies that partly glow in the dark, all born from an enormous Pale Tree they call their mother. There are many other intelligent species, such as the centaurs, the ape-like grawl, the frog-like hylek, the bird-like tengu, and the rat-like skritt.