#rixia

The Wonder Chef, Rixy Sylwest, is absolutely not a sylph. She’s absolutely not the sylph Rixia who left the Sylphlands shortly after the Calamity over ideological differences about the presence of Ramuh in the Shroud. She’s certainly not using an advanced form of glamour to morph herself into an Elezen every morning and work as a cook for the Bandee Pakshee. What would make you think all that?

Other than it being painfully, obviously true.

Rixy is, therefore, shockingly naive. She just doesn’t get most of the world of the walking ones, but tries so hard to fit in with them. She wants to be adopted by this alien culture, to be deeply and truly a part of it, because the walking world is her home now. And because it’s much harder to be a part of that world if she doesn’t adapt to it culturally. But this naivety is almost as glaring as her Sylphic grammar and has been taken advantage of on more than a few occasions. An early employer paid her in square yalms of ocean, for instance.

But despite this, the thing Rixy is most passionate about and most talented in is cooking. She believes that food is the greatest insight into a culture. What things it values, what things it delights in, what things it dislikes can all be understood at least partially through its food. And by sharing in another culture’s food you can see their humanity. All walking ones must eat, and so food is a great equalizer. She delights in making eclectic menus that represent a wide and diverse global palate and her skills with the skillet have been recognized far and wide, including as a finalist in Iron Chef Eorzea.