Happy STS! Now that you've posted an intro/masterpost I feel more comfortable asking, who are Kai and Tharra? Thinking of the "WED 5" post from a few days ago... are they humans, spirits, reincarnations?
OMG! A great question. In short, Kai and Tharra are the deuteragonists of the novel(s). As of TA2605 (the start of the first novelβs main events),
Kai is a temple child raised by the warrior slavemonks of Hachiman in Kyo. At 19 (in our years β Xian years are longer), sheβs supposed the have committed and sold herself to the temple to become a proper slavemonk for almost a year, but sheβs been putting it off for Trans Reasons.
Tharra is a Eutopian soldier posted at a trading town just across the border from those weird zealots. At 21 sheβs worked as a translator on various fronts, but she only just arrived to Kyo and hasnβt quite gotten her footing yet. Which makes it all the more distressing when she has to betray her legion and desert, bringing the ongoing war to their little Kana valley.
As for reincarnation β well, none of that stuff is quite clear in the novelβ¦ but you can interpret what I put in the WEDs however you want ;)
(Btw what is STS? Thanks for whatever that is either way!)
