Nira Meadows

Past

Born to parents who immigrated from Limsa Lominsa to Garlemald during the industrial revolution, Nira spent her early years roaming the streets and back alleys of the great capitol when she wasn't helping in her parents' workshop where they fabricated components for magitek equipment. When she came of age, like most citizens, she enlisted for Imperial military service and was assigned to an experimental division of the forces created to test prototypes designed by Midas Garlond. She was trained to wear a magitek exoskeleton suit of armor and serve as heavy ground infantry in the Armored Division of the IVth Imperial Legion, enabling the Empire's various conquests.

Nira spent years killing, maiming, and destroying in the Empire's name believing it was for 'the greater good.' On the front lines at the Battle of Carteneau, Nira watched in horror as Dalamud loomed in the crimson skies and Bahamut rained fire down upon the land, threatening to destroy everything. As she saw everyone she knew dying in the chaos, utterly in vain, the realization sank in that she had unknowingly allied herself with those bent on destroying the world.

Knocked unconscious and nearly killed by a shard of the falling meteor, she awoke the next day amidst pile of ash and rubble, her suit of armor crushed and broken--it was the only thing that had kept her alive. Though she rose up from the flames of destruction on that day, her life and identity were now just as shattered as Eorzea itself. In the wake of the Calamity, who or what was she supposed to be?

Present

After the Calamity, Nira spent years wandering the continent, filled with scorn and guilt about the atrocities she'd been complicit in bringing about. She eventually settled in the tranquil forests of Gridania, sleeping among the trees since she was penniless and had been thrown out on the street one too many times whenever others learned of her past Empire affiliations. Listless and disheartened, she began taking contracts from the Adventurers' Guild to pay for her food and clothing. Finding stability and purpose in mercenary work, a new idea took form for her and she has set to the task of repairing her ruined suit of magitek armor, but this time she intends to use it to try and offset the long list of wrongdoings in her life.

Fierce, loyal, and lovingly sarcastic, Nira is a force to be reckoned with despite the fact that she comes in a deceptively small miqo'te package.