Wei Shi Kelsa
| Wei Shi Kelsa | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Path | Path of the White Fox |
| Rank | Lowgold - foxfire tail goldsign |
| Faction | Twin Star Sect
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| First Appearance | Unsouled |
| Family | |
| Mother | Wei Shi Seisha |
| Father | Wei Shi Jaran |
| Siblings | Wei Shi Lindon |
| Home | Sacred Valley
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Wei Shi Kelsa was born in Sacred Valley into the Wei clan, the Shi family. She is the older sister of Wei Shi Lindon, who is the protagonist of the story. In book 1, Unsouled, she is an Iron on the Path of the White Fox.
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Clan
Kelsa is a member of the Wei Clan in Sacred Valley. Like everyone in her clan, she follows the Path created by the ancient clan co-founder, Elder Whisper. Her brother is Wei Shi Lindon. Her mother is Wei Shi Seisha, the clan soulsmith. Her honored father is Wei Shi Jaran. Kelsa is loyal to her clan and her family.
Appearance
Kelsa is tall and built along strong lines, like her whole family. However, she does not share Lindon’s intimidating appearance. She is lithe and graceful, with black hair. She always looks focused and attentive
Personality
Kelsa is the eldest child in the Shi family. She’s hardworking, honorable, and considered the first-born pride of her family. As a child, along with Lindon, she learned scripting from her mother, who also taught Lindon a bit about soulsmithing. She shared the sacred orus fruit with her younger brother when her parents felt it would be wasted on him ( Unsouled). Later, she takes care of her father when he is blind and lame, cares for the other exiles, and works hard to advance to a new Skyhunter Iron body.
"After a day of scavenging whatever she could, of taking care of exiles that weren’t even part of her clan, she had spent nights studying her Path manual and working on the one technique she’d ever learned." (Bloodline ch. 7)
Forthright
“Kelsa’s style had always been to deliver painful truth bluntly. A fast cut was cleaner.” (Bloodline, ch 7). She’s straightforward about her romantic interests, too. (Reaper)
Book Bios
Unsouled
Kelsa lives in the Wei clan along with the rest of the Shi family as a Copper on the Path of the White Fox. After Lindon returns with a sacred orus fruit, a spirit-fruit from an ancestral tree, the family argues for Kelsa to receive the whole fruit in order to advance her quickly to Iron in time for an upcoming tournament with the other clans of Sacred Valley. Kelsa instead divides the fruit in half, giving the other half to her younger and supposedly crippled brother, Lindon.
Days later, before the tournament, Kelsa advances to Iron while sparring with Lindon.
Underlord
It is revealed that Kelsa survived the destruction of the Wei clan. She is on the run, either by herself, or with a number of Wei clan survivors. She has been stealing food from the Heaven's Glory and Fallen Leaf Schools in order to survive.
While on the run from several hostile Irons, Kelsa encounters Orthos, who reveals that her brother is alive. Orthos then protects Kelsa from the pursuing Irons. Kelsa takes care of her blinded father, Wei Shi Jaran, and seeks her mother Wei Shi Seisha, who is hostage to the Heaven’s Glory School.
Uncrowned
Kelsa leads Orthos to where she and other exiles are hiding. Orthos tells her about Lindon's survival and she is surprised but happy. She introduces him to her father, Wei Shi Jaran, who is blind. Orthos then tells her Lindon's story.
Wintersteel
Orthos has retrained Kelsa, this time with a perfect Iron body (Skyhunter) and raised her to Jade. She is eager to go save her mother from Heaven's Glory, but Orthos is more hesitant. They then sense the Wandering Titan's awakening, and they come across Jai Long and Jai Chen
Bloodline
With guidance from Orthos, Kelsa rebuilds her Iron body into the Skyhunter Iron Body. Aided by Orthos, Jai Long and Jai Chen, she rescues her mother from Heaven’s Glory School, where she’s been forced to do soulsmithing for three years. (This occurs off-screen.) Then her brother arrives just in time to rescue them from numerous Heaven’s Glory jades. Finally, along with her mother and father, she moves to the Blackflame Empire with Lindon on Windfall, a cloudship.
Reaper
When the book begins, Kelsa and her parents are with Lindon and company in Refuge, in the Desolate Wilds. With advice from Lindon, and after sparring with Jai Long and Little Blue, Kelsa advances to Lowgold and acquires a goldsign — a foxtail of purple-white foxfire. She shows romantic interest in Jai Long and helps Jai Chen recruit and organize the Twin Star Sect. Later, her family settles in Serpent’s Grave, near the sect school building given by emperor Naru Huan. When the Blackflame Empire calls sacred artist to battle, she does her part against the Calling Storm Dreadgod cult on the mountains of Sacred Valley.
