Aiyana Flower-That-Blooms is a Dogwood Thought-crafter Brave in the Jamestown Settlement.
Overview[]
Because of her parents' employment as costumed interpreters for Jamestown Settlement's "Indian Village," Aiyana has spent most of her life near the homeland of her Powhatan ancestors. When, in her early teens, Aiyana discovered her Nunnehi heritage, she also realized that the sweat lodge; part of the "living history" exhibit, was actually a Nunnehi freehold, a place of cleansing, and a doorway into the spirit world.
As one of the thought-crafters, a Nunnehi tribe associated with the Powhatans and other Algonqins, Aiyana discovered her natural talent for herbal healing and for interpretive dancing. She soon joined her parents working for the Settlement. Her outgoing personality has made her a popular tour guide, although occasionally she gives demonstrations of early Powhatan gardening and agricultural techniques. Her touch evokes riotous growth in the plants she tends in the settlement gardens; a quality that led her to call herself Aiyana Flower-That-Blooms.
Aside from her talents in cultivating plants, she also touches minds and hearts through her interpretations of ancient times. Aiyana is much in demand to play the role of the famous Powhatan princess in vignettes based on the John Smith/Pocahontas story.
Although many of her fellow thought-crafters resent non-Nunnehi changelings, Aiyana believes that all the children of the Dreaming must learn to cooperate with each other. She sees herself as an ambassador to mortals and kithain. She has turned down opportunities to join raiding parties, saying that she is a planter of seeds, not a destroyer of dream-flowers.
Image[]
Aiyana is tall and willowy in her mortal seeming, not unlike the popular images of her illustrious ancestor, Pocahontas. While on the job, she dresses in traditional Powhatan garb. At other times, she wears comfortable clothing, usually with traditional-style jewelry she fashions herself. In her fae mien, she is even comelier; she decorates her face and arms with body paint in the way of her ancestors.
Personal[]
Aiyana is the embodiment of history; the story of her Powhatan ancestors and the story of her faerie kin. It is her responsibility to see that the tales of the past do not die and that the lessons of the past are allowed to fall in fertile soil and blossom. She enjoys meeting with mortals and non-Nunnehi; they are the ones who need her gifts the most.
References[]
- CTD. Kingdom of Willows, pp. 142-143.