Moto Naleesh

Naleesh was the first child of Unicorn Khan Moto Chen and his wife Akasha. Her name is a naga word meaning "little precious treasure". She was near one year old when Akasha met for a second time Yoritomo Bunmei in 1168.

Shono's Daughter
Akasha saved Shinjo Shono's daughter, Shinjo Min-Hee, to be kidnapped by a Ninube. Ninube Chochu was seeking the reincarnation of the Kami Shinjo to take her life and gain the power of a goddess. It was not clear if Chochu was seeking Min-Hee, or Naleesh, who was the true reincarnation of Lady Shinjo.

Demeanor
Like most Moto, she enjoyed horseback riding and worshipped the Lords of Death. She was an eager student, but also stubborn and willful, getting into arguments with her sensei almost daily. She had a reputation for embarrassing young men unprepared for her innocent boldness.

War of Dark Fire
In 1171 after the Battle of Shiro Utaku Shojo, the last battle in Unicorn lands of the War of Dark Fire, Chen and Naleesh attended the ceremony where Utaku Yu-Pan became the Utaku Daimyo after the death of Utaku Xieng Chi during the fight.

Naleesh bethrothal
Naleesh, only months past gempukku moved to Dragon lands alomgside with her father. Chen made an arrangement with them and proposed a marriage to honor it. Naleesh was wandering out of the castle where she met Mirumoto Mareshi's son, and future Dragon Clan Champion, Mirumoto Shikei. She did not know that her father had bethrothed the boy with her at that time. He later felt genuine love and affection for Naleesh, but neither were willing to leave their clan for the other's, and the wedding remained at bay.

Unicorn Champion
Naleesh was revealed as the reincarnation of the Kami Shinjo and became the Unicorn Clan Champion. She did not bore the Khan title, which passed to Shinjo Shono's daughter, and her childhood friend Shinjo Min-Hee.

Colonies
A regular schedule of caravans departed from the Western Steppes in the Outsider Keep, crossed the Western Wastes, and reached the Second City, the metropolis in the Colonies. It was a dangerous path, were raiders attacked the travelers in the Wastes. She decreed these strange warriors were not to be studied, but rather that they and all their trappings were to be incinerated after defeat.

Akasha disappears
Her parents had retired, and Chen became an old man with a young wife, because Akasha did not aged as humans. In 1198 Akasha disappeared from the estate where they lived and no trace was found. Shinjo Junpei, the military adjunct to the magistrates for the purpose of this investigation, told more disappearances had happened as Mirumoto Mareshi, father of her bethrothed Mirumoto Shikei, or the destruction of the Naga Embassy.