Name: Srirasmi Ballard-Whyte
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Country: British Empire
Appearance: Tall, slender and fit. Her red hair, green eyes and porcelain complexion reveal her mother's deep Irish roots.
Bio: Born to British aristocrats in Siam, Srirasmi is named for her parents' house girl and assistant. The earliest years of her life were spent in the Siamese jungle ruins her parents were studying. While most of her memories of these formative years are impressions of running, climbing and eating with the older Srirasmi, the time established her as an athletic, adventurous soul and taught her to speak Siamese.
When her father was called back to England during the Great War, Srirasmi found herself in a strange, alien land of petticoats, cruel daughters of petty English nobles and the raging Spanish flu that killed her mother. The brief stay was traumatic and Sri,though devastated by the loss of her mother, was glad to return to the lush green of her Siamese home.
At the end of the war her father rejoined her in Siam and they returned, with Srirasmi, her husband and their children to the hidden jungle ruins. Two years skittered by, running, climbing, going to the Muay Thai matches in the nearby village with her father and Srirasmi's husband, Petanchai.
But Father's studies had stalled. Without Mother's assistance, his records were scant, disjointed and the drawings much poorer than hers. Frustrated, he took a position on a new expedition to Egypt and Srirasmi found herself returned to the cold misery of her parents' homeland.
Now, without her mother to keep their home and her beloved nanny unable to leave Siam, Srirasmi found herself in an all girls' boarding school. Unaccustomed to "polite" English society, and exceptionally capable of defending herself, the young Ballard-Whyte soon found herself on the wrong side of both the other girls and the head mistress.
By 1923, in the wake of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, there was a renewed interest in Egyptology and Srirasmi's father summoned her to join him.
Again relieved to leave England's weeping skies and bitter aristocracy behind her, Srirasmi joined her father in Egypt and took over as his assistant.
Theme: Discovery, adventure