I'm a lazy pig with backgrounds... forgive me, please. It's just a character concept picture, after all...

Lakhsmi, my Dawn Caste Solar Exalted character. I finally came up with one...
She's a defiant pirate captain who assaults Realm ships that plague the Western sea routes. The last thing said ships see before the Assaliant's crew boards them and the fight begins is Lakhsmi's fan, on which "Fuck the Realm" is written in beautiful calligraphy. It's her namecard.

Proud, reckless and gifted with the most embellished sailor cant ("fe** that damn Dragonblooded bitch! I'm gonna piss on her throne while I see her city in the Blessed Island burn!"; "Holy grail filled with Terrestrial piss!"; "i'm gonna impale the Empress on the highest and largest tower in the city! I bet it's not yet large enough for her ar**'s hole!" and so on, I can only report the milder ones), Lakhsmi's life's goal is to see the last Realm fleet's ship sink and the West finally free of all the Realm robbers and the Lintha marauders.
One of her favorite tactics is to inform the Lintha of a Realm fleet's movements, then sit and watch the fireworks. "That's even better than killing two bloody birds with one stone, 'cause it gets bloodier".
Lakhsmi is convinced that the Scarlet Empress hasn't vanished without reason. She just fled from the Blessed Isle when she first heard her name. Go try persuade her that things are different...