Ka Bural is a female dwarf, 115 cm tall, weighing 55 kg, with a bristling wild mane of silver gray hair, and wild black eyes. She favors flowing, multicolor robes beneath which she conceals the charms and fetishes of her art, as well as a very well kept sawed off shotgun. Astral perception will reveal her to be awakened (Anansi shaman, grade 3 initiate) with no implants or replacement parts. She will allow herself to be perceived and won't mask unless she feels threatened in some way, but she'll give the perceiver a vicious tongue lashing for not asking permission first.

Most people think Bural is insane or at least partially so, and not only because she works a shop in the city of Nyamkopon, almost in the heart of the African ghoul nation of Asamando. Her pursuit of the greater mysteries of her Art has left part of her mind fractured and incoherent, and she is prone to bouts of intense discussion with herself, unmindful of the presence of anyone or anything else. While this condition is real and serious enough, she herself plays up the spells of madness in a large part to throw people off balance and gauge their reactions.

Her career, if you can call it such, began three decades ago in nursing school in Chapel Hill, SC, where as a young medical student she first began to receive visions of her totem. This awakening brought untold chaos to her life, and she dropped out of school and spent time kicking around between menial labor jobs and homelessness before finally getting her act together and returning to finish her degree. After that, she was employed by a large Corporate hospital chain, and did well for several years.

Unfortunately, Bural, as all Spider shamans do, collects secrets. Usually with little regard for protocol and conventional privacy. While for most things this results in a harmless obsession with details, when handling sensitive medical and patient data, it can be a serious violation of patient/doctor confidentiality. The hospital was forced to terminate her employment, and might have even terminated her had she not had the foresight to compile a physical stash of data to be used as leverage against her detractors. As it was, she was forced to flee her residence, and showed up in Seattle with little money and only the clothes on her back. That was seven years ago. After making the rounds of a couple of less than reputable clinics, which is the only work she could get after having her RN license revoked, she was approached by a fixer who called herself Fury.

Bural accepted the employment offer, and worked as an aide to Fury's operations in Seattle as well as abroad for four years. After that, she requested an extended leave in order to more faithfully pursue her art. Fury granted that, along with an annual stipend, on the condition that whereever Bural settled, she would offer assistance to any of Fury's operatives in the area. The agreement was sealed, and for two years Ka Bural wandered the wastelands of the Sixth World, seeking to commune with her Totem. This period ended just over twenty months ago, and ever since she has worked a small shop in the center of a ghoul town near the southern edge of a ghoul nation in the Dark Continent. It seems to suit her.

Ka Bural's shop sells mostly talismongering gear, fetishes, and magical components, although she has been known to offer her medical services in case of dire emergency. Apart from that, she has a wide knowledge base on all sorts of happenings both in her country, in the area in general, and the world as a whole. Her information database is fed not only by satellite reception of all the major news networks but also by the tales of all manner of travellers that come through her doors. She never forgets a face or a name or a good tale, and has been known to trade goods and services purely for information. She is loyal to Fury, and will help any of her operatives in the area, but does not play favorites.