Slender, sensuous and a vivid blue all over, Pa�u Zotoh Zhaan was the calm centre at the heart of Moya. She was over 800 years old and a plant rather than an animal. Of all her pleasures, the touch of sunlight was her best-loved.

A trained priest from the planet Delvia, she was imprisoned for resisting a Peacekeeper coup on her homeworld. Skilled in medicine and science, as well as spiritual abilities, she was the crew�s healer, scientist and comforter.

Serenity was her goal until it was ripped from her from her by renegade members of her own kind. Then a very different personality emerged - full of the aggressive urges her priestly training had taught her to reject.

Over time her balance returned, helped by the close bond she formed with new arrival Stark - someone who shared and understood her ability to take on the pain of others. That very gift was to become her downfall when she reached beyond life to bring Aeryn back from the grave, dooming herself in the process. Maybe in her final sacrifice she reached the serenity that she had quested for all her life.

Key episodes: That Old Black Magic, Rhapsody in Blue, Picture if you Will, Die Me, Dichotomy, Season of Death, Self Inflicted Wounds parts 1 and 2.

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