Lenell Belleste

[Lenell Belleste]

Lenell Belleste

Appearance

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birthday: 4th, Summer, 493
Birthplace: Syliras

Appearance: Lenell is 5'2" and 100 lbs. She has long red hair which is her treasured only vanity, and hazel eyes. She is pretty enough, but she has a club foot on the left side. She knows she is attractive outside of her deformity, because she has seen the reactions of young strangers who often move to flirt energetically with her, until they notice her foot, at which time they tend to make quick and awkward exits. To accent her best features and downplay her worst, she likes to wear long, dull colored skirts, bright scarves, necklaces and earings, and keeps her hair unbound unless work requires otherwise.

Character Concept

Lenell grew up with a close-knit, loving and large extended family that includes her mother, father, a younger brother and sister, several aunts and uncles, countless cousins and her grandmother, whom she favors physically and adores. The entire family are skilled potters, and have run their business in Syliras for several generations. Lenell is a very intelligent, curious and creative girl, with a naturally friendly and extroverted nature that has unfortunately been much subdued and altered under the treatment of others towards her deformity. Her family supported her scholarly leanings, seeing it as the one path which may lead to their daughter having a fulfilling life. She is the first to leave the family business since its establishment. They have long aimed to send her off to Zeltiva.

Character History

Lenell remembers well the first time she strayed away from her family to attempt to join a group of small children at play, and found herself quickly chased from their midst with taunts of "Cripple!" and thrown pebbles following her. It was then that she realized her difference was more than just like having another hair or eye color, but something unsightly and shaming. Since then, she remained quite isolated among her family, who are fortunately very fond of her. She has a well based fear of being on her own in places where she may be cornered by bullies, but her curiosity often overwhelms that fear. She cannot resist approaching travelers, subraces, other races and all objects and animals that she has not seen before.

Her practical, business minded family did quite well in finding economical ways to educate and raise their special needs daughter. They traded pottery for the specially designed left shoes their daughter needed to walk, as well as for the many canes she has used and outgrown, till she was tall enough to share the canes her grandmother has from her dead grandfather, who was a fine hobbyist woodcarver. The adults of her family taught her to keep the books and ledgers of the business as a way of introducing her to writing and mathematics. Bits of broken pottery, shipping boxes and papers were always saved for her to use as drawing and writing surfaces. They set up bartering deals with many for books and lessons. An especially exciting find was a down on her luck dancer, who was fed and paid by the family for a season to teach Lenell to walk as gracefully as possible.

Lenell's favorite lessons have always been taken at the foot of her grandmother's rocking chair. Grandma had a huge list of stories of other lands and peoples supposedly handed down from an adventuring ancestor. The rest of the practical family considers the stories' origins as made up drivel, but Lenell has always believed in her heart it is true, and has spent many days dreaming that she could be like him, and rove the world over to find new knowledge. The people and races she has met and conversed with have seemed to bear out at least the main points of grandmother's tales.

She loves cats, whose play and companionship needs she can easily meet. She is not fond of dogs, who are too boisterous and tend to knock her down and trample her. Her most prized possession is her grandfather's best cane, beautifully carved with all the beings of Mizahar, and handed down to her upon her acceptance to the University.

She has never had a lover or boyfriend, and has never been kissed, and never expects to be. She has a tendency to look down on men of her age, out of defense against rejection and the previously mentioned “hasty and awkward exits” which make them seem clownish in her eyes.



Language

Fluent Language: Common
Basic Language: Pavi
Poor Language: Vani

Skills

Skill	EXP	Total	Proficiency
Writing	20 SP	20	Novice
Pottery	20 SP	20	Novice
Mathematics	10 SP	10	Novice
Storytelling	15 RB	15	Novice
Unarmed combat	3 XP	3	Novice
Tactics	2 XP	2	Novice

Lores

Lore of Eyris
Lore of Qalaya

Lore Earned
Awkward Interactions With the Opposite Sex
Fighting a Man
Being a Lady
Exchanging Kisses
Exchanging Blows

Possessions

Starting Package
1 Set of Clothing
-Simple Shirt
-Simple Pants
-Simple Undergarments
-Simple Cloak
-Simple Boots
1 Waterskin
1 Backpack which contains:
-Comb (Wood)
-Brush (Wood)
-Soap
-Razor
-Balanced Rations (1 Week's worth)
-1 eating knife
-Flint & Steel
100 Gold Mizas

Purchases
-Specially made left boot

Heirloom: Grandfather's Best Carved Cane (35 GM)

Housing

Location: Zeltiva

House: Student Quarters


Ledger

Purchase	Cost	Total
Starting	+100 GM	100 GM
Student Fees	-90 GM	10 GM
Left boot	-2 GM	8 GM

Thread List

Growing up in Sylrias [Flashbacks]

[Training Grounds] You Can't Beat Me Now, I'm A Man![Lenell]
http://www.mizahar.com/forums/topic33423.html