Midna Coolwater

[Midna Coolwater]

Character Name Appearance Race: Mixed Blood (Vantha, Myrian) Gender: Female Age: 23 Birthday: 28th of Winter, 489 AV Birthplace: Avanthal, Coolwater Hold Appearance: Midna is very dark-skinned, closest to the deep dark near-black of her father. She wears her hair in braids and keeps it wrapped up high in fur and rag, up above her head, and a few matted knots hang down over one shoulder with bits of twine and metal and pottery in. She is short like her mother around 4'9, with dark brown eyes like her father - and large eyes, and a broad nose, and low, sloping cheekbones. Her frame is thin and boyish, and petite, and delicate, and her ribs poke through her flesh, and her hands are worn and hard from ropework, and she looks weary. Character Concept Midna is a heartfelt, but distant and boozy, roper who, settling in Zeltiva from the far north, is drawn on more and more by a devotion to Priskil. Midna is cynical and apathetic for the most part, and in general feels little and has little effort for anything. She is distant and subdued. But, this is underpinned by a strong and sure faith for the gods of her childhood, Morwen and Myria, and moreso than this, a new flowering faith for the goddess Priskil who she encountered first really on the boat to Syliras; and beneath it all, an ever-present spring of love for her loved ones, for her race and her class; with a sympathetic heart for the weak and downtrodden - in many ways similar to her goddess Priskil. And, unused to it, she has a distaste for everything underhand and cloak-and-dagger - though, to navigate her lifestyle she often has to deal in it. Character History Pre-Creation: Midna's mother was Vantha and father was Myria. Her father was involved in some mad crisis in Falyndar which set him on an old voyage out North - he came to Avanthal center where Ms. Coolwater was staying in the warrens at the time, moved out from Coolwater to mourn the death of her husband - a widow at 30 - and she was a lone hearth of warmth and love in a cold and distant city reluctant to accept him, a warm hearth at the heart of a cold city, and they fell in love and were wed and bore a child. One child - Midna, and when she was born they moved back to the Coolwater Hold. Her mother was a roper and her father was a leathercrafter, and she grew up a roper and it was a strict house and she worked a lot, but it was a kind and warm home. She was raised into both the Vantha and Myrian traditional religions. The household engaged in all the traditional Morwen religious holidays, and also, they celebrated the fest days of the Myrian gods and an altar for their ancestors. For a few reasons, she was never arranged to marry. She lived for a short time with a love interest in another hold when she was a young woman, but it ended abruptly when they found another suitor. This, and her complicated relationship with the city on her axis of race, gender and general outsider-ness, drove her to take to drinking and, later, at 23, flee the hold by way of Lasheela's ships, and few mulled bottles of wine, to some busy city by the sea - Zeltiva Language Fluent Language: Vani Basic Language: Common Poor Language: Myrian Skills Skill EXP Total Proficiency Spinning 30 SP 30 Competent Ropemaking 20 SP 20 Novice Carving 10 RB 10 Novice Lores Lore of Rope Twisting Lore of First Knowledge of Priskil Possessions -Sack shirt, sack leggings, underwear, fur cloak, leather boots A waterskin and a backpack which contains: -Comb (Wood) -Brush (Wood) -Soap -Razor -Balanced Rations (1 Week's worth) -1 eating knife -Flint & Steel 100 Gold Mizas Heirloom: mothers marlinspike, given to Midna as a parting gift (20 mizas) Housing Location: Zeltiva, East Street House: 20x20 Flat - hearth, bunk, chest, chair, table Ledger Purchase Cost Total Starting +100 GM 100 GM Fall 513 seasonal -60less than half of the seasonal expense for 'common', due to her only being there for less than half of the season 30 GM I. Underground -20gm, 8sm 9GM 2SM Thread List