Edalene

by **Edalene** on November 2nd, 2010, 7:50 am

Edalene Sunblaze

Basic Information
Name Edalene, of the Sunblaze Pavillion
Age 16
Birthday 34th Summer, 494AV
Race Drykas
Clan Diamond
Gender Female

by **Edalene** on February 5th, 2011, 2:37 am

Physical Description

Edalene is tall, and quite slender, but there is a definite network of muscle in her body. She ‎is not tan, she is not pale, but freckles are scattered all over her body. Her eyes, an amber, ‎golden and warm - similar to her hair. Her hair is a reddish brown, waist length, but usually ‎worn up. Her hair, when up, is twisted into a simple knot, with a blue silk wrap woven into ‎it, representing her mother, died in childbirth. Edalene can often be seen wearing her dark ‎blue leggings with a floaty silver top, a network of knots sewn into the material. She has no ‎windmarks, as no strider has chosen her yet.‎

EDIT: Winter 510AV
Eda has been chosen by a lovely Strider named Ayira. She is playful and speedy, though not the biggest horse of the Drykas. People look at her and underestimate her - much like they do Eda herself. Eda got her windmarks - a lone wolf. As cliche as it sounds, Eda believes that she herself is a 'lone wolf', isolated by her father and her cousin.

Character Concept
Edalene is very much a sixteen year old - awkward, bumbling, not quite used to her own ‎body and prone to sudden moodswings. She will be happy go lucky one moment, showing ‎you the utmost kindness, and extremely pissed off at you the next, for reasons which are ‎only really noticeable to her. Edalene has a tendancy to ramble, and once started, finds it ‎extremely difficult to stop. Edalene does not like to be wrong, and is extremely convicted on ‎her own beliefs - however, this depends on the person she is with. If she likes a person, or ‎has a special attachment to them, she will often change her opinions to fit with theirs, eager ‎to please. What she really wants to do in life is make closer friends ... and improve at the ‎broadsword!‎

by **Edalene** on February 5th, 2011, 2:43 am

Character History

Edalene was born into the Diamond Clan on the 34th day of Summer, 494AV. Her ‎mother ‎was a strong Drykas woman, who had skills in the spear and was enamoured of ‎artwork, so ‎it came as some surprise when Hiya, a physically fit woman, died in childbirth ‎with ‎Edalene, her first child. Hiya and her husband Damie had only been married for the ‎better ‎part of a year. Her death left the young Damie, only twenty three, alone with a small ‎child ‎and a lot of heartache. Nevertheless, he stepped up to challenge of raising a child ‎alone.‎
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Damie accomplished with Edalene, though she was not easy child to raise. As a baby, ‎she ‎would gabber incessantly at anyone who would listen, and had a habit of grabbing ‎whatever ‎was nearest and gnawing on it. There were several close calls when she would grab ‎a dagger ‎or sword and bring it towards her mouth. Damie would spring up in a frenzy and ‎stop Eda ‎from cutting out her entire mouth. Eda was an inquisitive child, often involving ‎herself in ‎adult affairs, usually not ending up well. She would giggle awkwardly if ‎reprimanded, and ‎crawl off in shame to find some other adult business to disrupt. This was ‎a trait she kept ‎well into her teenage years.‎
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When Eda learned to talk, it became even worse. Her physical presence was amplified by ‎the ‎constant question that surrounded her – “What? Why? When?” Despite the other ‎Drykas’ ‎annoyance, her father actively encouraged her curious nature, teaching her the ‎Common ‎language as well as Pavi, and telling her of his many adventures and escapades in ‎the Sea of ‎Grass – battling Zith, grappling with glassbeaks, all manner of true warrior like ‎situations. ‎Eda held Damie in high esteem, raising him to almost God like status. Anything ‎her beloved ‎father did was sacred. It was when she was three that her father obtained his ‎knotted ‎broadsword, a sword which would come to mean much to Eda, though she did not ‎know it ‎at the time.‎

When she was four, Eda woke up one morning and miraculously realised that ‎everything ‎her father did was not unattainable, and was actually entirely possible. Thus ‎began Eda’s ‎passion to become as adept at the broadsword, and as skilled a warrior, as he. ‎She begged ‎him morning, day and night for three years, trying to convince him to let her ‎learn his ‎discipline. Damie refused for three years, wary to teach his scatter brained ‎daughter such a ‎destructive weapon. If he were entirely honest with himself, he was loath to ‎put his only ‎daughter in a position where he might lose her. She was his only family.‎
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Eda, for three years, would get her daily chores done as quickly as possible. After she ‎had ‎fulfilled her jobs, she would sprint off to the training grounds. It was here that Eda ‎secretly ‎memorised the moves of the sword, observing and memorising, and later practising ‎and ‎perfecting them with a stick if she found one, and thin air if she could not. Eda learned ‎all ‎she could, determined to learn as much as she could about the sword.‎
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One day, when she was seven, she finished all of her chores earlier than usual, so she ‎ran ‎off to the training grounds to watch the warriors spar. She watched as her father stood ‎out ‎on the grounds and fought with such prowess. It was with growing pride, awe and a ‎little ‎bit of jealousky that Eda watched her father fight. Little did she know that he too ‎watched ‎her on the sidelines and had made a long awaited decision. After the other ‎warriors had left ‎the grounds, he drew Eda aside and told her what she had always wanted ‎to hear. He ‎would teach her the sword, and her father’s knotted blade would be hers. Thus ‎began Eda’s ‎training.‎

‎Eda trained exceptionally hard, and it would be truthful to say that everyone was ‎surprised ‎by how well she did. She by no means had any natural skill with the blade, but she ‎practiced ‎long and hard. Of course, she did not mention that she already knew the moves ‎from ‎practicing with a stick. Her father was also impressed, in his silent unflappable way. ‎Eda ‎grew in skill quickly and steadily. She would often stay behind at the War Pavillion to ‎train ‎after her lessons had finished, going over the moves she had learnt, memorising them. ‎She ‎fell in love with the blade, though still untested in the art of the kill.‎
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Though her father and the other men at the War Pavillion taught her well, one love ‎pushed ‎out another. While Eda’s skill with the blade improved, her relationship with her ‎father ‎deteriorated. As Eda grew up, she desired a relationship with her father that did not ‎center ‎around her childlike adoration of him. Damie, though, had not been an emotional ‎being ‎since Hiya died, and hence did not cope well with the sudden demands for a ‎meaningful ‎relationship. Though he loved Edalene, he was constantly frustrated by her still ‎childlike ‎antics and her lack of a Strider. A proud, skilled Drykas himself, he was hard ‎pressed to ‎accept his seemingly fail Drykas daughter. Their relationship began to fall apart, ‎starting ‎with small arguments. Later in her years, around the age of thirteen and fourteen, ‎Eda and ‎Damie began to have intense fights.‎

Their last major fight occurred when Edalene was fourteen. Her cousin, Yartree, had made a passing derogatory comment to Damie about Eda’s lack ‎of a ‎Strider. A touchy topic with Damie, he came home that night and demanded of Eda ‎why ‎she was still such an immature, useless child. She was not a Drykas at all, he yelled. Eda ‎was ‎shocked into silence at his sudden outburst. Damie continued to yell, culminating ‎when he ‎said “You will NEVER live up to Hiya’s memory!” Eda snapped at this point, unable ‎to keep ‎silent any more. “It’s good my mother died bearing me, because she would have ‎hated the ‎man you’ve become!” Damie stumbled back, as if struck. He regarded her silently, ‎then ‎stepped out of the Pavillion.‎
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Without her father to talk to, Eda trained harder than before, and took to ‎wandering ‎around Endrykas in her spare time. She loved to observe people as they went ‎about their ‎ways, and she would sometimes involve herself in their affairs. She, as a child, ‎would often ‎wander off into the Sea of Grass, but she has since lost much of her ‎independence and ‎courage. Eda is still very much the fourteen year old who has just ‎destroyed any chance at a ‎relationship with her father, and her lack of maturity shows. ‎
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She still wanders Endrykas, restless and wanting something more – she’s just not too ‎sure ‎what that something is.‎

by **Edalene** on February 5th, 2011, 2:55 am

Training, Equipment and Skills

Skills

Skill	Points	Rank
Animal Husbandry	1	Novice
Horsemanship	4	Novice
Instigation	2	Novice
Intelligence	2	Novice
Investigation	1	Novice
Medicine	15	Novice
Navigation	1	Novice
Observation	3	Novice
Riding	27	Competent
Seduction	1	Novice
Stealth	3	Novice
Unarmed Combat	1	Novice
Weapon: Broadsword	30	Competent

Lores :

Languages
Fluent in Pavi
Skilled in Common

Equipment
Standard starting package
Broadsword with a network of knots engraved on the blade - heirloom
Drykas leather armour

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by **Edalene** on February 5th, 2011, 3:25 am

Ledger

Total	Money Spent/Gained	Occurance	Thread
600gm	+500gm	Cashed in SP	N/A
583.95gm	-17gm5sm	Bought Drykas leather armour	*

Thread List

Flashbacks :

Fall 510AV :

Winter 510AV :

Date	PCs Involved	Name	Summary
7th Spring 511AV	Edalene, Denen	Love Me Not	Eda comes upon Denen sitting quietly outside of Endrykas
12th Spring 511AV	Edalene, Eldon	I'm Preparing For War Woman!	Eda meets Eldon training his body in the Sea of Grass
13th Spring 511AV	Edalene, Sama'el	The Woman and the Gentle Man	Eda rides out into the Sea of Grass after the horrifying events of the day before, and is determined to kill a glassbeak or Zith or SOMETHING. She meets a Watchman, Sama'el.
24th Spring 511AV	Edalene	Hungry Like The Wolf	After a failed excursion with Sama'el, Eda is determined to try again
63rd Spring 511AV	Eda, Kayiri, Denen, Sam, Van, Kashik	A Very Big Day	Eldon's birthday party.
68th Spring 511AV	Eda, Sam	Determination	Eda gets annoyed with herself and sees Sam again
71st Spring 511AV	Eda, Mycroft	Even In Death	Eda's father is taken by a mysterious beast in the Sea, and she doesn't know what it is or how to get him back
78th Spring	Eda, Denen	Setting Down Roots	Eda comes to see Denen after the horrifying events of the last tendays

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by **Edalene** on March 18th, 2011, 10:04 am

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My Family

Damie
Damie was born in 471AV, a member of the Sunblaze pavilion in Endrykas, a proud warrior of the Diamond clan. He met Hiya, from the Ruby Clan, when he was sixteen, one day at the War Pavillion as she battled against fierce men and women their age with her trusty spear. It was instant attraction, which led to hasty fumblings in her pavillion that night. Fortunately, there was no product from that night, and it was only meant to be one night - which it was.

Hiya and Damie instead became great friends, bonding with like minds, though Damie was more rash than she, a slow thinker. They were great friends, just friends, but as time wore on, it only made sense for them to get married. It helped that they were desperately in love, too. Which they did, when Damie was twenty two. When Hiya died, he was inconsolable. Despite the cliched odds of it happening, Damie never loved again.

Damie before was rash, excitable and proud. He was always eager to show his skill for the gentle Hiya. After her death, however, he retreated into himself. He taught Eda the ways of the world for a while, until even that became too much for him. He is still the proud Drykas man he always was, strong and upstanding, but he is quick to judge and often resents people before he knows them. He frequently curses, but has a blank stare when it comes to Eda. Anything personal can go to hell, for Damie will never let anything or anyone hurt him again the way the death of his Hiya did.

Yartree
Yartree was born 491AV, though he acts as though he has decades of worldky experience on Eda. His mother was Damie's sister, and they were never particularly close. Damie merely paid Yartree's mother attention due to the fact that they were family. It was never ascertained just who Yartree's father, a scandolous fact that was covered up by the Sunblaze clan - even though the rest of the Drykas wouldn't have particularly cared. His mother stayed with Damie, the new Ankhal of his pavilion. Yartree's mother, however, was fond of long, lonely rides out and around the Sea of Grass, though she never strayed too far from the city. The Zith, however, came close. Capturing his mother, the Zith left with the woman in tow, a new slave to add to their collection. The horrors that would have occured there are something that Yartree consciously avoids thinking about. He was six when it happened. Eda has vague memories of Yartree's mother riding with her when she was three, just glimpses of hair and smell in the recesses of memory. Yartree grew up lonely because of this, but he bonded closely to Damie as the father he never had, though neither of them would ever be verbal about the bond.

Yartree is fun loving, radical, and everything Damie was as a youth. He loves to seek adventure, he loves the warmth of the flesh of a woman and he loves the buzz of ale through his veins. Anything that can enhance the experience of life is a bonus, for life is short - which Yartree knows well. He can be rude, though, and often insults Eda. He does not do it maliciously, despite what she believes, but he is far too gruff to ever apologise if he hurts her, leading to the rift currently between them.

Hiya