Doelli Flamesong |
You Know My Name, Not My Story
Name: Doelli Flamesong
Age: 17 years | 21 Fall 500
Race: Human, Drykas
Birthplace: Endrykas
Current Town: Endrykas
Age: 17 years | 21 Fall 500
Race: Human, Drykas
Birthplace: Endrykas
Current Town: Endrykas
I Never Forget A Face
Red hair cascades like a curtain of fire down her back. In the front she wears a braid, complete with a ribbon dagger braided into the thick lock. The white of the strings against her red hair is a warning to any who might cross her.
Long and lean like a yearling filly, she walks with grace and eloquence. Once milky white skin is freckled from hours spent in the sun on the back of a horse. Her body is taut with hidden strength--lean muscle clings to her athletic frame.
Blue green eyes peer out from under thick lashes. A crooked nose mars her otherwise structurally attractive face. Just beneath, her full lips are almost always seen in a perpetual smirk or smile. A captivating, if not entirely beautiful face framed entirely by hair as red as the flame her pavilion is named after.
Beauty is Only Skin Deep
Happiness can be found on the back of her horse. Doelli is at peace when she is out with Caopl. She spends very little time in the presence of people, preferring to be alone with her thoughts and her animals.
While she is an adult in the eyes of the Horse clans, she is very much a teenaged romantic at heart. After her older sister became a Nakivak, Doelli became enraptured by the idea of a romance so great you would leave your family. She is blessed with the naïve notion that love conquers all and is forever. An innocent, Doelli sees only the good in people and rarely the bad.
While she is an adult in the eyes of the Horse clans, she is very much a teenaged romantic at heart. After her older sister became a Nakivak, Doelli became enraptured by the idea of a romance so great you would leave your family. She is blessed with the naïve notion that love conquers all and is forever. An innocent, Doelli sees only the good in people and rarely the bad.
merits: kind, gentle, compassionate, empathetic
flaws: naïve, absent minded, daydreamer, foolhardy
flaws: naïve, absent minded, daydreamer, foolhardy
We'll Make History, You and I
Her earliest memory is of Caopl.
Her mother scoffs when she tells her that she can recall the day Caopl came from the womb of his dam, but her father hushes her when she tells her that she remembers the soft sun on her skin and the feel of the grass against her cheeks. She remembers the way his dam shrieked as she delivered the leggy colt. She knows her mother believes she is merely remembering the births of a thousand horses but it is Caopl’s that she remember most clearly.
She was five when she wandered out of the tent to the pastures where the Striders were kept. Her older brother’s Strider A’kel had been pacing all night and he had kept her company. Her mother had sent her out with a bag of jerked meat for him, knowing that the delivery of a foal could keep a Drykas away for an entire day and night.
She was fixated when the mare began her delivery. The gods whispered in the wind to stay where she was and so she stayed. When the little horse fell to the ground she gasped. When he stood on wobbly legs she cheered. Her noise caught his attention and dark brown eyes met hers and she gasped for an entirely different reason.
It was years before she could ride Caopl. He grew into a handsome stallion even as she grew into an awkward child. She often complained to him that it was unfair that humans must grow through the strange phases that she did. Her legs grew before my torso did and soon she was as gangly and leggy as a colt while Caopl was graceful and fleet. When she tripped and fell over her own feet Caopl would give a knicker that sounded like a laugh and gallop about as if to taunt her. She was eight before she felt Caopl’s strong back beneath her and ten before she was proficient enough to ride Caopl as if they were joined as one.
The spring she was twelve, her family traveled to Riverfall. There, they met the great Akalak warriors. They were fascinated with her older sister: Rekah who had recently turned seventeen. They spent the Summer season there. She watched, enviously, as her sister turned the heads of a great many suitors. At the end of the Season, her sister opted to stay in Riverfall as a Nakivak.
As she reaches the end of her sixteenth year and enter into her seventeenth, she can only wonder what adventures may be before Caopl and her. Her sister was a Nakivak and mother at her age. Perhaps some great romance or adventure is just before her.