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Name: Avrielle Ghosthear
Physical Description: Tall and thin limbed with subtle womanly curves. She has long, wavy, red hair that curls at the bottom inch and a half, just above her waist. Her eyes are bright green but have flecks of blue and gold upon close inspection and her skin is very pale, milky complected. When she's had occasion to ''dress up'' and put effort into her grooming and appearance she turns heads (male and female, both) easily, much to her own frustration at times because she'd rather be taken seriously than flirted with.
Race:Human
Birthday: Spring: Day 20, 493 AV
Age:20
(NPC Kieric is 11)
Gender: Female
Avrielle is quite pretty when she's clean and when she's not wearing a serious expression. She smiles rarely, is rarely relaxed enough to. But, when she is among those she knows she can trust her whole demeanor is much lighter and her elegance gives way to eloquence as well and her smile is radiant. Too much worry and responsibility at too young an age have worn on her and show in her face and body language at times. But, if allowed to relax she could recover her grace and loveliness again. It's there, just beneath the surface of the careful, diligently thinking young woman.
She, and her younger brother, Kieric, have been traveling to seek a new place to call home ever since her family (both parents and a baby sister) was killed during a robbery gone tragically wrong.That was four years ago now. Since then, Avrielle has grown into a young woman and young Kieric is almost in adolescence. Necessity has turned them into pretty decent survivalists.
She also brings with her the family talent for surviving in the wild and lucid dreaming and a love for both studying healing and cooking to contacting the spirit realm. She's been good with contacting the dead since she was a young child. Kieric is better with fishing and light hunting, mostly the survival training their father gave them is all he can recall of their father clearly now and Kieric cannot hear the ghosts and spirits as clearly as his older sister can. She can hold conversations with nearby ghosts at will, even sometimes, in communication with their own mother who has often given them warnings when situations were life-threateningly dire.
Ethics: Avrielle is very moral but also understands that there are times when great need can overcome good morality and sometimes her intelligence can talk her out of doing the most moral thing when the most logical thing to do sits before her. She's had to steal, had to kill, and had to lie to protect and care for herself and her brother (She's even prostituted twice but she'd be too ashamed to admit it and Kieric doesn't know.) but all of those things weigh on her conscience quite heavily.
Likes: Avrielle likes to learn. She used to love music and dancing but rarely enjoys either these days. She loves to read when she can get her hands on a book and she would love a place to settle down and perhaps start a farm or learn a trade. She'd love to be able to relax a little bit and know what tomorrow will bring. If she could get Kieric into a school or an apprenticeship she would be quite relieved. Primarily, she seeks a sense of home and safety before all else.
She likes to hunt and fish but hates the knowledge that she's killing as she does so.
Dislikes: She hates people who harm the innocent and vulnerable, be they animal, man, beast or anything else. She LOATHES men who rape and pillage and anyone who harms children.
Pre-creation History:
A violent botched robbery turned into arson left a happy, hard working family of humans a broken mess with only two survivors. She rarely talks in detail about the episode which changed their lives irrevocably. Not even her brother knows all of it because he was rather young, had been outside gathering firewood at the time of the break-in, and doesn't remember the details the same way Avrielle does.
Avrielle remembers, of course, she was at the very heart of it all. While one looted and burned her family home another tortured her mother and her baby sister, and yet another had her father tied down, forced him to watch...and Avrielle was the show....
After her sister was dead her mother's wails drove them too mad to enjoy their virgin conquest pinned down to the kitchen table, they slit the older woman's throat, silencing her screams... When they'd finished ravaging the teenaged daughter they finally put the father out of his misery with a knife through his heart. Avrielle remembered the pain in his eyes as they locked with hers and she was certain they both knew he would be dead before his next breath left his body. He apologized to her, but she knew not what for because he did nothing wrong. How could he have known their safe, little home would be invaded by evil thugs? She murmured as much through her tears but her voice trailed off when she saw in his frozen expression that he was no longer listening and had been taken by death. A whack on her head and smack on her bottom drew her attention back to the invaders. The last of the three to ruin her innocence had finished and was pulling his trousers on as the others ran out, setting fires as they went...
The burning of the house left torched after the robbers took the few valuables they could find and rode off into the woods, was what finally spurned the terrified young woman to move again. At first, she lay there just wanting to die with her parents and the little baby she'd stared at much of the time during her rape, baby Tessa, who's small, broken, corpse had been kicked beneath the table in their scramble to get better access to Avrielle's personal valuable assets...But, the smell of everything burning around her and the cries of her brother, Kieric, outside, made her move to act. Slowly, she forced herself to get out of there and find the only person she had left in the world.
She got over her own wounds quickly because she very simply refused to think about them as she focused all of her primary care on looking after young Kieric from then on. From the moment she had told herself not to think on it anymore she no longer thought about the home invasion and focused every day about how to get through that day and, when possible, the week. One at a time. Somehow, this got them through the hardest period and it kept them alive. Four years passed and Avrielle now looks back with wonder at how that could have been possible. They were so near the brink of death so many times!
Avrielle takes care of her little brother ever since her family's violent end. They are seeking a new place to call home and a stable life. She has some skills with bows, and knows how to catch fish and make traps, she's somewhat skilled with herbs and creating healing poultices and drinks,she can hunt and fish well enough to stay alive, and can also contact the ghosts of departed. ...Sometimes they contact her even if she isn't looking to communicate. Her little brother (an NPC) only shares the hunting talents with his sister.
Skills:
Spiritism (speaking with ghosts) 25 sp pts
Wilderness Survival 20 sp pts
Hunting 15 rb pts
Herbalism (Healing ''Potions'') sp 5pts
Languages:
Human Common
Lore:
Lore of Building a Shelter
Lore of Healing Mild Illnesses and Minor Wounds
Home: Wandering, no set home.
At the moment they are heading from the forest toward Syliras to look for work.
They create tents and tree houses when they can. Sometimes they work for families or establishments to stay a while with them as boarders.
They hunt, fish, scavenge... or work for their living.
1 medium tent (3 person), large tarp, 100 ft of rope, flint & steel, lantern, 2 torches, 2 bedrolls, 2 blankets, fishing tackle & hooks, a riding horse named ''Dusty'' since they can't seem to keep much of themselves or their belongings clean for long while on the road wandering, even the horse..., a full set of tack, and a medium set of saddlebags.
Belongings: *shrug* minimal survival gear,
1 Set of Clothing each (cloak/coat & footwear included)
1 Waterskin,
1 Backpack which contains:
1 Set of Toiletries (comb, brush, razor, soap)
Food for a week,
1 eating knife,
2 bowls Avrielle carved herself
a bit of maleable metal scrap fashioned into a small cooking surface (sides tilted up to hold in liquid) which Avrielle keeps with her and uses when they cook things. She found it in a pile of scrap three and a half years ago.
Flint & Steel a short bow, and some arrows.
Starter Money: 68 gm (some was spent on extra things for the NPC but the tent and saddle bags are smaller...)
Avrielle was not able to save much of anything from her home after the fire, just her father's short bow. Kieric had a knife with him when he was getting firewood at that time so between them those two things are their only weapons. They build traps and things with what they can find as they are good survivalists.
Important Note: *Kieric is not given too much background or description because it is my intention that he die within the first thread once the bond between he and his sister is established. I will use it to build further character development of Avrielle upon.
I would recommend keeping the survival lore, because it goes along with the wilderness survival skill and allows you to have it.
