Jacques (WIP)

[Jacques]

Jacques Face: Eva Downey Facts and Appearance Name: Jacquarine "Jacques" Burnett Race and Gender : Human Female Age: 28 years Birthday: Day 1 of Fall 488 AV Height: 5'4'' (165cm) Build: Medium lean Hair: Dark golden blond Eyes: Blue Skin: Golden suntan Character Concept Jacques is a human woman of simple origins who started to work at tender age. She is an humble and undemanding personality, loves nature and is in general a friendly soul. Personality Jaques is basically an introverted person. Synesthesia; Jacques is one of those people who can get several parallell perceptions from one single sensory impression. This trait means the senses overlap and for example when she hears a tune she can get an impression of a color along with the music. This is just one example of how the synesthesia can show. It makes her experiences of her environment ripe with sensations, for good and for bad. Jacques is something of a dreamer and prone to fantasize. She would once have been content to spend her whole life in the contemplative herb garden where she thrived as a young girl. Jacques can be agreeable or not agreeable, depending on the people and the situations. She is normally friendly to people, but she isn't ingratiating or smarmy. Merits Conscientous; what she has started, she completes A faithful follower of Bala Endures hardships and hard work without complaining Imaginative and creative and a good practical problem solver Intelligent Flaws Low formal education; isn't much of a theorist despite being intelligent Fantasizes a bit too much sometimes; prone to wishful thinking Character History Timeline : 0 years: Jacques is born in Zeltiva 4-10 years: Jacques lives with her family, plays with other children and learns a a bit about agriculture and farming 7 -10 years : The girl is given basic education at simple daily life level 10 years: Little Jacques starts working part time as garden helper to the herbalist Sonia Dreyner 15 years: Jacques advances to Sonia Dreyner's apprentice and starts to learn about herbalism 17 years: Jaques begins to worship Bala, the Goddess of Autumn and Harvest 20-27 years: Jacques loses her teacher and works with other things 28 years and on: After eight years, Jacques settles in Syka Jacques is the nickname of Jacquarine Burnett; her parents had attempted to give the girl what they thought of as a fashionable name, but soon they found it more practical to shorten it to Jacques. Nobody ever called her Jacquarine, and the so the nickname became her true name, except in contracts and other formal papers. Jacques grew up in a poor home in Zeltiva. She started to work early. Her first job was to help an elderly herbalist to tend to a small garden where they cultivated fruit and berries, vegetables and an assortment of medical herbs. She was was mostly tasked with simple labor, like weeding, watering the plants, and cleaning tools. It was hard work, but being outdoors was also pleasant, and the employer was nice. As the years passed by Jacques started to take deeper interest in the plants and the work of the herbalist and had many questions. The old woman had taken a liking to her diligent young helper and when she noticed the girls growing and serious interest, she decided to make Jaques her apprentice. During the following years Jaques learnt more about herbalism. The old herbalist had meant Jacques to inherit the business and take over, but she had avoided to think of death and postponed writing a will. When the inevitable happened and the woman died of high age, a distant heir turned up and claimed the property. He had his own plans and had no use for Jacques, so he fired her. Parts of the dead herbalist's work was documented in a notes about plants, gardening and herbalism. Her heir found it worthless, so he allowed Jacques to keep it. Jacques sorted the papers and notebooks out and eventually she had them bound to a tome, "On The Identification, Cultivation, Preparation, Philtering And Use of Medical Plants". The title was way more impressive than the content. Jacques had lost everything. She had to find a new job and start over. This was offered by a potter nearby, where the girl was well liked after all the times she had been there to buy pots for the herbal products. And so she learnt to work with clay and craft pottery, As this included recurrent expeditions in order to find and mine clay in nature, she also acquired good knowledge about how to survive in wilderness. This continued until Jacques heard the news about the new settlement Syka. For people who would settle there permanently and start a business it might eventually be possible to get five acres of free land in the area. In addition she was told the living in Syka was easy and free, food grew wild there, and the climate was an eternal summer. Language Fluent Language: Common Basic Language: Fratava Poor Language: Jacques doesn't know any more languages yet. Skills Skill EXP Total Proficiency Cooking 5 SP 5 Novice Foraging 5 SP 5 Novice Herbalism 5 SP 5 Novice Pottery 25 SP 25 Novice Wilderness Survival 15 RB +10 SP 25 Novice Lores (SP)Wilderness Survival: The basics for how to survive in wilderness (SP)Pottery: To craft clay pots Possessions Heirloom: The collected notes of Jacques's dead teacher and former employer, the herbalist Sonia Dreyner. They are bound to a small book with green leather covers and named "On The Identification, Cultivation, Preparation, Philtering And Use of Medical Plants" The Small Book : STARTING PACKAGE 1 Set of Clothing (cloak & footwear included) Pants Shirt Undergarments Sandals Coat 1 Waterskin 1 Backpack which contains: 1 Set of Toiletries (comb, brush, razor, soap) Food for a week 1 eating knife Flint & Steel Bought in Riverfall before the departure to Syka Tent (pavillion) Insect netting Bedroll Lantern, hooded Brazier, Elaborate Cook/Chef Toolkit Picnic Basket Set 4 Backpacks, Empty Insect Repellent Water Additive Crafters Toolkit Herbalist/Botanist Toolkit Toolkit Campfire Cooking Oil Press Housing Jaques lives in a tent (pavillion) on her own land. In the beginning there's no furniture. Ledger Date Purchase Cost Total At start Starting +100 GM 100 GM At start Cashed in housing +500 GM 600 GM At start Five acres of free land 0 GM 600 GM At start Tent (Pavilion) -50 GM 550 At start Insect Netting -25 GM 525 At start Bedroll -25 GM Total At start Lantern, hooded -7 GM Total At start Brazier, Elaborate -1 GM Total At start Cook/Chef Toolkit -10 GM Total At start Toolkit Campfire Cooking -40 GM Total At start Picnic Basket Set -5 GM Total At start 4 Backpacks, Empty -8 GM Total At start Crafters Toolkit -25 GM Total At start Herbalist/Botanist Toolkit - 20 GM Total At start Potters Toolkit - 25 GM Total At start Insect Repellent -1 GM Total At start Water Additive -3 GM Total Thread List Flashbacks None yet. Current time, first season, starting date not decided yet Day of Season Year, Jacques arrives to Syka with a ship from Riverfall (1 Post) Day of Season Year, This is maybe a moderated thread the new settler ? n x Day of Season Year, Meeting other settlers