Alakaia Estrid

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GENERAL-

Name:[/b][/color] Alakaia Estrid
Profession: Bodyguard/Hunter/Tracker
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

PHYSICAL-[/b]

Race: Winterborn / Soolari (Human)

• Winterborn: The harsh cold of the southern continent has made the Winterborn a strong people (+5 XP to Vitality, +5 XP to Endurance), with a known knack for warfare (+5 XP to ONE Combatant Fortitude Stat). The lack of education and interaction with more educated lands, however, often shows itself outside of Sunderbran (-5 XP to Intelligence, -5 XP to Social).
  
  
• Soolari: Naturally born craftsmen, Soolari people are known for their attention to detail in any trade they choose to undertake (+5 to Skill) and their pure bred good nature (+5 to Social). Their education systems are generally better because of their larger, better structured societies as well (+3 to Intelligence). Their greatest downfall is their lack of hardiness in the moist environments outside of the Setani Desert (-3 to Vitality, -2 Endurance), where they are prone to moisture induced upper respiratory infections.

Age: 27
Sex: Female
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 240 lbs
Hair Color: Black and braided
Eye Color: Light brown

Voice Description: Deep and melodic. Her voice is lightly roughened, sometimes raspy depending on how much passion is put into her speech. At times, there are hints of humor in Alakaia’s tone though it does not always accompany a smile. When angered her voice drops down into an even deeper, growly roar.

Clothing:

• Normal Wear: Taking her heritage into account, Alakaia wears an unusual mix of both her cultures. Despite her unusual size to take into account, she still clads herself in a fur lined knee-length tunic. Over these are furred leggings. She also wears darkly furred boots or regular leather boots depending on the location. She’s often seen wearing a brown cloak trimmed with winter wolf fur.
  
  
• Combat Ready: During combat, Alakaia sports a fitted leather vest over the same tunic, along with a scaled leather skirt. The boots are either leather or furred. Sometimes she sheds the leggings and other times not. Alakaia has been known to tie her long braids back with a leather thong.

Build / Complexion: Alakaia’s honeyed caramel complexion made her stand out whenever she was around her father’s people. Her features being so dark where everyone else was pale led to a lot of teasing as she grew. Grow she did though, surpassing her mother’s height at an early age. With time and work, she began to take on more than just a sinewy build. Muscles grew from mere bone and flesh… Alakaia’s hair grew not just thick but long as well. Before she tamed her unruly locks in her usual braids, she was a wild sight in such a white landscape. She and her father were blatant studies of contrast as they worked together on their lodge.

Physical Description: To see Alakaia now, one would never have imagined her as a gangly teen, still too tall and ungainly to NOT be the butt of jokes. Despite the heat that must radiate off of her regular clothing, the woman wears her garments with much pride. She takes an interest in anything involving leather and fur mixtures and has a small but clean collection of winter wear. Even on sunny days, she can sometimes be found under her cloak. The few times not in fur, Alakaia leans towards darker leather or dark cloth with splashes of intricate beadwork adorning it. Now, Alakaia’s hair reaches the middle of her back, though she keeps it in tight braids.

The woman does not strive to bring attention to herself. It more or less follows her depending on her company or location.

MENTAL-

Likes:

• Warm fire
  
• Good food
  
• Cold Ale
  
• Sleep
  
• Sparring
  
• Combat
  
• Winning at arm wrestling
  
• Decent company
  
• Traveling
  
• Proving herself
  
• Herbology
  
• Learning new things

Dislikes:

• Excessive cold
  
• Catching colds
  
• Getting caught in a cold rain
  
• Racial insults
  
• Being stolen from
  
• Losing work
  
• Snow
  
• Those who prey on the ill, weak, or old
  
• Authority types
  
• Thieves
  
• Undead
  
• Excessive shows of magic
  
• Rabbits

Strengths / Skills:

• Tracking: Skilled at telling from either tracks or dropping what animal might have been there. She can also track humans very well.
  
• Star Mapping: Studying the stars means that usually at night she can never get lost.
  
• Able to induce battle frenzy in dire straits
  
• High tolerance of hot temperatures
  
• Tool making: Able to make use of just about anything she touches.
  
• Spear and battle axe combat
  
• An adept seamstress with a fascination in beadwork.

Weaknesses:

• Cold weather
  
• Sword combat
  
• Being in a frenzy for too long results in nausea, weakness and a loss of consciousness.
  
• Damp climates
  
• Too trusting sometimes
  
• Dealing with assumptions and prejudices from both sides of her heritage has left her with a confused sense of self at times
  
• Has a short fuse sometimes and with it an explosive temper

Fears:

• Suffering a crippling injury
  
• Getting old
  
• Being useless
  
• Suffering from a debilitating illness
  
• Being helpless

Personality Description: Alakaia is a woman of few words, leaning more towards the type who merely wishes to get whatever task it is done and finished in a timely fashion. She rarely allows herself to participate in idle chatter, instead leaning more toward quiet reflection. In good times, she has a very nice sense of humor. In bad times, Alakaia’s been known to possess a very acerobic wit. She does not enjoy taking orders but will when necessary.

As she dislikes taking orders, Alakaia is also distrustful of legal authorities as she believes they care little for the people under them and are more focused on gaining more material wealth for themselves on the backs of the poor. She might also dislike guards for tossing her out of the occasional tavern when she grows too drunk. When drunk, Alakaia talks…a lot. And loudly and finds herself in fist fights.

Few things will incite her anger faster than slurs against her family. She can fly into a nearly violent rage over racial insults pertaining to her mother. She’s been made fun of and tormented far too often as a child to allow anyone to get away with thinking they can do such to her as an adult.

When confronted with things (or people) that warrant her interest, the tall woman’s eyes grow round and she takes up an almost child-like fascination. She’s naturally very curious, always tinkering with something or other and trying to find ways to make something work differently.

Her approach to religion is a cool indifference. Unlike her views of the law, religion is seen by her as strange ceremonies filled with chanting, sometimes blood and sometimes coin collection ‘for the good of the temple’. She is unsure if previous gods exist, and especially doubts that current ones do.

HISTORICAL-[/b]

Place of Birth: Etoma
Current Residence: Being nomadic, she could live anywhere and everywhere but Alakaia prefers warmer climates.



Chosen Pantheon: None.
Preferred Deity: None. The tall woman believes that she and only she is the master of her fate. Anything else is just coincidental. Or bad timing.


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RELATIONSHIPS-

Known Family:

• Anund Estrid (Father)
  
• Mohave (Uncle on mother’s side, originally from the Setani Desert. Now lives in mountains alone.)
  
• Boe & Bolli Estrid (Twin male cousins, both with red-blonde hair. Children of Johan and Freygerd.)
  
• Hrafn Estrid (Father’s older brother)
  
• Johan Estrid (Father’s younger brother)
  
• Freygerd (Johan’s wife. Possesses fiery red hair.)
  
• Grima (Hrafn’s firstborn daughter)
  
• Yngvar (Hrafn’s secondborn but first son)

Other:

• None Yet

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HISTORY-


Past History:

Alakaia was born to Zenobia Estrid and Anund Estrid during a snowstorm in Etoma. She was told that shortly after giving birth her mother died from fever, likely what precipitated a birth that was a whole month early. Despite being born early, Alakaia was of a decent size and grew whole and hale due to the patience presented by a normally impatient father. She was reluctantly drawn into the Estrid family by less than eager members.

Growing up on a rich diet of goat’s milk, Alakaia was able to quickly keep up the pace set by her cousins. Soon, she was roughhousing with them with the same vigor as most Winterborn children. The comments pertaining to her mixed race began when she started socializing with children outside of her direct family. Though some of her more boisterous uncles had opinions, they had kindly kept them to themselves and treated her with the same kindness as any child.

A concern of Anund was that his daughter seemed more prone to getting illnesses and colds than the other children. He never ridiculed her for it though, mixing and concocting teas and greased rubs to ease the congestion in her chest.

Her other peers spoke words of distrust and dislike. She quickly found herself in fights with other children, proving an unusual strength despite her slight size. She was the same as Anund, prone to horrible temper tantrums and quick to anger. The confrontations with other people grew more violent as she aged with her suffering a broken nose and split lip on more than one occasion. Tensions spurred by the parents of one child, she had even suffered a broken arm. As the years passed, the teasing and nasty taunts eased but the scars they left on her psyche remained. At first, Alakaia grew upwards a little…and then kept going. As an adolescent she was long-legged, still thin and clumsy, it was not unusual to see the young woman trip over her own feet while trying to help her father around their homestead.

She was sixteen when she was told by her father that she would be going on a little trip. That trip was a year-long voyage to Hsshinde to meet an uncle she would only know as Mohave. She learned from this man…this brother of her mother. Not only was it her first introduction to people who looked more like herself, but she was seeing a new mode of living. The weather was warm, something that she quickly appreciated. She grew more literate, engrossed in all of the books present.

Though she was still hurting from her past, she traveled back and forth between the Setani and Etoma. To this day, her father is still in the same place…with the same people and doing the same thing.

She’s usually very happy to leave after a visit to the chilling climate.

Site History:

AoS (Age of Stars: “Year”) 4010 AoS

• Date: Estria 3rd
  Title: Day Off
  Location: Saemi Falls
  Summary: On her lone day off, the tall woman encounters an undead. They strike up a deal, strike up a pact. Fulfilling her end of the bargain proves to be nearly too much for the poor woman to handle though.
  Status: Completed
  Involved Characters: Alakaia, Malificar
  
  
• Date: Rastril 10th
  Title: The Hunt
  Location: Trandatum, near the Silver Tears Inn.
  Summary: Alakaia makes her move to escape from her owner.
  Status: Dead Thread
  Involved Characters: Alakaia
  
  
• Date: Ories 9th
  Title: Falling Leaves
  Location: Aesterholm, The North Western edge of the Forest of Eire
  Summary: ...
  Status: In-Process
  Involved Characters: Lorryn, Sancraid, Kothro, Alakaia, Jericho
  

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