Characters/Anna
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| Name: | Anna Bell Hunstswoman |
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| Race | Female Quarter Elf |
| Birth/Death Dates | 1003- |
| Hair Color | Shoulder length |
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| Status: | Alive |
| Affiliations: | Currently on assignment for the Hebridonian Crown |
| Location or known whereabouts: | Hebridonia |
First born of Whillhelm John Huntsman and Morning Glory, she grew up living deep in the forest with her 3 sisters, Penelopy, Colby and Samantha. Her aunt is Lyralla, the noted seeress and prophet.
Grew up learning the trade off a huntsman from her father. She learned to hunt with a bow (really good), traps and snares (does OK). She also learned how to take care of her self while out hunting in the woods, field dressing and cooking game. She learned the art of forest survival and other hunting skills like tracking, stealthy movement, and camouflage along with her sisters. She can identify many edible berries and roots; and often uses them to season her field cooking. Her favorite hunting method is to make a tree stand, use her bow from there, which has taught her lots patience, and not to be compulsive. Her sister Penelope preferred to set her traps and snares and go away for a while, then returning to collect her catches, she is very good at it too. She reacts to danger quickly and with an instinct to do the right thing without thinking.
When 7 years old, she had a near death experience. She was with her father and by the side of the river Kametch, which was swollen with the spring melt. She slipped off the rock she was sitting on and fell in to the torrent of the raging water. Her father was able to jump in and catch her after a 500 yard swim. He got her to shore and after several minutes was able to revive her. Because of this she has a overwelming fear of moving water and a general dislike of any body of water over 5 meters across (Phobia). She used to be a fair swimmer but now is terrible at best. She will ONLY cross a body of water if 1) it is not moving faster then a gentle flow, 2) is only waist deep AND 3) atleast 2 members of her party have already sucessfully crossed befor her. She will use/passenger a boat, but only if the water is calm AND there is NO possibility of a storm! Clouds make her suspect a storm is on its way and not want to get on a boat. Even after being on a boat, she will constantly inquire of the crew the safty of the vessel and the chance of inclement weather.
Her parents have taught her to respect the forest and all its inhabitants. She will not kill except to hunt or defend her self.
Once back at home she would help with house chores, even the ones she did not like to do. If someone else would make the pie crust, she would make the filling, baking was her least favorite chore (terrible). She can NEVER could get the pie crust rolled out without tearing it, after which she would loose her temper, not like her at all…but one of her hot buttons, and through the pie crust around the house in frustration. Her favorites were cooking , tanning the hides and making clothes and shoes from the leather.
She would also accompany her mother to town and engage in the sale/barter of the game and leather at the local stores.
She has competed in several archery competitions in the last 2 years and received 1st place in the last three.
She wears her shoulder length hair in a French braid to keep it out of the way.
She enjoys music and singing but she herself does not play or sing. Not very sociable, she is shy around boys and does not engage in human styles of dance. Has learned to do some Eleven dancing from her mother.
Has little interest in town life, preferring the country side with its singing birds and neighborly little 4 legged friends.
Now that the family is living in town and has access to horses, she is learning to ride.
Being too old for school, she is learning to read and write from her younger sisters. She is a really good sketcher and loves to draw pictures of animals and maps of good hunting places.
Being a hunter and tanner, Anna usually has from 6 to 12 leather strips of leather on her. They range from shoe lace thick to 1/4" thick and from 2' to 5' long. She has several pair of brightly colored, red, green, blue, black, white, yellow, purple, and natural leather strips she weaves into her hair when she feels like it. She has a leather strip tied to the top of her bow, in which she ties things, feathers, leaves etc. which currently holds a squirrel's tail. There is a piece of leather tied around her knife handle all the time. She has a small metal "bottle" pot with a 3" long straight handle, that holds about 6oz of liquid. It has a sealable cover for transportation. It has seen many a trip to the campfire and bares the soot markings to prove it. She uses it like a maple syrup pail to gather sap from trees that she makes her stands in. She then uses the heated sap as a plaster to cover the axe holes she put in the tree when making the stand. Kind of like a natural bandage.
After living in town for a year now with the rest of the family, Anna has become bored and is looking for some adventure, fortune and fame. Her recent victory in the archery games during the town’s annual harvest festival, even beating her father and all the local guards and soldiers, is the last straw. She has to move on and NOW!
She has never been to the city of Kalen, but since living in Gelt, has herd much about it and its social/nobility.
She has a very small Elven vocabulary:
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stop quiet (even my dad used this one ;-) quickly help danger eat go slow down (yep, another one dad used a lot) money hungry now here
one or two more I've heard, but do not know what they mean, only that are not sooooooooo nice, when mom uttered them, you ran!!!
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The adventure begins!!!
Last update of this biography: E.C.
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Early adventure log Anna's log.
