Morgaine of Avalon
05-27-08, 05:24 PM
Name: Niraine Ravenwood
age: 11
gender: female
Hair color: Strawberry blonde
eye color: green-brown
height: 4'8''
weight: 90 lbs.
occupation: Squire of the Sacred Arts
Personality: Niraine is a mirthful little girl, who likes spending her days out in the sunlight riding horses and playing with her boy cousins instead of sewing and practicing etiquette. (Though secretly, dancing has been a soft spot of hers). when presented with something she doesn't understand or know, she simply plunges in to see what happens to understand it the hard way. Easy to smile and quick to stop crying, she is the epitome of childish optimism. This easy-going attitude makes her an easy friend, and sociable(even with some of the adults she knows)
Appearance: Nira is neither her father's nor her mother's child precisely - it was as if their appearance's melted together. her mother had long curly white-blonde hair while her father was a dark ginger. She had her hair in strawberry blonde waves, which she often opted to a loose french braid to keep out of her face in her studies. her skin was fair colored, with a generous sprinkling of freckles that made her big, earthy green-brown eyes stand out. she was a tad short for her age, but when you were a kid you were about the right size for a kid. Adults didn't seem to care much.
History: Niraine's mother was a whore in the most loved brothel in Althanas. When Tristan, her father, learned of this, he was honor-bound as a lord of house Ravenwood to take care of whoever would come forth from this woman's loins. Yet when the court, and his lady wife, learned of this, outrage spread throughout. For a lord to take a whore from the brothel and birth a bastard child was unthinkable in court. His wife felt abandoned and replaced, since she had trouble conceiving an heir for her lord husband. As more and more people put pressure on him and the baby drew nearer and nearer, it was finally decreed that the church come and give counsel. When the priest came, he decreed that to kill the child within the womb of a woman, incestuous or no, would be a sin. he simply said that after the baby was born, it's mother would be sent back to the brothel and the child would be raised under the Sacred Arts - a guild of mages and healers and sorcerers that were some of the most noble people in Althanas, but almost everyone who was placed their for a bad reason or another - being the bastard of lords, stealing in the market, that lot. When the priest added that Nira's father would be allowed one day with his child every six months, the nobles objected, saying this punishment was too soft. Which was true, compared to most priests. But this priest was the one to administer punishment because he was a friend of the lord father of Nira, and would be merciful with him, the king knew. and so it happened. When Nira was born, she never saw her mother. She was taken right to Sacred Sisters, who had a wet nurse ready to keep her fed. in the times she saw her father, she was happy and her father was warm to her. When she was six, she was discovered to have a chance of power and was taken from the page's ward to be squired by a sorceress to become one some day. Though she has no true last name, she calls herself by her lord father's surname because she knew she was the heir to his lands until his woman could produce one(which still hasn't happened) and that she would rather wear his heritage with pride than with shame.
Skills: conjure fire(basic, i.e; can summon about a campfire sized flame, cannot be hurtled at people, though can be intended to harm others if used right. meant for warmth/protection), conjure water(i.e: make drinking water from the air - can only make enough to fill half a water skin), conjure light(basic: orb for dark places/making light placesc overly bright if need be), summon familiar
equipment: rod of oak with quarzite sphere gnarled at the top(training staff) Basic spellbooks for apprentice sorcerers(2), cloth robes(5) cloak(1)
familiar: a white raven with green eyes. carries letters to and from certain places for Niraine.
age: 11
gender: female
Hair color: Strawberry blonde
eye color: green-brown
height: 4'8''
weight: 90 lbs.
occupation: Squire of the Sacred Arts
Personality: Niraine is a mirthful little girl, who likes spending her days out in the sunlight riding horses and playing with her boy cousins instead of sewing and practicing etiquette. (Though secretly, dancing has been a soft spot of hers). when presented with something she doesn't understand or know, she simply plunges in to see what happens to understand it the hard way. Easy to smile and quick to stop crying, she is the epitome of childish optimism. This easy-going attitude makes her an easy friend, and sociable(even with some of the adults she knows)
Appearance: Nira is neither her father's nor her mother's child precisely - it was as if their appearance's melted together. her mother had long curly white-blonde hair while her father was a dark ginger. She had her hair in strawberry blonde waves, which she often opted to a loose french braid to keep out of her face in her studies. her skin was fair colored, with a generous sprinkling of freckles that made her big, earthy green-brown eyes stand out. she was a tad short for her age, but when you were a kid you were about the right size for a kid. Adults didn't seem to care much.
History: Niraine's mother was a whore in the most loved brothel in Althanas. When Tristan, her father, learned of this, he was honor-bound as a lord of house Ravenwood to take care of whoever would come forth from this woman's loins. Yet when the court, and his lady wife, learned of this, outrage spread throughout. For a lord to take a whore from the brothel and birth a bastard child was unthinkable in court. His wife felt abandoned and replaced, since she had trouble conceiving an heir for her lord husband. As more and more people put pressure on him and the baby drew nearer and nearer, it was finally decreed that the church come and give counsel. When the priest came, he decreed that to kill the child within the womb of a woman, incestuous or no, would be a sin. he simply said that after the baby was born, it's mother would be sent back to the brothel and the child would be raised under the Sacred Arts - a guild of mages and healers and sorcerers that were some of the most noble people in Althanas, but almost everyone who was placed their for a bad reason or another - being the bastard of lords, stealing in the market, that lot. When the priest added that Nira's father would be allowed one day with his child every six months, the nobles objected, saying this punishment was too soft. Which was true, compared to most priests. But this priest was the one to administer punishment because he was a friend of the lord father of Nira, and would be merciful with him, the king knew. and so it happened. When Nira was born, she never saw her mother. She was taken right to Sacred Sisters, who had a wet nurse ready to keep her fed. in the times she saw her father, she was happy and her father was warm to her. When she was six, she was discovered to have a chance of power and was taken from the page's ward to be squired by a sorceress to become one some day. Though she has no true last name, she calls herself by her lord father's surname because she knew she was the heir to his lands until his woman could produce one(which still hasn't happened) and that she would rather wear his heritage with pride than with shame.
Skills: conjure fire(basic, i.e; can summon about a campfire sized flame, cannot be hurtled at people, though can be intended to harm others if used right. meant for warmth/protection), conjure water(i.e: make drinking water from the air - can only make enough to fill half a water skin), conjure light(basic: orb for dark places/making light placesc overly bright if need be), summon familiar
equipment: rod of oak with quarzite sphere gnarled at the top(training staff) Basic spellbooks for apprentice sorcerers(2), cloth robes(5) cloak(1)
familiar: a white raven with green eyes. carries letters to and from certain places for Niraine.