@ZannekJan 09, 2016Jan 09, 2016 at 10:08 PM
#1
Second try! I hope this character will fit more in line with the guild - I haven't roleplayed her yet so I'm open to any constructive criticism before getting properly started.
Race: Bosmer
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Physical Description:
Despite her beautiful light eyes, well-kept blonde hair and healthy radiant skin, Laenien is incredibly self-conscious about the deep scars across her face. Her insecurities can be physically seen in the difficulty she has smiling and her slumped posture; she speaks softly so as not to draw too much attention to herself.
Personality
Likes: Strong men, planting and nurturing saplings, being outdoors.
Dislikes: Herbivores, maintaining eye contact for too long, fire.
Strengths: Excellent sight, harnessing nature (particularly stormy weather), empathetic.
Weaknesses: Bad judge of character, easily influenced or intimidated, insecure.
Laenien is always seeking the approval of others around her; she lacks self-esteem and therefore looks to others for affirmation, as a result she is too quick to trust and has fallen into multiple abusive or manipulative friendships and relationships.
Background
Deep within the forests of Greenshade lived a small community of peaceful Bosmer; they faithfully honoured the green pact and lived simple, happy lives among the trees. Of course this lifestyle has its own trials, but they worked hard to ensure they had everything they needed. This was the community that Laenien was born into; the first child of Baelna and Enillion Greenwood.
Although they loved her dearly, her parents were over-achievers and expected a lot from Laenien; not only would she do whatever they asked, she would do her best to out-do herself each time so as to win their approval.
All seemed well until she reached her early teens, it was then that she started realising she had a strong connection to the magical energy of the skies; her parents had always disapproved of magic that didn’t go toward healing and maintaining the forest, so she practiced in secret.
Eventually her need for approval got the better of her and she couldn’t keep it hidden from her parents anymore; she wanted them to be impressed, so while she was helping them butcher the bounty from their latest hunt, she called upon a bolt from the sky in an attempt to cook some of the meat.
At the time landing such a precise strike lightning was well beyond her capabilities; instead the bolt of lightning hit a nearby tree with such an uncontrolled force that it immediately exploded in violent flames. She could only look on in horror as the fire spread.
Her mother, furious, took the knife she had been using on the meat and slashed Laenien three times across the face. “You are not of this family; I curse you, Ashwood!” her mother screamed. By now the rest of their community had realised what was happening, to them this girl was a witch who had violated the green pact and endangered their homes – those who were not tending the fire drew their bows she ran for her life, barely escaping the rain of arrows that followed behind her.
When she was certain that she was no longer being followed, she collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and wept. Where would she live now? How could she make up for what she had done to that tree?
When she was finished crying, she brushed herself off and set off to find the city of Elden Root that she had heard so much about – surely she could make a new life for herself there.
Race: Bosmer
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Physical Description:
Despite her beautiful light eyes, well-kept blonde hair and healthy radiant skin, Laenien is incredibly self-conscious about the deep scars across her face. Her insecurities can be physically seen in the difficulty she has smiling and her slumped posture; she speaks softly so as not to draw too much attention to herself.
Personality
Likes: Strong men, planting and nurturing saplings, being outdoors.
Dislikes: Herbivores, maintaining eye contact for too long, fire.
Strengths: Excellent sight, harnessing nature (particularly stormy weather), empathetic.
Weaknesses: Bad judge of character, easily influenced or intimidated, insecure.
Laenien is always seeking the approval of others around her; she lacks self-esteem and therefore looks to others for affirmation, as a result she is too quick to trust and has fallen into multiple abusive or manipulative friendships and relationships.
Background
Deep within the forests of Greenshade lived a small community of peaceful Bosmer; they faithfully honoured the green pact and lived simple, happy lives among the trees. Of course this lifestyle has its own trials, but they worked hard to ensure they had everything they needed. This was the community that Laenien was born into; the first child of Baelna and Enillion Greenwood.
Although they loved her dearly, her parents were over-achievers and expected a lot from Laenien; not only would she do whatever they asked, she would do her best to out-do herself each time so as to win their approval.
All seemed well until she reached her early teens, it was then that she started realising she had a strong connection to the magical energy of the skies; her parents had always disapproved of magic that didn’t go toward healing and maintaining the forest, so she practiced in secret.
Eventually her need for approval got the better of her and she couldn’t keep it hidden from her parents anymore; she wanted them to be impressed, so while she was helping them butcher the bounty from their latest hunt, she called upon a bolt from the sky in an attempt to cook some of the meat.
At the time landing such a precise strike lightning was well beyond her capabilities; instead the bolt of lightning hit a nearby tree with such an uncontrolled force that it immediately exploded in violent flames. She could only look on in horror as the fire spread.
Her mother, furious, took the knife she had been using on the meat and slashed Laenien three times across the face. “You are not of this family; I curse you, Ashwood!” her mother screamed. By now the rest of their community had realised what was happening, to them this girl was a witch who had violated the green pact and endangered their homes – those who were not tending the fire drew their bows she ran for her life, barely escaping the rain of arrows that followed behind her.
When she was certain that she was no longer being followed, she collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and wept. Where would she live now? How could she make up for what she had done to that tree?
When she was finished crying, she brushed herself off and set off to find the city of Elden Root that she had heard so much about – surely she could make a new life for herself there.
RaccoonismJan 09, 2016