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Anurania

Anurania "Ani" Pålsdotter

Name Anurania
Status
Active
Occupation
Living off savings
Age
Late teens
Race
Man
Residence
Breeland inns for now
Kinship
Outward Appearance

Tl;dr: She's a skinny teenager with short black hair and freckles, with a foreign accent and rustic tomboy ways.

 


Ani is a couple inches shy of five and a half feet tall. She's slim, and small busted. Her skin is pale, healthy, and her face is notably freckled. She is not beautiful. Whether her face is plain or cute, about half of people will say one and half the other, so very much a matter of viewer taste. She's quick to grin, and when she does she does big, showing some nice teeth. Her hair dark brown to the point of being practically black. Its length is between a short bob and a pixie cut, though closer to the latter, and roughly cut. It tends to be unkempt. Sometimes she brushes it down, but with little sense of style. Anurania has very nice, deep blue eyes that are striking when matched with her favorite shades of blue clothing.

 

Left to her own devices she tends to dress boyishly in a shirt or jersey and plain pants. If her clothes are colorful she usually chooses a  bold medium blue such as "Evendim Blue," or crimson, both of which are popular for festive outfits in her home village. Lately, now that she's begun living among elves and especially under the influence of Seregrian, she has begun wearing dresses, even a little more than half the time.

 

When armed, she wears a coat made of padded heavy white felted wool reinforced with leather and mail, steel band reinforced heavy leather boots, and chain reinforced leather gloves. She tops it off with a full faced helm decorated with small pronged antlers that was originally scavenged from a dead orc. Under her amor is a simple long gray tunic and leggings, and a kerchief with a sweatband on her head. She has a spear and shield, a set of javelins, a sword she rarely uses, and a set of nice throwing knives she hides here and there on her person even when she isn't otherwise armed.

 

She is often accompanied by a big brown hound dog. It's scarred, strong, and scary looking but disciplined enough to harm no one when roaming the streets. The dog usually ignores anything said in other than Ani's native tongue, even if tempted with a treat, especially if she's not there.

 

Her manners are rustic and her demeanor unsophisticated. She is generally in a good mood and friendly but is prone to the moods expected at her age. Sometimes she has a sharp tongue for authority figures she resents or feels threatened by, and is willing to be mean to the perceived enemy of a friend without looking very deeply into their issues first. She has trouble acting ladylike or appearing graceful in social actions despite being agile enough. Such things make her feel self conscious, and the prettier a gesture is the more she feels like she's the last girl who should be doing it, and it shows. It sabotages her curtsies and bows. She fidgets a lot, and when she sits her knee is often bouncing or her foot tapping. Her palms tend to get sweaty and she hates it. The same goes for her scalp and forehead especially when she's embarrassed, leaving her bangs damp. As a small mercy she doesn't usually smell very bad, at least to another human.

 

Her native language is very close to that of Beorn, of Beornings fame, with a slight difference of dialect her ancestors brought from Dale. She can converse with most Dalish speakers, both using their own languages, quite well. Her Westron is mostly fluent though her vocabulary is far from complete and she has to fall back on her native words sometimes with mixed success. She has a strong accent, most noticeable in pronouncing TH as in "then" (that is edh, ð) as D, TH as in "think" (thorn, þ) as T, and NG like in the "-ing" ending as a simple N. There are, however, many other small oddities too.  Her village's dialect of their language uses double negatives regularly and she has kept the habit in Westron. In town it can make her sound like a street kid, which she is not, and in the country like a hick, which she absolutely is. Her tone of voice isn't noteworthy in it's own average pitch but when she talks it goes up and down a lot, sing-songy to the ears of those whose language doesn't have that feature. Most languages in Middle Earth do  not except perhaps Dalish, maybe Eorling. She speak Sindarin with the same accent, with better grammar though less vocabulary. Her Sindarin vocabulary is more likely to include academic, medical, and alchemical terms. Sometimes when discussing apothecary she'll drop a word that no listener will probably understand except for the rare person who knows the speech of the people of Angmar.

 

Background

Tl;dr: She's a plain girl from an obscure Anduin Vale farming village whose residents are tenants of the Beornings though not skin-changers themselves. She is typical of those people in many ways, yet somehow was misfit enough to fall out into the wider world.

 


[more coming]

Friends
She has met and made friends with too many people she thinks highly of to risk trying to list. Surely some names would be accidentally, unfairly forgotten.
Relatives
None in game, all are imaginary NPCs
Rivals/Enemies
There must be people who hate her guts but she doesn't know who they are. She probably won't cry if you point out that you're one of them, though you never know.
Loves
Isn't known to be with anyone steadily right now, though she carries a torch or two in her heart.
Hates
She has typical dislikes for her age and background, such as not liking being "in trouble," especially when it's "not fair." So basically she resents The Man. Otherwise she tends to hate those her current friends and loved ones hate, for their sake.
Motivation
Originally blown by the wind of whim, she has recently decided she wants to try to do something good for the world. Her current goal is to study healing in Rivendell. She's studying with elves elsewhere now in preparation for that.
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