Drea

Drea
Name: Drea daughter of Halima daughter of Willow
Rank: Peddler
Age: 312
Race: Ogier
Sex: Female
Appearance:
Drea is slim, but not from lack of nutrition. She has the lean body of a
runner, one used to traveling long distances using only her two feet. Drea’s
lashes are not so long as some but they are light brown streaked with the
gray of her age. Her long hay colored hair is braided daily in one long
plate hanging down to her lower back. Her eyes are the color of deep
hazelnut with ambers of red that make them seem to glow with fire when her
emotions run off with her. Dresses of fine cut linens or silks in greens and
blues are common wears, with enough embroidery to shame a Tinker.
Personality:
Drea is a woman of profound honor and dignity. She is impossibly patient and
there is a kindness to her that seems to take a form of mothering everyone
around her. Like a mother, she can be hard as stone when she thinks a child
is being foolish or not listening to reason. The air about her tells that
very few fail to see reason once Drea gets it into her head to teach them.
Drea has a light laugh and a sharp whit, well honed with over 300 years of
use. The white streaks of hair at either temple remark upon that as much as
the vast intelligence that makes itself prudent in her eyes.
Personality Weakness:
- Slow to make decisions
- Thinks she knows best
- Stubborn
Personality Strengths:
- Loyal
- Protective
- Honest
History:
Drea, Daughter of Halima, daughter of Willow was born to parents of the
Stedding Tisubo, lost now 40 years to the Blight. Born in the time of the
Stedding’s falling and the daily wars with the shadow, there was turmoil and
death reaching into the heart of the stedding itself. The Ogier males were
being sent to fight alongside the humans against the vast numbers of
Shadowspawn that seemed to know no end. Times were dark and the Elders
called Meetings of the Stump almost every day. It seemed as if darkness
would befall the lands that her people had so loved and cultivated.
Drea saw with young eyes the reality of war and death, the wailing crys of
mothers deep in the night as they learned that there husband or son or
father had been killed in the fight. Those crys were a tearing to the soul
of every Ogier who could hear them. Only the calmness of the stedding and
the peace of the forest could console the grieving community that was the
Ogier people. Never were these peace loving people meant to experience so
great a pain. But through it all Drea saw the stony determination that was
the core of the Ogier. No matter how many fell, as long as one breath lived
the ax would be picked up from where it fell and wielded with a retributions
fury. Where axes failed, brute strength of fists and feet were wielded with
equal deadly contact. The Ogier people might not like it, but when the time
came, fighting was like second nature.
In the end not even the protection of the stedding held the shadowspawn out.
In a mass exodus every woman and child fled the stedding, running south
toward the closest stedding they could reach on the other side of the
Blight. The men stayed behind and died, giving time to there wives and
sisters and mothers. The feeling of the women who walked for weeks in tears
was an air of despair, pain, and loss. Drea was shaken to the point of being
shocked. She had seen a trolloc split a man’s head in two. To someone who
had never even seen a person punched before, it was terrifying and left a
deep scar that remains with Drea until this day. Her hatred for fighting is
matched only to that hatred of Shadowspawn
Drea and her mother settled into Stedding Shagia a hundred or so miles south
of the Blight. Speakers from all the Steddings met there the discuss what
was to happen to the people who lived now that the Stedding Tisubo had
fallen. Drea and her mother were sent to Stedding Tsofu where they were to
wait a year before moving to there new permanent Stedding, only at the
Stedding Tsofu, Drea’s mother found a suitable male and married her daughter
off before leaving to go liveout the rest of her life in what she called
forested peace.
Drea grew into a beautiful woman, and married a man of her mothers choosing,
bearing three children, all of whom she married off into other Stedding. If
someone loses there mother, Drea has been known to be quick about arranging
things for them herself. A life full of books reading on the past, the
deaths of the Ogier people, the creating of the Longing, all of it she
soaked in as a young woman, and now peruses over in her spare time to try to
learn anything she might have missed before.
With her children all married off, and her husband ten years dead, Drea had
nothing left to hold her in the Stedding. Selling her home and everything
she could not fit on her massive wagon pulled by two oxen, she set out to
travel the world. She would be a peddler, and wonder from City to City and
Stedding to Stedding. Perhaps in her travels she would find a cause to live
out the rest of her life for.
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