Beatrice Ziolkowska

Franek Ziolkowski (Grandfather) (Deceased)

Małgorzata Ziolkowska (Grandmother) (Deceased)

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**Beatrice Ziolkowska** is perhaps the oldest guard of Hallengard still in function. She started off as a Lieutenant, but recently lost that position for some time due to events that were going on at the time. She has had a rough childhood, which is why she can come over as agressive or assertive. She does have a sweet spot too.

## **Backstory**

Beatrice was born in the nation of Mjszovia (Would be Poland out of rp.). Her mother, Małgorzata, tragically died while giving birth to her, so it was just Beatrice and her dad. Through the first six years of her life, she would face constant physical and mental abuse from her father. Luckily, her father then ran away because he felt like he wasn't ready to raise a child. This however, was a blatant lie. He simply was too lazy and too drunk to raise a daughter.

Beatrice was adopted at the age of six by her grandparents from her mother's side of the family, Franek Ziolkowski and Małgorzata Ziolkowska. The two took good care of her and made sure her father would never return. She was a difficult child. Always out and about getting in trouble and picking fights with other children from her village. She lived in a rather small village with a population of around forty. Her grandparents tried their best though. They loved her unconditionally.

On a particulalry unfortunate evening, when Beatrice was merely nine years old, shewas sitting outside on the porch of her house playing with a toy her grandfather had made her. Screams came from the village, followed by the air getting very bright at a certain spot. Then another spot. And another. Houses were being set on fire, people were screaming, the village was being raided! This had never happened before since they were merely a small village with nothing of interest. She ran inside to get her grandparents. This is when she remembered, they weren't there. Her grandfather was down at the creek, hunting animals to sell on the market the next day, and her grandmother was out in the village. She decided to hide in the forest. Luckily, her grandfather found her and went to hide with her, deciding there was no point in trying to get her grandmother. This would go on for a couple hours, until very late in the night when the screaming and the flames stopped. The raiders were gone, and the village was burned down. They went down to their house, just to find it burned to the ground, and her grandmother's corpse lying next to it.

Beatrice and her grandfather would live in the forests for a couple years to come since her village burned down. Her grandfather's health steadily declined, until one day at the age of 69, he passed away peacefully in his sleep. She didn't take this that well. She would be around 13 years old at this point. She would rely heavily on self harm and eating weird mushrooms that made her hallucinate, to make it through her days alone in the wild. Luckily, she did know how to survive due to being taught so by her grandparents. For years to come she would not find a single village or sign of civilization. One day, on a nice early morning, she decided to take a couple mushrooms more than normal. This resulted in tragedy, however. She started to heavily hallucinate and getting very nauseaus. She heard the bushes behind her rustling and thinking it was just her hallucinations decided to run straight towards it. This would be a big mistake, as the thing that made the rustling was a wolf. The wolf attacked her and got her good. It bit her leg, scratched her body up real bad and messed her up. This is when her fight or flight kicked in. She felt on the ground around her for something to bash the wolf with. A stick, dirt, and a stone. She took the stone and bashed the thing's skull in. In a last effort to kill her, the wolf lashed out at her face. This resulted in her eye getting fucked. The wolf died to what she would think was a stroke, which was for the good. Sobered up by the pain, she took bandaged up her eye and started to think about what she'd been doing this whole time. She was getting older and older without any real destination in life. She decided to follow her grandfather's final instruction; follow the river. This she did, to major success. The river lead to an area, a path which was seperated by the river, with an island in the middle with a tree on it. She decided to follow the path and ended up at Hallengard.

Having arrived at Hallengard, tired from her injuries and walking almost non stop, she decided to rest up in the run down house next to the barracks halfway up. This is where she was found by an unnamed woman, who gave her food and water, and recommended her to talk to the king. A kind man this was, the king. He offered her a job at the guard, and soon she was feeling better about herself and life in general. She had a place to be, and a "family" and friend to take care of and project...