Sage Artis

## Traits

Friendly, Shy and will always try to stay passive in a situation running from fights rather than fighting them. She can be equally ambitious and competitive when playing a game. She's bubbly and will always prefer to be surrounded by her friends and creatures of the forest.

## Goals & Motivation

Short term:

To find a peaceful way of life. Surrounded by nature.

Long term:

Explore the land and learn everything there is to it - Make many friends and allies from everywhere.

## Physical strength

She is known for being weak - her body was not made for fighting

## Speed & Agility

She learnt to be speedy in order to slip out of dangerous situations.

## Endurance and Stamina

She wears little to no protection but can run as far as her legs can take her miles and miles without getting tired.

## Charisma & Intelligence

She is extremely intelligent, often spending her time reading a book and learning everything she can about the world and people around her. She is a likeable character, friendly and sweet often wanting to help her friends and allies out in any way she can.

## Combat ability

Little to none with hand held weapons but is known to be deadly with a bow and arrow.

## Skills

She cooks and bakes plenty and proves to be a good merchant able to persuade people with her charming features. She can tame almost any animal as long as they aren't hostile mobs.

## Drawbacks/weaknesses

She will easily lose in combat, her body strength makes her weak and her weight proves her to be nothing but frail. She can find trouble in keeping focused and oftentimes loses her place in work and falls behind dragging her team back when they need her.

## Early Life

Sage was a small child living with her family. She had a huge fascination with everything flowers and plants - her favourite thing to do as a little girl was to climb the trees and collect all the beautiful flowers. Her Mother grew sick and her father would have to disappear for days on end to find work and trade with the village upstream to earn a little more money. Eventually she was just getting worse and worse. She would pass and they knew it. Her face became sunken in and she had large wart-like boils on her body, an infection that would likely pass to them if they didn’t get out of there. She and her father gathered what they could but he couldn't do it, he couldn’t leave his wife. Sage was begged to leave but she didn't know where else to go, she had no where. She began to run away, into the forest where she used to play. She ran for what felt like forever. By now it was becoming night, the dangers of the forest making themselves known with the sounds of hissing and growling. She found an old fallen tree in which she now called home.

The morning after she had awoken she looked around not recognising where she was or what direction she had come from. She found branches and twine and began to build herself a house under the fallen tree using any material she could find. A week had passed and she already had shelter and knew where the nearest stream was and everything was just beginning to look up. She noticed the way the water was running and remembered the way her father would often wander up in order to find work - that was the way to the village… Sage had put it through her head that she could find her home and see if her parents were alive if she too followed the river and so she did. She wandered upstream for hours and hours until she came across… stepping stones? These were the very same stepping stone her father had placed for her to run across the stream. It was a matter of seconds before she began to sprint towards her old home once again, but it was different this time the door was open and there was no smell of bread in the air. No laughing, and the dolls her father had made her weren't on the floor. She walked closer and closer until she was outside. One breath and she reached for the handle. But it was empty, they were gone, there was no sign of them but a note left where she had last seen her mother laying along with a small box. Her father’s handwriting had said that they were gone and not to come find them - He didn't want her to see them in the state they were in and although he was not infected, he wanted to die alongside his wife. There was one more sentence on the very bottom of the note “I may be gone, but you'll always have a piece of me with you” It was her mothers handwriting. She cried but did not understand what the words had meant until she looked back at the box. She took a second to think before scrambling to open it; Her mothers necklace. She placed it around her neck and vowed that day never to take it off.

## Recent life events

From the time she was 10 to the time she was 23 she lived under that same tree. 13 years of being alone she had almost forgotten there were people around her in this world and her fascination grew larger she wanted to meet them all. She wanted to explore. She had always dreamed of leaving but never quite knew how or where to go. What if the world isn't as friendly as it had seemed? But she had written so many stories about what life would be like and she just knew she had to try. She grabbed her small bag that she had made using hide and filled it with the things most important to her along with her plants and some recipes she wanted to use in order to trade with just like her father. In her hand she had her fathers old bow, She thought it would be good means to practise for self defence and for a source of food, in fact she was extremely good with it- deadly you might say. She picked up her arrows and wandered out from her tree and took one long look back. She knew she would miss this place but she had to move on. She needed to see what civilization was like and find a more stable place to live. And so she headed upstream.

## Present life

By now she had visited many new places and met plenty of people. She had wandered far and wide trading with small villages and large kingdoms alike. But it had been a year of moving and Sage was ready for what she had ultimately wanted… to settle down. She wanted a place to relax and collect all the books she could somewhere with a stable job and community earning money and making her mother and father proud once more.