Nova

Nova; Aide at the Eloquent Quill, at your service!

## Introduction:

Nova, a Greater Glacian Retriever, is a tall beastkin with a goofy and merry-go-lucky attitude. Mostly cheerful and happy, she will try to put a smile on everyone's day, even if it rains around her.

## Description:

A tall big-pawed Glacian Retriever, Nova is well adapted to traversing snowy and rocky regions without much of a hassle. Her snow white fur, dark eyes with blue pupils and planed frame makes her ideal for tundral exploration and rescue. Her fair skin stands in contrast to the white fur and can easily withstand the normal sun without getting a tan.

Nova is usually dressed in a maid uniform or similar styled dress, has an assortment of cuffs as well as a collar which she happily carries.

Nova's fur, ears and tail are all soft to the touch and usually quite warm, and her skin is kept tidied as well, and given she's usually wellgroomed, she usually has a pleasant smell of orchids and lavender.

## The Eloquent Quill

The Eloquent Quill is a bookstore in the corner of the marketsquare, easily found by the sign above the door. The window, whilst darkened significantly, will reveal a room lit by not normal light, but an eerily dark seagreen light emanating from two chandeliers in the ceiling, and a lantern with bioluminescent whale-oil on the counter. A golden dragon statuette stands ready to greet newcomers. It is however rooted to the counter.

Anything from old books with lore of the world outside, to knowledge about mechanics and how magics are formed, are easily found within the shop. Should a scroll with magical attributes be needed, such can be found as well. One should just ask.

Nova works here, as an assistant to its proprietor; Albion Drake. She can provide books focused on basic lore, rhymes and songs as well as certain accessories, depending on what is in stock.

Quote of the shop: "Step off the beaten path, enter my world. The eyes are the limit."

The music one would hear inside the shop, subtly in the background.

## Likes and dislikes:

Likes:

* Bacon
* Going on walks with Albion or exploring
* Staring at Koi carps
* Bacon
* Helping out in the shop (For treats of course!)
* Meat
* Balls
* Meatballs
* Meeting new people
* Bacon
* Playing doggo games
* Baths
* Comfortable beds and furniture

Dislikes:

* Rude people
* Loud/pitched noises
* Violence/Conflict
* Sweat/strong musk
* Alpha narcissism
* Vegetables

## Personality:

Nova has a happy and lively personality and will gravitate towards conversations catching her interest and new people to make friends with. Her body however is equally as affected by her mood which, at times, is a hazard to fragile items in her vicinity. She is bouncy and upbeat, and will try her best to make sure that others feel the same way.

She is not a hostile beastkin, but will defend herself if she has to, or defend her owner if he is threatened. Her bark however, is not worse than her bite, as she has trained alongside monks in the arts of closequarter combat with spiritual backing of fierce kicks, punches and tackles; all of this despite having a pacifistic and almost naively optimistic view on the world.

## Backstory:

Nova, born into the tribe's farmer caste, was as a child put to work with helping gathering resources for the tribe as a whole, a mix of farming and foraging. An overall average life for a young Greater Glacier, and she was quite content with this little bubble of a world. However, as it happened to every other girl of age in the tribe, she was later assigned to the local monastery to train in the arts of spiritual guidance and pacifistic defense. Whilst not the most focused individual, Nova proved more than apt at engaging in hand to hand combat; mainly due to her large paws and her agile physique. Over the years of her early teens, she was taught how to focus her Ki into her combative posture, further amplifying the force at which she could repel attacks and immobilize aggressors without having to outright kill them

Shortly after her 19th birthday however, her tribe was raided by salvers roaming the snowy areas for easy pray, and most unfortunately, she was caught whilst standing alone. Without any means of properly fending off the aggressors at the time, she was captured and dragged back to Lecisia village whereto she was sold onwards to a buyer seeking exotic beast and monster-kin. Her travels brought her to northern Asien, not far from the water.

It was around that time a certain merchant fleet arrived and Nova was spotted by Albion, and subsequently acquired by the eccentric human.