Ida Ardscoil of the Tribe of Wicklow

**Ida Ardscoil of the Tribe of Wicklow** is an Apprentice-Priestess of Ladra in the Leuda Secondary Seminary. She graduated from the UoL as a Master of Arts in History and Anthropology in 2020.

## Biography

Ida was born in 1994 in Geata, where the Grand Sea meets the Silver Bay. Her parents are owners of a small fishing business with nine ships, eight of which are fishing ships. She is the oldest of six children, four of them boys.

She had a relatively quiet childhood, as quiet as it can get with six children, all of them quite lively, being above average in school, but mostly noted for her character, rarely not seen with a smile (except in maths, but she somehow managed). She, as Selkie usually did, learned riding at a very early age, basically being raised in the saddle, but not taking up any of the traditional sports. In 2004, she became a Servant to Ladra.

With 15 Springs, in 2009, she was sent by her parents to Traverse to further her education at the Naofa Temple School, living with an Uncle of hers. She graduated in 2012.

In Traverse, too, she was mostly noted for being lively and her smile and less for her academic capabilities (being above average again). It was her character why the headmaster of her school decided in 2011, that she should take a girl in as Guiding Student, that girl being the, at the time, seven year old and deeply traumatized Mona Beag of the Tribe of Louth.

The envoy of Lodan Lir and the Servant to Ladra, quickly got along, became best friends, and stayed in contact, even through the thick and thin of Ida beginning her studies of History and Anthropology in Leuda, and Mona beginning with her duties as Envoy. High Priestess Aife Cuisle of the Tribe of Wicklow once noted, how much it replayed the old stories of brotherhood between Lodan Lir and Ladra.

With 19 Springs, already studying in Leuda, she got to meet THE ONE, a fisherman named Fynn, a year older then she was and a man like only few men were - and she made sure to grab him and his heart. They quickly became boyfriend and girlfriend, inseparable, an on the day of her 21st Spring Festival, in 2015, he proposed (having talked about this with her parents and siblings beforehand). She accepted. A few weeks later, he did not return from open sea, his ship sunk in a vicious spring storm.

Ida broke down, but made her Bachelor's in 2017, deciding to study for her Master's Degree. She finished that in 2019. For the Summer Trimester of 2019, she joined the Leuda Secondary Seminary and is studying to become a Priestess of Ladra. During the COVID-19-Pandemic, Ida was deployed in religious welfare, providing it through windows and showing presence in the darkest hours.

In 2026, after seven years, Ida is scheduled to finish her training as a Priestess.

## Character

Ida was, in her teenage years, a fun girl, happy as a clam and friendly, always with a small joke on her lips. She was also exciteable about new things. After her fiancee stayed at sea, however, she was, for a long time, silent, brooding over her lot in life and tried to work herself over her loss.

With time, however, she found solace in her faith and became one of Leuda's most important Apprentice-Priestesses during the COVID-19-Pandemic and the lockdowns in her city. An intelligent and dependable hard worker, Ida became an expert in religious welfare through the window, healing herself by healing other peoples' traumas.

Ida is an active swimmer, but not competitive.

## Trivia

Two retconned versions of hers travelled to Camelone, both times during a student exchange.