Arianna Archer

[Arianna]

»Character Biography;;

Name: Arianna Saxon, otherwise known as Arianna Archer

Nickname: Ari or anna, depends on who is speaking to her.

Gender: female

Age: 26

Birthday: 5/13

Species: Human

Appearance

Hair: Arianna's hair is black, and hangs to her waist, though she normally keeps it swept up on braids or long pont tails while she works.

Eyes: Chestnut brown

Complextion: Pale

Build: Arianna is strong, her muscles built up after her years as a blacksmith. She about average weight and anverage height.

Attire: Arianna wears loose clothing while she works in her shop, along with a thick leather apron and thick leather gloves. When she's not working Arianna prefers to wear simple clothing, usually in dark colors.

Vocals: Arianna's voice is, or rather, was, soft and calming, like the soft sound of water passing over the rocks of a river. (when she speaks she has an english accent).

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Personality: Arianna is a calm, cool headed person who is slow to anger. She is generally trusting and kind.

Sexuality: Hetero

Strengths: hand to hand combat, smithing and crafting weapons and other such items, writing, drawing, sewing, she can sort of use a sword, but her true talent is with ranged weapons.

Weaknesses: Arianna was cursed and can no longer speak, making communication difficult.her knees are weaker than they used to be, caused by many long hours before the anvil. Arianna is headstrong and often rushes into a situation without planning ahead, which often gets the woman into trouble. In addition, she cannot swim, and she is unable tell people how to break her curse.

Abilities

Active: Hand to hand combat, ranged fighting

Passive: none

Weapons: A simple bow and a long hunting knife. She is always surrounded by swords, but she isn't the greatest at wielding them.

Animal Form: (What animal, if any, can your character turn into?)

History: Arianna was born to a noble family in a far off land. She was raised in her family's manor and eventually promised to the son of the rulers a kingdom which neighbored her family's land. She traveled to meet her future husband with her father. The Son and ruler of the neighboring kingdom both liked Arianna, but his mother did not. She felt that no woman should ever be able to inherit her crown. So during their visit, the woman hired a witch to place a curse on the young girl. The curse was originally supposed to end her life, but the young woman was saved by a strange power, and instead of killing her she found herself unable to speak, her vocal cords destroyed. She left the kingdom and her father, afraid for her life. Once her family found she had run away, her 3 brothers took it upon themselves to search the world over for their young sister, and the evil Noble woman was put to death for the attempted murder of the young girl.

Many months passed, and Arianna still had no idea what had happened to her voice till she came upon an aging woman who informed her of the curse that had been placed upon her. She was told that her curse would be complicated to take off considering she would be unable to give hints or clues about it's removal. She left the old woman on a quest to find someone able to remove her curse but sadly had no luck in her quest.

alone and terrified, Arianna wandered away from the old womans house. The winter had been hard that year, and homeless Arianna had almost been lost to the cold. She would have died if not for a kindly Blacksmith that found her and took her in. He raised her like his own daughter and taught her his trade. She ended up taking the man's last name, to protect herself in case the woman, of which she was unaware was dead, could not find her.

Years passed, and the blacksmith died. Alone again, Arianna set out to make her own way in the world, eventually coming to Exodus to set up shop. By now the young woman had lost all hope of ever having her curse removed.

Family:

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It had been another long day of walking. Arianna had finally reached Exodus Town, and not a moment too soon, for a heavy snow had begun to fall. She urged her team of horses forward. Just a bit further you two she thought to herself. Soon she would be able to unhitch the team from her wagon and get settled in. she hoped to find a decent shop that would suit her needs. Back at DD's pub she had learned of an abandoned smith that was supposedly located in the middle of Exodus, so she hoped her trip was not for nothing. This was a new beginning for her...

Other;

[hatchet]

I am not the admin, but I wanted to point out a realism flaw. It takes ten years to become a Master blacksmith. Assuming your girl was betrothed to the prince at MINIMAL marrying age of 12, she wouldn't even have ten years training. Also, it takes power to be a good smith, and most of the work is done standing. She'd need the leg strength to ground her. That's just my opinion, Capella has the final say.

[Capella]

Unfortunately, realism doesn't really run abundant here. I encourage people to have realistic characters, but I would feel uncomfortable demanding unnecessary changes. Your character's build and their history and stuff like that is really up to you, and only suggestions can be offered, and whether or not you want to take them is completely your choice. After all, it makes sense to like the character you're playing, right?

Being so young and having so much ability in a field such as smithing doesn't make sense, that's true. But we'd have to take a look at the world of fantasy and fictional worlds, and take into account what goes on there. Maybe mastering smithing takes slightly less time there. Or maybe Arianna isn't a master, but is close, and wants to round out her training. Maybe after so many years she doesn't require another Master to keep her as an apprentice.

Lots of different stuff to consider. But in the end, all of that necessary stuff - strengths and weaknesses, consistency with the setting, blah blah blah - is all fine by me, so you get the green light.