Re: Player Information II
Minia
Human fighter
Currently itinerant swordfighter
Business Interests
Training with her sword, crafting her own sword, establishing protections for the commonfolk
Background
When Minia was born, the bright-eyed child was not expected to live long. Often sick, sleepless and weak, her parents didn't hold out much hope for her longevity. Her sister's nascent skill with druidic magic would be her salvation however, the young half-elf's will to see her sister live manifesting in the first of her spells. Since then, Minia has felt a debt to her sister, one which has occasionally put her at odds with her own desires and goals.
One day the girls' parents left them with a family. They did not come back and when the money they'd left for the girls dried up they were turned onto the streets.
Though the younger of the two siblings, Minia's faster maturation as a human meant that after a decade and a half, her sister's youthful immaturity began to show and the cynical and world-weary Minia needed to take charge of her own life and start supporting her sister's efforts to keep them alive and fed as well. Mostly working as a lookout for minor criminal efforts in Mivon or as a guard for long stretches guarding the alleyways for people of the underworld, she found herself also drawn to watching the great swordlords from afar, doing her best to memorize and practice their arts during her brief times of rest.
There was the ever present fear of bandit attacks in this lawless city and one day the farm was attacked and it burned. The girls decided to find a new home, one where they could make a change and so they left the city of their birth, headed for The Stolen Land. As a final bit of larceny, the budding swordfighter stole a pitted and nicked Aldori dueling sword from one of her former criminal contacts. Though the blade was by no means special, it helped the sisters in realizing their goals, providing a much better weapon than the knives and butcher's blade Minia had used previously when they ventured into the swamp to slay a dreadful black dragon for the gold necessary to start their new lives . . . a story Minia never truly tires of boasting of, despite the dubious nature of the sisters surviving an encounter with a true wyrmling (they did not)
Personality
Taciturn and driven, Minia ranks her sister firstmost among her alliances. Should someone need to die so her sister might live, she would cut them down in a heartbeat (a sentiment which the elder half-elven sister, no less devoted but considerably wiser, doesn't necessarily take as totally). She sleeps in a dark hovel, dresses in homespun clothing webbed with stiches and reinforcements. She has little save a warm cloak and a sword at her belt, though she's newly acquired a the luxury of a shortbow. She is in a word, mean.
Like her sister, Minia exhibits a distaste for what she considers the abuses of society, nobility grown fat off plunder and bandits and merchants exploiting the commonfolk. That she herself participated in this cycle leaves Minia only more determined to end it, but the draw of the Stolen Land's frontier is attractive. She can co-exist with the lords of this region much more happily than she can the more entrenched ones of other areas, and has even found herself growing fond of some of them, allowing herself the pleasures of pursuing art, craft and enjoyment of simple things.
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