Dara Chard: Initiate of Orlanth Adventurous

I grew up on a farm alongside the road from Jonstown to Dangerford where the mountains widen out into grasslands. My grandfather was given the land, six hides not far from the White Crow Inn, in recognition of his valiant service in the wars. The story we were always told while we were growing up was that Pap-pap Kyn has saved the life of Prince Terasarin at the battle of Alda Chur. That seems a bit grand now that I'm grown and have more of a sense of how these things happen and how chaotic battles really are, but it was a stirring tale on a winter's night when my brother and I were children.

His daughter, my mother -- Maren Kyn, is a healer, an Initiate of Chalana Arroy. She married my father, Char Venrin, twenty-two years ago. He is a farmer. They raise horses and goats along with a tribe of chickens, some geese, and a sow called Nim. My brother, Taran Char, is only sixteen, but he is already interested in the healing magics of my mother.

I grew up wanting to be a fighter, like Pap-pap. Like him, I pray to Orlanth, and when I joined the militia I was initiated into the cult of Orlanth Adventurous.

I am a member of the Frithan Clan, a War Clan of the Cinsina Tribe. We number 650 people of which 60 are elders and 290 children.