[color=fff79a][h1]Lady Vehrna Solinus[/h1][/color] [hider=Image placed in hider for hugeness.] [img]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/190/4/8/gentle_paladin_by_peterprime-d56njpj.png[/img] While not depicted in the picture, Verhna bears a scar along her left cheek from an arrow that would have gone straight into her mouth had she been slower... As it turns out, even lowly bandits could be skilled archers, and it didn't pay to insult them. [/hider] [color=fff79a][h3]Gender:[/h3][/color] Lady. [color=fff79a][h3]Age:[/h3][/color] 27 [color=fff79a][h3]Personality:[/h3][/color] Honorable to a fault, kind, brave, and naive, all of these words and more describe Vehrna. She embodies knightly virtue, much like her brother before her. She strives to live up to him, and always puts her all into every task. However, her ardent nature can lead her to overexert herself sometimes. She can become indecisive, and often struggles with moral dilemmas that have no clear answer. She abhors suffering, and has a habit of blaming herself for such things as she was unable to stop it... even if such things were completely out of her control and are not her fault. She's friendly, and has a habit of getting along with most people, though she is not fond of those she percieves as lazy, ungrateful, or manipulative. [color=fff79a][h3]History:[/h3][/color] Vehrna is quite the unusual person; a female Knight. Born to a relatively minor noble family of the kingdom of Mortis, she didn't have a very hard life ahead of her. Indeed, she could have chosen to merely waste her life away as an ordinary noble like her sisters. But, she always wanted... more. Ever the kind soul, she wished to help the people... though as the third daughter, the chances of her ever having the influence to do so were slim. She wasn't quite fond of most of her family, viewing them as lazy and uncaring. While not tyrants by any means, she thought they were more concerned with whatever event they hosted next or their coffers, rather than the needs of the people of their town, Kite's Point (a mining town named for its founder). The exceptions were her father Leonhardt, and her eldest brother Victus. She idolized her brother, an honest, heroic sort that was training to become a knight, as opposed to her other four brothers, who seemed content to fool around with political machinations. Between the bedtime stories of knights and monsters her father would tell her, and her desire to be just like her brother, she sought to become a knight herself. While most people (her mother included) would scoff at such a notion, her father supported her. After all, he was confident she had what it takes, and he didn't want her wasting away in a courtly life she didn't want. Victus was also supportive, if a tad over-protective. The two trained for years, though she would had to learn an additional skill or two, chief among them smithing. While her... proportions were modest, she still fit into armor designed for men rather poorly. Thus, she'd have to learn how to make and rework armor herself considering that women's plate was rarely for sale (To be honest, plate ain't common in general). She trained as hard as any would-be knight should, and on her twenty-fifth birthday, she was knighted. Victus... couldn't make it. A month prior, he had been wounded in a bandit raid, and while the wound was small, he had taken ill; the bandits were armed with poor, rusty excuses for weapons. He had died not three hours before her ceremony. She had little reason save her father to remain at the town, and at her father's urging she decided to leave. She travels to this day, offering her services as a warrior to the people of Mortis. Recently, she had found a bag of gold coins beside her bedroll when she awoke, along with a note... an odd job it seemed, but she never turned down a job if the cause was just, and such a huge sum of money was not thrown around for trivial matters... [color=fff79a][h3]Skills:[/h3][/color][color=fff79a][i]Equipment:[/i][/color] Vehrna is adept with certain equipment, able to use and maintain them with great skill. They are as follows; Spears, lances, swords, shields (Of any size, save bucklers. She never could get the hang of them), Plate Armor, Mail, Smith's tools (she is no master smithy, however). [color=fff79a][i]Reading:[/i][/color] Vehrna can read. [color=fff79a][i]Riding:[/i][/color] While she makes no claims to be the best, Vehrna is a skilled horsewoman. [color=fff79a][i]Smithing:[/i][/color] Vehrna can work a forge, and while she's not the best smith in the land, she's skilled. She mostly puts her know-how to use in repairing things, rather than making new things. [color=fff79a][i]Cookin':[/i][/color] Vehrna is a surprisingly good chef. [color=fff79a][i]Skilled Knight:[/i][/color] Vehrna is a formidable combatant that knows how to put her arms and armor to best use. That being said, don't think her helpless unarmored; It's the woman you have to worry about, not the suit. [color=fff79a][i]Cards:[/i][/color] Also surprising is how the woman manages to win nearly every card game she plays. This results in most people only playing with her once or twice. [color=fff79a][h3]Equipment:[/h3][/color] A suit of plate armor with metal boots (for fighting on horseback), one pair of hide boots (for fighting on foot), a large shield, a spear, a sword (usually left with the horse), a Horse named... uh... Horse (The stablemaster named him, not her), saddle, saddle bags, a pack, four waterskins, trail rations, a considerable total of coins (Many of which are gold. This generally proves her nobility, as opposed to her just stealing someone else's armor and calling herself such), purses for coins, leather gloves, two sets of common clothing, one fine set of clothing, one pair of shoes, a fine cloak, flint and tinder, two empty bottles, bedroll, cooking utensils, maps, bounties, a kit for maintaining her equipment (containing whetstones and spare straps for her armor, among a few other things), an emergency medical kit (containing bandages and healing poultices), and two bottles of high-grade armor polish, along with a cloth. And a deck of playing cards. [color=fff79a][h3]Magical knowledge?[/h3][/color] While she has heard and enjoyed the tales, she knows absolutely nothing about how any of it worked. And there we are, first draft. Edit: Freeshooter didn't capitalize 'lady', the slut. Also, plaguebro looks cool.