Name: Natalia Dmitrievna

Age: 23

Height/Weight: 5'2, 60 kilograms

Appearance: A short woman, solidly built and plentifully endowed, Talia is the picture of joviality. Her black hair is kept short and unkempt, flaring up in unpredictable fashion at the slightest disturbance. Her face is rarely devoid of a smile, and her sanguine countenance is wide and inviting, her soft brown eyes large and wide open. Her larger build is almost devoid of fat, and her body is in peak physical condition, the soft outline of muscle visible on her exposed extremities, though not morbidly so. She has an upturned nose and small ears, with full lips and a wide smile. Her fingers are long and dexterous, and her hands marked with scrapes and scars and more than often grease or solvent.

Birthplace: A small farming village well off the beaten track, in the western regions of the plateau. Her family's house was small, their farm sufficient, and the woods surrounding them dark and foreboding.

Profession: A gunsmith, mechanic and part-time scholar, Natalia is by no means dim, despite her rustic upbringing. She learned her way around a rifle at a very young age, and has been fascinated with them ever since. The youngest in a pack of siblings 13 strong, she found her way initially hunting in the solitude of the dark forest around her house, but dreaming of bigger and better things made her way to Custos to learn a trade and find employment. After a two-year stint in a factory, during which she spent every free minute learning how to operate and repair as many machines as she could, she set out at 20 to find more dignified work. She found employment as a gunsmith at a local family-run business, and enjoyed it tremendously, using her now-ample free time and available funds to pursue her interest in firearms and history. Unfortunately, the store was forced to close due to a lack of business, and Talia found herself working for the Novaks as a technician and part-time guard, a position she has kept for several months now.

Skills/Talents: Talia has spent an inordinate amount of time with a firearm in her hands, and has become quite proficient with it. This, combined with her occasional dalliance with illicit activities and her previous residence in the worse parts of the city have made her more than capable in a fight, firearm or not. She keeps herself as fit as she can manage, and sets time aside to unwind by running long distances. She puts her natural dexterity to use in her primary occupation as a technician, and she knows her way around and within the better part of common machinery, large and small, and has developed an aptitude for figuring out how things work, usually through disassembling them. 

Association: The Novak family= Employed primarily for her skill in keeping their machines running, and secondarily for her skill with a rifle, she enjoys her job and is fascinated with the Novak family, and the pieces of secrets that she has managed to ferret from her isolated part of the mansion.

Personality: Talia is a happy woman. She loves to gamble and drink and sing and dance and talk the night away. She loves to meet new people, to learn new things and to see new sights. She is friendly to everyone she meets, and is remarkably slow to anger. She is quick to forgive, and quicker to forget, though this is indicative less of a graceful personality and more a natural absentmindedness. She is inquisitive, determined and envious of secrets and wealth. She is lazy when she can be, and a hard worker at all other times. She is easily motivated by things she enjoys or finds intriguing, and loses interest quickly in those things she does not. Quick to fall in love, be it with new foods or drinks or games or men [or women, when she is [i]deeply[/i] in her cups], she has fairly poor impulse control, though is highly skilled at justifying her impulsive decisions on some fictitious logical basis.

She is highly paranoid of authority. She values freedom of choice and expression above all else, and never wants to infringe on anyone else's freedoms. She views most government as tyrannical, especially the Church, and despises dogmatic beliefs or moral systems. She is careful to a fault, and some have claimed that her paranoia belies deeper instability, though she is quick to dismiss these statements as ridiculous.