Name: Anja Luise Welser
Rank: Trooper
Aliases: None
Age: Twenty
Birth Place: The Hamlet of Vorteham
Gender: Female
Occupation before the war: Farmhand
Height: 5' 8”
Weight: 152 lb
Build: Broad and athletic, given a robust and naturally cultivated musculature due to her upbringing and life thus far.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Tattoos/Scars: No major ones of either, although her hands are slightly calloused yet softer than one may expect, and she has a nice pink scar on her right thigh.
Personal Style: As comfortable as possible, and what many would consider 'rustic' and 'rural' when she isn't in uniform.
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Enduring, generous, honest and humble but also somewhat immature, guarded and not all that accepting of orders/authority in general.
Habits: Often speaks somewhat too loudly, can be overly aggressive to others, and attempts to show others – especially those of higher social standing – how 'tough' and 'strong' she is.
Hobbies: Wrestling/rough-housing, drinking, honest labour and good conversation, sewing and rudimentary cooking.
Fears: Death, injury or harm to her family, becoming aged and weak, and captivity. She also can't swim.
Likes: The outdoors/nature, hard work, boys, good food and drink, family and friends.
Dislikes: Authority and the upper classes AKA those that look down at her, nosey individuals and gossips, cities and enclosed spaces.
General or Speciality Skills: Bush craft/outdoorsmanship, pretty good shot if not remarkable, fundamental tracking skills combined with good eyesight, and although not a 'skill' she does possess a level of fitness above and beyond what should plausibly be possessed by a farmgirl.
What Is On Your Person:
- Clothing - Issued dragoon uniform of green jacket with black facings, black pants with white strip, matching saddle and blanket.
- Weapons- Dragoons sabre, carbine, and a pistol.
- Personal Items- A small battered portrait of her parents and two sisters, a silver flagon should she ever need one, and a small clay pipe.
The Reason You Become a Soldier: To serve her burgeoning nation and protect those within it, and to bring some small hint of fame to her family.
History: Anja was born the eldest daughter of an immigrant Tallian veteran and his Rhaetian bride, followed not long after by two younger sisters, her father Yeromeyev Yumashevovich swiftly shedding his own name in favour of a more native one and settling on his wife's family name of Welser.
Since she was old enough to hold a scythe or a hoe Anja has worked her fathers farmland just outside of Vorteham, a small hamlet with a close-knit community and a place where the taverns are never fully empty, she out of all her siblings taking most after her father in attitude and temperament... if not her fathers love.
She grew up more-or-less fearless, enjoying wrestling (among other things) with the local boys, priding herself on her endurance and strength while still taking part in more feminine pursuits with her mother – a woman far wiser and in touch with reality than her father ever has been!
When plans for a Republic were announced, and a mad rush for all volunteers sent out across the territory, Anja leapt at the chance, bored of her current state of affairs and keen for adventure; although not a keen rider, and very rural in her style at that, she was capable of riding a horse and saw no reason not to enter the life of a soldier. Her father was very much against it, both due to her gender and out of fear for her life, their parting full of stinging words and bitter goodbyes.
Nevertheless she took only what she needed to reach the mustering point, and joined a trail of the hamlets young men as they together rode to war. Oh how she thought she was prepared, her father had told enough stories after all, but how wrong she was.
Character 1: Gerhard Hielscher, local farmhand.
Character 2: Padre Yannik Pfaff, the hamlets spiritual leader.
Character 3: Old Ruprecht, local drunk and apparent war hero, though this has never been proven.
