[list]Name: Jacinta Tassou
Species/Race: Inburian
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Court Alignment: White
Role: Lady in Waiting
Appearance: short and slender with gold highlights in her dark hair... which is to say very short.  Jacinta is a mere 5'1''.
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[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Skills: A skilled and aggressive sword fighter with good survival skills.  Also good at buttering people up.
Weaknesses: Hot headed and aggressive when her back is up.
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory: Like many young Inburians, Jacinta Tassou was born into slavery in an estate just North of the metropolis of Inbur.  While Jacinta would probably have grown up to be a farm labourer, she also happens to be an unusually attractive young woman and at age 20, was taken as a concubine by the MAster of the Estate, an elga noble by the name of Lathai Adxina, whose wife had recently passed away.

While, for many people in a similar situation it would have been a deeply distressing, Jacinta had developed something of a crush on Lathai anyway (whom she found very handsome) and the situation turned out to be rather beneficial for her, with the young human quickly becoming a favourite.  While she wasn't granted her freedom, there was very little the old elgamann wouldn't give her.  Jacinta did no work and instead learned to ride a horse and read.  She devoured chivalric romances, imagining herself as a knight, and after very little pleading was given lessons in fencing and became scandalously good with a rapier.

This favouritism did not go unnoticed by the Lathai's children who grew to despise the young Inburian.  Not that Jacinta cared.  She imagined she would be long dead before her Master...

Except she wasn't.  Five years into their relationship, Lathai was thrown from his horse while hunting and died in his bed a week later.  Realising she was in very actual danger, Jacinta packed her bag, including no small amount of Lathai's money and fled.  She had rich enough clothing that nobody asked any questions when she asked for passage to Carnelfenney.

Jacinta didn't have too much of a plan for when she landed, but by the time she had rumours were already swirling about the Dawnbringer appearing in the northern town of Trefgodwig who, as it happened, was a woman!  Perhaps this was a chance to be the knight she wished she was?  Equipped only with a vague idea of latching onto the chosen one's entourage, Jacinta travelled North in the depths of winter, reaching Trefgodwig shortly before the coming of spring.

Hoping to get a glimpse of Aonène Alzina La Noue de Bellièvre, Jacinta travelled out to the fringes of the camp for the Royal Regiment of Foot where, instead, she met a very friendly and somewhat inebriated young woman who turned out to be Andronika Hasikos (who was celebrating her nineteenth birthday by drinking ale with the troopers).  From that chance meeting, a friendship developed, centred around fencing, something which both of the young women took some pride in being accomplished at.

During the siege of Tregodwig, Jacinta was not able to take up arms and fight (despite wanting to).  But she still holds out hope that she'll be able to do her part in the coming conflict... 
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