Appearance: A young, willowy woman with long golden hair. She used to dress in royal garb, though she has adopted more practical clothing since the fall of Troy.
Personality: Once an elegant young princess of Troy, Aristodeme had wanted nothing more than to marry a handsome prince with mighty thews and live out her life of dreams. But after the ten long years of siege, Aristodeme became tougher, and began to pray regularly to the Goddess Artemis, of whom she was a distant relative. She is now driven by a desire to rebuild Troy somewhere else, and continue her bloodline.
Bio: One of the many daughters of King Priam, Aristodeme has almost always been overlooked, and grew up during the Trojan war being able to eek out an existence that was preferable to her, a rarity that occured only because of her class and the strange circumstances she grew up in. She took to worshiping the Goddess Artemis, and has been visited by her frequently in dreams. Since Troy fell, she has been guided by Artemis to safety, and has been encouraged by the Goddess to found a new city.
Skills:Weaver: Aristodeme is talented at the loom, and can work a loom with such skill it seems like magic. Lyre: Aristodeme can sing and dance with great talent. Speaker Despite being a woman, Aristodeme can speak and lead in a way that makes men treat her as an equal, and often as subordinates.
Greatest Strength: Guided by the Heavens: The Wild Huntress Artemis has chosen to bless and lead this lost child of Troy, and will defend and guide her during her journeys.
Greatest Weakness: Just a girl: Aristodeme, for all her words and bravery, is still just a young girl who grew up in a sheltered life, living in a world that is punishingly misogynistic to mortal women who lack witchcraft. Despite her best efforts, oftentimes she'll be entirely ignorant on certain matters. She is also incapable of fighting or survival, relying upon others to keep her alive in hard situations.
Name: Nosokoma (Literally Nurse in Greek.) Age: 49 Personality: Caring, dedicated, loyal to a fault. Relationship: Childhood wet-nurse of Aristodeme, she has been with her young charge for her entire life, serving and giving all that she can to her charge, who she loves more than life itself. Reaction: Crushing devastation. Nosokoma is Aristodeme's parent figure, and has been with her since she was an infant. She has come to rely on her more heavily than anyone else, especially since the war ended.
I would recomend for everyone to come up with at least one Red Tunic who your character can have a relationship with, but is totally and utterly expendable, and is destined to die. Think Patrocles, or an Elpenor. You don't have to do a full CS for them, just a little description, their relationship to the PC, and how the PC will react once dead.
Oops, that's a typo. I was playing with something like 'Cross paths with gods' but cut it because it ran too long. No, I either want to start with the city on fire, or kick it off on the ocean, with a flashback soon after. And yeah, boatload of red tunics. I might have multiple boats follow the group, only to have them wrecked one way or another.
I mean, I just sorta wholesale invented an entirely new region of the world, but if you want to throw it into the regions and people of the world, go for it