[b]Name::[/b] Gaelel (means pale woman in elven) Nwalmaer (Tormented one in elven)
[b]Age::[/b] 30
[b]Sex::[/b] Hermaphrodite (Fully functioning, resulted from curse, tends to be feminine in behavior)
[b]Breed::[/b] Spring Child (Orc/Dryad pairing, lives for 1000 years and never visibly ages past maturity)

[b]Appearance:[/b] Standing shorter than most orcs, she is about 5'10" and sports a very lithe, compared to normal orcs, frame. She overall seems elvish in body shape and appearance save for a few rather defining characterisitcs. She has very minor tusks poking a quarter inch from her lower lip and is overall much broader than other spring children. Her features are a bit harsher than normal, having a slightly more angular face. Despite the orcish blood in her, she still maintains a very pleasing appearance overall. Her voice takes from her mother and makes her sound like she is singing no matter what. The style of singing can vary, going from a loving lilt to a dark dirge depending upon her mood. Her features take enough from her mother to make her appear delicate. Despite this, once one makes physical contact with her, they feel the veritible wall of muscle rippling beneath her skin. She is more toned than other spring children. her hair is long and flowing. She sports blood red tattoos all over her body. They form intricate natural patterns that follow the curvature of her body. Her dryad blood makes her rather buxom. Her gait is quite delicate, often falling into a sort of personal dance. Her skin color draws from her orcish heritage and is pale with a slight gray tint. Her ears are elven in shape. Her eyes are a fiery red in color. Her hair does not have a set shade and alters depending upon season. Spring draws in a dark, moss green. Winter causes it to transition to ice blue. It is brown in summer, turning slowly to a striking auburn for fall.

[b]Skills/Abilities:[/b]
- Druidic magic (Most spells deal with plants, has healing and destructive magic too)
- Plant shaping (Can form plants into personal arms and armor for herself. The plants are magically imbued to be strong as steel. To form plants, she needs plants and time equal to a blacksmith forging the same item)
- Animal Bonding (Functions exactly as a druid's animal companion. Can communicate telepathically with bonded animal and may only have one bonded at a time)
- Martial arts (to proficiently use her weapons of choice, striking art and focuses upon capoeira styled techniques when unmounted)
- Warg riding (Went into cavalry after pikes)
- Herbalism and botany
- Animal handling/rearing
- Disguises/Infiltration
- Stealth
- Assassination

[b]Equipment:[/b]
- Plant shaped brigandine made of Ipe wood over mail armor of leaves with plated gauntlets, cuisses, great helm, and boots of Ipe (Similar to teak but is as fire resistant as steel and concrete)
- Arming Doublet under mail armor
- Plant shaped hand and foot claws also made of Ipe (Can be used to climb)
- Black Tabard with blood red trim and long, black, hooded cloak with inner side blood red
- Composite recurve bow and quiver of arrows (Barbed arrows to cause more damage if removed)
- Adventuring gear (Backpack, bedroll, rope, spellcasting materials, etc.)
- dried fairy bell berries, fresh fairy bell berries for drinks

[b]History:[/b] Umartempla was a dryad within a secluded clearing. Her forest was temperate and normally cool. One day, a male orc stumbled into the clearing. Using her curse spells, she tried to repel him, but he seemed to shrug off the effects. Setting his sight upon the woman in front of him, he surprisingly cast his own spell. It locked the dryad's body in one position. The male orc proceeded to have his way with the dryad until the spell wore off, a whole night later. The orc disappeared and the dryad was left with the trauma of feeling the repulsive creature rape her. Assuming she couldn't breed with an orc, she was unpleasantly surprised by a developing pregnancy. Not wanting the child, she cursed it. She did not know what the curse would produce, but she knew it would haunt the child forever.

A decade later, the child was born. She was not a dryad as expected. In addition, she was also entirely abnormal. Rather than being a male or female, she was a hermaphrodite, a fully functioning one. The curse also manifested by making her saliva, tears, and sweat blood red. Another added effect is a painful reaction to alcohol. She cannot imbibe it at all or else she will have painful cramps, nausea that leads to vomiting, and finally will lapse into a siezure if alcohol is administered after the symptoms manifest. Metal weapons and armor cause her minor pain along her entire body as long as she wields the weapon or armor and for a day afterward. The allergy to metal and alcohol can be reversed by her drinking the juice of or eating fairy bell berries.

Her mother was distraught over the ordeal and raised her as lovingly as she could. However, Gaelel could not sit still and often wandered into the forest to explore. On one foray, she encountered an orc raiding band. They saw her and attacked. She killed one and fled into the woods. Her mother chided her for going to the edge of the forest and she argued taht she couldn't handle living in the forest much longer. At the age of 16, she had fully matured into an adult. Her mother began to prepare to help her leave, despite not understanding why one would like to leave the peaceful clearing. The orc war band from years before came again, this time searching the forest for the one who killed their comrade. They rather easily found thh clearing in the heart of the forest and set to attacking it. Gaelel fought fiercely beside her mother and they were able to kill the men, but the damage was done. Much of the forest surrounding them was destroyed. Gaelel knew she could not stay and left that night to give her mother a chance at peace again. She left the forest and tracked down the orc tribe that the war band came from. She found out it was the Dead Hand tribe and that they sought to expand. The tribe did not know of the war band's destruction, so she set out for human lands. By batting her eyelashes, wearing her pretty dresses, and occasionally singing for money, she secured lodgings and began to look for a place more suited to her capacity for violence.

That place ended up in the Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi mercenary band. She was at first called a coward and pretty girl, but after training, fighting, and working within the ranks of the pikemen, she was eventually accepted as a full member. She displayed a supernatural attunement to animals which landed her in the warg cavalry. Her warg, named Ottanosse (Warkin), became her bonded animal companion. The female warg was a runt of the litter, only saved from execution by Gaelel's own intervention. The warg grew up well trained, groomed, and cared for. This loving care translated into a ferocity in battle surpassing her litter mates. She fiercely defends Gaelel and works in tandem with her. Sparring matches with Gaelel inevitably include Ottanosse.

Eventually, after 12 years in the group, Gaelel was selected as a special unit. She was subversive and subtle. She could pass through groups much easier than others. Her beauty in the eyes of elves and humans often worked in her favor. Thus, she trained to become and assassin and infiltrator. She learned how to act as a courtesan, bard, dancer, and jester. All the while, she honed her combat skills and refined her manners.

[b]Personality and Psychological profile:[/b]
Due to her upbringing by a dryad, Gaelel tends to act in non-orc manners. She is gentle and calm. Her temper is great but restricted to combat. Her voice is always carefully measured. She acts very feminine and wears fine dresses outside of jobs. Her time in the forest has led to her avoiding footwear any time it is not needed for protection. She is also practical in outlook. Jewelry, gems, extravangant embroidery, and other opulent things annoy her and her fine dresses are always loose and simple. She will meditate nightly, preferring to be near plantlife. Much to some orcs' annoyance, she enjoys fine music, singing, and dancing from elves. Her mother taught her to braid her hair in intricate sylvan patterns. She does this daily as a memento of her time with her mother.

Her tattoos are a result of her time with the mercenaries. She wanted to prove her toughness and thus went through magically binding each tattoo to herself. The method chosen was painful agony that she had to endure while applying the tattoos to herself. She finished the process in a single night. When she left her quarters the next day, she had tattoos. The orcs around her looked dumbfounded at the speed of which she obtained them, but they recognized that she was far tougher than she looked. She has adapted to the relatively coarse and rowdy mercenary life, though she is always gentle, kind, and polite.

She often has to endure jeers from her peers due to her sylvan appearance. She has grown used to them and holds her head high. In private, she occasionally reacts to the jeers with sadness and feelings of not belonging. She fears the day that any of the others learn of her curse and its full effects on her.

Unlike most orcs, she is not overly promiscuous. Sex is a scary thing to her indeed. She avoids it as she fears her partner hating her status as a hermaphrodite. Her fear of discovery also leads her to hold people at arm's length. Even those she would consider a friend always know that there is much more to her than she lets them know.

[b]Relationships and Acquaintances:[/b]
None currently