[b]Name:[/b] Dania Engberg
[b]Alias:[/b] Verity Lund
[b]Age:[/b] 22
[b]Height:[/b] 5’3’’ (1.62m)
[b]Weight:[/b] 137lbs
[b]Hair Color/Style:[/b] Blond/long and braided
[b]Eye Color:[/b] Blue

[b]Appearance: [/b]
Verity has a robust body with taut, feminine curves. She’s spent her life honing her body, and as such, has a toned, muscular frame. Her complexion is fair, though her shoulders and arms are riddled with long, faded scars from years past. She puts hardly any effort at all into her appearance, caring only that her hair is out of her face while she works. Bathing frequently is a habit foreign to her.

[b]History:[/b]
Verity was born in the northern highlands and raised as the daughter of a lord. Her people had barely any written language to speak of, instead adopting dialects of civilizations they had conquered in ages past. Her family did, however, have a love of music and art, and even considered combat to be a form of art. As the eldest, Verity was trained to be the perfect image of Northern nobility, taught multiple forms of dance, music, and combat. Because of her small stature, she was forced to work towards speed and finesse with the spear, but she was still never able to best her instructor.

In her late teens, the civil unrest due to famine and a brutal winter ultimately led to war. Revolutionaries breeched the family castle and her parents were captured. She managed to escape with her sister and former nanny, but sustained serious injury that made the venture almost impossible. Her left foot never fully recovered, but she was able to receive refuge from her nanny’s family in another country. Her nanny’s relatives took the motley group in, and in return, the three of them became farmhands.

Verity adopted the family name of her nanny’s as well as a new name, forgetting all connections to her country as she learned how to care for a farm and its livestock. In an effort to return the mercy and kindness given to her, she took every opportunity to help others, doing extra work whenever possible as well as going so far as to help neighboring families during harvest season. This left little time for hobbies, and she found herself implementing her own kind of training into everyday chores.

Eventually, however, Verity decided that she could not spend the rest of her life as a farmhand. She sought for better work, but had no valid references to back up her desires. She felt she had no choice but to falsify herself further, claiming to have worked at other wealthy estates in order to gain the position of a working maid at the Burkes’ estate.

[b]Personality: [/b]
She is best described as overbearing, ceaselessly worrying about her sister and the state of their steading. She strives for excellence and continually falls short of her own goals, forever handicapped by her own people in the northern lands. In many ways, her goals to become a true warrior and leader are impossible, yet she pushes herself beyond the breaking point to achieve nearly inhuman stamina and reflexes. She is easily embarrassed, harsh on herself, and for this reason, is frequently labeled as a masochist.

[b]Basic Traits:[/b]
[i]Masochist:[/i] She only feels fulfilled and functional when she is pushing herself beyond her own limits.
[i]Artist:[/i] She enjoys culture and revels in what few opportunities she has to engage in arts and study.
[i]Passionate:[/i] Whenever she does something, she is nearly incapable of holding herself back.
[i]Guardian:[/i] She finds fulfillment in becoming a better fighter and uses her abilities to protect others.