[h1][center][color=green][b]Lady Meredith of Hwethyd[/b]
[i]The Green Woman[/i][/color][/center][/h1]
[center][color=green]31 ¦ Archer/Healer[/color][/center]

[center][i][color=green]Appearance:[/color][/i]
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[indent]Meredith stands slightly taller than average, and is willowy and thin, with a sinewy, muscular body made more for agility than for prolonged swordsmanship. Her eyes  are a brown colour, and her hair is a shining auburn-red. 

She is often apparelled in light mail armour mixed with leather pieces rather than anything heavier, and rather than wearing a full great-helm she often chooses to wear a helm without a visor, upon which she has had embellished green oak leaf decals. Her weapon of choice is the longbow, and so she is often found with both this and a quiver of arrows at her side. As for hand weaponry, which carries a thin, lightweight shortsword at her shin, to be used only in the most dire circumstances.[/indent]

[color=green][i]Background:[/i][/color] 

[indent]Meredith's background is murky and relatively ill-defined, and she herself is known to give conflicting accounts of her upbringing as often as she is asked. What remains clear is that she was born to a noble family, potentially of Gaul stock over the sea, a fact betrayed by the soft accent that still afflicts her speech to this day. Furthermore, it is evident that she was well-educated - perhaps even spending some time in Rome or Constantinople - but that circumstances that she is unwilling to divulge forced her to flee to the land of the Britons.

Her first experiences in Britannia were varied and fraught with danger, and she was run out of East Anglia after being accused of witchcraft by a local petty lord. She arrived in Camelot under these auspicious circumstances, bringing with her very little in the way of possessions but pledging her allegiance to the land's king as soon as she was able, in person. Though a woman, and so unconventional in this respect, Meredith soon proved her worth both as a knight and fighter but also as a healer - with an enormous and varied knowledge of medicine, poultices and wound care that led to her gaining a reputation as 'The Green Woman' in the armies that she was part of. 

Opinions of Meredith varied during this time. Many found her strange and somewhat unorthodox social manner and her unbecomingly unfeminine knowledge of plants, healing and other learned matters somewhat disconcerting, and more than once did she clash with those who sought to displace her. Accused of witchcraft almost routinely, Meredith never became a figure of popular acclaim amongst the nobles and the peasant folk of Camelot, instead often attaching herself to the retinues of more popular and commonly chivalric knights. 

During the Saxon attempted invasion, Meredith fought bravely, a fact that was commended by King Arthur, who finally knighted her in a ceremony as unorthodox as the rest of the women's service. She was granted a small fiefdom in the south-western corner of Camelot, and in Hwethyd she constructed a manor that allowed her to draw a regular income from her demesne. With this, she was able to finally put a tentative food in the door of Camelot's power structure. [/indent]


[i][color=green]Traits of Avalon:[/color][/i]

[indent]∞-The Stag’s Eyes: You possess a keen and heightened awareness of things. In combat, your spatial acuity is above that of an average knights, and you are able to adapt and overcome with ease.

∞-The Falcon’s Talon: You are a master of the bow. The accuracy of your arrows is deadly and true, whether they be loosed from on foot, or from horseback.[/indent]