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[Color=f26522][center][h3]Mary Holly/ Morgaine [/h3][/center][/color]

[Color=f26522][center][i]Age:20[/i][/center][/color]

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Morgaine (known to most people as Mary Holly) is a woman of slight and somewhat scrawny build which betrays a somewhat conflicted upbringing. She usually dresses with an aged maid suit and is fond of protective headgear to avoid the sun striking her sensitive skin. These clothes also conceal her striking auburn hair and green eyes in order to not draw unwanted attention. Her manner of walk is unassuming and rather silent, and a faint herbal fragance with earthen hints seems to follow her everywhere. [/center][/color]


[Color=f26522][center]Occupation/Relation: Morgaine has been a maid in the manor for three years. Rumours of bastardry being the reason why she was hired float around. She seems to have a knack for herbalism and foraging, as well a certain special touch when handling beasts, thanks to the tips and tricks her mother passed down unto her.[/center][/color]

[Color=f26522][center]Personality:

Morgaine is a grim and cynical individual who has had a harsh upbringing bestowed upon her. Tight knit about her true intentions and demeanour she usually deflects prying questions with scathing sarcasm. She is not very good at socializing and prefers sometimes the company of beasts rather than people. Her dedication to the less... reputed arts attributed to women and her penchant to brew herbal conconctions have given her some sort of infamy among the staff. Being a bastard, she harbours no small amount of envy and resent towards the proper family members of the estate. Nevertheless, Morgaine is methodical, rather even-tempered and she always takes the side of the less favored, consequences be damned. [/center][/color]

[Color=f26522][center]History:
The professions of someone's forebears usually shape one's life for good or bad,and Morgaine was no exception. Borne out of wedlock to one of the strangest retainers of Lord Northam, a wise woman and midwife who lived and performed her trade at the edge of the woods, her mother was seen with a mixture of suspicion and respect. A relic of an era of darkness and superstition, her mother could brew fairly potent concoctions with the herbs and spices she found in the forest. Her herbal tonic was a favorite of the Northams. Her ability to assist childbirth and heal wounds also did not go unnoticed, and more than often people trusted her hands than that of a physician. There were people who called her a witch, but even more people who called her.

It was in such a climate that Morgaine grew up until her eleventh birthday, ever playing with the forest animals and learning the old, ancient knowledge and arts of her own mother rather than meeting other children and learning prayers of faith. Alas, even for a seasoned wise woman, the forest is full of dangers, and one night she did not return. Morgaine was not suspicious at first. She had long get used to days in absence of her mother. 

Three days later, only her severed arm was found. The rest of the body had been ravaged and eaten by whatever monstrous creature had crawled out of the depths. Morgaine was orphaned, thus. And the villagers were almost too happy to toss the little witchspawn in a local orphanage to scrub the heathenly air she had upon her and give the poor, half-starved girl a chance at living an honest life. They only succeeded superficially. In the end, her knowledge about herbs and remedies proved all too useful to treat fellow sick children, and the tutors learnt to look the other way as long as she behaved properly in public. She was eventually baptised as Mary Holly.

Everything changed, when a member of the Northam was offered her herbal tea as a result of a sizeable contribution to the orphanage. He recognized the same drink that her mother had offered long ago, and learnt of the wise woman's daughter fate. What was more surprising, he also brought forth the issue of her true parenthood, which could even be bring forth more scandal. In the end, however, they found her skills to be of interest towards the household, so she was offered a spot as servant inside the manor, on the condition she never mentioned her bastard condition. [/center][/color]


[Color=f26522][center]Quirk: Morgaine has been inducted in Witchcraft by her very mother. She knows some basic protection spells and benefitial charms as well as a wealth of herbalism and folk medicine that could prove useful. She also owns a pet raven which is suspected she uses as familiar.[/center][/color][/hider]