[color=lightgray][table][row][/row][row][cell][right][h3][color=fff79a][i][b]Astra Eriksdotter[/b][/i][/color][/h3][sup]"Nothing in front of me is stronger than my ancestors behind me."[sup] - On being broken[/sup][/sup][/right] [b][color=fff79a]⚘ Looking Inside[/color][/b] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ An irrepressible young woman, Astra is tough and adaptable. Able to withstand and recover quickly from difficult situations. Recoiling and springing back after intense and/or tough situations. Intent on her purpose, she is steadfast and single-minded in her drive to push forward through hardship. She is admirably determined and unwavering in her dedication to what she has her mind set on. Persistent in her nature, she is continuously and obstinately mindful to remain on course in spite of difficulty or opposition that may come in her way. Earnest to do what is needed and tenacious she can rather adamant about things. She is thoughtful. Being astute about the present and the past, giving deep thought in a quiet manner over situations as to learn from them and better adapt. Bold and without shame, Astra is forward and immodest in even the most prudent of situations. A quick tongue makes her pushy and even flagrant in her disregard for manners and modesty. Defiant, she can be insolent and show a total lack of respect to those around her. Change does not come easy to Astra. She is unwilling and hesitant; unwilling and suspicious of even the most timid and unassertive around her. Adverse to trusting. The woman is crafty and astute. Clever, having shown skill in achieving her goals and resourceful in planning and execution. Designing and subtle in the long run as she needed to be she can be rather artful about the complexity of a plan. [color=fff79a][b]⚘ A Brief History[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Before Entering RP] [color=fff79a][b]Childhood:[/b][/color] Astra was born the daughter of Erik Borgeson, a Northman Jarl, and his wife Brenna Gunnarsdotter, a shield maiden. Life within the village was hard but happy. Astra had a sense of adventure, constantly seeking out new places to search and new things to try. Her mother tried to keep the young girl disciplined, focused on training and learning. Her father side tracked much of this by giving into the childs adventurous side and taking her out many days to explore. When her father wasn't derailing her training, her mother trained her in the art of combat from an early age. When she was 12, while her father and mother were out with many other warriors in the village to raid a distant land, the village itself was raided. Much of it was burned, many were killed, some were taken to be sold as slaves; including Astra. No trace was left behind of who had invaded the village. When her parents returned, though they searched, they never found Astra or who invaded the village. [color=fff79a][b]Servitude:[/b][/color] For nearly 7 years that Astra has lived as a slave to a Dane Lord far far to the south of her village and well beyond the borders of other villages and Jarls. Astra worked as a slave. Ill-treated, beaten, used, and kept weak enough not to be able to fight back. It was only because of lack of resources due to the early harsh winter setting in and a plague ripping through that Astra was able to finally make a break for it. Out into the storm she escaped, little on her back, less in her stomach. One foot in front of another into the white, only knowing each footstep was one of freedom even if it might not have been in the direction home. [/hider] [hider=Fight For Survival] [color=fff79a][b]:[/b][/color] [/hider] [color=fff79a][b]⚘ Relations[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Major][right][sub][h3][b][color=fff79a]Halfdan Ivarsson[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"Use your brains child when you sword cannot reach." [sup]- While training when Astra was young[/sup][/sup][/right] Mother wished her to train, father let her play. Halfdan found ways for her to do both. Not related by blood directly but like an uncle to Astra, Halfdan found ways to keep the young Astra entertained but learning. Noting she was bright and driven, he would give her impossible scenarios for her strength and size and force her to think things through. He had more influence on Astra than many would have liked as he lived outside of the village as an outcast but his influence could not be denied. [/hider] [hider=Minor] [right][sub][h3][b][color=fff79a]Lother Scylding[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"Blessings that you have been taken by the Greatest of Danes" [sup]- To Astra when he took her[/sup][/sup][/right] The man how lead the raiding party that raided her village and took her. She was to be sold even further south but there was something in her eyes that made him keep her. Over the years he did everything he could to break the young girl but many nights he was left wondering if anything would cut the child more than skin deep. [/hider] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [/cell][cell][center][img]https://i.ibb.co/z6YCn6T/ae.jpg[/img] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Female [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] 19 [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] Norse ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5' 8" [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] 117lbs [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] Gaunt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Olive [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] Copper [color=fff79a][b]↕[/b][/color] Alabaster ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Psychology[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [b][color=39b54a]Positive Traits:[/color][/b][list][*] Resilient [*] Reflective [*] Resolute[/list][color=c0392b][b]Negative Traits:[/b][/color][list][*] Brazen [*] Reluctant [*] Cunning[/list][color=2F4F4F][b]Fear:[/b][/color][list][*] Restraints[/list] [/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Abilities[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=fff79a]Strength:[/color] 8 [*] [color=fff79a]Dexterity:[/color] 19 [*] [color=fff79a]Fitness:[/color] 11 [*] [color=fff79a]Intellect:[/color] 31 [*] [color=fff79a]Will Power:[/color] 38 [*] [color=fff79a]Perception:[/color] 28 [*] [color=fff79a]Attractiveness:[/color] 22 [*] [color=fff79a]Luck:[/color] 37 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Languages[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=fff79a]Old Norse (Native):[/color] 30 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Skills[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=fff79a]Shield:[/color] 14 [*] [color=fff79a]Sword:[/color] 14 [*] [color=fff79a]Breakaway:[/color] 19 [*] [color=fff79a]Foraging:[/color] 30 [*] [color=fff79a]Horsemanship:[/color] 19 [*] [color=fff79a]Survival:[/color] 30 [*] [color=fff79a]Alertness:[/color] 45 [*] [color=fff79a]Fear Resistance:[/color] 50 [*] [color=fff79a]Memory Training:[/color] 50 [*] [color=fff79a]Pickpocketing:[/color] 30 [*] [color=fff79a]Stealth:[/color] 77 [*] [color=fff79a]Tailing:[/color] 30 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Family[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] Erik Borgeson[list][*] Father[*] Alive[/list] [*] Brenna Gunnarsdotter[list][*] Mother[*] Alive[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=fff79a][b]Character Trivia[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=fff79a]Sexuality:[/color] Bi-sexual [*] [color=fff79a]Likes:[/color][list][*] Furs[*] Fire[*] Sun[*] Water[*] Any Food[*] Open Spaces[*] Sweating[*] Sunrise[/list] [*] [color=fff79a]Dislikes:[/color][list][*] Cold[*] Snow[*] Ice[*] Cages[*] Chains[*] Danes[*] Dogs[*] Sunset[*] Darkness[/list] [*] [color=fff79a]Scars:[/color] Back: Covered [*] [color=fff79a]Religion:[/color] Nordic [*] [color=fff79a]Birthday:[/color] May 3rd [*] [color=fff79a]Nickname:[/color] None [*] [color=fff79a]Items Of Note:[/color] [list][*] N/A[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/cell][/row][/table][/color]