[b]Name:[/b] Aud Longspear
[b]Age:[/b] 27
[b]Race:[/b] Nord
[b]Class:[/b] Skirmisher (part-time werebear berserker)

[b]Portrait:[/b] 
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/493428353643053067/598520114958041098/aud_2.jpg[/img]

[b]Sum your life so far into a single paragraph:[/b] Well, I was a hunter and a guard for the Skaal village up in Solstheim. Good hunter, good fighter. Got cocky, and decided to go after some werebears that had taken up camp in a nearby ruin. It went about as well as you’d expect for a single woman with a couple steel spears against a pack of hungry lycanthropes. I thought they’d kill me, but instead they turned me into one. I still have the claw-scar, all the way from my neck to my breast. So anyway, the All Maker isn’t exactly fond of werebears, so I got ran out of the village. Been wandering ever since, trying to find a place for myself and failing. The Companions got sick of me pretty quickly. Something about territory…?

[b]What was the most difficult decision you've ever had to make?:[/b] Hardest thing I’ve had to do is leave home. They would have killed me if I’d stayed, but maybe it would have been right for them to do; I’m a monster in the All-Maker’s eyes, so I probably deserved to die. Packing up and leaving the only home I’d ever known wasn’t an easy choice.

[b]Tell me how other people would describe you?:[/b] I get called intense a lot. Can’t blame them. I tend to be a little tricky to talk to at first. Hey, don’t blame me; I’m just...very point-driven. Got some stuff on my mind, you know? Other than intense...let’s see. Gruff is a big one. I don’t have time for small talk and beating around the bush, you know? I have better things to do than that. Hircine’s out there doing who knows what. Why do I need to talk more than I already do?

I also get called stupid a lot. I’m not stupid! Just because I wasn’t raised in one of your big cities and don’t know my way around a book doesn’t mean I’m stupid! I have my own skill sets! I’d like to see [i]you[/i] hunt a horker during a blizzard to feed your people, or solve a picture puzzle in an ancient Nordic ruin to find and put down a group of necromancers that are spoiling an ancient tomb!

[b]What are your outside interests?:[/b] I really like hunting, and I’m really good at it. I’m also not a half-bad cook. I make a mean ash yam and mudcrab stew, as long as you don’t mind strong flavors! I’m also pretty fond of riddles. I might not be the smartest, but I can figure out riddles pretty well.

[b]What are your greatest strengths?:[/b] I’m a great fighter. Solstheim is an unfriendly place to live. Lots of bandits, reiklings, big wolves, bears, werebears...the list goes on. You want to live in my home, you need to obey the rules. And the biggest rules is that if you can’t fight, you’re gonna need to get a tribe around you, or else you’re dead meat. I have no interest in being dead meat. I can hit a troll with a spear from thirty meters, and I can fend off three highwaymen at once in melee range if I need to. Lots of stamina and strength, too. Deer can run a long way, and if you can’t chase one down if you miss a spear, well, you aren’t much of a hunter, now are you?

[b]What are your weaknesses?:[/b] Well, like I mentioned...I’m not exactly educated. My parents weren’t big into the knowledge thing, so I never learned how to read, I never learned how to write, I never learned drawing or magic or enchantment or alchemy. Also: I can hit things really hard and really fast for a very long time when I’m using spears, but put me behind a sword or a bow and things go downhill quick. I’m not very good at them.

Oh, also, at random times every fortnight, I’ll turn into a werebear. I keep my reason--well, most of it--but it makes it hard to walk around in public, and there’s always the chance that I’ll lose myself, get really mad, and start whacking people I actually like. That usually doesn’t happen, though.

[b]What are your aspirations for the future?:[/b] Well, let’s see. First thing’s first, I’d like to learn to read. It seems like a nice thing to know, and it shouldn’t take [i]too[/i] long, right? I’m sure there’s someone at the guild that can teach me! Then, more important, I want to cure myself of bearness. It’s because of the bearness that I can never go back to my tribe, and even though I can never return, I still don’t want it in my head. Past that? Well...do you know the legend of Hircine’s Blood Moon? Legends say that once every age, he comes to Nirn to hunt. Hircine is the reason I can no longer live with my people. After I cure myself of bear, I want to find him, kill his hounds, and then kill him. Nobody messes with a Skaal.

[b]Why do you want to join this guild?:[/b] I’ve been wandering for a few years now, trying to find somewhere I fit in. The Companions booted me out, the Fighter’s Guild in Cyrodiil had too many rules and it was too hot down there, and everywhere else laughed at me when I mentioned I couldn’t read. Never even offered to teach me. It would be nice to find some friends that won’t stab me when I turn into a bear. It’s a lonely road to travel when you’re friendless in Skyrim, and some people would go a long way towards fixing that.

[b]What are your expectations of the guild?:[/b] I don’t have high expectations much anymore. All I can hope is that nobody here wants to kill me, and that I maybe make friends with one or two. I don’t think I’ve had a single friend since Solstheim. It’s a shame that Aela didn’t want me around because I was a werebear (how could she tell? It confuses me to this day), because I think that maybe we could have been good friends. But since she wouldn’t...I guess this guild is a fair shot!
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[row][cell]Skill Level[/cell][cell]Skill[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Highly Proficient[/cell][cell]Two-handed, Marksmanship (both exclusive to spears)[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Moderately Proficient[/cell][cell]Athletics[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Somewhat Proficient[/cell][cell]Stealth[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Novice[/cell][cell]Smithing, Acrobatics, Light Armor[/cell][/row]
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[row][cell]Equipment Type[/cell] [cell]Item[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Weapon[/cell][cell]Replica of the Spear of Bitter Mercy used specifically in close-ranged combat, five throwing spears, old Stalhrim dagger worn on a thong around her neck[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Armour[/cell][cell]Cut-down set of carved Nordic armor[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Food/Provisions[/cell][cell]Two-liter waterskin; she hunts the rest[/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Miscellaneous[/cell][cell]Leather-and-fur backpack, 7 Septims, bedroll and fur tent, spartan but effective cookset and mess kit, tinderbox and flint, extra-large quiver for spears[/cell][/row]
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