[hider=Katja Veniro!][center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/fba134486843b04d5ef0e10e6746b0a4/tumblr_plch6y2fIT1wt7ek9o1_1280.jpg[/img][/center]
[b]Name[/b]: Katja Veniro
[b]Gender[/b]: Female
[b]Race[/b]: Human
[b]Appearance[/b]: Katja Veniro is a dark-haired human with hazelnut eyes. With a smaller stature of 5'5, she can often be seen with her shoulder-length hair tied up in a knot. Not being a stranger to physical work, Katja has a rather toned body under the black cotton robes she often is seen wearing. Close to her heart is the silver locket which had been passed down through her family since the start of their servitude. By her hip, she carries a sheathed iron shortsword, a symbol of the Veniro's newfound freedom and as a personal reminder of her promise.

[b]Relevant Abilities[/b]: Katja, as a former servant, is quite strong with more stamina than most suspect. While having served as a maid for the better part of her life, she is quite knowledgeable. Having taken a keen interest in cartography, she was often found flipping through books in her old lord's library in secret. That's where she discovered her gift of recollection, being able to note down most details of events or acquaintances she encountered.

[b]Personality[/b]: Katja, since childhood, was taught to stay as invincible as possible. Being proper and courteous is second nature to her at this point from her years of service. However, bottling up that much and restricting oneself for that long will often result in those emotions getting out in one form or another. For Katja, it takes the form of anxiety, and sometimes aggression toward the people around her. It'd take quite a bit for her to reach these states on most days though. Humorously, she becomes a very different person when properly enraged, the opposite of the polite young woman she usually shows herself to be.

[b]Bio and background[/b]: The Viniros have been contractual maids and butlers for 5 generations. Having lost their freedom long ago to the Jiri house, the Viniros had no legal rights as people and were to serve the Jiri until their contracts were up. Katja's mother was the last contractually obligated soul to serve under the Jiri house. Therefore, when Katja was born, her mother made it very clear to her that when she was older, she had no obligation to stay. But before Katja was old enough, she served as her kin had done for generations in the frozen Northern mountains. 

The Jiri mansion was a large estate, heavily isolated as a result of the harsh environment. There she had the obligations of cooking, cleaning, handling farm animals, and sorting the grand library. On her 16th birthday, she was given the choice to either stay and continue to serve as her bloodline had done before, or set out into the frigid cold to a fate unknown. Katja's mother had insisted she leaves her and the Jiri for good. Katja agreed but swore to buy her mother's freedom one day. She was gifted the Viniros family heirloom by her mother, an intricate silver locket, weathered from its age. From the Jiri, she acquired the supplies needed to travel down the mountain to a port town, and from there, she was to be on her own. Additionally, she was gifted an iron shortsword from the Jiri. The sword itself was stuck to its sheath and was only given as a symbol of the Viniro bloodline's end of service. Katja gave one last heartfelt goodbye to her mother, reluctantly thanked the Jiri for the supplies, and set off.

While not gullible, she wasn't experienced with the outside world, only having read about it at night when alone. She, therefore, had a hard time finding a job. Katja had loathed the thought of returning to her former profession but didn't have much of a choice. That was until she learned of the MILOV and its travels around the world. A drunk airship sailor had spouted tales of his journey with the ship to her, tales that entranced and filled her with a childlike intrigue. She'd join the MILOV and make her own travel journal, complete with maps and notes about the fantastical locations she'd visited with the MILOV, and publish her work. Hopefully, it'd make enough money to get her mother out of the Jiri's grasp. The Jiri had been the Viniros masters for a long time, but she hoped they'd still buckle under the opportunity of furthering their wealth at the cost of a single maid. But first, she had to make her way to Kallokain. Somehow.

[b]Other[/b]: Katja Veniros's track would be [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-SNX0ZG_8]I'm Katja[/url], a track from the Drifting Dragons that inspired the name of this character! Katja almost always carries the mostly useless sword around, having grown used to its constant weight at this point, giving the young girl a fiercer look.[/hider]