Knight-Captain of Caesonia
Stratya Durmand, 26, Female
Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 160 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Length/Texture: Down to her shoulder blades and silky
Hair Color: Light Brown
Skin Color: Fair
Facial details: A strong Clansmen jaw proclaims a warrior's strength, yet smooth skin and an elegant nose, cheeks, and brow lend her femininity.
Distinguishing features: Stratya has a strong beauty to her. It doesn't stand out in a crowd necessarily, but it does make her quite recognizable. She can be heard from afar by her thick dialect. Though she dresses to hide them, she has scars. A few old cuts on her arms and torso, lots of little ones on the backs of her calloused hands, and one on the right side of her torso, down her back, long and clean.
Clothing Preferences: Nothing very fancy. She often finds herself in uniform, which suits her fine. It doesn't get in the way of her movement, and she doesn’t have to think about fashion. Clothes that are too nice just make her worry she’ll damage them or get them dirty.
Psychology
Likes:Peace, music, good food, affordable mead, shellfish, ribs, weird parrying daggers, fighting and sparring
Dislikes:Competitive pressure, snobs, misogyny, discord, abuse, regular fish, fine clothes, talking about her past
Sexuality:Bisexual
Hobbies:Baking, drinking, playing music, training
Life Goals/Dreams:Peace and safety for her people. She's a simple woman, content with simple things. Food in her belly, the sun on her face, people she likes and cares for. A good pint of mead. That's all she really wants, it's just too bad some people won't let things be that simple.
Personality Summary:Stratya is a simple woman with a sharp mind that thinks too much at times, and an appreciation for nice things. She'd love to just lay on a hillside and play her fife or have a drink at the tavern all day, but unfortunately, there's much work to be done. She's fairly easy-going, which can cause people to lower their guard to her, perhaps even to think she’s less capable than she is.
Questions regarding her father have been a specter in her woods since the incident; whether she could have done something to have come to a different end, to have left him alive. She feels responsible, partly, like she didn't do enough. Like she didn't see things quickly enough. Part of her says she did what she could, part of her insists it wasn't enough.
Background
Current occupation:Knight Captain
Any past occupations?:Baker, Town Guard, Soldier
Relatives:Father deceased. Mother, younger brother and sisters operate the bakery and brewery in the Vermillion region.
Skills:Flute and vocals, cooking and baking, swordplay and brawling, thought and deductive reasoning
History Summary: A young girl in a small farming and hunting village worked in her mother's bakery, helping to make the bread and often carrying the bread throughout her village to the various shops and folks that needed it. Her father, a guard for the village and nearby trading town, taught his eldest child, Stratya, the warrior traditions passed down to him from his father, and to him from his mother, and so on into the days without records.
The day of her first hunt was an important day for her. At just 15, she brought back a whole wild boar for a festival. A very successful hunt. After another year, when she was considered of age by the militia, she enlisted into the town guard.
After two years of guard service, Stratya Durmand began her service to the crown as a woman-at-arms for the local Barony’s militia at the age of 18, but through service exceeding her station, she was recognized for excellence and given an officer position. As a Lieutenant, and with the authority such rank gave her, her sharp mind began sniffing things out.
The particular event that earned her knighting was the shattering of an underground sorcerer's ring, the capture of about a dozen gathered magic-users, and the elimination of violent resistors. Her father was also a casualty. She used a small, well-organized squad to breach a meeting and take the ring by surprise. That was in 1737. Though she has been living in the capital since then, she hasn't actually spent much time there. She's kept herself busy with rooting corruption and evil from the land.
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