Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Calysia Wraithwood

Gender: Female
Age: 24

Physical description:
Tall, gaunt and sinewy with lightly tanned skin and black hair threaded prematurely with grey. Her eyes are on the green side of hazel. While her skin mostly appears young, shallow wrinkles mark out frown lines across her forehead and from the corners of her mouth.

Basic facts:
Calysia Albinor was born to a maid whom her father, a moderately successful merchant, married after impregnating. As her mother was quite aware of being lower class she always strove to better herself and this drive passed on to Calysia, who grew up to be an intelligent, ambitious young woman set on being a doctor.

After training under the supervision of the town general practitioner, she transferred to the army and was sent to fort Taovak, arriving mere days before it was hemmed in with enemies. After holding out for ten months, during which time a post-injury illness decimated the numbers of the defenders, the fort was relieved at the last minute by the bulk of the army. Calysia was found up on the battlements of the ruined inner walls, sitting beside a cot in which the body of Major Sebastian Wraithwood lay.

After three months spent in a hospital for traumatised war veterans she rejoined society, taking Major Wraithwood's name and staying away from her family so as to continue her work as a combat medic. She enlisted in the service of a group of old soldiers in charge of allocating experienced people to different units, who eventually sent her into the worst area in the war zone to the north.

The woman herself is a bitter, self-deprecating individual whose pride in her work is twisted by guilt and a general sense of failure. Her intellect is most commonly put to use in coming up with creative insults.

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