Queen's Own Caelan

Jami

Age: 16 (m05/d07)

Position: Queen's Own Heraldic Trainee - 2nd Year

Gifts: Mindspeech - Very Strong (Can be trained Offensively)

Appearance: Caelan's hair resembles a fiery red so bright that it is often startling to look at. She has let it grow quite long and has to keep it in a tail so that it doesn't fly all over and get in the way. The ends of it are slightly curled, but the rest is straight and smooth. She has a round face and many freckles sprinkled across her nose and under her eyes, while her skin tone is pale and prone to burning in the sun. Caelan's eyes are an intense and multi-faceted green that seem brighter in sunlight and much more deep indoors.

She's rather short, in her own opinion, standing approximately five-foot five at the tip-top of her head. While not thin, she is neither overweight nor pudgy, and in fact has quite curvy hips. Child-bearing hips, her mother would always claim. Living on a farm gave her enough muscle to do daily chores, but the rich food (like fresh milk and eggs on a daily basis) give her body a soft appearance. It will need work before it will be considered 'fighting ready.'

Personality: Sometimes Caelan's quiet disposition gets her overlooked. She tends to keep her mouth shut unless she has something important to say, choosing to remain in the background absorbing information until such a time as when she can enter an argument with logic.

She does have a temper to match the fire of her red hair, but this temper is slow burning, and Caelan does have a rather long fuse. The girl is hard-working, with a soft spot for young children and animals, and has a love for reading that often gets her into trouble. As a youngster, she was often disciplined for ignoring her chores in favor of reading some love-story or other that she'd bartered off of a passing trade caravan.

Short Life Story: Caelan came from a rather large family in Ruvan. All eight of them lived on a farm, though none of the children were her siblings. Her mother lost several infants due to miscarriage before Caelan came along, and since then has not been successful in carrying another child. Because of this, the Hunters took in several of their nephews and nieces, which gave them plenty of help for the farm, as well as supplying Caelan with children her own age to play with.

It wasn't until a few months after Caelan turned 13 that her Gift made itself evident. The manifestation seemed to happen all at once, and almost overnight Caelan found herself plagued with strange dreams, thoughts and sometimes even emotions that weren't her own, all fueled by the lives of the people around her.
Being on a farm allowed her to escape the crush of so many family members and spend time out in the pasture for a temporary relief from the thoughts of other people.
She never associated the occurrences with Heraldic Gifts, as those were the things of legend to her day-dreaming mind.

When Kyrith appeared amongst the family's herd of work horses, at first Caelan assumed that one of the neighboring farm's stallions had broken the fence and come in to take control of their mares. She went out to investigate, and that's when she fell into the most beautiful blue eyes she had ever seen.

As they traveled back to Haven, Kyrith explained his Search to her, and why he had to bring her back to his people. Caelan was insecure at first, but Kyrith assured her that he would not have spent the past three months Searching for her if she was not worthy. They spent two months getting back to Haven; it wouldn't have taken so long had Caelan not needed to rest so frequently. She was sunburned on more than one occasion, especially when crossing the Karsite borders, and her nose had begun to peel by the time they entered Valdemar.

What little riding experience Caelan had (for on the farm it was limited to a jaunty little ride into town and back) was made up for by the long journey, and with Kyrith instructing her on what to do when she was uncertain, they made good time, all things considered.

It was obvious to Caelan that Kyrith would have been able to travel a lot faster were he not carrying a rider and her few belongings, but she couldn't bring herself to leave the Companion or his promises of a new, fascinating life.

Companion: Kyrith

Description: Grove-Born Companion Stallion

Family:
Mother - Evelyn Hunter
Father - Brian Hunter
Cousins (In order of age) - Connor(m), Bran(m), Keely(f), Hoyt(m), Bevin (f)


Last Updated: 06/15/2008