Mariel n'ha Shaya

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• Age: 27
• Marital Status: Was married - ran away from abusive husband, no children.
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• Laran gift and laran training: MacAran Gift fully. Tower trained in healing, monitoring. Better with animal healing than humans.
• Politics: Not overly fond of Terrans, but thinks women need more status.
• Personality: Before marriage: very friendly, outgoing and trustful. Now after 10 years with an abusive husband: quiet, unsure, shy, scared most of the time of strong personalities.
• Strengths: Very resilient, very intelligent. Reads and writes. Spins, weaves, sews and does beautiful needlework. Excellend interpersonal skills.
• Weaknesses: Scared of angry people, strong people in general overpowers her and she slinks into the corner, afraid of displeasing others.
• Combat training: Unarmed Combat - None
• Horseback riding: A natural! Excellent! She can ride anything anyway.
• Appearance: Very delicate looking, very feminine. Short - 5 foot tops. Very red, soft curly hair now that it is short (When long, it has a very gentle curl to it). Very wide blue eyes. She is very beautiful but doesn't realize it.
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• Pets: Always! Animals love her. Always adopting strays. Currently, Alessandra: a dog (female, equivalent to a Darkovan Setter, very red fur), Kyril: a cat (large gray male) and Felix, a ferret (who I found on my travels).
• Hobbies: Needlework of all kinds: sewing, embroidery, reading (when she can find books!), spinning, weaving, dyeing (likes to produce her own thread and yarn). Experienced ryll player and singer (very nice voice).
• Other Information: Raised with a father (maybe Terran descent) very undarkovan--educated his only child (me). As a young child ran free in the fields and learned about sheep from our old shepherd. My father was thrilled that my laran was so strong (I had it very young) and was happy to have me trained and working in a tower. My mother died giving birth to me. My father remarried and fathered a son with his second wife before he died of a sickness (I believe he was poisoned). My stepmother's brother yanked me from the tower and married me off. My husband was much older than me and was very physically abusive. I miscarried several times. He hated that I could read and write (he couldn't). I tried very hard to please him, but nothing I did would. I planned very carefully. Knowing about the guild house that is in Neskaya near me, I made renunicate clothes (kept hidden), stored provisions and supplies in an abandoned hut a little at a time. When he left on a trip, I escaped. I took my horse from the stable, cut my waist long hair very short and washed a dye in it to try to hid the red, and put on my renunicate clothes. Carrying a hunting knife (she knows nothing about - caring or using) and wearing men's boots (only thing I could get).
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