Name:
Tarelee Sando

Position:
Herald Trainee

Age:
Fifteen

Sex:
Female

Companion:
Mekena

Physical Appearance:
Tarelle stands at 5'6. She has short blond hair but along fringe that she keeps back with hair clips. She has green eyes that changes shades depending on her mood. Tarelee wears glasses as she has short sided vision. Tarelee has a small nose that she refers to as her pig nose. It is blunt sort of nose. She has small round shaped ears. Tarelee is rather ordinary looking. She average weight. Tarelee has high cheekbones, has pale skin that tends to turn red if in the sun to long with proper protective clothing. Her hair is fine and never does as its told.

Gifts:
Firestarting - Her strongest Gift. Fetching - Medium. Farsight - Weak.

Personality:
Tarelee is; thoughtful, compassionate, caring, quiet, honest, shy, and trustworthy. She can also be solitary, curious, observant and stubborn. Her other personality traits are being kind, wary, reclusive, loyal, gentle, and withdrawn. She also has a sarcastic/dry sense of humour.

Tarelee tends to be on the quiet and withdrawn side, though this may come across as anti social, however it is not the case. Tarelee doesn't like being in large crowds or centre of attention. This makes her feel uncomfortable. Once people scratch beneath the surface, they find that once they befriend Tarelee. They find some one who is very loyal and supportive. 

Tarelee cares about people. Even if they are a rich noble, down to the homeless child in the street. It does not matter to Tarelee about their nationality or colour of the person. She cares about them to help in any way she can. If she does not know how to help them then she will direct them to some who can.

Tarelee has a curious nature. She loves a good mystery and researching on something that fascinates her. Tareleee has a dry/sarcastic sense of humour. It hides how she really feels not only about herself, but about the world around her and what is truly on her mind.

Life Story:
Tarelee is the only daughter out of six siblings. She has five older brothers; Tarnen, Linkan, Dran, Tevan and Xayer (pronounced Za-yer). Her brothers spoilt and protected her when she was growing up on their farm.

Her parents owned a horse farm in Berrybay near the Forest of Sorrows. It is a large farm and successful. Her mum Antian and her father Lordan have always treated their children fairly and respectfully, encouraging each of their children in their chosen fields of work.

Lordan and Aiden treated their workers the same way. They would listen to their workers whenever they offered a suggestion. They always gave their workers three new sets of clothing twice a year. Any children born on the farm were given basic education and plenty of food to eat. Any babies and young toddlers where helped looked after by Tarelee and several assistants, so their parents could work.

The farm wasn't far from Berrybay. Tarelee would often go in with her brothers or father on business trips. She might not have understood all of the business transactions, but she enjoyed going into town.

Tarelee could ride well and confidently. She was a fine sewer and cook, and worked well with young children. She was hopeless with maths or any sort of science. Tarelee wasn't a good fighter, even if her brothers tried to teach her.

On one such occasion going into town on her fine mare Twinkle, her brothers Dran and Tevan let her go off and look at the markets to buy new cloth for herself to make a new dress.

After buying the fabric she went and had a look at the jewellery at a neighbouring stall. The woman was friend of her mothers. While browsing through the stall a group of girls from her school started bullying her, because she wasn't pretty like them and they told her that no man would love as she was ugly. These group of girls had been bullying her since they started school together.

They pushed and shoved her around like a rag doll. One girl cut her hair and another stepped on her fingers while the others held her down. Tarelee screamed with rage and something inside her snapped while she lay there on floor being savagely beaten, and having her long hair removed.

Before she could understand what was going on. Tarelee had set fire to the closet girl next to her; the one who was cutting her hair. The next girl was badly burnt; the one who had beat her.

The owner of the stall quickly came to Tarelee's rescue. When she saw what was happening to Tarelle, she was furious. She sent her assistant to go find Dran and Tevan. When they came, the owner had everything under control. She was too late to save the girl who caught on fire, for she had died. The others where badly burnt. Tarelee was lying unconscious on the ground.

Dran and Tevan quickly took Tarelee home to Lordan and Antian. Their parents were shocked and angry. Shocked at what happened to Tarelee and angry at what the girls had done to their only daughter. Tevan went and got Healer Telen to look after Tarelee. Antian wept when she had to cut the rest of Tarelee's beautiful long blond hair.

Not long after the incident the girls parent came to apologize to Tarelee and her family. They had not known their daughters were being bullies to Tarelee. Tarelee apologised to the father of the girl she had burnt to death. The man had told her that she maybe chosen after this and could prevent this from happening to other families. 

Many days later Tarelee was walking amongst the herds when she heard bell chimes. Tarelee hadn't been to town much since the incident happened. When Tarelee turned her head towards the sound she stood face to face with a white Companion. Tarelee fell deep into the blue sea of love in the Companion's eyes. :My name is Mekena and I Chose you. You will never be alone: Ever since then Tarelee and Mekena have been best friends and rarely apart from each other. 

Her family were delighted that she was Chosen and proud. They put on a big family feast where Tarelee and Mekena were guests of honour. The workers on the farm where invited as well. The celebrations went well into the night. The next day a very tired Tarelee and Mekena went off to Haven. Tarelee had been fifteen then.

Recent History:
She has just arrived into Haven and has already been assigned her chores and class assignments.

Now Tarelee has made quite a few friends in her small social group. Two Heralds; Herald Laki (female), Shar (woman) and Healer Tani (female). Often together they get into trouble as a group. Laki is the leader, the rest tend to follow.

Tarelee has developed interests in art, history and writing stories. Art and writing is her creative outlet. She wants to set up a school for budding artists like herself who want to learn more about their craft.

Goals in Life:
To be the best Herald she can be to her ability. Find an art school for artists of all forms and to help people.