[Tinuviel of Denton]

Character Description Form:

Have you ever played in an RPG at the Barrow Downs? – yes, Fall of Greenwood the Great, Flight from Rohan, Dark Seduction (cameo)

How many RPG’s on the Barrow Downs are you currently involved in? two, Fall of Greenwood the Great and Flight from Rohan

Have you posted in The Green Dragon Inn or in The White Horse in Rohan? – YES – Which one? both

NAME: Kestrel

AGE: 17

RACE: Hillman

GENDER: Female

WEAPONS: A staff that is about half her height (usually used to make sure that she doesn't run into anything on her blind side.) and a short knife

APPEARANCE: About five feet tall, with dark brown, somewhat curly hair that is kept hacked off at about shoulder length. She has dark eyes, and has a scar across the left side of her face which pulls her mouth into a constant grimace (she is also blind in her left eye). She wears a necklace of claws around her neck, which came from her namesake. She also has a slightly thickened waist from having two children. She is prematurely aged and looks ten years older than she is (or at least, would if she lived in our society; in hers, she is well-preserved.)

PERSONALITY/STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: She has a bad temper, which has caused her children, Rain (girl, 4) and Flint (boy, 2), to step lightly around her and to make her husband, Knife, seek company elsewhere. She does love her children however, and would give her life for them unflinchingly. She doesn’t really care about anything other than herself and her children. She is stubborn, opinionated, but hard-working.

HISTORY: When Kestrel was about two years old, a hawk attacked her while her mother worked in their rocky garden nearby. The bird was driven away, but not before ripping most of her face open. It healed, but left a scar that almost cost her her chances of marriage. Her father managed to convince the man she married that hard work and youth would make up for lack of looks. He also stole a good steel knife from the Breemen for her dowry. Kestrel was married when she was twelve. Her parents died not long after that. She miscarried a son just before she had been married a year and gave birth to Rain, her daughter, almost exactly nine months after that. She weaned Rain early and did the same with Flint. She is pregnant again, but is not yet showing.

FIRST POST: The Hillwoman frowned. Her husband and his brother had gone off investigating rumors of those cursed Dunedain settling on their land. Aye, it was barren, rocky and it had poor soil, but the land was theirs and noe cursed Mand of the West was going to take it from them, not while there were Hillmen to defend it. They had their own land, those men of Gondor; they could leave these rocky hills alone.

Her son, Flint, came running into the hut, crying because some of the bigger boys in the village had pushed him down again. “Mama, Mama,” he whimpered. “They pusheded me down again.”

“So push them back or stay indoors,” she retorted. This was too much. So what if he was smaller than they were; he had to learn to stand up for himself and learn not to come running to her every time he had a problem. He’d never get any respect that way, and if he wanted to ever be someone important, he’d have to earn the respect of the other boys, starting now. So Kestrel pushed her son to be strong, so that someday, when she was old, and her husband could no longer hunt for her, Flint could take care of his mother.

The tot sniffled a few more times, then ran out again, saying defiantly, “I’ll push 'em real hard, Mama!”

Kestrel nodded, proud that her son would prove his strength this early. Even if he was only two. She turned to her daughter, who was sitting in the corner of the squalid little hut, attempting to weave a rush basket. And Rain was going about in entirely the wrong way.

“No, no, no!” she scolded. “You do it like this.” Rain had to make a good match for them. There was no way that her daughter would ever be dependant on charity. She had to be a perfect wife and make her mother proud. Kestrel was going to have enough to do just dealing with Flint. Rain would have to get a good man, or at least a man who could take care of her, and that would have to be enough for her. Her mother wouldn’t be able to.

[ August 04, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[ August 13, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]