Post by fateandfaith on Mar 4, 2009 10:16:02 GMT 10
Name: Kandar Daaleh
Gender: Female
Race: Dwarf
Age: 72
Hair: Waist length, rich brown in her youth and now mostly streaked with grey, kept in a very messy braid.
Eyes: A deep grayish-red.
Physical Description: Kander stands relatively tall for a female Dwarf at a solid four feet. She is also somewhat heavyset in appearance. Her skin is a pale shade of cocoa, dotted with darker brown age spots. She appears to be in her late 40’s to early 50’s in human years.
Personality: To sum Kander up in one word: no-nonsense. She’s tough and determined and never willing to take no for an answer. She tends to take on a motherly role to those younger than her that she grows close to, whether that means giving them the scolding or the pep-talking they need, or defending them as a mother bear would her cubs. She has a quick, vicious tongue when angered and is never afraid to speak her mind.
Occupation: Healer, Governess, Midwife
Other information: Kandar was born the only child to a wealthy mine-owner with over a hundred dwarven miners in his employ. While her father knew she would be well-suited to inherit his holdings, she would be ill-suited, as a female Dwarf, to venture into the outside world to market the wares produced by the mine and the many smithies connected to it. Kandar was only 20, barely a teenager, when her father began to take in apprentices. When one of them, a man named Djah proved himself to have a head for business and a good heart, Kandar’s father offered Djah his daughter’s hand in marriage. While the two were little more than strangers on their wedding day, Kandar felt hopeful. Her heart had never truly been in the family business, though as a juvenile she had always done her best to please her father. Djah with his good sense and honest tongue would be able to oversee the mines, leaving Kandar to pursue a path in a more altruistic field, becoming a healer and midwife and studying Dargosl husbandry, hoping to help the many brave dwarfs and their beasts who slaved away in the mines.
The mines prospered, thanks to both Djah and Kandar, for even with her other duties she stayed active within the family business. Djah, and, later, the pair’s three sons, often ventured into the outside world to sell their excess goods to non-Dwarfs. They became beyond wealthy, even by a Dwarf’s opulent standards.
However, tragedy struck, as it often does. Their eldest son, Rhaz, who had always loved to be down in the mines, slowly began to wither and die of Black Lung, a common disease among Dwarven miners. The loss changed Djah. His forays into the outside world grew longer and longer, as if the mines that had once brought his family so much joy now only reminded him of his loss. Then, one day, Djah did not return from a voyage he had made without the company of his two younger sons.
Years passed with no word, no sightings of Djah from the other merchants who ventured outside, but Kandar alone never gave up hope. The day after the first of her grandchildren reached adulthood, she gathered supplies, left a letter for her sons explaining herself and bequeathing them the mines, and ventured forth from the mountains for the first time in her life. Although she has read a great deal and learned as much about the outside world as her husband had to teach her, she ventures out with only a few meager belongings and a stash of valuable items for sale and trade. She may have slight skill with the customary dwarven weapons--a blunted metal staff and small sling with metal pellets--she is far more a lover than a fighter. Though she doesn’t need to be much of a warrior to feel safe in the unknown territory outside the minds when she has a fiercely protective four-thousand pound Dargosl named Meego to watch her back.
Finally. *huffs* She decided who she wanted to be.
Edited to add: Teh lovely Dame Judi Dench as Kandar! (Well, as the Elemental Ariel from Chronicles of Riddick, but, shhh, just pretend.)
www.mtv.com/news/moviehouse/photos/riddick_040517/flipe.jpg
Gender: Female
Race: Dwarf
Age: 72
Hair: Waist length, rich brown in her youth and now mostly streaked with grey, kept in a very messy braid.
Eyes: A deep grayish-red.
Physical Description: Kander stands relatively tall for a female Dwarf at a solid four feet. She is also somewhat heavyset in appearance. Her skin is a pale shade of cocoa, dotted with darker brown age spots. She appears to be in her late 40’s to early 50’s in human years.
Personality: To sum Kander up in one word: no-nonsense. She’s tough and determined and never willing to take no for an answer. She tends to take on a motherly role to those younger than her that she grows close to, whether that means giving them the scolding or the pep-talking they need, or defending them as a mother bear would her cubs. She has a quick, vicious tongue when angered and is never afraid to speak her mind.
Occupation: Healer, Governess, Midwife
Other information: Kandar was born the only child to a wealthy mine-owner with over a hundred dwarven miners in his employ. While her father knew she would be well-suited to inherit his holdings, she would be ill-suited, as a female Dwarf, to venture into the outside world to market the wares produced by the mine and the many smithies connected to it. Kandar was only 20, barely a teenager, when her father began to take in apprentices. When one of them, a man named Djah proved himself to have a head for business and a good heart, Kandar’s father offered Djah his daughter’s hand in marriage. While the two were little more than strangers on their wedding day, Kandar felt hopeful. Her heart had never truly been in the family business, though as a juvenile she had always done her best to please her father. Djah with his good sense and honest tongue would be able to oversee the mines, leaving Kandar to pursue a path in a more altruistic field, becoming a healer and midwife and studying Dargosl husbandry, hoping to help the many brave dwarfs and their beasts who slaved away in the mines.
The mines prospered, thanks to both Djah and Kandar, for even with her other duties she stayed active within the family business. Djah, and, later, the pair’s three sons, often ventured into the outside world to sell their excess goods to non-Dwarfs. They became beyond wealthy, even by a Dwarf’s opulent standards.
However, tragedy struck, as it often does. Their eldest son, Rhaz, who had always loved to be down in the mines, slowly began to wither and die of Black Lung, a common disease among Dwarven miners. The loss changed Djah. His forays into the outside world grew longer and longer, as if the mines that had once brought his family so much joy now only reminded him of his loss. Then, one day, Djah did not return from a voyage he had made without the company of his two younger sons.
Years passed with no word, no sightings of Djah from the other merchants who ventured outside, but Kandar alone never gave up hope. The day after the first of her grandchildren reached adulthood, she gathered supplies, left a letter for her sons explaining herself and bequeathing them the mines, and ventured forth from the mountains for the first time in her life. Although she has read a great deal and learned as much about the outside world as her husband had to teach her, she ventures out with only a few meager belongings and a stash of valuable items for sale and trade. She may have slight skill with the customary dwarven weapons--a blunted metal staff and small sling with metal pellets--she is far more a lover than a fighter. Though she doesn’t need to be much of a warrior to feel safe in the unknown territory outside the minds when she has a fiercely protective four-thousand pound Dargosl named Meego to watch her back.
Finally. *huffs* She decided who she wanted to be.
Edited to add: Teh lovely Dame Judi Dench as Kandar! (Well, as the Elemental Ariel from Chronicles of Riddick, but, shhh, just pretend.)
www.mtv.com/news/moviehouse/photos/riddick_040517/flipe.jpg
