Alaine de Mival: A Noble's Ambition
Jan 14, 2020 4:07:01 GMT -5
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Post by bloodalchemist on Jan 14, 2020 4:07:01 GMT -5
Alaine de Mival
Age: 21
Height: 5'11
Build: Athletic and trim, with enough curves to know how to use them to her advantage
Hair Color: Golden Wheat
Eye Color: Dark Sea Blue that lightens when she is upset or angry
Base Charisma: 16
Faith: Tymora and Ohgma
Aspiration: To follow the path forged by her brother, helping to elevate herself and thus her families fortune and standing within her homeland.
Temperament: Cheerful, curious, prone to flashes of joy and anger in equal measure. She wears her exuberance for life and new experiences openly but tends to shut down, growing quiet and watchful when angered or upset.
This young woman often wears a smile of some kind, bright and wide, or small and mischevious but in whatever form it takes it seems to show the sheer pleasure she finds in dashing headlong through whatever life puts in her way. Dressing often in fine silks and cloth, perfectly fitted and cut with an eye for catching attention; Or in her own words to her tailors: "I wish to look like a nobles daughter, ready for business or a dance, too rich for a tumble with commners, and not so rich I'm going to swoon over who someone's ruddy father is."
She prefers rich blues or whites, accented with soft leather gloves and pants suited to a days walking or riding. Always at her belt is a dangerous looking sabre of military make, bearing the stamp of the Silver Raven, a gift from her eldest brother. Though she often carries a few travelers instruments with her, a fine flute of bleached wood and more often than not a small troupers harp, she always carries a well made lute, though it often changes as she finds one of better make or the perfect sound.
When prepared to fight, she wears a fine half-plate suit of sembite style, the pauldron shaped with an image of the Manta-ray her brother adopted when he was knighted, Alaine taking it as well to symbolize in her mind, the fact that her family would become one worthy of as much respect as any of the Merchant Lords of Sembia, and be granted proper noble status. She fights with a mixed style, her well honed sword arm equally suited to heavy chops and swings common amongst sailors, as well as the beginnings of a fencer's style, obvious in its resemblance to that practiced by duelists trained by the Silver Raven.
When asked about her past, she speaks frankly and with pride about much of her family. She loves her mother and her eldest brother deeply, speaking about the latter with a near reverence, quick to mention his Knighthood and Captaincy within the Silver Ravens and how it has jumped the family fortunes; originally a long line of fishermen from a town hardly worth mentioning (her own words) on the coast of the Sea of Fallen Stars. When her brother was Knighted and formally joined the Silver Ravens, the family took the name Mival, a reference to the baren, worthless soil on which they lived and often used to mock landless commoners within Sembia, as a mark of pride in their roots, as well as to thumb their noses at those within the Ravens and the Merchant class who might look down upon a family earning their way through feats of valor rather than commerce. She speaks little of her father, though her open distaste towards habitual drunks might imply an association though she has a weakness for the drink herself.
When asked about her mother, Alaine speaks with faint sadness but a deep love in her voice and expression, a caring woman who Tymora had smiled upon little in her life up until recent years, she was the one who pushed her eldest brother to leave the village behind and seek his fortunes elsewhere. When he returned, she was the one who gave her blessings to Gerard when Alaine begged and browbeat him into hiring her tutors for more than just singing and instruments, but to also learn to wield a blade and spell, hungry to overtake her brothers accomplishment with those she dreamed of achieving.
Of her younger brothers, she speaks only a little, mentioning they still tend to their fathers fishing boats and make a tidy profit running the town not worth naming. She seems perhaps fond of them, but no more, almost disdainful in comparison to Gerard and the opportunities he's given them all. Of her father, she speaks even less, referring to him when asked about her parentage as Durand, and rarely by father. It seems an obvious sore subject to her, and not one she speaks of easily.
All in all, for those that spend even a short time around this woman, its easy to see she is a willful, ambitious and bright young woman. Gifted with talent and intelligence, not to mention the fine beauty of the most doted on Merchant Lords' daughter, she can get in over her head at times, but one might imagine when she falls she does her best to bounce back to even greater heights.
Since she landed in cormyr, aboard a Sembite merchant ship landing in marsember a few short months after the Ironsworn returned to cormyr by the same port, she wears the same cold iron anvil badge of the sellsword company. When asked, she says she is proud to have the chance to make her fame and fortune beside the men and women her brother spoke so highly of, having fought beside them in the war between the cities of Starmantle and Westgate.
When prepared to fight, she wears a fine half-plate suit of sembite style, the pauldron shaped with an image of the Manta-ray her brother adopted when he was knighted, Alaine taking it as well to symbolize in her mind, the fact that her family would become one worthy of as much respect as any of the Merchant Lords of Sembia, and be granted proper noble status. She fights with a mixed style, her well honed sword arm equally suited to heavy chops and swings common amongst sailors, as well as the beginnings of a fencer's style, obvious in its resemblance to that practiced by duelists trained by the Silver Raven.
When asked about her past, she speaks frankly and with pride about much of her family. She loves her mother and her eldest brother deeply, speaking about the latter with a near reverence, quick to mention his Knighthood and Captaincy within the Silver Ravens and how it has jumped the family fortunes; originally a long line of fishermen from a town hardly worth mentioning (her own words) on the coast of the Sea of Fallen Stars. When her brother was Knighted and formally joined the Silver Ravens, the family took the name Mival, a reference to the baren, worthless soil on which they lived and often used to mock landless commoners within Sembia, as a mark of pride in their roots, as well as to thumb their noses at those within the Ravens and the Merchant class who might look down upon a family earning their way through feats of valor rather than commerce. She speaks little of her father, though her open distaste towards habitual drunks might imply an association though she has a weakness for the drink herself.
When asked about her mother, Alaine speaks with faint sadness but a deep love in her voice and expression, a caring woman who Tymora had smiled upon little in her life up until recent years, she was the one who pushed her eldest brother to leave the village behind and seek his fortunes elsewhere. When he returned, she was the one who gave her blessings to Gerard when Alaine begged and browbeat him into hiring her tutors for more than just singing and instruments, but to also learn to wield a blade and spell, hungry to overtake her brothers accomplishment with those she dreamed of achieving.
Of her younger brothers, she speaks only a little, mentioning they still tend to their fathers fishing boats and make a tidy profit running the town not worth naming. She seems perhaps fond of them, but no more, almost disdainful in comparison to Gerard and the opportunities he's given them all. Of her father, she speaks even less, referring to him when asked about her parentage as Durand, and rarely by father. It seems an obvious sore subject to her, and not one she speaks of easily.
All in all, for those that spend even a short time around this woman, its easy to see she is a willful, ambitious and bright young woman. Gifted with talent and intelligence, not to mention the fine beauty of the most doted on Merchant Lords' daughter, she can get in over her head at times, but one might imagine when she falls she does her best to bounce back to even greater heights.
Since she landed in cormyr, aboard a Sembite merchant ship landing in marsember a few short months after the Ironsworn returned to cormyr by the same port, she wears the same cold iron anvil badge of the sellsword company. When asked, she says she is proud to have the chance to make her fame and fortune beside the men and women her brother spoke so highly of, having fought beside them in the war between the cities of Starmantle and Westgate.
