Post by Nari Windrustle on Aug 24, 2009 18:30:43 GMT -5
Name: Nari Windrustle
Age: 20 seasons (seasons = years, yes?)
Gender: Female
Species: Wood Mouse
Marital Status: Single and uninterested
Position and Home: A warrior (weapons are bow & arrows, and two daggers for close combat) and she lives in Redwall
Strengths: Nari is an excellent archer, whose arrows strike the target 9 out of ten times, on a good day (cause no one's perfect all the time). For close combat, she's strong enough to not die, but her agility and speed is what wins most battles. She's good at handling kids and her patience with their mischief and trouble making is practically phenomonal, due to her love of children.
Weaknessess: I don't know if this counts, but she's a horrid singer, and luckily she knows it, but still...beware. Nari also has a tragic fear of water, due to a past happening which I will tell you in history. Nari can't go within 6 feet of any pool of water deeper than waist height, so she tends to avoid the Abbey Pond. Also, she tends to be clumsy with a lot of what she does, save shooting, so she might fall off a latter randomly, or drop what she's carrying suddenly, or knock stuff over at inappropriate times.
Alignment: Nari is good. She dislikes evil doings just about as much as everyone else does, and equally not very fond of vermin.
Appearance: Attractive wise, she's not drop-dead gorgeous or beautiful, but she is above average. She stands at an average height for a mouse, has lean muscles, showing she is a warrior.
Nari is golden-brown on her head and back, and white on the underside of her body, from the end of her chin down to her feet. Her eyes are a deep, piercing blue that can stare most anyone down when she's angry that they can't look into her eyes for long. She dresses in a navy blue tunic, her brown leather belt fastened on her waist with the sheath for her daggers on the right side. Nari always has her daggers on her, except when she's sleeping, and when she's not practicing or fighting her brown leather quiver full of arrows and her wooden bow stay propped against the wall a little ways off from her bed.
Personality: As I said before, Nari's patience and compatibility (i think I spelled that wrong) with children might be legendary, but her patience with anything else is not even close. She's not going to explode in your face after three seconds, but she can't stand someone acting stupid for too long, escpecially when she knows they can do or act better. She can act calm and collected in a difficult situation (whether in battle, everyday problems, and so on), but most likely she's freaking out inside.
Nari is an overall content mouse, and she often notices that sometimes she has no feelings about an event or thing or anything that, really, all she can say is "I'm content" or "I'm content about it". She has no past that causes her to be a emo, vengeful, or anything too negative, so when people ask, she would reply that she's led a relatively cheerful and good life. Nevertheless, when Nari's enraged, which is easy depending on how you do it, she can get pretty dangerous. If you go far enough, she will hurt you. No joke.
Nari is a bookworm. She loved, loves, and always will love, books. Any story, tale, legend, song of heroism or who knows what, she enthusiastically reads and listens. In her free time you would often find her reading something, or listening to the elders or abbey recorder tell some tales. She would daydream about herself being in those stories and playing heroic parts. And, as every bookworm's sorrow, she is painfully aware of how reality often isn't like that.
History: Nari was born east of Mossflower woods, living near a river and on the edge of a small forest, daughter of a musician and an orphan. Her father was the orphan, sadly unaware of who he was or what his life was before the age of 17 seasons (he lost his memory then), but as he travelled through the land a bit, he found he liked the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind and decided to name himself Peredo Windrustle (he never told Nari where "Peredo" came from. She assumed it was on whim). It was in the forest where she was born that he met her mother and built a house on the edge of the trees and settled in with her, eventually producing a daughter, Nari Windrustle. It was there she lived until she was 16.
Nari first learned how to shoot a bow from her uncle, her mother's brother. He often came to visit his sister and when he did, he took the opportunities presented to him to teach her what he knew, for he wasn't a master but he was decent. She had talent in it, and enjoyed shooting at targets that were drawn on trees. She practiced and practiced and continued to practiced until she was well off for some on who was half taught and half self-taught. It wasn't until after both her parents were gone that she learned to use the daggers.
Nari was 13 when her mother accidently died. She washed the clothes and and was drying them on a flat rock near the river when the wind blew off one of the garments. In an attempt to catch it, she tripped and fell off in the river, which was running faster and deeper due to the rain they had for three days straight. Nari and her father heard her cry for help and tried everything they could to save her without killing themselves, but they couldn't do anything. Her mother drowned only 4 days after Nari's birthday. After that, her father was silent, not saying more than a sentence or two at a time. The two never talked about her death, but the pain of losing a loved one had driven itself deep without the help of words. Nari saw that it was obvious her father thought of her mother, and her death was hurting him a little bit more everyday, until two seasons later, when Nari was 15, he disappeared when she was out foraging. Just simply wandered away without telling her anything.
Nari didn't really know what to do at that point. She was unsure if she could survive by herself if she left and tried to search for her father, and it didn't help that she didn't know where he could possibly go, what with having no memory of a previous home or anything. He didn't say if he found a home for a time during his travelling, so Nari didn't know where to begin. After hours of contemplating she decided that she would stay in her home alone, and see if her father would come back. Her plan changed when an aging mouse knocked on her door a season later, seeking housing for a night or two while he rested up from his travelling.
He was a wandering warrior, an old soldier from a castle "far from here", he said. His only weapons were two daggers that fit in only one sheath, much to Nari's surprise. When he showed her, she found it was like one thick dagger that had neatly been split in half. When she showed interest in the two blades, the kindly mouse offered to teach her, saying that "his skills were useless if he didn't pass them on". When she told him she could already shoot, he was impressed when he saw her skills and offered some tips to improve her speed and accuracy. Knowing he would leave her home soon, Nari finally decided to leave with him, and she did, but not without leaving a note for her father in case he did come back.
And so, Nari spent three seasons being his apprentice and learning to fight from him with both the daggers and the bow. Both luckily relied on agility more than growing muscle mass in a fight, so that made things easier and the results were much more satisfying than if it had been otherwise. When he was pleased with her growth, he brought Nari to a friend of his, a blacksmith he met on his travels. There the daggers she still has today were made. Her master told her that he she knew more than enough, and it was time to go on her own. Nari became a wandering warrior herself until she happened upon Redwall. The creatures had welcomed her warmly, and though Nari planned to stay only for a few nights, she found that she couldn't leave. Redwall became her home without question, and Nari quit being a wanderer just a few days before her 20th birthday.
Not a day goes by that Nari doesn't think of the two days that changed her life for good: her mother's death, and her father's disappearance. She still felt the pain she felt since she was 13, but it never was enough to get rid of her happiness. And though she told no one of those two points in her past, she often finds herself thinking of them while alone, though no one reminds her of them in any way. Nari knows that she would never leave Redwall for good, as it is now precious to her as it was for everyone, but there was still a tingle of hope that her father would find her here.
Codeword: Martin the Warrior
Age: 20 seasons (seasons = years, yes?)
Gender: Female
Species: Wood Mouse
Marital Status: Single and uninterested
Position and Home: A warrior (weapons are bow & arrows, and two daggers for close combat) and she lives in Redwall
Strengths: Nari is an excellent archer, whose arrows strike the target 9 out of ten times, on a good day (cause no one's perfect all the time). For close combat, she's strong enough to not die, but her agility and speed is what wins most battles. She's good at handling kids and her patience with their mischief and trouble making is practically phenomonal, due to her love of children.
Weaknessess: I don't know if this counts, but she's a horrid singer, and luckily she knows it, but still...beware. Nari also has a tragic fear of water, due to a past happening which I will tell you in history. Nari can't go within 6 feet of any pool of water deeper than waist height, so she tends to avoid the Abbey Pond. Also, she tends to be clumsy with a lot of what she does, save shooting, so she might fall off a latter randomly, or drop what she's carrying suddenly, or knock stuff over at inappropriate times.
Alignment: Nari is good. She dislikes evil doings just about as much as everyone else does, and equally not very fond of vermin.
Appearance: Attractive wise, she's not drop-dead gorgeous or beautiful, but she is above average. She stands at an average height for a mouse, has lean muscles, showing she is a warrior.
Nari is golden-brown on her head and back, and white on the underside of her body, from the end of her chin down to her feet. Her eyes are a deep, piercing blue that can stare most anyone down when she's angry that they can't look into her eyes for long. She dresses in a navy blue tunic, her brown leather belt fastened on her waist with the sheath for her daggers on the right side. Nari always has her daggers on her, except when she's sleeping, and when she's not practicing or fighting her brown leather quiver full of arrows and her wooden bow stay propped against the wall a little ways off from her bed.
Personality: As I said before, Nari's patience and compatibility (i think I spelled that wrong) with children might be legendary, but her patience with anything else is not even close. She's not going to explode in your face after three seconds, but she can't stand someone acting stupid for too long, escpecially when she knows they can do or act better. She can act calm and collected in a difficult situation (whether in battle, everyday problems, and so on), but most likely she's freaking out inside.
Nari is an overall content mouse, and she often notices that sometimes she has no feelings about an event or thing or anything that, really, all she can say is "I'm content" or "I'm content about it". She has no past that causes her to be a emo, vengeful, or anything too negative, so when people ask, she would reply that she's led a relatively cheerful and good life. Nevertheless, when Nari's enraged, which is easy depending on how you do it, she can get pretty dangerous. If you go far enough, she will hurt you. No joke.
Nari is a bookworm. She loved, loves, and always will love, books. Any story, tale, legend, song of heroism or who knows what, she enthusiastically reads and listens. In her free time you would often find her reading something, or listening to the elders or abbey recorder tell some tales. She would daydream about herself being in those stories and playing heroic parts. And, as every bookworm's sorrow, she is painfully aware of how reality often isn't like that.
History: Nari was born east of Mossflower woods, living near a river and on the edge of a small forest, daughter of a musician and an orphan. Her father was the orphan, sadly unaware of who he was or what his life was before the age of 17 seasons (he lost his memory then), but as he travelled through the land a bit, he found he liked the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind and decided to name himself Peredo Windrustle (he never told Nari where "Peredo" came from. She assumed it was on whim). It was in the forest where she was born that he met her mother and built a house on the edge of the trees and settled in with her, eventually producing a daughter, Nari Windrustle. It was there she lived until she was 16.
Nari first learned how to shoot a bow from her uncle, her mother's brother. He often came to visit his sister and when he did, he took the opportunities presented to him to teach her what he knew, for he wasn't a master but he was decent. She had talent in it, and enjoyed shooting at targets that were drawn on trees. She practiced and practiced and continued to practiced until she was well off for some on who was half taught and half self-taught. It wasn't until after both her parents were gone that she learned to use the daggers.
Nari was 13 when her mother accidently died. She washed the clothes and and was drying them on a flat rock near the river when the wind blew off one of the garments. In an attempt to catch it, she tripped and fell off in the river, which was running faster and deeper due to the rain they had for three days straight. Nari and her father heard her cry for help and tried everything they could to save her without killing themselves, but they couldn't do anything. Her mother drowned only 4 days after Nari's birthday. After that, her father was silent, not saying more than a sentence or two at a time. The two never talked about her death, but the pain of losing a loved one had driven itself deep without the help of words. Nari saw that it was obvious her father thought of her mother, and her death was hurting him a little bit more everyday, until two seasons later, when Nari was 15, he disappeared when she was out foraging. Just simply wandered away without telling her anything.
Nari didn't really know what to do at that point. She was unsure if she could survive by herself if she left and tried to search for her father, and it didn't help that she didn't know where he could possibly go, what with having no memory of a previous home or anything. He didn't say if he found a home for a time during his travelling, so Nari didn't know where to begin. After hours of contemplating she decided that she would stay in her home alone, and see if her father would come back. Her plan changed when an aging mouse knocked on her door a season later, seeking housing for a night or two while he rested up from his travelling.
He was a wandering warrior, an old soldier from a castle "far from here", he said. His only weapons were two daggers that fit in only one sheath, much to Nari's surprise. When he showed her, she found it was like one thick dagger that had neatly been split in half. When she showed interest in the two blades, the kindly mouse offered to teach her, saying that "his skills were useless if he didn't pass them on". When she told him she could already shoot, he was impressed when he saw her skills and offered some tips to improve her speed and accuracy. Knowing he would leave her home soon, Nari finally decided to leave with him, and she did, but not without leaving a note for her father in case he did come back.
And so, Nari spent three seasons being his apprentice and learning to fight from him with both the daggers and the bow. Both luckily relied on agility more than growing muscle mass in a fight, so that made things easier and the results were much more satisfying than if it had been otherwise. When he was pleased with her growth, he brought Nari to a friend of his, a blacksmith he met on his travels. There the daggers she still has today were made. Her master told her that he she knew more than enough, and it was time to go on her own. Nari became a wandering warrior herself until she happened upon Redwall. The creatures had welcomed her warmly, and though Nari planned to stay only for a few nights, she found that she couldn't leave. Redwall became her home without question, and Nari quit being a wanderer just a few days before her 20th birthday.
Not a day goes by that Nari doesn't think of the two days that changed her life for good: her mother's death, and her father's disappearance. She still felt the pain she felt since she was 13, but it never was enough to get rid of her happiness. And though she told no one of those two points in her past, she often finds herself thinking of them while alone, though no one reminds her of them in any way. Nari knows that she would never leave Redwall for good, as it is now precious to her as it was for everyone, but there was still a tingle of hope that her father would find her here.
Codeword: Martin the Warrior
