Name: Tneril
Age: 20
Residence: Black Rock Hold - Healer Hall
Pet Kind:
Pet Name:
Pet Age:
Craft: Healer - Massage Therapist
Craft Rank: Senior Apprentice
Brief Description of Persona:
Tneril is 6' tall and weighs 164
pounds. He has thick, close-cropped brown hair, and hazel eyes set in a
untanned, serious face. He has an altogether unremarkable physical
appearance and he dresses accordingly, in simple, comfortable clothes
of
dull colors.
Tneril has a very friendly
disposition, once he knows someone well. Since his knee injury, he has
had a hard time bringing himself to make friends. Off on his own as he
usually is, Tneril often finds himself longing after something he can't
pin down.
Brief History of Persona:
Tneril was born the tenth son of a
prosperous family that was beholden to a minor, northern hold. His
father and mother, a beastcrafter and farmcrafter, ran a successful
herdbeast trade, in conjunction with his uncle and aunt, who managed
the
hold’s runner station, conveniently located at the head of Tneril’s
parents‘ farm. The boys from both families were expected to help on the
farm while the girls helped at the runner station. Tneril, his father’s
eighth and final son, however, was smaller and lankier than his
sisters,
clumsy, hopeless with beasts, and the owner of a very ungreen thumb.
When Tneril finally had 12 turns, he apprenticed under his uncle,
putting his long legs to use as a runner. Tneril couldn’t have been
happier. He had his aunt, sisters and female cousins to constantly dote
over him; contact with far off places and interesting people; and most
especially peaceful, private running time, something he truly
appreciated, coming from such a large family.
Trouble came in Tneril’s eighteenth turn. He noticed sharp pains
developing in his ankles and knees, pain that had been growing over the
past turn but had been easily ignored with hot baths, massages, and an
brief ease-up in his number of runs. Thinking nothing of the pain,
since
he accorded it’s cause to a lasting bout of bad weather in the region,
Tneril kept his problems to himself. Not much later, he was early in
run
that was not particularly difficult when his knee gave out. The pain
was
such that he had all but crawled the short way back to his uncle’s
runner station.
Ashamed of his self-injury and unable to bear recuperating under his
female relations, whose doting seemed to turn into pitying, Tneril
turned in his runner cords. He ignored his uncle and aunt’s protests at
leaving the craft before giving his knee a chance to heal, and returned
to his father. His father was willing, if somewhat hesitant, to offer
his son apprenticeship in the beastcraft, but Tneril couldn‘t bring
himself to take the offer. He wanted to leave his family and strike out
on his own, but an offer from his uncle made him stay. His uncle began
training him to manage the runner station. Tneril threw himself into
the
work, though it made his head ache -- he wanted to be as close to the
craft as possible, with the hope that his knee would eventually heal
enough for him to run again.
After a turn, his knee was as healed as much as it could be and he
could walk without a limp. His aunt could tell that his knee would
sadly
never be safe for him to run again, and she told him so when he pressed
for her assessment. A few sevendays later and without a word to anyone,
Tneril packed up all his marks, a store of marks saved for him by his
father, a few belongings and left, bound for the southern continent.
His
family chose to be discreet about his leaving and respectful of his
choice; for one thing, there was work to be done, and for another, his
parents knew he would have felt and performed miserably as a beast or
farmcrafter.
Shortly after his twentieth birthingday, Tneril found himself at Black
Rock Hold and entered the Healercraft, where he could put to use skills
he learned tending runner injuries. He doesn’t hold out much hope that
his new craft will grow on him, only that he can excel as a healer
quickly so he can support himself and never have to return to his
family
in greater shame than when he left them.
Attached NPCs:
Father: Terrinan; Mother: Lyolin; Uncle: Nerruton; Aunt: Piflam
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