JOURNEYWOMAN HERDER TALLIN

Persona : Tallin
Writing Status : NPC/Owned
Age : 17
Gender : Female
Rank/Craft : Journeywoman Beastcrafter (Herder)
Residence : Sonnette's Dawn Hold

Physical Description : Tallin is 5'1" tall and about 100 lbs. She's slight, wiry with thick black hair. Her eyes are a greyish-blue in a pixie/elvish shaped face. The southern sun has left Tallin's skin a deep tanned brown, and she has no visible scars or handicaps. Yet.

Personality : Tallin's loyalty is absolute. Once she accepts people, they can do no wrong in her eyes. She gives her heart and soul to the Craft she was born for, often forgetting that the beasts belong to the Hold and not the Herders. She is stubborn however, resisting new ideas until they have been proven, and often 'leaps before she looks' ending up in situations that could have been avoided if she had stopped to think.

Life Story : Tallin was born Atallina, the only daughter in a family of 6 children. The apple of her father's eye, Atallina toddled after him everywhere as he tended the herds which are his livelihood. Displaying a natural touch with the animals from an early age, Atallina was despised and picked on by her 5 less talented brothers. Dabren, Atallina's father is a herder on lands belonging to a minor Hold in the South. He moved down from the Northern continent as a boy, and still maintained many of the traditions of the more rigid northlands. After Atallina's mother died of a fever, he became bitter and fearful of losing his position with the Lord and tried to force his sons and daughter into the roles he had been raised to believe are "proper." When he announced that he had arranged a marriage for Atallina to a very conservative,older man, she was terrified. Atallina hacked off her hair, stole her younger brother's clothes and ran away. She traveled overland to find a new place place to live and presented herself as Tallin, a 12 turns old orphan boy seeking an Apprenticeship as a Herder.

She was accepted as an apprentice by Master Donson, then Master Herder at Thread's End Weyr, and assigned to work with Journeywoman Saris, whom she quickly came to idolize. Eventually the truth was revealed, but she was permitted to remain with the herders at the Weyr, keeping the name "Tallin." A few months following, Saris and Donson left the south to begin a holding of their own in the north, and Tallin accompanied them, now almost a daughter to them both. When their new hold was destroyed by a tornado which also critically injured Donson, she accompanied Saris to Green Ridge Hold, where she is still mildly resentful of being apprenticed to Master Aenggis, a mere oviner.

During Month 1 of Turn 37, she walked the tables to become Journeywoman Tallin, and four months later moved to SDH to begin a period of journeying there. In month 3 of turn 38 she returned to Green Ridge Hold where she has resumed her duties working with the young racers.

Last updated on 18-Jun-07.