RE: The Restoration of Erihal [Signups!]
04-25-2020, 11:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2020, 03:40 AM by SupahKiven.)
Name: Hypatia Gaustelle
Description: Hypatia is in her mid 20s, and is built like a brick shithouse. Tall and muscular, Hypatia's rugged appearance is quick to betray her occupation. Her skin is dark, both from a naturally dark complexion and exposure to the sun, and she has long brown hair with a tinge of red, typically pulled back in a ponytail or braid of sorts. In terms of personality, Hypatia is as blunt as she looks. She doesn't like to mince words, and prefers to let her actions speak for her. Despite her cold nature, she dislikes being left to her own devices or being put out of her comfort zone, due to the straightforward nature of her upbringing. Hypatia struggles to think for herself at times. And her inner conflict between wanting to understand Erihal and wanting to build her home into something worth praising eats away at her, making her fear thinking too deeply.
Skills: Raised on a farm, Hypatia is skilled with most things agrarian. She knows crops, first and foremost: what kind of conditions and needs typical cash crops have, as well as how to take care of them and harvest them when the time comes. She also is skilled with more 'menial' work: maintaining and repairing tools and clothing, cooking basic meals out of typical ingredients, and minor pastoral work. She's also just buff as hell, and is more than able to help with shit that just needs a little muscle.
Culture/Homeland: Hypatia hails from Mynstera, a moderately sized state not extremely far away from the former border between Erihal and the League. Mynstera is filled with farmland, and serves to provide a good portion of produce to the League as a whole. During the war, Mynstera found itself stretched thin. With Erihalese refugees from one side and the wartime demands from the League from the other, Mynstera was forced into a precarious position. Its produce and manpower was moved out, while more and more people ravaged by the war came in. It was then that Mynstera's culture shifted, adapting to the sudden influx of people. Erihalese refugees mingled with Mynsteran citizens, and their culture swirled together, being neither Erihalese nor League based. The culture found its focus on farming, as it was common ground, and bloomed out from there. For now, as a whole, Mynstera is still finding itself, but it's main cultural focuses lay with hard work and flexible, flowing support webs for the towns of people who no longer know where they belong.
History: Daughter of an Erihalese refugee and a displaced Mynsteran farmer, Hypatia has always known life in the field. She had an affinity for raising plants, which only served to benefit her. She probably would have ended up out there either way. Hypatia's early life was not particularly exciting or interesting. She spent much of her time at her parents' sides, either helping around the house or playing out in the fields of the farm acquired a short while before her birth. Her mother, who hailed from Erihal often told her stories of the rolling farmland and the vibrant art and the beautiful music and the ocean and the sea and everything in between. And Hypatia clung to these stories, even as she grew old enough to work in the fields and head into town on her own for supplies and make the observation that nobody seemed happy except for when they were telling stories of a country wiped from the land.
In time, Hypatia grew older still. The stories of beautiful, wonderful Erihal became tinted gray as Hypatia continued to see that nobody seemed to be happy anymore. Stories of the beautiful, dead country were common things for Hypatia to listen to, and she began to wonder if anybody had ever been okay with being here at all. Even those not hailing from Erihal, like her father, sung this country's praises. But how and why was a country so majestic brought to its knees in the first place? And what was it like now? And why was she the only one that seemed content with the idea of building off of what they had now?
These feelings brewed in Hypatia for years, until fate intervened for her. News was brought into town, of the chance for resettlement of Erihal, for the need for people like them to make things livable in the long run. And for once, Hypatia was glad for the stories and words of those who wanted nothing more than to bring a dead country back to life. It meant that nobody, not even her parents, questioned her motives when she said she wanted to help.
Reason for joining the Resettlement: Her whole life, Hypatia has been sung the praises of Erihal and its successes. She struggles to reconcile the image portrayed to her with the general satisfaction she has now. Is such a fallen country really better than building what they have now? Hypatia wants to head to the ruins of Erihal, see the results of the war for herself, and decide for herself whether Erihal deserves to regain its praises, or whether her home should be built into something praiseworthy instead.
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Description: Hypatia is in her mid 20s, and is built like a brick shithouse. Tall and muscular, Hypatia's rugged appearance is quick to betray her occupation. Her skin is dark, both from a naturally dark complexion and exposure to the sun, and she has long brown hair with a tinge of red, typically pulled back in a ponytail or braid of sorts. In terms of personality, Hypatia is as blunt as she looks. She doesn't like to mince words, and prefers to let her actions speak for her. Despite her cold nature, she dislikes being left to her own devices or being put out of her comfort zone, due to the straightforward nature of her upbringing. Hypatia struggles to think for herself at times. And her inner conflict between wanting to understand Erihal and wanting to build her home into something worth praising eats away at her, making her fear thinking too deeply.
Skills: Raised on a farm, Hypatia is skilled with most things agrarian. She knows crops, first and foremost: what kind of conditions and needs typical cash crops have, as well as how to take care of them and harvest them when the time comes. She also is skilled with more 'menial' work: maintaining and repairing tools and clothing, cooking basic meals out of typical ingredients, and minor pastoral work. She's also just buff as hell, and is more than able to help with shit that just needs a little muscle.
Culture/Homeland: Hypatia hails from Mynstera, a moderately sized state not extremely far away from the former border between Erihal and the League. Mynstera is filled with farmland, and serves to provide a good portion of produce to the League as a whole. During the war, Mynstera found itself stretched thin. With Erihalese refugees from one side and the wartime demands from the League from the other, Mynstera was forced into a precarious position. Its produce and manpower was moved out, while more and more people ravaged by the war came in. It was then that Mynstera's culture shifted, adapting to the sudden influx of people. Erihalese refugees mingled with Mynsteran citizens, and their culture swirled together, being neither Erihalese nor League based. The culture found its focus on farming, as it was common ground, and bloomed out from there. For now, as a whole, Mynstera is still finding itself, but it's main cultural focuses lay with hard work and flexible, flowing support webs for the towns of people who no longer know where they belong.
History: Daughter of an Erihalese refugee and a displaced Mynsteran farmer, Hypatia has always known life in the field. She had an affinity for raising plants, which only served to benefit her. She probably would have ended up out there either way. Hypatia's early life was not particularly exciting or interesting. She spent much of her time at her parents' sides, either helping around the house or playing out in the fields of the farm acquired a short while before her birth. Her mother, who hailed from Erihal often told her stories of the rolling farmland and the vibrant art and the beautiful music and the ocean and the sea and everything in between. And Hypatia clung to these stories, even as she grew old enough to work in the fields and head into town on her own for supplies and make the observation that nobody seemed happy except for when they were telling stories of a country wiped from the land.
In time, Hypatia grew older still. The stories of beautiful, wonderful Erihal became tinted gray as Hypatia continued to see that nobody seemed to be happy anymore. Stories of the beautiful, dead country were common things for Hypatia to listen to, and she began to wonder if anybody had ever been okay with being here at all. Even those not hailing from Erihal, like her father, sung this country's praises. But how and why was a country so majestic brought to its knees in the first place? And what was it like now? And why was she the only one that seemed content with the idea of building off of what they had now?
These feelings brewed in Hypatia for years, until fate intervened for her. News was brought into town, of the chance for resettlement of Erihal, for the need for people like them to make things livable in the long run. And for once, Hypatia was glad for the stories and words of those who wanted nothing more than to bring a dead country back to life. It meant that nobody, not even her parents, questioned her motives when she said she wanted to help.
Reason for joining the Resettlement: Her whole life, Hypatia has been sung the praises of Erihal and its successes. She struggles to reconcile the image portrayed to her with the general satisfaction she has now. Is such a fallen country really better than building what they have now? Hypatia wants to head to the ruins of Erihal, see the results of the war for herself, and decide for herself whether Erihal deserves to regain its praises, or whether her home should be built into something praiseworthy instead.
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