Remember that Central Casting thing I did recently? Remember how you couldn't understand a thing about it? Well, here's the result of all that weirdness.
Halindra Dalindar (How do you like the cliche and nonsensical fantasy name?) is the missing daughter of the Dalindar family. She is in her early twenties, has shaggy, tangled dark brown hair, light grey-green eyes, acne scarring around her face, (Does she sound unattractive enough without being overdone? and sometimes walks with a limp. She's obviously not very strong or smart, but enjoyable to listen to never the less.
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The Dalindars were once a prominent magician family, who fell upon hard times when the government started cracking down on uncontrolled magic-using. So eventually the Dalindars were reduced from well-to-do nobility to poor commoners who happened to be good at this forbidden magic stuff.
Brojass (I got these names from a random generator by the way.) Dalindar was, by this time, (By WHAT time?) the head of the Dalindar family, and while he could barely remember the time when the Dalindars were respectable, he longed for it.
He was married to his cousin, Annanifer (This name makes me lol.), and had had a single daughter when Annanifer became pregnant again. However, Annanifer was very delicate and became badly ill during her pregnancy. By the time she went into labor, she was not capable of giving birth easily and had to have the baby cut out. (C-section basically.) After the baby, a girl named Halindra, was born, Annanifer floundered for about a week before finally dying.
Brojass's reaction was a mixture between sorrow and anger. Eventually he decided to blame Halindra, and left her in the local park.
Halindra grew up in the neighborhood on the streets, surviving mainly on the occaisional help of the local residents. While none of them felt they had the resources to take care of her, they'd sometimes give her scraps of food or outgrown clothing and Halindra managed to survive.
Over the years Halindra gained the vague idea that one of the familys in the neighborhood was hers. She had no idea why she'd been abandoned or by whom, but she started to pay close attention to the residents. She made close friends with one girl, Ino Dalindar, who she suspected was related to her mainly due to appearance.
When Halindra was nine years old, a tall man dressed in expensive clothing came to her on the streets and told her that her real father had died.
Halindra was stunned. As it turned out, her father was Ino Dalindar's unfriendly father Brojass, and he had specially requested that Halindra be there for the reading of the will.
So Halindra found herself sitting in the uncomfortable chairs in Ino's kitchen, listening to a long confusing legal document, seeing Ino trying not to cry, surrounded by lawyers that Halindra, knowing that Ino's family was poor, wondered how they could afford it.
After the reading was over, the tall man explained, as kindly as he could, that the document had basically said that Halindra got absolutely nothing. Halindra was very confused, and a little frustrated. Somehow, she hadn't picture re-discovering her family like this.
Ino was also acting very unfriendly, Halindra noticed. Lots of legal people were trying to talk to her, Ino refused to talk to her, and Halindra was feeling very, very frustrated and melancholy. She ended up hiding out in the attic in order to stay away from everyone.
It was while she was in the attic that Halindra found the book. She can remember what happened as if it was yesterday: She was sitting there on the floor, feeling very uncomfortable in her legs, when she saw the book behind a stack of wood. She wasn't sure how she saw it, since the woodpile should have been keeping it hidden, but when she looked over she knew it was there.
The book was very thin with a soft grey cover. Halindra flipped through the pages, which were yellowed and nearly crumpled whenever she touched them, but while she couldn't read the text she could get a vague idea of what they meant. She realized it was a spell book, and that surprised her since magic was barely even legal.
She had decided to go to the tall man about it, since he had seemed very nice. When she'd showed him the book and asked about it, his face had paled a little, and he looked as though he'd bitten into something very sour. He'd delicately picked up the book, as if it were a small child, and Halindra recalled him muttering, "I can't believe he could be so stupid..." Then he'd looked down at her benignly, thanked her for showing him the book, and told her she'd best not mention it again.
After that, Halindra had stopped seeing Ino so much. Sometimes they'd pass each other by on the street, but they tended to ignore each other. Other then that, life went on as it always had for Halindra, although she was just a tad bit more independant and spyed less on the locals, much to their relief.
When she was nearing her adolescence, Halindra found a job working on a ship, which turned out to be run by pirates. (Well that came out of nowhere.) However, they were government-sponsored, so it was much more peaceful then it would have been if they weren't regulated. She spent a few years sailing about with them until, on an 'exploration' mission to a third rate island, the pirates came across a cursed temple.
Everybody was effected, including Halindra even though she had stayed behind on the ship. The curse was that once a month, a part of their body would be severely injured, making it painful and either difficult or impossible to use. For Halindra it effected her foot.
Actually, in truth neither Halindra nor the other shipmates knew that their injuries, were, in fact, not actually there. The true curse was that they would think they were there, but everybody else would see them as perfectly healthy.
Halindra and many other pirates were very much distressed by the ordeal, and she felt she would be unable to work with the pirates anymore. She got off at the nearest possible dock, which turned out to be a land far away from Halindra's original hometown.
The next few years seemed to pass by in a daze as Halindra slowly became a full grown woman. When she was almost of age, she remembered the spell book, and an idea grew in her head of finding the tall man and somehow using the spell book to lift her curse.
Halindra is now making her way back home to what she sees as her only real hope. However, progress is slow due to it a) being in an entirely different country and b) the closer she gets, the more chaotic it gets. While she was away, her homeland has gotten into a civil war.
While Halindra doesn't know this, all the remaining members of her family are heavily involved in the war. Since they need all the allies they can get, a few of them are looking for Halindra.
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Most people don't really like Halindra when they first meet her, due to her naturally unfriendly nature. If they manage to get past that, they will find a surprisingly forgiving and wise person, despite her natural lack of intelligence. While a fairly good person overall, Halindra is naturally self-doubting.
Woot! I finally completed it! What do you think? I honestly think she's a bit cliche, and the background could do with some rewriting at some point, but it's a start.
Halindra Dalindar (How do you like the cliche and nonsensical fantasy name?) is the missing daughter of the Dalindar family. She is in her early twenties, has shaggy, tangled dark brown hair, light grey-green eyes, acne scarring around her face, (Does she sound unattractive enough without being overdone? and sometimes walks with a limp. She's obviously not very strong or smart, but enjoyable to listen to never the less.
* * *
The Dalindars were once a prominent magician family, who fell upon hard times when the government started cracking down on uncontrolled magic-using. So eventually the Dalindars were reduced from well-to-do nobility to poor commoners who happened to be good at this forbidden magic stuff.
Brojass (I got these names from a random generator by the way.) Dalindar was, by this time, (By WHAT time?) the head of the Dalindar family, and while he could barely remember the time when the Dalindars were respectable, he longed for it.
He was married to his cousin, Annanifer (This name makes me lol.), and had had a single daughter when Annanifer became pregnant again. However, Annanifer was very delicate and became badly ill during her pregnancy. By the time she went into labor, she was not capable of giving birth easily and had to have the baby cut out. (C-section basically.) After the baby, a girl named Halindra, was born, Annanifer floundered for about a week before finally dying.
Brojass's reaction was a mixture between sorrow and anger. Eventually he decided to blame Halindra, and left her in the local park.
Halindra grew up in the neighborhood on the streets, surviving mainly on the occaisional help of the local residents. While none of them felt they had the resources to take care of her, they'd sometimes give her scraps of food or outgrown clothing and Halindra managed to survive.
Over the years Halindra gained the vague idea that one of the familys in the neighborhood was hers. She had no idea why she'd been abandoned or by whom, but she started to pay close attention to the residents. She made close friends with one girl, Ino Dalindar, who she suspected was related to her mainly due to appearance.
When Halindra was nine years old, a tall man dressed in expensive clothing came to her on the streets and told her that her real father had died.
Halindra was stunned. As it turned out, her father was Ino Dalindar's unfriendly father Brojass, and he had specially requested that Halindra be there for the reading of the will.
So Halindra found herself sitting in the uncomfortable chairs in Ino's kitchen, listening to a long confusing legal document, seeing Ino trying not to cry, surrounded by lawyers that Halindra, knowing that Ino's family was poor, wondered how they could afford it.
After the reading was over, the tall man explained, as kindly as he could, that the document had basically said that Halindra got absolutely nothing. Halindra was very confused, and a little frustrated. Somehow, she hadn't picture re-discovering her family like this.
Ino was also acting very unfriendly, Halindra noticed. Lots of legal people were trying to talk to her, Ino refused to talk to her, and Halindra was feeling very, very frustrated and melancholy. She ended up hiding out in the attic in order to stay away from everyone.
It was while she was in the attic that Halindra found the book. She can remember what happened as if it was yesterday: She was sitting there on the floor, feeling very uncomfortable in her legs, when she saw the book behind a stack of wood. She wasn't sure how she saw it, since the woodpile should have been keeping it hidden, but when she looked over she knew it was there.
The book was very thin with a soft grey cover. Halindra flipped through the pages, which were yellowed and nearly crumpled whenever she touched them, but while she couldn't read the text she could get a vague idea of what they meant. She realized it was a spell book, and that surprised her since magic was barely even legal.
She had decided to go to the tall man about it, since he had seemed very nice. When she'd showed him the book and asked about it, his face had paled a little, and he looked as though he'd bitten into something very sour. He'd delicately picked up the book, as if it were a small child, and Halindra recalled him muttering, "I can't believe he could be so stupid..." Then he'd looked down at her benignly, thanked her for showing him the book, and told her she'd best not mention it again.
After that, Halindra had stopped seeing Ino so much. Sometimes they'd pass each other by on the street, but they tended to ignore each other. Other then that, life went on as it always had for Halindra, although she was just a tad bit more independant and spyed less on the locals, much to their relief.
When she was nearing her adolescence, Halindra found a job working on a ship, which turned out to be run by pirates. (Well that came out of nowhere.) However, they were government-sponsored, so it was much more peaceful then it would have been if they weren't regulated. She spent a few years sailing about with them until, on an 'exploration' mission to a third rate island, the pirates came across a cursed temple.
Everybody was effected, including Halindra even though she had stayed behind on the ship. The curse was that once a month, a part of their body would be severely injured, making it painful and either difficult or impossible to use. For Halindra it effected her foot.
Actually, in truth neither Halindra nor the other shipmates knew that their injuries, were, in fact, not actually there. The true curse was that they would think they were there, but everybody else would see them as perfectly healthy.
Halindra and many other pirates were very much distressed by the ordeal, and she felt she would be unable to work with the pirates anymore. She got off at the nearest possible dock, which turned out to be a land far away from Halindra's original hometown.
The next few years seemed to pass by in a daze as Halindra slowly became a full grown woman. When she was almost of age, she remembered the spell book, and an idea grew in her head of finding the tall man and somehow using the spell book to lift her curse.
Halindra is now making her way back home to what she sees as her only real hope. However, progress is slow due to it a) being in an entirely different country and b) the closer she gets, the more chaotic it gets. While she was away, her homeland has gotten into a civil war.
While Halindra doesn't know this, all the remaining members of her family are heavily involved in the war. Since they need all the allies they can get, a few of them are looking for Halindra.
* * *
Most people don't really like Halindra when they first meet her, due to her naturally unfriendly nature. If they manage to get past that, they will find a surprisingly forgiving and wise person, despite her natural lack of intelligence. While a fairly good person overall, Halindra is naturally self-doubting.
Woot! I finally completed it! What do you think? I honestly think she's a bit cliche, and the background could do with some rewriting at some point, but it's a start.
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