3. Rylee's humble beginnings

Rylee's humble beginnings


  • Character: Rylee Kesten
    AccountName: KissTheBlade

    Appearance
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    Rylee is a tallish, graceful, attractive human woman aged about 17 now. She's blonde, pale and lightly freckled with an agreeably proportioned face. Mostly she's seen in Peltarchs's traditional colours but more lately the red and black of one of Nicahh's Sisters. She's almost irrepressibly chatty but not terribly courtly or refined in her manner.

    She's pretty and charming in a fairly vacuous sort of way and looks like she might be easily distracted. If she's making an effort, though she's got a pretty sharp mind behind her ready, dimpled smile.

    Background

    Growing up amidst the richer end of professionals in the dock district, Rylee was the youngest of three children. Her father was a merchant and factor for one of the larger warehouses, while her mother was a baker with a shop on Bard Street. Jonvil and Lucretia were her older brother and sister who seemed interested in following the trades of their parents.

    Rylee was mostly left with a happy childhood, but as she grew older she needed a trade and her father bought an apprenticeship with one of the seamstresses, since Rylee liked needlework and sewing. Thought she was giftedn and happy, she was also a little sensitive and after an argument with a young noble unhappy with an alteration she was fired.

    That's not all that was fired, though. the other 'prentices thought the noble must have stumbled into a candle when he was flouncing out of the shop, but Rylee wasn't sure. After that , not many people wanted to take on an apprentice already a bit old for proper training in something new, but since she could read and write well and neatly her father was able to get her some work at the records office, producing transcripts.

    That went well too, until the fire there after the head scrivener had yelled at her for making a rare and uncharacteristic blot on some of the expensive parchment. While nothing could be easily traced to Rylee and she'd had no formal magical training there was some suspicion and she was banned from the City libraries just in case.

    Word spread, and some of her father's business began to dry up for fear that their goods might suffer some unexpected accident in his care. Despite their love for their daughter, her parents had to disown her and kick her out of the house to preserve their own livelihood.

    Without a proper trade or many belongings, Rylee was reduced to wandering the streets of the city. Occasionally running an errand, or helping out in the marketplace her life was a bit miserable and cold.
    Then a nice red-haired lady offered her some work, and maybe a new family. She certainly didn't sound like a Banite, despite what rumour said, I mean... Banites are s'posed to be nasty y'know?

    Stats

    Str 8 - A bit feeble and thin.
    Dex 14 - graceful and good with her hands and coordination
    Con 14 - Pretty hardy and resistant to colds and other illness
    Int 14 - Clever, reasonably educated
    Wis 10 - Flighty, carefree, optimistic
    Cha 16 - Attractive, confident, self-assured.


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