by Rebeka » Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:22 am
Character Bio
Full name: Rebeka Nerida (assumed surname once in the White Tower)
Age: Far to old for this
Gender: Female
Preferred Pronoun: she/her
Nationality: Illianer
Place of birth: Slums in the city of Illian
Clan: Gray Ajah
Job title: Aes Sedai
Current Residence: A small, currently sparsely appointed, apartment in the Gray Ajah wing.
Education: Mean streets of Illian, White Tower, and quite a lot of world travelling and learning
Relationships
Spouse: n/a
Father: long dead
Mother: long dead
Siblings: long dead and never tracked any descendants down
Children: n/a
Warder: None
Mentor: Mikaela Sedai
Physical Characteristics
Height: 4'9"
Weight: 85 lbs
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Skin color: Tanned from much travel outside
Type of face: Heart-shaped, ageless
Other: Cute, Pixie-ish
Personality Traits
Often has a small smile, inviting and personable. Very rarely loses her temper, at least in public. Enjoys a good glass of wine with a good dinner. Tends to consider her words and actions carefully, which can lead to not reacting as fast as some things might need.
Background
Born in the slums of Illian, she grew up rather unsupervised and wild, often resorting to petty theft to supplement the meager food brought in by her washer woman mother and porter father. A proper urchin by any definition with rather tangled hair, dirty face and other such lifestyle issues from that environment. Always small, though not really frail, something she retains to this day.
A discretely visiting Aes Sedai to the city saw her while she was running after snitching a fresh apple from a street vendor and recognizing the spark she had quickly convinced the merchant to let her deal with the caught child. The trip back to Tar Valon was quite the challenge to them both, as Rebeka would find creative ways to try and escape the "old witch" that was dragging her off to some forsaken place, running away from her often and always being caught, and marched along the roads towards the city and White Tower. She especially didn't like the teaching of grooming and hygiene, though the rough scrubbing and brushing left quite the impression to maintain it. She never did learn the name of the woman that brought her to what would become her home, though she is often (now) thankful to her for doing so.
Her training/upbringing as a Novice was long and continued the theme of breaking her in and settling her down, though she never tried to runaway. The food was quite an incentive after all. Eventually she learned, getting onboard with studying, learning, being able to touch then eventually channel the One Power. As she learned that things went better when not rocking the boat, she grew to have friends and enjoyed being with people more and more. Learning how honeyed words and nice actions would get others to agree and get along better than sourness and bitter words.
Overcoming the (many) demerits of her early rough start, she was eventually raised to Accepted and started learning about the Ajahs in earnest, training in more advanced weaves, learning about Daes Dae'mar and the interplay of nations, history, and all that it takes to attain the ring and shawl. Finding herself falling in more and more with how the Gray Sisters viewed the world and its interactions, politics, and the history of nations rising and falling. Finding a teacher in Mikaela Sedai, and deicding to reach for the goal of joining those Sisters. It was quite the happy and proud day when she was raised and brought into her Ajah, and making the White Tower her true home.
It has been many, many years since and finally returning home from a long tour of the world, though she won't say why or of what import it was. Finding far to many she knew gone, either dead or off on their own secretive missions, trying to regain her foothold in what feels like a new age to her.
Character Bio
Full name: Rebeka Nerida (assumed surname once in the White Tower)
Age: Far to old for this
Gender: Female
Preferred Pronoun: she/her
Nationality: Illianer
Place of birth: Slums in the city of Illian
Clan: Gray Ajah
Job title: Aes Sedai
Current Residence: A small, currently sparsely appointed, apartment in the Gray Ajah wing.
Education: Mean streets of Illian, White Tower, and quite a lot of world travelling and learning
Relationships
Spouse: n/a
Father: long dead
Mother: long dead
Siblings: long dead and never tracked any descendants down
Children: n/a
Warder: None
Mentor: Mikaela Sedai
Physical Characteristics
Height: 4'9"
Weight: 85 lbs
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Skin color: Tanned from much travel outside
Type of face: Heart-shaped, ageless
Other: Cute, Pixie-ish
Personality Traits
Often has a small smile, inviting and personable. Very rarely loses her temper, at least in public. Enjoys a good glass of wine with a good dinner. Tends to consider her words and actions carefully, which can lead to not reacting as fast as some things might need.
Background
Born in the slums of Illian, she grew up rather unsupervised and wild, often resorting to petty theft to supplement the meager food brought in by her washer woman mother and porter father. A proper urchin by any definition with rather tangled hair, dirty face and other such lifestyle issues from that environment. Always small, though not really frail, something she retains to this day.
A discretely visiting Aes Sedai to the city saw her while she was running after snitching a fresh apple from a street vendor and recognizing the spark she had quickly convinced the merchant to let her deal with the caught child. The trip back to Tar Valon was quite the challenge to them both, as Rebeka would find creative ways to try and escape the "old witch" that was dragging her off to some forsaken place, running away from her often and always being caught, and marched along the roads towards the city and White Tower. She especially didn't like the teaching of grooming and hygiene, though the rough scrubbing and brushing left quite the impression to maintain it. She never did learn the name of the woman that brought her to what would become her home, though she is often (now) thankful to her for doing so.
Her training/upbringing as a Novice was long and continued the theme of breaking her in and settling her down, though she never tried to runaway. The food was quite an incentive after all. Eventually she learned, getting onboard with studying, learning, being able to touch then eventually channel the One Power. As she learned that things went better when not rocking the boat, she grew to have friends and enjoyed being with people more and more. Learning how honeyed words and nice actions would get others to agree and get along better than sourness and bitter words.
Overcoming the (many) demerits of her early rough start, she was eventually raised to Accepted and started learning about the Ajahs in earnest, training in more advanced weaves, learning about Daes Dae'mar and the interplay of nations, history, and all that it takes to attain the ring and shawl. Finding herself falling in more and more with how the Gray Sisters viewed the world and its interactions, politics, and the history of nations rising and falling. Finding a teacher in Mikaela Sedai, and deicding to reach for the goal of joining those Sisters. It was quite the happy and proud day when she was raised and brought into her Ajah, and making the White Tower her true home.
It has been many, many years since and finally returning home from a long tour of the world, though she won't say why or of what import it was. Finding far to many she knew gone, either dead or off on their own secretive missions, trying to regain her foothold in what feels like a new age to her.