Character Biography
Full name: Amarea Helsen
Pronunciation: Ah-ma-RAY-uh HELL-sin
Nickname(s): Rea
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Preferred Pronouns: She/her
Nationality: Murandy
Place of birth: Lugard
House: None, commoner by birth
Clan: White Tower
Title: Fledgling Novice
Current Residence: Tar Valon
Education: Homeschooled
Physical Description
This young Murandian woman wears a simple apron covered in flour. Her blonde hair has gentle curls and would fall all the way to her middle back if it were not tied back with a ribbon. She has a broad, warm smile and piercing blue eyes.
Height/Weight: Your height is 5 feet, 2 inches, and you weigh 120.0 lbs.
Relationships
Spouse: Never married
Father: Jaeril Helsen, bakery shop owner
Mother: Tathera Helsen, baker
Siblings: Janun (brother, 15); Ilois (sister, 13); Amaine (sister, 11); Mys (sister, 9); Caul (brother, 7); and Erys (sister, 3)
Children: None
Warder: None
Mentor: None
Relationships with other characters: TBD
Channeling Traits
Strength in the One Power: 18(6) (Scale: https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/One_Power)
Element Affinity: Unknown
Element Weakness: Unknown
Blocks (previous or current): Unknown
Amarea has discovered that she is a wilder, but has never knowingly touched the Source or channeled. She started channeling around age 13 or 14. Amarea likely suffers from some kind of block, but she has not yet discovered what this might be, if anything.
Background
The firstborn of seven children to Jaeril and Tathera Helsen, who own and run the Lugard Bakery, Amarea's life to date has been extraordinarily average. From a young age, Amarea was always found beaming a smile that endeared her family as well as customers visiting the family bakery. Exposed to the joys of baking from early on, she was constantly peppering her mother with questions about why she made a recipe the way she did, or techniques on how to mix the perfect pastry doughs or prepare the most eye-catching decorations. As her family grew, Amarea readily adapted to the life of the oldest sibling, and she learned to take on responsibilities for her younger brothers and sisters. As she entered adolescence, Jaeril and Tathera came to rely on Amarea for her patience, kindness, and eye for detail.
Around her thirteenth nameday, however, Amarea suffered from an unknown malady for several months that worried her parents greatly and at times led her to be intermittently bedridden for days at a time. To add insult to injury, it was around this time that Amarea and her family experienced a tragedy that still traumatizes her today. As she was baking some bread by herself, while her parents were at the market purchasing more groceries for the bakery, a fire in the kitchen grew wildly out of control. Amarea miraculously suffered only minor burns in the process, but the fire spread rapidly throughout the kitchen and shop. The damage to the building was extensive, and Amarea's two youngest siblings, who were 4 and 2 at the time, both suffered from smoke inhalation and took months to fully recover. The family was able to restore the bakery, but only after taking on an expensive additional loan, running their family into debt and poverty from which they still have not fully recovered. Seeing open fires still sends Amarea into a panic.
By her eighteenth nameday, Amarea had become a mainstay at the bakery. She diligently supported her parents with the shop, watched after and gave school lessons to her younger siblings, and helped with bakery prep in the evenings. Amarea grew so skilled at baking that sometimes, when kneading the dough, she simply knew that the product would bake perfectly before she even pulled it from the oven. This earned her adoration from her parents as well as recognition in her community, once even winning a prize for the best honeycakes in town during the Feast of Abram.
Recently, as much as Amarea has enjoyed her quiet life, she has developed a growing sense of wanderlust and has started questioning whether there is more to the world beyond her small city and her family's bakery. So, when her favorite aunt invited her to a vacation in Alindaer, she knew that she needed to find the time to visit the Shining Walls of Tar Valon, and maybe even see an Aes Sedai like in the stories from the adventure books her father read to her in her youth. Little did she know that this would be the first step that would set her on a path to an entirely different life than she had ever possibly conceived, resulting in her donning the novice whites and being inducted into the White Tower...
Significant Lifetime Events
Written into the Novice book:
IC: 20th day of the month of Amadaine, year 1544 by Keshara Sedai
OOC: November 28, 2023
Attended Novice Orientation:
IC: 20th day of the month of Amadaine, year 1544
OOC: November 28, 2023