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 Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:16 pm
Overseers: Elrohir and Haradhel Aldrich
Training: Amdir
Breeding/veterinarian: Aliya Aldrich,Shael
Exercising/Grooming/Tack: (5) Elberon
Food gathering (including fieldwork, gardening and hunting): (10) Vanya, Gwaethir
Fighters: (10) Halmir, Elros, Celeborn, Arthael, Sir Ryder, Aragost, Bronwe, Sir Boudwin, Sir Leith, Beren
Stableboys (Feeding/mucking): (5)
Medic: Adonai
Pets: Saki
The Ranch's Journal
Choosing a Trainer (50 F.A.)
Trouble on the Ranch (51 F.A.)
A Little Misunderstanding (51 F.A.)
Welcome to the Overseers (51 F.A.)
Overseers, meet Haven. (51 F.A.)
A Bit of Advice (51 F.A.)
Good Friends ... ? (51 F.A.)
To Tell or Not To Tell (51 F.A.)
Dinner Interrogation (51 F.A.)
Candy Cane Delivery (53 F.A.)
The First Real Orphan (53 F.A.)
The Unfixable Problem (53 F.A.)
A Birth of a Different Sort (54 F.A.)
A Place for Shael (54 F.A.)
Recruiting ... Again (55 F.A.)
First Impression (55 F.A.)
The Littlest Spy (56 F.A.)
A Startling Request (57 F.A.)
Mysterious Meeting (57 F.A.)
Shocking Reaction (57 F.A.)
Nursing Aide (57 F.A.)
A Crumbling Mountain (57 F.A.)
A Curious Request (57 F.A.)
The Solid Rock (57 F.A.)
An Anticipated Return (58 F.A.)
Reflections (58 F.A.)
Look at me!! ... or not. (58 F.A.)
The Job Hits Home (60 F.A.)
A Visit to the In-Laws (60 F.A.)
A Question of Truth (61 F.A.)
First Argument (61 F.A.)
Demanding An Answer (61 F.A.)
A Fruitful Search (62 F.A.)
An Awkwardly Joyful Reunion (62 F.A.)
Contemplating ... With A Bit Of Help (63 F.A.)
A Twinny Heart-To-Heart (63 F.A.)
A Startling Confession (64 F.A.)
The Morning After (64 F.A.)
Shattered Dreams (67 F.A.)
A Heavenly Visit (67 F.A.)
The Most Wonderful Love (67 F.A.)
New Birth (68 F.A.)
A Black-handed Thief (72 F.A.)
Forever Welcome Guests (74 F.A.)
Oh And By The Way ... (74 F.A.)
Talking to Arwen (74 F.A.)
Talking to Roydon (74 F.A.)
A Friend for Adonijah (75 F.A.)
Unexpected Dinner Guest (75 F.A.)
Romantic Ride (75 F.A.)
Broken Taboo (76 F.A.)
Lessons Ignored (84 F.A.)
Rescue (94 F.A.)
Progress (94 F.A.)
Startling Visitor (103 F.A.)
Father-Son Talk (106 F.A.)
Debate of the Sky Elves (106 F.A.)
Spreading the Joy (106 F.A.)
Frustration and Confusion (108 F.A.)
Don't You Know, Neko? (108 F.A.)
Rare Visit (113 F.A.)
Shocking Reunion (113 F.A.)
Permission Mission (113 F.A.)
Bit of Helpful Advice (113 F.A.)
A Sweet Farewell (113 F.A.)
Unexpected Reunion (113 F.A.)
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:17 pm
Name: Amdír
Pronunciation: am-DEER
Name Meaning: uprising man
Nicknames: Malgalad (mal, radiant, galad, gold)
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: Loëndë, 34 F.A.
Height: 7’3”
Weight: 68 lbs
Build: Lean and lithe, built like an archer
Predominant Features: His apparent seriousness, white hair.
Personality: Softspoken, serious, but easygoing with those he’s close to.
Powers: Communication with animals, Learning, Wisdom
Appearance: Amdír is very tall and lean, the stereotypical archer’s build. He has tanned skin, average for his race but lighter than the Southland elves’. His hair, which he lets grow, is so blond that it is almost pure white, and sometimes appears to have a slightly purplish or silvery hue in certain lights. Likewise, his eyes are the extremest of blues, and appear to be a vivid violet. His face in thin and rounded, and he looks very kind. His fingers are long and slim, even slender, and those who did not know he was an archer might even think his hands feminine. However, he’s also a very skilled fighter and horseman.
History: Amdír was born to two loving parents in the town of Ebonscarp. Because of his magical ability to learn, he came very early to mental maturity. This advanced him far beyond the other children of his age, and he grew up very quiet and serious. Upon joining the ranch, he met and fell in love with the beautiful Aliya, whom he finally married. They live together happily and have (so far) four children: Adanedhel, the twins Adwin and Alyse, and Adonijah.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:39 pm
Name: Aliya Aldrich
Pronunciation: uh-LEE-uh
Name Meaning: to ascend; lofty
Nicknames: Liya
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: Yáviérë, 35 F.A.
Height: 6’11”
Weight: 60 lbs
Build: Slender, graceful
Predominant Features: Hyperactive personality, youthful beauty
Personality: Hyperactive, outgoing. Due to knowing no other children during her childhood, Aliya came to an early mental maturity. She remains, however, naïve about boy/girl relationships.
Powers: Wishsong, tenacity
Appearance: Aliya is slightly below average height. She resembles her father with her long golden tresses and lively blue eyes. Her skin, slightly dusky by birth, is far darker than most elves’ due to spending almost all of her waking hours in the outdoors. She is very thin and slender, and has a natural grace that many covet. Unlike her fellow Westlanders, she prefers, like her mother, to dress in the Southland style of tunic and pants, that are form-fitting (but not skin-tight), although she does go a step further than her mother by having her shirts not quite reach the tops of her low-rise pants. She prefers to go barefoot as much as possible, wearing boots only during the months of winter snow.
History: Aliya was born, the fourth child of Ulani and Ulrich Aldrich. Her elder siblings (Cowan, Ruwen, and Terexin) have all either died or sailed on to Laurëfalas, and she never knew them. At six years of age she was given another brother, Adonai. She enjoys breeding horses, taking a personal pride in putting out the strongest and fastest horses of her parents’ herd.
After the ranch was started, she met Amdir, the trainer, with whom she fell in love and married. They now have four children: Adanedhel, Adwin, Alyse, and Adonijah.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:13 pm
Name: Halmír
Pronunciation: HAL-meer
Name Meaning: hidden jewel
Nicknames: ---
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: 3412 T.A.
Height: 7’0”
Weight: 75 lbs
Build: Tall and very muscular
Predominant Features: Scar-covered visible skin.
Personality: Halmír is very flirty, and loves all things beautiful. He’s an accomplished artist and enjoys nothing more than drawing or sketching anything he deems beautiful – mostly girls. This tends to lead him into some … dangerous situations.
Powers: Agility, Illusions.
Appearance: Halmír is of average height and build, but very muscular – more muscular than most. He keeps his golden-blond hair short-cropped for ease of care, which means that the scars that cover almost his entire scalp are in plain view. His left ear is ragged and the point is missing. He has gray eyes and dark, leathery skin, and his entire body is covered with battle scars. He always dresses as though expecting to be attacked at any moment, wearing clothes that allow him to easily camouflage himself in the forest, and always with his sword, throwing knives, and whip (his weapons of choice).
History: Halmír was born towards the end of the Third Age to an average family of four. He was sent to the Westland Royal Guard as a child to train as a fighter and quickly rose above the others of his class, making his way through the ranks until he ran out of ranks to climb. He took an active position in the Second War of the Races that ended the Third Age, fighting in nearly every battle he could. After the war was over, he was too injured to keep his position, and was sent home. He spent three decades recovering from his wounds and turned to art to satisfy his lust for beauty. However, he discovered that he could not make a living drawing pictures, and he returned to his fighting ways. Recently he was hired on by Ulani and Ulrich Aldrich to join the fighters of the ranch, Haven.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:22 pm
Name: Elberon
Pronunciation: EL-bear-on
Name Meaning: trusty man like a star
Nicknames: Elb (star)
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: 24 F.A.
Height: 6’9½”
Weight: 74 lbs
Build: Muscular
Predominant Features: Curious nature
Personality: Outgoing, curious
Powers: Empath, Calming
Appearance: Several inches below average height, Elberon makes up for his stature with his muscular build. He has short (close-cut) yellow-blond hair and sea-blue eyes. His skin is average darkness for a Westland elf, as he spends only about half of his time indoors. He dresses well, and is one of the few elves to wear footwear all year round – since of course he spends quite a bit of his time with horses, who tend to leave little presents that aren’t pleasant to step in.
History: Elberon was born in Chansond’eau and raised at the palace there, where his father worked for the king, taking care of his stables. He received his education from the royal family’s tutors and thus is highly educated. As a child he was highly curious, and had no problem with asking anyone anything. His curiosity came to the point where, when told specifically not to touch something or read something, he would do just that to find out what it was he wasn’t supposed to know. When he heard about the job opportunity in the Borderlands, he seized upon the chance to strike out on his own and make his own name in the world, rather than live in his father’s shadow.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:58 am
Name: Ulani Aldrich
Pronunciation: yoo-LAHN-ee
Name Meaning:
Nicknames: Lani
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Age: Nearly 4000
Birthday: 2 Yavië, 19,982 S.A.
Height: 6’11”
Weight: 60 lbs
Build: Slender
Predominant Features: Temper
Personality: Ulani is kind and easygoing, sometimes reckless, but she has a violent temper. It’s best not to get on her bad side.
Powers: Wishsong, Second Sight
Appearance: For all appearance, Ulani is a typical Southland elf, though she actually has little Southland blood at all. She has long black hair and tanned skin, small brown eyes and a thin mouth. Her clothes of preference are a tunic and pants, and she also usually wears boots. She also carried a pouch around her neck, though only those who are close to her even know about it.
History: Ulani was born the only child of Medwin and Krista Aldrich in Paradise Valley, the Borderlands. She grew up there with her parents, her adopted sister, Aminta, and her parents’ friends, Jewel and Alward, with their children, Ulrich and Leilani. At fifteen she was captured by two humans and lost her memory. She fell in love with one of the humans, which made Ulrich very jealous, and once she regained her memories she wandered the Westland for three years to sort through her heart. Upon her return, they received guests from the Southland who told them that she and her mother were members of the Southland elves’ royal family, a huge shock considering that neither of them even knew that there were elves in the Southland. Ulani, her parents, and Leilani and Ulrich traveled to the Southland to meet the Aldrich family and to help choose the next Southland Queen. Leilani’s son was kidnapped and Ulani was the one who rescued him, but nearly lost her own life in the act. When she recovered, Ulrich proposed, and they were married nearly two years later, when Ulani was again able to walk. They had three children, the youngest of whom, Terexin, left home at sixteen, furious with Ulani and Ulrich for not telling him of his Southland roots earlier. Deeming that he just needed time, they let him go, but took him back with open arms when he returned to make peace with them. Their eldest son, Cowan, was killed in the First War of the Races, and their daughter, Ruwen, sailed with her family to Laurëfalas. After the war, Ulani and Ulrich followed, disillusioned with the Four Lands. When, three thousand years later, there was a Second War of the Races, they returned to the Four Lands to offer their aid. Forbidden to return to the Golden Shores, they returned to the valley where they grew up and now live there happily. Their remaining son, Terexin, was finally killed in a small raid on the Borderlands, and Ulani and Ulrich lost all hope for the Four Lands once more. However, upon the advice of the Gaian angel, Kara Winters, they started another family, and now have a daughter, Aliya, and a son, Adonai. They are once again content with their lives and manage the ranch, Haven, that the human, Donovan, started in the Borderlands, just outside their valley.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:41 pm
Name: Elros
Pronunciation: EL-ross
Name Meaning: glitter of stars
Nicknames: --
Race: Westland elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: Sometime during the First Age
Height: 7’8”
Weight: 72 lbs
Build: Tall, lean
Predominant Features: His height
Personality: Keen and observant, but quiet. He has a pure heart.
Powers: Knowledge of the future, Communication with the Valar
Appearance: Elros has light blond hair and ice blue eyes that seem as though they can see right through people. He is the tallest elf alive (by far) and very handsome. He has sometimes been mistaken for one of the Valar because of his looks, height, and apparent wisdom.
History: Elros is a third-generation elf (meaning his grandparents were of the original elves, brought forth from the sea). He was born sometime during the War of Darkness, though the years were not numbered then, and learned early how to fight fiercely. At the turning of the First Age, he desired only peace, but was forced to choose a side. He went with the Light-Elves to the West because they were more accepting of him, though he himself was never able to bring himself to become of one mind with them, blaming them for the separation of his family (his mother had been forced to the south with the other Dark-Elves). Nevertheless, he took no action upon his resentment, and eventually overcame it, and today he fights for the acceptance of both races. He had been in the process of moving to the Eastland (where both Light and Dark Elves lived together in peace) when he met Ulani and Ulrich, a mixed couple who offered him a worthwhile job, which he accepted. He now lives on Haven, defending children who were rescued from Slave Traders and returning them to their homes.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:44 pm
Name: Vanya
Pronunciation: VAHN-ya
Name Meaning: strong
Nicknames: --
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Age:
Birthday: 19 F.A.
Height: 6’9”
Weight: 69 lbs
Build: Average
Predominant Features: None
Personality: Friendly
Powers: Green thumb, wisdom
Appearance: Vanya is slightly below average height, but other than that she is very average. She has fair hair and light blue eyes, tanned skin, and is of average build. She dresses in light colours, usually a skirt and blouse.
History: Vanya was born to a well-to-do family, the youngest of five sisters. The most average of them all, she had to fight to be noticed, whether at home or out among other people. She did, however, have a love and gift for growing plants, and when she heard about the opportunity to do this for a living out in the middle of the Borderlands, she jumped at the chance to get away from her mundane life. Now she works at Haven and is in charge of the field-sized garden that acts as the main source of vegetable nourishment for the elves who live there.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:04 pm
Name: Ulrich Aldrich
Pronunciation: UHL-rich or UHL-rick
Name Meaning: --
Nicknames: --
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age: Nearly 4000
Birthday: 8 Quellë, 19,979 S.A.
Height: 7’2”
Weight: 70 lbs
Build: Tall and muscular
Predominant Features: Lighthearted, open friendliness
Personality: Lighthearted, friendly, joking, can be serious when the occasion calls for it
Powers: Thought transference, Woodworking
Appearance: Ulrich is of average height for a Westland elf, slightly taller than the Southlanders, and has their typical golden blond hair and blue eyes. His skin is tanned but lighter than his wife’s, since they are of different races. He almost always wears the same sort of clothes: deerskin tunic, pants and boots.
History: Ulrich is the oldest child (of two) of Jewel and Aylward, two Westland elves. From an early age he was protective of Ulani, and he spent so much time with her that he fell in love with her. They were married in the Southland by Ulani’s great-grandmother. Almost two years later they returned to the Borderlands, where their first son was born. They had three children, the youngest of whom, Terexin, left home at sixteen, furious with Ulani and Ulrich for not telling him of his Southland roots earlier. Deeming that he just needed time, they let him go, but took him back with open arms when he returned to make peace with them. Their eldest son, Cowan, was killed in the First War of the Races, and their daughter, Ruwen, sailed with her family to Laurëfalas. After the war, Ulani and Ulrich followed, disillusioned with the Four Lands. When, three thousand years later, there was a Second War of the Races, they returned to the Four Lands to offer their aid. Forbidden to return to the Golden Shores, they returned to the valley where they grew up and now live there happily. Their remaining son, Terexin, was finally killed in a small raid on the Borderlands, and Ulani and Ulrich lost all hope for the Four Lands once more. However, upon the advice of the Gaian angel, Kara Winters, they started another family, and now have a daughter, Aliya, and a son, Adonai. They are once again content with their lives and manage the ranch, Haven, that the human, Donovan, started in the Borderlands, just outside their valley.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:41 pm
Name: Celeborn
Pronunciation: KELL-eh-born
Name Meaning: tall one of silver hair
Nicknames: Merilgûr (The Rose of Death)
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age: Approximately 8000
Birthday: 15,547 S.A.
Height: 7’6”
Weight: 80 lbs
Build: Solid, muscular
Predominant Features: Tattoo of a rose (black) on the left side of his neck
Personality: Serious
Powers: Strength, agility
Appearance: Celeborn is, as his name denotes, very tall, even for his race. His hair is such a light shade of blond that it’s very nearly white, and appears silver in the moonlight. His eyes are so blue that they appear violet. His skin is the same tan that all Westland Elves have, but what is different about him is his muscular build. He’s very solidly built. He has a tattoo on the left side of his neck of a black rose, the stem of which appears to be a blade. This was given to him after he received the nickname of The Rose of Death. He is quiet and serious, but not easily angered.
History: Celeborn was born to two Westland elves in the heart of Chansond’eau. Both of his parents were in the army, though his mother was given leave of absence after he was born so that she could raise him. His father was removed from active duty so that he could stay with them, but still had small missions within the Westland itself from time to time. Celeborn’s dream growing up was to be like his father, and at the age of six he was accepted into the royal tutelage. By thirty, he had advanced to the rank of Captain, but he left the army to start a family of his own at the age of fifty-two. He had three daughters and a son, and when his youngest child was twenty his wife was killed in an accident in the forest. After grieving for nearly ten years, he returned to the army, where he remained until the end of the Third Age. After an injury in the Second War of the Races, he was honourably discharged and released to join his children. They had long since disappeared from the city, and, unable to find them, he turned to a life of wandering the Four Lands in search of something to keep him occupied. By chance he discovered Haven, and was hired on immediately.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:07 pm
Name: Arthael
Pronunciation: AR-thai-el
Name Meaning: noble and wise
Nicknames:
Race: Westland Elf
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Birthday: 2601 T.A.
Height: 6’11”
Weight: 65 lbs
Build: Muscular
Predominant Features: Facial scarring, her un-stereotypicalness
Personality: Serious
Powers: Agility, Strength
Appearance: Arthael is rather unique both as a Westlander and as a woman. Her hair is darker than usual (some call it dirty blond, others call it sandy brown) and her skin is also darker, and nearly matches her hair. She is unusual as a woman because she keeps her hair cut short (it barely brushes her shoulders). She dresses to blend in with the forest, and even those who know of her presence can at times find it all too easy to miss her. She has one blue eye, and the other is scarred shut. The scar actually runs from her hairline, above her left eye (the one that works), across her forehead, down across her right eye, and to the right corner of her mouth. She is also more solid, more muscular than most Elven women.
History: Arthael was born an orphan – no one knew anything about her father, and her mother died in childbirth without saying a word to those who helped her. She was raised as a servant to a swordsmith, who also happened to be an excellent swordsman. He taught her everything he knew about both creating and using a blade, and by the time she became an adult she had surpassed his skill in both. She applied for a position in the army but was denied – officially because there was no need for her, unofficially because of her unknown heritage, and the fact that she was a woman. She became quite bitter because of this, and rather than joining the Westland army, she migrated to the Southland, where she was welcomed with open arms. During the Second War of the Races, she was involved in many of the smaller skirmishes that took place to the east, and she was wounded on the face and blinded in her right eye. She was honourably discharged, and though the Queen had made sure she would be well taken care of for the remainder of her life, she found the civilian’s life too quiet, and began to wander. She was in an alehouse in the northern Westland when she heard about the job opportunity in the Borderlands, and since being hired she has been working hard as a fighter/guard for Haven.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:12 pm
Name: Saki
Pronunciation: SAH-kee
Name Meaning: Cloak
Nicknames: Ki-chan
Race: Regular Fluffy Cat (half butterfly)
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Age: -
Birthday: August 30th
Height: N/A
Weight: 4 lbs
Build: Slim
Predominant Features: Pink runic markings and yellow chest, half butterfly wings
Personality: Playful
Powers: Sing
Appearance: She is a bit smaller than a regular sized house cat, she has brown fur as her dominant colour, with yellow tips and crest as well as pink runic like markings on her face and hind legs. She also bares the unusual quality of having pale yellow butterfly wings as a minor secondary wings. Probably the result of her parentage.
History: Saki as a fluffball (a Fluffy Cats equivalent of an egg) was purchase by Kara Winters as a sort of therapeutic pet for the kidnapped children. Though 'born' in August, she was kept in hibernation and had not bloomed until given into Cindy's care.
She was brought to the ranch solely on her parentage, she is the offspring of Mollie and Kira, one of which was a regular cat and the other that was a butterfly. It was the butterfly half of her that Kara had been interested in, as butterfly cats tend to be more playful, in addition Saki was one of the rare cats to inherit an ability known as sing. The soothing song that puts listeners to sleep.
Otherwise Saki is a normal, playful young cat who likes to spend time frolicking, and being petted like a normal cat. Though she is intelligent, she prefers the fun things in life, as she deems that is her job to show the children by being needful.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:56 pm
Name: Ryder
Pronunciation: RYE-der
Name Meaning: one who rides
Nicknames: --
Race: Southland Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age: Approx. 1000
Birthday: 3000 T.A.
Height: 7’0”
Weight: 72 lbs
Build: Muscular
Predominant Features: General cheerfulness, silence
Personality: Ryder is kind and gentle, always in a good mood, but serious when the occasion calls for it.
Powers: Intelligence, strength
Appearance: Ryder is exactly average for a Southland elf: seven feet flat, shoulder-length black hair (usually partially braided like any elven warrior), smooth, dusky skin, and a kind face.
History: Ryder was born to an upper-class family and given all the best military training. As soon as he was able, he joined the Home Guard, the elite of the Southland army. Four hundred years into his service, he was sent with a group of elven soldiers to the Eastland to negotiate with the Dwarfish king. His men were all killed, he was held and tortured for nearly a year, during which time his tongue was cut out. He was left in the middle of the desert, barely alive, where he was found days later and moments from death by one of the many scouting troops that had been sent out to find him. He was offered an honourable discharge from the army by Queen Regan, but he declined, insisting (through writing) that he wanted nothing more in life than to serve and protect the royal family. When the Princess Atalya was found, years after her own disappearance, Ryder became her personal bodyguard. When she ascended to the throne, he retained his honoured position, but when his speech handicap became too much of a barrier between himself and the other guards in the palace, he accepted the honourable discharge that Queen Atalya offered him. Inwardly disappointed, he left the Southland, which was too full of memories for him to stay, and set out to wander the Four Lands. By chance he stumbled across Ulani and Ulrich Aldrich, who lived in the Borderlands, and was told by them that they were starting up a ranch in the name of Donovan Lau, of whom he had heard in the Southland, and they offered him a position on the ranch as a fighter. He accepted with delight, also encouraged by the fact that both of them knew sign language and had no trouble communicating with him.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:44 pm
Name: Shael
Pronunciation: SHAY-'l
Name Meaning: inquisitive one
Nicknames: ---
Race: Southland (?) elf
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Age: 8
Birthday: Sometime in 45 F.A.
Height: 4’9”
Weight: 35 lbs
Build: short, extremely thin
Predominant Features: Strong limp in left leg, subservient attitude
Personality: Shy and quiet, but a strong and eager helper
Powers: Wishsong, Languages, Learning
Appearance: Shael is quite short for her age, nearly a foot below average, and as far as anyone knows she is a Southland elf (probably, she could also be from the Eastland). She has (insanely) long black hair and dusky skin, and hazel eyes. She’s abnormally thin (à la Haradhel) and has a very strong limp due to a broken leg that never healed right (a result of an attempted escape, she was told).
History: Shael knows nothing of her past before her life as a slave-girl for the dwarfs. The earliest thing she can remember is waking up two years previous with a badly broken leg, surrounded by dwarfs. From what she was later able to ascertain, she had been caught trying to escape and handed off to a different group of dwarfs. Thus, she had no known name. The other children she worked with called her Shael because she asked so many questions. The only thing she knows for certain about herself is her age, the only thing that her former owners told her new ones. After two years of slavery, she was rescued (along with the other children) by Donovan and Celeborn. She was brought to live with Haradhel and Elrohir, and since no one knows where she might have come from or how long she had been away from any family she might have, she was taken in by them. She more than earns her keep by helping out on the ranch, especially helping Aliya, since she can no longer do as much as she once did.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:00 am
Name: Aldrich
Pronunciation: AHL-drich
Name Meaning: wise ruler
Nicknames: Aragost (royal terror); Yami-san (Mr. Dark); Ara-kun
Race: Dark Elf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Age: THE Firstborn
Birthday: The beginning of the First Age
Height: 7’6”
Weight: 80 lbs
Build: Muscular
Predominant Features: Height, eyes, silence, build … and his temper, for anyone unfortunate enough to have gotten on his bad side
Personality: Silent, a loner, but fiercely loyal
Powers: Healing, strength of mind
Appearance: Though he keeps it always in a braid, his hair is black and goes down to his hips. His eyes are black and piercing, and his skin is dark and weathered, almost leathery. He always dresses the same. He wears long black robes, a long black cloak with the hood always up and his face mostly hidden by it, and tall black leather boots. He always carries with him a mysterious black bag: no one knows what might be inside. He has a longbow (made of course of the black wood, ebony), longsword, shortsword, dagger, throwing knives, a whip … and those are only the weapons that people know about.
History: Aldrich was the very first elf ever to have been created. He was brought from the sea by Manwe, perfectly perfect in every way - physically, mentally, spiritually, magically, psychologically, emotionally. In the few days that followed during which the rest of the Firstborn were brought forth, he met the woman who later bore his daughter, though they never married (which in those days was perfectly acceptable, since none ever had more than one partner anyways and there was no need of a vow - it was implicit). Being the First, and having spent much time with the Valar, he was looked up to by all of the elves, whether they were Eldar (Firstborn) or not, and unofficially became the leader of the elves, at it was at this point that he finally chose his name: Aldrich.
During the first Great War, Alyse (his wife) sacrificed herself to save their daughter (also named Alyse) and became the first constellation, Elwing. Aragost distanced himself from his daughter so that she would not be targeted by those who wished to hurt or destroy him (ie Melkor, the Vala who turned evil), and the war ended when he destroyed Melkor in the fiercest battle ever fought, past, present or future, but he was so radically changed, physically and emotionally, that he decided that his daughter would be better off without him. He did however watch over her as well as he could, protecting her from afar without her knowledge. He watched as she became the first Queen of the Dark Elves (or Southland Elves, as they became known), and as things settled down and she became truly safe, he faded out of her life entirely, leaving the Four Lands to live with the Valar in Laurëfalas. He remained there for nearly two thousand years, but his constant worries about his daughter made him leave the Golden Shores and return to the Four Lands.
He found that the land had changed in his absence, and he hardly recognized anything anymore, and for nearly a century he devoted his life to mapping the Four Lands in his mind, getting to know the place he had once called home. He discovered that there were also two new races: humans and dwarfs. He spent a long time studying both of them as well, desiring to know his world as he once had. He worked hard to rid the lands of the greatest dangers, creatures that had been brought forth by Melkor for the purpose of destroying the elves, in an effort to make the lands safe for the people he loved, for the family he knew he had but could never know personally.
He spent many of his years wandering not only the land, but the sea - he traveled from continent to continent, island to island, destroying demons and attempting to return the land to its original state. In some areas he succeeded, in others he failed, but he never stopped trying.
On a return trip to Laurëfalas, he met his daughter once more - but he kept his identity hidden from her, and she did not recognize him, and though it was painful for him he left her once again. He also met Ulani and Ulrich Aldrich, whom he observed but did not interact with, choosing, as with his daughter, to keep his presence secret from his descendants. He departed from the Golden Shores once more to return to the Four Lands. He participated in the Third Great War (again secretly, wanting to keep his presence from his family), and afterwards traveled north to keep occasional watch over the dwarfs. He knew of their slavery traditions, and manipulated events so that others would discover it as well, knowing that someone would choose to save the children and eventually stop the business altogether. It came as a surprise to him, however, that the person who took it upon himself was a human, and especially one of a different world. With the matter taken care of, however, he left the north and traveled once more, this time to the western Southland. After a number of years, he had a strange urge to return to the Westland and find Ulani Aldrich, the descendant he had met so many years before, but it was not until he saw her that he knew that he was meant to aid those at the ranch in their attempts to stop the slavery that was going on in the Northland.
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