Creature Jenna Laukkanen [Ready]

[PedestrianWolf]

Roleplay Type: WoE

Name: Jenna Laukkanen

Sex: Female

Age: Young adult doe

Species: Caribou

Eye colour: Glacier blue

Coat: Dove gray, with cream underbelly and lower legs

Mane/Tail: Vanilla blonde ‘mane’ kept short with bangs

Physique: Statuesque, in strong physical shape. Average height for a caribou, with smaller antlers. Always wears a twisted black iron torc around her neck, and a harness and pack bags made from dragonhide.

Residence: Traveling / Skaftafell

Occupation: Adventurer / Treasure Hunter

Cutie Mark: None, but she does have a runic symbol branded on her left flank, Vegvisir

Pet: Amethyst crystal ram named Erik

History:

Skaftafell is a small village on the other side of the mountain from Heil. It is on the edge of a huge valley glacier and has extensive black volcanic sand flats. As a result, the land is more fertile and has more varied vegetation than most other areas of the country, which isn’t saying much. This land has been fought over bitterly, but it is now under the control of the High King, and his soldiers protect it from other marauding clans. The caribou who live here are mostly farmers, but the Laukkanen tribe of Clan Vatna are artisans. Antti and his sons, Tukka and Pekka are blacksmiths. They forge weapons of war, shields and axes, but also useful household objects like cooking pots and fire grates. Lindis, the matriarch of the house, spins flax into threads which she weaves into fine linen fabric.

 

Jenna is the youngest of the family, and the only daughter. As soon as she was old enough to be useful, she was put to work helping her mother. At first it was winding the linen threads into skeins, and then as she got bigger, she helped by stirring the dye pots and hanging the freshly colored skeins up to dry. Her favorite task was gathering the herbs and plants needed to make the natural dyes used to color the linen threads her mother spun. She would spend the long summer days wandering the fields and mountainsides, and come home with her pack full of herbs and mosses, as well as whatever curious treasures she had found. Rocks with holes worn through them by the glacier, pretty wildflowers, delicate bird skulls, things like that.

As she grew older, Jenna displayed less interest in the making of textiles and more interest in the finding of lost treasures. She would wander farther from home, and come back carrying things she had dug out of the ice, or found wedged between some rocks. Gemstones, old gold coins, arrowheads, dragons teeth. All of it she kept in a little chest under her bed. When it came time for her to go on a quest for her rite of passage into adulthood, she was gone for two months. When she returned, she was carrying a spear that had to have been a century old, and the skull of a beast that no one in the clan could identify. She had decided that she would travel all over the known lands and the unknown ones, hunting for treasure.

Character Summary:
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Jenna loves to look for buried and hidden treasures. Not just the traditionally valuable stuff, but also anything unique and really odd. She is friendly, for a caribou, but still every inch a viking warrior. She can fight with a sword as well as any of her clan, but she prefers not to solve every problem with the blade.

She acquired her pet ram, Erik, while traveling through the Crystal Empire. She plans on bringing him back home to Skaftafell and trying to breed him with the winter hardy Whitescar ewes to make wool that is brightly colored, but strong as iron.

She is not very good at sitting still, preferring to be active as much as possible. The thought of spending hours in front of a loom fills her with loathing. However, she does know the art of nalbinding, and will make little cords with bits of wool when she is bored with nothing better to do. Mostly she uses them to hang some of her smaller treasures from her antlers like ornaments.

Jenna is a strong swimmer, but is afraid of flying and refuses to ride in any of the viking airships. She is okay with delving deep into caves or climbing along the cliff faces of the fjords, as long as solid ground is beneath her hooves.

She wants to someday go back home to her village, hopefully with a nice stag (or stallion) and settle down with a herd of sheep. As long as she can still go adventuring whenever the mood strikes her, she’ll be happy.

 

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Everything appears to be in order here. Sending up the latter.

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