Appearance

Physical Description

Shauntha shares the familiar traits common to most Half-Orcs with a tall, broad and muscular physique.

Body Features

Like most Half-Orcs, Shauntha has a green-toned complexion. She has many scars, most of them being a direct result of hunting, training and fighting.

Facial Features

Shauntha has piercing yellow eyes though they were green when she was born.
 
Her left fang has a small gouge on the side of it, the result of a childhood mistake along with the scar on her chin beneath it.

Identifying Characteristics

She has three piercings of carved bone on her left ear and keeps the left side of her hair braided in rows. The rest of her hair is cut short and pushed to the right side.
 
She has a large tattoo that covers most of her back.

Apparel & Accessories

She always wears the amulet her mother gave to her and never takes it off.

Mentality

Personal history

Shauntha was born in Felles; a small human town known for its harsh and unyielding people with biased views and an unwelcoming nature towards anyone unlike themselves.
 
She grew up with her mother in a small cozy house on the outskirts of the town. She’d never met her father and her mother rarely spoke of him. What she did know was that he was a kind, strong man who her mother had loved very much. Shauntha didn’t know why he’d had to leave, but she knew that her mother spent many nights sitting by the window wishing that he would come home.
 
When she was young, Shauntha was a happy, energetic child who loved to run around and play. She would often try to play with the other children in the town until their parents would sneer and pull them away. She was still very young when she began to realize and ask why she was so different, but at the time she was still too young to truly understand the answers that her mother gave and so nothing seemed to bother her.
 
As she grew older, however, things did slowly begin to bother her. At first, it was just the little things; the other children running away from her, pointing out her differences and the name calling that came with it. As they aged, the behaviours grew more harmful over time, leading to pushing, shoving, rocks being thrown, harsher names and the like.
 
There was one child in the town that did not join in; a young girl named Nia, who had moved into the town just shortly before Shauntha’s ninth birthday. Nia stood up for her and told her stories about all her different friends from the other places she’d lived. They ended up becoming close friends and for Shauntha, it was a very important time in her life; realizing that not all people were innately awful. They remained close friends for a few years, until Nia’s family moved away from Felles and they lost contact with one another.
 
After Nia left, things returned to the way they’d been before and at the age of twelve, Shauntha reached a breaking point; her emotions boiling over and getting the best of her, clouding her judgement. She thought that if she could just make herself look more ‘normal’.. more like the other kids, it might make things easier. She decided to start with her fangs; one of the things the other children pointed out and made fun of the most. She waited until her mother was asleep to sneak out to the tool cart for a pair of pliers, but her mother heard the rummaging and woke. Her mother found her as she was struggling to get a good grip on her left fang and panicked, grabbing the pliers which caused them to slip; chipping the side of her fang and cutting her chin as they fell.
 
Shauntha had seen the way her actions had hurt her mother, who had spent much of the night afterward crying and questioning how she could have prevented what had happened. She realized that her actions had hurt her mother more than they had hurt herself and it was shortly afterwards that she decided it was best to keep her emotions hidden, tucked away and under control. She figured that if she didn’t think about them anymore, then they wouldn’t be able to cloud her thoughts again and she wouldn’t have to worry or hurt the people she cared about again. As she grew, it became something like second nature for her; to the point that it eventually became hard for her to let her emotions show at all.

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All throughout her childhood, Shauntha’s mother would take her on trips into the nearby forests and wilds. Her mother used these trips to teach her many useful skills as they camped out, hunted, foraged and ‘survived’. Shauntha adored these trips. She loved learning the skills her mother taught her and perhaps moreso, she just loved getting away from Felles, enjoying the peace and quiet of nature away from the small town and it’s bitter people.
 
As she grew older, her resentment towards the town grew with her. She found herself more often than not just wanting to be away from it. The people in the town had not become any more welcoming over the years and it wore down on her, dragging down her sense of self worth and pride. Shortly after her fifteenth birthday, she decided to leave the town behind and venture out into the world to find a place she could call her own. She tried to convince her mother to go with her, but something seemed to keep her mother from wanting to leave, despite also having a clear dislike of the town and it’s people. In the back of her mind, Shauntha knew that her mother still hoped that her father would return home one day.
 
Her mother was sad to see her go but did not want her lingering attachments to hold her back or keep her tied to the town. She understood why she wanted to leave and encouraged her to go out into the world and find her place in it. As a parting gift, she gave Shauntha the amulet she had always worn around her neck. It was a beautiful green gem that she had never seen her mother without. Her mother told her that it had been gifted to her long ago by one she had loved very much and that she was now giving it to her, promising her that it would bring her luck and keep her safe through her travels.
 
After she’d left Felles, Shauntha spent a good deal of time travelling and wandering, passing through a few towns and cities; though she never stayed long. Eventually she ended up in the forest South of Virmir. She took quite a liking to it, as the forest reminded her of her trips with her mother. It didn’t take long for her to decide to settle down and place some roots there. She built herself a hut on the edge of the forest and the shoreline, where she spent the next few years living in near complete solitude. She spent a great deal of time honing her skills, hunting and living off the land. On occasion, she would travel into a nearby town or city to trade pelts, meats and other resources she gathered for things that she couldn’t find in the forest. She did not spend much time socializing, always very to the point with her trades before leaving and heading back home to her hut in the forest.
 
During her third year living in the forest, she found a small child wandering, lost and near freezing within the forest during a particularly harsh winter storm. The child had initially been afraid of Shauntha, but with some patience, she had been able to help the girl, getting her back to her hut, warmed up and fed before learning that she had been travelling with her family's caravan and had become lost in the woods when the snowstorm hit. For two days, she took care of the girl, who she learned was named Keely, while they waited for the storm to calm. Once it had, she walked with her through the forest until they managed to track down the caravan, which had stopped a ways up the road once they’d realized that Keely had become lost. Keely’s family was overjoyed to see her return safely and insisted that Shauntha spend the night with them before heading back, and so they shared a meal, spent much of the night telling her stories of their travels and even traded a few things for some of the furs she’d had with her. As they parted ways the next morning they told her that if they ever crossed paths again, she would have a friend in them.
 
It was not long after that Shauntha met the group of people she would go on to spend the next years travelling, fighting and adventuring with, leaving her life of solitude in the forest behind her for the foreseeable future.

Education

Shauntha has very little education, none of which has ever been formal. Her mother taught her as much as she could when she was young.
 
She has limited reading and writing ability. She is not very good with numbers either, though she can count, she's just slow with it.
 
She wants to learn more.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Shauntha does not yet feel that she has achieved or done anything worth being proud of.

Failures & Embarrassments

Shauntha considers a few things to be her greatest failures/ the things she is most ashamed of; both times her emotions clouded her judgment, causing her to hurt those around her and not having gone back sooner to visit her mother when she had the chance.

Intellectual Characteristics

Shauntha does not consider herself to be very smart and often doubts her ability to think of solutions or offer useful input on an intellectual level.

Morality & Philosophy

Shauntha believes that everyone should be treated equally and fairly.
 
When it comes to protecting the people she cares about, however, she will seldom hesitate to do whatever it takes to keep them safe, even if what she must do may not necessarily be considered the most acceptable means.

Known Languages

Common
 
Due to her father not being around, she never had the opportunity to learn Orc, though she would like to one day if the opportunity were to present itself.

Personality

Motivation

Shauntha wants to become someone that others can rely on. She wants to protect the people she cares about.

Likes & Dislikes

Shauntha is, by nature, an animal person. She typically enjoy animals more than people, with the exception of her friends and companions. She often takes initiative when it comes to tending to her party's horses and making sure that they are well fed and looked after.
 
She has also developed a love for cooking after having been shown the ropes by a friend named Shaun. She has come to greatly enjoying cooking for her companions and those they meet along their journey. Cooking is something that she would like to continue learning more about and grow more skilled with.

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When it comes to things Shauntha does not like, there are a few. The most joked about among her friends being her dislike of dresses. She hates wearing them.
 
Shauntha also dislikes seeing people treated poorly or unfairly, especially when it is unjustified or done out of cruelty.

Vices & Personality flaws

Due to her time living in isolation, Shauntha often struggles with social skills. She is not the most talkative person and occasionally fails to pick up on social cues that others may pick up on easily. For the most part, she is very to the point and straightforward in social situations, tending not to draw conversations on longer than necessary.
 
Shauntha is not a great judge of monetary value. With a past built more around trade of goods, she sometimes struggles to understand the value of currency and may under or overshoot the value of items or services. She is not the person you would want to send in alone to haggle a better deal out of someone.

Hygiene

When it comes to hygeine, Shauntha is not a fussy person. She keeps herself bathed, but is also not bothered by a healthy lair of dirt or blood between baths.

Social

Birthplace

Felles

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Dame. Alongside her party, Shauntha has been Knighted in the city of Ellesoria.

Wealth & Financial state

Shauntha does not value monetary wealth, nor is she the holder of her party's money. She may do a few odd jobs here and there during times of rest for some pocket money of her own, but generally, any wealth is shared among the party.

Family Ties

Annika, Shauntha's mother. She is a hard working woman who lives in Felles. (Adding more on her soon, sorry, just gotta look over some stuff before I finish writing this part ^^)

Religious Views

Shauntha never used to believe in anything beyond death. Learning from Bjorgrin as well as meeting Al and Maliotrok have forever changed her perspective on what waits for all beings beyond death.

Social Aptitude

Shauntha is not a social person. She struggles with social skills and tends not to thrive in most social situations. She usually lingers more to the back of conversations or social events and typically prefers to listen and observe rather than to participate.
 
With her friends and companions though, she has come out of her shell a bit and is more likely to contribute to conversations, though not always at length.

Mannerisms

Shauntha very seldom if ever expresses her emotions, instead she will find a place away from people where she can hit things as an outlet, whether it be trees, training dummies or something else of the like.

Hobbies & Pets

Shauntha does not currently have any personal pets, though she does take care of the party's horses regularly.
 
At the moment, Shauntha does not have many hobbies. Her main hobby would be cooking, one that she has picked up somewhat recently and has been enjoying quite a bit.

Speech

Shauntha typically speaks in a very blunt and to the point manner. She is not one to carry on conversations longer than necessary. 
 
When she speaks, it is often in a low or slightly mumbled manner. She often speaks with a slower pace.