Linda Helmke
Mayor of North Averland Linda Denkerin Helmke
Linda Helmke is the appointed mayor of North Averland and oversees its day to day operation. She is a native of Averum, being born to human merchants of the Trade Ward.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Linda has a slender, though physically full physique.
Apparel & Accessories
Linda normally wears a long dark blue buttoned coat with split tails over the top of a slightly loose ruffled off-white dress that spills out at the edges of the coat. The coat is normally kept open during informal meetings. The dress has a diamond cut out over her cleavage, though the collar is slightly ruffled around the neck. Her dress is knee-length. Linda often wears near-white stockings under a pair of knee-high boots with stitched artwork of the Averi crest on the boots heel. In informal situations, she also wears an orange-red piece of cloth around her head.
During formal encounters, her coat is kept buttoned and her dress normally longer.
Linda wears numerous other dresses, including a laced black and red, vibrant orange and embroided light blue, though is normally found in her off-white attire.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Linda Helmke was born on Mirtul 17, 1456 to Stephan Elssler, a merchant, and Lotte Fünten, a scholar, in the forests outside of Averum. She was a child of wedlock, one that her parents wished to keep hidden and so gave her up for adoption. On Mirtul 27, she was adopted by a half-elf priest of the Church of Tyr named Luca Helmke.
Her adoptive father had Linda brought up within the framework of Tyrs church. She was provided a religious legal education during her teen years and worked in a minor capacity for the cities judicial systemfrom 1467 until 1470.
During Uktar 1470, Linda tracked down her parents and traveled with her fathers caravan, operating primarily on the Kasetian continent up until 1474. Through this, she gained formidable knowledge of legal procedure in multiple states, learned multiple human languages and became versed in mercantile customs of other cultures, all of which would assist in her future endeavors as a public servant in Averum. Early in 1474, Linda returned to Averum and was hired as a tax collector in the Eastern Dock Ward.
Linda was one of many public servants subject to violent attacks by the citizens of the Eastern Dock Ward as part of the Tempered Coin Riots of 1474. She was kidnapped during the riots by a small-time gang called the Desalin and subsequently escaped, killing one of her captors and breaking the hand of the other.
The Zealot Ward administrative arm hired Linda in 1479, having the task of monitoring relations between various church's and intervening when necessary. In 1481, Linda was placed in charge of planning the North Averland settlement. In 1481, Linda met and had a brief tryst with Captain Kuschewicz.
In 1482, Linda moved to North Averland and became its mayor.
Education
Linda received a religious legal education under the tutelage of the Church of Tyr in Averum from the ages of 7 - 14, mainly being instructed by the legal minds of the church.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Generated the master plan for the Averi trading outpost on Neudaugstaud known as North Averland.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Two things drive Linda; wellbeing of North Averland and its outward perception by others.
Social
Religious Views
Linda holds onto many religious leanings fostered after her time in the Tyrran church. Linda remains affiliated with the Tyrran church but is no longer a member.
She believes gods such as Lliira, Leira, Silvanus and Mielikki stand in the way of civilizations progress and tends react negatively to their worship.
Alignment
Lawful Neutral
Current Location
Species
Ethnicity
Date of Birth
17 Mirtul, 1456 AS
Year of Birth
1456
27 Years old
Birthplace
Averum
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Bright blue
Hair
Wavy auburn hair
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Lightly tanned
Height
5'7"
Weight
143lbs
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