Post by challice on Jun 19, 2006 12:49:36 GMT -5
Challice Francesca DeCaladain, 26, born to the DeCaladain family of Westfall. The DeCaladain family once owned the largest estate in Westfall, producing bountiful harvests for much of history. But the great wars decimated the once large and once proud DeCaladain clan and without able bodied men to work the fields they sold their land over the years, until there was nothing but a small farm.
Challice was always a proud child, boastful, and foolhardy. She was a tomboy, preferring more physical adventures and games to the feminine pastimes of her gender. At first it seemed there was nothing at all wrong with Challice. But as she grew up, she never grew into her femininity and this became a problem. She could not pretend to be a boy forever as there were certain duties required of her as a woman she would have to fulfill.
She wanted adventure, to see the world, and of course change it. She dreamed of restoring her family honor, of putting the DeCaladain clan back into history by her own hands. Her parents wanted nothing more from her than to earn a basic education, learn the tools of the trade, and settle down to have a family. Challice viewed her parents as having given up, compromising the great things the family once stood for.
She was provided for modestly, but she longed for more and always felt out of place among the people of Westfall. She came to believe she was destined for greater things than being a farmer and at some point someone else's wife. There was only two ways to escape Westfall and her restricting family without dishonoring herself: marrying or joining the church to serve the Light. She dreaded the thought of marriage, viewing it as something that would tie her down for good and being very much empowered finding the idea of being a demure obedient wife to be a fate worse than death.
Challice earned quite a reputation among the denizens of nearby Moonbrook earning the unsavory nickname as the Spinster of Westfall or The Unmarriable One. Men that courted her on her looks alone soon found themselves at her mercy, for she possessed a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. Luckily, she had some brawn to back up preferring hard labor to domestics. Challice was always met with whispers and hushed tones whenever she entered Moonbrook, which only made her feel more sure of the fact that she just didn't fit in here. Socially ostracized and without many friends, she turned her frustration into hard labor, working what little remained of her ancestral lands. Soon she realized that even throwing herself entirely into such work she still felt unfulfilled and like a stranger in a distant land.
As soon as she was old enough, she announced to her family that she was joining the Northshire Abbey as a Sister. Her parents needed little convincing and agreed to her decision. She left Westfall her home up until then, for good. Challice new she wasn't going to be satisfied sitting around an Abbey, so finding a sketchy gentleman at the Goldshire Inn who was sympathetic to her coin she had documents forged to show she had been selected as a prime candidate for the holy track of Paladin.
Far away from Westfall she started her life anew, but it wasn't long until she earned another reputation for her passion, spunkiness, quick wit, and rather outspoken nature. She was respected for her unswerving loyalty, compassion and bravery, but often disciplined for her impatient and capricious nature. Nonetheless, she worked hard and progressed quickly through the trials of a Paladin. Eventually, she ascended leaving the safety of the Abbey and set to find her destiny in the real world.
In the meantime, Westfall had been overrun by Defias. Upon returning home she found her childhood home abandoned and the fields wrought with weeds. The Defias had chased her family from their home and even the town of Moonbrook had been abandoned. In rage, Challice killed all the Defias perverting her family's land, including those sleeping in the nearby farm house. This traumatic event was Challice's first experience with death, an event that still haunts her dreams. Challice searched desperately for months for any sign of what happened to her family, but found none. The survivors of Moonbrook and the people of Sentinel Hill believed they had been killed by the Defias, but no one knew for sure.
Devastated by the loss of her family she could no longer stand the sight of Westfall. Turning to the East she left Westfall forever and began her traveled alone searching for her family. Now, several years later she has mostly given up the search but still clings to the faith that her family, or some survivors of it, must be alive somewhere.
Challice was always a proud child, boastful, and foolhardy. She was a tomboy, preferring more physical adventures and games to the feminine pastimes of her gender. At first it seemed there was nothing at all wrong with Challice. But as she grew up, she never grew into her femininity and this became a problem. She could not pretend to be a boy forever as there were certain duties required of her as a woman she would have to fulfill.
She wanted adventure, to see the world, and of course change it. She dreamed of restoring her family honor, of putting the DeCaladain clan back into history by her own hands. Her parents wanted nothing more from her than to earn a basic education, learn the tools of the trade, and settle down to have a family. Challice viewed her parents as having given up, compromising the great things the family once stood for.
She was provided for modestly, but she longed for more and always felt out of place among the people of Westfall. She came to believe she was destined for greater things than being a farmer and at some point someone else's wife. There was only two ways to escape Westfall and her restricting family without dishonoring herself: marrying or joining the church to serve the Light. She dreaded the thought of marriage, viewing it as something that would tie her down for good and being very much empowered finding the idea of being a demure obedient wife to be a fate worse than death.
Challice earned quite a reputation among the denizens of nearby Moonbrook earning the unsavory nickname as the Spinster of Westfall or The Unmarriable One. Men that courted her on her looks alone soon found themselves at her mercy, for she possessed a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. Luckily, she had some brawn to back up preferring hard labor to domestics. Challice was always met with whispers and hushed tones whenever she entered Moonbrook, which only made her feel more sure of the fact that she just didn't fit in here. Socially ostracized and without many friends, she turned her frustration into hard labor, working what little remained of her ancestral lands. Soon she realized that even throwing herself entirely into such work she still felt unfulfilled and like a stranger in a distant land.
As soon as she was old enough, she announced to her family that she was joining the Northshire Abbey as a Sister. Her parents needed little convincing and agreed to her decision. She left Westfall her home up until then, for good. Challice new she wasn't going to be satisfied sitting around an Abbey, so finding a sketchy gentleman at the Goldshire Inn who was sympathetic to her coin she had documents forged to show she had been selected as a prime candidate for the holy track of Paladin.
Far away from Westfall she started her life anew, but it wasn't long until she earned another reputation for her passion, spunkiness, quick wit, and rather outspoken nature. She was respected for her unswerving loyalty, compassion and bravery, but often disciplined for her impatient and capricious nature. Nonetheless, she worked hard and progressed quickly through the trials of a Paladin. Eventually, she ascended leaving the safety of the Abbey and set to find her destiny in the real world.
In the meantime, Westfall had been overrun by Defias. Upon returning home she found her childhood home abandoned and the fields wrought with weeds. The Defias had chased her family from their home and even the town of Moonbrook had been abandoned. In rage, Challice killed all the Defias perverting her family's land, including those sleeping in the nearby farm house. This traumatic event was Challice's first experience with death, an event that still haunts her dreams. Challice searched desperately for months for any sign of what happened to her family, but found none. The survivors of Moonbrook and the people of Sentinel Hill believed they had been killed by the Defias, but no one knew for sure.
Devastated by the loss of her family she could no longer stand the sight of Westfall. Turning to the East she left Westfall forever and began her traveled alone searching for her family. Now, several years later she has mostly given up the search but still clings to the faith that her family, or some survivors of it, must be alive somewhere.
