<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Taavia Boulderfrost</strong></span><div class="floatright">(http://)</div><br/><hr/><div class="floatright">(https://78.media.tumblr.com/9d7764e7deeeed9377595f088f459283/tumblr_owkl1qOOqV1utyn51o4_1280.jpg)</div><strong>Race: </strong>Dwarf<br/><strong>Class: </strong>Fighter<br/><strong>Level: </strong>1<br/><strong>HP: </strong>14/14<br/><strong>AC: </strong>3<br/><strong>Birthplace: </strong><br/><strong>Current Home: </strong>City of Greyhawk<br/><strong>Deity: </strong>Ulaa<br/><strong>Sexuality: </strong>Bisexual<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Abilities: </span></strong><br/><strong>Str: </strong>18/82 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=113032)<br/><strong>Int: </strong>8<br/><strong>Wis: </strong>10<br/><strong>Dex: </strong>17<br/><strong>Con: </strong>18 (+1)<br/><strong>Cha: </strong>9 (-1; 10 for other Dwarves)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><br/><strong>Physical Appearance</strong></span><div class="floatright">(https://78.media.tumblr.com/b15696f1caa76c06031d1172c48f405f/tumblr_owkl1qOOqV1utyn51o2_1280.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Hair: </strong>Golden-blonde, worn as a  loose mane with a few braids; fully braided and knotted when going into battle.<br/><strong>Eyes: </strong>Bright blue, thick brownish-blonde lashes & brows<br/><strong>Height: </strong>4'2"<br/><strong>Weight: </strong>140 lbs<br/><strong>Age (Actual/apparent): </strong>54; could pass for mid-20's by human eyes?<br/><strong>Distinguishing Features: </strong>Lean and a little long-limbed for a dwarf; possibly of Mountain Dwarf ancestry. Wears her hair in elaborate braids when going into battle. Freckles in the sun. When unclothed, exhibits a few scars from knives or perhaps weak sword cuts.  Also a  short sleeve tattoo of right-angled "knotwork" on her upper right arm and shoulder. Wears a platinum ring on her left hand that is too small for her to take off now. Wears a medallion of<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ulaa's holy symbol</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://78.media.tumblr.com/7f91a89ddce84658d6e1d4a5549d395a/tumblr_p2l8ibaKhb1utyn51o1_r1_250.gif)</div></div>openly.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Personality: </strong> </span>Taavia is boisterous and outgoing...<em>for a dwarf</em>. She's decided that there's a lot of life ahead of her to be grumpy, curmudgeonly, and matronly. Right now? She wants to see the world. She wants to fight<em>all</em>the orcs. She wants to try every beer on Oerth, and have a fistfight in the bars that serve them. She was raised<em>proper</em>, though, and tries to not be crude or boorish (<em>tries</em>.) She takes three things seriously; her family and loved ones, whom she holds in great honor and esteem; The dwarven pantheon, whose faiths she observes as best she can under circumstances; and wealth. Taavia has a pretty board avaricious streak, and the lure of gold and gems is a strong one for her.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Backstory/History: </strong></span>Taavia hails from Brasskey Hold in the Lortmils. The third child and lone daughter of the esteemed gemcutter Dhargin Boulderfrost, she grew up as a<em>lady</em>; something of a fop (at least to the judging eyes of Brasskey), he insisted on all his children receiving training in etiquette and letters, as well as in the traditional dwarven regimen. Poor Dhargin! His eldest sun, Verdgerd is known as "Bronzethews," and is famed as a wrestler of exotic beasts. The second son, Hershen, took up a life of piracy, and shaved his beard down to a single braid hanging from his lip,<em>the horror</em>And Taavia? Well, she was the sane one, the tame one, the one who was going to join the priesthood and make Dhargin a few grandchildren to spoil rotten.<br/><br/>it almost happened like that; Taavia was betrothed to a young, strong miner named Tommer, and the two of them occasionally found time to share a few kisses. Taavia studied with the Forgepriests at the heart of the keep, learning the litanies of Moradin, Fortubo, Ulaa and Bleredd. But what really shook her was her stint in the Brasskey militia. The goblinoids of the Pomarj were often sending raids against the southern holds of the Lortmils, and Brasskey was no exception. Taavia found the work distasteful at first, even felt sorry for the creatures. But after a few battles, and seeing what the goblinoids were capable of, she found little pity for the creatures. When they attacked in force, well, that was when things got really difficult. With orcs pounding hte gates and goblins scurrying into the mines, the Battle of brasskey was hard-fought, and not without its losses. Among those losses was Tommer, slain by a goblin's spear through the mouth.<br/><br/>Ultimately the dwurfolk were victorious, and Taavia did her best to go back to "normal." Though she isn't sure if she<em>loved</em>Tommer, she certainly enjoyed his company. And not just him; the men and women she knew who had been slain left memories as ingrained as the mica in the granite walls of the hold. Frustrated, distracted, and often angry, Taavia decided to leave the hold. For a time, at least. Against the halfhearted wishes of her father, Taavia struck out with a human trading caravan, to the Free City of Greyhawk.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Secondary Skills (one or two): </strong></span>Gemcutting, Mountaineering, Religion; Taavia's father made sure each of his children had at least a grounding (ha ha little lapidary joke there) in the family business. Originally she intended to join the clergy, but she has not learned the deeper mysteries that lead to spells from the divine. her five years among the Brasskey Militia involved quite a bit of fieldwork through the southern Lortmils<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Sexual ons/offs, sexual interests, and miscellaneous sexual details: </strong></span>Despite her boisterous personality, Taavia has not been especially adventurous in a sexual regard. She's found she has a preference for taller men with clean faces, and she finds that a little odd, herself! Even so, the longest relationship she's had outside of Brasskey was with another dwarven woman, Thena Skarlsten, who ran an inn Taavia spent a fair amount of time within. Though she probably has some kinks<em>somewhere</em>, she hasn't discovered them yet. One thing is for certain though, she has no interest in Goblins, orcs, or the like. She would bend over for a blink dog well before giving a half-orc the time of day (And you know come to think of it, she's heard stories about those blink dogs...)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Weapons/Armor/Important and Personal Gear: </strong></span>• A battle-axe of clear dwarven make, with a carved single-bit steel head hafted onto ironwood. A family heirloom, which she has trained extensively with.<br/>• A shortbow and shortsword, neither especially "special;" the scabbard of the shortsword is well-tooled and set with turquoises. She keeps a few extra strings for the bow.<br/>• A suit of brigandine armor; She would of course prefer something more sturdy, but it's hard to get your hands on custom-fitted plate armor, and then carry it around with you! So she settled for the cheap stuff that travels well. Same goes for her shield, a simple kite-shaped targe of steel and wood, without a design on it.<br/>• Her "adventuring" gear consists of her backpack (it's seen better days) and bedroll (it has seen a few awesome nights), along with a coil of sturdy rope, and a sack full of heavy nails / spikes / pitons, whatever you call them. A lantern and tinderbox complete the<em>stuff</em>; even when you have infravision, you still need to see the walls of the dungeon, right?<br/>• when not armed and armored, she favors soft woolen clothes, usually following the fashions of Greyhawk's "middle class," such as it may be. See image above; green woolen low-cut dress, braided leather sinch, leather-and-wooden clogs.<br/><br/><hr/>