<div class="floatleft">(http://www.vixenrose.com/hosting/files/253/stuff%20for%20rp/skyrim.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Freya Shieldmaiden<br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong>Nord<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>29<br/><br/><br/><strong>Physical Details/Short history:</strong>Being a Nord warrior woman she isn't perhaps a lot of mens idea woman, far from a petite slender thing she has plenty of muscles from wearing heavy armour and from swinging her sword both in practice and in combat against everything from raiders to the more dangerous creatures of the Skyrim wilds. Her hands are rough and callused but hold a surprising gentleness to them when around littles, and if anyone watches her very closely around children they can see a deep sorrow in her normally sparkling eyes. She is of average height with curly long red hair that tends to get in her eyes unless she ties it up into a braid that falls down her back in most cases, her body has more then its share of scars with several very ugly ones along her belly.<br/><br/>As the youngest daughter of Thorwald Swordborn, the blacksmith in Karthwasten, her mother died in childbirth giving birth to Freya so Thorwald had to raise his only daughter by himself. She spent all her years growing up watching her father in his smithy, observing silently and learning without him even noticing. And as soon as she could she was helping him with some mundane tasks, lifting, carrying, tending to the fire. But as she hit her teens she was soon on her way to being a smith herself, and from her older brothers she was learning swordcraft. At the age of 19 her father decided that she probably should probably marry and he managed to get a really good catch for her, a rich Imperial merchant had asked for her hand in marriage and he really couldn't refuse.<br/><br/>At first it was a good marriage, while he wasn't the most loving person he didn't treat her poorly. She was reasonably happy and when she got pregnant she was happier then she had ever been. But her husband got furious thinking she must have been sleeping around and beat her to an inch of her life, specifically aiming at her belly to kill the unborn child. In her rage at the beating she grabbed a sword and cut him down and then she stumbled back to her father to heal and to give birth to her stillborn baby. She told her father she wanted the old family sword to take revenge on the Imperials who she blamed for all of this and for the pains that Skyrim had suffered recently. Thorwald equipped his daughter with a heavy heart and sent her on her way to become a mercenary and fight against the Imperial oppression.<br/><br/><strong>Core Combat Skills*:</strong>Please list 3 - 4<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc">One Handed</li><li type="disc">Heavy Armour</li><li type="disc">Block</li></ul><br/><strong>Core Supplementary Skills:</strong>Please list 3 - 4<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc"> Smithing</li><li type="disc"> Two Handed</li><li type="disc"> Speech</li></ul><br/><strong>Secondary Skills:</strong>Please list 3 - 4<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc"> Archery</li><li type="disc"> Alchemy</li><li type="disc"> Light Armour</li></ul><br/><strong>Starting Equipment:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc"> A well made set of steel armour that her father made for her.</li><li type="disc"> Tadpole her trusted horse</li><li type="disc"> A small bag of blacksmithing supplies to keep her sword and armour in good order</li><li type="disc"> The Red Lady, her mastercrafted steel longsword. A weapon that has been handed down through her family for longer then they can remember. It originally was made in Morrowind and was laying in a un named tomb for quite some time before an adventurer found it, it then traded hands several hands and finally ending up in Skyrim. It has no special properties or enchantments, the smith who originally made it had a habit of naming each of his best works so it has the name "Red Lady" etched into the blade.</li><li type="disc"> Bedroll, some supplies and various pots and pans for cooking</li><li type="disc"> Steel Shield</li></ul><br/><br/><strong>Faction Affiliations:</strong>Ulfrics Heir, she hates the Imperials with a passion.