Paileen Kairs<br/><br/>Age: 22<br/><br/>Female<br/><br/>Appearance:  Paileen is a muscular young woman in red scaly armor, and with a large pack on her back.  Her brown hair frames a soft looking face with bright green eyes.<br/><br/>Weapon of Choice:  Hammer, with fire properties.  No other tool is so versatile to her.  She will sometimes use an Instrument...<br/><br/>Personality:  The three words that best describe her are proud, artistic, and mercantile.  Her reasons for hunting differ sharply from most others.  In her mind, the merchants and artisans are middlemen, who reap the true rewards of hunting without taking any of the risks.  As such, she typically avoids taking contracts and staying in towns.  The exception to this is when she finds an apprenticeship to an artisan, in which case she will usually take jobs only from them.  Her goal is to amass a fortune by learning both to harvest and to craft, hopefully as a travelling merchant with a wide array of goods.<br/>While she takes pride in her ability to survive in the wilderness, she is practical, and sometimes cynical regarding the profession of hunting.  Most live short, violent lives before aging and having to turn to younger people for protection.  She hopes to be healthy enough that, by the time age strikes, she can continue to travel with retainers.<br/>Despite all of this philosophy, Paileen is prone to whimsical sensibilities.  Her true joy in life is wandering.  She loves scenes of beauty, and sometimes will lose herself in them.  Paileen has a hidden talent in her ability to dye skins in such a way that they can be called paintings.  She sees absolutely no money in this hobby, but in keeping with her practical philosophy finds this the only conceivable reason that life exists.  Paileen is also curious in music, and sometimes will procure an instrument.<br/>She tends to work alone for many reasons.  However, she is actually pretty personable.  While the realities of life are hard ones, she is doing exactly what she loves to do, and won't hesitate to help if she can, or to compensate others who help her.<br/><br/>History:  Paileen was the child of a travelling merchant.  She doesn't remember her mother well, as her father took her around with him on his trips.  Most of her knowledge about appraisals, where and what to harvest, and sense of money came during these formative years.  When she was 11, he was killed by Velociprey, and she was scarred badly.  An old Man of the Woods found her and treated her, teaching her various herbal applications.  The hermit released her with some of her father's affects, and she picked up where she'd left off, retooling one of the armors to suit her.  Paileen sold some of these items, and others were stolen by cats.  Paileen lacked the ability to defend herself adequately in this time: a humiliation which made her hard.  She began hunting, teaching herself the basics and getting the occasional lesson from a hunter who found her after she'd bit off more than she could chew.  She has a few mentors she owes still.  Paileen also became something of a menace to the cats in those days, terrorizing their villages to get back her stolen things, only to be robbed at night by the same critters.<br/>Eventually, Paileen got the hang of it, and found that it allowed her to not only pursue her father's life, but to travel to places that were nothing short of amazing.  One talent she developed during this period was the ability to retool her armor to fit her shape as she grew.  This gave her a basic understanding of armor craft, and caused her favorite tools to be hammers with fire properties.  She made an uneasy peace with the cats in her later teens, and was making a name for herself as a merchant.<br/>Her first apprenticeships were the hall-mark of her life, making her part of a standing community.  It lasted for only a years, as her restless spirit kept her on the go.  She calls them Fallow Months, where she will rest in towns and learn the craft, before heading back out again.<br/><br/>Sexuality:  Paileen is pan-sexual.  Her first sexual experiences were with the hunters who found her injured.  Since then, she finds attraction in the merit of an individual, rather than any specific criteria.  One weakness she does have is when the right person shows up when she is losing herself in a scene.