<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;">Tessa Rinn</span></span>(http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8119)<br/><hr/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Teresia Cariss Astraea Eir Rinn (Tessa to most) was born in a small kingdom to struggling peasant parents looking for a way to climb the social ladder. Without money, rank, title or land they saw their daughter as their only collateral to buy a better life, and groomed her from a very young age to marry above her class, going so far as to christen her with a name more befitting of a princess than a peasant.<br/>When she was thirteen Tessa's parents' plans were derailed, to much to their delight, when she began showing signs of arcane talent. Magic users were rare and highly prized in their small country; the emperor himself was a wizard, a master of magics that could bend time itself to his will. Using every favor, every strained social connection at their disposal, Tessa's parents eventually got word of the girl to the Temporal Wizard himself, who had Tessa brought to the palace. For the next five years she was apprenticed to the emperor, though in truth he treated her more like a slave than a student. He taught her little, seemingly content to have someone to carry his books and fetch supplies for him as he worked.<br/>When war loomed and the spell he was preparing called for a rather strange and specific component, he decided his young apprentice was expendable and Tessa became the power source for the spell, sending her into the future along with the rest of the victims.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>"Meek" sums up Tessa fairly well. Having been treated like a living chess piece by one person or another for almost all of her life, she rarely disobeys orders and seems used to being pushed around. She is quiet and easily frightened, but can be surprisingly brave when pushed out of her comfort zone, rarely backing down or giving up. On rare occasions a flare of anger may surface, breaking her normal mask of passive submission and hinting at something stronger burning within.<br/><br/><strong>Apperance:</strong>Tessa has long black hair usually worn in a thick braid, though several strands always seem to fall free and obscure her face. She has golden brown skin and gray-blue eyes often ringed by dark circles due to lack of sleep. Slightly pointed ears and large, almond shaped eyes hint at elven ancestry but the blood has been too diluted to offer any of the benefits of her mixed heritage.<br/>Tessa's clothing is quite nondescript, consisting mainly of simple peasant dresses in dull colors. She wears a pair of glasses at all times, but seems to have no other jewelery or mementos. If it weren't for the second hand crossbow and staff she carries she would seem little more than any other peasant girl.<br/><br/>((Plothooks sheet is still under construction! I'll finish it up tomorrow.))