<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/31/e1/55/31e155626ddec80e33fc6c045b727d51.jpg)</div><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Kindra Sternen (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2025535)</span></strong><br/>LG Human Rogue 1</div><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Kindra is unexpectedly warm and friendly, with a biting wit and penchant for good-natured ribbing and sarcasm.  Those who see her might expect a cold, brooding or even cruel woman, but she quickly proves why snap judgments are often incorrect.  She has a level of generosity, honor and compassion that one doesn't often find in rogues, especially those who once sailed beneath the Jolly Roger.  As kind and jovial as she can be, there's no denying her ability to tap into the fiercer parts of herself when necessary or justified.  In those moments when she loses her smile in favor of an icy glower, one can easily believe that she was once as ruthless as one must be on the high seas.<br/><br/><strong>Biography</strong>: Kindra was the only child of a merchant sailor and his loving bride, and as a result she spent a fair amount of time growing up on ships surrounded by rough people who doted on her more than her own adoring parents.  Her childhood was unconventional, but happy, right up until her father's ship was attacked by pirates when she was eight years old.  Her father was shot and killed in the attack, so when the dread pirate captain found the young girl, she was kneeling beside her father's cooling body clutching his hand and speaking softly to his departing spirit.<br/><br/>Intrigued by the girl's lack of tears and the pragmatic promises she made to her dead father, the captain ordered his men to unload the ship's cargo while he tried to convince the young girl to join his crew as his adopted daughter and cabin boy.  Kindra, being exceedingly practical even at her young age, knew that refusing might see her tossed overboard with the rest of the dead sailors.  Her father was dead and her mother would undoubtedly have a difficult time caring for herself in her grief and sans her father's income, let alone caring for Kindra as well.  So, the girl finally agreed to join him, under the condition that he protect her from his crew and punish the pirate who had murdered her father.<br/><br/>For the next ten years, Kindra sailed with her adopted father and the other pirates, all of whom gradually became like a second family to her.  When she could, she sent her mother a portion of her share of the spoils to ensure that she never had to struggle too much to live, but she never visited while she remained a criminal.  She took many innocent lives in her time on her father's ship, Satan's Sabre, and each life seemed to weigh on her more and more.  Finally, the dread pirate captain's luck ran out and he was badly wounded evading capture by a military vessel.  The ship got away, but he took a musket blast to his shoulder that left him on the brink of death.<br/><br/>Watching her second father die was the final straw for Kindra, and after she and his loyal crew had buried him at sea, she informed them all that she would be joining the ranks of the landlubbers.  They had all expected her to take her father's place, but instead she appointed his first mate as captain and left their company when next they made port.  She found her way back to the port city of her youth and found her mother, who was older, but doing quite well for herself.  After spending a year getting acquainted with the mother she hadn't seen for ten years, who had remarried and had two more children in the interim, Kindra left to figure out her new life on land.<br/><br/>It turned out going straight was easier said than done, especially given her unique skill set was more suited to illegal activities than anything befitting a law-abiding citizen.  Soon she realized that the trick was less about going straight, and more about abiding by her own sense of morality and ethics.  Some of society's laws were foolish and there was corruption running rampant.  So, she decided that the best course was to use her select skills to combat the wickedness she saw in the world and protect those who couldn't fight for themselves.