Visenya (Lilypad)
Gender: female
Race: human (Rohirrim)
Height: 5 foot 7
Location: Rohan
Family: Father Tellack, Twin sister Rhaenmaur, Older brother Aegon.
Animals: A strawberry roan stallion named Andual, and a white horse named Mira.
Weapons: Broadsword- lúrëa nésa (dark sister), hunting knife, two daggers stuffed into her boots.
Personality: A passionate, temperamental woman she is very slow to trust others. She resents the customs and conventions put on her for her sex, and often feels slighted when others do not take her at her word. She is socially awkward though genuine and feels much more comfortable with a sword in her hand than without. Visenya is simple, loyal, and determined, but also headstrong and judgmental. She is immensely skilled at combat. A bundle of raw nerves she can be somewhat blunt and even appear tactless at times but she is also honest and stubborn. She holds a naïvely idealized notion of knighthood, despite the insults she receives from many knights when practicing with her sword and donning armor she has made specially herself as if she could ever become a shield maiden.
Appearance: She is apt to dress as a warrior, with her long golden hair in braided coils or bound in rings. She has the bearing of her people, and the steely hazel eyes of one who has experienced great loss. Visenya prefers the garb of men but when forced into a dress by tradition or her sometimes willful obedience to her father her curves are flattered by the feminine blue fabric. Visenya has a scar on her left cheek as well as a large scar running diagonally along her backside from her left shoulder blade to her low back. She has a small star marking on the inside of her left wrist like each of her siblings to remind her that no matter where she goes she always has them in her heart.
History:
Her father is a blacksmith, renowned for his work in steel and precious metals that make the finest and most indestructible armor, as well as swords with intricate detailing. Visenya’s mother died of an illness that swept through the valley before she and her sister blossomed into womanhood. Throughout that time Visenya took care of her ailing mother and watched her slip away. Perhaps for this reason Visenya’s disposition has become quite hardened. Visenya has seen great sadness since that day, she watched her best friends Beren and Gawaelin as they were killed in a raid by Corsairs and her brother maimed. Once a handsome man the right side of his face is marred and the use of his right arm is quite diminished and he walks with a limp. That is the day Visenya picked up a sword and never put it down again. She is overprotective of her twin sister (younger by two minutes) Rhaenmaur. Since the age of 14 Visenya has been hunting and trapping for her family’s survival seeing as she is more able than her brother. This is why for such an astute young woman Visenya has a chip on her shoulder and is easily angered when men think her incapable of doing that which is fit for a man. Sometimes she helps her father in his forge.
