Nymeria Redwood

GENDER;; Female
AGE;; 23 years
DATE OF BIRTH;; 28th September
SEXUAL ORIENTATION;; Heterosexual
SPECIES;; Nymph
KINGDOM;; Teumnach
BIRTHPLACE;; Teumnach
OCCUPATION;; Seeress
SOCIAL CLASS;; Wildling (Commoner)
MAGICAL POWERS;;

• Premonitions – Nymeria is able to see visions of future events. The strength of her sight visions varies from time to time. Sometimes it occurs as mere flashes, other times she will see a sequence of events that are linked together. However, as the future is never fully written and set in stone, she is able to see multiple potential futures.
• Equine communication – Nymeria is able to speak with and understand horses naturally. She is able to have an actual conversation with horses.
  

PLAY-BY;; Natalie Dormer
HEIGHT;; 5'6”
WEIGHT;; 52 kilos (114.64 pounds)
PHYSICAL BUILD;; Nymeria is slender with the classic hourglass figure, and she is very well toned in the upper body.
HAIR COLOR/LENGTH/STYLE;; Red-auburn, loose waves. Sides of hair braided and pinned back to keep the strands out of her face. She often wears feathers and a couple of bright green beads as a subtle tie-in to her gypsy heritage
EYE COLOR;; Green
COMPLEXION;; Caucasian
PERMANENT MARKINGS;; N/A
PETS OR ANIMAL FAMILIARS;; A wolf that her father acquired to keep her safe. Though she suspects that it is more to keep her in line. She also has a black pegasus stallion named Storm.
WEAPONS;; She carries a bow and quiver of arrows

PERSONALITY;;
Nymeria belongs to a wild "tribe" of Nymph's within Teumnach. The wildling folk do not recognize the ruling family as appropriate leaders for the kingdom, but Nymeria does not agree with their sentiments. Her father, William Redwood, is the tribe leader and uses Nymeria is his "seeress". She is expected to act a certain way and obey her father's orders. He calls himself "Lord", despite the fact that he is not noble born. But as a requirement of her father's ways Nymeria has been schooled in the appropriate terms of “my lord”, “my lady” and even “your grace”. Nymeria has been expected for many years to maintain an air of dignity that is found amongst the true born nobility. She is polite and calm, though she is very stubborn. Whenever she is away from her father's critical gaze and overbearing influence, Nymeria is stubborn as an ox. She makes her own decisions and interprets her visions how they are meant to be. She is also not shy from standing up for herself and speaking her own mind. This can often get her into trouble if word of it is ever to reach her father's ears... which has happened quite a few times.

However, Nymeria is sick of having to constantly show perfection in everything she does. And she is fustrated beyond belief that she has to follow whatever orders her father has for her. Nymeria is also annoyed that her father uses her gifts for his own advantages, never for the advantage of others... she feels magically abused. But Nymeria is a capable young woman and uses her intellect to outsmart anyone that thinks they are "better" than her. Nymeria does not believe that she is better than anyone, but she is smarter.

Aside from the oppression, perfection and magical abuse, Nymeria retains a sense of intense curiosity. She adores learning new things and can often be found reading books on various subjects at any one time or studying something in nature in a scientific fashion: drawing what she is studying in a notebook and writing about what she has learned so far. She even has notebooks upon notebooks about the inner workings of her tribe and even the workings of the villages nearby. Everything that Nymeria learns she writes down in her books and then stores them away in her saddlebags to read about again later. There is no end to her curiosity.

Nymeria also has a gentle heart towards those that her father often views as beneath his care: typically orphans. Nymeria adores children (other than her younger siblings) and often visits the local orphanages in order to help care for the young children. It is the one thing that she has failed to hide from the public eye because she is so distracted by them. And it is the one thing that she is allowed to do in relative peace without her fathers interference... but her half sister, Rebecca, often makes her aware that she should be more careful about such things. "Father is never so allowing for very long."

Apart from everything else; the perfection and frustration, Nymeria is a beautiful girl and dreams of being swept off her feet and running away with her lover to be free of her father. She is very flirty when she can get away with it, in other words, when her father isn't looking.

FLAWS;;

• FEAR OF PAIN - Nymeria has often been subjected to her father's wrath if she does not comply with his way of doing things, and she often carries the bruises as evidence. Nymeria is a stubborn girl but she is scared into submission half the time in fear of being struck by him again. She occasionally speaks out against him with how her visions are meant to be interpreted, most of the time her fathers "word is law", and Nymeria will flinch quite visibly if it appears that her father is about to strike her.
  
• SEEMINGLY EMOTIONLESS - Ever since the day that her friends were killed before her eyes, Nymeria has maintained about her that suggests that she no longer has any emotions. In secret she does in fact feel emotional from time to time, her facial features are maintained in a carefully practiced mask. She does not wish for her family/captors to have anything that they may use against her in the future.
  
• TRUST ISSUES - Nymeria doesn't have many people that she can trust. She only ever seems to get friends in trouble, in her mind, because her father disapproves of things that they do. While she does have a relatively close bond with her sister, Rebecca, Nymeria can't exactly say that she trusts her either. As a result Nymeria doesn't think she should trust anyone, and that no one should trust her either.
  
• IDEALISTIC - Nymeria is driven by ideals rather than practical considerations. If she was to be practical then she would have to give true loyalty to her father, but even she knows that his motivations are wrongly placed. Nymeria's idealistic mind dares to think that she will escape from being the control she has been subjected to her whole life, but reality does not seem to agree with her much of the time. But Nymeria still dares to dream.
  
• SPEAKS IN RHYME - Nymeria cannot stop herself from speaking in rhyme, which sometimes makes her sound like that she is speaking in riddles. It is just the way that she always speaks... though it does make her hard to understand from time to time.
  

SECRETS;;

• HER REAL MOTHER - Nymeria is constantly reminded that she has to keep her birth mother a secret from now on, only those who had been attending court at her presentation to her father are permitted to know such details. Nymeria wishes she could admit that she is NOT the daughter of "Lord" William and "Lady" Victoria, but rather the bastard daughter of "Lord" William AND a gypsy woman.
• TALKING WITH HORSES - Her power to converse with horses is Nymeria's personal secret. She doesn't want anyone to know that she has another power, let alone one that allows her to understand the horses. If she is every seen talking to them she acts like it's just a game when people question her about it. She doesn't want everyone asking her what the horses are actually thinking or saying about them.
  

FAMILY;;

• FATHER – "Lord" William Redwood
• MOTHER – Xenia Tyrell - deceased
  
• STEP-MOTHER – "Lady" Victoria Redwood (nee. Highgarden)
  
• HALF-SISTERS – Rebecca Redwood (18 years), Sara Redwood (10 years)
• HALF-BROTHERS – Matthew Redwood (15 years), Robin Redwood (8 years), Thomas Redwood (6 years)
• EXTENDED FAMILY - Various Gypsies from her mother's old troupe
  

HISTORY;;
Nymeria was born out of an extramarital affair between her would-be lordly father, William Redwood, and her humble mother, Xenia Tyrell. Xenia had been a gypsy acrobat for much of her life, as was the family occupation for generations, born amongst the gypsies Xenia had naturally become an entertainer in their troupe. When she was twenty-five Xenia had visited the tribe of the Redwood's as entertainers for the evening, and the lovely (and flexible) Xenia caught the eye of the tribal leader. He was already married, but that didn't matter to him: he had to have her! Their fling last several weeks until William grew bored with the acrobat and then the troupe went on their way. William Redwood was the leader of a tribe of wildling folk that did not recognize the Teumnach royal family and appropriate leaders for the kingdom, therefore refusing them any form of loyalty. But William Redwood's arrogance went further than that, he actually considered himself a Lord, even though he was nothing of the sort.

Nine months later Xenia gave birth to a daughter sired by William Redwood during their fling and settled down in her homeland of Teumnach for a time to raise her daughter. When Nymeria turned five she began to see visions, and in time many of her visions came to pass as truth. Nymeria could see the future... many possible futures. Xenia and Nymeria began to travel with the gypsy troupe once more, with Nymeria acting as something of a fortune teller for those that could pay the coin.

However, when her father heard of her existence and her powers, he summoned Xenia and her daughter to his tribal home. Eight years of age, Nymeria was presented to the tribe – the eldest of his children, her half sister Rebecca having been born when she was five. But even at such a young age, it was plain to see that Nymeria had inherited the trademark green eyes of the Redwood bloodline, but she had retained the red-auburn hair of her mother instead. William asked the child if she indeed saw the future, and what could she see for his future. Nymeria hesitantly answered: “In the flow of time, it has been foretold; Three sons, you will have, all bright and bold; Time has reckoned, that the first will be second; But it is no myth, that the others will be fourth and fifth”.

When William questioned if his third born was to be another daughter, Nymeria confirmed it. Pleased with this fortune, William decided to keep his daughter for himself and banished her mother, keeping the young child under constant guard. He even named her as one of his legitimate children – no longer was she Nymeria Tyrell, but Nymeria Redwood.

Nymeria's predictions of her father's future children proved to be correct. All in all Nymeria came to have five younger half-siblings in total: Rebecca, Matthew, Sara, Robin and Thomas. These predictions pleased their father greatly that Nymeria became his seeress, available on his every call to tell him what futures she had last seen, for him to decide whether they were worth exploiting – her visions made him a very influential man amongst the other wildling tribes of Teumnach. There was many a time that Nymeria had been roused from her bed in order to attend her father with his call for visions of the future.

All the while Nymeria was raised amongst his other children as part of what he hoped would one day be known as “nobility”, she was always introduced as William's eldest daughter (which was true), but their guests were always led to believe that his wife, Victoria, was her mother, not a gypsy acrobat. However, her brothers and sisters had inherited the black hair of their father... Nymeria was certainly the odd child out. Upon question of why such a thing was possible, William would simply state that it was the will of the gods.

When Nymeria turned fifteen she was given a solid black pegasus stallion to ride whenever her father wished her to accompany him when he travelled to other tribal lands. The girl felt like she was less of his daughter and more of a prized possession that belonged to him. But she would often sneak off with Storm (her pegasus) away from the tribe and fly across the channel of water into Foirfich so that she could feel some sense of freedom. During one of these many escapes Nymeria discovered that she could understand and talk with Storm and any other horses that she met. Her only friends were in fact horses; but Storm was her best friend.

She was sixteen when news of her mothers death reached her tribe, and her father did not exactly break it to her lightly over dinner, blurting it out with a hard “Oh, Nymeria, by the way. Your mother is dead”. Nymeria had been shocked into stilled silence, breaking into tears. Her step-mother, Victoria clasped her hand lightly and said in an attempt to be sweet “You should not be troubled by such things, I am your mother now”. Nymeria had snatched her hand away instantly. “Never, my mother, will YOU be. You cannot REPLACE the one that bore me!” she had declared before fleeing from dinner. Nymeria did not allow herself to weep again until she was well away from the tribe, riding Storm to the channel that separated her from Foirfich.

She had not had her wolf until a month after her mothers death when she had tried to run away permanently with the help from two of her friends: but they had been caught and as a result the guards had claimed that her friends had kidnapped her – rather than reveal the fact that they had been sleeping while on duty. Her two human friends were beheaded for their “crime” while Nymeria was forced to watch. Afterwards a wolf was assigned as protection for Nymeria, though no other Redwood child had such a formidable beast at their side. Nymeria suspected, correctly, that it was more of a way to keep her in line than actually keep her safe.

Nymeria never showed any form of weakness since that day, nor any form of emotion. Whatever emotion she had shown had been quickly extinguished by her father's booming voice as he called upon more and more visions of the future in order to increase his wealth and influence in the kingdom. Nymeria suspected he wanted to become King by way of wealth and influence, Nymeria had seen otherwise. She had seen a future of him being executed for an attempt at trying to take the throne by force – she kept that vision to herself.

The seeress still dreams of running away and escaping her father, and she is determined to do just that.

OOC HANDLE;; Kel, or Mastermind
A RANDOM FACT ABOUT YOU;; I think that I have an addiction to RP