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"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
~Niel Gaiman~

Monday, August 1, 2011

Introducing........ Rrrrowannn Ooooakly!

So, I told you that my main character, "Evelyn" had been doing a lot of changing and had even changed her name. So, now that things have settled down a bit I would like everyone to meet Rowan Oakley, my new and improved  main character!

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Rowan Oakley

     Name Meaning: Rowan (one who is fair and slender) Oakley (from the field of oak trees)

     Occupation: Training with Sir James, studies

     Places of Work: Old castle ruins, the forest, her father’s study, the barn

     Home: She lives in her father’s manor in the coastal town of Radcliff, in the land of Azeroth

     Age: 17

    Physical Appearance

     Head Shape: Slightly narrow

     Hair (color, texture, style): Her hair is a deep molten copper; wavy and long. She often wears it down loose or pulled back on top with a leather thong. During practice she wears it pulled back into a ponytail.

     Eyes (color, shape, eyebrows): Moss green eyes flecked with gold, kind of almond shaped. Slightly arched eyebrows

     Mouth (size, shape, color, teeth): Normal sized lips. There is often a hint of a smile in one corner of her mouth. Good strait teeth.

     Skin (color, texture): Would be pale, but she spends too much time out in the sun

     Physical build: She’s slender and tall (5’7).
    
     Posture: Straight, strong, alert, confident. Moves with graceful ease and light footedness.

     While Sitting: Often can be found sitting up in the lower branches of trees. Around the campfire she sits cross-legged

     While Standing: Stands tall and straight; head cocked slightly

     While walking: Sure footed. She walks very soft and lightly, and can run through the forest with almost no sound.

     What you notice first: Her deep copper hair and intelligent eyes.

    Background

     Place of birth: Radcliff

     Places Lived: She has lived in Radcliff most of her life, but she did travel with Gwen to Brockhoist, the capital city for two months

     Parents: Aswyn, ***************(sorry, classified info) and Brogan, ************************ He is now a merchant after **************

     Siblings: One sister, Gwen, who is 20 years old.

     Childhood Experiences: Running through the woods with her best friend Arries, exploring castle ruins and pretending to defend them with Arries and Atokad (Arries’s brother), archery contests, shooting squirrels out of trees with slingshots, and duels with sticks.

     Education: She has been well educated by her father, but was always more interested in the outdoors than her studies.

     Special training: She is currently being trained in the arts of swordsmanship by an old knight named Sir James. She is a dead shot with a sling shot, and Galien, is trying desperately to get her to be able to hit a target with a bow.
   
     Travel: When she was 16 she got to go on one of her father’s merchant trips on his ship, later she traveled with Gwen to the capital for a month or two.

     Friends: Arries is her best friend, and then Arries’s brother Atokad.

     Greatest Success: When she finally has her father back safely at home and the kingdom has been restored to peace.

     Characteristics: She is strong willed, level headed, and very stubborn. In a crisis she is the first to gather her wits and charge into the fray. She is a fighter through and through.

     Markings (scars, etc) physical or mental: None

     Special Skills or knowledge: She can run through the forest almost without sound, is a dead shot with a slingshot, and has amazing skill with the sword.

     Collections and talents: Very talented with the sword, and uses a sword given to her by Sir James that once belonged to the young prince *******. She playes a reed flute of elvish design.

     What people like about him or her: People like her strength, and determination and loyalty. She never gives up, even when it looks hopeless.

     Interests and favorites: She loves the outdoors, Her favorite color is green’s brown’s and black

     Favorite Food: The food from the local tavern of Radcliff.

     Favorite drink: Fresh brewed apple cider

     Favorite music: The music she on her flute, gwen on the harp and Arries on the guitar make whenever they get together. And elvish music

     Favorite books: One could no more choose a favorite star in the heavens!

     Favorite Sport: Sword fighting

     Favorite recreation: Sitting in a tree reading a book, riding her black mare through the forest, slipping silently through the forest in pursuit of game

     Dislikes: Sewing, staying inside, being ignored, and being thought of as weak because she is a girl.




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Well, there is Rowan Oakley. To tell you a secret, I didn't really like my main character up until about two weeks ago when she underwent some drastic changes, and became what you just saw tonight. I love her now and can't wait to get to know her better. 

Arries

P.S. The moral of the story is; that change is okay sometimes. It might be just what you need to boot you out of a really bad case of writer's block, like it did me. I mean REALLY bad writers block.

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