Salina Datson
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Appearance
A short wiry looking girl with a furtive, perpetually skittish demeanor. When not concealed beneath her hood, her red and black hair goes past her shoulders. She is expressive, and her dark eyes constantly dart around as if hoping nobody is looking back at her. The only time she looks remotely at ease are when she is aiming a bow, or skulking through caves or the Rawlins where (she thinks) nobody can see her.
Known History
Salina is a local, born and raised in Norwick like generations of Datsons before her. Most worked on the family's farm, some were hunters or even rangers who worked closely with the Circle of Quercatha Terr in days long past. Growing up, she helped out on the farm with her siblings, but spent more time learning to hunt in the Rawlinswood with her uncle and cousins.
As it is, she is the last Datson left in Norwick. Her parents were slain early on in the Occupation, accused of passing information to the forces carrying on the fight to the North. Whether it was true, or some neighbour with a vindictive chip on their shoulder sold them out, or whether they were just made an example of to deter any actual informants, is anyone's guess. Her uncle and his wife died in the catastrophic green flames of the Devastation, which also reduced the farm itself to one of many sickly craters pock-marking the area. Her siblings and her cousins were all sent West in chains, a fate she suspects she was only spared by being the youngest of the lot.
In another, happier, life where the Woods themselves had not been left so wounded and angry by Geroldine's War she may well have ended up a ranger. In this life, she lives alone in one of the tents by the river, and can often be seen obsessively practicing her marksmanship. Sometimes she can be found with a glass of Firewine in the Mirthful Cup, but she never seems to eat there. She often watches Norwick's Scouts coming and going on their patrols from the Rawlinswoods, and lately she herself has been occasionally coming and going from their station.
Thematic Music:
Masters of War
Not a Pretty Girl
