Anja Wulfgard

Anja Wulfgard
Gender	Female
Race	Hyur
Clan	Highlander
Citizenship	Unaffiliated
Server	Balmung
Age	32

Family History

Long before the Garlean invasion of Ala Mhigo, Anja's family worked as common laborers and sellswords in Gyr Abania. However, during a chance encounter, her great-great-grandfather, Hrodi Tufisson, saved the life of a nobleman whose fortunes were on the rise. This nobleman, Rúnar Wulf, returned the favor by elevating Hrodi's family to serve as the guardians of his bloodline. To mark the honor, their surname was dropped in favor of Wulfgard.

Unfortunately, the tumult of Ala Mhigo's pre-invasion politics soon took its toll on the Wulf family. By the time of Anja's great-grandfather, Beiner, the Wulf line had lost its clout and was forced to flee Ala Mhigo by its rivals. With nothing left to protect, the Wulfgard family fled as well. They took a ship to the Bay of Dha'yuz and then hired passage to Ul'dah. Lacking local connections, they quickly returned to their familial roots of trading muscle for coin. Beiner fell into a deep shame over the sudden loss of prestige and changed his surname to Tufisson before taking his own life.

Refusing to accept the lot of Beiner, his son (and Anja's grandfather), Surt, kept the Wulfgard name. He swore that by the time of his death, he would reestablish the family's pride. While working as a cargo handler at Ul'dah's gates, Surt noticed an inefficiency in local commerce. Trade caravans would arrive at the great city, hoping to sell their cargo and return to the road as quickly as possible. Idling a caravan cost money and risked banditry while providing nothing. At the same time, anyone looking for a particular good had to simply hope a matching caravan had recently been through the city. To the thrifty merchant lords of Ul'dah, none of this was acceptable.

Surt devised a simple business plan to alleviate this issue of timing: He would buy any goods a caravan possessed, if he predicted they'd be in demand relatively soon. That allowed the caravan to pick up new cargo and get back on the road. Surt then stored these goods until the actual demand occurred and then put them on the market at an increased price. Within a few years, his business had succeeded beyond his wildest estimates. Not only did he have warehouses in Ul'dah, but soon he was replicating his model in Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and a few smaller towns. Though his family never achieved any particular renown for their work, it made more than enough money for them to abandon simple labor for a more dignified life.

Background

Anja was born in Ul'dah to Sigmund and Freydis Wulfgard. Throughout childhood, she enjoyed material wealth and access to the finest education it could buy. However, she was also the fourth of five children, leaving little room for her in the family business. Indeed, her older siblings had already been groomed for all of the most important roles. Since the business had been the source of her family's pride in its post-Ala-Mhigan generations, this was no small matter to her. Refusing to live in mediocrity—even though her parents never shared her views on the matter—she took on the nominal role of "market scout" and departed to seek her own fortunes. With the parting money her family provided, she established apartments in both Gridania and Limsa Lominsa, a comfortable distance from her childhood home. To this day, Anja is standoffish from her family—mostly the result of her own insecurities—but enjoys a generally cordial relationship with them.

During her travels, Anja has flitted from one interest to the next. She's studied commerce, magic, and swordsmanship. She found particular success in white magic, though to the chagrin of her Padjal tutors, she abandoned those studies in favor of the only career training she managed to complete: general medicine and surgery. Perhaps as karma, her peculiar mix of healing skills led to her on-and-off conscription by the Twin Adders as a field medic.

She is not married and has no children.

Occupation

There's a marked gap between the jobs Anja holds versus how she spends her time. One might say her resume is far more impressive than her day-planner.

She's a trained doctor and middling white magician, but hasn't established a medical practice anywhere. Every few months, she sends her family notes on new market opportunities or shifting economic realities, learned mostly from her travels. However, none of these take up much of her time, leaving her free to spend most days as a gadder.

Indeed, the only times she seems truly employed is when the Twin Adders conscript her into service as a field medic.

Random Facts

Claims to have been the personal physician of Ysayle Dangoulain for a very short stint.

Has developed a mild tranquilizer addiction to cope with the psychological trauma of treating—and losing—patients with severe, battlefield injuries.

Out-of-Character Information

Open to roleplaying, even when the RP flag isn't on (which it almost never is). Feel free to send a /tell or do walk-up RP anytime.

Player lives in Central US time, keeping a relatively "normal" schedule, though awake and available very late on most weekends.