Astrid Greywolfe
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Astrid Cotter is a descendant of Anshelm Cotter. She is known by her adoptive family last name "Greywolfe". Born in Ala Mhigo, fled from the city during the Garlean invasion. Grown up in Limsa with her adoptive family. Strong, positive character, but has her bad sides too, like everyone.
■ BIRTH NAME... Astrid Cotter ■ RACE & CLAN... Hyur | Highlander ■ GENDER... Female ■ AGE & NAMEDAY... late 30's; 7th Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon ■ MARITAL STATUS... Single |
■ CURRENT RESIDENCE... Mist ■ OCCUPATION... Bounty Hunter, Blacksmith. ■ PATRON DEITY... Rhalgr, the Destroyer ■ HEIGHT & WEIGHT... Approx 170 cm, 65/70 kg ■ ALIGNMENT... Chaotic Good/Neutral |
Astrid is a hothead and a firecracker, but she is also moved by good purpose. She is a strong, charismatic character, due to her lineage but also tempered by the hard lifestyle in the mountains of Gyr Abania. Generally neutral towards new acquaintances, but she takes time to give trust. She considers everyone as a possible ally and comrade (except garleans), and likes to make new friends, but believes that trust must be gained.
She is a skilled blacksmith and armorer, but she outshines in axe and sword fighting, and throwing a punch. Her adoptive family taught her some techniques from the Fist of Rhalgr monks, fighting with axe, sword and shield, and spear. She later on learned about Magitek from friends, and is still studying it.
Astrid can read, write, and sing, she has a beautiful voice although she usually sings by herself, or when she is drunk.
While she can brew, she is terrible at cooking food. Anything which requires more than simply be boiled or grilled, she would probably burn it to ashes. In Ala Mhigo they had stark food, and she was never taught the fine art of cooking, as usually grilling a steak and warming up some milk was more than enough.
Good Traits: bold, bright, brave, capable, charismatic, confident, dependable, fierce, hard-working, passionate, persistent, sensitive, warm-hearted, intuitive.
Negative Traits: hot-tempered, defensive, impatient, bias, conceited, quarrelsome, rowdy, possessive, stern, unforgiving, vengeful, rugged, ruthless, moody, cocky.
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- LIKES AND DISLIKES –
Astrid can hold a drink, she was probably already drinking mead as a cough medicine when she was a kid. She favours mead and strong ales when she can, otherwise she is fine with milk and herbal teas and she can brew excellent medicinal teas too.
Her favourite food is red meat, popotos, eggs, mushrooms, bread, cheese, anything simple is good.
She believes her race should be preserved and yearns to meet another Highlander devoted to Rhalgr like her. She likes big, muscular and tough men and finds Elezen quite ridiculous and girly obviously, and while she tolerates their presence, she doesn’t like Twelveswood Elezen at all as she considers them stuck up at the least.
As a beginner in magical arts and only experienced in physical fights, she evaluates the strength of her opponent barely based on their size and the size of their weapon, unless they have a gun.
Even tho she is devoted to Rhalgr, she sees other people’s devotion towards different religions with an eye of respect. As her family was forbidden to worship Rhalgr, she came to a conclusion that everyone should be free to pursue their own beliefs, and she will be ready to fight for everyone’s freedom to do so.
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Astrid believes in hard work, she takes commissions as a blacksmith, armorer, brewer.
Astrid is approximately 38 years old, although her face looks younger. She has ice cold clear eyes, freckles, and a small but plump mouth. Long dark hair with ginger shades, usually kept long and wild, or in braids. She is relatively short for her race but she looks strong, slightly muscular but not in a masculine way. Her skin is pale and smooth, except on her hands where it’s hardened by the use of axe and blacksmith tools.
She uses Magitek accessories such as jewellery and optics. Her strongest armor is made with steel plates and chains she forged herself and had them sewed to hard hide and leather from a skilled leather worker in the Dravanian Forelands.
When she is not wearing heavy armor, she favors an Ul’dahn or tribal look. While it is not common to see her in a girly dress, sometimes she wears it and rocks it hard.
While her lineage goes back high, she didn’t take much gil with her, and she is not a money-maker, nor she is interested in material goods. She thinks that knowledge and power obtained through hard working, is the way to go.
She has a warm, strong and charming voice which lets out her ability as a singer.
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Astrid Cotter – this being her real name, from her grandmother Ástríður and her grand-grand-grandmanytimesgrandfather Anshelm Cotter. Astrid’s family was more or less secretly devoted to Rhalgr, and so is Astrid to nowadays. (Greywolfe being the last name of the blacksmiths/fighters she lived with, she is using the name to conceal her real heritage). Astrid was born in 1546 during King Thordan reign. Her family was NOT a supporter of the King, but due to their strong lineage and relevant role in the history of Ala Mhigo, the King “closed one eye” and let them be, that until when Astrid was just a little kid. King Thordan ordered to wipe the Fist of Rhalgr and then started to doubt the royalty within his ranks. Astrid’s family, afraid for the fate of their beautiful first child, decided to join the Queen and later the protesters against the King. Again, Astrid was just a little kid, and spent most of her time being “babysit” by a family of blacksmiths and fighters (the Greywolfe) also devoted to Rhalgr, and who later joined the Resistance. When in 1557 Ala Mhigo was occupied by the Garleans, her family could do nothing but acknowledge defeat. They put Astrid's fate in the hands of the Greywolfes, who grew her up as their own kid.
When Astrid was old enough for it, she started traveling and fled across the wall when she had a chance. She dreams to kick the Garleans out of Ala Mhigo, and a long prosperous life with a good Ala Mhigan partner.
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