Bryna Floeraskwyn

Bryna Floeraskwyn
Gender	Female
Race	Roegadyn
Clan	Sea Wolf
Citizenship	Foreign

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Character

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General

A strong-bodied young Roegadyn woman of Sea Wolf stock; a foreigner from a traditional community on a distant island chain; a freelancer, mercenary and laborer.

Appearance

Extremely muscular and very tall even for a Roegadyn woman, the young Bryna cuts a physically imposing figure.

Her long hair is a dark ash-grey, her skin the color of green clay.

Dark, hooded eyes, color a rich light brown.

Very broad-shouldered with a narrow waist, giving her a "V"-shaped torso. Her powerful arms and legs bulge proudly with big swells of hard muscle. Prominent abs.

Personality

Athletic, quiet, pragmatic, loyal, traditional, serious, dutiful, stoical, blunt, respectful, taciturn, sincere

Combat

General

Bryna prefers heavy, wrought-iron spears and lances. Her thrusts are viciously powerful. Though lacking in finesse, she has a keen sense of anatomy and knows where to ply the force of her weapon to maximize the damage of each strike.

Tendencies

Likes

Heirachy, plainspeaking

Learning of Eorzea's native people

Kindness, sincerity, drivenness

Bards

Dislikes

Ambiguity

Well-assimilated Eorzean Roegadyn

Braggarts, hecklers, the conceited

Blackmages, summoners

Hobbies/Talents

High-level physical strength makes Bryna a powerful combatant, and an excellent laborer.

Naturally resistant to cold.

She fancies herself a fine cook, so long as one enjoys nose-melting fermented seafood and boiled turnips.

Other

Bryna is taciturn and generally does not show much emotion to strangers, a quality which at first can make her seem grumpy, or as if she has little personality.

Being from a very traditional community, Bryna thrives where there is a clear heirarchical structure in which she can locate her place. She is often socially anxious in such instances where hierarchical roles are not well-defined.

Relationships

Friends

Adrian Rosseu

L'valt Tia

Rumors

Common Rumors

That Bryna is from Limsa Lominsa.

That Bryna is grumpy.

That she is an ex-pirate.

Moderate Rumors

That she prefers the company of women.

That she is promiscuous.

That she is half-male.

Rare Rumors

That Bryna once killed a Hyur man in The Black Shroud.

That Bryna is a Garlean spy.

That Bryna and her ex-captain, Adrian, were lovers.

History/Timeline

THE BAENKRYD

Bryna Floeraskwyn hails from a chain of islands, Baenkrydlaent (the bone chalk land) far to the North, well beyond Eorzean waters. To geographers with a love of esoteric and highly detailed maps of Hydaelyn, the bleached, rocky Northern islands are often referred to as "The Baenkryd"

Sparsely populated and barren except for the hardiest northern grasses, the tiny islands of the Baenkryd are home to traditional, close-knit villages of seafaring Roegadyn, who subsist mainly by fishing and trading.

Although their plundering days are long over, the people of the Baenkryd unselfconsciously preserve the distinct culture of the northern Sea Wolves who of old raided Eorzea. Natively, they speak only in the Old Tongue. Most speak a little of the Eorzean common tongue, but few speak it well.

The daughter of a blacksmith, Bryna showed uncommon physical strength and keen athleticism as a lass. Her first real job, hauling copper from the mines, earned her a reputation as a potent, nearly indefatigable laborer: combining her natural gifts with intensive physical training, even grown men came to respect her ability.

BRYNA, SHIP'S HARPOONIST

As an adult, Bryna found maritime work aboard small, seasonal fishing vessels, pulling in nets and hoisting sails. Following her 21st name-day, she joined the crew of a mid-sized oceangoing ship.

Bryna initially worked in the galley, where she earned the nickname 'The Wall' amongst the crew. Noticing the girl's powerful physique, one day the skipper bid her take a harpoon and join the men on an outrigger as they closed on their quarry, a great beast of the sea. Standing with bent knees on the prow of the outrigger, she readied the harpoon high in her right arm, and let it fly. The cruel iron sailed yard after yard, burying itself in the creature up to the end of the mainshaft: a stunning, single killing blow. "Like an arbalest," one of the men later remarked.

Thereafter, she was invited on additional killing sorties, eventually distinguishing herself as the crew's primary harpoonist.

SHIPWRECKED!

Though not hostile to Eorzea, the Sea Wolves of the Baenkryd islands had little regard for Eorzean maritime claims. Frequently, ships from the Baenkryd would pursue their game well into Eorzean sovereign waters--an illegality.

After years at sea, the ship on which Bryna now lived pursued a great fish into the maze of islands off of the Black Shroud. The underside of the ship's hull was raked to breaching by a submerged ridge, forcing the crew to run aground in a desperate attempt to avoid loosing the ship and her crew entirely.

Beached, the ship was abandoned and its material taken as salvage. None of the crew was killed by the wreck, although one member who was with fever succumbed some days later.

THE BLACK SHROUD

Initially keeping together, the foreigners found little welcome in the Shroud, where historical memories of Sea Wolf raids made these outsiders seem exotic and dangerous. The Roegadyn were denied entry into town after town, region after region, until it was decided that they only way they would be accepted was to disburse into smaller groups.

It was in one such group that Bryna first came to Gridania. That city-state was willing to take their mere handful of alien Roegadyn, so long as they could prove themselves productive residents.

Bryna, considered large and strong even among the Roegadyn, was initially treated as something of a side-show by her hosts: Gridanian children peppered her with questions and grown women and men propositioned her, all to her exasperation.

She found work in various places, doing predominantly unskilled labor for nominal pay. Extrapolating her skills with the harpoon to the lance, she was admitted to the lancer's guild. She has served as an associate of that guild ever since.