Salty Lake

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General

Salty Lake is the common-language translation of her first name, Saelziseik.  Few know her surname, Sundyrsunnwym, which mean’s Southern Sun’s daughter, although she’d tell you if she asked.  Most call her Salty for short, some call her Lake, and she doesn’t prefer one over the other, though her full first name is Salty Lake.

Appearance

Salty Lake is big, robust roegadyn with more muscle than finesse.  She crudely clips her own red hair so that it is short and out of her face.  She’s got a white patch in it that appeared and has grown since the calamity.

She doesn’t strive to be masculine, but her lack of femininity makes her a rather virile woman.  She favors functionality over style in her dress, and even her town-clothes must be those she can move and fight in.  She knows little about fashion and less about makeup, and is comfortable in guts, and grime.

Behavior

Blunt and crass, Salty Lake is an unrefined common sellsword.  She is dense and literal, and tends to think within the box.  An extrovert, she is quick to befriend anyone and everyone, but she is not very good at reading people and subtlety is lost on her.  Many of her attachments are superficial, though she deeply mourns lost best friends and lovers.  Salty is also quick to tease dark brooding types.  Although she was a bully in her youth and young adulthood (a lacky type, rather than ringleader), now she is rarely cruel.  Her alignment wavers between unlawful good and unlawful neutral, and she could be pushed in either direction given others’ influence.

History

Saelziseik was born in a muddy fishing village in rural La Noscea. Her parents, Sundyrsunn and Eyriaent, were simple, small-minded, peaceful folk who lived off the sea and a pitiful garden. The family often went without. Saelziseik's village was occasionally raided by pirates and bandits, and Salty was conscripted by a pirate captain at the age of fourteen, though she joined with enthusiasm and lust for adventure and conquest. A few short years later, Salty Lake (as she was now called) tried to get out of piracy andreturn home, but was driven off by her parents, who disowned her. Not long after, shefound herself pregnant. She went her infant daughter to live with her parents, and sent them money for years, or at least what remained after drinking and gambling.

Salty Lake continued work as a pirate and mercenary. She enjoyed it in the good times, and always tried to quit after her crews' encounters caused the death of children. She did some stints in jail for petty crimes, and finally started to turn her life around prior to the Calamity, when she served as a mercenary in alliance with the Maelstrom. She gave up piracy after the Calamity, but hasn't found work less dangerous than that of a sellsword. She is currently seeking her daughter, who she has heard left home to study magic.

Combat

General

Prior to the calamity, Salty Lake fought mostly with an axe.  After the calamity, she prefers a sword and shield, although she is competent with other weapons.  She knows some basic healing arts (field dressings, not magic), and has had more of a natural aptitude for them post-calamity.

Tendencies

Likes

• Fishing
• Her pet horse, Gabrielle
• Tall women

Dislikes

• Pets brought indoors

Hobbies/Talents

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Relationships

Family

Parents: Sundyrsunn and Eyriaent.  A few various siblings.  Her given-up daughter.

Friends

Good friend: Myxie Tryxle
Ex-lover: Fleeting Dawn
Ex-best friend: Starwind Meladon

Enemies

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