Gisla

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• name 🞌 Gisla Auðunardottir pronunciation 🞌 gees-la meaning 🞌 “pledge; hostage” nationality 🞌 Scandinavian age 🞌 twenty-two years old species 🞌 human ; well-bred sex 🞌 female ; not the fairer sex

  origin 🞌 The only daughter of Jarl Auðunar, Gisla was wed when she was fifteen years old, separated from her husband while he partook in long raids marked by extensive infidelity which resulted in several bastard children, and divorced just two years later. She trained under her father to become a shield maiden, although she also showed particular talent for spinning, weaving, and tailoring. She joined her brothers in the southern isles to assist with defending and caring for their lands, but the natives reclaimed the lands and slaughtered Gisla’s kin. She was among several of the women taken into slavery, and she was traded to The Golden Tether in Guildereim shortly thereafter. She remains in a state of shock.

  
  

  height 🞌 5’7” ; well-proportioned weight 🞌 130 lbs ; lean muscle eyes 🞌 blue ; large, upturned hair 🞌 blonde ; loose waves skin 🞌 pale ; no remarkable scars shape 🞌 hourglass ; mesomorph scent 🞌 incense and oils ; leather

  appearance 🞌 The young woman is gilded winter. Her flesh is a light snow with the subtle glint of the sun’s warmth. The blonde’s mellow nature is generally apparent in the way she holds herself or speaks if not by her crooked smile. If she stood upright, she might measure in at five feet seven inches, her physique lithe but fit with muscle. She carries the scent of incense and oils tempered by pine and leather. Pale golden hair is worn down in long waves when it is not pulled back away from her face in a practical braid. Her countenance bears a strong jaw, and her rosy cheeks dimple when she smiles. Thick brows and long lashes frame large eyes, wide-set, upturned, and the color of the sea’s deepest blue.

  
  

  a work in progress