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Therdis

Therdis
| Name | Therdis |
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| Status | Dormant |
| Occupation | Wanderer |
| Age | Adult |
| Race | Man |
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| Residence | Unknown |
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| Outward Appearance | Therdis has the dark hair and blue-gray eyes common among the Dúnedain. Taller than the average Man and indeed standing more than a head above even many men of her own people, she has the awkward, gangly-legged stance of a shore-piper or heron. Her habit of standing motionless in some contorted position does not help this comparison. From behind or with her face obscured, it is easy to take her build for that of a very lean, long-haired man. Even among a people known for their strong, dark features, she is best described as 'angular' or 'harsh' rather than beautiful or even striking. She smiles rarely, and when she does, the expression is often unsettling rather than reassuring. Her voice is low, and painfully hoarse, as one who has inhaled something damaging or caustic.
She dresses in shades of gray. When traveling, she is armed with a plain one-handed sword and a dagger of similarly utilitarian make. She is a capable swordswoman, though her form lacks any natural grace or elegance and was earned instead through hours of tedium. After her return from disappearance during the War, she occasionally carries a simple crossbow.
Those meeting her for the first time are usually struck by her distinct lack of conversational skills and odd body-language mannerisms. Either seeming entirely distant or assuming far too piercing a stare, she is generally considered unnerving at best and threatening at worst. As such, the woman claims few among her own people as true friends, though she makes friendly acquaintances easily with children and young people who are less likely to assume aloofness from a first impression.
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Background
Therdis was raised in Tornhad, and grew to adulthood in the shadow of her father, an accomplished scout and hunter, and her mother, an herbalist and midwife for the settlement. She was apprenticed to Mandan for her training and made her oath to the chieftain of the Dúnedain only shortly before the defeat of Sauron. Not naturally very athletically-inclined nor coordinated, she felt deeply the burden of having needed to train twice as hard as her peers to be given the same position, and as such not only took her oath and duty perhaps a bit over-seriously, but was also inclined towards a certain kind of hypocritical resentment of her fellow-Rangers, especially those she perceived as not taking their own responsibilities seriously enough.
She disappeared some time before the events of the War of the Ring and was presumed dead by her family in Tornhad. Recently, she was been seen in Esteldin and then in Tinnudir before seemingly disappearing again.
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
The City -- C. P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keely
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Therdis's Adventures
| The Narrow Path | 2 years 3 weeks ago |
| Clarity, Belated | 2 years 1 month ago |
| Something Better | 2 years 1 month ago |
| A Different Kind of Help | 2 years 2 months ago |
| The Ranger and the Bull-Toad | 2 years 5 months ago |
