Taellin
Player Info
Played by Linda
(updated 03-26-'08)
Personal Information
  Current Name: Taellin.   Function in Tribe: Memory Keeper.
Previous Names: None.   Nickname: Flashback.
Soul Name: Lyx.   Age: 1,559.
Known by: Stormdancer (father, D), Faellen (mother, D), Reedweaver (recognized, deceased)   Sex: Female

Appearance
  Facial Features: Sharp features, high cheekbones, pointed chin. She has the distinguished features of a pureblooded elf. Slightly upturned nose, full lips. Large, pointy ears that stand slightly away from her head.
Eyes: Narrow, slanted eyes in a yellow/amberish color. Delicately curved eyebrows which give her face a pensive look.
Hair: Taellin has long, ravenblack hair with a blue shine, which reach till her knees if she wears it loose. She usually gathers it all and uses a sort of hairnet to keep it together. Two strings of hair frame her face and reach just below her breasts.
 
Build: Slender, graceful build, tallest in the holt.
 
Special Marks: A small tattoo of a wolf pawprint on her belly, left from her belly-button. Since she has it for a long time already, it's slightly faded.

Relatives & Friends
  Parents: Father: Stormdancer (deceased)   Mother: Faellen (deceased)
Other Relatives: Redwolf (brother, deceased), Secret (sister, deceased), Quickstep (sister, deceased), Henea (sister, deceased), Buckgrace (son, deceased), Newmoon (grandson, alive), Flint (great-grandson, alive), Jade (adoptive daughter, alive)
 
Love/Lifemates: Reedweaver (lifemate, deceased) [799-1008]
 
Friends and Foes: She sees Kearen as a friend, but sometimes he is so unreasonable that they're unable to communicate. Halfnote, who she assists with good advice and lessons from the past. Is very fond of Rosebud, who can listen to her stories for long periods of time, and kindly took her as a student. Berrywine is her best friend. Lately, she has taken an interest in Trueblade who has been a dear friend before, but she's now developing a crush.

Abilities
Magic: Skills:
  • Sending (very strong)
  • Magic Feeling (below average)
  • Advising
  • Gathering
  • Painting/Decorating
  • Fishing (net)
  • Observing
  • Storytelling
  • Knowledge of tribal history
  • Weaving baskets
  • Weaving cloth

Clothes & Posessions
  Warm Clothes (Winter/Autumn): A thick, light blue dress reaching just below her knees lined with fur. The sleeves reach just below her elbows and from there, she wears brown leather gloves. Over her dress, she wears a woven cloak with a twisted turtle neck, in a dark blue color. Her thick boots are made for heavy weather - they're big, sturdy and brown in color.
Thin Clothes (Spring/Summer): Taellin prefers soft, thin cotton in the warmer seasons. She usually wears a thin, purplish shirt with wide, long sleeves; you can almost see through the shirt. Over this, she wears a jumper-like dress of a fine, blueish white cotton that reaches just above her knees. She prefers to wear her purple sandals with laces around her lower leg to keep them in place.
 
Accessoires & Jewelry: Two small golden earrings.
Special Posessions: NYA
 
Weapons: Knife, daggers.   Preferred Weapon: Knife.
 


Character & History
  Personality: Taellin is a patient and wise elf, but at the same time very headstrong. She is always full of advise, wanted or not, and if not, can appear to be a know-it-all. She claims that she actually knows so because she's been there and seen it before, sometimes not wanting to acknowledge that history doesn't repeat itself. She feels some jealousy towards the wolfriders, who live in the now and have sharper senses than she has. Despite the removal of her wolf blood, she is still proud of being partially a wolfrider.
Taellin is a very strong sender, capable of spreading a far greater range than the wolfriders which makes her proud and a feeling of being useful, next to her knowledge of the tribe's history. The strength can sometimes be manipulative, but she hardly uses it so (she did so, when her cubs were little and reckless, to keep them in place).
The lenght of her life makes her sometimes melancholic -- she has lost so many family members and friends over the centuries, that she sometimes needs a push into the Now. The last of these was her adoptive daughter Jade, who never returned from her soul search. She knows these things happen, but tries to keeps her hopes up.
 
History: Taellin is the oldest elf around the holt's area, and next to Kearen, she's the only pureblooded elf. She wasn't always pureblooded, though. Her mother, Faellen, resented the fact that she had recognized a Wolfrider and wanted him out of her life. When Taellin was four years old, she went to the firstborn healer Mireth, and pleaded her to remove the poisoned blood that made her daughter mortal and a creature of this world.
Stormdancer never took this lightly, and always strongly remembered Taellin of the fact that she was, in fact, half Wolfrider by birth. She accepted this, resembling her father in appearance. She inherited her golden wolflike eyes and her ravenblack hair from him.


Wolf Friend (not bonded)
  Name: Ravvit   Rank: Omega
Age: 9   Gender: Female
Personality: Ravvit wouldn't have survived her birth if Taellin hadn't been there to save her. She was a weak pup, casted out by her mother and Taellin took her in, nurturing her till she was fullgrown. Ravvit sees Taellin as her mother, even though she doesn't smell wolf-like at all. She is a shy wolf and the smallest of the pack, since she is always last to eat. She sticks close to the elves for protection.