Kyra Starling
- I took the name Kairi so people don't associate me with the noble daughter who just moved in.
- Sent away from the city due to a high up noble boy named Percival laughing at my attempts to dance at a ball and then mocking me in front of all the other guests. So I punched him in the face. Other things too but of a similar ilk. The other nobles there treated me with disdain due to me not being at all ladylike as they think a noble daughter should be.
- Parents are Sylas and Jane Starling who are a well off noble family who own the land of Highever and want to continue rising in the world. Before Sylas' hard work they were a fairly unknown family who have only recently come into the higher circles of the capital. Jane is meek and mild who tends to the house and wishes her daughter wasn't so different. Sylas is a bold forceful man who is very single minded. He is fair and honest but also uncompromising and set in his own ways. The only person he listened too was Vox. One day I hope to have proved myself so he will accept and respect me as he did Vox.
- Took up blacksmithing in order to learn something I felt to actually be a useful skill unlike anything I was taught in the capital by my mother. The master smith there named Duncan Magnusson took me on out of curiosity as he wasn't expecting a young girl to actually commit to blacksmithing. But after a while he saw I was serious and now he lets me help out whenever I'm around. As payment he let me keep the first good sword I ever made which I have named Sting. Duncan is a fairly long in the tooth dwarf but he's "not retiring any time soon thank you very much". He spends almost all of his time in the forge and looking for adamantine to finally make the perfect sword. His grumpy exterior belies a warm and kind personality underneath.
- My big brother Vox was well respected by my parents due to excelling in all things martial. I want nothing more than to follow in his footsteps and become a samurai too despite my parents forbidding it because I'm a girl. Vox secretly taught me a few things after much pestering resulting in me being surprisingly strong for my size but also very moral. After Vox left with a group of adventurers to help others and make a name for himself was when I really started rebelling against life in the capital. This was two years ago and I look forward to the day where I can join him.
- Having been forced to sit through a lot of political and business talk between families I've grasped the intricacies of charm and diplomacy and have learnt to use it to my advantage. However this has left me with a rather strong preference for straight talking and a tendency to speak without thinking.
- Desperate to prove myself and thoroughly bored of civilian life, I will jump at any opportunity for adventure and tend to idolise those who have tales to tell of their own adventures. I spend most of my free time reading stories of such adventures so I'm generally found in the bookshop. The owner is the only person who I've told my true identity too and she has sworn to keep it secret. Her name is Lucy Anne and she's a kind middle-aged half elf whom I view as somewhat of a mother figure. She lets me stay there and read providing I help her out around the shop when she needs it. I know she doesn't need any help as does she but she knows I need to feel useful so we both keep quiet about it.
