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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:14 am
Wilderness////////////////////////////////// Under Ytan  "Per aspera ad astra"Through the thorns to the starsIn Sweden's 1600's knights to the king often branched off coming to be lords with crests ranging from spears to small frogs. Most crests had a saying; many were in Swedish but still a good number were done in Latin as it was a common language long ago with wise sayings known to any who could read them. Only those with schooling could read and those who were schooled were often high born but even normal villagers could read the more common crests having been told what they meant.
The fox to Sweden means you are tricky and sly, crafty and smart, and no one is sure just what side your on. However it also means they are hard to get rid of since a fox seems to able to live just about anywhere.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:39 pm
Name: Räv stolt (Fox Proud)
Gender: Male
Age: Sixteen
Nationality: Sweden
Time-line: 1600
Reason(s) for joining LOTUS: Räv was not with his family when time stopped, but when it did everything got strange. He went out to see what was happening but all he saw was a war that people were fighting over and over again in loops, dying again and again by arrows through the heart or a sword slicing their stomachs. He tried everything to make them stop but nothing changed at all and so he sought out help calling to gods known and unknown to help him get time back again.
Skills: Räv is good at adapting to change; everything new is something he can exploit to his advantages. He is not closed off to knowing things like the earth is round not flat. He can speak, read and write, and like most high-born he knows music manners and politics. He knows how to ride horses and anything anyone would want to know about hounds and hunts. He is good with b*****d swords, bows, and staffs. He understands basic math though he really couldn’t care about that, but he does know Swedish, Latin, and was learning German until the war started.
Personality: Räv is very stubborn when it comes to backing down, however even he knows when it’s time to fight or flee though everyone makes mistakes in battle. He is a good natured person always ready to learn and he soaks everything up like sponge but never does he get moistened and he always wants more. He is a bit of a goof off though, he is laid back and a bit forgetful when he has to do something like go to riding lessons or give his older brother his bow back. He likes the outdoors often riding out and yelling as the wind whipped past his ears, he can normally be found looking at something outside a bug or snail that caught his interest.
He has a mean streak but to him it isn’t mean at all, but to some people it makes him dangerous. Often comes a time when he wants to know what would happen if he did this, such as wondering what would happen if he let one of the b***h’s latest puppies loose to play with the kitchens cat, or what would happen if a bird was hit with an apple at mid flight. When he is trying to learn nothing is ever wrong only a needed thing to see why something is.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:26 pm
(Past) History Räv grew up as the young prince to Sweden, being the youngest he was last for the throne but war was happening everywhere and so the king spread his younger sons out giving them to the families of his knights who had become lords though great deeds. Räv was given to the Stolt family because his name matched their crest, he was seven years old by far an adult yet his father picked his older brother to walk beside him leaving Räv with some unknown family. There he learned how to play, and what it meant to relax and just be a kid.
He got into some trouble over the years he stayed with this family, but here he was safe and away from any of the battles. Soon he learned to call the family as his own, mother and father; he even had an older sister and she was the one to teach him about hounds as she was quiet fond of hers. Dogs were interesting animals, unlike wolves they did not howl or hunt for food and many grew fat by farm fires; but the lords hounds were fit and jumpy creatures who hunted for sport rather than food. Often he went on hunts when the weather was good and when he was ten he took his first and only fox.
This was to show he was part of the family, and the red fur of the animal was fashioned into a collar for his cloak that held that Stolt crest and his crest now. When he turned sixteen he had forgotten almost everything of his life as a prince he only thought himself as a young lord. Still one day something strange happened, birds stopped flying in the middle of the sky and dogs were frozen like living statues in the middle of play. His family grew scared and so did many others, he was sent off on the finest horse to ask the king for help but when he got to the castle he found something worse.
There was a war, people were fighting and dying around him but when the sun moved a shadow it was like magic; people were brought back to life and reset to fight again. He grew sick watching them fighting over and over again, and in the middle he spotted the king his head being cut off over and over again. He rode to the battle field and tried to pull people away but after what he thought was a day he got nowhere only cuts and bruises for his trouble. Desperate he rode off to the largest tree he knew off, there the wind rustled the leaves and birds chirped as if unaware anything was wrong. Almost jumping from his horse he sprung forward toward the tree encircling the base as much as he could while bowing to his knees.
“I don’t understand what’s happening, please gods help me make it stop or wake me from this dream for I cannot stand to be in it watching deaths happen over and over!” He cried out staring at the tree still pressed tight to it. “What has the world done to make this happen, just tell me I will fix it?!” As he got no answer he sat back on his knees staring up into green swaying branches that held little brown birds with bright yellow chests singing softly. Why did the gods not answer him, where they not going to help him because he was not a kind only the son of a lord? That was not true he knew, the Stolt as the sent him off, told him his true father was the king of Sweden but they loved him and he would always be their son.
Be he a song of a king, lord or commoner he did not know what to do still. He remained sitting under the tree calling out with his heart as loud as he could just begging the gods for help or power so that he may stop what was happening to the people and things around him. Surly it was a demon who cast this curse on them, for no kind hearted god would ever do this yet they did not answer him and so he stayed there looking up at the tree.(Future) History He must have fallen asleep like that because some how he woke in a place that he had never seen before, walls smooth and white with silver things in it and he lay on a strange kind of bed clean and rested. Soon people came and explained to him that this place was L.o.t.u.s. and it was started to help fix time and he had somehow gotten here but what means he did not know but it was something along the lines of a time hole or a blip.
He took his time to learn of the things around everything was so different and at times it scared him but he soon started to enjoy himself accepting things that happened as if he saw them all the time. He loved rubber bands; they were such useful little things. He did miss many things of his life before; it seemed so much simpler then this time.
He dislikes the colors of things, and the fact everything was so shiny from the floor to the walls. He missed his horses, the dogs and the cats, as well as the warm glow of a fire in a hearth with haunches of pheasant and deer’s filled with berries and boar meat possible dove or rabbit. Still he was promised if he joined this place he would be able to help not only his time but others as well; it sounded like a good plan to him.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:21 pm
Note I don't want to put a bunch of Sweden's history nor base everything off of real happenings! No one asked for a history lesson only my character and that's what I tried to give! I skirted the truth of who my character was, however there was a war and the king did spread his children out but he did not die in this war nor the two others that followed and Sweden won all three.
During the 1600 High born would wear silks and velvets in simple designs like pants and long sleeved shirts. Younger males would wear all white with their family crest done in silver over the heart either sewn in or on a broach. Males who were of royal line wore their hair long during this time to show wealth. During 1600 it is reported everyone in Sweden was born with pale skin, blond hair, and blue eyes this is mostly true now for those who are true born but even the royal line now has darker hair because of wedding out of line but hey no one wants inbreeding!
During this time period some people were wed to siblings as close as twins. This was done to keep family with family and should have kept the blood clean however later it got to be known this was very unhealthy and so soon frowned at and stopped. The royal family in 846 accepted the first queen and even now if a girl is born first she takes the thorn however many times it was a male first born.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:33 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:34 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:35 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:35 pm
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