Annaleen Hanssen

Name: Annaleen Hanssen
Known as: Annie
Home/Location: Sundren City, her aunt Millie's home
Birthplace: Obscure backwoods farm deep in the country
Age: 16
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Deity: Chanutea/Silvanus
Alignment: NG

Summary:
A rambunctious, tomboyish woman with a ready, mischievous smile and friendly, dark eyes. She hates her given name of Annaleen and will invariably introduce herself as "Annie".
She has been sent to Sundren by her mother, and is to stay there for one year to be tutored by her aunt Millie, who is a minor, unimportant instructor at the university (NPC), and to learn the ways of the city. Her brother Rudgar has been here before her, and her aunt likes to present him a s a sample, having been much better behaved and less ... unruly... than Annaleen is turning out to be.

Annie will often be seen accompanied by a rather too portly badger with an unfortunate appetite for leather boots.

She is a bright, frienldy if somewhat naive teenager who takes bad things to heart quickly.
She skips her lessons whenever she gets away with it, to run off and be with her friends, and have adventures (or what she considers adventures), which often gets her grounded for weeks at a time. Her mindset is such that she accepts this punishment willingly as a consequence of her actions - but will commit that same action again with no hesitation.

Her dream, currently, is to become a Druid, and she seems to show some potential, even if her growing up on a farm has not really prepared her. She grew up learning of Chauntea, and has only recently been introduced to Silvanus' ways. To her vast relief, the Keeper of the Druid Grove has assured her that, while she will have to somehow deal with the conflict between the two deities, there is no real paradox in serving Nature, and through Nature, serving them both.
Her recent soul-searching with the Keeper has now prepared her to start down the path she seeks, and become a Druid.

Faction(s):

• none

Significant Relationships:

• Mathilda, her badger, whom she found orphaned and raised herself. Mathilda follows her everywhere, blissfully ignoring anything Annie wants of her - unless it involves food. Or boots. (Companion)
  
  
• She makes friends easily and has a trusting nature. Her closest friends are Calandra, who she looks up to, Yashia and Lida, whom she would look up to if Lida were taller.
  
  
• She has recently embarked on a quest to save another friend's soul - even though it is questionable if that friend even wants saving.
  
  
• She has a fierce loyalty to her family back home, particularly her older brother Rudgar, "Ruddy", whom she regularly writes to (NPCs)
  

Miscellaneous Information:

• She semi-regularly writes [letters home], now that she has learned how to, properly.