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: Chauntea
Alignment: Neutral Good

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. She currently wavers in her following of Chauntea, and is unsure what to do so as not to offend the Mother, though she feels drawn to Silvanus. Perhaps the Druids in the grove can help enlighten her.

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, and Lida, whom she would look up to if Lida were taller.
• She also met Serena Taintedblood in the Druid Grove, whom she admires from a distance.
• 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.