Character Development

Name: Ravenna Storm (also known as Ravenha of the Black River)

Age: 100+ (witches slow down aging as they get older and so live to about 300)

Appearance: aging woman with frizzy grey hair, dresses in coarse cloth and plain coats

Occupation: witch

Income: none. hunter/gatherer/ conjurer

Class: poor in the realm (is known in secret circles as a powerful, private witch)

Occupation of parents: witch and wizard (tragically diseased)

Family members: younger sister, Minerva

Education: formal:none. Was under short, secret, and intense apprenticeship and owned books.

Place of residence: stone cottage with her sister

Place of birth: other side of the mountain they live on. Mother was travelling.

Religion: Wicca

Ethnic Background: European

Hobbies: woodland magic, dabbles in ethereal magic

Pet(s): lost familiar

Talents: hunting, potion composition (but does not frequently partake)

Dislikes: almost everything except her sister and the woods

Eccentric Habits: collects snail shells for no apparent reason

Phobias: people coming into their valley and taking her sister

Favorite foods: roasted frog guts

Manner of dress: plain, coarse, rough

Favorite color: moss on the rocks of the La’rivine

Sound of voice: croaky, provincial, uneducated

Aspirations: wants to be left alone, troubled past

Favorite place: overlook a few miles from the cottage

Number of friends: only sister and some friendly animals

Drinking habits: drinks berry juice mixed with moonlight almost nightly to fall asleep

Smoking habits: enjoys filmere when she can find it

Drug habits: never says no to a strange mushroom

Preferences - enjoys drawing start diagrams to pass the time

                    

How does this character react under stress? With sister, paranoid frantic, with anyone else, quiet, dangerous, thinking (unike her usual trouble making self)

What does this character do to celebrate? Quietly, until the berry juice hits her then she loves to kick her legs out and dance

How does s/he express anger? Dangerous fury.

Pleasure? Quiet Happiness, toothy grin

What is his/her greatest secret? When her sister was nearly the age to learn of the wiccans, Ravanna had disappeared for years, only coming back with an old witch doctor to the quet wicca town the family lived in. The family had thought she left out of anger over an argument with her father, and she had come back changed. The doctor had spent a few years allowing young Minerva to hang around the shoppe under pretense of being his assistant but Ravenna had actually struck a deal for him to secretly mentor Minerva. After he mysteriously disappears, Minerva finds an old book addressed to her. She does not know the writing but Ravenna does, although she does not tell anyone. She waits and guards over Minerva as she grows and learns, escaping the tragedy of the village to the other side of the mountain, and waits for her to unlock the secrets of the book herself.

What is his/her greatest desire? To see Minerva complete the prophecy only she knows off.

What is his/her ugliest fault? Stay tuned to find out what she sold to the clan of the Black River in exchange for the book, knowledge, and doctor.

What symbol might you use to represent this character? A plain dagger. Seldom noticed, hidden, but dangerous.