Character

As far as travel went, going by boat wasn't too bad. You didn't have to walk anywhere under your own steam, and being a paying customer meant not having to work the rigging or scrub the decks. Essentially you could keep to yourself and wait for mealtimes, which was exactly what Alabaster did.

She wasn't a fighter like many of her freeman brothers and sisters in the Rangers. Her secret shame was that she hadn't earned her title as a Royal, exactly.. she'd purchased it with her deeds for Kings and princes - and a good deal of gold. The sage hunter stroked the Royal Ranger pin idly before turning back to her journal. The boat gave a disconcerting shout - even the sailors abovedecks gave a shout - but she managed to save her ale and her ink from spilling. She frowned and aimed it upstairs at the ruckus.

The Dean of Field Studies, her official rank in the Dwilight Academy, was mostly ceremonial. She had submitted several papers but none of the noble academics gave them the time of day, being least of all concerned about sages and wizards and how to find them, or what components were best to make this scroll or that.

Alabaster was young, she supposed, to be trouncing around at the whims of noble Sirs and Ladies, ferrying their items and scrolls back and forth into the worst pits of Dwilight. Sages were typically insane, and wizards never bathed. She'd have laughed at herself, except for what she'd gotten herself into this time. Personal aide to a daimon ambassador! What was she thinking!

Her quill hovered over her journal, turned to a crisp new page. The rest of the large tome was stuffed full of sketchings, papers and maps, of charcoal rubbings and stolen souvenirs - a ladies kerchief, a pilfered gala invitation, and so on. But the value of the journal lay in the painstaking renditions of magical - unique - items which had crossed her path, had been in her possession for a time. There were dozens of them, mostly in charcoal, some in ink and fewer still in watercolour. The whole purpose of this trip was to release her obligation to repair the last of them, so she could go on this journey with Kyomi and not feel the need to dash off every time a sage or wizard was over the next hill. Because the gods knew that's what she'd done until now.

Was there nowhere on this boat to have a damned bath! It would have to wait until she alighted in Port Nebel, except then there'd be ANOTHER boat to wait for. It sure beat walking, anyway.


(OOC: if you imagine Alabaster as young, blonde and very slim, Nordic in sleeveless tunic and lots of belts, kinda bookish. If you cross Astrid with Gabrielle with Emily Bett Rickard, you've got it)

Date	Character Name	Event
2016-11-15	Alabaster	Began a life of adventure in Morek Empire.
2019-07-28	Alabaster	Banned from Arnor. Reason: Left her homelands while still a commoner.
2019-07-28	Alabaster	Joined the realm of D'Hara.
2019-07-31	Alabaster	Ban from Arnor lifted by Helm Altenahr.