Helenarcis

 

I do not remember my birth, but from what I can gather from attending other births, I have a good idea. My mom was the one who went around helping others to help them in the birthing process. While I travelled with her to several of the surrounding Piney people I never did find it rather interesting. I did have a bit of a natural talent for medicine.

Piney's at least the ones that I have met tend to live in really small communities. My dad's job interested me much more than my mom's. Being part of a group that protected several of the small communities of Pineys from the Gnolls and other dangers of the Wode. To the point where Dad always said that I learnt how to wield weapons before I learnt to walk. The weapon is always a different type of weapon though, whatever it was I was using that assignment.

Though the weapon I have the greatest foundness for is the Crossbow. To the point where I figured out how to reload it much faster than normal. Though other weapons have advantages over the Crossbow. For example the Bow has a much farther range than the crossbow, and the net is good for entangling the enemy. One might want to gather information from the people who are attacking the hamlets.

Piney's are naturally good at finding tracks, or paying attention to when the weather is going to change for the better or worse. I happened to be slightly better at this than even my dad, it kind of fustrated him sometimes. Expesially when I caught the prey before him, never made sense to me why he would care about that, wasn't the goal to catch the prey.

Knowing what the prey you are hunting eats. If its meat or plant helps in knowing where to hunt for that greatly helps in hunting the prey. This is why Piney make good hunters. This is just stuff that we are good at. Its in our blood or it could be the fact that we are people of the Wode. Unsure, don't know, don't care to know why, for it doesn't effect what I do.

Being part of the people who help defend the hamlets did have good things happen. Keeping the area around safe requires you to be able to move heavy logs, move quickly and even break down doors. Forced marching was never really that fun, but it was a good thing to know.

I never learnt how to think while playing the game of Dragon's Chess, but I did understand how the moves worked. This caused me to not win many games, but that didn't stop the fellow Miltia from playing with me. My dad even played with me, but only at home, never with the Miltia.

Several years of working with the Miltia, I butted heads with them. They would not do anything but defence. Never deal with the issues themselves just keep the area they patrolled safe. When just out of that area there were issues that needed to be dealt with.

I went off on my own to deal with some of the issues that effected us, but where not in our area. The very first thing I dealt with was poachers. I knew before I even started that they where an organized group. Though I had to travel above the ground in the trees to find them.

They were rather easy to track down. Even those that thought they were hiding there tracks so well. The issue is people do not look up when they think people are chasing them. It is so funny to see.

The issue I kept running into is the fact that none of the Poachers would willing admit to being part of an organization without being scared out of there life. Though the issue is that when they admitted to being part of a larger organization it was never consistant, or useful information. It was rather frustrating, but after a few years of trying, I had at least killed over a dozen poachers. I knew there was a higher organization behind them, but I could not find it. So I gave up on that front and returned home.

It was two years later when there was more Gnoll's attacking than normal. It was hard for the milita to keep them out of the area. I went off on my own and hunted the gnolls. I vowed that that the issue of the Gnolls attacks would never be a problem again. If I couldn't figure out the poaching organization I would make sure that the Gnolls went extinct.

By the time the volcano started up, I was so good at hunting Gnolls, I had learnt everything about there paterns. Where to hit them to make them hurt more, and even there language.