H'aanit

Appearance:

Haanit is an adult woman of 26, taller than your average girl at about 5'9 with a lean but muscular build. H'aanit has messily-braided light brown hair and sharp green eyes. She wears the grayish skin of a beast's fur around her neck similar to a scarf. She is clad in a beige animal skin dress, black leggings, gray boot-warmers, and brown gloves on both arms. H'aanit also sports feather earrings and a leather belt to which her quiver is strapped. Her arrowheads, belt buckles, bow, and knives are made of bone. She also wears a necklace with two rings attached, which are from her deceased parents.

In more intimate respects, her skin is surprisingly smooth despite her profession. Light scars cover her body in places, but also denote how infrequent her hunt related injuries are today due to her skills. Still, beneath her layers of clothes and gear resides fair soft skin. Her hands are strong, calloused despite still being soft in places. She's curvy, with a firm butt despite her musculature alongside a bust around a D cup breast wise. Her pubic hair is also light brown and abundant, even if it's not unkempt as she gets absorbed in her work for long stints at a time, thus causing her to neglect self maintenance beyond in more practical senses. As such, she isn't unclean most of the time, but also doesn't sport any fragrances other than her natural musk or perhaps signs of her having been tending to her animals or foraging in the woods. Still, she overall sports a natural beauty and strong presence that appeals to many men and women alike.

Personality:

H'aanit is a cool-headed hunter with a strong moral compass who dedicates herself to helping her clan. She rarely loses her cool in dangerous situations, proving her experience, maturity, and pragmatism—a foil to that of her master, who is only serious about hunting and takes life in stride. H'aanit tends to remain oblivious towards evidence of affection and generally isn't very socially practiced due to her lifelong focus on hunting. She'll remain polite unless pushed towards situations she doesn't like, but when people tell her later that someone was attracted to or flirting with her, she'll admit that she had no idea while trying not to show that she's flustered by the revelation.

Despite being a level-headed individual, H'aanit also tends toward a scolding attitude, especially towards her Master Z'aanta's gambling. She also dislikes the idea of killing for pleasure or for sport, believing that it disturbs the natural order of the forest and must be quenched at once. She holds to the ideals taught by her mentor and affirms that all living beings should be respected. However, she is also shown to be flexible when it comes to misdemeanors, particularly those committed by allies. H'aanit also tends to crumble easily around weaker or more vulnerable people in the moment. For example, if she comes across someone who is upset or who cries easily, she'll get flustered and question why they're so worked up while trying to placate them.

H'aanit speaks in a very particular (and fictional) dialect that borrows some particularities of speech from Middle and Old English.

History:

H'aanit is one of the few people who has been taught the ways of hunting by the clan that makes their home in the hunting village of S'warkii. When she was an infant, her parents passed away. Z'aanta, a talented hunter of some renown, decided to raise H'aanit and made her his apprentice.

In Battle:

H'aanit is a powerful veteran huntress. Her primary weapons and tools of the trade are her knife, her axe, and of course, her bow. In the past, she would forage materials to make these weapons, but in recent years, she's learned to spend money on finer crafted tools that will last. Still, this means that she has the ability to make effective improvised weapons when needed, ever the survivalist when out on the road. She uses traps such as snares not only against her quarry but against those who would do her or her friends harm alongside her weapon arts. H'aanit has an affinity for lightning, culminating it in a magical attack called Thunderbird. She's also learned the art of animal taming. Said animals that she tames will fight for her or support her in and out of battle. But her most stalwart and lifelong animal companion is Linde. A large female snow leopard that she grew up alongside from childhood. As such, she trusts Linde's senses and gauge of people implicitly as well. H'aanit is both agile and heavy handed, thus commanding quite the presence on the battlefield.