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Dawna is average height and curvy, muscular build, for a half elf. She is voluptuous, with a rounded face, fuller cheeks, pointy chin and ears. Her skin is fair and ivory, moving towards flushed and even ruddy when she's exerting herself. Her eyes are a luminous bright summery leaf green. Of all her features her large luminous almond shaped eyes and daintily pointed ears point at her mother's elven heritage. Her hair wavy and a rich fiery auburn. When she was on active duty, she kept it in a tidy short bob, just below her earlobes. During her mercenary days, she let it grow into soft, unkempt shoulder length waves. During her time at the Inn, she has allowed it to grow long and thick, to the middle of her back, as befitting a lady, and keeps it pulled back in elaborate, elegant, and practical braids. If she's spending an evening tending the inn, she'll braid precious stones, copper or gold chains, into her braid.
Her clothing is often feminine, well made, and practical. She favors pale colors like off white, and dove grey, sometimes wearing dark greens, when she's getting dressed up. She wears no jewelry, her only vanity is her elaborate braided hair, which she does adorn sometimes with chains and stones. Her gowns are demure and plain. She favors high cut necklines, often with square necks, or off the shoulder, with long skirts, slitted very high up her legs, on both sides. In cold weather, she layers soft wool gowns over a white linen chemise. Many people think she just favors plain fashion, but the secret is that all her dresses and robes are tailored for practicality. She's able to quickly buckle her breastplate on, and don the rest of her armor, without removing her dress, and without little details like ruffles, silly ribbons, and flaps getting in the way. When she's not dressing for the inn, she wears men's riding clothes. Soft, chocolate brown buckskin breechs, high boots, and a plain off white linen man's shirt, belted. Mostly, she wears dresses, though.
She's never far from her double bladed axe. It's a two handed weapon, with a short, stout handle. The lower half of the handle is wrapped in grey leather. Dawna keeps the blade razor sharp, and immaculate. She is particular about keeping the grey leather wrapping clean, supple, and in perfect condition. She carries extra lengths of this soft, dyed leather, so she can re-wrap her axe, when it gets dingy. She makes a point of doing this re-wrapping in a private place, away from prying eyes. Under the wrapping, where her hands lay on the axe, there are elaborate runes carved. She keeps them hidden from sight, and they are the key to many of her powers. When going into battle, she connects with them, and chants their incantation, they come alive under her hands only. When maintaining her beloved weapon, she rededicates herself to it, by tracing a bit of her own blood along some of these runes in the lower part of the handle, and whispering the ancient prayers. This is essentially the only dogma she shows to some kind of perceived religion. Her weapon is her religion, and she wields the ancient, symbolic, archaic thing with the same pride and reverence borne of centuries of axe wielding sheildmaidens.
Mannerism:
Her demeanor at first seems regal and aloof. She doesn't fall into conversation as easily as her more outgoing and bubbly half sister Kithri. She is genuinely warm and pleasant, but has a hard time getting close to people. In uncomfortable situations, she seems to rely on her militaristic bearing, so she becomes stiff backed and professional. Rather, what she thinks is professional, most people find the behavior rude. She lived a sheltered ascetic early life, and isn't exactly comfortable in large crowds, or with any kind of unnecessary attention. When she's not patrolling the streets, working at the inn, or working side jobs, she leads a quiet comfortable life, either reading or practicing her maneuvers in her apartments, or sitting at her corner table, in the inn. She does enjoy being around people, even though she isn't terribly outgoing. Her training also causes her to be alert, leaning towards suspicious of people she doesn't know, especially in these trying times. She's always wary of the criminal element. She can take the measure of a person with a long look, and is often correct in her initial judgement.
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