Huldra- A forest guardian from Scandanavian folklore.
Cyrnel - Old English for "kernel".
Blood colour: Bronze #A15000
Gender: Female
Symbol: Taurga - The Guardian
Profile: Huldra is a tiny, industrius troll who lives in the rural foothills of Busthind's mountain range. Initially hatched in the Salamire caverns, she had to move to more solid terrain for the sake of her lusus.
Huldra is an aspiring permaculturist, although she's a bit young to really know what she's doing. She manages to do well enough for herself and her lusus, but hopes to one day be able to provide food and recruit for the trolls back home at the Outpost. At the moment, she's running supplies from town .
Huldra resents and distrusts Alternian civilization (all of it, not just the hemospectrum,) but isn't informed enough to have political views any more nuanced than "society sucks". She's wise enough to keep quiet about that unless she's around sympathizers, though.
She's a bit of a hard nut to crack, but once you've earned her trust, Huldra's solidarity is unwavering. She is willing to run errands, provide food and refuge, and make other sacrifices of time and energy to see that her friends are able to thrive.
Huldra doesn't like combat, and probably never will. While she would do a lot of things for friendship and camaraderie, killing or maiming trolls isn't one of them, and is something she would only undertake for self-defense, or defending the trolls in her quadrants.
Strengths:
Self-Sufficient - She has a tidy little hivestead in spite of the unforgiving climate and not having had help from other trolls or the carpenter drones.
Quiet - Huldra doesn't cause controversy and doesn't make waves. She comes through, takes care of her affairs, and leaves well enough alone.
Flaws:
Suspicious- She tends to assume that any strange troll is out to get something out of her, and acts accordingly.
Secretive - Trolls who take too close of an interest in her are likely to be met with blunt deflection. "Who wants to know?" "Why do you care?" "Mind your own business."
Weapon: Hatchet
Appearance: She tends to wear layers, especially when travelling through the colder parts of the mountains. Cloak, hat, gloves, sweater, leggings, and comfortable hiking shoes. She cuts her hair to about chin length, with straight bangs. Her horns are slender, and branch off into three bulbous "pods" of different sizes.
Home: Mountain, (down in the hills.) Her hive is small and cluttered with books and plants.
Lusus: Wisent (a forest-dwelling bison that lives in parts of eurasia and is closely related to the now-extinct aurochs.) She stays close to Huldra, serving as a mount and protector, and is a constant source of encouragement. She's disappointed that she couldn't live closer to Huldra's "herd" but as a very large cow who was not built for swimming or climbing trees, she couldn't adequately protect Huldra in the swamp.
Her relationship to Huldra is fairly healthy; she's neither neglectful nor overbearing, and is supportive of Huldra's hobbies and interests. She's given Huldra a reasonable perspective on how the world outside the hivestead works, but doesn't use that to discourage her ambitions. Overall, she's a good mom, and she and Huldra love each other very much.
Power: None yet. (Animal Communion, a la Tavros, is planned for the future.)
