Name: Gabriella
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Faith: Christianity
Appearance: Brown hair and blue eyes. She usually keeps her hair in a ponytail. Her height is slightly on the shorter side.
Skills: Farming, animal handling, sleight of hand.
Backstory: Born February 3rd, 863. Gabriella grew up in a farming village in Mercia, slightly east of Lichfield. Throughout her upbringing her mother and father would pass the Christian teachings onto Gabriella and her siblings. The religion and all its aspects became a major part of Gabriella’s life as she did her best to please her parents and live according to the Bible’s every word. Ever since she was a kid she would help out with the farm work, so these days she’s quite capable at handling farm animals and working in the wheat fields.
A month ago, during a trip to Lichfield, Gabriella spotted a silver bracelet at the market. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever laid eyes on, but it was far too expensive for her to afford. Right as they were leaving to go home - in a thoughtless spur of the moment - Gabriella managed to snatch the silver bracelet without anyone noticing, and conceal it under her robes. It was a thrilling rush unlike anything she had ever felt before. As soon as they got back home she found a place at the edge of the village where she hid the bracelet underneath some stones. She knew she couldn’t show it off to anyone, so she would have to store the bracelet there. It fit perfectly around her wrist, so it pained her to have to leave the bracelet in the hiding spot.
Every day Gabriella would make time to go look at the bracelet at its hiding spot, and more and more as time went by she would start to see the gravity of her sin. Her father would always tell her that sinners are the worst kinds of people in the world and that they deserve to be punished. Her mother had told her that sinners go to Hell, a dark and unholy place where they burn for all eternity. These thoughts terrified Gabriella, yet she couldn’t bring herself to let the bracelet go or tell anyone about it.
Two nights ago when Gabriella was at the bracelet’s hiding spot, she suddenly heard screams from within the village. She hid the bracelet and then carefully approached the houses from the grove. From behind the trees she saw that a large band of heathen Danes had come into the village and rounded up all the villagers. Before she could process what was happening the barbarians mercilessly massacred every last one of the helpless villagers. The rest of the night is rather a blur. After witnessing the slaughtering of her whole family and everyone that she knew, Gabriella ran back to the bracelet, retrieved it, and then continued running. Lichfield was the only other place she knew, so that would be her destination.
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