Railen Morana

[Railen Morana]

Name: Railen Morana
Race: Human
Hair: Reddish brown, long. Combed in the morning, but often gets dischevled.
Eyes: Ice Blue
Age: 21
Height: About 5'6
Weight: Around 120
Birthplace: Minoc

Appearance: Railen dresses neatly, and bathes regularly. Usually smells of honey and vanilla from  her favorite soaps. Various scars on her body include Burn scars on her hands, an old bite and cut on her right hand, bolt scars in each shoulder and the middle of her back, and a missing bicuspid tooth from a brawl with Yewish soldiers during the Moot.

Description and history:

 Railen is, well, what you might term as Scrappy. "Stubborn as a mule" her mother would have said. "Hot tempered' and 'Loose Cannon" have also on occasion been used. She does not usually back down from a fight. Unless she is very bored, she is not one to start them...but she is likely to stand up for what she believes is right.  Her parents were both followers of Virtue, and the three principals they were derived from, and Railen holds them close to this day.

Railen was born as an only child to a loving father and mother. She spent her youth in Minoc learning the trade of mining along side her father, laying fuses for explosives to get to the deep veins of Agapite and Valorite.  When she was 16, her father was killed in a cave in, sacrificing his life to get Railen out of the mine safely. Around this time, the war saw hardship in supplies for the region. Jobs grew scarce, and work was hard to find.
After her fathers death, her mother slowly faded, growing more frail. Railen looked for work to no avail. Mining jobs were considered "Mans work" and Railen had no cooking or tailoring skill. She staunchly refused to go into the "pleasure" industry as was suggested on more than one night when she would go to the tavern looking for work.  

As the war escalated, it became less safe for a woman to wander the roads by herself.  One night, after she had one ale too many on the aniversary of her fathers death, she was attacked by three men. Not long after, she decided that she would go to Vesper to seek work, and try to find a healer for her mother. The three men died in a mining "accident" when a spark somehow ignited a pile of explosives left for the following days work.

On her arrival to Vesper, she met Kiran, who hired her to work as a barlass at Swaggers. He gave her a meal and a cot to sleep on in the basement. In her first week, the Moot was being held in Britain, and she helped to staff the Blue Boar late in the evening. Her mother died in the care of a Trinsican healer during this time, who was able to at least ease her pain in the last few days of her life.

During the Moot she met Kas Valentine, who charmed her by regaling tales of his adventures. He was being framed for an incident at the Mill, and she on more than one occation brought information to him, and the Covian Army, which she had picked up from customers and staff at Swaggers in efforts to keep him from interrogation and torture from Yewish officials.

Railen spent her evenings off work in the Company of Edward and Kiko, often waiting for Kas to come visit. She was ill for a week from a dog bite and subsequent infection, and when she returned to visit she found out Kas was not the sort to remain faithful to one woman. The resulting argument and fight was not pretty, leaving Kas with a black eye, and hideous haircut in the end. Sadly, Railen popped a few stitches in her hand punching him in the face at a brothel she found him in, in north Trinsic, and Kas nearly broke a nail.

As Covians were the bulk of the customers she served at Swaggers Inn, and as she was used to spending nights off in Cove, Rai continued to spend time visiting the Green Goblin. Ed had offered her work on several occasions, which she had turned down because of her loyalty to Kiran and Becca who had taken her in as staff when she was down on her luck and given her a place to sleep and three meals a day.

On one of these nights off, she met Raiden Morana. She and Adelle had taken a walk up the coast to see how their competition was faring. The Commander had offered drinks, and they began comparing battle scars and the stories behind them, and getting attacked by a small gang of brigands. Over the next few days they met during their free time, speaking of their past loves and dreams for the future- tending wounds, and failing at staying out of trouble with local orcs. Soon she was head over heals for this man...and he professed feeling the same. Wedding bells rang out over the May Day wedding, where they exchanged their Vows. A few weeks later, Railen found out she was carrying his child.

She gave birth to a son, Ryan after numerous attacks during pregnancy. Their son, now a toddler, walks with a slight limp but is bright and the spittin image of his father. Soon after his birth, Railen enlisted into the Covian army, to serve the people something more than drinks and food, and protect them.