Approved White Tower Bio for Ellisha Falwein-- CC'ed by the Band

[WhiteWolf]

Basic Information
Your Handle: Sherper
Full names of WT characters you already own and their status (active/retired/dead): First.

Character Information
Name (first and last) of this character: Ellisha Falwein
State whether this is a Traditional or a Salidar character: Traditional
Age of this character * (Traditional = 14-19 / Salidar = 20-70) :17
(* Returning / Full AS character: age in main time line)
Name of country where this character is from: Andor

Appearance
Hair: Dark brown shoulder long hair, kept flowing.
Eyes: Emerald Green.
Skin: Pale complexion.
Height: 5'5 "
Voice: Usually prefers a brisk no nonsense Andorian accent, but can also pull off a decent clipped Cairhienin droll.
Other: infamous raised eyebrows combined with intolerable grin.

Optional
Special Skills: Rope climbing and river pirate skull bashing.
Knowledge Weakness: Everything that does not involve the river trade.
Physical Weakness: Short in stature.
Personality weakness: Doesn’t know the tail ends of how to act ‘like a lady’ and doesn’t care to.

Personality
Ellisha makes the most rowdy tomboys look feminine and dignified; she doesn’t even pretend she knows how to act properly around people. Preferring the shortened version of her name: ‘Eli’ or even just ‘El’; she gets bored easily, hates being told what to do and detests activities that restrict her ability to move around at will. She ‘could’ have been rather attractive (had she tried), but any boy that might have harboured feeling towards Ellisha were usually turned back by her wicked scowl and the five n’ a half span fishing spear she always carried around.




History
Born the youngest daughter and child of the Falwein family, Ellisha had a very ‘interesting’ upbringing. Being the only daughter to the Falwein family, her mother was determined to make a respectable house wife out of her. Unfortunately for her mother, little Ellisha had plans that differed quite differently to the life of sewing, cooking and cleaning she had planned out for her. Ever since she could walk and talk, Ellisha had never missed an opportunity to be on her father’s craft with all her older brothers, who took special care to protect her as their younger sister.

Much to the distaste of her mother, Ellisha quickly learned the trade of becoming a river merchant (all the while neglecting the lessons her mother managed to cramp on shore). By the age of eight she could fix the ropes, tie the canvas, and tell every detail of a ship from bow to stern. Along with her brothers, she helped her father run both the ship and the trade all along the river Erinin. On more than one occasion she had to demonstrate to river brigands and the like, how much it hurt to cross a girl with an extra long spear and a menacing scowl. Eventually her mother gave up trying to turn her into something she clearly isn’t, and it was later decided she would take over the family’s business when the time came to hand over the books. She learned how to read, haggle with land peddlers and farmers, but most importantly, she learned and earned the respect of a crew.

Her life was shaping up to be a decent adventurer filled journey, until one day after her sixteenth name day, her father allowed passage to two mysterious ladies down the river. Always curious about things she probably shouldn’t be getting her nose into, she boldly enquired to where the two were headed, not realising the two were actually Aes Sedai. On the third day of the journey, apparently as a token and gift, one of the two women gave Ellisha a small piece of emerald marble to play with. When Ellisha held it up to the light to examine the stone’s polished surface and rich depth, she thought she saw a tiny light flicker then fade from the core of the stone. She didn’t know what it had meant but the two Aes Sedai certainly did. She could be taught to channel and the two women told her as much when she asked.

Her first reaction was to burst out laughing at the ridiculous notion; whilst her immediate second was to jump overboard to try and get away from the two women after she realises they were telling the truth. She was caught before she hit the water by weaves of the power and the two sisters then took her to see her parents – revealing to them both that their daughter would need to be brought to the tower and trained as a Novice. Be it reluctantly and with much soggy tears, in the end Ellisha Falwein was dragged rather moodily to Tar Valon and the Tower, to begin her new life as a channeler. 

[Quibby]

A bit concerned about the spear, but it seems solid enough.  CC'ed.

[WhiteWolf]

Me too, but as long as she does not try to use it as a Novice/Aes Sedai all is good

[Sherper]

Ellisha Falwein Index

 

Arrivals Shore bound

 

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Former daughter to a river merchant in Aringill, Ellisha Falwein finds her life turned upside down by the discovery she could channel when two Aes Sedai sought passage on her father's craft.  Reluctant and hot tempered, she is taken to Tar Valon where she has to face the Mistress of Novices, and begin adjusting to life as a Novice in the White Tower.

 

 

The Novice

 

Lessons with Saidar:
Lesson One

Lesson Two
Lesson Three
Lesson Four

 

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Ellisha the new Novice is introduced to the wonders of Saidar as she learns how to embrace, control and channel the One Power. All the while making new friends and enemies alike.

 

 

Meeting Aril Corland A new friend

 

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Determined for once to stay out of trouble, Ellisha Falwein instead finds herself the unlikely rescuer of a new Novice to the Tower. What had seemed like necessary 'intervention' at the time, would soon turn out to be much more than what Ellisha had originally been bargaining for. Perhaps for the better. Perhaps for the worse.

 

 

A day off Tea in the Garden with the Greens

 

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With the hot summer heat settling in Tar Valon, and the rest of the day free to do whatever they wished. Ellisha Falwein, now in her seventh year of Novice training, along with Aril Corland, decide to walk down and enjoy themselves in the gardens. They stumble into two green sisters who were having tea and answering questions about their Ajah, so the two decide to participate.

 

 

Contemplations Letter from Eli

 

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On the eighth year of her entry into the White Tower, Ellisha Falwein was finally summoned to take the test for Acceptance. However, she had to sort through a few personal things first. Least of all being, a final letter to her father.

 

 

Three Arches Memories of the Future

 

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Ellisha, proud Novice of the White Tower, was to take her test to finally become an Accepted. But all is not well in this trial - the strange world created by the arch Ter'angreal, of memories past, present and future may not be what Ellisha had intended them to be.

 

 

An Accepted

 

Lessons with the Ajah Blue Ajah Class

 

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Having taken the test and now finally an Accepted, Ellisha Falwein should have been feeling ecstatic at all the new liberties granted her. But all is not well in her life, and it's making it difficult to concentrate on lessons. 

 

 

Meeting Kastyana An Unexpected Visitor

 

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Feeling much better now, Ellisha has learn how to control her lapse in sanity, and to make sure it never happens again. Called away from her usual lessons, she is presented with an unexpected visitor... A new novice by the name of Kastyana Amharadar. 

 

 

Practicing for the Test Anger Management Issues

 

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Just past her thirty-third year of life, and sixteenth year in the Tower, Ellisha Falwein is getting ready for what might very soon be her test for the shawl. She and her friend Aril practices the weaves together in their room, but Ellisha is finding it difficult to concentrate...

 

 

Lessons with the Healers Yellow Ajah Accepted Class

 

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Ellisha has been getting odd dreams at night and she is finding it difficult to decipher what they mean. In the meantime, her lessons with the Yellow Ajah was about to begin, and as always, she is bound to find a way to mess everyone's lives up.

 

 

Discovery of the Black Ajah Goodbye my old friend

 

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Feeling devilishly foolhardy, Ellisha and her friend Aril decide to sneak out of the Tower to visit the city of Tar Valon at night. However, what they do not bargain for on their way back in, is to overhear a conversation they really shouldn't have overheard.

 

 

The Road to Vengeance: Ellisha the Blue

 

Test and the Oath Ceremony (62 years ago) Weaves of Fire, Heart of Stone

 

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Past caring for most things around her, Ellisha decides her only goal in life should be to exterminate the Black Ajah, who has taken her friend away from her. First though, in order to fight Aes Sedai, she would need to be Aes Sedai. For the second time in her life, Ellisha Falwein walks through the doors of a Ter'Angreal, to be tried and tested if she is worthy of her cause.

 

 

Present Day: Ellisha the Sitter

 

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Edited June 17, 2014 by Sherper

[Sherper]

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Edited December 12, 2013 by Sherper