Legends of Belariath

Ishtori

Ishtori was born in a small clan, the Yortwotor clan, and being it an extremely organised clan in military warfare, she was raised from childhood to be a warrior.

She started training from the age of 6 when she was old enough to comprehend orders and being able to use weapons. she trained with all kinds of weapons, axe, hammer, spear, sword, dagger, kunai, well every kind of weapon really. She by the age of 8 revelled a great aptitude with throwing weapons, and began training it until she archived mastery of it by the age of 12, her favorite weapon being the kunai.

But just throwing weapons were not enough so she spend a few years training mainly with the sword and the spear, being able to perform some tricks and making some new of her own that she still uses now.

she was also very acrobatic, even for a catperson she always was good at dodging blows and using her agility to to land strikes from unseen places. but that's enought about her military record, as it could go on and describe her knowledge of the plants, herbs, and her mission and overall survival in the woods.

She is also a very sociable person, having a lot of friends, and good friends they were, she was always playing with them when she could, well, when not training at least. When she grew up she didn't lost her friends. A few of them she was usually with them in scouting missions or any other type of missions, others she would see them once in a while.

There is no major thing in her background, in this kind of environment nothing unusual happened to her. being her childhood very normal.

She never had someone she liked in particular, no boyfriends or anything, though a few guys liked her of course.

In winter back in her clan, there were a few lakes that usually would froze and there was a thing that was some kind of sport, one day, back from way before even her parents were born, someone had the idea of attaching blades to a piece of hard leather and try to use it to move across the lake,and till this days everyone does it.

And of course everyone has to learn it, this is mainly because there was a tradition started in the clan, and that's if someone would love another, that person had to take the other to run on the ice at least once in live, and she had to learn it as well, enjoying it very much, and now she is one of the best runners, only beaten by those who have a lot of more years of experience than her. they used to call her sometimes the queen of the ice, as she was very good at it and known that she would surpass even the best in a few years, it was a natural talent she had.

At the coming of the age of 16 she confronted herself with the fact that she would soon have to prove herself and earn the name of the clan and she staerted training harder, and at the coming of 18 she decided she'd leave the clan to tran further and develop her skills.

She for nearly 6 months wandered through the world, moving from place to place until she came to Nanthalion, where she had found what she thought a good place to stay and train, the town was rough but had also opportunities and there was a few places where she could lay her head quiet for the evening.

She also discovered what she was good at, assassinations, she worked as a mercenary for a short time, then she had an assassination mission, those brought good money and were easy enough for her, so she decided to stay by that and use the extra time to train, discovering recently that she should also have a little train in magic, for one must train the body as well as the mind and now she's gaining the little edge she lacks.

One day she'll return to her clan and prove worthy of the name, but by that time she'll be faced with a very important decision for her live.

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