Name: Matriana Reid
Alias: Marty
Race: Halfling
Age: 25
Age Appears To Be: Early Teens
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 89 lbs
Build: Small, yet larger than she once was. She built up some muscles urely to save herself from being bullied.
Appearance: Though she still retains some of the child-like looks from her race, Marty has managed to find a way to make herself taller than the previous 2 feet at which she stood. She wears a dee violettank top and dark blue jeans that are faded and ripped at the knees. She wears boots at most times. She had dyed her hair a dark black color and let it grow out, clear down to her waist. But her fiery green eyes and tom-boyish beauty were still very recognizeable.
Personality: She has a short temper, especially when it comes to her height. She is loud and blunt. She has been referred to many times as "having guts". She is sweet when the modd strikes her. She still retains some of the addled-ness that got her kicked out of her own society and endeared her to many others.
History: How Marty once describe her History to Ambrosia:
"I lived underground with my parents and my sister and our very large extended family for a few years. We were gypsies so we came up early. My sister and parents died one year, but that's nothing new to halflings. We can be killed fairly easily unless we follow orders of the Elders. But thats a different story. After my immeadiate family died my extended one kept me as their own for a very long time. Up until I became a young adult. That's when they realized what was wrong with me.
I'm addled. It's a trait that effects the halfilngs. It happens to maybe...one in a thousand of us. It makes us almost unbearable to live with. Halflings are much like dwarves in the fact that we have a strict society with even stricter guidelines. Even the gypsies like us had our orders and schedules. When a Halfling is addled, it means that basically we become a menace to society. We are curious, loud, uncontrollable, and wild. We don't follow the directions we are given and question the society of Elders. Normally when an addled halfling leaves their family like I did, that Clan will pick up and leave overnight with no warning. My family was a bit nicer than that, however.
When I left, years ago, my family sent me to find an old friend. Kelseru was his name. He was, as Ambrosia might remember, a rather testy dragon. I warmed up to him almost immeadiately. I lived with him for years. Well, halfling years anyways. I explored the world from his back. I met people and saw places that most could only dream of. I met Ma Nunn for instance and bartered with her for Kitty here when he was just a baby. I got him for a few gold and a vial of dragon tears. *She smiled almost triumphantly.* Of course, at the time, i didn't understand why it was that she wanted rid of him so badly. But he's been a useful companion over the years, I suppose.
I left Kelseru to venture to Dark Castle Kingdom. I had been training to become a spy and I was pretty damn good at it by that point. Kelseru sent a guard with me, but only because most mortals haven't seen a halfling and would have taken me for a human toddler on my own. I quickly got a job in the royal palace and worked my way up to head spy. I made connections, killed, bribed, stole, and retrieved for several years. I met a man. Another halfling. The first I'd seen in years. His name was Arrock. From the Draven Clan. I fell for him. Hard. We got engaged after just a few months. I was to have his child, but it didn't survive the pregnancy, which now I know was better. During our relationship I was assigned a case. Hunting down a Crime Lord in the City. She had stolen quite a bit of the Royal Treasury, right from under our noses. Her name was Milania. It took a long time and alot of work, including some major cash, but we finally hunted her down. She was living high and mighty in the Docks district of the town.
We swarmed on her. I brought guards, assassins, constables, spies, warriors. Everything. But she was gone. She had up and abandoned everyone and everything. She took just enough money to get by and set herself up in a new Kingdom. The others though, her followers. A fight broke out. It's still fuzzy to this day. Our forces killed the majority of them, but they hit us hard too. Arrock, my fiance, was a traitor. He was a spy in his own right. Only he worked for her. He had led me into trusting him enough to tell him everything. hich he then reported to Milania He was killed in the fight. By me personally. I got hurt and our side was victorious in its own way. We didnt catch her, but we got every one of her minions. Plus, enough treasure recovered to to set the kingdom up for a nice long while.
After that, things died down. Everything went back to normal. I more or less resigned my position. I was still in charge, but I delegated. That's when I met Ammon and Ambrosia and Christi and all the others. We had a few adventures ourselves. I finally resigned completely after a mishap in my own home. Then I followed them all here."
Since that time, Marty left the Kingdom, not able to bear it anymore with Ambrosia and the others gone. She traveled, looking up old friends and creating some mischeif of her own. She met a wizard who she made feel sorry for her. He granted her her height. She grew up as she traveled. After getting word from an old friend, she traveled to A haven, looking for her adoptive mother. She found her and was immearsed into a world not her own, but completely new to her.
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