info Overview
Name - What is Hana LaRiviere’s full name?

Hana LaRiviere

 
Full Name

Athanasia LaRiviere

 
Aliases

"Hana" is her nickname; no one tends to use "Athanasia" except to be formal or if she's in trouble.

 
Age - How old is Hana LaRiviere?

21

 
Pronouns

She/Her

 
Played By:

Virginia Gardner + Aesthetic Pics

 
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Height - How tall is Hana LaRiviere?

5 FT 4 IN

 
Body Type

Willowy, but sturdy

 
Eye Color - What is Hana LaRiviere’s eye color?

Blue

 
Hair Color - What color is Hana LaRiviere’s hair?

Blonde

 
Hair Style - How does Hana LaRiviere style their hair?

Best described as "long and wild", down to about her mid-back, she does try to keep it braided and up and out of the way; but in practice it doesn't really stay put. Most of her bedtime routine is trying to brush out dirt, twigs, and tangles.

 
Tattoos

None

 
Piercings

None

 
Clothing

Hana is a farmer's daughter who has grown up in simple peasant garb all of her life. She prefers loose fitting dresses, her corsets and staves are hardly ever laced properly, and when she can she even prefers divided skirts or trousers, as that makes it easier to navigate through the woods and mountains that make up her home.

That being said, she is most often wearing either a shift with a lace-up tunic dress over top and an apron and belt for her pouches that hits at the ankle, or a tunic top with a lace-front and belt, and a skirt that hits below the knee, with a satchel.

She doesn't have much by the way of fancy attire, as she has never had to leave the farm and therefore has never needed to dress up to go anywhere.

 
Anything Extra:

Hana affectionately refers to herself as a 'feral child' when it comes to her appearance. While she can clean up, her constant outdoor activities usually leaves her dirty and disheveled as a natural state of being. Her skin is usually coated in a very obvious farmer's tan, when it's not flat sunburnt anyway; she'll often pull stray twigs from her braid when she tries to take her hair down, and she likes to joke that fresh dirt and sweat are all part of her perfume.

 
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Family Overview

Hana is under the care of Gerald and Jessamine - they are a married couple who are old enough to be her grandparents, although they have never expressed to Hana that she is directly related to them in that way. As far as she understands it, whatever blood relation lies between them is a distant one. A brother or sister to one of her grandparents, perhaps, or cousins somewhere removed along the family tree. Ultimately it doesn't matter - they have always treated her like one of their own and so she doesn't question their lineage. She calls them Uncle and Auntie.

She was told for as long as she can remember that both of her parents are long dead. Her mother died not long after childbirth, but it was she who named her Athanasia. Her father was a soldier, a knight, in the King's armies, away from home, and thus Hana was delivered into the care of Uncle Gerald and Auntie Jessamine. Her father then died before he could ever return home to retrieve her. They have had her ever since.

 
Other Family:

Uncle Gerald and Auntie Jessamine have at least one child of their own whom Hana has never met - but once or twice over the previous 21 years, the children of this 'cousin' have visited the farm. There have been other 'family members' too, no more than three at a time, who would only come once every few years and none of whom Hana has seen since she was about 15.

 
Pets - What pets does Hana LaRiviere have?

You can't really call them 'pets', per se, but Hana has been surrounded by animals all of her life - horses, cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, cats, the occasional herding dog, and then all the wildlife that have come to reside in the woods within the farm's borders - birds, foxes, rabbits, and all other manners of woodland creatures.

 
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Education - What is Hana LaRiviere’s level of education?

Hana has been as well educated as Uncle Gerald and Auntie Jessamine can make her, growing up isolated as an only child on a farm. They have a bookshelf in the farmhouse on various subjects alongside some fictional tales; Hana has read every book cover to cover a dozen times over. On good years when money can be spared, they will buy new books for her to add to the collection during the yearly visit to the capital, and so the collection is nearly enough to fill the entire bookshelf floor to ceiling. Far more than most farmers would have in their homes.

Uncle Gerald taught her how to read maps, and they have an old, well-worn map of the kingdom from when he was young that Hana has memorized. She's talked his ear off about every single place listed on the old map. Auntie Jessamine lived in the capital as a girl, and she has taught her everything she learned about people and society, manners and etiquette (or as much as can be forced into a wild child).

And of course the two of them have taught Hana everything about running a farm, caring for plants and animals big and small, growing and tending, fixing and mending.

 
History Overview

The three of them - Hana, Auntie, and Uncle - have lived nestled in the mountains for as long as Hana can remember. They are the farthest farm from the village of Alnwick at the mountain's base - so far removed from the village and the Pass (the only safe road that runs through the mountain range) that the farm can go years without seeing a single person outside of their small family. The only person they may ever see is the occasional hunter stumbling through, lost and usually hurt after leaving the Pass.

Their farm is a lush valley in the midst of a dark and densely packed forest, high enough in the mountain to be surrounded by fog. It's been explained to her that the lands outside of the farm's borders are dangerous - craggy unforgiving cliff faces, deadly animals, poisonous flora, bandits who hide in the mountains and attack wandering passerbys. She has never been allowed to explore beyond the borders of the farm as a result.

And yet, despite the sheer isolation, the three of them can capably maintain a farm without any outside help or assistance. They have a few acres of crops, a barn to house farm animals who graze in the meadows surrounding. It is a lot of work... so much so that whenever Uncle and Auntie must go into the city to sell the goods crafted and stored throughout the year, and buy supplies, that Hana must stay behind on her own to continue to mind the farm in their absence.

Hana has never been to the city, never been to the village, and never even been outside of the thick ring of black trees that mark the borders of the farm. She complains about this frequently, but they insist there is too much work on the farm for her to be able to go elsewhere. It is the only source of contention between them.

She never questioned the isolation as a child; she wasn't lonely with Uncle and Auntie and all the plants and animals, she had her books and stories, and she never knew to miss the company of other people. In fact the rare visitors to the farm often frightened her when she was small. But now that she's older - as old as some of the heroes in the stories on their bookshelf - she is itching to explore the outside world for herself. To leave the farm and see all the people and places she's heard so much about. Explore the big and vibrant world that's only ever lived in her imagination.

 
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Species Type

Hana is a Dryad. The Dryads are humans born with the blessing of the Arbor Vitae - the world tree that allows the kingdom to live and thrive, and worshipped as the deity for the kingdom's people. The Dryads can be considered the 'chosen' of the tree, imbued with a small fraction of the tree's power to nurture the world.

However, the Church has the general populace convinced that Dryads are actually witches, cursed creatures who are stealing Arbor Vitae's power for their own selfish gains. The only way to restore the magic back to Arbor Vitae is through the use of sacrifice - force the Dryad to pour their magic into the tree, and if it does not help, then sacrifice the human life in its entirety.

 
Awareness Overview

She is aware that the nature of her magic must be kept absolutely secret. She is aware that Uncle Gerald and Auntie Jessamine do not have the magic themselves like she does, and they have made it clear to her that almost no one else does, either. She is special, and because she is special, no one else can know that she can do the things she does.

They have made it especially clear that Hana must not have any interaction with the Church whatsoever. That if she were to ever meet a priest, that she must excuse herself as quickly as possible and get away. It has never been explained why, though, no matter how much she asks... and all her books say the Church and the priests are only there to help people. That, she doesn't understand.

Hana's Uncle and Auntie have never called her a Dryad, and she has never been given any books or material that talk about them outside of some scathing references in works that reference the Church.

 
Powers

A dryad is, primarily, an earth elementalist - a human with the ability to control both earth and nature to a certain extent. Their magic is made up of three main components - earth manipulation, nature manipulation, and healing. Dryads claim their power from the blessing of Arbor Vitae, and thus have strings attached. Their magic cannot be used for causing destruction, no matter how it might be spun. So while a Dryad could shape landscape to make it better suited for life, they couldn't summon an earthquake to level a town.

Hana has been using her magic to some extent for most of her life, since she was about five years old, and is therefore more practiced and more powerful than most Dryads in this day and age as most others have either suppressed their power absolutely to avoid detection, or been killed before any power could be developed.

A Dryad's healing abilities are considered miraculous. A Dryad can bring someone back from the very brink, seconds from Death's clutches. They can cure and heal nearly everything, as long as the person they are healing has the will to live.

However, the price to pay for miraculous healing is high for a Dryad. The Dryad absorbs the illness or injury themselves, that is gathered into a black miasma within them and then violently expelled (usually through the mouth) a short time later. The injuries or illnesses they absorb can sometimes even be seen on their bodies in a physical form.

 
Abilities

Earth bending - Hana has some skill with earth bending, mainly to do things like removing rocks from fields and to help with smooth plowing. She's never done anything greater than moving some boulders when there was a landslide some years back.

Flora and Fauna Communion - the ability she uses the most passively, Hana can communicate with plants and animals via a weak, telepathic link to the world around her. This ability is imprecise (plants especially do not tend to communicate in a manner conducive to human speech) but more of a sensory, emotional response where she can tell how the plant or animal may be feeling and what they're experiencing.

Plant Manipulation - Hana can accelerate plant growth and plant decay, restore vitality to dying plants or speed up nature's decomposing course, and, in addition to the communicate, can bend plants to her will to a certain extent to allow them to grow into unnatural shapes. Most often used to make a seat out of tree roots, for example.

Animal Manipulation - Hana can do the above to a much lesser extent with animals, as well. Although it's more like beseeching the animal for help in a situation rather than commanding or controlling them.

 
Forms

Hana has markings on her body that mark her out to be a Dryad. They are faint and near invisible unless one is actively searching for them, because they otherwise blend into her skin as mere texture. And hidden underneath years of a farmer's life, scars and freckles and a farmer's tan. They are most visible along her belly, curving around and along her lower back, but they can also be seen on the inside of her wrists and curling around her ankles.

The dryad markings appear to be a flowering vine pattern, with thin vines intertwined with tiny leaves and flowers. The markings glow faintly whenever she uses her magic.

 
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This character was created by Luna Mora on Notebook.ai.

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