Brynja Thorstensdottir

• Name: Brynja
• Last name: Thorstensdottir
• Title: None yet
• Age: 19
• Place of birth: Uddevalla
• Place of residence: Uddevalla
• Rank: Farmer. Brynja and her twin sister, Redra, have a small farm where they grow medicinal herbs and plants. They're also skilled at healing minor ailments, and sometimes work as midwives, too.
• Personality: Brynja is a twisted little thing. Her humor is dark and she uses sarcasm like a shield, there seems to be nothing soft about her besides her lovely appearance. She's a girl quite suited to her place of birth, Uddevalla: stern and serious. It is merely her way of dealing with the things she sees every day. Brynja is good with wounds. Despite the darkness in her, she has a gentle touch that soothes those in pain and even those who are dying. She wonders why the gods granted her such a cruel gift, the ability to lessen pain when it only adds to her own. She once hated to see suffering, now it is merely part of her everyday life. She has dreams from the gods, too--full of darkness and chaos, enough to wake her screaming from her sleep. She's odd, little Brynja. A beautiful face to draw men in, and an acid tongue and dark personality to push them away.  She has enough pain in her existence without friends or lovers. All she has is her sister, and she's content with that.
• Appareance: Brynja is small and soft-looking; with alluring curves in all the right places and a smile warm enough to melt the snow--too bad she never uses it. Her face is round and innocent, with wide dark eyes and long brown hair falling in waves to her waist.
• Parents: Thorsten Sigewulfsson and Sigrunn Audunsdottir
• Siblings: Brynja has a twin sister, Redra.
• History: Their mother died bringing them into the world, and maybe that's part of what made her daughters so unusual. Maybe the gods felt some sliver of pity, to give them the gifts they gave them. Brynja came into the world first, silent and still, and they thought her dead but she wasn't. Or maybe she was for a brief moment, maybe the darkness of unknown death kissed her and left its mark on her. Brynja has always been rather on the dark, twisted side of things, while her sister is sweet and friendly.  The girls were raised by their father, and it was while he was still alive that Brynja began having her nightmares. Full of darkness and chaos, no way to interpret them--garbled messages from the gods. She can't make sense of them, just awakens with a sickening pit of fear and despair in her stomach when she has them. Brynja was only fourteen when she discovered her talent for dealing with the wounded. She saw his friends drag the wounded man in, an arrow sticking from his thigh, and she'd known what to do almost immediately, like someone whispering in her ear. Word of her talent spread, and now most of the wounded in the village come to her for help. She still makes mistakes, sometimes the voice leads her astray, but her knowledge has grown greatly in the years since then. Redra discovered a talent for dealing with sickness. Both girls help each other, but depending on the nature of the ailment, one leads and the other mostly assists and follows instructions. When their father died, he left them his small farm. They began growing medicinal plants on it, and have made their living with their small farm ever since, caring for the sick and injured, growing some vegetables and selling the extras at the market.

• Faceclaim: Charlie Murphy