Name: Saldis Stormjarl
Played By: Cerise Pipson
Age: 28 (as of 273)
Race: Ulven
Class: Warrior
Bio:
Saldis Stormjarl was born and raised in the capital settlement of Jotunvik. The daughter of two established merchants, she lived a traditional if well funded life as a Stormjarl youth. As a girl she learned the skills of a merchant and trader. Traveling with her parents to many different packs and clans, and occasionally to the human settlements for trade. She enjoyed her life in Jotunvik. The economic prosperity, and the more accepting view within the clan on trade with the Humans and Syndar granted her a life of variety and progressive ideas. She wanted for little and her most daring adventures were in books from colonist lands that told stories of far off quests. During the Ulven Civil war her parents shared the clans want to remain neutral. And she, not one who longed for glory, was unbothered at her parents’ efforts to keep her far from the fighting. The war always remained several steps removed from her life, though it seemed to be the only thing on the minds of her people. They continued to make trade and would donate money and goods to the clan for the war effort. The closest she ever was to the fighting was when it all but reached Jotunvik. She remembers when word broke through that Grimward had been held at bay, but at the cost of many lives. The years of peace after the war were appreciated by her family. Their business prospered and much was as it had always been. All things must end though, and as tensions between the clans rose again with the rumors of Grimward raiders and speculation that Stormjarl was the true culprit trying to blame their rivals, her family began to question if they were true. Saldis was certain her clan was not responsible and wanted to set out to prove it to her family. Through a series of old friends and associates from her years of work as a merchant, a bit of luck, and no small amount of social courage. Saldis secured a place within the retinue of the Stormjarl delegation at the Ironmound Moot. Serving as an apprentice representative of the Einherjar of the Stormborn Coast, she attended the moot and learned much of the rumors surrounding the raiders and the larger workings of Ulven politics. It was here she truly learned what she had been spared from in the Ulven Civil war. As Grimward revealed their hidden plan to renew their war against Mardrun she witnessed the brutality of it all. The severed head of Haygreth Grimward carried through the assembled representatives, and the brutal murder of Branthur Nightriver. These events burned themselves into her memory and made her feel fear she had never felt before. In spite of the daunting circumstances of the betrayal, she saw courage in the various groups that had gathered to make peace. She saw colonists stand with Ulven and she saw the determined hope of her own clan as the Einherjar rallied those willing to fight to the bitter end in the face of certain death. She will always remember how it felt to face her fear and ready herself to die. They were spared that fate as Nightriver warpacks charged in to avenge their fallen kin. In the chaos that followed she made her escape with the Einherjar. The relief that she was spared such an unwelcome death was weighed down with the guilt that she herself was not able to help defend them. Being told to run as her people pushed forward and risked their lives did not sit well with her. Seeing new acquaintances cut down as they ran and as they fought their way to safety made it all come into sharp relief. Saldis promised herself and her people that day that she would not be unprepared again. Since that day she has stood with the Einherjar. Moving her life to Ulvesal and training hard to fight for her people. She will stand with her kin, she will save them or die trying.