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<blockquote data-quote="begooler" data-source="post: 6294822" data-attributes="member: 6750600"><p>Hope everything is okay Zayed!</p><p></p><p>I finally wrote down a back story, so Tansley has a wall of text to call her very own.</p><p>[sblock]</p><p>Tansley was born in Gate Pass. Her father was a successful merchant who for a few years sat on the city council, and her mother was a druid who settled down in the city after spending most of her life in the woods. As a young girl, Tansley was taught the druidic language and magic from her mother, who never being happy in the city her mother abandoned the family while Tansley was still young. Shy and withdrawn, Tansley continued to study nature, reading mountains of books, and spending a great deal of time in the parks of Gate Pass or in the woods outside its walls, observing the natural world and taking notes. As an adolescent, Tansley was somewhat unruly, often running away for weeks on end to prove that she could take care of herself in the wilderness. She also mastered sneaking past the city guard. As she matured, Tansley became embarrassed of this rebellious streak, though it will occasionally reignite when she has something to prove.</p><p></p><p>Though her interest in science and magic is of pure curiosity, she was urged by her father to seek out practical pursuits and at his prodding found herself a position as the city’s minister of weather. In addition to making predictions about crop yields, Tansley was tasked with ensuring that the weather performed desirably during holidays and feast days. Of course, actually controlling the weather patterns would require much more powerful magic than could be found in all of Gate Pass, and finding workaround solutions was at times an interesting challenge for Tansley, and at other times a nuissance. Civic minded, Tansley has made other contributions to Gate Pass, including at one time management of the horticulture section of the library, submitting designs for new parks, and advocating for free admission to several of them.</p><p>Though she has a respect for tradition as a method of keeping order in society, Tansley is extremely cynical and skeptical of folklore and superstition. In particular, she is dubious of prophesies or visions, which she explains as psychological phenomena that humankind uses to inflate their perceived significance in the world. She engaged in a heated argument about this matter with a colleague just before the last Festival of Dreams. To prove a point, Tansley wrote an inappropriate wish as her contribution to the collection of dreams: that she would not have to deal with weather accommodations for any more silly festivals in Gate Pass.</p><p>When the city happened to be sacked by the Ragesian army shortly after, Tansley became even more committed to her skepticism in order to protect herself from potential guilt.</p><p></p><p>Since fleeing Gate Pass with the rest of the party, Tansley has not seen many of her contacts and friends, who include her aging father, a small cadre of academic colleagues, and a carpenter friend with whom she was infatuated but too shy to instigate a romantic relationship. </p><p></p><p>Tansley is strongly invested in the city of Gate Pass, and hopes to contribute to freeing it and resettling there. She also has some ideals and lofty utopian visions for society that she hopes to see implemented in the city’s rebuilding. Obviously, she’s concerned for people she left behind, but does relish the opportunity to travel and experiment with magic.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="begooler, post: 6294822, member: 6750600"] Hope everything is okay Zayed! I finally wrote down a back story, so Tansley has a wall of text to call her very own. [sblock] Tansley was born in Gate Pass. Her father was a successful merchant who for a few years sat on the city council, and her mother was a druid who settled down in the city after spending most of her life in the woods. As a young girl, Tansley was taught the druidic language and magic from her mother, who never being happy in the city her mother abandoned the family while Tansley was still young. Shy and withdrawn, Tansley continued to study nature, reading mountains of books, and spending a great deal of time in the parks of Gate Pass or in the woods outside its walls, observing the natural world and taking notes. As an adolescent, Tansley was somewhat unruly, often running away for weeks on end to prove that she could take care of herself in the wilderness. She also mastered sneaking past the city guard. As she matured, Tansley became embarrassed of this rebellious streak, though it will occasionally reignite when she has something to prove. Though her interest in science and magic is of pure curiosity, she was urged by her father to seek out practical pursuits and at his prodding found herself a position as the city’s minister of weather. In addition to making predictions about crop yields, Tansley was tasked with ensuring that the weather performed desirably during holidays and feast days. Of course, actually controlling the weather patterns would require much more powerful magic than could be found in all of Gate Pass, and finding workaround solutions was at times an interesting challenge for Tansley, and at other times a nuissance. Civic minded, Tansley has made other contributions to Gate Pass, including at one time management of the horticulture section of the library, submitting designs for new parks, and advocating for free admission to several of them. Though she has a respect for tradition as a method of keeping order in society, Tansley is extremely cynical and skeptical of folklore and superstition. In particular, she is dubious of prophesies or visions, which she explains as psychological phenomena that humankind uses to inflate their perceived significance in the world. She engaged in a heated argument about this matter with a colleague just before the last Festival of Dreams. To prove a point, Tansley wrote an inappropriate wish as her contribution to the collection of dreams: that she would not have to deal with weather accommodations for any more silly festivals in Gate Pass. When the city happened to be sacked by the Ragesian army shortly after, Tansley became even more committed to her skepticism in order to protect herself from potential guilt. Since fleeing Gate Pass with the rest of the party, Tansley has not seen many of her contacts and friends, who include her aging father, a small cadre of academic colleagues, and a carpenter friend with whom she was infatuated but too shy to instigate a romantic relationship. Tansley is strongly invested in the city of Gate Pass, and hopes to contribute to freeing it and resettling there. She also has some ideals and lofty utopian visions for society that she hopes to see implemented in the city’s rebuilding. Obviously, she’s concerned for people she left behind, but does relish the opportunity to travel and experiment with magic.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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