(She doesn’t really have wings, I just like the picture.)
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race: White
Level of Faith: Moderately strong in faith. Anna does not expect miracles, yet still prays for them. She believes that the Faith works most often through the actions of humanity, perhaps most importantly in the form of the Dogs. She has lived through enough harrowing and dangerous experiences to firmly believe she has been chosen to walk a righteous path. In the end she is pragmatic enough to practice caution, but willing to take a calculated risk with the hope of divine protection.
Years of Service: Eight years of proud service. Anna has seen her share of terrible crimes and miraculous near misses and she still strives onward without pause.
Weapons/Equipment: Aside from the standard equipment of a revolver, Book of Life,and jar of consecrated earth, Anna additionally arms herself with numerous throwing knives and a pair of small single shot derringers, some displayed on her belt and others hidden in her coat and shirt. Also kept on her belt is a long leather bull whip. A bandana keeps her hair patted down relatively neatly under her hat. She keeps a small pack with her when traveling, filled with dried food, water, ammunition, bandages, and rope. The saddlebags on her horse hold additional supplies, as well as a lever action rifle. A finely made pendant with the sigil of the Faith hangs from her neck.
Personality
Stoic and driven, Anna has steadfastly dedicated her life to the spread of the Faith and the establishment of peace and order in the West, although that order is under the laws of God, not men. She just happens to be an agent of a high power, and naturally her judgement is above that of a simple lawman. However, she is quite analytical and acts with a careful caution even when she decides quickly on a course of action. She delivers a firm and final justice, filling more graves than prisons, but usually only those that are at least mostly wicked and violent. In the end she is pragmatic, but only to a point. When most of humanity is indeed a sinner, lesser crimes may be forgiven or at least lightly (depending on your definition of light) punished. But the murderer, the thief, and the heretic must be put down. While she understands that compassion is as much of a use as fire in the spread of Faith, her preference is to let another handle such matters while she pursues the worst of humanity across the desert. Some simple folk find her cold nature unnerving, and they often gives her the politely fearful deference that she prefers from people. The harshness of the life away from society has not greatly affected her, as she already knew from her father how terrible a person could be away from law and order. This knowledge and her experiences with it have only hardened her resolve. The truly wicked must be cut from the vineyard like the withered and decayed people that they are. Faith and discipline will protect the rest, even if they need the occasional bout of encouragement.
History
Born to a retired Dog and his wife, Anna was raised in the light of the Faith, in one of the more settled cities far away from the lawlessness and conflicts that Dogs gravitate towards. Her father, partially crippled from wounds during his duties, was her inspiration from a young age and she intended to continue his legacy after hearing many of his stories while he instructed her in the Faith. Her other source of inspiration was her father's fellow Dog and comrade, Horatio, who helped trained Anna when he visited her father, aiding in tasks that he could not due to his old wounds. Between the man who was like an uncle to her and her own father, Anna enrolled to become a Dog when she was only eighteen. And thanks to her father's personal training and recommendation to his former superiors, Anna enrolled as a Dog in training younger than most and was quickly ordained. She traveled out into the desert, moving from settlement to settlement with an alternating variety of other Dogs. Much of her ventures were in the pursuit of bandits, murderers,and the worst of mankind. For her the use of Dogs is to pursue the wicked and deliver justice, while simple preachers can handle the safe sacraments and other duties. Her swift justice has led to butting heads with secular lawmen on occasion, but she prefers to work with them rather than against them and respect their similar desire for law and order. However, in the end the work of the Faith must be done.
Goals
Anna is primarily concerned with her duty and carrying on the legacy of her father. When much of the West is a wild and lawless place, the hammer of Faith is exactly what is needed and she fully intends to swing it. She has already achieved her goal of becoming a Dog and now works as hard as she can in this duty. She takes more of a day to day approach to this rather than a specific long term goal, although she hopes that her work will help bring order and Faith to the West. That order tends to involve tracking down criminals and delivering bullet shaped justice, though the occasion petty criminal is only lashed or chastised if they’re lucky.
Likes
- Horseback riding
- The Faith (obviously)
- Cooperation
- Swift justice
- Whittling
Dislikes
- Inaction
- Hesitation
- Lawyers
- Pomp
- Ceremony