Nickname: Elfie, Lee
Position: Carpenter Apprentice
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Lesbian
Race: Elf
Age: 24
Height: 5'4
Description: Leah is a tiny little thing. She's been told that by plenty of the people on board, you don't need to remind her. Like most of her people, she's a little on the short side and has a narrow build, although her shoulders and upper arms are slightly more developed. When she's working, she has her hair tied back, albeit very messily. Most of Leah's clothes are a little on the plain side. There's no point wearing something fancy if all you're going to be doing is working up a sweat and surrounding yourself with wood. She does however have a particular taste for a good coat. Where her shirts and trousers are a little worse for wear, her coats are almost always in perfect condition.
Nationality: Batheon
Creed: I am a person. You are a person. That is enough
Motivation: Forever looking out for the little people
Likes: People, Green Apples, Dancing, Fancy coats, Sarcasm, Mischief, Women
Dislikes: Nobles, Hypocrites, Liars, Self-entitles assholes, Men who act like self-entitled assholes
Strengths: Carpentry- While hardly a prodigy in her chosen field, Leah's skills are solid, even if she does lack a certain flair. What she makes and repairs is solid and will last, and that is the most important thing.
People-Leah is good with people and likes being surrounded by them. She's good at understanding people, almost reading them in a sense.
Loyal- To the people she genuinely likes, Leah is a fiercely loyal friend. Those who cross her friends do so at their peril.
Weaknesses: Naive and Idealistic- While her solid beliefs tend to keep on her on track, Leah can quite easily be accused of being too simplistic in her view of the world. She's yet to realise that there are a million shade of grey and that's okay.
Holds grudges- Forgive and forget isn't a phrase Leah is familiar with. If you should be one of the few people she only tolerates, be careful, you are nearing the end of her patience and you won't be getting back on once you drop off.
Personality: To say Leah is a 'people person' would be putting it mildly. She loves being around people and learning about them, listening to what they have to say and building up the picture of who they are. That isn't to say she passively accepts everything that she's told. If she learns something about someone that she doesn't like or that challenges her ideals or beliefs, she'll call them out on it. Leah is the eternal optimist, or at least she tries to be, and no one is without worth in Leah's eyes, therefore everyone should be treated as a king, or queen if that's their preference, or no one should be. This is why she constantly looks out for the little people, especially her fellow elves who weren't lucky enough to be born Sédalian. Where she sees injustice, she strives to right it. If Leah finds herself lonely or having her values and her value constantly called into question, she can get incredibly frustrated and has a tendency to lash out when this happens.
Equipment:
A simple axe. It's good for cutting a lot of things, not just wood.
Her tools. Carpentry isn't just hacking at wood and hoping for the best.
History: Born in Batheon, Leah inhabited the line between Spear and Sédalian, never quite being fully accepted by either. From a young age, she noticed that the Sédalian elves were treated differently, with more respect. Life was hardly harsh for her family, but it was different. She was regularly told that she had it a lot better than most elves, especially the elves that lived overseas. Given that she was a curious child, this sparked her imagination and she was gripped with a sense of wanderlust. How bad was it that she lived like royalty in comparison? And what gave the humans of these lands the right to treat elves like that? Not quite believing the stories she was told, Leah longed to see these lands for herself. Travel was limited, her family could hardly purchase a ship and just go sailing, although that didn't stop Leah travelling Batheon when she could, rarely getting further than the next town, but it was a start.
Her uncle was the man who instilled carpentry in her. He was a fine craftsman in his own right, and had regularly made the toys Leah and her siblings played with as children. As a child, Leah would spend hours in his workshop, watching him work, utterly fascinated. As she got older, he began allowing her to help with gradually bigger projects until she was his apprentice in all but name. She often made little toys for her younger cousins, moving onto furniture for the house as she became more confident in her skills.
Given Batheon's trading, ships were often passing by. When it became clear that there was little work in her town, Leah began stalking the docks for an apprenticeship at least. After asking about, she was directed to the current carpenter on board The Wind in the Barley. She knew what he saw; a small, scrawny and very young elf girl. "I'm cheaper than whatever other people you were looking at," was her argument, "you can tell your captain that." Being an elf, there was little point in setting her price too high, especially if she was wanting to be on a Tarn ship. As she traveled with The Wind, she began to discover that the tales she had been told were true; people like her were seldom welcome anywhere. Angered by this absurdity, Leah began sharing what little pay she got with the 'little people'. If they were to be docked for a few days, Leah often raised a little hell for any local nobles. Enough to anger them, but not enough to get into serious trouble, and if she did, her master was willing to cover for her. The nobles rarely noticed a few, ok quite a lot, of missing coin. The townspeople appreciated it more anyway.
Ship Currently Aboard: Wind In the Barley