Berdande

Berdande

At first glance Berdande looks nothing like the fierce barbarian warrior she is. Only five feet tall, with black eyes and shaggy red hair, were she not so odd, you could easily mistake her with any simple village girl. Looking closer her pale skin appears silver in the moonlight, her dark eyes search with hunger. Even walking through a busy city street, supressing her tattoos, Berdande’s feral nature is hard to mistake. To her own kind, Berdande’s small stature earns her a bit of good natured teasing, though no one would doubt her prowess. Berdande usually stays in human form & rarely supresses her tattoos. She feels that staying in her human form puts her at a disadvantage & that she can learn much from overcoming such disadvantages with skill and guile. When in battle she can use her Deadly Beastman Transformation Charm to merge with her totem animal. Her hybrid form is more than 7 feet tall and her claws and fangs declare she’s no one to trifle with. Berdande’s Tell are her pointy little cat bear fangs.

Berdande’s Nature: Rebel

The best way to get Berdande to do something is to tell her to do the opposite. Obviously, as a Barbarian, Berdande isn’t fond of authority when it wears the mask of civilization. She doesn’t take to barbarian authority much either. All her life she had been taught to rely on her own strengths as a result she finds no reason to answer to others. Her travels thus far have done little to alter her perception that the world is full of bossy annoying people. She realizes that rules are necessary, but only for those below her. If Berdande does as you request it is simply because there is a reward in the action which may only be apparent to her. The exeption to this rule is the Silver Pact, elder Lunars. If an elder Lunar asks her to do something she will almost always obey, though not without question.

At her core Berdande is chaotic, unsure she can control the power within her, she uses it sparingly. The world is full of delicate things that break easily and Berdande seeks to be a warrior not a monster. It is a basic insecurity she masks with her rebellious behavior.

While it is not immediately obvious, Berdande is fiercely loyal. Second only to Luna she is loyal to her heart in all circumstances. Because she relies only on herself to guide her and she is terribly fickle (she’s quite young afterall), it often appears to others that she is only out for herself and is loyal to no one. If she is to switch sides during a battle, for example, it is because her loyalty has shifted and there is no conflict in this for Berdande. In her eyes loyalty is earned and can be lost. Berdande’s loyalty to her Solar pack is genuine and unfaltering, but not unconditional.