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|Description=It's the voice one notices first. Feminine, but strident and penetrating - a warrior's confident tone. It's clear the woman isn't prone to careless laughter or amiable smiles. She's all business. She doesn't swagger, she doesn't need to swagger. She commands her space as a force to be reckoned with. Her blond hair is clipped short in a bob that doesn't care about fashion, just practicality, and her eyes are the grey of stormy seas. While not classically beautiful, she has a certain eye catching appeal that she can't stand. She has a small smattering of scars across her torso and at least three tattoos...somewhere.
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|Description=Jan Kennex commands the space around her with dramatic height and physical strength, broad-shouldered and strong-jawed. Her voice - clarion and clipped - is purpose-built to cut through layers of bullshit. Her large, arresting eyes are a dark gray, fierce and stormy beneath fine, stark brows. Her hair is a short cap of dark gold waves, cut sensibly to stay out of her face, which accentuates the strong bones of her features. A white scar runs down her neck in a remnant of an unforgotten close call. Tattoos - a sea bird, a tidal wave, a running wolf - are visible only when her compactly muscled body is freed of her clothing.
|Personality=Though she'd never betray it to anyone other than family, Jan is prone to romantic whimsy, despite her the outward image of immovable sternness that she presents. If you ever caught her reading an adventure tale about swashbuckling, you'd probably never live to tell the story.
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|Personality=Crisp, no-nonsense, and aggressive, Jan Kennex takes no shit from anyone, thanks. She has the rough edges one might expect of a long term military commander despite her youth, and little adherence to the classical qualities of a noblewoman. Her sense of humor is altogether dry. Bluff, fierce, and direct, Jan's exterior crust obscures ... mostly, layers upon layers of inner crust. Only at her deepest inner core is there any of an idealistic little girl who first picked up a blade because she wanted to go on adventures and fight dragons.
|Background=The niece to the prior marquis , Denholm Kennex, Jan was quite content with her association to the family outside the main line of succession, and attempting to keep a lower profile so she could pursue a calling extremely frowned upon in the Mourning Isles for a woman- learning the sword. Though House Kennex was one of, if not the most, progressive house of the Mourning Isles, she still avoided the spotlight while quietly pursuing a calling that would have seen swift condemnation by the rest of the Isles houses if they knew. Quietly, she served with the Kennex Corsairs.
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|Background=The niece to the prior marquis, Denholm Kennex, Jan was quite content with her association to the family outside the main line of succession, and attempting to keep a lower profile so she could pursue a calling: the calling of Gloria, the sword, and the shield. Though House Kennex was one of, if not the most, progressive house of the Mourning Isles, she still avoided the spotlight while quietly pursuing a calling that would have seen swift condemnation by the rest of the Isles houses if they knew.
  
As a member of the Kennex Corsairs since she was old enough to join, Jan ended up being promoted to General Corsair after seven years of faithful service, neatly coinciding with House Thrax formally announcing that women would now be able to serve in the armies of the Mourning Isles. It was a position she took to like a fish to water. She elevated the Kennex Corsairs from a small militia of the House to a formidable army of the Saffron Chain.
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As a young soldier with natural leadership potential, it wasn't hard for Jan to find a post once she left the territory of her home fealty. She served with a sellsword army supplementing the troops of Southport for four years, and then embarked on her own as the captain of a mercenary troop made up primarily of disaffected Thrax, former thralls looking to buy out other enthralled family members or friends, and Crownsworn ruffians. She served gallantly and with derring-do and distinction.
  
Now, in Arx with a small force of the Corsairs with her, she's come to stand with her family in these dark times.
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When House Thrax formally announced that women would be able to serve in the armies of the Mourning Isles, Jan promptly returned home with as many of her troops that would follow her - which was most of them - and joined the Kennex Corsairs. She had more practical military experience than any officer in the army, and was quickly elevated over them by a combination of competence and bloodline, to be their General.
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It was a position she took to like a fish takes to water. Now at the head of oathsworn troops personally loyal to her as well as sworn to protect her family, she is a primarily military asset of House Kennex and of the Thrax military.
 
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Revision as of 01:03, 26 April 2017

Jan Kennex
Social Rank 5
Fealty Thrax
House Kennex
Gender Female
Age 25
Religion Pantheon
Vocation General
Height 6'
Hair Color Dark Gold
Eye Color Steel Blue
Skintone Sunkissed Fair
Family
Parents Wayne Kennex, Claire Kennex
Siblings Catalana Kennex
Uncles/Aunts Victoria Kennex, Denholm Kennex
Cousins Ford Kennex, Octavia Kennex
Journals
Authored By / Featured In
Roster


Description

Jan Kennex commands the space around her with dramatic height and physical strength, broad-shouldered and strong-jawed. Her voice - clarion and clipped - is purpose-built to cut through layers of bullshit. Her large, arresting eyes are a dark gray, fierce and stormy beneath fine, stark brows. Her hair is a short cap of dark gold waves, cut sensibly to stay out of her face, which accentuates the strong bones of her features. A white scar runs down her neck in a remnant of an unforgotten close call. Tattoos - a sea bird, a tidal wave, a running wolf - are visible only when her compactly muscled body is freed of her clothing.

Personality

Crisp, no-nonsense, and aggressive, Jan Kennex takes no shit from anyone, thanks. She has the rough edges one might expect of a long term military commander despite her youth, and little adherence to the classical qualities of a noblewoman. Her sense of humor is altogether dry. Bluff, fierce, and direct, Jan's exterior crust obscures ... mostly, layers upon layers of inner crust. Only at her deepest inner core is there any of an idealistic little girl who first picked up a blade because she wanted to go on adventures and fight dragons.

Background

The niece to the prior marquis, Denholm Kennex, Jan was quite content with her association to the family outside the main line of succession, and attempting to keep a lower profile so she could pursue a calling: the calling of Gloria, the sword, and the shield. Though House Kennex was one of, if not the most, progressive house of the Mourning Isles, she still avoided the spotlight while quietly pursuing a calling that would have seen swift condemnation by the rest of the Isles houses if they knew.

As a young soldier with natural leadership potential, it wasn't hard for Jan to find a post once she left the territory of her home fealty. She served with a sellsword army supplementing the troops of Southport for four years, and then embarked on her own as the captain of a mercenary troop made up primarily of disaffected Thrax, former thralls looking to buy out other enthralled family members or friends, and Crownsworn ruffians. She served gallantly and with derring-do and distinction.

When House Thrax formally announced that women would be able to serve in the armies of the Mourning Isles, Jan promptly returned home with as many of her troops that would follow her - which was most of them - and joined the Kennex Corsairs. She had more practical military experience than any officer in the army, and was quickly elevated over them by a combination of competence and bloodline, to be their General.

It was a position she took to like a fish takes to water. Now at the head of oathsworn troops personally loyal to her as well as sworn to protect her family, she is a primarily military asset of House Kennex and of the Thrax military.