Karina Seabright
| Karina Seabright | |
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| Social Rank | 8 |
| Fealty | Thrax |
| House | Seabright |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 24 |
| Religion | Pantheon |
| Vocation | Courtier |
| Height | 5'3" |
| Hair Color | Warm Chestnut |
| Eye Color | Emerald Green |
| Skintone | Lightly Tanned |
| Family | |
| Parents | Dolores Seabright, Pyotr Seabright |
| Uncles/Aunts | Anneke Grimhall, Harald Grimhall |
| Cousins | Valdemar Grimhall, Melinda Grimhall, Sivard Grimhall, Ingvar Grimhall, Ingrid Grimhall |
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Description
Hers is sun-warmed beauty, exotic as a sea-nymphs, all golden skin and dark hair. A youthful figure is strong and lithe, like a dancer or a warrior...or both. Lightly-tanned skin is kissed golden and utterly without flaw. Long hair falls pin-straight to her waist, a rich shade of sable sun-streaked with russet and chestnut. Eyes are the perfect sea-green of southern waters, flecked with hints of blue and gold and fringed with dark lashes that make them all the more striking. She carries herself with the grace of one used to being watched, tempered with the modesty of one who never reveals she might notice. Soft lips take on an edge of rose as if freshly-kissed, and yet there is an innocence to her, a carefully cultivated balance between fragility and strength.
Personality
Karina is a creature of passions, and she shies from none of them. She defies the common image of introverted artist sketching in the corner, and is as charming as the most seasoned courtier when she wishes to be. Genuinely interested in those around her, she freely asks questions and can be engaged in conversation about the driest nuances of law and the most salacious gossip of court with equal enthusiasm. Her friendship when offered is fast and fierce, her loyalty stronger than iron, and her bad moods as damaging and uncontrolled as fire on dry wood.
Background
Karina Seabright is the youngest in a family of four, with two older brothers and an older sister. Her father Pyotr is one of House Grimhall's most steadfast naval captains, having commanded a medium sized fleet from Grihem's Point for most of his career. Her mother was Dolores Grimsea, the younger sister of Anneke Grimhall nee Grimsea, the wife of the future Duke Harald's. Unfortunately, Karina's mother Dolores managed to run afoul of the tyrannical former Duke Eugine Grimhall over a minor slight, who pressured her to marry Pyotr under threat of attainting and utterly destroying the Grimseas if she did not comply, but Duke Eugine's cruelty was undermined by the fact that Dolores and Pytor had long been fond of one another and she was not particularly troubled by losing her noble title.
No childhood in the Mourning Isles is idyllic precisely, the threat from pirates constant even during times of relative peace, yet Karina's came close. Though she missed her father when he was away keeping Grimhall waters safe, he always came home, and she would be the first one running down the docks to meet him. Her family was as traditionalist as any in Grihem's Point, though they kept only two thralls, a married couple with small war debts that were paid off within half a decade. They chose to stay on, and thus Karina's experience with the practice was that of family and warm memories.
Such traditionalism may have meant the young woman aspiring to wed a worthy warrior and bear sons, and little else...yet Karina was indulged with more. Oh her father would have put his foot down hard had she asked to train with the fleet, or taken up a blade for the Legion, yet she yearned for neither. What she craved was art...and the girl had a gift for it. From the age of five when she was given her first set of charcoal pencils and a pot of paints by a doting salt parent she was drawing realistic images of the world around her. Landscapes of such quality that one imagined walking right into the canvas, and portraits that could capture the very essence of who sat for them. Many claimed her touched by Jayus, for by her teen years her work began to eclipse those with lifetimes of training and experience.
Just before she turned twenty-two, Karina fell wildly in love with a sailor on one of her father's ships, a boy her age who Admiral Seabright had also taken on as a protege, training him to one day Captain a ship in his own right. By all accounts Yvginy Saltcliff was incredibly promising, one of the most naturally gifted seamen the Admiral had ever come across. Karina was sent away from Grihem's Point to the mainland, accompanied by written request by the Admiral that House Grimhall take her on. The claim was that it was for her benefit, for only in Arx could Karina find teachers whose artistic skills she had not already surpassed. Yet she reacted at first with broken-hearted fury, certain that the Admiral sent her away in order to prevent his protege from 'distraction' even if that distraction was his own daughter.
Yvginy Saltcliff died in the conflict with the Gyre, his ship one of many that sank to the bottom of the sea off the coast of Setarco. Whether Karina will ever stop mourning him or ever forgive her father is uncertain, but all agree that since his loss her art has moved from exceptional to masterpiece.
