Ereshkigalia

From Egs Mayhem

by nokvok

Name: Ereshkigalia
Age: end twenties
Gender: female
Ethnicity: brownishly skinned, from the far south edge of the known world
Build: stunted growth, though athletic, well nourished and sinewy. 4'11", 75 lbs.
Eyes: brown

Appearance:
Short, but of an exotic beauty and overwhelming grace. Slim and sylph-like body with well toned, but not dominating muscles. Her dark face is smooth and even, full lips and long eyelashes frame the large, brown eyes, and her smile shows shining white teeth.
Every of her movements seems so carelessly elegant and graceful...
... only her breasts could have been bigger, or so she thinks of herself. But it's not something she can change, so she'll have to live with it.

Personality:
Ere, as she often offers other to call her, is usually quite well mooded, patient and understanding. Her personal philosophy is to let make everyone their own deal with god and the world. She's got a delicate problem with slavery or stark injustice, though, and while rarely getting too heated about it, often spend quite a bit of her time and earnings to help the poor.
She just can't help it, anyone having less to eat or cloth than she herself deserves some of her charity. Turning down requests for help is quite hard for her, except of course when she has the definite feeling her help isn't needed, just abused... but she tends to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Abilities/Skills/hoggings:
Ereshkigalia is an acrobat. She knows how to tumble, whirl and bend to an incredible extend. She's very good, and the festival oughta earn her quite some coins. She's doing everything from playing snake-women, juggling and fire-eating over flips and turning wheels to climbing robes and even dancing.
She can lay tarot cards and read out of ones hand, but she's not doing that for a living and isn't being too good at it.
She's not doing anything outside of her profession though. She's got a small straight, wooden and weighted club she uses like a short sword, and she had to use it more than once to get rid of a too resilient 'bidder'. Otherwise she relies on her speed to get away quickly, and one shouldn't underestimate how hard it is to hit a tumbling and rolling and flipping target with an arrow or rifle.
She's a really good throw with the sand filled juggling balls or similar throwable objects which do not require keeping track of rotation.
She's illiterate, but can do some counting.

Background:
Ereshkigalia was picked up by a group of traveling jugglers and entertainers. They explained her later that the land deep in the south where she is from was being shaken by a very bad harvest and her parents had not enough food to feed her, so instead they gave her to the traveling jugglers to take her into the north. She stayed with the group all her life, learning all the tricks and skills she got.
But a few years ago she decided she was old enough to try and find out more about her true parents, and left the troupe for a rather unsuccessful journey into the south. It seems her parents and family died by the very same famine.
Ever since then Ere is wandering the lands, if in any way possible, with other groups of travelers, seeing how the lands can be quite harsh and dangerous. She is earning her living and giving the excess to the poor, trying to help with what little she has to offer.
And as said, this festival outha give her quite some earnings.