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Priene

Tasida Rescini Culm Archila (Former Head Boat Builder)

 Tasida Cumae Potami (Former River Guardian)

Priene is from southern Gaul. She grew up in a town by the sea named Itius Portus. Her father had been a legionnaire but had retired to marry a young Morini woman and had one girl child with her.

Since her father had been a Greek, she learned to speak that language as well as her own of Gaelic and the Latin of the Empire. Growing up, Priene heard many stories from the sailor and legion friends that visited her father. Some of these stories were of great warrior women who lived in their own nation and of all the stories Priene heard she loved that one the best. She longed to meet these women. She wanted to be a warrior woman too. Priene did not want to be meek and subservient like the rest of the town women. She wanted a different life.

When she was nineteen her father became ill and died suddenly. Her mother followed shortly thereafter dying of grief. Priene was alone for the first time in her life, a young woman of means. Her father had made a good fortune in trading with the ships and troops that came through the town and Priene had inherited his wealth. Many young men from about the town wanted to marry her but she had other ideas.

Shortly after her mother's burial, she packed up as much as she could and made arrangements for passage with a ship going to the Mediterranean to trade. When the time came for the ship to leave, she disguised herself as a young man and boarded.

After a year or so on the trading route, having done some trading on her own after darkening her skin, she came to Byzantium with all its wonders and its hodgepodge of people from all over the known world. She wandered about staring in amazement at all the wonders before settling at a tavern for a meal and to hear the gossip and news. Finding a table near some Roman soldiers, she settled back and gleaned all the information from them she could. It was here that she learned more specific information of the legendary Amazons.

She immediately made plans to sail to Sinope, the largest city near the area supposedly guarded by the women warriors. Having transferred her goods to a new ship and paying passage, she started out again into the Black Sea. Once she had reached Sinope, it was suggested by local lore that she set out for a smaller town called Catyora that seemed to deal with Amazons. She set out to see for herself if there was any truth to these stories. The folklore of the town led her to search for the Thermadon River since it was said the Amazons traveled it. As she followed the river, her heart seemed to fill and she just knew she was going in the right direction. She just knew that soon she would find these legendary women.

Priene is slender and stands five feet nine inches tall. She is a fair-skinned blonde with blue eyes. She carries a wand made of pure silver decorated with special symbols that had belonged to her grandmother. Her parents did not know the meaning of the symbols or how her grandmother came to possess the wand. They only knew that her grandmother had wanted Priene to have it and so the mysterious wand was given to her on her 18th birthday. She hopes that someday she will learn what the symbols mean. She is good-natured, a bit shy and quiet, but she makes friends once she gets used to people. 

Her totem is the fox. She uses the bow. Her hut mate is Vatari. She speaks Gaul, Latin and Greek.

Tae'Nah athelfi arche: 17 March 2006

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