Role

Chapter 1

Baena is all about Baena. But that manifests in perhaps uncommon ways.
Baena is orderly in that she lives scrupulously by her own code. She doesn't give
two shits about law, or honor, or other people's conception of order. If
someone speaks to her of honor, she will laugh and likely spit. Honor is nothing.
Rather, Order for her is a matter of self respect. She believes each person should be
self sufficient to the greatest extent possible. Some examples for her are that
she will never ask help to go get equipment or arms or things - except things such
as cabal items or similar group oriented items. But for the most part, if she
wants a new weapon, either she will go get it herself, or she will take it from
a corpse she made. Of course if she just finds things laying around, fair game.
As a result, she wants nice things, but will do without until she can do it herself.
The only gray area is gifts, which she might accept, but will be something to
develop.

One result of this philosphy is her utter hatred of mages. By definition their
entire existence is about taking and using something outside yourself and basing
your whole life upon it. Magic comes from outside, not from within. Baena
prides herself on her abilities, not just because of their existence, but
because of her effort to hone what she has - her blood, her flesh, her muscles,
her mind. Win or lose, she owns the result and knows she relied only on her
self.

One of the few areas outside her narrow vision is divinity. Gods are gods and do
as they will, which means, of course, imbuing individuals with power.
It still violates her personal code, and so she is always a bit uncomfortable
around them, but at the same time she recognizes that her code is for mortals.
Even so, it is unclear at this age, at the start of her adventures, how this
will play out over her life. Maybe she becomes more comfortable with them,
maybe less. Something to develop over her lifetime.

Baena's pride also extends to her social group. She is not shy, and will
speak out, but she's not one to overly lecture or explain. She leads by example.
She wants others to take pride in themselves, and shun the need or desire for outside
affirmation or needless support. As she will seek the battlerager village, this
hopefully will extend to those she shares huts with - assuming she is accepted.
And to clarify - she recognizes she is not an island, things she cannot do for herself,
such as healing, or finding paths in grass, or flying, she is happy to allow others
in her group (cabal, travel, etc.) to do. Part of learning warfare is learning
not all combat is single combat. But she finds the battlerager code to her liking.