Zanera

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User: [Zab]
Name: Zanera
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: Zanera is usually sen as a young man with straight and rather rough or messy brown-black hair that reaches just below his shoulders, his eyes are dark brown and he's of average height. He has a tanned skin by nature but his front teeth stands out just a little. He doesn't care much abouth his clothing, as long as it's fairly clean and easy to walk in. He likes green and other 'natural' colours like that. However he is a shapeshifter and can also be seen as a buckskin horse (a lighter shade of brown/yellowish brown for his body, with black mane and tail and black legs and eartips, as well as an eel across his back. His mane reaches just below his shoulders in a horse shape as well, and his tail is barely touching the ground.), or keep just some of the horse traits. Espcially at night he likes to keep his ears as horse ears as that is a good help when he can't see as well in the dark. If there's too much people around or are just generally noisy tho, he prefers to have a limited hearing as well.

Personality: Traits of the horse shines through also in his personality. He's good natured and wants company. He cares for friends or even people he has just met, as long as that means he'll be liked and won't be alone. He's also very loyal to those he conciders friends and takes it very hard if he has to chose side. What he don't like much is psycic abilities, to him everything from aura-reading to mind control is confusing and frightening and that makes him rather tensed and jumpy if he knows that such things are going on, he can even be aggressive when he's nervous. Other than that he accept most things as they are and don't really want to change them.

Strengths/Weaknesses: He's a shapeshifter and masters also partial shapeshifting very well and easy.
He's slightly claustrophobic, not enough to be nervous by staying in a room, but definetly enough to be unreasonably, genuinly afraid if he know that he can't get out of the room when he wants to.

Magic/Weapons/backpack: Zanera doesn't usually carry any weapons. He has some knives in his packing, but they're more for cooking and convenience than for fighting. With him he has clothes, blankets and other necessary things for survival, but also the tools he use for his jewelry making and some copper thread. He also has a few feet of fine silver thread, which he barely dares to use as he finds it so valuable and expencive. He's saving it for some special occasion.

History: Zanera grew up in the small town Enives near the mountains where there lived mostly humans and of course his 'herd' and family of shapeshifters. His heard lived on the open fields in the summer, mainly in horse shape, but when winter came they moved to the little town and lived with the humans and other beings there. During the long winter nights he played with braiding different materials and ended up to learn how to make quite neat chains of thin metal thread. When he was about ten years old he got to work at the silversmith, his main tasks were to sweap the floors and keep it clean, but he also got to learn a little about making small rings of metal thread and making jewelry of the rings. He kept practicing this the following years whenever he was bored or had nothing better to do, and even tho he never got as skilled as a good silversmith, he got pretty good at making decorative chains for necklaces and bracelets and so on. Silver thread was too expencive and something he didn´t use much, but he managed to get a good deal of copper thread.
As he got older he wanted to see more of the world, as many others wanted at his age, and that's how he came to the town Karisma in Ensin. To get money and company on his trip, he sometimes offered salesmen and other travelers his help as a horse, it wasn't unusual that theirs got lame or sick on the long journeys they took. He also sold or traded some of his jewelry, but didn´t get much paid for it.