Rana Maran
Rubi Matin

Rana Maran
Age: 26
Gender: Female.
Species: Anthro (cat-type)

Appearance: Rana is of average build, with a round, baby-ish face, making many people underestimate her age. She has auburn hair streaked with dark brown, which is cut to a little longer than chin length, just barely long enough to pull back away from her face when she paints. She has cat ears, as well as a long, slightly bushy cat’s tail. Because of her tail, she likes to wear pants and a longer tunic, and both are usually spattered with paint. Often, not only her clothes will get paint-spattered, and she’ll rarely notice if she has a splotch of paint on her face unless somebody points it out to her. She has wide green eyes that take in details and shapes, always looking for a good picture, and a light spattering of freckles across her nose and cheeks. Her skin is light tan, and covered with short, fine fur. She wears one pair of earrings (simple silver hoops made by her father as a congratulatory gift when she made Wanderer) and no other jewelry. She carries a knife on her belt, but doesn’t really know how to use it for anything other than cutting meat or carving wood. She hates shoes, and will avoid wearing them any time she can.

Guild/Rank: Wanderer Artisan

Personality: Often seems to be “out of it,” especially when she’s painting, though she often is listening more than it appears. She will sometimes look and something and pull out a sketch pad and a charcoal stick to draw it, even in the middle of a conversation. She likes to be around people, and likes the subjects of her art talk to her while she paints or draws them. Complete silence while she “creates” drives her crazy, and if it lasts too long, she’ll start to hum off key just to break it up. She can be somewhat naïve when it comes to the world, and often can’t understand why somebody wouldn’t want to pose for her! She is terrible at hiding her emotions, as the body language of her tail and ears give away anything her face doesn’t. When she’s working on something she’s particularly proud of, or when she’s very happy, she’ll purr, and her tail will swish from side to side excitedly.

Family

Background: Rana grew up around artisans, and started drawing when she was young. To make her sit still and be quiet, her mother would give her a lump of clay to shape or some paper and charcoal to draw with. She always knew she wanted to be a master artisan, like her father, but in a different area of expertise, as he is a silver smith, a field that never interested her. Her mother, Carly, is a tailor, and never passed Wanderer rank. She has recently been forced into retirement, as her arthritis has gotten so bad she can hardly hold a needle, let alone sew. Her father, Viktor, on the other hand, is still going strong and making beautiful things out of silver, from spoons to tea pots to jewelry.
After trying out many different areas of the Artisan craft over the years, Rana decided to be a painter. She loves the feeling of her brush moving around the paint on the canvas, the shaping of a painting from a few blobs of color to the finished piece, and the smell of the paints and the oil she mixes into the pigments to make them. She also loves to draw with chalks and charcoal, and uses them as a secondary medium and also uses them to outline a piece before she begins with the paints, as they take less time and space to prepare the colors and lay something down in its basics.
When she obtained the rank of wanderer at 19, Rana decided to do what her title suggested and wander around the country, seeing new things, painting often, and meeting new people. She doesn’t intend to return until she feels she is ready to pass the tests for Mastery.

Rubi Matin
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Species: Angel

Appearance: She has dark, wavy, auburn hair that barely brushes her shoulders and frames a delicate, heart-shaped face. She has clear blue eyes that always seem to be smiling. Her skin is fairly pale, and her strong wings are pure white, which contrast with the dark clothes she likes to wear.
Rubi is to the stage now where she is beginning to really look like a woman, and she's thrilled. Because of this, she usually dresses in dark-colored fitted dresses which show off her developing curves, and which clip at the neck and leave most of her back bare, so as to interfere as little as possible with her wings. After an instance or two of people trying to look up her skirt when she was flying, she also wears matching, tight-fitting short pants underneath.
She has long, thin fingers which are nimble and able to do delicate work, and though she loves jewelry, she rarely wears rings because she feels that it impairs her ability to do her work. She does, however, wear two pairs of earrings at all times, as well as decorative hair clips and the occasional necklaces and bracelets. She also always wears jingly anklets and despises shoes.

Guild/Rank: Novice Enchanter (specializing in jewelry)

Personality: She can be quiet at times, but once she gets to know somebody well, she can talk up a storm! She loves making spelled jewelry for people, even though she currently is only able to do basic spells.
She hates walking, and avoids it whenever possible. She flies practically everywhere, and, if asked, will insist it's because it's faster and less crowded that way!

Family

Father: Armand
Occupation: Master Jeweler
Age: 53
Mother: Saffron
Occupation: homemaker and chef Age: 47
Siblings:

Background: Rubi grew up in a fairly good-sized town outside of Cascadia, where her father made his living making jewelry. Their parents took turns naming the children, and she was born when it was her father's turn—and he always chose a name that was an odd spelling of a gem. Her mother usually stayed at home with the children, taking care of them and making sure they didn't get into too much trouble—quite a task with six!
Rubi always wanted to be a jeweler, and made simple jewelry with beads and thread when she was small, then gradually progressed to more difficult things with her father's instruction. When she was 10, she was told by a mage that she had Talent, and she decided she would still make jewelry, but of a different type—enchanted.
Her parents are very proud of her and her work, and she visits them almost every week if she isn't too busy.