Echo Cubling Player: Joan Milligan Last Updated: November 18, 2004 Update CIS

Attributes

Current Name: Echo [1758-1773]
Preserver Name: Growlerfriend Highthing

Soul Name: Ylen

Known By:
Dreamshadow (mother, alive)
Woodsmoke (father, alive)

Sex: Female
Age: 15
Hunt Blooded: No

Eyes:
Crystal clear blue shimmering eyes, swiftly losing their cubhood roundness and becoming more elliptic. They are the most expressive part of her normally sealed face, and have a constant curious shine – to paraphrase, she looks right through you in such a nice, friendly way.

Hair:
Chocolate brown and thick with a full-bodied wave, Echo's hair reaches a little over her shoulders, cut a bit unevenly at the end. She wears it loose, pushing her layered bangs back with a wide leather band decorated with quillwork of her own design. It’s a simple stitching of dark red zigzags over the reddish band. Strands still fall over her face and in front of her ears a bit.

Facial Features:
Rather oval face with rounded cheeks. Her nose is straight and delicate, if a bit too big, and her chin is small with a small mouth and round, light pink lips. The promise of firmer lines to come is there in the somewhat narrowing jaw and gentle but straight lines of the bones.

Height: 4'1" (125 cm)
Skin: Fair; even a bit pale.
Build: Lean with long arms and legs, just getting to the stage when her quick growth makes her a bit awkward and gangly. Shaping up to be extremely nimble and flexible, and unusually tall, when she’s full-grown.

Magic:
Sending (average)
Magic Feeling (average)
Wolf Bonding (average)

Clothes:
Given to experimentation as she grows, Echo traded in her cubhood leathers for a new, more mature attire. She wears a wide poncho in a dark brown colour matching her hair, with a high collar and the jagged-cut tip in dark red, and three green leaves sewn on each shoulder. Under she has a shirt in lighter brown with sleeves opening wider about her elbows, decorated also with three leaves there. She wears a short, dark red skirt over her baggy brown pants, which have a wide and jagged red stripe on the thighs, and soft yellow moccasins.

Colours Worn: Dark red and yellow, light and dark browns.
Jewellery: A gray wolf pedant matching her mother’s, hanging from a thread decorated with beads in various shapes of leaves.

Heritage Skills Acrobatics Climbing Direction Sense Diving Fishing: General Hiding Hunting: General Howling Gathering: Basic Lore: Fauna Lore: Flora Running Self-Defence Steath Swimming Throwing Ride: Wolf	Personal Skills Mimickery: Animal/Bird Calls ** Crafting: Bead Making * Decorative: Beadwork * Decorative: Quillwork * Sand Sculpting * Crafting: Flute Crafting: Nets Gathering: Eggs Weaving: Cloth	Weapon Skills Dagger * Sling
** = Primary skill * = Secondary skill

Relationships

Family:
Dreamshadow (mother, alive)
Woodsmoke (father, alive)
Summerset (half-sister, missing)
Dirk (cousin, alive)

Mates: None.

Friends:
Beechnut, Lionheart, Clover, Boldscout, Snowsoft, Slingstone.

Role Play

Personality:
A quiet cubling, not shy as much as calm and subdued. Echo is very thoughtful, analytical and highly observant, and would rather get things done than talk about them. She is curious about everyday things, especially the going-ons between elves, and about the natural rhythm of forest life. She likes to sit and watch things happen – leaves falling, birds flying, animals doing their animal things. Simplicity fascinates her.

Though she rarely laughs and is usually a bit aloof, there is a volcano of emotions bubbling beneath this cub’s calm eyes and mature demeanor. Echo can feel things very strongly – for one, her love for her wolf-friend – and acts more than thinks or talks on those feelings. Being the daughter of two cool-mannered elders, however, she would rarely if ever does anything rash, dangerous or loud because of her feelings, though as she grows into adolescence, she is becoming less sure of her self-control.

Echo has a deep-seated interest and attraction to animals of all sorts and keeps a collection of stuffed animal toys from her younger days, which she still enjoys cuddling with while sleeping. She appears to have a natural talent for understanding and befriending animals and has learned to mimick many of their calls in order to attract them to her presence. This cub has a wondrous understanding of nature's ways, gained from many hours watching creatures of all sorts, not only wolves. She feels at home with them.

The creative influences of her father and half-sister instilled in Echo a joy of crafting at a young age. While the complex art of cloth weaving is still beyond Echo's full grasp, she readily took to the simpler art forms of beading and quillwork and will happily while away hours in the holt on these projects. She also enjoys sand sculpting down at the river banks. Echo tends to get very absorbed when working on her crafts and it takes a lot from even her parents to get her attention. She regards it as her favourite part of herself. It’s one of her greater regrets that she hasn’t much of a voice, while she has a growing interest in the complexities of music-making.

Echo loves both her parents and adores her best friend Clover, though her mannerisms don’t always show it. She knows her agemate is having difficulties as he grows and does her best to help him pull through, though she feels she doesn’t really know what she’s doing, being the younger one. She’d do anything for her family and friends, hoping they’ll understand how she loves – in small actions rather than big words.

Treasures:
A blanket given to her by Summerset and several much-loved stuffed animal dolls, including "Patches", her first wolf doll.

History:
Unaware of the turmoil her birth caused, Echo's life has been a pleasant one, marred only by the unexplained disappearance of her half-sister Summerset. She is well loved by both her parents and counts the rest of the cubs and youths of the holt her friends. She has a skilled tutor in Snowsoft, who has been instructing her in animal lore, weapon use and woodsman skills.

Bonding with her first wolf-friend, Sunray, has been Echo's most memorable, happiest event and the pair are nearly inseparable. They are a good match for each other and Sunray enjoys both lounging around the holt while Echo works on her crafts and tracking small game during Snowsoft's tutoring sessions. Echo expects to tackle her first hunt within the year and will undoubtedly ask Snowsoft to accompany her on it.

Lately Echo feels herself growing faster than ever. Since Rock and Duskwater left she had taken to spending many nights on her own on the edges of the holt, contemplating distance, and the death of many wolves in the winter sickness was a lingering pain that left her withdrawn and edgy. In a streak of rebelliousness, she asked Slingstone to teach her the ways of his unique weapon, without telling a soul, and the two are building an unexpected bond.

Wolf-Friend

Name: Sunray Sex: Female Age: 9 Rank: Mid/Low

Markings:
Soft and silky dark red fur. Her green eyes seem to glow in contrast to her fur. On both front paws Sunray has gold stockings.

Personality:
A shy wolf who usually avoids the rough play, but instead stays around if some more peaceful game come about. She has a calm nature, and spends time observing wild animals with Echo. Sunray is not much of a fighter but she also won`t let everyone step over her without a growl. She has a possessive streak towards her bond and 'pouts' in her wolf-fashion when Echo doesn't notice her. Twin to Bite (Lonewolf's bond).