Royal Family's Story

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Profile for: Zendra Mire Crollin


Gender: Female

Race: Human

Age: 13

Height: 4 feet 10 inches

Beliefs/Religion: While her people are told to believe in the Greater Goddess Levion, Zendra isn’t so sure. Levion is a goddess of purity and life. Zendra doesn’t feel like a goddess like that would allow her people to be at war with anyone. But supposedly it was Levion who deemed that the Queendom of Freelos should destroy the Kingdom of Meria. Zendra believes this to be wrong.

Hobby: She started embroidering when she was 7, although it is technically her hobby, Zendra does not enjoy it.

(Twist): The princess is going to be engaged to be married with whoever can pass a “simple” test. (Called the “Trial of Heroes”)

Basic Description: The princess has an innocent face that when she smiles the sun seems dim. She has pretty hazel eyes and long blond hair that flows all the way down to her waist. While a little short for her age everything else is growing in normally. She has a slight curve which shows that she is finally growing from a child to a young woman.


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Current Information
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>family background
Women have always been in power in the Queendom of Freelos, and Zendra’s family has been in power for many generations. Her mother (Queen Tendra De Crollin) came into power after her sister passed away from a horrible disease. The late Queen left her husband (Sir Micram Tesh) at the mercy of Queen Tendra. Although he was the past King and the Queen’s brother-in-law he has no political sway anymore. (Queen Tendra sometimes asks him for council though.) Queen Tendra married King Brend Jon Crollin because he completed the Trial of Heroes which is a test that decides who will be the King. Although the contents of the test are secret it is said to change every 3 years. After Brend won he received the honor of marrying into the royal family. Eight years after they had Princess Zendra the royal family was blessed with another daughter (Merca Bell Crollin).

>birth place
Zendra was born in the Winter Castle, one of the four main castles that the Royal Family lives in. It was a cold 11th Month day when her mother started to have her birthing pains. This was before Tendra was a Queen so she was out in the green house picking tomatoes. They rushed her into the Living/ Dying room, a room that babies were born in and people had their death beds. Tendra was taken care of by some of the best midwives, so Zendra was born a healthy happy baby.

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>history, background
For her first two years of life Zendra lived with her mother and father in the Winter Palace. Then in her third year of life her Aunt died and left the Queendom to her sister (Zendra’s Mother). After Tendra was sworn in as the Queen they moved to the Spring Palace. Zendra received a nanny since her mother was now too busy running a Queendom to take care of her. Zendra doesn’t remember too much about her nanny since she received a body guard at the age of five. Being the next in line for the crown she needed to be protected from those who might want to kill her. Her bodyguard was named Raken and he was a very nice young man. She never felt like he was a bodyguard and saw him more as an older brother who looked over her. They became very close and almost inseparable, but then something happened when Zendra was 11. Zendra was out on a morning walk, not thinking anything of it. It was just any other day. Raken was walking with her like he always did, pointing out his favorite flowers and flowers that were new. Suddenly Raken stiffened and started looking around anxiously. Before Zendra could even ask what was going on Raken jumped in front of her and got an arrow to the chest. The guards caught the would-be-assassin, but Raken lost his life. Out of respect for her lost friend Zendra didn’t take another bodyguard for a year. Finally her mother insisted that she get another body guard. Zendra did as the queen asked, but she refused to get that close to any other body guard.

>home
The Spring Palace doesn’t mean that they live in it only in spring; the fact that it is called Spring Palace refers to how it is decorated. All of the furniture, tapestries, and other decorations are all spring themed. The walls are a nice calm color and the Palace gardens are amazing. Zendra spends most of her time in the Gardens which are so vast it is sometimes easy to get lost in.

>possessions, make-up, jewelry, etc
Zendra doesn’t wear make-up although her mother thinks that she is old enough to want to attract men. Zendra doesn’t feel like she needs stuff like that or jewelry to attract the right guy. The only jewelry that she really wears is a single silver chain with an emerald heart at the end. It is her favorite necklace because her father gave it to her after he came back to the Palace after a long trip away.

>pets
Although Zendra loves animals she has never actually had a pet. She has tried several times to bring home animals to keep but her father made her give them to village children. The closest thing that she has gotten to a pet is the fish, ducks, and frogs that live in the pond of the Spring Palace.


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Physical Description
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>hair style
Her blond hair falls neatly down to her waist, however most people don’t know that because she piles her hair up on her head with clips to keep it in place. Sometimes some strands will fall out, but instead of making it look bad, it actually looks nice in a messy like way.

>eyes
Her eyes seem to be just a little bigger than most people’s eyes which gives her an innocent look. Her eyes are a light hazel, but when she cries they turn green, and when she is in the sun they have flecks of gold dancing around them.

>body
Zendra is shorter than most girls her age, but the rest of her body is growing in normally. She has developed a slight curve at her waist that shows that she is getting older. Her breasts haven’t developed beyond the point of mosquito bites. But she looks very prepositional for a thirteen year old.

>clothing
While most children her age wear normal dresses Zendra is royalty and therefore must wear more royal garments. She wears dresses made of the best silk and satin in the land. Her dresses are modest while still being in the fashion of the time. Her clothes are mainly white or cream colored with light colored embroidery and trim. She prefers to wear clothes with green or blue trim, but as pink and purple are the royal colors most of her dresses are trimmed in those. She wears silk slippers most of the time, but when no one is looking she enjoys being barefoot in the gardens.


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Personality
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>likes
Zendra likes many things, but her likes have changed since she was little. When she was little (and not next in line for the thrown) she enjoyed running out in the forest behind the Winter Palace. But now that she is older she has to pay attention to her studies and stay safe. So she stays inside and studies, but her true love is to be outside. Zendra loves everything to do with nature and so she spends as much time as she can outside.

>dislikes
Although Zendra likes many things there are a few things that she dislikes, and when she dislikes something she REALLY dislikes it. She cannot really hate anything because her mother has explained to her that hate is an ugly emotion not befitting a future Queen. So Zendra only dislikes things. She dislikes Batin (a sport commonly played in Freelos Royalty), reading by candle light (she prefers to read by the sun), cheese and mushrooms (it disgusts her to eat mold or fungus).

>fears
The biggest fear that Zendra has is a fear of pain. When Raken died she was right next to him. He kept coughing up blood and gasping for air. He looked like he was in so much pain. Raken was a very tan man and the only thing that made him pale was pain, and he was as white as a ghost. Zendra fears pain because she believes that it leads to a very sad death.

>goals
Queen Tendra’s goal for Zendra is for her to become a marvelous Queen. King Brend’s goal for her is to have her married to the right man. Zendra doesn’t know what her goal for herself is. For the most part she just wants to be wise so that she will know how to be a Queen and know who is the right man for her.

>hobbies
Because the Queen will not allow her to mess around in the gardens and get her hands dirty Zendra’s only hobby is embroidery which she started to learn at the age of 7. She dislikes this hobby and secretly waters the gardens behind the Queen’s back.

>occupation
Princess, and future Queen of the Queendom Freelos.

>favorite food
There is no food that Zendra enjoys more than bread and honey. She enjoys this treat because she is aloud to go with the cook to gather the honey. The Queen highly disapproves but has aloud it on the condition that the princess stays well away from the hive and wears protective gear. Zendra is entranced by the bee keeper who can walk up to the hive and grab a piece of honey comb and not be stung at all.

>least favorite food
Zendra doesn’t like the corn for one very vain reason. She doesn’t like it for the mere fact that it gets stuck in her teeth. She dislikes having to pick corn out of her teeth for days after eating it.

>most prized possesion (important or emotional value)
There are two very important things in the world that Zendra will never get rid of. One is the necklace that her father brought back to her. King Brend had gone off on a conquest in the North and was gone for 2 years. When he returned he brought back so many treasures, but one treasure he brought back was a necklace. It had a silver chain and a small emerald heart at the end. It was just big enough to slip over Zendra’s head, and she wore it always. She wore it so constantly that on the few days she doesn’t wear it people ask her where it is. The second possession that she has, no one knows that she has it. It’s a dagger that Raken gave to her; it was for her to protect herself with. She keeps it under her mattress just in case.

>vernacular (way of speaking)
Thanks to all the linguistics classes and manners classes and elocution classes Zendra speaks with a royal tone. Some think it is impossible for her to say a sentence incorrectly. Her vocabulary is beyond any normal thirteen year old and she would never be caught saying something slang.