Persona Profile: Lamsi

Writer: Nicole

Name: Lamsi
Age: 35
Birthday: m10 d10
Rank: Senior Journeyman Technician
Location: Amber Hills Hold
Craft: Technician
Craft Rank: Senior Journeyman
Speciality: Mechanical Engineering

Physical Description of Persona:
Lamsi is small (just over five feet) and slight. This gives many people the impression that she is younger than she is, but finds her smaller body convenient when mainting large machines as she can sqeeze her body into places others cannot. She keeps her auburn hair shoulder length, and it is usually pulled back in a tie to keep it out of the mechanics. Her bright green-blue eyes sparkle with intelligence, but also suspicion.

Emotional Description of Persona:
Women crafters are a rarety at Amber Hills. There are only a handful of women technicians who brave the life there. They are looked on as not fulfilling their womanly duties. Unmarried women crafters have it even worse. They are only tolerated because the function they perform is so vital to the Hold. Because of this, she spends most of her time in the Technicians Complex.

As a result of living in such a restrictive place for more than a turn, she looks on everyone she meets at the Hold outside of the Technician's Complex with suspicion and doubt. She has had to endure the looks and the whispers and outright insults of the Holders too many times not to.

But she loves the ancient systems that run the Hold's heating and cooling systems, as well as heated water production. She finds maintaining them a challenge. When asked why she doesn't find a man and settle down, she always replies "Because I'm married to my machines."

History of Persona:
From an early age, Lamsi just loved machines. All kinds of machines. From farm equipment to generators to the pump that drew their water, she was fascinated with them all and just wanted to know how they all worked.

Her father quickly recognized her handy skills at an early age. One day when he was trying to fix their new thresher when he found his daughter watching his every move. Getting unnerved by her scruitiny he handed her a wrench and screwdriver and told her to busy herself taking apart the old one. It wasn't good for anything but parts anyway, and hadn't worked for more than a turn. By the time he had finished fixing the new thresher, Lamsi had managed to fix the old one. From that day on, her father taught her everything he knew about the equipment on the farm an they worked side by side.

When her harper classes were finished, he put on his best gather tunic, loaded her into their family cart, and drove her the half a day's journey to the Technicians Hall. Much to both their delight and his pride, she was offered an apprenticship.

When Lamsi became a senior journeyman, it was time for her to go out on her first assignment. Amber Hills was it. At first she was thrilled since she had studied their systems for turns, and had even produced a small scale model of one as part of her journeyman project. The reality of living in a Hold that was living hand to mouth for fourty turns soon curbed her enthusiasm, and though she could understand their need for children to repopulate their Hold, Lamsi could not stand to see the way the Holders looked at her - an unmarried crafter. Now she is just waiting out the remainder of her assignement so she can escape Amber Hills, though she will be sad to leave her machines behind.

Family and Friends
Sansi, 64, Farmer's Wife (Mother)
Teralam, 68, Farmer (Father)
Terasa, 33, Tailor's Wife (Sister)
Bordern, 43, Tailor (Brother-in-Law)
Asarne, 14, Hold Brat (Niece)
Borter, 16, Hold Brat (Nephew)

Approved: March 28th 2006
Last updated: March 28th 2006

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Persona Profile: Lamsi