Say hello to Eilidh inion Mhic Amhalghaidh, frsh off the boat at Anvil.

Fortunately, she had made some prior arrangments:
Some decent armour
Probing Ulfgar for news and rumours

Where could all this possibly be going...?
Anvil by night
Sleeping in the common room, at least there's a fire.
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Checking out Anvil
Waiting around outside the Fighter's Guild - a girl needs funds...
NOT a happy bunny
Rats. Seriously?

A beauty she is indeed! And it´s rather interesting that I dreamt about that exact hairstyle the night before I saw your new character!

*Looks at Phon's pictures. Whistles*

Wow . Though I have to ask: How do you pronounce that name?

Ellie is looking good. I loved the angry face in the unuappy bunny pic!

Chuckle, I do think that's funny! Great stuff though.


Yes she does grumpy very well, but then she is a Princess so I suppose she's had lots of practice - (although she's no shrinking violet, I can tell you, as we'll find out ...)



Rough pronunciation as follows:
Aylee(or Aylay) - (Ellie is a more modern corruption, but valid in our context) - inyeeun vic (or 'ic) Aulay (or Auley)
She knows herself as:
Aylee inyeeun vic Aulay
Which (very) roughly translated means: Ayley daughter of (the) son of Aulay
So there you go!

A few from Eilidh's excursion into the countryside surrounding Anvil...
Places of interest
The Standing Stone
The abandoned cottage
Storm coming
Blue Moon, apparently. Somebody or bodies lived here in peace and quiet, once
Trying on a frock - not really her but makes a change from armour, although she didn't wear it for long. She felt uncomfortably wearing someone else's clothes...
However, with the storm still raging there was nothing for it but to stay the night as best she could - Who slept here...? She doesn't know, but a mark on the bed gives a clue. Regardless, it was a troubled sleep and an uncomfortable night.
Anvil - the next day, this is their idea of a castle.
Morvayn likes her business but could do without her attitude; the fact that Enilroth was practically foaming at the mouth the moment the copper-haired Elf came through the door didn't help the rather straight-laced blacksmith's temper any either.

This post has been edited by PhonAntiPhon: Jan 4 2014, 02:53 PM

Such nice pixies I like her in the red dress but I prefer her in her armour.

So does she I think, but a girl's gotta be curious about what clothes look like on, even if they do make her feel a bit "weird" and frankly are not what she's used to, civvie-wise...

Sunrise over the Abacean
Eilidh's first dead bandit
Fort Strand
She's poking about in this fort on her way back to town, something a bit different...
Thankfully! She can see herself. End of existential angst.
Atmosphere#1
Atmosphere#2
Lighting the way
From the front. The place is full of bandits. Well at least she's got her sword dirty. Makes a change from beating up burglars...

(Ex)-Infested Mine, on the way north, Eilidh came across this:
What is it...?
She'd only clocked it after noticing something odd about this waterfall whilst she was bathing.
It was a hot day in the highlands and a girl has to keep clean, besides the local banditry do tend to make one work up a sweat.

She's going that-a-way >>>

Upon exploring further, she came upon the mine. This was populated with, thankfully, reasonably "normal" people, albeit Humans. At least they weren't those talking lizard things, or the Kats - (although they smell nice).
Didn't make much difference in the end though...
Reflected
Now that's an Orc - she's seen them before, they have them where she's from - in fact she owns 4.
Staying in the dark.
Gah!
And no, she doesn't like dogs, either.
She may not be from around here, but she still knows the right way to act around this lot, not bad for a girl .
I wouldn't mess with Her.
Because this will happen...
++++
After resting for a short while in the cave at the entrance, Eilidh moved on through the highlands, pushing northwards and just a little east.
Wonder what happened?
Apparently it's not far from this this big town.
Nearly there...
This is the place.
A bath!!
Well it's not *exactly* a palace, but it's a sight better than sharing a battlefield with a tent full of soldiers...
That's *almost* a look of approval.
It was 3 in the morning by this time, and she was tired. Further business could wait until the morning. It was entirely possible that she would need to use some of the cottage's resources in the shop. It looked expensive, which was great, but she had little money, which was not so great.
Even as a soldier she was never exactly poor, a circumstance that never occurred to her as odd in any way...

This post has been edited by PhonAntiPhon: Jan 8 2014, 08:45 AM

As usual ingame is moving faster than story, but it was ever thus.
(You'll just have to excuse me if I shamelessly retcon elements into the storyline at a later date!!)
 
Eilidh clocked some sewers and tunnels under Chorrol whilst she was exploring the old mine outside the walls. She has an innate curiosity which, added to her military career as a scout, makes it nigh on impossible for her to resist checking these things out. As I may have mentioned, she's a bit of a conundrum really...
So at dusk she sets off
It proves to be an interesting excursion, full of surprising twists and turns and she's eventually spat out in the great forest, where she finds she has to walk all the way back to the gates of Chorrol and from thence to the Fighters' Guild, where she slips into something more comfortable.
 
Ooh, she's actually quite nice, for a human...
 
She decides she's going to head back to her current residence a little to the west on the Black. She may be "stranded" here for a while, but she is after all royalty and her father may be, well, her father but he still provides a certain amount of comfort and assistance - (although some gold would be handy).
She takes the scenic route, which proves actually to be very pretty, it reminds her a little of parts of her country. If she were honest, she does quite like this area, actually, especially in the warm sunshine.
This courier was taking a rest by the roadside, heading out of Chorrol
View of Chorrol from her residence
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Sneaking about in Pillaged Mine
Unlucky bandits in the sewers under Chorrol
Rasheda does not give good deals, and Eilidh is Not Happy about it

Oh, princess Grumpy. Will you ever crack a smile?

Liked the Fighters Guild pixe. Nice darkness.

Heh, do you know I've never once seen her smile?

Mind you she is a bit of a grumpy one, lol - actually she's refreshingly different to N..., she has no baggage and no deep and meaningful past, and her story, is on the whole a lighter one than the rather bleak seriousness of you-know-who...

Phon, Buffy's quite a gregarious and smiley thing. I started her over for a second playthrough a couple thousand hours ago and was quite chagrined to see her not being very smiley with others in the game. Once we got her personality well up to where it belongs (and a pretty respectable amount of fame with zero infamy) however, the old quick-to-smile elf was back. Most folks she encounters have a disposition of at or near 100 toward her and that seems to affect her smiling.

mALX told me quite some time ago that she had basically the same experience/observations with Maxical.

So. . . it seems to me that if one wanted to keep a character seemingly grumpy, keeping their personality (and probably fame) low would be of help. Dunno if high infamy would enhance the effect.

All good stuff Ac.
Well she's not Ms Personality that's for sure, even amongst her peers.
She is likeable enough once you get to know her but she's fairly hard work to get there. That said, she's more than capable of turning on the charm when she needs/wants to, she just doesn't very often!

Anyways, she looks good and I´m gonna stop calling her princess Grumpy

Heh heh, you don't have to stop calling her that.
We are in an environment this time that's a lot less heavy than before and I think that your nickname for her suits that. In time you mjght have to change that but...

Actually it was you who came up with it in the first place! I merely adopted it

If she changes later she could still be called that because then it would be endearing