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Dana Keld
Profile: Dana is very young and much about her character reflects this. She has grown up a poor girl in Cairhien and has always been taught to maintain her manners and will do unless she feels unnecessarily threatened, (which, being a teenager, she often does). When she is threatened by authority she will often react with arguments and a red face and she can say things without at first thinking about them. Otherwise, Dana can be very pleasant if a little scatterbrained. She is very forgetful unless the thing that she must remember specifically benefits her. This is not a selfish attribute to her personality but rather just an absent-minded one. She can be petulant but not at all often and will opt for the "everyone is picking on me" attitude if faced with a situation that demands she develop her character and grow up a little. To summarise, Dana is a thirteen year old girl with a lot of growing up to do. Dana's Cairhiennin blood has blessed her with a short stature but having never left Cairhien she has never felt the discomfort of having to look up to someone to speak to them. In fact, she has more than likely reached her adult height and will not continue to grow much taller. Her eyes are large and staring, giving her a perpetually startled expression and this teamed with smooth, flawless young skin gives her the appearance of a china doll. Her eyes are brown and framed by large, wild black eyebrows and long eyelashes. The rest of her facial features give her an attractive but very young appearance and she certainly could not pass for any older than her thirteen years. She has high and well defined cheek bones, a pointed chin and generous, red lips that give her a constant pout. Dana's black curls are long, to her waist and she more often than not leaves it free from a braid due to how difficult it is to manage. Her curls are not sleek and glossy but tightly wound and fuzzy like sheep's wool and they react poorly to any sort of moisture. She is skinny, not slim or slender and certainly not curvy. Her legs are like twigs and her lack of any real bosom has resulted in her looking rather straight and narrow. She is, in short, awkward looking. Biography: Dana Keld is the middle child of thirteen born to Rahja and Laureyea, poor labourers who live in the Foregate of Cairhien. They have very little to their name and do not even own their home. As a young girl Dana watched her mother give birth to and bury many children but as with many poor families it was a matter of life and expected. From a young age she began working in the kitchen of a bakery in order to help her family pay the rent and to feed her brothers and sisters. Although her upbringing was tough and there was always the question of where the next week's money would come from, Dana never felt unloved or left out and she did not wish to be anyone else's daughter. At the age of thirteen Dana met a woman called Mendai Keminar, she was a beautiful woman with long dark hair and a red smile and she spoke with Dana for a considerable length of time before asking to speak very urgently with her mother and father. It was then that it was explained to her that she possessed the spark, an ability to control something called the One Power and that she might one day become Aes Sedai. As uneducated as she was, Dana was very aware of the Aes Sedai and the reputation they held in Cairhien. She had also been made aware that she would have to leave the family home in order to train to become one of the women like Mendai Keminar. It was a difficult decision, after all her absence from the family home would mean one less wage to pay the bills but if she did travel with Mendai to the Grey Tower, then her mother would have one less mouth to feed and she might one day have the power to help her family out of poverty.
So, with little apprehension, due to her age and ignorance, Dana left
with Mendai for Elman's Creek where she would begin her training to
become a member of one of the most famous organisations known to man.
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