Sybil Burke

{ B A S I C S }

Full Name: Sybil Burke
Nicknames: Syb, Sybi
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Title: Black Smith in the Northern Kingdom's Capital

{A P P E A R A N C E }

Hair Color: Dark Auburn
Eye Color: Brown with specks of pale goldish brown.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 130lbs
Build: Feminine Hourglass, strong arms though for a black smith she's soft.
Distinguishing Features: Sybil has many burn marks on her arms though she protects them with thick leather arm bands/fingerless gloves. But sometimes the forge gets hot and she strips off layers to be comfortable epecially in the summer weather.
{ P E R S O N A L I T Y }

Likes:
1. The Forge
2. Making armour, weapons and shoeing horses
3. Cleaning
4. Cooking
5. Horses and birds
6. Studying when she can.
7. Martial/Defense Arts (Not the Asian kind but given if this was present time she would be extremely interested in them)
8. Training men in the Defense Arts.
Dislikes:
1. Filth, her forge and area is spotless.
2. Burns
3. Court
4. People who call her masculine. (Don't call her a man. Don't do it.)
5. Drunken Men. Especially Drunken Knights
6. Being lonely
General Behavior:
Sybil is very level headed and even though she bends steel and burns herself from day to day she is a rather feminine person. She does hold that air of strength but in a compact form inside. Sybil wears pants at work or a good long thick skirt; but enjoys pampering herself on her off days with a good curve-happy or pleasent dress. Sometimes she is mistaken for a lady of the court but she is far too much a Black Smith.
Sybil is trained with a good reaction speed when you work with fire your whole life you tend to be. She's good with swords and rather good with crossbows or even just a normal bow. But in the end she is best at hand-to-hand. You have to learn how to defend yourself when living in the lower class areas of the Northern Capital. She is also alone most of the time so she sets herself capable of defending herself and her home. Her home is pretty littered with traps awaiting some fool to try and get to her. Mind you the traps have to be set off by her.
For someone who taught herself everything that had to do with the forge and life she is a very good reader but she doesn't read enough as she has little time.

{ L I N E A G E }

Father: DMarkis Burke - Black Smith
Mother: DAnne Burke - Bar Maid
Brother(s): N/A
Sister(s): N/A
Extended Family: N/A

{ H I S T O R Y }

Sybil was born for the forge, her father started her up when she was four with allowing her to use little things under his supervision. HIs wife had been out of the picture due to the fact she passed during Sybil's afterbirth. When Sybil was 9 she began to apprentice and also began to learn how to defend herself by dodging her tools. She got herself a few times and like an animal; learned most of her lessons with the forge the hard way. Because of her wrists she tends to wear longsleeved dresses or leather bracers around her arms when wearing short sleeves.
As she aged she got good against dodging her father's movements and trained herself on turning wheels, she wasn't as great with the weapons she forged. But when a rainy day or a less busy one would come that's when fun would arise. Sybil hit the age of 13 and her childhood was nothing but a blip in the past. Her father had been murdered brutally by another man(decapitation upon being found by his daughter), though the Knights had locked up the man and then hung him for his treason. Sybil was left unattended as the knights felt that she was smart and strong enough to live on her own. Due to this Sybil has grown a hate to being lonely; not so much alone but when there are no horses about or people to wave at. Sybil becomes a little depressed.
Sybil continued to deal with the general public and worked the forge and taught herself through trial and error. She made money yet kept her feminity for the sake of her parents still wishing her to be a Lady someday. Well, her father wished it. Her mother said it in short comings before passing on after naming her daughter Sybil.

These days Sybil is known in the Northern Kingdom for her excellent weapon smithing. The older Knights are usually her customers though as the younger Knights tend to be cocky and were not there when Sybil lost her father. She also at times takes to the training areas of the Palace and teaches unarmed defense to the squires and kicks their asses in doing so.