Low Estate/Characters/Aernoud

Skills

• Great: Nature, Stealth
• Good: Reflexes, Riding
• Fair: Fingersmithy, Weapons (staves and blunt weapons)
• Average: Brawn, Athletics

Aspects

Primary aspects

• Strange Pet: Aernoud has had some small pet creature on his person for most of his life - in a pocket, under his coat, or flying along behind him. He has a knack for finding and befriending unusual creatures, and in the past has trained pets to do specific tasks for him. Lately, though, he's kept his newest pet out of sight whenever possible, and no one's quite recognized what it is when they do get a glimpse.

Secondary aspects

• Horse Liberation Front: Aernoud doesn't usually set out to steal things, but when he sees an animal being treated poorly, it tends to end up in his possession (or released to safety if possible). As such he's gotten particularly good at finding the right moment to liberate horses from uncaring masters.

Background

Aernoud van Nevel grew up outside the city, working with his father on their rented farmland and exploring the nearby woods and fields. However, when he was eight his parents both died in a fire that consumed their farmyard home - Aernoud only survived because he had snuck out late to wander the forest for the evening. With no other known living relatives, he's been raised at Sister Marianne's ever since.

Aernoud is still restless inside city walls, and keeps his spirits up only by regularly sneaking off to explore nearby woods, fields, or finding animals within the city to take care of. In his younger years, he caused the sisters no small amount of worry, as he'd disappear from under their watchful eye for days, and then weeks. He continued to return, though, as the sisters' care reminded him of his beloved parents. Now that he has reached the age of seventeen, the sisters learned to worry less as Aernoud goes on his wanderings, though they still chide him for it.