Bolnia

Bolnia "Lindsey" Aedurnhold
Title	<Weaponsmith>
Gender	Female
Race	Dwarf
Class	Warrior
Age	75
Height	5'1"
Weight	151
Eyes	Green
Hair	Ginger
Affilliation(s)	Ironforge
Occupation	Trader, Weaponsmith
Relative(s)	Unknown
Companion(s)	None
Status	Alive

Player: holynexus

Character Full Name: Bolnia "Lindsey" Aedurnhold

Character In-Game Name: Lindsey

Nickname(s): N/A

Association(s): Ironforge

Race: Dwarf

Class: Warrior

Skills and Abilities: Lindsey is an interesting dwarf with a knack for blacksmithing. She can make quite good armour and weapons, and a few other items. She also trained with the sword, and is quite proficient in its use.

Age: 75

Sex: Female

Hair: Ginger/Blonde

Eyes: Green

Weight: 151 lbs

Height: 5'1"

Appearance

She is a taller dwarf, but is pretty normal bodied. She typically wears aprons or other rough outfits, but has a fondness for more fancy leathery outfits. She also wears a black ribbon on her upper left arm, and bracelets of bronze. She bears scars in various parts of her body, marks that healed over time but never completely closed.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Bolnia is a cosmopolitan Bronzebeard dwarf. There is no place like home other than a giant forge, and she feels welcome wherever there is a smithy. Hard-working and dutiful, she considers her craft as genuine art and gives her mind and body fully into it. A disciplined soul, she actually seldom drinks or parties. She seems to particularly enjoy the presence of humans, and her nickname, Lindsey -which she actually regularly uses, stems from a fruitful trade relationship with a Human woman of that name. Some say she is still mourning a woman she regarded as a family member , though in truth, she longs for her return, but also fears it. The dwarf does look cheerful and happy at most times, but is actually often struck with sorrow and regret concerning her past. She'd rather forget, and her blacksmithing is often the only way she manages to express or vent her hidden feelings.

History

Lindsey, then Bolnia, is born in Ironforge seventy-five years from now, a celebrated birth in her decidedly fertile family, though they had been blessed with a brother, Hajar, five years earlier. Her mother and father were smiths, and so were her ancestors before them. Her household was well-off and she had a very good and caring childhood, far from the worries of trouble and poverty. Her parents initiated her early to the craft of smithing, and she soon took it as her main passion. The teen-dwarf enjoyed spending time in the company of other smiths, and often shared with them basic designs she crafted. Her family was proud, of course, when after twenty-three years she was taken as an apprentice to a local renowned smith of the Sixth Depth, Aecun Frostvale. She crafted various items, basic armour, helms, was taught the arts of smelting and forging in very throughout explanations, and was deemed a very promising dwarf.

Four years before the First War erupted, the dwarf left Ironforge for Stormwind, where she made weapons on behalf of Aecun, gaining some money in return. It is where she met another blacksmith, a human named Lindsey Dustwallow, who left her married sister in Alterac to get a better life in southern lands. The dwarf, who was already very interested in human craft and their different techniques, took a keen interest in the woman's crafting skills. She indeed made very elaborated armour, decorated and polished, certainly far beyond what she could do, though lacking in sturdiness. The two blacksmiths quickly liked each other and opened a business together, working on armour and weapons and becoming quite well-known locally.

The First War began. And with the Kingdom of Stormwind quickly falling, Bolnia and Lindsey, along with a bunch of other dwarfs and humans, retreated to Menethil, and then Kul Tiras. The human had few teachings of fighting, but the dwarf had good basics, from years of training and brawling in her spare time - plus she was a dwarf, fighting is important to a dwarf. She crafted herself a magnificent armour set and weapon, and the sharpest and most decorated of swords, and both women arrived in Lordaeron, and joined in the war effort. The next years were rough as the Horde made their way north, culminating in an unexpected stalemate. Lindsey didn't get to meet back with her Alterac family and was, over time, deeply affected; but she kept following Bolnia, despite people branding her a traitor and insulting her, smithing for their war company, repairing weapons and armour, while the dwarf was busy fighting on the front lines.

Actually Bolnia became quite skilled, though she only longed for the struggle to end. About six years followed, during which the Alliance slowly retook their territory, including some dwarven lands. At the end of the bloody war, both women were alive, their friendship hardened, and their business renewed. While the human strove to make sturdy and very resilient armour and weapons, the dwarf worked her best to adorn her craft with trims and decoration. They both made a lot of money in New Stormwind, and were asked to forge not only weapons but also various objects in the rebuilding of Stormwind - lampposts, wrought iron gates, steel reinforcements, and so on.

Their business flourished and thrived up until the Third War, where Bolnia fought minor side battles in Hyjal; Lindsey, however, stayed behind. The two women would never see each other again - not in these forms. When Bolnia returned, she couldn't find the human anywhere. She had left the workshop, apparently to go back to Lordaeron. But the refugees from the northern kingdom and the dire news were not very heart-warming. Bolnia set off to search for Lindsey, but only encountered undead. She spent two years barely surviving, housed in Hillsbrad but often set off to look for her lost partner. Two years at the end of which she understood she likely would never see the human any longer, or perhaps in a form she preferred not imagine. A whole chapter of her life was closing, but she found herself very hurt and altered.

She returned to Ironforge, leaving her Stormwind shop behind. There she isolated herself. Nobody was seeing her, but her run-down house was still standing, and sometimes, sounds of clanging hammers and a bright, flickering red light could be briefly seen beneath the tinted windows. She still crafted, in mourning solitude, selling her items through proxies to gain some money. Her family itself worried, but their help couldn't do anything. For another three years she spent her time alone, with blacksmithing her only relief. Peculiar fate, indeed. When she came out, finally, of the darkness of her house, she had changed. Oh, she still was cheery, and happy when asked to, but she no longer had those dreams that once made up her life. Worse than loosing a lover, she had lost what she considered as a sister, perhaps her only true friend in all that time, and she mourned one of the best smiths of her time.

But life moves on, and Bolnia finally set herself back up in her family's workshop. As if nothing ever happened - only she began calling herself Lindsey, and often reflected in the craft of her weapons the artistic views of her former partner. She changed a small part of her workshop into a friendly little tavern, and work began all over again. In truth, she both feared and hoped that the human was still around, even in Forsaken form, and that one day, she'd recognize her signature somehow and come back to the dwarf. The Cataclysm has not unveiled any new clues, though, and she remains in Ironforge, careless about a world too stubborn to die...

...or so she likes to say.