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Ellette is a fierce and talented fighter but beneath her tough exterior she is kind, loyal, and loving. She is still a young mare, but despite her youth she exudes a quite beauty and an implacable strength of will that will serve her well throughout her life. Ellette is not easily cowed, she stands up for herself and for those she loves. In the face of danger and chaos, she maintains a cool head and fights to harness her strengths and the strengths of those around her. She knows basic first aid from her travels and is experienced in combat situations. She is willing to obey orders but is also able to exercise her own judgement and leadership should it prove necessary. She can track as well as move quickly and quietly through rough terrain.


Ellette is a mare with a somewhat tragic and bitter past. She was
traded by her parents at a very young age to serve the leader of a powerful and brutal herd in her homeland. She was to be trained in combat and killing, and to serve her leaders with unwavering obedience. In return, her family would be protected. Throughout her youth Elle was kept on a strict regimen, she grew strong, skilled, and efficient, she never questioned her trainers' orders and they were pleased with her progress. When she reached adulthood, she graduated the training program with the rest of her group and was led into her first battle against another herd who occupied a rich and bountiful territory that her leaders wanted to possess for themselves. But it was no battle, rather a systematic slaughter of a peaceful people and Ellette couldn't find it in her to harm those who meant her no harm. Neither could she bring herself to directly go against her orders and turn on those who had trained her. Instead she fled, deserting her merciless comrades and breaking the covenant between her family and the herd leaders. She exiled herself from her homeland, knowing there was nowhere there she could be welcomed or safe after her disgrace. She found refuge in the Kawani lands and decided to take up employment doing the only thing she was good at, fighting. She worked as a hired guard for traders and other travelers, in return she learned the practical skills her trainers had not seen fit to equip her with, wanting their soldiers to be as dependent on their leaders for survival as possible. It also proved a good way to learn the lay of the land, and after spending so long cooped up and controlled, she had a thirst to explore. Ellette traveled all over the Kawani lands over the next few years and met many exotic and fascinating individuals. One fateful winter, she waited too long to move south and was trapped in a storm while traveling through a forest notorious for its skinwalker population. She encountered another traveler there, a Uni Stallion named Aryon, not usually one to trust strangers, she nevertheless followed him back to shelter and ended up spending the winter with him. He became her first student in the fighting arts, she taught him everything she knew over those long months, and was sad when the trails became passable again as it meant they would have to part ways. Not long after the weather started to clear, Aryon had a freak accident that resulted in a brain injury which exacerbated his already faulty memory until it was nearly impossible for him to get his bearings in any unfamiliar location, they decided to stay together so Ellette could help him locate his long lost mate, Gypsy Rose. It was a long and arduous journey, both of them suffering many near death experiences, it finally culminated in a swamp when Ellette fell off of a bridge and was nearly drowned and eaten by a giant water snake. After being rescued by Aryon and Lioth, Ellette was forced to admit to herself that she had fallen for a life mated stallion, dizzy and disoriented from her fight, she gave into that spark and kissed Aryon, the surge of emotions she felt shocking her back to her senses and leaving her feeling ashamed. They both tried to return to normal and forget the entire episode, but the night after they left the swamp for good, Aryon disappeared. Ellette was horrified and heartbroken when she woke up to find her friend gone, blaming herself and her inappropriate advances for Aryon's disappearance, she had no idea that the stallion had contracted a fever while they were in the swamp and had wandered away in response to his hallucinations while she slept. She chose not to track him, feeling deeply that old adage 'if you love them you must be willing to let them go.' She abandoned his trail and met up with Lioth who had been scouting ahead for them. She went north a ways and settled down to try and find something to fill the large hole that had so unexpectedly appeared in her life. She took up teaching, taking on a blustery angeni stallion named Ignis as her second student and eventually a close friend. Months after Aryon's abandonment, she finally broke down under the strain of her bottled up emotions and sent Lioth out on an expedition to try and track Aryon to see where he had gone off to and try to figure out why he left.