Player Name:	Heidi	Macalla: Winner of the GWA '02 "Favorite Lady" Honorable Mention Winner of the GWA '01 "Best Human"
Player E-mail:	Email Heidi
Character Name:	Macalla
Gender:	Female
Age:	22
Lovemates/ Lifemates:	Brolan - mate
Family:	Brolan - mate
Skills:	Hunting, tracking
Weapons:	Daggers, knives, or a long spear/javelin
Personality:	Macalla is mysterious and is of a mysterious past. Quiet sometimes and moody and angry at others. She takes her greatest pleasure in hunting and exploring and goes out alone quite often. She is willing to help others of her village, but doesn't like to be ordered around all the time. Some get the feeling this is because sometime in her past she was ordered around all the time, but the truth isn't clear. She's often found looking out at the ocean, especially around the time of sunset, when she looks lost in her own world.
Likes:	Sunset, storms over the water. The sight of great sea creatures. Colorful things. The feel of the wind in her hair and of running at full speed. The feel of a spear striking true. Spending time talking with her few friends. Long, quiet nights alone with Brolan.
Dislikes:	Being told what to do all the time, dark closed spaces. Being treated as an 'Outsider", not feeling trusted. The way the Circle and the Elders choose to punish wrong.
Fears:	Strange noises in the night. Many things she hasn't shared with anyone in the village.
Appearance:	Macalla is of a medium height, about 5'5". She is slender, but not frail. Her muscles are well-toned and she is quite athletic despite her activities being restricted at the village.
Marks/Scars:	Numerous deeply ridged scars across her back and arms, smaller scars on her hands, wrists, ankles, and feet.
Hair:	Long and straight to the waist and honey-amber brown. Doesn't like to put her hair up, even to get it out of her face. She has one braid on her right side that she wears behind her ear, most say for ornamental purposes.
Eyes:	Deep-sea blue.
New Green Clothes:	A bright green sleeveless blouse that is laced in the middle with golden-dyed laces. A skirt of the same color that falls to her knees. A brown/tan belt and soft brown boots that go to her knees.
White Cold Clothes:	Same as new green, but her blouse has sleeves. Wears a brown woolen cloak.
Jewelry:	A single hoop earring in her left ear. It seems to have no beginning or end. When asked why she wears but one, she refuses to answer.
History:	Macalla was found nearly lifeless on the beach near the village of Iasc nearly six full turns of the seasons ago. Being a rather superstitious lot, the villagers didn't readily accept her, thinking that some ill wind had brought her to them, but they took it in their hearts to help make her well. When she awoke, they found she spoke their language, though in a strange accent (she utters words in another language at times, which used to frighten some of the villagers horribly). When asked about her past or how the sea brought her to the village, Macalla didn't answer. She still hasn't told anyone many details of her past to this day and prefers to keep her silence. Her acceptance to the village has been a slow one, and she still isn't treated quite the same as the village-born. Only after she began trying to provide for the village with her skills at hunting and tracking did some views toward the woman start to change. Even still, she knows there are leaps and bounds to go before she is treated as though she belongs here. Things took another turn when she caught the eye of Brolan the fisher and Elder. Though she found herself very attracted to the man, both his status and her situation kept her, for years, from yielding to his advances for fear of what reprocussions mating with him might cause in the village. He was finally able to persuade her to accept him as a suitor and the pair were officially mated soon after. In recent months, to her happiness, she has made more friends. She felt a natural kinship to Sho'shun, who was in a similar plight as was she. She also knew his language and often found time to talk with him in his own tongue with the opportunity presented itself. She also finds she's spending more time with Sihuu and Traelyn and finds she enjoys having friends near her own age with whom she can talk. Macalla has adapted in many ways to village life, but one thing she refuses to shirk are the beliefs taught to her before she came upon the village of Iasc. This has put her at odds, many times, with the Hooded Ones, who fear that her influence might be harmful to their way of life. She has found of late that she disagrees with more ways of this village than she realized when the Elders and Hooded Ones sentenced another man to be indentured to another.