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Name: Katrina Qamar* (Please hold all shocked expressions)
Age: 15
Birthplace: Great Southern Desert
Position: Minstrel

History: Kat’s mother was Tortall born and bred and her father was Bahzir. She was born after her older brother, Kareem, by three years and then Leila followed another two years later. They lived in a traveling household splitting the year in two. Winter in the Desert, Summer in Corus. So Kat has had a good dose of both her heritages.

Katrina was named after her mother’s best friend who also happened to be half Bahzir. She had been swept off her feet by the Copper Isle ambassador and had moved to the islands and they hadn’t seen each other since although they still kept in touch.

Kat was never a normal child. She much preferred books to people and bread to sweets. Her mother couldn’t fathom her. At the age of six, her mother went to visit the original Katrina. Melody took her middle child with her.

Kat was very pleased to meet her namesake but was even more amazed with the elder’s playing of the harp. She immediately told her mother that she too wanted to learn to play. Her mother was happy to oblige by hiring the best tutor she could for Kat and Kat excelled.

She soon became an avid student. Her mother was simply happy that her child had found a semi-normal activity. Things were all well and good. Until Kat wanted voice lessons.

Her mother hired another tutor. And they went together about as well as oil and water. The tutor said that while Kat’s voice was pleasant enough it was too low (deep) to ever be made out of it. It all came to a head when Kat kicked him in the shin and dismissed him.


Her mother hired another tutor one who realized that with proper training she could learn to utilize the full range that she had. She would never be a soprano, but her range was still fairly decent.

Kat met Sam when he was fifteen and the two hit it off. Both detesting humanity and all. They made friends and Kat joined the Dove, quietly. Even her mother has no idea where Kat spends her time.


Personality: Kat was born with intelligence. Not only book smarts and a high IQ, but a sort of wisdom and understanding beyond her years. Of course, with this insight, by now, Kat has grown quite cynical. She has realized, with the help of idealistic, naive parents and melodramatic teachers, that nothing in the world is as it should be. Nothing is fair, the world is full of hypocrites and liars, and people get further by kissing ass than doing actual hard work. Stupidity is rewarded, while true intelligence is degraded daily. Basically, she loathes the way society works. And she refuses to ‘sink’ to that level. As a result, Kat sometimes finds herself alienated from her peers. She’s not big into crowd following, preferring to decide her likes and dislikes on her own, thankyouverymuch.

That said, Kat is not all that bad at making friends. Sure, they have to prove themselves capable of more than shallow gossip and petty ors and everything else that seems to be a standard. But anyway once that’s established, she can be quite an entertaining conversationalist and definitely is a loyal friend. SHe has a witty sense of humor that first has to be understood in order to be appreciated, but she can be quite amicable when he chooses to.

It may seem silly, but Kat’s worst fear is dying in some stupid way, like tripping and hitting his head on a rock, or something dumb like that. She likes to read, a lot, sometimes finding fictional worlds easier to deal with than the ‘real’ one. The one thing she wishes she was good at, but isn’t, is art. He wishes more than anything he could express what he thinks up, feels, sees, to others by drawing it, or painting it, but she has no such luck. So she creates it other ways, which is nearly close enough.

Kat enjoys sarcasm, and tends to use it quite often. Because a lot of the time, people say the most stupid things, and Kat can't help but answer them insincerely. They act like a joke.

She is a skilled harpist first and foremost, having begun their lessons first. She’s a journeyman in the way of the lute and a budding rebac player.


Physical Appearance: Being Bahzir, Kat is fairly dark skinned. A warm creamy caramel brown that is a nice shade, Kat thinks. However it tends to be dry and sometimes itchy. Occasionally, her skin will look like scales and be as rough and chapped as any miner’s. A fact that she loathes and has enough lotions to banish the ailment forever, but once the skin is back to normal she merely gets away from the routine so the dryness comes back again and again and again. Kat’s hair is black and straight falling about an inch below her shoulder blades. Her face is almost heart-shaped but not quite out of the oval range either. Her eyes are black or dark brown if you really want to argue over it. Something that Kat gets complimented on often is her smile, her actual smile, not the quick tight one she uses to please people. It lights up her whole face to a nice effect. Her lips themselves are nice enough themselves full and shapely.

Kat is one of the younger members of the Roses, and if not the youngest, more than likely the shortest. Kat stands at only 5’3. She doesn’t care. She gave up caring about it a while ago. She is petite, slim and compact and without much in the way of curves.