Boudicca

brought to the point of despair, Boudicca submitted herself to the life of slavery at the hand of orcs rather than stay free in the Intransican Empire.

Physical Description

Body Features

She has gained weight since being taken in as a slave, ironically eating better now than she had on the farm. A benefit to being the Chief's property is being given priority for food when times have been scarce, a fact that has given both of them scorn over the years, that Bas'gal would value her over his own kind.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Boudicca grew up on a farm in the northeast corner of Intransica. Furthest from The Imperial City, with sparse resources, and the constant threat of attack from Orcs and their eternal war with humanity,life was harsh. Bad crops brought the family to the brink of starvation. This brought out the worst of her father Alec's abusive behavior. This was no life, certainly not the life of a proud Intransican, constantly battling between hunger, exhaustion, and pain.
Hearing the familiar screams of protest from her mother one night, Boudicca decided she had enough. Removing every article of clothing, she snuck out of her family's ramshackle house and walked to the northeast, in the direction of border, and the orcs of the Tribes of Krag'ash. She was fully prepared for whatever fate that would befall her, including it all ending where she was found. She had walked all night, and with first vestiges of light coming over the mountains, as Mastro's glory of the sun crept over, before she saw or heard anything.

What happened next, was not anticipated. Rather than being speared on sight, she was surrounded by the orc war band. Among the indecipherable shouting, she could feel fear rising in her, that maybe she made an enormous mistake. Rather than being killed, a small morsel of their pungent food was offered up, which she ravenously consumed. She was lead to their home among the hills below the Whispering Crag Mountain, and taken to their Chief. Again, there was great shouting, and even a small altercation as someone dared to challenge his authority, as he kept her safe. Chief Bas'gal, leader of the BloodEyes, claimed her as his property, in the most intimate of ways.

In the ten years that followed, she has lived a comfortable life as a slave to an orc than she had as a daughter to a human farmer. She also learned the language, and seeing the conflict from the orcish perspective, learned just how much she had been deceived by the Emperor's lies of a justified war.

She was Bas'gal's "Slave", only because tribal customs prohibited non-orcs from becoming wives.

Sexuality

Boudicca lost her sense of modesty and restraint shortly after being Bas'gal's slave, and accepted as a member of the tribe. Clothing was rarely worn and sex was extremely common in public, so long as the eyes of the young were kept away.
She recalls the first sexual encounter hazily, she had been so tired, hungry, and dazed, there is little of it that she can remember specifically. What she remembered most surprise, that this huge, fearsome orc, had touched her more gently than her own father had. That's not say that her master was made of cotton by any means; he knew what he wanted and expected it from her. Boudicca just swiftly began to understand that she liked it. In her mind, the physical roughness is still done from a place of love and respect, as she has never been hurt from him.
She's been used in diplomatic offerings with other tribes, or as a temporary reward for other orcs, and Boudicca has found thaat she enjoys it as well. Whether she was always this way and didn't let herself realize it, or merely made into this by her environment, she couldn't say, and wouldn't care. This is the life she wants and enjoys, and that's all that really matters.

Education

She has no education, even from before she was a slave. The closest she has is basics of farming, that she no longer uses in these desolate lands, and some basic domestic skills, like cooking.

Failures & Embarrassments

Knowing what she does now about how the Intransican army, lead by the orders of the Immortal Emperor, are trying to exterminate the Orcs, either by force or by starvation, she feels entirely embarassed to have believed those lies so fervently when she was young.

It's obvious to her now what's going on. The orcs aren't raiding into lands because they hate humanity. They're stealing food and crops because there is no other way for them to survive.

Social

Family Ties

As bad as her environment was when she ran away from home, Boudicca does still think about her family some times. She hopes things got better for them. If it didn't, and they starved or suffered some other fate, she finds solace that at least their torture is over now. She's been reassured multiple times by Chief Bas'gal that his warriors have not touched her parents, or their farm.

With a decade since she left, and with no regrets since that time, the BloodEye Clan is her family now, and they have accepted her as one of their own, mostly.

Religious Views

She has forsaken her view of the alleged Immortal Emperor being a man who became a God and single handedly won the Triumverate War. In seeing the code of hospitality as given by Quargh, Third of Six Sisters and Goddess of Orcs, she has revalued Kra'gash culture, and Orcish spirituality.

Removing the false god from her life has caused her to reevaluate her views on other gods. Most interestingly, perhaps because of her past and what she's seen now, she understands how Dineth could be both the god of Death and of Peace. For some poor souls, it is only through death that they find peace, and it is the place in which all souls will eventually find peace. By creating a lasting peace, one can prevent and delay the oncoming of death. Either way, all must deal with and contend with the jealous god Dineth.

Known Languages

She's become fluent in the BloodEye dialect of the Krag'ash language, as well as proficient in that of the neighbors. Her use of Intransican has diminished greatly: it's still in there, but is scarcely used out loud, having been years since she's last seen or spoke to another human.