Isabel Kristin Whitehooves
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Species: Land Centaur
Guild: Wanderer Bard - historian
Mother: Jessie - herdsman
Father: Hesston - herdsman
Syblings: three younger and five older - Jessie was a broodmare
for about ten years.
Appearance: Isabel has white-blonde hair and pale white skin on a slender torso. Her horse body is cremello and fine-boned, built much like a thoroughbred's body and about 16 hands in height, placing her at about eight feet, eight inches total. Her eyes are ice blue and her full lips have little pigment, the flesh is a pale pink. Her face always wears a dumbfounded expression. On her shoulder is a tattoo of golden wings with a red heart in the middle of it with the word "Kristara" - which she acquired in Cascadia Falls rather recently. She dresses as glamourously as a centaur can - blue or pink lace camisoles or fur jackets and scarves. She also has an obsessions with race track hats - the huge brimmed ladies' hats with all manner of hideous flower and bow draped over it. Although they are highly impractical, she wears diamond turf-studs in her horse-shoes (her uncle was wealthy and gave them to her as a gift...a rather unfortunate incident as she developed a rather expensive taste afterwards.)
Personality: Her personality is like the characteristics of chocolate: sweet to eat with a sour after-taste! She is incredibly shallow and manipulative but has that saleswoman's sweetness for the people who meet her. She isn't as dumb as she appears - she can recite loads of gossip, or create it. Her common sense is limited to what color of scarf she should wear with her camisole. In fact, expensive clothing and cosmetic materials are really her only soft spot. She would love being royal if only for the money.
Background: Isabel's family is from Kiridia. The lot of her immediate family work as cattlemen - they herd cattle, sheep, and horses for the ranchers that need them. (Ranchers like to hire that particular group of centaurs because they don't have to buy extra horses also.) Isabel was one of many middle children in a series of nine born to Jessie Whitehooves. Most of her family is dark-complected but Isabel was the fair-skinned and tended to be spoiled. She learned rapidly to manipulate the system so that she didn't have to go out with her brothers and sisters to do the herding. She learned to manipulate the household's money to allow her to go to school as a bard - something considered rather unfit for a poor centaur's offspring. She did have her wealthy centaur uncle, who helped fund young Isabel's education if she managed to manipulate him with how good her wine-serving manners were at the time. All the time she hid from her family that she secretly had a crush on her uncle's daughter, Kristara. She even hid this from Kristara.
When her uncle died of an unexpected heart attack, Isabel, age 32, took the opportunity to take the money he had promised her and leave home for the guildhall in Cascadia where she became a Wanderer historian and began manipulating the systems around her to get whatever she wanted whenever she wanted it. By now she is a master of that particular theme and lives in her own luxurious flat near the guildhalls.
Pets
Name: Dimples
Species: toy poodle
Appearance: He has curly golden-brown fur on a tiny pampered body.
Dimples wears pink lace dresses because Isabel is just that ditzy.
Name: Dixie
Species: Clydesdale horse
Appearance: Blood bay with four white legs and a white blaze on her
face. She gets to spend her days at pasture because Isabel only uses her
if she goes on trips...so she doesn't have to carry her own luggage.
NPC: Kristara, Isabel's cousin, ex-fashion designer and now healer extraordinaire in Starscape Mountain.