Zöoi Dawn'sgift's page

Early history:Born of the union of an Ulfen Huskarl retired to manage his Jarl's trade lodge & the southern maiden he claimed during the last raid he partook, Zöoi was named by her mother when her father's long-hoped-for son & heir never arrived. A willful & energetic child, she also showed a mind far keener than most of her contemporaries. At least among the girl children.
That will & energy would get her in trouble as often as not as she grew older, leading to fights with the other children, particularly the boys of the village when they would attempt to define her as a 'mere girl'.
Later, as she began to mature & bloom into the woman her mother feared she would in this far Northern Land, the fights were in response to those same boys attempts to 'define' her in 'other' ways.
At the same time growing up she enjoyed nothing more than to hear the stories told by her father's fellow men-at-arms when the Jarl would visit or a particular trade partner would require additional guards. Indeed one day both would come to a head as she declared she was the equal of any boy in the village in a fight, or any other village & she would prove it too!
That very week, one of the Jarl's trade partner's trains passed through the village & as it left, Zöoi left with it.