Dunja Hanna was born and raised never knowing a permanent home. Rather, her and her family belonged to a travelling caravan. The band consisted largely of performers roaming the countryside and putting on their shows wherever they could. Most often these shows would take the form of sensationalized reenactments of historic events. One in particular, The Romance of Gough, would prove to be especially fruitful for the Hanna troupe.
The tale revolved around a samurai by the name of Gough who, in his time, was renowned as a warrior of unparalleled skill. Of course, having lived nearly two centuries prior the exact details of his exploits have undergone an understandable evolution. By the end of his life the samurai would be known as "The Flower of Death", both on account of his fair skin and gentle face as well as the many souls that met their end by his hand. Armed only with a sword, Gough had slain his foes by way of an entrancing style of combat that involved an implausible level of grace given the size of his blade.
Gough was an ideal character to adapt to the stage; such flashy maneuvers would do well in enticing an audience (and were easily translated into stage combat). Dunja, by the same extent, was an ideal choice to portray him among the members of the Hanna troupe; namely because she possessed features similar to those of the ancient samurai. Thus the young woman spent most of her adolescence learning how to replicate Gough's swordplay or, at least, how to make it look like she could.
There was one twist still in store for the actress though: in their travels her troupe had managed to acquire a perfect replica of Gough's katana for use in their show. Unbeknownst to them, however, was that it was not a replica but in fact the actual weapon of the samurai himself, somehow surviving him by hundreds of years. Well, maybe not "surviving" him necessarily. For when Dunja first attempted to wield the weapon on stage she inadvertently awakened the dormant spirit of Gough.
Perhaps he was enraged at seeing such a shameful dramatization of his life, or maybe he felt some manner of kinship with this young woman. Whatever the reason, the wraith ended up attaching itself to Dunja. She reacted about as reasonably as one could expect: denying it completely at first, fighting it when that proved useless, and finally simply accepting that it would be a part of her life from then on. Unfortunately the fickle spirit would not be content to merely play the part of a warrior, thus Dunja is now forced to wander the countryside in the hope that she can find some means of appeasing her new companion.
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Dunja Hanna is a slender woman with dull red hair and icy blue eyes. Her life of wandering has toned her muscle at the cost of some her more feminine aspects and she prefers to wear breezy, colorful clothes befitting of an actor. Unfortunately such a carefree appearance is no longer indicative of her lifestyle. Now dozens of small scars litter her body and she is forced to carry the armaments that make up a warrior's badge of office (which is especially ironic considering that Dunja is a passive at heart). She also carries a small wooden icon: something that she carved to help calm the wrathful spirit.
