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`Apr. 25, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord
> [!location]- Info from:
> [[3-spspecialcharacters-(Bannerlord)]]
```
<!-- shield maiden -->
<NPCCharacter
id="spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
name="{=rtsnnL2J}{FIRSTNAME} the Shieldmaiden"
voice="curt"
age="29"
default_group="Infantry"
is_template="true"
is_female="true"
is_hero="false"
culture="Culture.sturgia"
occupation="Wanderer"
skill_template="SkillSet.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8_skills">
<face>
<face_key_template
value="BodyProperty.townswoman_sturgia" />
</face>
<Traits>
<!--<Trait id="RuralClanIsNemesis" value="1" />-->
<!-- <Trait id="HuscarlFightingSkills" value="5" /> -->
<Trait
id="Valor"
value="1" />
<Trait
id="Honor"
value="1" />
<Trait
id="Mercy"
value="-1" />
</Traits>
<Equipments>
<EquipmentSet
id="npc_companion_equipment_template_sturgia"
civilian="true" />
<EquipmentSet
id="npc_companion_equipment_template_sturgia" />
</Equipments>
```
> [!custom-callout]- Backstory:
> [[3-wanderer_strings-(Bannerlord)]]
```
<!-- shield maiden -->
<string
id="prebackstory.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=rKeqsRyj}I'll tell you my tale. But I will warn you in advance: It is of no concern to me whether you approve or disapprove of what I did." />
<string
id="backstory_a.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=o6ugLOZi}I came from a good family, with much land. Since I was a girl, I wished to be a shield-maiden. I practiced fighting with the village boys and the old warriors. But it is a strange thing - while some families in our lands take pride in a daughter who takes up arms, others accord it a great shame, and my father was of the latter type." />
<string
id="backstory_b.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=R2haBQK7}I had no special desire to be married but my family found me a groom anyway. I consented, but my husband and I detested each other from the first. Once he insulted me in the marketplace, I cursed his manhood, he struck me, and I pulled a knife and he pulled his. I won." />
<string
id="backstory_c.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=SfmWAuv3}The elders sat in judgment on our case. As it turned out, they had plenty of precedent. They accorded our fight a fair duel, and thus I was innocent of murder. On the other hand, I was excluded from his inheritance. I suppose that was fair, although I would have enjoyed wearing his jewels and riding his horse in front of his family." />
<string
id="response_1.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=DhQ7lgNr}Indeed. No doubt such traditions encourages husbands to behave better than they might do otherwise." />
<string
id="response_2.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=tbbQ3PZH}You slew your husband in a duel? Get away!" />
<string
id="backstory_d.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=5mUCH99p}Suffice to say, I could not return to my father's house. I went on my way, happy to live the life of a warrior I had always dreamed of living. But soon I found out - the tales I loved as a girl, of shield-maidens who fought for honor, do not pertain to a woman with no family or land. One cannot fight for honor when one doesn't know where the next meal comes from. So I fight for pay." />
<string
id="generic_backstory.spc_wanderer_sturgia_8"
text="{=UCpJEIE3}I am a warrior. A shield-maiden, as the Nords say. It is not uncommon in the northern lands. Perhaps you have met some of us before." />
```
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