PCs:Dala Wennen

Race: Human
Birthplace: South of Blandenberg, Farmland adjoining the village.
Current Residence: Mikona

Family History:
When the war betwen M'Chek and T'Nanshi first broke out, records show that Dolf Wennson moved his family South, to a small farming region packed with displaced settlers from Blandenberg. The Wennson family disappears from records until Roger Wennson, Dala's grandfather, was tried and hanged after he was cought "stealing M'Chekian property" (most likely taking arms from the dead soldiers) after one of th many Battles of Blandenberg. Probably to avoid the stigma associated with the name, Wolfe Wennson, the eldest son, changed the family name to Wennen.

Wolfe was one of those all-to-common M'Chekian men who made up for their lack of control over their circumstances with extremely authoritarian control over their private lives. He was, however, not an overly cruel man. Wolfe was able to provide successfully for his first wife, Victoria, and his two children: Robin and Jacob. However, when T'Nanshi's army pressed further to the South during the Fall of 2073, Wolfe was forced to move his family South to one of the many "New Blandenberg" settlements set up for refugees. The crowding of the settlement, and loss of so many crops led to many deaths, and both Victoria and Robin Wennen passed away that winter.

In the Spring of 2074, clergy of Mikon arrived from Mikon in order to aid the refugees in the various New Blandenberg settlements. A young priestess by the name of Alcaria Torren was among a group who set up a small shrine in Wolfe's village. The following Winter, she and Wolfe were married, and that spring she gave birth to a daughter, Dala Wennen. From the testimony of villagers who knew the family, they were initialy well-cared for, having friends within the village clergy, and Wolfe, as always, worked tirelessly to provide for his family.

However, in 2079, things began to change. The village was considered well-established by the M'Chekian army, and so the Mikon clergy were moved to a more needy encampment. Alcaria was granted leave to remain with her family, but she no longer had time to care for the village's spiritual needs. The Church of Valok soon sent a representative to the village, hoping to capitolize on the general disconent the settler's had with the quality of frontier farming life. This particular representative, Lanse Gorman , was a domineering, and even outright cruel man, and the village quickly factionalized into those who followed him fanatically, and those who didn't, but were afraid to speak out against him for fear of reprisal. Stories say that Gorman's favorite method of correcting those who strayed from his teachings was to tie them to a tree in the village center and scourge them, while preaching of Valok's desire for discipline and strength.