Born the seventh of eight, Assana found that her life was (in general terms) a well worn path that she could follow along in any manner of branches without much impediment in her life at Horizon Keep. Unless, of course, her trailblazing twin Nerissa had anything to say about it.
Growing up on the ocean with the sea air and a large family in their ancestral home gave the introspective Assanna quite a bit of time to reflect on things around her as well as be dragged into adventures by her various siblings. Relatively close in age, the Horizon children were left to entertain each other most days. Their parents perhaps thought that Moray as eldest and heir was perhaps getting good experience with leading a troop of slightly unruly but generally congenial siblings around to various adventures and schoolwork throughout the family estate. Assana found nothing amiss with any of it, enjoying her time with her family even though there were moments where she was particularly convinced that her twin was going to be the cause of one or both of their untimely deaths.
But, children do grow up. And as her elder siblings started to find their way in the world, Assana was privy to the ins and outs of the changes that adulthood brings: courting, marriage, childbirth, death. Generally being one of the most even tempered and reliable of the siblings it wasn’t uncommon for her to be asked to help one of her many sisters during the process of a wedding, pregnancy, or at the unfortunate moments when her sisters were to become widows in assisting them as a companion or guiding the care of her nieces and nephews.
Some of her most challenging moments have come from her twin who constantly seems driven to try and bring Assana ‘out of her shell’ as it were and get her to partner with her on adventures of one sort or another. Most of them were quite the glad affair. Assana has no compunctions at all about participating in any archery tournament about the kingdom she has the opportunity to join in, one of her favorite hobbies that she shares with Nerissa. She also enjoys reading, spending time with books and figures; quite pleasing her father when it comes to the household business and trade.
Recently, however, it’s been less jovial since the unfortunate incident involving Nerissa and ‘that boy’ as Assana calls him. After her betrothal spectacularly fell through, Nerissa hasn’t been quite the same in her funloving adventures and Assana tries as best she can to bring her back to the old more care free times. Even if it means getting kicked in the chest by a horse.
And now, with the exception of Nerissa with her swearing off of the other gender, all the Horizon children are now married, widowed, or betrothed. Her younger sister’s betrothal to the head of their liege house promises the distraction of a large wedding, soon to be followed by the marriages of her other two remaining unmarried sisters, as well as soon enough her own. Her betrothal to a young lord from a liege house of Crawford has her somewhat excited in anticipation of beginning a family of her own, but at the same time heralds the first time that she will truly be parted from Nerissa for any extended period of time which she’s dreading. The match is a sound one, though, her father and his making it easily at one of the tournaments where they met several months past. Time moving as it does she expects to find herself in this new home in quick time as the seas ebb and flow in their way.
