Name: Haia Illishar
Age: 17
Nationality: Andor
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 98 lbs.
Hair color/length: Long white hair
Eye color: Blue
Personality: Haia is a patient person and a good listener for those who need someone to talk to. She extremely philosophic and diplomatic and enjoys to mend relationships between people. However, she refuses to do chores and other activites that she considers pointless.

Flow Affinity
Water: 8
Air: 6
Earth: 7
Fire: 7
Spirit: 8
Talents: Masking the Glow, Traveling, Minor talents: Shielding
Current strength: 14
Base strength: 11
Age when started to channel: 14
Current Age: 17

History:
Haia stared at the blank sheet of parchment her heart beating at an excited rate. Rules seemed pointless to her so if there was one for no contact to the outside world she was fine with it. With the wind howling outside, she dips the quill into the ink wary observers and begins to write……

Dear Father and Mother,

I’m sorry, but you must read this letter. You may be a bit surprised and even angry but please you must understand I did this for you. I hope you can forgive me the next time I see you. I am here in the White Tower, and I hope this explains why.

Everyday since I was a child I felt you were hiding something. You raised in everyway a child could count on. Teaching me how to act, politics, the Old Tongue and various other things but you kept as far away from family history as possible. And when I would talk to my friends they would sometimes talk of their family but I always had nothing to say. You also kept me away from anything that didn’t have to do with the Light, and I never understood why. But with all that teaching you blocked the one thing that would teach me a lot more, the Library. I always wondered why but I went along without complaining. Everyday was the same and I got tired but I didn’t want to disappoint you so I played along. Mother and Father you did a lot of things for me, making sure I was safe, making sure I learned enough. I had fun and loved you two, though the days were mostly filled with learning, I could not read novels that sat collecting dust in the Library. You would not even let me ride around without one of our guards. I could not even have privacy in my own room; I could not even have a diary. I liked learning but keeping things that girls need most is inhuman.

The years carried on I couldn’t let go of it, I had to know more about our family. When I was eleven I asked you, Father, why I don’t know anything about out family history. You told me to go to my room and finish my studies. I did go in you best interest but my mind was far from studies. My curiosity grew stronger everyday, and I tried sneaking into the Library time and time again, but the guards always caught me. Once or twice I got in and started reading books, but the guards always found me. I got a little bit on different cities but nothing important. Eventually I stopped and let the subject go, but in the recesses of my mind the thought still lingered and my curiosity grew almost to an obsession.

When I was fourteen, I asked both of you to tell me our family history. Both of you stared at me as if I was Aeil, and then Father answered me with cold iron in your voice, ‘Go and read the book I gave you on the history of Tear.’ And I answered ‘But I have read it all,’ and then you said ‘READ IT AGAIN!’ But I didn’t go, I stayed there and asked you and asked you, then we broke off into a fight. We yelled at each other fighting over something as simple as family history. We came almost to the point where you were going to strike me to the ground. But then, you two saw and heard it and so did I, the lightning strikes came done upon you. We all stared at the scorch marks, Mother you had a knowing face with tears forming at your eyes, and Father you had sadness in your eyes. I asked you two what it meant, but you still would not tell me anything. I yelled and cried out but you two kept staring at me, Mother crying. Soon I was up in my, room staring at the ceiling listening to your fighting. I will never forget that day, it felt as if someone had slapped me in the face. At night when the guards were half asleep and you two were out on business I went into the Library, knocking out the guards.

I searched for the long hours of the night searching got a section of books in our family history. Towards dawn I found a section of old tattered books, all of them title Family History. I took them to my room and spent most of the three days you were gone reading every word, taking in everything you kept me. They were on our families past, the One Power, the Aes Sedai produced from our family, some even had small excerpts from my great grandmother’s diary. Those three days I finally understood why you taught me all those things and why you kept so much away. It is perfectly understandable why you would want to keep it from me. But keeping it from me when I asked is wrong, I deserved those answers from you not from some tattered old books that explained other things as well. And you should of sent me to the White Tower to keep from all those things happening, keeping all that from would only make it worse. Your worst fears would come true. That is why I am here at the White Tower, to learn not to become my family’s past, and make a name for myself.

Thank you Mother and Father for teaching me all the history of everything else, it really helpful here at the White Tower. And I am sorry and still hope everyday that you will forgive me. I will see you when I am Aes Sedai.

Love always, your daughter,
Haia Illishar

.........Haia carefully spread the sand over the parchment, feeling happy that she confessed to her parents. She seals the letter knowing her parents will forgive her. Her happy soul leaves on her way to the gardens, smiles proudly that she was able to confess.

Could someone please review my biography?

Awesome Bio, maybe could use a little more history and her personality. Your an awesome writer, I'll point Rialt or one of the other admins in your direction. I appologize for the wait and I hope you stick around.

First off, I'm really sorry it's taken me so long to get to this. :(

I really like your bio, but as it is, it's too short for me to approve. I need to know more about Haia's personality. I can see through her letter that she's a very strong-willed young woman, but that's all I'm getting, and I'm sure there's more to her than that. I take it by the beginning of your bio that Haia is some type of noble, based upon the sorts of things she was taught by her parents. It strikes me as odd that an Andoran noble family would hide a history of channeling, since Andorans as a nationality don't have a real problem with channelers. So, I would like if you could find some way to tell me why her parents never told her. Perhaps not in the letter, because it's quite possible that Haia would never know, but for the purpose of knowing more about her background I would like to know, whether Haia ever finds out IC or not is completely up to you.

Also, you said that Haia did not care for rules, which is somewhat exemplified by the fact that she searched through the library while her parents were gone, and it's understandable because her parents were so strict, but here's where I need to know more history. You've made it clear that her parents were secretive and that Haia had very little freedom, but I would like to know about her childhood aside from that. What did she enjoy? What sort of fun things did she get to do? How, if her parents were so overprotective, did Haia manage to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward rules, if she was always guarded, how did she break any rules without her parents knowing? Or, if she simply did not care what her parents said when they found out, tell me why that is.

Also, one more very important thing. The way the channeling system goes here, a channeler earns 1 point for each year of channeling, so if Haia's base strength was 10, and she started channeling 3 years ago, then her strength would be 13 now, not twenty. Also, please note that with a base strength at 10, Haia's full potential would be 60, which is not quite strong enough for her to become Aes Sedai. In order to become Aes Sedai, her base strength needs to be at least 11.

I am very sorry as well for taking 50 years to get to your bio. As it stands I am in the midst of finals at my University, and I would be happy to take a look at it on Wednesday when I am saftely back at my home in San Antonio. For now though, I have entirely too much work to do for my own good. I promise Iwill look at it.

I should have posted an LoA for finals...meh. Please don't let this rub you the wrong way, I WILL get to it. I'm just insanely and unnaturally busy. thanks hon thank goodness for Sapphira though, she's given you something to work with it seems.

Thanx everybody, and I wiil edit it as soon aspossible Mother. Right now I am a little busy with projects and things like that.

whenver you can get to it hon, just make sure to let us know.