User blog comment:Hollyfire53/The Ultimate War Character Request/@comment-3462718-20110608191724

Suggestion (you don't have to take it) for one of the The Otter families for Holt Lakewander: The Mother:


 * Name: Lilybud Thrashrudder
 * Species: Otter
 * Description of Appearance: Darkfurred, but not black. Slightly younger than middle age. Slender, and well built muscularly. Wears a simple but expensive-looking grey dress fluffed out by many petticoats, and a scallopshell locket neclace that encloses a sketch of her late mate Surro on one side and one of her two kits on the other.
 * Weapons: Mainly her rudder, which she uses to spank naughty young ones; a sling when necessary.
 * History/details: Lilibud Thrashrudder (born Stormdog) is a cheerful mother otter, who can fight toughly when necessary but prefers to have fun. When Lilibud was young, barely out of her teenseasons, she and her holt lived aboard the fishing trawler Stormdog. After a terrible storm at sea that blew them far off course from their normal sailing area and severed their anchor cable, Lilybud and her family drifted into shore and were captured by a large band of vermin known as the Ranks of the Shadow. She helped the other captive beasts to escape, but was among the small band of those recaptured; after ta terrible battle, and defeat of the Ranks, she was the only of her little family left alive. Not being a brooding sort, she set off with several other freed otter slaves, seeking adventure; in the course of her travels she met Surro Thrashrusdder, and wed him. When the pair happened across Holt Lakewander, Lillyud was expecting their firstborn; the otters decided to stay until Lilybud was fit to travel again. It was not long before Lilybud bore twin sons; unfortunately, later that same day, Surro was slain by a pike while fishing for his new families dinner. Liliybud gave up the life of a wanderer to raise her two mischevious Dibbun-aged sons Surrud and Lilo, whom she dearly loves, though she will spank them and berate them for their practical jokes fairly frequently.