Indie of Three Mountains

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Indie of Three Mountains
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Resides: Barony of Three Mountains, Kingdom of An Tir Pronouns: They/Them or She/Her Date Started: Not specified Awards: Order of Precedence Name pronunciation: [en-dee] Prefered Title: Offices: Social Media Officer
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Indie of Three Mountains, Armiger

Persona 1: Indie Oddiyana

Indie Oddiyana was born in the Oḍḍiyāna valley among the Hindu Kush mountains, near the Swat Valley (a region of present day Pakistan). She lived sometime in between 300-100 BCE, During the Indo-Greek control of the Bactrian Empire. Alexander the Great had wandered through the region and some of his soldier chose to stay behind and settle in the region, creating a unique blend of Greek and Central Asian cultures. Her father was a Greek soldier from Alexander the Greats army, who stayed behind and married a local women of the Kalash tribe. Indie's childhood was spent herding her family's goats up and down the steep valleys and mountains of the Swat River valley. As a teenager, disguised as a boy, she left home to join a nomadic trading group that traveled the Uttarapath, a trading route later know as the Grand Trunk Road, a branch of the Silk Road.

The ancient "Uttarapatha" or the Northern Road, was built on the orders of the emperor Chandragupta Maurya in the 3rd century BCE. Closer to Indie's lifetime, the emperor Ashoka had trees planted along the road, wells built at every half kos and many "nimisdhayas", or rest-houses along the route for travelers. Rudyard Kipling, much later in time, would describe the Uttarpath thus: "... truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred miles – such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world."

With her trusty donkey by her side, she travels between towns and caravansaries selling goat milk and repairing wooden items like wagon wheels. She also works as an interpreter, using the languages she learned from both her father (Greek and Aramaic) and her mother (Pashto, Sanskrit and Prakrit) and the Persian dialects of the the local traders.

Etymology

The name Indie, may have come from the 'Indus River' that flows through her homeland. Or it may have come from the Sanskrit "Indu" meaning 'Moon'. Oddiyana from Middle Indic 'Udyāna' meaning "garden" is the name of a region in the Hindu Kush mountains. The place names appears in historic documents, as an important site in Buddhist history but is also used as semi-mythical place, like 'Eden'.

Persona 2: Indie the Forester

This Persona is still in development. I hope to join the Royal Forester's Guild and study the ways of the forest. This Indie is training with both Axe and Bow. She is a competent woodsmen and woodworker, caring for the living plants and animals of the forest and crafting useful items with natural resources the forest provides. She is learning to identify the trees and track the animals of the Forest she stewards. In the Spring and Summer she wanders the fields and wildlands of the Royal hunting grounds [Mundan: Whitmore Farm], in the Fall she manages the forests and cuts firewood. In Winter she sits by her hearth fire, carving wooden spoons and other useful items.

Known Aliases

• Cadian, the Knight Owl
• Katie, the Donkey Whisperer
• Scrapwood, the wood hoader

SCA History

Positions

• Social Media Officer of Three Mountains

Awards

• Ethereal Splendor (Three Mountains) - Sep 28, 2024 (AS LIX)
• Golden Torc (Three Mountains) - Apr 5, 2025 (AS LIX)
• Award of Arms (An Tir) - May 31, 2025 (AS LX)

Active since: May 2024

Current branch: Barony of Three Mountains and Barony of Terra Pomaria

Interests:Woodworking, Forestry, Farming and Animal Husbandry, Archery and Thrown Weapons, Service

Notes about Indie's real life

Mundane Name: Katie, but she also goes by Indie outside of the SCA. Modern profession: Farmhand and Campsite Host.

Prosopagnosia: Indie has Prosopagnosia(aka Face Blindness). She will not recognize you the first few times she meets you (Don't take it personally), especially if your SCA persona differs greatly from your modern identity. She can not recognize your face, so she will need to use context clues and identifiers such as your voice, your walk or that flamboyant hat you insist on wearing.

Non-24: Indie also has a rare neurlogical disorder called "Non-24 Circadian Rhythm Disorder". In a nutshell, her 'body clock' is broken and she rotates between day and night schedules. While the real cause is unknown, she suspects that her connection to space-time was disrupted after one too many trips in the TARDIS. Indie is known to 'disappear' for days or weeks at a time, (Again, don't take it personally).

Indie disappears again

Side Projects

Indie likes lists. She maintains some helpful SCA related lists.

• Indie’s SCA General rescources
• Indie's SCA Activities rescources
• Indie's An Tir Resources
• Indie's SCA A&S rescources
• Indie's SCA Activities rescources
• SCA Forester and Herbal Guild Rescources

Non-SCA

• Woodworking for Beginners Resources

Contact

You can find Indie on Facebook. Ask around at the Barony of Three Mountains FB group or in the Northwest Foresters Guild