Indie of Three Mountains
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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.
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 ==== Modern profession: ==== Farmhand and Campsite Host