the-hunting-grounds:

“My mother was a Companion. And her mother. And all the women in my family, back to Hrotti Blackblade. I stayed with my father in the woods until I was old enough for my Trial. We hunted everything there was to hunt… Good training. Ma didn’t live long enough to see me join, but I fight to honor her and all my Shield-Sisters through time.”

-Aela the Huntress – Shield-Sister to the Companions of Jorrvaskr