Mernac Character Story: What is it? How do I write it?

What is a Mernac Character story?
As most people know, characters create stories, hardly the other way around. Characters are linchpins, the life-flow, akin to air for a story. While Legends are indeed our ultimate goal, we also want to know who these heroes, villains, and everyday people are, where they came from, and what drove them to act as they did. Thus, the need for a Character story. Mernac Character stories usually range from 500 - 1000 words; they should be no more than 2000 words.

Let's briefly examine a portion of Katarina Calis's Character story:
King Aaron and Queen Diana Calis of Solaris had six sons: Ryan, Cade, Mark, Evan, Collin, and Dayton, but what they really wanted was a baby girl to take the place of the female child they’d lost during the harsh winter of 546. Desperate to know what would happen, they questioned hundreds of Sages, sorcerers, and prophets. Finally, Arkad the Wise of Hob gave them this prophecy: “It is said, great King and noble Queen, that there are no finer rulers to be found in all of Mernac. That shall soon be tested. Within a season, the Great Mother Siberlee will grant thee the desire of thine heart. However, the Ledrath, the life-drainers, the Great Fathers Bu, Werk, and Tellen, stand ready to besiege this kingdom with chaos. You have a choice: twenty seasons of personal pain, seven seasons of widespread disease, five seasons of unprecedented natural disasters, or four seasons of war which will leave no two stones upon each other here in Morningsong.” With broken hearts, the King and Queen agreed to the twenty years of personal pain for at least that would spare their people.

The first paragraph does not eve mention the princess we're talking about. Is that... okay? Yes, this paragraph sets the stage for what is to come and answers a few questions yet to be asked? What in Katarina's past, defined her? Who were her parents? Where did she come from? What siblings did she have?

How do I write a Good Character Story?
The biggest mistake people make when writing stories for Mernac is simply trying to write the Legend first. (OCC: I made this mistake; my first story, The Black Axe, was written like the story I eventually wanted to write, albeit badly. Ahem, that aside, someone had to clarify for me that The Black Axe story needed to be about the weapon itself.) Even character stories are not immune from this mistake.

Character story should strive to answer some of the following questions:
What race do they belong to?
What is this person's main goal(s)?
Where did this person come from?
What do they look like?
What did they accomplish? invent?
Who bore them? Who fathered them?
What makes them unique? (ie. why should readers care about him/her?)
What weapon, if any, did they favor?
What moments in life defined them?
Who did they marry?
Who did they bear/ father?
What deity did they serve?
What wars did they fight in?
How did they die?
What was this person's general outlook on life and why?