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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkdancer" data-source="post: 1216935" data-attributes="member: 1346">esme's story:esme (ez-meh) used to live on the outskirts of a town or village with her mother and her grandmother, who were both (wood) witches.  The two older women were often visited by people from the town/village who needed healing or herbal recipes of one sort or another, but other than that, they were left to themselves, which suited them just fine.  esme learned from her elders various arts of witchery.  Then, one late night when esme was around 12 years old, she returned from gathering various herbs to find their house burning fiercely.  She was somehow able to enter the house and drag out her grandmother, but the woman died within minutes.  Her mother died inside the house.  It is esme's firm belief that the fire was set, but she's not sure by whom.  there were all sorts of rumors about her parentage, and even before she was born her family does not seem to have ever been favorably regarded.  she wants more than anything to avenge their deaths but as yet is unsure how to do so.  she doesn't care who her father is unless it has something to do with what happened.esme's appearance:  before the fire, esme shared her mother's and grandmother's coloring of pale skin, dark brown wavy hair and hazel eyes, but the fire seems to have permanently changed her.  Although six years have passed, the hair on esme's head that had burned off during the fire has grown back pale and orange, and her eyes have become a smoldering reddish brown, as if there is a fire within.  She often stares fiercely which makes many people uncomfortable.  She has an anger that smolders like the house where her mother and grandmother died.  She never forgets a grudge or imagined grudge.  pax, beyond that I'm not sure - do you think this is the area she grew up?  or do you think she left that and journeyed here?  either way works for my character concept, I think.  either her bitterness took her away or her bitterness sits smoldering as she carefully watches the people who may or may not have killed her family.  whadya think?</blockquote>

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