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<blockquote data-quote="ender_wiggin" data-source="post: 1970903" data-attributes="member: 21629">Leland Softpetal, Ringly's father, is an aging cartographer and traveller. During his time, he has scoured the land, not only creating accurate maps but collecting all sorts of unique items. Most of these are rare books, of which he has a small library, organized in the basement of the Softpetal house. Leland was not born in Amblestock - instead, Nay, Ringly's mother who is a relative of the Peddlefoots fell in love with Leland over two decades ago when the mapper was making a foray into this area of the world. He is retired now, but the money he had accumulated over the years is enough to last them.Although his care of Ringly isn't extreme enough to be called 'neglect', Leland has always been occupied with his own business, organizing his &quot;treasure&quot; and writing his books. He loves Ringly and is especially worried about the negative views of Ringly's character, but usually only offers advice and never acts to correct what he sees as faulty. Ringly has grown up much on his own, and learned on his own. It was Leland's idea to send Ringly to study with Wellsly seven years ago. Perhaps he had a geniuinely good reason for doing so; perhaps he just wanted to shirk his fatherly responsibility.The town's view of Leland is neither good or bad; they see his still as an outsider, and thus relieve him of any responsiblity to act correctly, and view Nay as a foolish young woman for marrying him, even though she is aging herself and the marriage was over twenty years ago. Ringly's behavior is often times scrutinized, but rarely does anyone make the connection between his behavior and the parenting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ender_wiggin, post: 1970903, member: 21629"] Leland Softpetal, Ringly's father, is an aging cartographer and traveller. During his time, he has scoured the land, not only creating accurate maps but collecting all sorts of unique items. Most of these are rare books, of which he has a small library, organized in the basement of the Softpetal house. Leland was not born in Amblestock - instead, Nay, Ringly's mother who is a relative of the Peddlefoots fell in love with Leland over two decades ago when the mapper was making a foray into this area of the world. He is retired now, but the money he had accumulated over the years is enough to last them. Although his care of Ringly isn't extreme enough to be called 'neglect', Leland has always been occupied with his own business, organizing his "treasure" and writing his books. He loves Ringly and is especially worried about the negative views of Ringly's character, but usually only offers advice and never acts to correct what he sees as faulty. Ringly has grown up much on his own, and learned on his own. It was Leland's idea to send Ringly to study with Wellsly seven years ago. Perhaps he had a geniuinely good reason for doing so; perhaps he just wanted to shirk his fatherly responsibility. The town's view of Leland is neither good or bad; they see his still as an outsider, and thus relieve him of any responsiblity to act correctly, and view Nay as a foolish young woman for marrying him, even though she is aging herself and the marriage was over twenty years ago. Ringly's behavior is often times scrutinized, but rarely does anyone make the connection between his behavior and the parenting. [/QUOTE]

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