On the outskirts of a small town called Varrock is a small wooden house to a family of three. The father was a retired Guardsmen named Conner. Conner was a tall, broad and very proud man. He could pride in his work and skills. More importantly, his family. Now he mainly farms crops and raises animals to sell for coins and for other foods. Conner's wife Acele was also a proud woman. A hunter and sword maiden to be exact. She hunts small and large animals for trading, fur, leather, extra food and coin. Then there's the pride and joy of both Conner and Acele, Esmeralda. Esmeralda is young girl with long black hair and gorgeous blue green eyes that captures anyone's attention. At a young age, her parents made sure she knew how to use a short sword, bow and arrows, along with several other small weapons. Since Acele knew how to make clothing out of leather, she made Esmeralda dresses, pants, shirts, boots and many other clothes. Esmeralda, being like her parents, loved being outside doing something. Whether it's sketching, running around, helping her father with chores, she was always doing something.<br/><br/>With it being a gorgeous day out, Esmeralda was outside helping her father feeding the animals both outside and inside the barn. Acele was slowly walking back from the forest with three rabbits, three birds, and a buck. Seeing her mom, Esmeralda gently set the bucket down and raced towards her mom. "Mom! You're back, how was your hunting?" The older woman smiled at the sight of her daughter running up to her. "Hello to you too, dear. Well, as you can see, it went great." She showed Esmeralda the kills she got. Without asking or being asked, Esmeralda reached up and grabbed the three rabbits and three birds. "Let me carry these for you mom." Acele thanked her before walking with her towards the barn where Conner was finishing up feeding the animals. Setting the dead animals on the old wooden table that sat off in a corner, Esmeralda picked the bucket back up and finished feeding the small animals.<br/><br/>Hearing something off in the distance, Naria, the family wolf, started to growl with the fur on her back standing up straight. "What is it, girl?" Conner asked walking over to the entrance of the barn. He looked back at Acele and his daughter simply telling Acele "Hide her." She nodded, picked up Esmeralda, carried her over to a hidden room with Naria and Esmeralda's horse, Lyna following. Covering Esmeralda up with fur blankets, she kneel down. "You must stay here with Naria and Lyna. You understand? You need to stay here." Without realizing it, tears were slowly slipping from her eyes for she knew what was about to happen. "Momma, don't leave me..." Esmeralda whimpered. Naria laid down next to her as Lyna laid down next to her head. "I must dear. I must help your father." With that, she left the room making sure the soldiers couldn't see the hidden door.<br/><br/>What seemed like hours later was really a few minutes later. She could hear metal clinging against each other, shouts, screams and the one sentence that stood out to her the most. "Kill them both!!" Esmeralda quickly slammed her eyes, slammed her hands over her ears while wishing it all to go away. Within minutes, she was asleep. But she didn't stay asleep for long. Several minutes later, her eyes popped open for everything was silent. Too silent. Her hand reached over and gently shook Naria awake along with Lyna before pushing herself up to her feet. Walking out of the room with Lyna and Naria following, Esmeralda looked around. Her parents were no where to be found. "Mom!!" No answer. "Dad!!" Again no answer. Tears marked trails down her cheeks. "Oh Naria.....Lyna...What are we gonna do?" She softly whimpered. Then she remembered something about a city of Clarian her father would travel to. Often she would go with him so she slightly remembers that the city was west of here. "Come on Lyna, Naria. Let's go." Lyna kneel down for Esmeralda to climb on her back before they trotted off to the west with Naria right beside them<br/><br/>After several years of living on the streets, not only was Naria taken away but Lyna as well. Esmeralda cried for weeks losing her only two friends. She could remember the day it happened. '<span style="font-style: italic"> It wasn't a week after living in Clarian, they were both taken. "Hey look a free dog and horse." A stange man told his friend walking to Esmeralda, Naria and Lyna. The two men looked at each other smirking before knocking out Naria for one man to carry as the other leaped onto Lyna's back then they ran off. "Hey! Give them back!" Esmeralda running after them trying to catch up to the, but they were just too fast for her. Tripping over her own two feet, she slowly lifted her head watching them disappear from sight. Tears rolled down her face.</span>' Walking around, someone ran into her back causing her to stumble a little. Having wide eyes of surprise, she turned around only to find a girl about her age on the ground. "It's okay.... I'm sure you didn't mean it." She spoke with a soft, quiet and very sadden voice. Being a kind girl, she offered a hand to the girl to help her up.