Juniper Thistledown (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=944396)<div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/Kittenpeeler/orious_002.jpg)</div><br/>Juniper's a slight thing, barely seeming heavy enough to keep her badger-fur slippers on the ground. She has the typical build of a young halfling lass, lithe and willowy, coltish legs and athletic tone, all clad in earthy tones of brown and green. Wide green eyes seem to take everything in at once, except hen they're hidden under a flopped knopnot of reddish gold waves, and she seems ready with a smile and friendly greeting no matter the circumstances.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Background</div><div class="spoiler_body">Juniper was once the daughter of nobility; her father was the landholder of a small forested halfling community, and he and his wife certainly expected juniper to live up to the expectations of rank and privilege - such as it was in their situation. What they got instead was a typical halfling girl, always wandering off and poking her nose where it shouldn't be, coming back with frogs in her hair and sticks in her pockets. She was simply <em>drawn</em> to the woods - forget the stuffy shirts and proper curtseys and the like! it was in such a gallivant that she stumbled upon - or was guided to, who can tell? a druid coven; there amid the stones and roots, weathered men and women, creatures of the forest all, led their seasonal gathering... and invited Juniper to join them.<br/><br/>it was a scandal of course; the daughter of Baron Lark Pelligreen and his lady-wife Rowan, skulking off to learn about toadstools and fox turds? They would have refused - and possibly locked Juniper away in the basement for a month! - if it hadn't been for the intervention of the Heirophant, Olia Has. Olia was old. so old, she said, she rembered when the dirt was clean. Juniper doesn't know exactly what old Olia said to her father to sway him, but whatever it was, it worked! The two halfling women - one as fresh as a spring dandelion, the other like a gnarled pine - took to the deepest reaches of the forest, where Juniper <em>learned</em>.<br/><br/>She's not been back home; No, the world is too big, too important, too <em>interesting</em> to stay stuck in some little halfling hamlet. Leaving Olia's company to take up with a greensinger traveler, Juniper has explored her away across several lands, poked her nose into the odd ruin or two, and even managed to not get eaten by goblins! So far, so good...</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Personality</div><div class="spoiler_body">Juniper is easygoing and outgoing, always ready to meet new things and experience new people... or <em>something</em> like that. Everyone out there is a potential friend until proven otherwise. A little Naive, but not exactly <em>gullible</em>, Juniper is definitely a creature of the forest. Though generally a kind-hearted person, she doesn't shy away from the cruelties of reality and nature; she'll be sad for you if your chiuld gets eaten by a bear, but will counsel that.. .well, it's a <em>bear</em>, you know, they eat things... Though she can be very diplomatic when she makes the effort, most of the time she's pretty straightforward and open, to the point of profund bluntness.<br/><br/>She revels in new discoveries, whether it's a lost ruin in the caves underfoot, a new way to eat shrimp, or even some weird religion that involves turtles all the way down. THich might lead her into reckless "adventures" as she tries to find out about thing she's never experienced before... and that's not a short list of things.</div></div>