Wynter

Description:
Facial description Wynter’s face is round with a small delicate chin that comes to a point. She has a large hooked nose, and thin lips with a strongly defined cupid’s arch. Her distant glassy brown eyes are big and innocent but always look worried. She wears little to no makeup, most commonly pinching her cheeks and biting her lips for color, only occasionally wearing mascara to accent her eye lashes. She frequently hides her face behind a stormy mess of black curls. She most often wears it with her bangs down and the bulk of t pulled into a high ponytail held tight with a purple ribbon. There always seems to be something wrong with her, something not quite human. Without a trained eye though it's impossible to recognize her as a Kalashtar.

Body description Her height is fairly average for a human woman but her weight sits on the low end. She is thin with very little as far as womanly curves are concerned, having a more boyish build. She often makes herself look smaller by carrying herself in a less self confident manner with her shoulders pulled in tight and having a slight hunch to make herself small. When angry though she has been known to puff out her chest and shoulders while making herself stand tall.

General equipment

Spellbook- Neatly bound black letter with silver clasps and crisp cream parchment pages. It has several purple and black ribbons bookmarking her most commonly used spells.

Delilah- She's a tall strong draft horse with a black and white almost pinto patterned coat. Her main and tail are longer and thicker than your average horse and she even has long thick hair around her hooves that flows in the wind.

Founding Adventuring Clothing- Wynter's first set of adventuring clothes consisted of clothes that her father had left behind which she altered on her own to fit her: •Hat (a dark teal traditional style felt wizard hat with a navy blue floral pattern ribbon decorating the brim.) •Shirt/Vest (a high collared dusty pale blue vest with horizontal thin steel grey stripes over top of a pale cream button up shirt.) •Leggings/ •Shoes (simple brown leather shoes with dark grey spats over the top.) •Coat (a dark grey long coat with the bottom front and back cut like four flower petals. The front of the coat has a lighter grey panel in the front with a black floral brocade pattern. The inside is purple satin and all the trim is purple floral ribbon. The front of her coat is held closed by buckles and dark brown leather straps.

Established Adventuring Clothing- Wynter's clothing that she ordered from Ella to wear while adventuring after The Circle of The Leaf began to gain some legitimacy: •Dress/Shirt (a solid dark grey dress falling to a point in the front and back while riding slightly higher on the sides. It has a princess neckline trimmed in purple with a satin ribbon at the center of her bosom. It sits over top of a high collared periwinkle pastel high collared button up. •Leggings (dark grey with dark brown leather knee pads) •Boots (high heeled leather boots with darker details on the heel and toe, laced up with purple ribbon.) •Coat (a medium grey jacket with purple lining and coat tails. The elbows have leather pads.)

Palace Clothing- This is the outfit she was seen wearing when she delivered her wedding invitations in the palace gardens. •Dress (a dark purple satin dress with black floral brocade and lace accents, hanging delicately off her shoulder. It is layered tom look like an upside down flower.) •Stockings •Boots (high heeled custom tailored boots made with grey and black satin, laced up with purple ribbon.) • Hair Accents (Delicate purple flowers and ribbons braided through her dark hair.)

History:
Family

Winslow Night: A surly Kalashtar and founder of the Knights of a New Order, a guild infamous for causing trouble wherever they went. They are often viewed more as mercenaries than a respectable guild although they are registered in the Ludas guild charter, in Lochdanan. He isn't a particularly agreeable man at best and at worst he tends to be a belligerent drunk. Wynter tells people he's a necromancer which isn't true. He serves a demon lord and was a student of illusion magic at the College of Eight in his youth. He simply dabbles in necromancy on occasion.

Bridget Thompson: A human paladin of Pelor who fell in love with Winslow. They traveled together during a brief break Winslow took from the Knights. She became pregnant during her romantic tryst and they planned to raise a family together. Bridget was later given orders to kill Winslow from her superiors for his tendency to meddle in affairs that put good human lives at risk. She begrudgingly attempted to complete her task but her emotions got in the way and she allowed Winslow to leave with Wynter since their daughter was too painful of a reminder of the live she lost.

Luna: A boy with pink hair who was Wynter’s adoptive older brother and a member of the Knights.

Pandora Bittertwirls: A maniacal pixie with intense bloodlust and an obsession with pancakes, also Wynter's adoptive older sister.

Early childhood

Wynter spent her childhood traveling with the Knights of a New Order while her father struggled to raise her and cope with losing her mother. The Knights gave Wynter a hyper masculine environment in which to grow up in, even the female members leaned more towards masculine personalities and this greatly shaped her personality and worldview pushing her to be louder and more brash than other girls her age.

Even from infancy Wynter had strange esoteric dreams. As soon as she was able to speak she would always tell Winslow about her dreams. At first he brushed them off assuming they were just your average nonsensical sleep rationalizations that his daughter used to cope with her strange life until her he started noticing patterns in the things she would tell him, patterns that seemed to relate to the day to day lives of himself and the Knights. He quickly figured out that she had a knack for divination that she did not yet understand. It made him afraid and he began seclusion her as much as he could for her own protection.

He taught her bits and pieces of magic that she could use to protect herself while discouraging her from dwelling too much on her dreams. He saw a power in her that he didn't want used against her. He assumed that by discouraging her from improving her gift he could keep it hidden where it would remain unnoticed.

At a certain point the stress of constantly placing his daughter in danger by bringing her adventuring became too much and Winslow took her to Greenleaf to hide her away. He left her with one of the Wizards he had studied with when he was younger, entrusting him with her care and education.

Greenleaf

Wynter came to Greenleaf at the age of seven being told by her father that she was only coming so she could apprentice under one of the best wizards he knew when in truth he was paranoid and wanted to leave her in a small town where she would go unnoticed and stay safe.

Having seen herself as an adventurer up to this point and a member of the Knights of a New Order she saw herself as an outsider only staying temporarily until her father came back for her. Since, as far as she knew, her reason for staying in Greenleaf was to study magic; she threw herself into her studies so that her father would hopefully come back and take her away quicker.

She did well in her studies and Winslow would pop into Greenleaf on and off; along with one of the other Knights, a moon elf named Kel’thor. They were her only outside visitors and she would always be elated to see them. They came fairly consistently for about six years, bringing her gifts from their travels and spoiling her. The last time she saw the two of them together in Greenleaf she told her father about a strange dream she had. She didn't realize it was a prophetic vision about danger that the other Knights were in and she didn't understand why her father and Kel’thor left her so quickly after she told them about it. She assumed she had made them angry and beat herself up for it.

A little less than a month after her father and Kel’thor had left her in such a hurry Winslow showed up out of the blue in the middle of a stormy night. She was laying in bed reading when she heard his voice and went to see him. He was frantic and more wild looking than she had ever seen him. He stripped out of his adventuring gear quickly changing into some more common traveling clothes. When he saw her he shoved a book at her telling her not to let anyone else ever touch it. Her told her he wasn't sure if he would see her again, that he was in grave danger and that following him would mean certain death for her. Lastly he told her to stay in Greenleaf where she would be safe. Just as quickly as he arrived he left leaving her bewildered and heartbroken.

After what felt like a betrayal by her father Wynter became a bit more reclusive rarely speaking to anyone outside of her master and his other apprentice, Rosalind. Since they studied together Wynter felt she was the only person she could open up to. Over the years she developed a very intimate sisterly bond with Rosalind allowing her to take the place of the family that had abandoned her.