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Welcome to the mountain village of Winteredge. It is a village in the realm of Coldholt Crags. It's a small village, a place out of the way from the beaten path, home to many races. They go about their day to day lives, not worrying about the troubles of the rest of the world. The big stories there are about people getting into a relationship, or who gets thrown out of the local tavern, or who has commissioned Nitaka Mountainfist, the local dwarven black-smith, to make something special. Needless to say, very little interesting happens in Winteredge. Until the day Nitaka returned from the city, and was found to have adopted a young girl, somewhere between 10-18 years old, while in the city, who was with him. And considering that Nitaka is almost 355, it was an odd thing for him to do. No one knows why he did it, or if it will work out. Most importantly, all the young men in the village are hoping to woo her to try & get some of Nitaka's fortune. A fact that is not lost of Nitaka, & is wary of any men who approach his adopted daughter

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Username:Zaydin
Name: Nitaka Mountainfist
Age: 455 (Human equivalent of 55)
Gender: Male
Race: Dwarf
Appearance: Nitaka Mountainfist
Occupation: Black-smith
Bio: Nitaka is the finest black-smith in Winteredge. Of course, since he's the ONLY black-smith there, he's that by default. But his work is finer than those that the merchants bring in when they visit from the big city a five day walk from the village. Nitaka was an adventurer in his younger days, but he has mellowed in his old age, & his main passions in life are working metals, mining them, & his adopted daughter. Nitaka, however, doesn't say much of his past, & hasn't said anything about why he adopted the young girl.
Other: Mines the metals he works with himself, but not all of it. Is good friends with the family that owns the local tavern.

Username: Arachna Blackrose
Name: Nerise Arborshate
Age: Unknown, believed to be around 150
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Elf
Appearance: Nerise
Occupation: Runs the tavern
Bio: Not much is known of Nerise's past, as she's been running the village's tavern for as long as anyone can recall. Well...except for a select few far older than herself anyway.
Other: She's got an odd phobia--being afraid of frogs, snakes, just about anything that moves that's green and/or scaly.

Username: Rinel_underwood
Name: Kirin
Age: 16
Gender: female
Race: cat demon
Appearance: Kirin , but with white ears and a white cat tail. She has cat like eyes that are green and a slight brushing of white fur over her arms and legs.
Occupation: ex thief
Bio: Till she was eight, Kirin lead a pretty normal life in a crowded city. Her family ran a clothing shop and made an honest living, or so she thought. One day, though, she came in from playing with the other children to find a notice on the front door, saying that the house had been foreclosed on and her parents were in jail. She didn't get it at the time, and stayed in the house for quite a while, hiding there and waiting for her parents to return. After about a week, a group of thieves broke into the house to try and steal some things. Finding Kirin, they decided to let her join them.
She did well in the thieves guild, and moved on, but when she was thirteen, she finally found her parents.... right in the middle of one of the biggest heists her group had tried to pull off, and moments before her parents were to be executed. Kirin chose trying to save her parents over the thieves guild. They ended up getting caught, her parents ended up getting hung. Kirin managed to escape... but obviously the guild didn't let her back.
She spent a few years, trying to freelance… but she wasn’t doing well at it. She got caught, and when somebody offered to take her from the city and adopt her, she decided it might be best to go with it.
Other: She loves animals and has a sort of connection with them.

Username: Halokat
Name: Arowen
Age: 1056 (no equvilent human age, once they mature they stay the same)
Gender: Female
Race: Winter Elf aka Snow Elf
Appearance: Arowen
Occupation: Healer/Physician
Bio: Arowen has been the healer of the village, since before several of the current residents were born. Arowen has lived in the village since she was 205. Her clan of Winter Elves were wiped out by unkown forces. She can't remember. She never had a last name because everyones name was different and unique in the clan.
Other: Has a pet frog that thinks it's a dog and sometimes follows her around the village, except the tavern, and a white horse(the one in the picture)

Username: chaosdaae
Name: Shamira Eirwen
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: Shamira
Occupation: Shop owner
Bio: Winteredge is where Shamira was born and raised, and she soon grew tired of it. At the age of 16 she left the town to get out and see the world. Years later she returned much more short-tempered and irritable than she had been when she left, and whenever someone asked her why she had returned she would grumble something along the lines of a vague 'met too many stupid people.'
Other: She's one of Winteredge's most notorious witches, using magic frequently for everyday tasks. She has cast spells all over her shop, and may the gods have mercy on whoever tries to steal something.

Username: SilverWolf_Snow
Name: Ayame
Age: (620 in Vamp. years) 20
Gender: female
Race: Vampire
Appearance: Ayame
Occupation: Hunter/ assassin
Bio: At the age of 20, she was turned and her whole family killed. remembering nothing of her past really, only her name and the face of the one who had made her the way she is, she is on a never ending journey, and assassin for hire and willing to help anyone who needs it.
Other: She is a 'vegetarian' vampire, meaning she only feeds off of animals blood.

Username: aneman333
Name: Seth
Age: 716 (looks 18 )
Gender: male
Race: vampire
Appearance:Seth Except he's usually got a shirt on.
Occupation: A cook at the Inn
Bio: He's only been in the village for the last one hundred years. He is generally very tight-lipped about his past. Some say he doesn't remember, some say he wants to forget, but the truth is no one is really sure. What is known is that, despite his age, he has never turned anyone into a vampire. He's generally pretty quiet and shy around girls. Especially Ayame.
Other: He drinks human blood, but his donors are all willing and he has never, as far as anyone knows, killed anyone.

Username: Kowsauni
Name: Corsica Bladebreaker
Age confused ??
Gender: Female
Race: Scorpion Demon
Appearance: Corsica pic. Corsica towers about a 8 feet tall and weights at least a ton.
Occupation: Retired Warrior.
Bio: No one knows exactly where Corscia is from though it is theorized she came from the deserts to the south. She has taken up residence in the forest in a cave near to the town. A great pillar of smoke can often be observed arching over the forest from her homestead. Corsica does not interact with the village much and the villagers do there best to stay out of her way. They know the forest is her domain. The villagers only tolerate her presence knowing it would cost many lives to kill her or drive her away.
Other: Corsica has the reputation of being cold and rather mean. She seems to hold almost every one of none of demon decent in disgust. The once exception being that of Nitaka, who she respects as a fellow warrior of experience. Corsica has made it clear she does not like it in Winteredge. However something seems to compel her to stay, or rather, prevent her from returning home.

Nitaka stood by his forge, hammering way at the lump of red hot metal he was working with "Shall be a fine piece of dwarven craftsmanship" he murmured, wiping the sweat from his brow

Kirin stands before the window, up in her room, gazing out over the small town she now lived in. She'd been here for about three weeks now, and still found it hard to believe how quickly everything had changed. A month ago, she'd been living on the streets of the city, stealing her meals and fighting to survive... now she had a room of her own and never needed to steal again. This town was quieter, true, but it was an improvement overall.
Kirin smiles slightly, then turns and heads downstairs to see what Nitaka was up to.

Kirin walks down the stairs, glancing about the house, then noticed through an open door the orange glow of the forge. Nitaka had taught her some things about the forge already... she suspected he might even want her to take it over for him eventually... but while she found the finished works beautiful... she didn't particularly care for it. She found it too hot in there, too cramped. She enjoyed to be outside a lot more. Still, she could at least see if he wanted any help.
Kirin reaches the ground floor, then walks over to the forge and peaks inside. "Anything I could do to help out?" She asks politely, smiling.

"Alright." She replies, nodding, then turns and walks into the kitchen.
A few moments later, Kirin returns to the forge with a cold glass of water. "Here you go." She says, handing him the water, then glances at the metal piece he was working on. "What's it going to become?" She asks curiously.

Kirin couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at that. He spoke as if the metal was alive, choosing what it wished to become... which was just silly. Kirin frowning slightly in confusion, then shakes her head. "Well, anyways, I'm probably going to go explore the village for a bit." She tells him, taking a step towards the door as she does so.

Arowen walked in the nearby forest, collecting herbs and other necessities. Her very large(the size of a small dog) pet frog, Emerald, followed her; eating bugs as he hopped in the tall grass. His name was ironic, because he was an albino bullfrog. Arowen finished, and put the herbs in her basket, and called him. He followed her like a lost puppy would. Arowen walked quickly to her shop, letting Emerald in before she closed the door. Arowen took off her white wolf skin cloak, to reveal a long flowing white gown. She set her cloak on the back of a chair and walked over to the window. Her shop was somewhat close to the blacksmith's, for she could see it out of her window. She had heard that Nitaka had brought a young girl back, but she hadn't met her yet or even seen her. Arowen took the herbs out of her basket and put them on her medicine shelves. As Arowen walked to the back of her shop, which was her house, Emerald jumped up on his table by the window, and sat there staring out. He didn't move or blink, he just sat there like a statue. If anyone walked by, that didn't know him, they would probably think he was fake.