Caeryn

==Vital Statistics==
Name: Caeryn Matilda Peyton
Title: The Blind Assassin
Race: Forsaken
Class: Rogue
Professions: Mining and Engineering
Age: 30 at death
Eyes: None
Hair: Blonde
Skin-Tone: Pale with a greenish tint
Height: 5'7" when standing straight, 5'4" with usual posture
Weight: 100lbs
==Life Before Death==
===Caeryn's Human Family===
Caeryn grew up the second child and only daughter of the Ashwood family - wel respected Masons, and regarded favorably by much fo the Stormwind city elite. Caeryn's father, Victor Ashwood, passed the family business dealings over to his son, Edward around the time that Caeryn was twenty-six years old.
The human woman, living as a spinster with her aging parents, was the bride in two failed engagements organized especially to further elevate the Ashwood family status. After the second failed engagement, Victor and Helen Ashwood decided they could no longer bear any further embarassment by the merchant and aristocratic houses of Stormwind and instead continued Caeryn's education in the hopes that she could find work as a school teacher or the like.
Caeryn's older brother, Edward Ashwood, was a brash man who spent much of his time socializing. Edward married Adelaide, the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant family. The two were said to spend "lavishly," and eventually squandered much of the family fortune by throwing parties and other social engagements. As he was the head of one of the Mason families involved in the rebuilding of Stormwind, Edward and Adelaide felt justified in their spending, believing to be eventually rewarded handsomly for their efforts.
However, when the Stormwind nobility refused to pay the stonemasons for the city's rebuilding, Edward and Adelaide Ashwood were cast out of the city along with Edwin VanCleef. The two were never heard from again. To this day, Caeryn considers her brother and sister-in-law to be alive and believes them to have allied with the Defias Brotherhood.
The family business ruined, and any fortunes squandered on frivolities, the remaining Ashwoods felt they could not remain in the city. The three traveled to Westfall with plans to establish themselves within the farming community. Soon after the three left Stormwind, Victor and Helen Ashwood passed away, leaving the now twenty-eight year old Caeryn to fend for herself.
==The Goldshire Players==
After leaving Stormwind, Caeryn did find work as a waitress and "Entertainer" at the Lion's Pride Inn in Goldshire soon after her parents' deaths. She worked at the Inn for approximately one year before a fellow by the name of Stephan Wolffe arrived and recruited the human for his burdgeoning theatre troupe 'The Goldshire Players'.
The Goldshire players were a dinner theatre troupe and revue started a little over one year before the plague hit Lordaeron. Stephan Wolffe, the leader of the troupe, was much loved by the entire company, and from Caeryn's stories of the man, it seemed that the two were a bit more involved than is let on. Something Caeryn keeps as a guarded secret is that she and Mr. Wolffe were actually engaged to be married.
In the year before the Plague, The Players traveled all over the Human and Dwarf lands of the Eastern Kingdoms, playing in several Inns and at festivals. After each performance, they were paid far less than was promised and asked not to return. An incident which Caeryn has made public at one of the Curse storytelling events was The Players first and final foray into Ironforge.
===The Goldshire Players Enter Lordaeron===
After much being thrust out of every Inn in the southern Kingdoms, Stephan Wolfe made way for the troupe to head north, toward Lordaeron. Eventually wanting to settle in Andorhal. However, their trip was poorly timed. On an overnight stay in Brill, the entire company, including Caeryn Ashwood and Audre Day, ate poisoned grain.
They soon died.
==Life After Death==
===The Zephyr Crew and Other Relations===
Caeryn is painfully formal. She alludes to her "proper upbringing" in the city of Stormwind as to the reasoning behind her formality. She addresses nearly everyone by a formal title (usually Miss or Mr.), and tends to keep everyone at arm's length. This behavior has only increased since her employment with the Undercity, for fear of someone using her friendships and loyalties against her.
Caeryn considers few people as friends, and she wrestles with the idea of keeping people too close to her. She is much more comfortable interacting with people on a superficial basis, and yet becomes highly insulted when assumptions are made by others regarding her character.
Caeryn considers herself a member of the Zephyr Crew above her membership to the Horde in general. She is fiercely loyal. To other people not in the Crew, Caeryn borders on being cold -- and is most likely highly untrustworthy. However, Caeryn maintains that she is not a dishonest woman, and gets by only on bending and withholding truth when necessary.
Caeryn is very bitter about "romance" and serious romantic relationships. She seems to view "love" as a human failing and a waste of time. Although the origins of these feelings remain unspoken, Caeryn makes no qualms about airing her opinions on the matter.
===Idiosyncracies===
For all of Caeryn's espousing about the horrors of emotion, Caeryn has, since death: been in love, had an affair, attempted to kidnap her best friend, run a Horde business, murdered a close associate, saved the life of a colleague, and gone mildly insane from Saronite poisoning.
Category:Horde
Category:Forsaken
Category:Rogue
Category:Miner (H)
Category:Engineer (H)