Holly Hayward

Holly Hayward was an Elf from Elyn Maer, active during the later years of the Common Era. She was an incredibly talented smith, an innovative mage and an aspiring inventor, combining both at a time when magical development was at its most stagnant. Working alongside the then-unknown wizard Cyril Faulkner and the young metalsmith Lily Lowenhart in 1372 C.E, she helped refine magical techniques which would directly lead to the development of magical prosthetics such as the arm used by Lorawyn Allard.
Spoken of highly by her apprentice and many merchants residing within the Astanién town of Avelay, her proficiency with a hammer and tongs was well known, though the broader extent of her skills often went largely unrecognised besides simple blacksmithing and repair work.
== Information ==
=== History ===
Holly first met the three adventurers Lorawyn Allard, Elric Wybert and David Holmes outside of the town of Avelay, after her apprentice asked that they conduct a search in her absence. She was discovered to have been imprisoned by goblins, and after an ill-fated rescue mission she made her escape with the party in the wake of unknown and disturbing events. She would later go on to give Lorawyn her metal arm, and follow in her journeys both to observe the new limb in action and also to keep it in working order.
Only weeks later, however, she fell in combat with Duke Tristan Beake after he invoked the power of a heartstone in order to put an end to the four.
=== Personality ===
Hailing originally from Elyn Maer, an Elven settlement located within the temperate forests of southern Vesryn, Holly carried herself in a distinctly Vesryne manner. She was well-travelled and wise of the world, and spoke in a distinctively spirited local accent. Much like her kin, she proudly wore a name unusual to most other Esrian elves.
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