Wren

Official image of Wren, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Wren Forrester is a Player Character of Arc 5 and played by James.

## Description

Wren is a High Elf Paladin following the Oath of the Ancients. She is sworn to Nylea, a forest deity, and protector of the Whispering Woodlands. She is 6'2" tall and very strong. Their red hair has been put up in a crown braid for the festival, and they have flowers carefully tucked into it.

She has a maybe-girlfriend, Lily, they call each other best friends yet, but are also very close and occasionally flirt, although they are keeping it on the down low yet. Lily is a merchant and florist. They have a routine of working together, when Wren helps her set up her stand. Wren then just holds or lift anything Lily needs them to.

Wren has come to the Festival of the Dawnfather's Rest as a volunteer guard to help out merchants who are traveling from her town of Dryad's Crossing to get to the festival. One of these merchants is Lily, whom Wren helps set up the stand and prepare for the festival. Additionally, at the festival, they take shifts as a sort of volunteer guard, for which they wear a chain mail equivalent of a reflective vest that has the word "volunteer" written on their back. Wren hopes to find a holiday gift for Lily at the festival.

## Backstory

She has only been in the Whispering Woodlands for a couple years, but has settled down there and lives there in a house.

While living in the Whispering Woodlands, Wren met Omen Haxolpenny and his siblings, who occasionally made some chaos in the forest, scaring off visitors and wanderers. Wren tries to make sure Omen doesn't get into too much trouble and sometimes is the "mom friend" for him, but also, they are friends and hang out sometimes. Additionally, Omen and his siblings sometimes split with Wren what they gained from scaring people. Wren has been to the Haxolpennys for dinner once.

Wren's mentor is a man named Birk, who also lives in and guards the forest. They have some light-hearted banter between them, but are very close.

For about ten months before the start of Arc 5, Wren has been in a relationship with the florist Lily, but they decided that they did not want to tell others about it yet. Since they are still very close and regularly flirt with each other, most people can guess the true nature of their "business partnership" relatively fast, though.

Liberty Lovejoy, which is Wren's birth name, was mentioned in Arc 2. There it was revealed that she is a sister of Gem Lovejoy who ran away from an arranged marriage to live in the forest. She later taught Robyn Lovejoy how to be a rogue, but it is unclear where in her timeline that happened. Wren is still in contact with her family, although Gem refuses to answer her letters. She has taken the job as a forrester in a forest that belongs to the Lovejoys hoping that they would leave her alone as long as they know where she is and that she regularly writes.

## Character Arc

During Arc 5, Wren soon becomes the mom friend of the group, and tries to be the voice of reason against the chaos brought into the group by Omen and sometimes also Sougle.

In Episode 4, Wren has to confront the worst possible version of herself in the mirror maze in order to get to the middle of it. This is the moment where it is revealed that Wren is Gem Lovejoy's sister, and used to go by the name Liberty Lovejoy. At first, she thinks she sees her sister in the mirror, shoulders back, standing very straight, the statue of someone who is very self-important. Her mirror image is paler than her and has gaunter features, like someone who does not go outside that much, but rather sits in reading rooms and studies. The mirror Wren has colder eyes, and their hair is tightly pulled out of the way, nothing about them is out of place. She has her hands clasped in front of her, and as the real Wren reaches out to touch the mirror, at first her mirror image goes to reach out, too, but then clasps her hands together again. Wren realises that this worst possible version is not their past, but what they left behind, what they could have been if they would have followed the wishes of their family.

In Episode 7, Wren finally decides that they want to tell people about their relationship. After making sure that Lily is ok with it, she starts telling everyone - most people that know her already knew it, but are still happy that she got to the point where she felt ready to tell them.

As they are trying to build a connection with and comfort Shi'elle, Wren reveals that they tried to run away from the things they could not change, but have since learned to accept them, and find the happiness on the other side of them.

## Trivia

* Wren's free expertise is Insight.
* There are rumours that Wren might be a noble.
* James wrote 4 pages of backstory, descriptions, and NPCs for Wren.
* Wren is slightly scared of Elisabeth Haxolpenny, which is one of the reasons she does her best to look after Omen.