Ed Greenwood-Paris

Ed Greenwood-Paris was born to a currently unnamed woman in 1605 and originally had the name 'Edwin'. He had unnamed younger sister. His birth mother died rather violently and Ed took his baby sister and ran.

He now lives in Begdor with Mags Greenwood-Paris, Charles Greenwood-Paris and Yarra Greenwood-Paris, hos adoptive parents and brother respectively.

## **Appearance**

Messy sandy blond hair, green eyes. Usually in plain child size tunic and slightly too big boots. Rather skinny and a little stunted, since the first five years of his life was spent in famine. He is filling out however.

## **Personality**

Takes a little while for him to trust people. He usually watches them first, and being small and young he gets away with it. Once you get his trust he’s a happy, energetic boy who likes talking to you and getting into mischief. He generally tries not to make a mess because he used to get into big trouble for that. Afraid of shouting and raised voices. He quite likes making noise with instruments, since he doesn’t make any noise from his mouth. Him being mute is a result of the violent way his mother died and how quickly his lost his sister afterwards.

## **History**

### Early Life

Was born in 1605 in the slums surrounding Cordoire. He never knew who his dad was, it could have been damn near anyone, and his mother was a bitter, sharp woman. There were often fights around his home, mostly caused by his mother. In 1610 around late April, one of these fights took a turn for the worst, and his mother was fatally wounded.

At this point, Ed had two options. He could stay in the slums and join the orphan groups there, or he could take his newborn baby sister and run. He chose the latter.

His five year old legs went a surprising distance, leaving the slums and heading out towards House Jackie. He gets picked up by some travelling traders, who had done their business in the city and were heading towards Fionport. It was his sister’s weak crying that caught their attention, and they took pity on the two lost children.

However, when it came to asking who they were and why they were here, Ed didn’t say anything. Sometimes it would seem like he would try to answer, then something would stop him and he’d clam up again. So begin a series of games and questions where the traders had to more or less guess what they could.

The traders didn’t really have the means to look after two young children long term, and it showed. Ed’s little sister, already weak from Ed not being able to feed her properly, died on the road. She was buried in a Fae Garden, as is custom, and Ed was told about Changelings, how in the future the Fae might bring her back as a Changeling. This was told to make Ed feel less guilty about the death of his sister, and he took it to heart.

Ed was dropped off at Fort Stiofán, where he got good food and an education, both novel things to him. The biggest initial problem came with Ed not speaking, and most of the kids his age didn’t know how to cope with that. He also didn’t like it when they get too loud when they play, so tends to avoid it. The caretakers tried, one called Gwen taught him what she could, but no one knew enough to properly teach him.

Enter Mags in early 1611, who starts off coming to the Watch for research purposes, but when she arrives she is told about Ed and asked if she can help, so she seeks him out and teaches him and anyone else who wants to learn sign language. Ed really starts to open up to the Mags once he can communicate, and more than once declares that he loves her, in the way small children do. He meets Charles a few times after Mags gets married, and takes a while to warm to up him.

In 1612 Yarra enters the picture, and Ed instantly knows he’s a Changeling. Or at least, thinks he does. He doesn’t want to get it wrong, so just watches Yarra, not realises how much it freaks the older boy out. He tries to talk to him, but Yarra doesn’t know sign language, so it only seems to freak him out more.

He doesn’t get confirmation until Yarra talks with Mags about Changelings and panics. Ed is worried about him and won’t leave him alone, unknowingly making the panic attack worse. Mags comes in to calm Yarra down, revealing Yarra to be a Changeling and Ed is excited. He starts yammering about his sister being a Changeling and assuming that Yarra is his sister. To Ed, Yarra is the first Changeling he met after his sister died, so *must* be his sister. Mags and Yarra are not convinced but see no real harm in dissuading him from this.

Ed and Yarra become closer, as do the two of them and Mags. Ed is a little jealous that she and Yarra talk so much, especially since what they talk about it boring, but the other option is sitting around the garrison bored. With Yarra around Ed is less worried about Charles, especially since Charles gets on with Yarra.

In 1613 they are adopted by Charles and Mags and Ed is overjoyed. Yarra is now officially his big brother and he gets to live some of his favourite people. Later that year they went to Loburn to celebrate the Winter Celebration.

In March 1614 he accompanied his family to Imforis, as Mags's familiar Rena, was dying. When Mags and Charles didn't come out of the Western Forest for several hours he began to panic, convinced that he was going to be alone again. It took a while for Yarra to even begin to calm him down, and thankfully their parents came out of the Forest.

In April that year Ivy came to Begdor and he got very excited, he likes her stories. He did panic though when Irnas came by and the two got into a shouting match. He had to hide in his room with Yarra comforting him.

Later in the month, the family travelled to the Iolla Cliffs area for Mags to see about a dog. Ed was nervous the entire time, afraid of large dogs, but he calmed down a little bit. Yarra was taken by one of the dogs, but it took a few months for Ed to be okay with it.

In Jan 1615 Begdor came under attack, and Ed sat with Mags in the back of the cart as Yarra drove them out of the town. During the ride a fire cat got into a cart and tried to take a chunk out of Ed's leg. They managed to get it off him and he was the worst injured out of the family.