Priscilla Goodwill

Priscilla Goodwill is a Silandria noble and the Lady of Birdsong.

## Background

Priscilla was born twenty two years ago in
the hold of Birdsong, on Silandria, to an actress mother, Emily
Goodwill, and a playwright father, Julian Goodwill, the younger brother
to Lord Edmund Goodwill of Birdsong. From her mother, she inherited a
beautiful and clear singing voice and a talent for the stage and acting,
 and from her father, a love for writing, poetry, and the lute. She
started her wanderings around the Eight Kingdoms at a rather early age,
each time with a different troupe that her parents would join for a tour
 or two. This meant that Priscilla grew up surrounded by many kinds of
artists: Painters, singers, actors, fire swallowers, acrobats…Each
different from one another, in both talents and origins.

She first
went up the stage at a very young age; playing characters other
actresses were too old for, simple roles with little to no lines. As she
 aged, she started to take more and more roles, different characters
with different stories; sometimes she played a damsel in distress,
others a wicked wood witch, a noble she-knight, a beggar in the alleys, a
 flint seller in the streets of an unnamed town, a herbalist in the
woods… an endless amount of roles to play, always with her mother to
support her. That was something she had always loved from the start of
her life on the stage, this ability to be someone new each time her
troupe went to give life to a new scene. This love was only rivaled by
one thing: Her passion for songs and ballads.

On her seventh
birthday, she was gifted a lute by her lordly uncle, and was then taught
 by her father how to play. She had always loved the sound of the
noblest of instruments, and to be able to play her own songs was a gift
that nothing would ever rival. It was not long after she had mastered it
 that she started to write her own ballads and poems.

It was not
long after her seventeenth spring that Julian Goodwill, her father,
passed away. It was as if her world had fallen apart on the moment her
mother gave her the news with teary eyes, a failing voice and a heavy
heart, her parent and mentor, gone just like that. He left her only one
gift after his passing, Callonetta, the family’s lute. It is said that
she composed a great number of poems and ballads in Master Julian’s
memory.

It took the girl a full year to recover from her loss, and
after that, she departed from her hometown with a small troupe of six
others, known as “The Seven Cats”, who departed on a long tour around
the kingdoms, enacting tales and plays to whomever would watch. It’s
been four years now, and she returns home with a heavy heart, with news
of her uncle's demise reaching her on the road. Without direct heirs of
his own, the lordship of Lord Edmund now falls on the shoulders of the
children of his beloved brother.

## Personality and Traits

Quirky
 and fun loving, Priscilla tends to be a lover of anything that is
artistic. She tends to see the world as a giant, unique song, where
every event, dramatic, comedic or heroic, can have a ballad written.
She takes her job, as both a bard and troubadour, very seriously, and hates to be interrupted in the middle of her work.

## Physical Description

Priscilla
 is a natural beauty. About 5'5 tall, with long locks of scarlet hair,
and a pair of dark blue eyes. She is athletically built, fruit of her
many travels around the lands that compose the eight kingdoms, as well
as that of her trade as an entertainer. She tends to use much of her
assets as means to get her way around things.

## Skills and Abilities

Priscilla
 is gifted with a great talent in music, poetry, acting and writing. She
 is known for having a silver tongue, and a small thing for opening
locks.

## Possessions

* Callonetta,

 a maple wood lute laminated in gold sheet, and painted by the hand of a
 famous, already dead artist. A family heirloom that she only plays with
 during special presentations.

* A silver ring given to her by her uncle, depicting the Goodwill songbird and crossed malt stems.

## Relations

* Specially fond of Birdsong's old librarian, who used to tell her stories when she was little.
* The Seven Cats troupe.
* Her uncle Edmund Goodwill.