Lady Willow Moonfall

## Appearance

Willow Moonfall is in her 30's now, her skin is pretty fair, regardless of spending alot of her younger years in the gold coast. She has long blonde hair, that frames her face when she hasnt pulled it into some kind of updo. She has flame tattoos from her feet upto her shoulders, encasing her arms legs and torso. Her eyes are Hazel which can be seen to flick with golden lights from time to time. She would have a smile on her features most of the time, when she isnt concentrating, which tends to result in resting bitch face. Willow would also give of a friendly and calm aura, most of the time.

## Personality

Willow is a calm soul most of the time, becoming a govenor wasnt something she really wanted but embraced the life when she couldnt escape it. She is nice to all that come across her path, aslong as they are the same way back, other willow can be extremely fiesty. Willow is loyal to the core and believes in family over everything else. She feels most happiest when she is in her greenhouse tending to the plants, or with her children Athium Moonfall and Thyra Moonfall.

## Biography

### Youth

At 14 Willow had realized she was different, she would spend countless days getting lost in books about herbs/alchemy/ potions and spells. Her father Julius Moonfall hated this, he would dissuade her from learning such things. Demanding she grew into a proper noble, to get married to a lord and to have children. Willow had other ideas in mind. At 16 she ran away from her family, traveling to places like Grahtwood. In Grahtwood she met a few friendly bosmer, who taught her herbology.

By the age of 20, she had explored much, she grew very open minded.  Willow would try to not be prejudiced or racist. She was adventurous, although she felt she was missing something in her life. Willow had started teaching herself magick, dabbling with healing and elemental magick.

### Noble Willow

Willow moved to Linchal Town where there she met people who influnce her life very strongly. It was during her time at Linchal that Willow got married to John Freed, and grew a strong bond with her nephew in law, Athium Freed. Through hard work, she worked her way up to becoming a baroness of Linchal alongside a man called Meridius Septimus. Unfortunatly, Willow was later kicked out when she tried to save Meridius' life.

At the age of 27, Willow started anew in Glenumbra with a few comrades and friends she'd made at Linchal. Creating a new estate, House Moonfall, using her family influence and title of Baroness. After establishment, the house gained alot of traction and grew into a big success. Willow adopted Athium as her own son. House Moonfall was later moved back to the Gold Coast where Willow had a child with Magnus af Styr; Thyra Moonfall. Magnus disapeared, assumed dead. The trauma left Willow mentally ill, leading to what was assumed an attempted sucide.

### Warrior Willow

Shortly after Willow joined Sorrow Star, leaving Thyra in Moonfall. While she was away, fighting, Moonfall Estate fell to bandits and opportunists and many of the remaining residents died or were forced to flee, including Lady Willows only daughter, Thyra. Julius Moonfall managed to secure a piece of land for his daughter and their people in Karthald, Western Skyrim. Willow once again finds herself having to rebuild Moonfall, while planning to avenge her loss of property back in th Gold Coast.

## Linchal Town

Willow’s time at Linchal would change her life for good. Willow met a man called Meridius Septimus at Linchal Manor, who through all her meekness and skyness, gave her a chance to blossom. He gave her responsibility over his garden, where she thrived, hours upon hours a day. Willow proved herself a quick study and eager to please. Soon enough she became Meridius’ assistant.

#### John Freed

Willow had met John at the very start of her journey at Linchal Manor. He was rude, abrasive, but he was eager to push her boundaries, which she respected and even came to love at one point. They were married and even due to have a child, but a horrible turn of events would change that forever. Freed being as unpredictable as he was, would have massive pressures on the relationship and in the end would cause Willow to lose her child relating to stress in her life. After that John never forgave Willow and would blame her for this event.

John Freed had a strained relationship with another, Edward Fairfax, who one day struck down John, almost to the point of death. John fled, barely holding onto his life, leaving Willow behind at Linchal.

*Her father had gotten wind of this information and had abducted Freed from outside of the Moonfall Estate and taken him to the prisons in the gold coast to die. Needless to say: Willow was thankful.*

#### Meridius Septimus

At a time, Linchal was lost to Meridius and Willow. Together, with a lot of scheming and plotting, they reclaimed Linchal. This earned Willow the title of ‘Governess’ to Linchal, as a consequence of a shared leadership of Linchal with Meridius.

On a hunt, Meridius got infected with lycanthropy. Willow, and some of her comrades were trying to help Meridius, an Order got themselves involved and were set out to have him murdered. Willow let Meridius escape. As a consequence, Linchal turned against Willow, calling her a werewolf lover and kicked her out.

## House Moonfall

Willow’s alliances with people at Linchal proved fruitful. Especially with one Soulance Solstice, who at the time would prove to be a valuable ally and friend. They had struck up an idea to flee to Glenumbra just on the outskirts of Daggerfall, to start a house, naming Willow Moonfall as Governess, due to her title at Linchal Town. With help and money from her family and some from Soulance, they had worked together to set up The Moonfall Estate.

A few people had followed Willow: Attellus Salenix and his wife Onrani Salenix, John Freed, Athium Freed, Shizerebi-Sa, who offered allegiance to House Moonfall. Together, they wanted to create a safe haven for anyone to go to. As the house started gathering momentum, Willow and her House were getting more and more attention. Willow had started amassing loyal and trustworthy people to the house. Including some ragtag Nords; Valdemar Skjolding and Magnus af Styr, who she had met previously at her house with Freed.

However, a seemingly jealous man by the name of Uthard had written to them to demand they bend the knee and take heavy taxes and give over the house to him. Of course Moonfall denied him that right, causing war between Ulthard’s house and House Moonfall. Many came to aid Moonfall; Soulance’s Mother, Willow's Father, Attellus and his Imperial army, and the Nords, who brought their own men to the cause. The battles were bloody and furious. Willow suffered serious wounds.

The battles allowed Willow to grow in strength and magicka, under the guidance of Aedarith, her then, newly appointed court mage. It was in this conflict that Willow’s nephew Atium Freed, whom she loved as a son, was taken captive. Desperate, and losing the battle, Willow reached out to King Emeric. With the help of Magnus af Styr, they were able to convince him to help Moonfall. King Emeric sent a troupe of 400 men, in exchange for Moonfall. Regardless of the suffering, Willow's focus was to accomplish one thing; to kill Uthard.

With help, House Moonfall won the battle and captured Uthard, almost costing her life. The damage to House Moonfall itself was immense. To help recover, the house was moved to the Gold Coast.

Willows Thanks: Lady Kira Vayne, Lord Kiran Feiben, Valdemar Skolding, Mau-Ice (sorta-loves him really!), Sofi Solstice, Dar’Khara of House Khajiit, Attellus Salenix, Juliena, and Aedarith. To name a few….

### Magnus af Styr

In light of the war, one person had stood out to Willow; Magnus af Styr. He was strong, considerate, caring and honest. A union that wasn't seen to be coming at all, Willow didn't even realise when she fell in love with Magnus, it just happened naturally like it had always been. After Freed, she was careful and nervous. As time goes on, she realises that she had met someone very much her soulmate.

After they moved to the Gold Coast together, Magnus, Willow's intended husband, went missing after going on a supposed fishing trip. They were to be wed the next day. Reports came in that his ship was found, in pieces, on a Gold Coast bay, with two of his men dead. A few weeks later, 3 more were found dead. A week or so after that Magnus’s sword was found bloodied. In this time, Willow had appealed to the Nord gods she had been reading so much about. She had taken it upon herself to trust them and take them into her thoughts and beliefs.. Though everyday she will fear she will never be accepted, she still prays to them, for Magnus to return home.

Willow started to change, she wanted to be fierce, she wanted to fight anything that would come her way… leading her to make bad choices. Ending in assumed attempted suicide.

### House Moonfall: Gold Coast

The time had come, and everybody packed the boats and made the journey to the Gold Coast, the journey was arduous, the boat almost sank on the way.. People almost died, Willow almost died.

Willow managed to lose her memory, lost in her own confusion, as much as people tried to help, they couldn't jolt her memory.. Whilst in a stop over on the way to the Gold Coast, they had stopped in Stros M’kai, where Willow met up with Magnus and Valdemar, but she didn't realise who Magnus was, her lover.. She remembered him from the meal back with her ex husband…

After much pleading, and begging and reminding, Magnus finally managed to jolt Willow’s memories of him, bringing her memories flooding all too painfully back. After the ordeal was over, the move continued onto the new town. Settling in in the first few days, the small town, based on the outskirts of Kvatch, was named The Town of Moonfall..

A market, Infirmary, Barracks, Somewhere to farm, it seemed as if it was paradise… Newcomers and Departed. As always, people come, people go…

Soulance Solstice is the most notable person that has left Willows side, After the death of her mother, and the stepfather she despised so much, she and sofi decided to go back to stros m’kai to run the house and the name there, in the name of soulstice.

It had been coming for a while, Willow had noticed, but was sad to see them both leave. The role of Hand to the Governess are big boots to fill after Soulance.

Luckily, not many of the notes after her had left…Willow did experience a sudden surge of nords…

The word most have gotten out from Magnus af Styr and Valdemar Skjolding, as Nords started to appear out of the cracks, their kin following: Harald af Styr (Magnus’s Brother), Astrid af Styr (Magnus’s Sister), Freydis Songsword (Harald’s Wife), Horik, Bertor, and Boran.

They are a tight knit group and Willow does and will always feel honored by their appearance within the town.. It felt more secure whilst they were there… Not to mention taking up almost half a town with their camp!