Arianwen Draupnir

## Backstory

Arianwen is the eldest of 4. She grew up in Morriston and hated the lord for his "injustice". She started to find work with him and against him as a spy, managing to make a little extra to give to her family after her father died. In the end, she became a criminal, but with her good eyesight and a body not built for fighting, she started taking jobs as a scout and spy for thieves and found herself working in the thieves guild. Her family moved away to Patagonia to live a little better, her mother being a seamstress, her sister Anda (17 now) also trying to help support them family. Arianwen took the false name "Cecelia" for its Roman meaning (blind one). When she visits, she hears about Anda, usually scolds Pryderi, and occasionally teaches Eryl thieves cant and hand signs. She calls Eryl "little spy" sometimes.

Her hatred for the lord has led her to value her family above all else, followed by her own life, then by hurting people in order to get ahead, then maybe teamwork. She holds grudges easily and is rather spiteful. But when she is with her family she is stubborn, uncharacteristically expressive, and usually tired.

### Favorite things

Warnings and personal space, money and her family, feeling on top

### Family

Amylia, always tired but never out of energy, loves her family and new house and doesn't want to leave. Never going back to Morriston.

Anda is to be married to a man running away (from fatherhood) to war. She is pregnant.

Pryderi wants to prove himself but his family won't let him. He is learning to use stilts to appear taller so he can sneak off to fight in the war.

Eryl always has a runny nose and spunk. She listens to "Ol man Yeller" for his wisdom.

Arianwen is trying to help her family, but there is no such thing as enough money and she believes it is her responsibility to love her sisters when their mother is exhausted and prevent them from getting hurt. It is her responsibility to take the life threatening jobs so her family won't have to lose anyone else.

## Sessions

### The Heist

Cecelia went to scout out the old boss's castle with a group consisting of Badon Warwick, Garren Warwick, D, Dru, and Crusher. She nearly immediately ratted out D to the guards of the estate for using magic. This had consequences. She might be friends with Crusher and no one else, but maybe Crusher is just friendly? No matter. That night, with more guards (no thanks to her) this gang almost snuck in but still robbed the lord. Cecelia was caught, managed to lure guards 2 at a time with Crusher out to murder them for a total of 4, had a short skirmish with a bowman where no one was injured then went inside after seeing the town guards approach and surround the castle. She tried to give everyone a warning, and all nearly made it out except for Crusher who was killed instantly by a swarm of guards. But Cecelia got an extra 50 gold for her death so that's fine. Cecelia also fell off the escape rope and was saved by D's legs, so maybe magic isn't bad after all.

### Patagonia

While running from the guards, everyone stopped at an inn to rest. Cecelia didn't want to stay long so she used 1 gold to buy 6 drinks for the party to ease and distract them, a meal and drink for herself, and another 5 or so drinks for the 8 year old boy selling this to her and Badon paid her back. The boy didn't remember her when she snuck out to head to Patagonia before everyone else. But when she got there she went to her family, talked, cried, fought with a boy a third of her age, gave the family 200 (and 30) gold pieces and urged them to move back to Morriston. In the morning she confronted Anda's fiancé and barely made it to the meeting spot on time, everyone else was dressed fancy while Cecelia still had bloodied clothes from Crusher's blows. They went inside the palace saying they would fight the bandits for money, and after seeing the lord being an idiot old man with none other than May Weaver (Saphire) as his mistress, she went and got herself new clothes and decided to scout for the bandits and hopefully warn her family to leave in time. May had sent all the guards away for her own safety, risking the lives of Arianwen's family, so almost no one was left to protect Pategonia. She found Eryl, taught her the signs for danger and safety, hugged her goodbye, and went back to the castle. She wasn't expected so she went back to her family instead for a potential last goodbye. But each goodbye is the potential last goodbye.

She went out to Havid's farm to look for the bandits and found some people she thought were scouts. She chased them back towards their main camp, being joined by the rest of the party from the heist, and Kennor. The bandits revealed themselves to be elves from the local forest. The elves invited the party to follow them to the main camp to talk rather than fight, which is a stupid idea to follow. The party followed them in except for Cecelia. She was told to "Find a way out" and instead ran back to town to warn her family and the few guards present. But the 'few guards" had reinforcements, specifically an entire platoon of town guards from Morriston and some others from the Capital, strange. Taking a chance to get the small army to attack the elves, she told them that the people sent to deal with the bandits were in the woods, hoping the guards would give chase, the elves would attack human soldiers, and the humans would wipe out the bandits (and the heist team too but they don't matter). The guards did not recognize her (thank you drunk 8 year old) and sent in the army with Cecelia as a guide. On the front lines. Cecelia charged out front, loosing the scouts following her, and ran into her party and an elf that seemed to think peace was an option. Feeling some for of sympathy for causing their probable deaths, she warned them of the guards who wanted their heads. After a scolding, she ran off, explained the situation to the head guard of Morriston, and went to help her family pack and move. Too many factors to safely stay here. She left her family early, heading South to avoid the woods. Once her family establishes themselves a bit north of Beacon, Cecelia will head to Beacon to continue her life of thievery. Good thing her family has enough money to buy a new house now.