Ceridwen Ennoellyr

Image from Ironsworn Manual pg. 230

## Brom

Brom

**Ceridwen Ennoellyr** is a hunter from a small, close-knit steading in the Veiled Mountains. She grew up around family but was closest to her twin brother, Caddell, who spent a lot of time travelling with trade goods back and forth from the mountains to other steadings and villages. But when his apprentice suddenly returns to the steading injured and bloody with a broken cart and no sign of her brother, Ceridwen vowed to find what kind of person, beast, or horror attacked him and to get him back.

## Mechanics

### Stats

* Edge: 3
* Iron: 1
* Heart: 2
* Shadow: 1
* Wits: 2

### Vows

* **Background Vow:** Find Cade and uncover how the horrors are connected to his attack and disappearance (Epic)
* Get back what was stolen from her (Formidable)
* Help Gihr find and stop the Iron Revenant, "the Man of Metal" (Extreme)

### Bonds

* Caddell Ennoellyr - 2
* Vadden Heireth - 3 (negative bond)
* Amala (tether) - 3
* Gihr - 2
* Shenda Griff - 2
* Bill Hardinge - 1

### Assets

* Archer (combat skill)
	+ If you wield a bow . . .
	+ When you *Secure an Advantage* by taking a moment to aim, choose your approach and add +1.
		- Trust your instincts: Roll +wits, and take +2 momentum on a hit.
		- Line up your shot: Roll +edge, and take +1 momentum on a hit.
	+ When you *Resupply* by hunting, add +1 and take +1 momentum on a hit

* Horse, Brom, (companion)
	+ **Fearless**: When you *Enter the Fray* or *Secure an Advantage* +heart by charging into combat, add +1 and take +1 momentum on a hit.
* Wayfinder (path)
	+ When you *Undertake a Journey* and burn momentum to improve your result, envision how you reorient yourself. Then, take +2 momentum after you reset.

## Description

### **Appearance**

Ceridwen has the build of someone who has trained in archery for quite some time, almost twenty years to be precise. She was born on a typical snow laden day thirty years ago just a few minutes before her twin. She has copper colored hair with blue-green eyes that many describe as either too inquisitive or looking for trouble. Ceridwen is often seen wearing a fur cloak across her shoulders with a woolen clothing underneath and knee-high leather boots that match the leather strapping along her wrists and torso. Along the left side of her face one can see scars from what could only be described as a vicious attack, clawing across the side of her head. Scars similar to these litter her left side, on her arm, torso, and left leg. While the scars on her head are clearly visible, the others have seemingly been covered by dark, winding tattoos that twist and curl into knots. Though, most of the time these are covered by clothing. She also has a series of tattoos on her right arm that trail from her pointer and index fingers up to her elbow. Along with these, Ceridwen also has a number of bone piercings in her ears.

## Background

Ceridwen and her twin are the middle children of Ikram and Kiah Ennoellyr in the steading of Frostmoth. While their home is generally tight-knit, Ceridwen and Caddell have always been especially close. While twins are not completely unheard of, they are a uncommon and can be dangerous to have. The birth nearly killed their mother and them. Because of this, they were quite sickly as young children and spent a lot of time together inside learning more domestic skills from their mother until their late adolescence.

Early on in life Ceridwen showed great skill with a bow, despite her more rebellious and curious nature. She became the apprentice to a very skilled hunter named Vaddan Heireth from the steading of Edgemore. Even as her apprenticeship took hold, Ceridwen would often take trips with her brother and her uncle to different nearby circles in the Tempest Hills. Ceridwen especially appreciated these trips after Caddell finished his apprenticeship and they could travel together.

Even as she got older and started to hunt and scout on her own (age 15), Vaddan seemed to have a strange fascination with her. He would hang on her and got worryingly possessive and manipulative at times even though they were nothing more than mentor and student. It made her uncomfortable in ways she couldn't even begin to express and she welcomed the chance to put some distance between herself and him through travelling.

At the age of 23, Ceridwen soon came under the scrutiny of her family thanks to Vaddan. Her father began heavily urging her to marry him, even though he is forty years her senior. He said that the marriage would greatly help their steading and, therefore, their clan. To this day she regrets giving up on her plans to run away from home in order to avoid the marriage.

## Relationships

### **Caddell "Cade" Ennoellyr**

Caddell is not only Ceridwen's twin brother, but also her very best and closest friend. Their birth had not been an easy one and it left them quite weak and sickly for some time as young children. These days spent alone together while the others in their steading were doing their jobs meant a lot of bonding time as well as some mischievous adventures. Their bond stayed this close into adolescence and adulthood even as Ceridwen trained to be a scout and hunter and Cade began travelling south as a trader. Ceridwen would even accompany Cade on some of his trips, wanting to see new places and explore outside of their small piece of the frozen mountain range. So, when Cade's apprentice returned to Frostmoth bloody and trembling, their cart destroyed, and Cade nowhere to be seen, it cut Ceridwen to her very core. A life without her brother felt like a life without an entire piece of herself and, thus, she vowed to find him, hopefully alive, and bring him home.

### **Vaddan Heireth**

From the beginning, even as mentor and student, Vaddan and Ceridwen's relationship was antagonistic. He expected behaviors and reverence from her that she just never had. She was strong-willed and independent, and Vaddan didn't like that, especially when it was used against him. After convincing her family, and later herself, that the marriage was beneficial to all, Vaddan was convinced that Ceridwen would eventually come around and desire to bear children for him and stop her childish exploring. In reality, that was something she never wanted and continued to refuse for years. This, among other things, led to animosity between the two as Vaddan tried to intimate and force her hand to do as he wished and Ceridwen resisted.

Ceridwen stayed locked in an antagonistic marriage for years, knowing a public scene would only make things harder and more shameful. While everyone in Frostmoth saw the unhappiness that laid within the union, they all believe it was the best course of action as it strengthened the bond between Frostmoth and Edgemore to a prosperous degree. Caddell was really the only one who could see how truly miserable Ceridwen was and with whom she felt comfortable venting her frustrations and fears. The last time Ceridwen saw Vaddan was the day she left to search for Caddall. Vaddan was furious and tried to stop her from leaving and they got into a physical altercation that ended with her breaking his nose and him breaking a few of her ribs (episode 9).

### **Amala**

Prior to the start of their adventure, Ceridwen had had a few interactions with Amala. Her brother often brought his cart through to Kinheim and, when she tagged along, saw the village. The most notable instance, however, is when a few young boys from Kinheim strayed too far towards the mountains and got injured. Ceridwen found them on one of her trips and brought them back to her steading to be healed. After they were better, Caddell and Ceridwen returned the boys to their circle where one, named Bryn, requested to return to Frostmoth and eventually became an apprentice to Caddell.

Amala and Ceridwen became officially bonded in episode 3 after Amala's foray into the Shadow. She and Amala became tethered through a pseudo-ritual performed and Ceridwen promised to help protect Amala should she encounter something she wasn't prepared for.

### **Gihr Whitemane**

Their relationship is antagonistic at worst, but there is also a deep respect for each other's skills. While their meeting may have been less than ideal, it only took a short time for Gihr and Ceridwen to discover that they are both survivors of the same, or similar, horror (episode 4). This has created an unexpected bond between the two. While they will still butt heads, they also have a deeper understanding, and respect, for what they have survived.

### **Bill Hardinge**

Despite the fact that Bill stole something from her that could have kept her from finding Caddell, Ceridwen sees potential within the older thief. Even though she was furious at him at the time of the discovery, and true to his thoughts she could have killed him, she knew that would fix nothing. Instead she has, happily, seen that he has promised, vowed even, to try and do better and that is all she ever could ask for.

## Character Information

### Notable Items

* Bow, quiver, and arrows
* ~~Talisman from Loneholm made of a perfect cylinder of iron~~ *Returned*
* ~~Bone token found in the wake of Caddall's attack~~ *Entrusted to Bill's care*

## Quotations

* (to **Gihr**) "Well, not everyone is as meticulous about their mud routine as you are"
* **Gihr**: That's why I asked you to go hunting with me tomorrow"
**Ceridwen**: "Well, I don't see why not. If you can keep up"
* (to Gihr about the Iron Revenant) "If it is the same thing you saw, if it's the same type of thing and not the same one, but more than one, then it's a danger to many people.
**Gihr:**"That and a danger to this world. What it did to my forest is unnatural, is not right. So, I ask you, come with me. Help me hunt this thing and bring it down."
**Ceridwen:** "I will help you figure out how to take it down, I will go with you, but I need to start looking for my brother as well. I'm afraid something much more dangerous than a few thiefs or looters attacked him. I only know where I was attacked, the Shattered Wastes, it's far from here."
**Gihr:**"Fine. I'll help you track your brother. But, we search for information on this thing, this man of metal. When we find him, we have him take us to wherever he is keeping the White Mane, and we set it free, and we kill him."
**Ceridwen:**"Of course"
* **Ceridwen**: "Have you ever felt like there was a piece of you that was taken directly from your heart and thrown across a valley? That a piece of you, that your arm or your leg, was taken from you. And you don't know where it went and you don't know how to *live* without it!"
**Bill**:"No miss, I don't. You already saved my life more than once, and I'm damn sure you'll do it again. But somewhere between you an' him, I'm gonna help, miss. I'm right sorry, miss."
**Ceridwen**: "Are you sorry because it was wrong what you did, or because you know what I'm capable of?"
**Bill**: "I'm sorry I stole from a good person, miss. I try not to, you try and only steal from the shits of this world. But I didn't know you-- you were in--I didn't know. . ."
**Ceridwen**: "That's the problem with stealing from people you haven't yet met. You don't know. You don't know whether they're good or bad. Or whether they need something desperately. Or if they're just a pile of shit."
**Bill**: "Well, miss. You got it back now. So fate or the gods or whatever it is wanted you to have it."
* "Bill, you are also travelling with me to save my brother. That's worth more to me than a few trinkets that I could take from you"
* **Ceridwen**: "Someone very, very influential from Frostmoth is very, *very* angry that I left."
**Bill**: "But . . . but you're looking for your brother! Who could possibly hate someone for looking for their brother?"
**Ceridwen**: "I come from a small steading, Bill. We're part of a group of ones usually only a few families big. And . . . we communicate within the network. But to survive the way we do, everyone has a job. Everyone does what they're good at. Caddell is a trader, he's good with people. I'm a hunter. There are others who are healers, mothers, leaders . . ."
**Bill**: "They're starvin' and they want you back."
**Ceridwen**: "The choice to leave was a hard one. But for me, to leave Frostmoth, for Caddell is putting him in front of everyone else. Specifically this one individiual and he's not happy with the way I left, the way I left him, and the fact that I'm still gone."

## References

1. ↑ Image by congerdesign from Pixabay
2. ↑ Art by Robyn (Thunderscape-7)