[Forums Name: Megadraco] | Character Name: Ellwood Riverside | Character Age: 13 | Character Race: Human
Looks: Ellwood Riverside is around 140 centimetres tall. His brown hair is quite long for a boy, reaching the base of his neck. His face looks older than his age, his dull green eyes contributing to that illusion. His true age, however, is betrayed by his cheery, childlike attitude, and his ability to trust anything and anyone. His family, while a respected bloodline of craftsmen, isn’t very wealthy, and as such, he has one set of clothing, consisting of a thick black shirt, a pair of brown pants, very light boots, and very thick, black cloak, for cold days. He tends to carry a brown bag, containing many of his belongings.
Skills:
-Reading
-Climbing (mostly trees)
-Basic Carpentry
-Keen Eyesight
Key Items:
-A strangely shaped purple rock, found in a ruin.
Items:
-Brown Bag
--1 Foot Long Ruler
--Various Books:
---A Book on Basic Carpentry
---A Book of Fairy Tales
---A Book on Local Ancient Structures
--A Hand Saw
--A Hammer
--A Small Bag
---Nails
Bio: Ellwood Riverside was born and raised by a family of commoners. His father, Everest Riverside, is a well-known carpenter, and has trained Ellwood in carpentry since very early in his life. He is a tough man, hard to the outside world, but loving to his family. Of course, this doesn’t mean he takes heed of Ellwood’s complaints every time he tries to teach him his trade, or stops forcing him to go with his tools everywhere.
For a long time, Ellwood’s father has worked for a minor noble, Morris Glint. Every time he went on a job, he took his son, with the intention of showing him his work, to teach him. Of course, Ellwood paid no attention to him. Instead, he played with the noble’s son, Wulfric Glint, a kid about his age, sallow-skinned and quite a coward. When he started going to school, Ellwood begged his father to send him there too, but to no avail. Still, Wulfric taught him how to read, and even managed to smuggle a few books from his father’s library and give them to him, after some appealing. This included a book on Carpentry, much to Ellwood’s dismay.
Ellwood never understood why everyone else was afraid of the woods. For him, they weren’t a place of darkness and fear, but of magic and wonder. He spends most of his free time in them, exploring them, climbing trees and discovering ancient ruins. Sure, he had a couple of scary experiences, but they weren’t enough to deter him. Often, he would invite Wulfric to play with him in the woods, but his invitations were always answered with a fearful negative. This is why, when his friend told him he’d be going on a trip to the forest with the school, Ellwood decided to sneak into the group.