Character name:Helena Miller

Nickname:Ena

Sex:Female

Age:18

Birthplace:The outskirts of Corn

Parents:Helena's father Edric is a shepard who is married to Helena's mother Magda

Siblings:One a boy named Thomas who unfortunately died before he was a month old.

Weapon(s) of choice: None, what use would a woman have for a weapon? Or at least, that’s what her father said.

Eye color:Blue

Hair color:Light blonde

Appearance:Helena's ancestors are from Istroban and she inherited their Northerner genes. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin, which is always being burned and became densely freckled long ago. She is of average height and build; a bit too much on the slender side; too many missed meals have given her a pinched look. She has a small, crescent shaped scar near her right eyebrow and another longer scar on her left forearm as well as numerous scars on her back which she doesn’t ever let anyone see.

Personality: She's quiet and shy and couldn’t in a million years be called bold. She likes to plan everything out before she does anything. Trust is hard for her, as is making friends, but she loves children and she'd fight like a tiger to protect one.

Brief background history: Ena had a relatively happy childhood for all that her father drank perhaps more than he should and sometimes worked a little less then would have been best. Her mother was quiet and meek and more than a little afraid of Ena's father.

Helena's father had always longed for a son and when her mother became pregnant Edric was overjoyed, sure that it was the son he longed for. Unfortunately it was a hard, early birth and the small baby, Thomas, died not long after his naming day. Edric was heartbroken. He began drinking even more then before and stopped working all together. Ena and her mother did their best to keep the household together using what little income they could make from their spinning and sewing but with the high taxes it wasn’t long before their food supplies began to run low. In danger of losing his house and flock to the tax collector Edric married off Ena to the first man willing to pay them a bride price despite her mother's protests.

At first the marriage didn’t seem to bad for all that she missed her mother terribly. Then he began to hit her. The strikes became more and more frequent, the bruises more and more numerous. One day he beat her so harshly she lost consciousness. Fearing that she was dead, her husband dragged her deep into the desert and left her there. He worked out an alibi: Bandits had accosted them, had taken her and robbed him. He ripped his shirt and cut his arm and made a heartrending scene. The villagers mourned for Helena while she lay alive and alone in the desert.

Talents/skills: Helena's mother taught her to cook and sew and she quickly surpassed even the village seamstress's skill with a needle. As there never was much cloth to spare in the village, she's not sure, but she thinks that she could make almost any sort of garment given enough time.