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Scarlet Greythorn

Full Name: Scarlet Greythorn
Culture: Breefolk
Desc:
This woman is taller than most- slender, but not without her share of muscles. She appears to be in her early to mid thirties now, though it's hard to tell exactly from the frame and face.

Her hair is dark- varying shades of deep auburn brown or black, and would, if ever untied or unhooded, fall to just below her shoulders. Shorter sections frame the face. The eyes have an intense gaze- perhaps that's just her nature, and she didn't intend it to be so- and are a muddy blue in colour. They are not unusually sized or shaped, and, like most eyes, ringed in long, dark lashes.

During most days- if she is infact seen during the day, she wears nondescript clothes- dark in nature and not particularly womanly. She would not be seen wearing a skirt or dress. Occasionaly, during the day she will be adorned in a fine red cloak. If you were to find her smoking inside the Pony at night or casually wandering the streets, the cloak would be a deep grey. Good, worn leather boots are never replaced by sandals, and yet, there is a silver bracelet around her wrist..
For the most part, there appears to be a particular air about this woman- confidence to the point of arrogance at the majority of times, and for the majority of people. Perhaps that, too, is just her nature.

History.
There is little known about Scarlet Greythorn. She has no family to speak of. Or, at least, none that anyone know are related to her.. . She is the only one bearing the Greythorn name, and the last person who shared it died several years ago. Of course, there are stories and rumours- that she is the illegitimate child to a wandering ruffian and a defenceless Bree-woman. Another says that she was abandoned in Bree by two poor peasants, who had travelled from Dunland. Another would go so far as to suggest that her parents had been two hermits living together in the centre of the Chetwood (if hermits can, infact, live together), and she had murdered them both when she came of age.

No one knows when she was born though she appears to be in her early to mid thirties, now., or where. No one remembers her as a child or growing up, and no one could positively say when she arrived in Bree-proper, and from what town she originally came. In fact, no one really knows anything about her past, except for Scarlet herself!

Having arrived whenever she arrived in Bree proper she quickly took to the darker side of town life, beginning with petty crimes and working her way up, until all wrongdoings were never, or rarely traced back to the woman herself. For a time, she was whispered speculatively by those who consider such things to be the leader, or sorts, of a gang of ruffians, but has much more recently been seen strolling, hand in the arm of the Chief Thistlewool about town, or alternatively, coming and going from the Faerhan residence. How curious!

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