(OOC: This thread is just for me to explore the backstory of my character a bit. It's going to be extracts of a journal, covering the important things that have happened to her in the past)
1.Dear Journal,
As this is my first entry, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Olwen Palido, I'm 8 years old and I live in a forest in Adela. I guess this forest probably has a name, but seeing as the only people we visit either live in the forest, or villages nearby, they know which forest I mean, so I don't need to know it's name.
By "we", I mean my parents, my brother, Adair, and sister, Dara, and the other 3 families we live with. There are 15 of us in total, which I think is just the right number, most of the other groups of fauns in the forest are larger, and when we see them there are so many people that it scares me a little. There used to be 16 of us, until one of the older girls, Kyna, married a boy from one of the other groups.
We move around a lot, all the groups do. We live mostly off fruits and nuts and that sort of thing, so if we stay in one spot for too long, we use up all the fruit on the plants around, so we keep moving to new areas to make sure we always have enough food. Certain fruits and nuts only grow in forests, so we gather them up and a couple of the adults go down to the villages to sell them and buy other things we need.
I've got to go because Dara is calling me, but I will write more later.
Olwen