Aspen

• Full name: Aspen Briel

• Build/looks: Slimmer frame with crisp brown hair in two loose pony tails framing either side of her face and teal eyes. Her skin in slightly tan, and usually has some kind of ingredients smudged on her clothes, maybe flour on her nose from working in the bakery. Has fairy wings on her back that look like stain glass, and a bracelet she always where’s that allows her to be human size. Original height without bracelet on is about no larger than a thumb.

• Personality: Very bubbly and outgoing. She’ll greet you with open arms and strangers get a warm smile. Somewhat forgetful, which doesn’t bode well for the things left in the oven. When she’s mad, she won’t yell, but her words usually have a snarky bite that would be more effective in its landing if she didn’t mumble and trip over the words. Not a very confrontational person, clearly.

• Age: Aspen is 23 years old, and fairies usually live for hundreds of years.

• Magic: Her powers include forestry magic that helps plants and crops thrive, basic magic of changing appearances of things, and other minor Magiks. Her main ability that’s powerful in her wind and plant control

• Backstory: Her parents live in the Astral Gardens (the Provence of the dragon shifters on the floating island) and she’d moved to the sanctuary village alone when she’d gotten the offer from Mayor Sugar Cane and opened her restraunt called ‘The Foxes Glove’.

• The Foxes Glove: The Restraunt she opened that also has a conjoined bakery, both of which she runs herself and has some of the helpers working as her staff. She does the cooking for the restraunt and the serving, while a fire otter spirit that lives with her she calls Linny keeps all her fires magically lit. Behind the bakery she has a big open room where she lives. She sleeps in a birdhouse hooked onto the wall, and the room is also technically her office where she does bills and money. The restaurants theme changes with the time of day, so the decor and lighting matches up with dawn, day, dusk, twilight and night. On the far right side of the restraunt is a rest area of bean bag chairs and a koi pond

• Home: Lives in Cloudberry Hearth Village. The village is tucked into a ravine, hidden by their goddess Limoniums magic, as she’s the goddess of the hearth and sanctuary. They’re kept hidden and safe by a pyre that burns in the middle of the village. All the shops and such are on the valley floor, while all the housing is built up into the cliff sides, connecting overhead by many bridges. A river cuts through the middle of the ravine from a cave at the back ravine wall, though the river was redirected into two paths that created a circle around the pyre and left room for the people to gather around it.

• The tiny helpers: The village has many tiny creatures that run around helping with chores. Dragons, phoenixes, kitsune, all no taller than the knee. Dragons and Phoenixes live in the spire (Called Wyverns Spire) near the top over the valley wall, and kitsune in the river cave. Some might live with a residents family if they’re really attached.

• Residents: The people living in the village come in variety, from fairy, talking animals, Demi-humans, and many others.

•The Mayor- a talking red panda by the name of Sugar Cane, is a jolly little she devil.

•The local Apothecary- Louviere, a succubus, was flirty but she healed you everytime, sometimes in more ways than one.

•The carpenter- Chip, running the local hardware shop is a squirrely demi-human and his toothy grin was a charming commodity on its own.

•The Librarian- Milly, a shy mermaid who’d decided to use her land legs and own the library. If you didn’t catch her there, you’d have to find her at the bottom of the river.

•The teacher- Thorn. A distinguished male of werewolf backgrounds, he was the one who taught all the village children in the school attached to the library. Milly often helped him with other classes like reading and science, while he taught math and history.

•The Blacksmith- Torven, an ogre of almost seven feet with two teeth that came out of his mouth from his lower jaw. He’s usually reserved, and while he was hardcore in the forge, a compliment would easily get him stumbling.

•The priest- Aric, a vampire who cares for the temple alongside some of the village mothers. The temple was dedicated too Limonium, and in any other village, the idea of a Vampire priest was preposterous, but him being undead and faithful made for a great way for no corrupted priest to take over and start spouting nonsense.

•The Innkeeper-Ivah, a siren who sings for the village every night served with free drinks every Friday. With the few visitors they get, she makes sure everyone leaves thoroughly entertained.

•The farmer- Arvan, a he cares for the farm fields alongside Aspen with their forestry magic, and he also cares for the farm animals.

•The florist- Bee, despite the name, she’s a Demi-human butterfly with a taste for a good pollen martini. Handling all your pretty flower arrangements, she’s the one who sets those flowers on the graves of the long dead residents. She’s sassy but sweet in her own right.

•The artist- And last but not least, the kraken of many talents in the artistry deparment, Kaelen will paint you a pretty picture or play you a terrific tune. She also teaches the kids art and music classes at her studio

• Outside world: The outside world is ruled under one kingdom and many provinces of different races. In the kingdom, there is the capital out on an island to the west in the Vaybaran Bay that has the palace and magic Academy on it.

•Traditions:

•Every night the residents bring offerings to the pyre in honor of Limonium and have a chance to talk with everyone

•Sugar Cane added Bamboo Day to celebrate the growth of the small bamboo forest she has outside her den house.

•Winters Fall- A day on winter solstice every year that results in the whole village participating in fun winter activities like ice fishing, snow sculpture competitions, sledding, the annual village snowball championship, gift giving with loved ones. (Based off Christmas just with lots more activities)

•Summers rise- A day on summer solstice every year that results in the whole village participating in activities of fruit picking, sunrise watching, a garden scavenger hunt, the firefly dances, and whatever activities individual people provide with makeshift stalls, like how Bee lets the kids make flower crowns themselves, or Milly summons pretty seashells along the river bank for everyone to collect. The day ends with Milly and Ivah singing the summer goodbye and everyone either heading home or setting sleeping out on the grass together for the night.