Seren Aberdara

Appearance: Seren Aberdara is a female anthropomorphic deer who is 23 years old and stands at 5’7”. Her thin body is covered in short soft light brown fur. While her chest, belly and crotch are covered in beige fur. Her arms and hands are also covered in short soft light brown fur. She has long white nails on her fingertips. Her legs and feet are also covered in short soft light brown fur. She had long white nails on her toes. Her face is often in a kind knowing smile that make her blue eyes twinkle. She has shoulder length hair that is dyed light pink. Her face is covered in short soft light brown fur with a matching deer muzzle with a red nose on the end. She has short brown felted deer antlers on top of her head. Also on top of her head she has deer ears covered in brown fur. She has large D-cup breasts covered in silky soft beige fur with sensitive pink nipples. She also has a tight pink vagina surrounded by the velvety soft beige fur of her crotch. She has a round ass covered in beige fur with a tight pink anus. Above her ass she has short deer tail, the top of it has light brown fur while the lower part has beige fur. She is wearing a flower crown of pink flowers on her head. She is wearing a white light silk dress that goes to her ankles. On her feet she is wearing wooden sandals.

Personality: Seren is a slow, warm presence: welcoming, patient, and gently insistent that life can be softened by attention. She believes the best teaching is an self initiated and guided rather than ordered, a hand held out, not a command shouted. She moves through the world as if coaxing bulbs to wake. People come to her when the weight of work or shame presses on their shoulders; she listens with both head and body, gives space for tears, and offers practical comforts (a cup of herb tea, fresh fruit, a place to nap beneath a blooming branch) as readily as quiet counsel. She prizes beauty and small rituals: sketching flowers and animals, arranging offerings of fallen fruit, composing short spoken meditations to be shared between neighbours. That gentleness has sharper edges. Seren tends to minimize the traumas of the Carbon Age, insisting time has moved on and that clinging to old grievances keeps people from tending what’s alive now; this belief comforts many, but can feel dismissive to those still effected. This also worried some people who believe that opinions like hers can lead to back sliding into the Carbon Age ways. Her focus on relaxation and the appreciation of nature sometimes slides into procrastination and laziness, leaving tasks undone. She also habitually avoids conflict not because she’s scared, but because she truly believes confrontation breaks the subtle harmonies of the nature she upholds. This passivity sometimes lets small wrongs grow into larger wounds. Despite these flaws, her compassion is durable: she forgives easily, returns favours without ledger, and will quietly keep vigil for the sick until dawn.

Backstory: Seren was raised in Briarstead, where the first sounds she learned were the creak of orchard ladders, the rustle of bees, and the murmur of market bargaining. Her parents worked the land, her mother a grafting specialist who could coax three apple varieties from one limb, her father a careful robotic farmhand technician. Their household smelled perpetually of wood smoke, cut herbs, and warm dough. From an early age she learned practical rituals: how to tie a sapling against wind, which flowers attract pollinators and ward away pests naturally, how to mend a torn linen bag. Those lessons shaped her faith: spirituality and stewardship were daily labours, not remote doctrines. At school Seren showed a particular aptitude for English; she loved weaving imagery into short pieces that made fieldwork feel like story. Outside class she joined the Woodland Rangers a scouts-style collective blending nature skills with playful technological learning (they practiced knotwork beside solar-charged lights and mapped star patterns with small drones). With the Rangers she learned charity work, trail repair, and how to organize seed and tool exchanges. Early on she earned a reputation for being the one who would return a lost lamb before breakfast or who could calm a skittish market mule with a humming lullaby. Spring was always her season: blossoming orchards, clouds of butterflies, mornings when the soil seemed to breathe. Those springs are where she felt closest to Virelai as a presence that taught patience and reciprocity. Her childhood journals (a stack of colored-pencil notebooks she kept) are full of sketches of apple boughs, drawings of animals grazing along the edge of the Great Nature Reserve, lists of herbs by scent, and small poems where she thanked the land for giving her hands something to do. By the time she finished elementary school, Seren knew she wanted her life to be one of tending: tending soil, tending people, tending the fragile stories that root a community. So she told her parents that she wanted to go to a seminary school and become a Druidesses. There she studied the gods of the Saga of the Eras: Virelai the Verdant Mother Goddess of spring, fertility, and the balance of life, Aurion the Radiant God of summer, culture, art, brotherhood, and celebration, Orsan the Hearth Keeper God of autumn, wisdom, harvest, journeys, and preparation and Silvra, the Ice Warden Goddess of winter, survival, and adventure. The teachings of the Saga of the Eras tell us that we live in the fourth era and that humans and anthropomorphic animals have been entrusted by the gods to be the caretakers of nature. We strive to keep balance and harmony in the world by working to maintain the physical health of nature by maintaining the land and community after the Green Revolution. Failure to keep balance and harmony will result in both us and the Fourth Era to end in a great calamity. Then the world to be remade and entrusted to more capable stewards. The geological history taught in the seminary was as so: First came the era of the monsters, who’s stewardship ended in fire and smoke for they grew bloodthirsty. Second came the era of the dinosaurs, who’s stewardship ended in the sky’s collapse after they trampled the very earth they were sworn to protect. Third came the era of the beasts, who’s stewardship ended in ice as a punishment for they grew lazy in their duties. Now is the era of humanity and anthropomorphic animals, who learns from the mistakes of the past stewards. While she grew up in the seminary school she noticed that the other students whispering late at night as their interest in girls and boys romantically. This was alright to do due to the changes of the Green Revolution but the teachers try to keep the students focus on their studies. She experimented with another student Eluned, and this eventually blossomed into a proper relationship which confirmed her bisexuality. After they graduated, they slowly drifted apart but kept in touch but in a more friend like platonically. Eluned ran outreach projects while Seren tended the shrine gardens and hosted meditation circles. Over time they found different rhythms Eluned sought travel and research. The druids in the shrines often travel between other shrines so they can help at other ones to share theological knowledge. Most importantly of all they move to serve different people in and around Evergreen to have worldly perspective on all kinds of different people throughout the region. Seren rooted herself in local work but they kept one another in letters and seasonal visits, an ongoing affection that steadied both. After graduating from the seminary, Seren returned to Briarstead She was assigned to a shrine their at her request to stay close to her family as she got her feet in this new life. Religion in the aftermath of the Green Revolution is a unifying force in communities, they foster community, provide comfort and mental health. The shrines of the gods of the Saga of Eras are open to all who are respectful even the believers of the old god king. The shrines often become community centres leading events like charities and festivals or just providing space for clubs like Rangers. The shrines invite people in to meditate and provide a listening ear over tea with herbs grown inside it. However she had plans of her own, she wanted to teach people practical ways to care for land, conservation and community that are entirely secular. She also wants them to give money to organizations that aid in these causes. In Briarstead, Seren’s early months were as much about negotiation as worship. The farming community valued independence and looked askance at newcomers who spoke of centralized policies or distant governance. Seren learned to translate the gods’ teachings into the language of soil and season Creating workshops on grafting that doubled as conversations about care, harvest potlucks that became lessons in sharing, and quiet vigils that turned into community discussion circles after storms. Her gentle approach slowly opened doors, though not everyone warmed to her. A group of older farmers, protective of ancestral practices, sometimes saw her as an officious city-leaning druid; Seren met their resistance with patience, even as it stung. She also set up small, practical programs that became part of her daily life: a seed-exchange ledger kept in a weatherproof tin, a spare tools stash for neighbours, and a rotating “kitchen garden” lesson for children that taught both food production and ecological thinking. She initiated a “spring apprentice” program for youth in Briarstead a low-key mentorship pairing farmers’ kids with shrine volunteers to keep knowledge moving between generations. While these projects brought her joy, they also exposed her limits: Seren’s tendency to delay difficult conversations meant that sometimes administrative duties piled up, or funding applications went late, leaving community partners frustrated. She learned — slowly and imperfectly — to ask for help. In the quieter hours, Seren continued to sketch and keep journals. These were often reflections on her pilgrimages beyond the fence into the Great Nature Reserve where she observes the functions of nature in person. She went between small shrines and did small rituals in tents and woven willow fenced villages. Their she had to avoid the indigenous people who partly live in the Great Nature Reserve and have sacred places there.

Friends: Eluned: A clever, bookish anthropomorphic mouse girl who loved botanical sketches as much as Seren did. They were lab partners in seed propagation and spent long afternoons trading poems. Eluned’s curiosity pushed Seren to voice questions she otherwise kept private. Their romantic relationship developed in the seminary school but stopped soon after they graduated. They are now platonic friends. Tomas Reed: A male anthropomorphic highland cow man who is a neighbouring farmer, practical and blunt, who taught Seren the mechanical side of farming drainage, pulley systems, and how to coax life from poor soil. Tomas teases her about daydreaming, but is proud to have her advice on crop-rotation strategy. Mira Caswell: A older female anthropomorphic cat lady who is a market vendor who sold the sweetest spring honey; Mira is a warm, extroverted woman who helps to organise Briarstead’s small farm festivals. She’s the friend who drags Seren into festivities and once hid Seren’s sketchbook in plain sight so the young deer would present her art at the spring fair. Iolo (Woodland Rangers leader): A wiry fox man with a tendency toward practical invention; he taught Seren basic drone navigation and how to read the night for both lore and weather. Iolo’s pragmatic optimism balanced Seren’s dreamy patience and gave her skills to turn care into organized action. Grandma Nessa: An elder of the community and a quiet herbalist who lives near the reserve fence. Nessa taught Seren folklore and the uses of bitters and barks, and she is the reason Seren learned to stitch seeds into paper as a calming craft.

Romantic & Sexual Tendencies: Seren is bisexual and approaches intimacy like she does gardening: with patience, curiosity, and an eye for what will flourish. She prefers slow-burning relationships that grow out of trust and shared care rather than sudden fireworks. Physical affection is tender and intentional for her, a shared sketching session, an evening of tea and music, hands in the same soil and she responds best to partners who are emotionally literate and willing to participate in mutual tending. She finds public displays of affection sweet but generally prefers private, quiet tenderness. While she is open to polyamorous arrangements in theory, she favors depth over breadth; for Seren, one reliable, compassionate partner often matters more than many fleeting admirers. She’s cautious about new intimacy because she wants to ensure it doesn’t derail the community work she holds dear, and sometimes that caution reads as aloofness to less patient suitors.

Motivations: To cultivate resilience in Briarstead: by weaving Virelai’s reverence for life into everyday practices teaching that stewardship is lived through chores as much as prayers. To preserve and pass on practical skills: (grafting, seed-saving, soil regeneration) so the Fourth Era’s promise endures beyond her lifetime. To distribute practical knowledge to those in the shrines: She wants people to know secular reasons why they have to maintain their environment. This is vital despite their views on her religion. This is to prevent the backsliding to the thoughts of the Carbon Age. To learn to balance beauty with accountability: she wants to be less avoidant of conflict and more comfortable asking for help when projects overwhelm her. This self-imposed lesson is one of her quiet, ongoing projects.

Hobbies: Sketching and colored-pencil journals: botanical studies, shrine visitors, and annotated notes on seasonal changes. Gardening & seed saving: from pollinator borders to heirloom apple grafting. Herbal tea crafting: blending calming mixes for meditation circles and recovery teas for harvest workers. Community crafting: leading small workshops on composting, seed banking, and low-tech water catchment. Oral storytelling & song: retelling episodes of the Saga of the Eras with local, Briarstead-flavored metaphors. Quiet pilgrimages: short hikes along the Reserve boundary to observe phenological shifts and create small, sanctioned shrines. Embroidery and plant-dyeing: she dyes cloth with onion skins, madder, and walnut hulls, making liturgical banners for festivals. Beekeeping: learning to steward hives, more for the pollinators than honey profit.

Quirks: Hums to plants while she tends them, convinced the rhythm helps root growth; neighbours find it oddly calming. Collects fallen feathers and seed pods; she files them by texture and hue in a small wooden box. Avoids difficult meetings, preferring to send muffins and a note rather than confront policy disputes face-to-face. This passivity sometimes lets avoidable problems escalate. Forgets administrative details: grant deadlines and booking sheets occasionally slip off her radar unless someone reminds her. Has a modest streak of sanctimony when pressed — she can accidentally sound condescending when urging people simply to “be present” during serious material needs. Holds high emotional boundaries: she is generous with time for others but struggles to ask for help for herself; when she finally does, she’s often exhausted.

Gods of the Saga of the Eras: Virelai, the Verdant Mother – Goddess of spring, fertility, and the balance of life. She nurtures ecosystems and civilizations toward harmony, originally creating flora, fauna, and sentient beings. Revered as the maternal force behind the solarpunk utopia, she played a hidden but pivotal role in the Green Revolution by birthing demi-god leaders. Warm, creative, and idealistic, she can also be naïve and impulsive, sometimes overlooking dangers until too late. In the modern era, she inspires ecological stewardship and renewal.

Aurion, the Radiant – God of summer, culture, art, brotherhood, and celebration. Born from humanity’s first communal gatherings, he champions creativity, shared joy, and cultural unity. While charismatic, compassionate, and inspiring, he can be prideful, indulgent, and defensive about his creations. Once disillusioned by the corruption of culture into propaganda, he returned during the Green Revolution to infuse resistance movements with art and solidarity. Today, he preserves society’s cultural soul through festivals, art, and storytelling.

Orsan, the Hearth Keeper – God of autumn, wisdom, harvest, journeys, and preparation. A calm, reflective figure who values slow change, emotional balance, and preparation for life’s cycles. The oldest in temperament, he teaches patience and mindfulness. While reliable and grounding, he can be nostalgic, resistant to change, and prone to melancholy. In the solarpunk era, he guides through philosophy, mental wellness, and intentional living, ensuring progress is tempered by reflection.

Silvra, the Ice Warden – Goddess of winter, survival, and adventure. A calm, protective figure who teaches adaptability, foresight, and coexistence with nature. She aids those facing hardship and serves as a psychopomp for those lost in remote places. While empathetic and maternal to those she trusts, she can be judgmental toward the unprepared. Once dismayed by industrial exploitation of nature, she became active in the Green Revolution, offering survival skills and care for the vulnerable. She now watches over wanderers and disaster-struck communities.