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The youngest child and only daughter of Lorin and Emylie Noir, Charlotte was raised to be well mannered and proper as the child of one of the well respected families in Healer’s Hall in Amphorae; to set an example for her peers, and to listen to the needs of others before her own.
Her family lived in a small home befitting their position in society, with a large garden, shared by the local community, she spent most of her time in reading, once she learned at the insistence of her parents. Not the frivolous doll-playing sort, she would spend her days helping her mother tend to the garden, making it the perfect world for a girl with an active imagination.
Against the wishes of her mother, because it was thought un-lady-like, Charlotte’s father secretly began teaching his daughter how to use weaponry at the age of eight. She soon developed a love of the dagger, and crossbow, and under the tutelage of a family friend began to learn to use each without hurting herself.
In her early years Charlotte was taught much about her parents’ duties, like what herbs in the garden were good for certain things, and which could be very harmful. She would also accompany her mother when she would be called upon for childbirths, or treating larger wounds, in hopes it would acclimate her to the messier side of life. When she became 13 she was accepted in to the College of Healing, much to the chagrin of her older brother, who wasn‘t adept in the healing skills and turned away. This was the crack in the foundation of her relationship with him, even though it was none of her doing, jealousy is an ugly beast.
Her skills in weaponry and mock battles and spars developed even more, in her later teen years, and she became quite proficient in both the weapons she’d adored since childhood, kept secret at her father’s insistence to keep his lovely, doting wife oblivious.
Her relationship with a fellow student at the Healing College, a friend from childhood begins to develop only to be squelched before it can truly become something special; as distractions from her studies were frowned upon, especially by her family. While her outer look on it was strong and understanding, her heart was already longing for what she was now being denied. Not many knew of the tears she shed on his behalf, and the countless nights of lost sleep. Realizing she must have been more emotionally caught up in things than he was, or at least that’s what she told herself, her heart slowly hardened with only a glimmer of hope that she would ever find love again.
At the age of 20, her parents moved in to a slightly larger home, with it’s own garden, as a result of their profitable herb sales. Her father, a very diligent and gifted grower, while accompanying her mother in the local tower during a childbirth, rushes off to get an herb for her, only to be the victim of a structural cave-in, killing him. Her mother, traumatized by the event and not being able to do anything to save him, falls deeply in to an emotional hole. Charlotte’s brother takes over the family business when her mother’s health begins to worsen but it doesn’t help Charlotte’s studies in school. Taking a small break from her studies, she returns home to grieve over her father’s death, and in doing so her determination to be a great healer is solidified. When she returns, become an apprentice is not far off, and when she becomes an apprentice, and the master she was learning under passes on, she decides to travel to Gateway Isle in search for another.
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