Edonea

Edonea Rumsey (Edda)

Name Edonea
Status
Active
Occupation
Healer, often working with the Bree Watch
Age
24
Race
Man
Residence
Oldstone Tenements, Room 3-B—of Beggar's Alley.
Kinship
Outward Appearance

Orgin: Trestlebridge, North Downs

Age: 24

Name/s: Edonea Rumsey was the name she was born with.  When she married, she became Edonea Wragg.  After her husband died, she took on the name of Rumsey again.  Her nickname is Edda.   Sometimes her brothers may call her Eddy as well.

Skin Tone: Her skin is pale in hue and soft.  It is clear she does not spend too much time under the sun, but instead inside for her work is rarely working outside.  Across her cheeks and on her shoulders, soft faded freckles mark her skin.  Her hands are not as soft as her face is from often gardening and mixing potions.  However, thanks to consonantly working with lavenders and other helpful herbs to skin care, her hands and skin is often healthy and well tended to.  

Height: 5’2" making her short when compared to most women in Bree-lands area.

Body Type: Edonea’s arms and legs are very slim.  She does not have much bust nor curvature having an almost boyish frame.  Her hips are lean as it is clear she has never actually bared children before.  Her waist is slim, but not so much in variation to her breasts and hips to give her a strong defined shape.  In addition, she clearly does not appear muscular as her leanness indicates her lack of physical strength.  Although she may be able to through a decent punch, she's unable to use brute strength if ever confronted.

Eye Color: Looking into her eyes, the darkness of them are very distinctive.  Although around the iris a hint of brownish green colour.  It is often difficult to detect the green hue when there is little lighting in the atmosphere.

Hair:  Cut short around her face, Edonea’s dark hair wraps around her cheeks.  Often her hair appears dark in colour; however, as the illumination of the sunlight brush over her hair, reddish highlights become visible.  Her hair is not necessarily silky, but she often tends to it and keeps it well maintained.

Facial Structure: A little smile adorns the young woman’s face with a hint of insecurity.  Her cheeks are thin and narrow with predominate cheekbones.  With a decent size nose.  Her chin is pointed and thin and her lips full with a dull colour to them.  

Education: Throughout her childhood, Edonea was exposed to very little in terms of formal education. Thanks to her aunt, she learned a little bit of fighting enough to be able to defend herself, but not that she ever took much up on the training.  In her marriage, her husband taught her to read and write.  He also taught her much about herbs over the years, but always restricted her endeavors into the scientific field.  Often she'd sneak into his study to read or curiously examine his patients (or deceased bodies of those who did not survive), but was always severely punished by her husband when caught.  She tried to be a proper wife and tend to the house in attempts to live out a fantasy of having a proper life, but everything has fallen apart now.

Languages Spoken: Westron

Weapons: She has a little knife, but she isn’t a fighter.

Special Abilities/Skills:  She's actually very knowledgeable about the human body and herbs.  She spent much time studying in such; however, most would not know it for she often refuses to speak out about her knowledge in such topics.  

Pets/Other: Walking by her side peers up a mid-sized red dog.  With little rounded ears flopping down the sides of his cheeks and a fluffy plume of a tail that seems to constantly wag, the little dog has won a place in Edda's heart.  The dark color of his eyes sparkle often with the dark mask that covers his face.  His stomach is stark white as is the fur around his mouth and the toes of his paw.   However the fur down his back and making up his face mask is a deep red colour with specks of darkness.  Due to the colour of his fur, the dog was given the name Copper.  

Background

THE RUMSEYS

Fye Rumsey (31) — Former part of Trestlebridge's miltia, now a watchwoman. Twin of Baut.

Baut Rumsey (31) — A builder and a former militiaman nursing a broken arm. Twin of Fye.

Baynard Rumsey (29) — A gambler, a drunk, and a fraymaker, who only occasionally sleeps at home.

Edonea Rumsey (28) — Eloped with an older man ten years ago; recently returned.

Ysopa Twigs (née Rumsey) (23) — Something of a dreamer, married currently to Hutwig Twigs.

Burt Rumsey (15) — An errand-runner who dreams to be on the Mayor's council.

Maud Rumsey (14) — A troublemaking girl as of late, constantly worrisome for Fye and Baut both.

Dirk Rumsey — A debtor turned vicious brigand, hanged by the Men of Trestlebridge six summers ago. Father of the Rumsey siblings. Once Agnes' husband.

​Agnes Rumsey, (neé Grimble) — Considered an old maid until marrying Dirk, dying of complications after Maud's birth ten years ago. Once Dirk's wife.

Leda Rumsey — The mother of Dirk Rumsey, recently deceased. A stubborn, but loving woman, bent on rearing her grandchildren with some amount of propiety.

 

'Come to me with your open heart,

I so well know the paths through our open sward.

Friends notice us with their repute;

Some of their names will be wiped from our yard .

Mourn not for them, their world is not ours.

Why weep for those who will not care for us?

For sweet is their words, but mind cold and hard

They no longer lead your world afar.

I know it is vain when we turn apart

To breathe kind words at their empty heart;

And I know that the joy of my life is marred

When we follow the words that cause us to part.

But before I rest amongst your arms,

Why shall they speak for you and for me?

I’m so wayworn, why would they retard

The peace I seek amongst your heart?

Why break me, for I’m ready to see

The haven of rest and innocent grace.

I fear not to enter that warmth in your love

For the world no longer stops me with its gloom.

I rest in the hope that one bright day

Sunshine will burst through this prison of mine,

And the brilliance of wonder and the voice of my soul

Will bring rest to the dead whose lives I stole.'

As a middle child, Edda had many older siblings as well as her younger sister Ysopa as a child. Growing up, Edda always admired the love she saw shared between her mother (Agnes) and father (Dirk). However, thanks to her older brothers, Baut and Bayne, Edda began to develop her own free, impulsive spirit. It also helped her Aunt aided this spirit in teaching her to fight with her elder sister, Fye. Often finding herself into trouble amongst her brothers, Edda enjoyed the fun they shared. However, as she matured and found her way through puberty, things began to change for Edda internally.  Unlike most girls who began fawning over pretty boys and fantasies of marriage, Edda found no internal attraction to boys or men. This began to scare Edda into thinking she was abnormal. At the age of fourteen, Edda met a man named Reuben who displayed to her an attention most boys did not. It felt odd to Edda in many ways, but her lack of attraction back made her fear letting the man go away. Of course, her family did not approve of the arrangement due to Edda's youthful age. However, Edda did not heed their disapprovals. She inevitably ran away from home shortly after the birth of her youngest brother (Burt) and eloped with the older man.

For a few years Edda learned herbalism from her husband while studying how he tended to patients despite his better judgment.  After her husband's passing, Edda found her parents had passed while she was away and traveled southwards towards Bree to find her siblings who had left their home in Trestlebridge.  Now living a life in poverty in the worst parts of the city, she finds herself happier surrounded by her siblings than in her life secluded with Reuben. 

Relevant Song: Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos

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Friends
Ibota, Baut, Fye. Most other people, however, she holds at arm length away.
Relatives
Parents (dead): Agnes and Dirk; Aunt (NPC): Dye; Siblings: Fye, Baut, Baynard, Ysopa, Burt, and Maudey; Husband (dead): Reuben
Rivals/Enemies
Aiken Wragg will always be an enemy to Edda. Nettie Woodruff was often a childhood rival. In Bree, Rue Blueriver is a large rival.
Loves
Colours of the sky, books, Copper, candle light, her silver coloured coat, human anatomy, dogs, her siblings on most days, the scent of lavender which always seems to follow her.
Hates
Cold soggy snow that soaks into clothing, being left alone, mortality, being told what to do, her own sexuality, and her poverity
Motivation
Edonea's largest goal is to learn more about the human body, but her life is often filled with many bunny trails moving away from her secret goal.
Quotes
"Curiosity killed the cat."

Edonea's Adventures

Oliver Wragg 7 years 3 weeks ago
James 7 years 3 weeks ago
Reuben Wragg 7 years 3 weeks ago
The Bitter Poison of the Truth 7 years 1 month ago
A Poem in Edda's Notes 7 years 1 month ago
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