Cactpie

Many Farfolk have heard of Maebel, which was surprising to have a reputation at such a young age. She's known as the kind a reasonable sort who isn't looking for trouble even though it usually finds her first. Mess with her and she's fine but mess with the loyal creatures that follow her about and you will soon find that she has sharp knuckles and a piercing stare, she'll have you quaking in your boots! 

  Maebel was born in a small tribe in the outer regions of the Farfolk, she was birthed to very kind and well mannered parents who were stunned by her bright green eyes. They brought it up to the elders of the tribe who thought nothing of it, which relieved them greatly. Although they did not know when the girl would begin to mature, her darker complexion would be the only Farfolk normality that would remain the same, for her birth hair was light brown yet it would later grow to a deep red. Her parents would sadly never get to see their child pass the baby stage, because one dreadful night a pack of Prairie Dulks that ravaged the lands around their tribe flooded through their peoples small and simple homes, picking off of the old and the children. After the father was slaughtered, to save her life, her mother gathered her up in bundles of blankets and hid the baby within a crate, storing her away on a Highlander's smuggling ship that was about to complete it's rounds to Atlas. That was the last time Maebel would have ever seen her parents, a time she barely remembers, only in waking nightmares. When the ship arrived to Anthos, a Raevir man found her in the crate and took her home to his wife and two other children. At first, the wife was opposed to raising a child that looked nothing like their people, other Raevirs would ask questions, yet the father took such a liking to the young girl that she couldn't refuse to raising her. 

 Growing up in Atlas was not easy for an orphan from the Farfolk, it was just unheard of. Others laughed and made fun of Maebel for her different complexion and mysterious background, yet with the help of her well nature, she did not let that her get her down. She grew up to be a kind person, and had a love for beasts and wild creatures of the land. She spent her time roaming and collecting small species of fauna while her adoptive parents farmed across their fields along with her siblings that resented her for getting special treatment from their father. She also gathered as many books as she could find on fauna from other lands, excited and eager to travel and see them for herself, beyond the dusty pages of her books, and return to the lands that her Raevir parents explained to her where she was really from. Eventually when she was old enough she set out to these lands, collect all sorts of creature friends from the smallest kestral to the biggest dragon. On return to the tribal lands of where she was from, she brought gifts and former wild beasts that she has then domesticated such as the great Demigryph, that she raised her self, to fend off the Prairie Dulk invasions. Such as the ones that took her family. Now she is known as a traveler, one who braved the unknown and tames wild animals who are then loyal to her, and she understands them even better than she does people. She makes many friends, some as short as a couple Dwarves and as tall as some Elves, providing them companions to help them with their works. Maebel has made a home for herself known as her traveling shop, Maebel's Menagerie, where she keeps her findings and her animals with her on the road. Her wardrobe she tries to keep simple but it keeps getting harder and harder with all the new bits and baubles she continues to add to her leather backpack and belt, so she's littered with all things creature. Such as food, creature eggs, supplies, beast rations and trinkets to help her appease and tame the fauna.