Player Name:	Heidi	Wren: Winner of the GWA '02 "Star-Crossed Lovers" Honorable Mention Winner of the GWA '01 "Screen Chemistry" Honorable Mention
Player E-mail:	Email Heidi
Character Name:	Wren Songshaper
Gender:	Female
Age:	447
Soulname:	Ilin
Origin:	Native
Soul Siblings:	None
Family:	- Plainswalker: Mother (deceased); - Riverwisp: Father (deceased); - Wildlight: twin brother; - Brace: Lifemate;
Lovemates/ Lifemates:	Brace (Lifemate)
Recognized Mate:	Brace
Magic:	Songshaping (in the form of storytelling, singing, or playing numerous instruments)
Skills:	Storytelling, Hunting by Air, Animal lore (can communicate fluently with birds and griffins), Moderate elf lore
Weapons:	Oversized compound mahogany bow, knives
Personality:	Wren is the opposite of her twin brother Wildlight. While it seems her brother is filled with emotions of fire, hers are emotions of water. She is thoughtful and sensitive--some say too sensitive. But she can always be counted on to listen. She is sweet, intelligent, insightful, and easy to get along with. Sometimes she acts as Wildlight's voice of reason when his stormy emotions might threaten their tribe. Even though she and her brother don't always see eye to eye and have a rocky relationship at times, Wren loves her brother and would die for him, for her soulmate Brace, or for her tribe.
Likes:	Birds in general, feeding the birds and imitating bird song, being with the griffins, singing, playing her wooden flute, the special metal flute Brace shaped for her, or other instruments, stargazing, a good hunt, remembering a new story under the influence with dreamberries, or weaving new tales of her own.
Dislikes:	Humans, rainy days, when people argue
Fears:	Water over her waist --especially hates the Muchcold Water. She has a fear of drowning. Fears the tribe will soon be immersed in another bloody war with the five-fingers.
Appearance:	Wren is about 4' tall, with a small, lithely strong build.
Marks/Scars:	None
Hair:	Black with an almost blue sheen, falls past her feet. She keeps it out of her eyes with two long, small braids and ties the rest back by wrapping it loosely at the end.
Eyes:	Large slate grey eyes, slightly slanted.
New Green Clothes:	A soft, lavender, billowy halter top with a long loincloth-type skirt of the same color that is split up both sides for easier walking. Short ankle-high boots.
White Cold Clothes:	A lavender heavy shirt that laces up the front, a long skirt that is laced up the sides. Knee-high black boots, long fur-lined gloves and a ravvit-fur lined hat.
Jewelry:	Golden hoop earrings in each ear, golden wristguards, a braided golden chain around her middle.
History:	Wren, called Midnight as a cubling for her thick, black hair, had always been a little shy, but not overly so. She was close to her family and spent most of her time with them. From an early age, she began imitating the sounds of the small birds near the Hurst, and soon, it wasn't uncommon to see a little wren or chickadee perched on her finger or eating grain from her hand. She treated everyone as sweetly and as gently as she treated the little birds who were her constant companions. It was no surprise when she was eventually named after one of her favorite companions, a wren, when she surprised her mother by imitating one flawlessly. Her hobby of birdsong soon turned into further, deeper study when she began to understand the thoughts underpinning the songs of her feathered companions. Wren showed an early aptitude for music and storytelling, as well, and shortly thereafter found herself apprenticed to Ash, the tribe's previous howlkeeper and loremaster. Wren was a quick learner, an adept and enrapturing storyteller in both yarns of the past and of her own creation. That skill, coupled with her talent for singing stories and playing songs on her various instruments, earned her the surname "Songshaper" from her beloved mentor. The "Little Songshaper," as he called her, developed quite a crush on Ash, though she never admitted she had feelings for him. When he died, she was grief-stricken, though she took up her new duties as loremistress with fervor. Tragedy almost struck again when the songshaper went on her soul quest during a New Green following a particularly snowy White Cold. On her way back to the Hurst, weak and weary from days of trying to find her true self, her legs gave out and she found herself plunged into a swollen and raging Lifegiver River. Fox, who happened to be nearby, managed to hear her weak sends for help and pulled her from the murky waters. It was almost too late. By the grace of the High Ones, the tribe's healer was able to revive her. Nevertheless, for Wren, a deathly fear of raging or too-high waters still remains. Wren lost her mother and father to a wounded bear on the fateful day her brother Farsight earned his new name Wildlight. Wren's life was to undergo its most startling change, however, years later when she found her wolf-friend limping back to the hurst. He had been mortally injured by a nomadic band of humans but had managed to return to her before he died. Wren withdrew for months after her wolf-friend's death, eventually disappearing from the holt. She didn't answer sends, and search parties couldn't locate her. They gave her up for dead. However, Wren returned just as Wildlight and the others gave up, riding the back of one of the griffins of the northern mountains. During her absence, she had bonded with a griffin--the leader of the beasts she affectionately named Gloaming--and had taught herself how to ride and hunt from the creature's back. It was thought that her keen communication with other flying creatures had offered her a way to connect with the once-feared beasts. However, now that others have begun to bond with the griffins, she has been appointed the leader of the Air Hunt and helps both to train those not used to riding on the backs of the flyers and to keep the griffin-riders as a close-knit group. On one of her many flights with her Gloaming, Wren made the grim discovery that humans had once again settled at Stormrise. With bitterness still in her heart over what the humans had done to her last wolf-bond, Wren voiced a desire to wage war against the five-fingers. Instead, her brother sent scouts on reconaissance, leaving the songshaper to try to decide where her heart really lay in the matter. Wren Songshaper has found a new happiness in her unexpected Recognition with Brace. His quiet love and compassion for her has begun to help heal the wounds that have recently been re-opened in her heart since the rediscovery of humans, though renewed talks of reconaissance threaten to rip apart what has healed. Nevertheless, come what may, her devotion to her soulmate is unfaltering, and though the child of their Recognition will be born in a place that seems increasingly riddled with uncertainty, death, and danger, it will not be born in a world without love.
Bond Beast:	Gloaming, Griffin Monarch, Age Unknown Gender: Male Large for a griffin, Gloaming has a tawny body and a flawless, ivory colored head, and his eagle body is that of a bald eagle. His eyes are golden and sharp, as are most griffins' eyes. Highly intelligent, Wren sometimes wonders who actually is in control when they are together--Gloaming or her. Gloaming was recently devastated upon the departure of Shadowflight, the Matriarch. After nearly a moon's dance of mourning for her loss, he chose another mate, Summit. He is fiercely devoted to his mate and his bond, and is now especially watchful of the hatchling that Summit bore. It is the future of the Monarchy and many lower-ranked griffins would be quick to kill it for their own social gain. Gloaming and the other griffins aren't yet tolerant of the wolves, but they are slowly learning to get along.