City life has made her a bit jaded, but she still retains that energetic spark of innocence she had when she arrived. Seiko still has a bit of a sarcastic side, making snide quips when the situation calls for it. She thinks she’s really not that anything special, just a wood elf who’s trying to make a living. However, when she learned how to be a Monk she began to really crave adventure. Most of all she wants to join a group of adventurers, setting off into the big wild unknown. She knows that if she went alone she probably wouldn’t make it so far, so she’s always looking for a potential group at the bar she works at for openings. Unfortunately, many people just think she’s a bar maid and won’t even think about bringing her, much to Seiko’s disappointment. Working at a bar gave her a taste for alcohol, but she always practices self-restraint so never gets too drunk. Sometimes she makes her own, a skill learned by watching the owner brew some in the back. It used to be kind of crappy moonshine until her master, the one who taught her how to fight, also showed her how to make some really good mead. Besides beer making she enjoys people watching, tinkering with jewelry, cleaning, and tattoos. She hasn’t gotten any yet, so she likes seeing other people get them. Seiko gets really annoyed when people make stereotypes about wood elves, she’s been called tree licker more times than she can count.

When she still lived with her parents Seiko was dissatisfied with life in the forest. Besides other wood elves there were no other races, nor really any adventure to be found. Not very interested in hunting or tracking she knew that she didn’t belong in a wood elf clan. Her parents tried to dissuade her into leaving when she turned 100, the age most elves turn into adults, and have Seiko stay with them. However, she couldn’t stand to be isolated like this any longer. While trying to hunt she saw a traveling caravan and so joined them up to the nearest town.

The real world outside of the woods was vastly different from how she thought, especially in a city. Very unprepared she eventually found a job as a bar maid, mostly sweeping up after customers and cleaning. One day a man started drinking their regularly, making a ruckus as what she assumed was just another drunkard. She grew very curious about him after one day when a bar fight broke out.

Caught in the middle of it Seiko thought she was a goner until the man intervened. With a sort of twisted grace, he performed an erratic dance of blows, defeating the men who started the fight. Star-struck she begged the man to teach her what he knew. The man in question revealed that he was a monk, practicing a Monastic Tradition called Way of the Drunken Master. He decided to take her on as his pupil and eventually she became a fully-fledged monk.

One may think she’s an innocent bar maid but in reality, she is a master of hand-to-hand combat, keeping her foes always on edge with her unpredictable fighting style.

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