Carmen

The seventh child of the seventh child, Carmen is an adventurer and master art forger who retired to raise her children. Born in the Kingdom of Halura, Carmen was something of a child prodigy, showing an early talent for casting magic and art. Despite growing up in a family of merchants, Carmen dreamed of becoming a wizard. Unfortunately, while her family was by no means poor, they were unable to put forth the considerable amount of gold necessary to fund priavte tutors or enroll her out of pocket in Halura's prestigious universities. Likewise, Carmen grew up deeply suspicious of Halura's patriotism and was unwilling to pledge her life in service to the state in order to attend for free. Ultimately, she chose to pursue her other talent - art- and found an different avenue of funding her education.

Through intense sutdy, Carmen was able to both learn magic and begin a lucrative career as an forger - graduating into a fully fledged rogue and adventurer over time. Eventually, she was contracted for a heist where she met fellow rogue and half-elf Tomillo, who she would go on to marry and have children with. The two operated for several decades as a pair before deciding to partially retire in order to have children. Carmen has since opened a cafe, using it to showcase work from local artists - as well as a cover for the occasional commission.

> Carmen has two daughters- Dahlia and Daisy, the latter of which has also become an adventurer (though as a bard). Carmen is a firm proponent of her daughter's education, using funds set aside from her adventurers in order to assure her children had the best education growing up. While she was open to Dahlia pursuing whatever career she wanted, its a matter of no small pride that her daughter has become a full fledged spell caster. Unfortunately, its also become a major source of anger for her that Dahlia has been unable to finish her higher education due to the Timeless Union's policies re: shorter lived species.

>Aside from her children and husband, Carmen has a very large extended family, comprised mostly of half-elves, strewn across the continent. While not in direct contact with most of them (she does keep up with her siblings), the family sticks together as a unit, using each other as contacts within cities when traveling.

> Carmen and her husband Tomillo met while on the same job and then began to date after engaging in a sort of cat-and-mouse ritual afterwards, with both rogues competing to see who could infiltrate/rob an item first. They do this as a fun anniversary activity, though they return the item they stole in order to avoid trouble as they raise their children.