Zarda Solamar

Zarda was raised in a village in the north, Barrowberry. He was raised by his mother, Icicle, and his older sister Snowball. His father left them shortly after the little fox's first birthday, after giving him a name which was foreign to the region he lived in. In Barrowberry, his sister hunted, and his mother made clothes of the hides, earning a comfortable living. Since he was almost fifteen years younger than his sister, she was almost as much of a mother to him as she was his sister. Together, his family paid to have him educated, though the little fox was more interested in wandering the forests, watching villagers and quietly sitting around.

After he turned eight, he took an interest in the smith of their village. He thought it was magical how with just a fire, this grizzled old man could take a raw bar of iron and make everything from nails to axes, spoons, pans and so much more. For months he silently sat at the edge of the forge, staring, and eventually asking questions. The smith didn't much care of the little fox, but eventually gre tired of the questions, and would put him to work to answer those questions. If Zarda asked how to make nails, he was taught how. If he asked how you fit horseshoes, he shod the next one that needed it. By the age of sixteen, he had largely taken over the whole forge, and when the old smith passed away, he left the forge and all things related to it, to Zarda. This sparked an unending love of all things metalworking. Smithing, jewelry making, wire working, all of it

When he turned eighteen, Zarda would leave his little village, and make the long journey southwards to Seafoam lesser, where he would buy a little shop to have made into a forge, so he could ply his trade. He has become quite renown for his skills, with more than one lesser duke coming to him with special orders, ones which he is more than happy to fufill. After an incidnt where he accidentally caught a falling red hor nail, he learned that peculiarly it didn't burn him, though it blackened his fur... He used this to his advanatge, using soot from his forge to stain the tip of his ears, muzzle, tail, his arms up to his mid forearm and his legs up to his mid calves, loving how it looked when he had finished.

As his story develops more will fill