As young adults, they had a blossoming romance full of adventure, charged feelings, and excitement. Eventually, though, the life of an adventurer began to take its toll. With Warlon having returned to his guild to present his masterwork, then everything that happened with her father... it was time to make some decisions. But it was Charity who made a decision first, deciding to study to become a blacksmith.

They parted ways — to an extent. For the next seven years Charity studied at her guild, and for the next seven years they wrote to each other.

And through it all, Charity went from apprentice to a journeyman with a little forge of her own in a quiet village called Losten, a few days north of Withewicke. In some future time, Charity might forge Rosalie a beautiful dagger inlaid with delicate golden roses. Perhaps she might propose with it, and perhaps this dagger might be the masterwork that lets Charity walk the tables from journeyman to master.

But that future time has not yet arrived. What has arrived, however, is Elwyn.

One fateful day, there was a knock on Rosalie's door — and thereupon her doorstep stood a three year old girl with an uncanny resemblance to their old adventuring partner Cadyrelle, the man himself nowhere to be seen. When asked where her parents were, the only answer Rosalie could get was a giggle and a finger to the lips.

Way out of her depth, Rosalie frantically contacted Charity, and three days later Elwyn had two new mothers.

Elwyn LOVES Rosie and her huuge house. There's no-one who knows the Rose House's secrets better than her, and every week spent there is a week of excitement and exploration. For the most part, though, Elwyn lives with Charity in Losten. Five years has made Rosalie a much more qualified guardian than the woman who panicked about what to feed a small child day one, but she's still definitely not as adept as Charity. Thankfully she has a few people around to help.