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== Backstory ==

Ezri grew up in Waterdeep comes from a family of 5. Her father runs a butchery and her mother helps out in the business making and selling meat pies. It's her mother's cooking that grew Ezri's love for food and she still joins her family for dinner regularly. She has an older brother who recently married and will continue the butchery after their father retires. Her younger sister is the quiet demure type that dreams of handsome princes that come and swoop her her feet for a happily ever after.

From a young age, whenever Ezri wasn't in school, or more often as not: when she was supposed to be in school, she hung out in the part of town where most of the guild artisans where located. There she made many friends among the blacksmiths and carpenters Even when she was still young, craftsmen had her help out with running errands and chores in the workshops and thought her a few tricks. Mikken the blacksmith taught her to forge some simple items like nails and a simple knife.

But most likely Ezri could be found in [someguys] workshop. He is the guild master of the carpenters and joiners. When she came of age Ezri chose to become his apprentice and he happily took her in, where as a woodworker she showed great prowess. Ezri is a skilled carpenter and excels in fine joinery making furniture, cabinets and jewellry boxes with hidden compartments. Her skill in woordcarving is so great that as a journeyman she already surpassed that of her master. Most people in the city have likely seen Ezri's work on houses of the rich merchants for whom she decorated their doors and signboards with appropriate carvings.

Ezri dreams of building her own house on the outskirts of the city, with enough room for a large workshop. She also wants to start a family and have a couple kids running around. However she only ever had a crush on Vayana, the daughter of one of the city's aldermen. A love she never dared to confess to anybody. Realizing that having children with Vaya would pose problems that not even magic could solve. Therefore she tends to put those thoughts away in the depth of her mind and focused on her apprenticeship. In her own small room above the carpentry workshop she keeps a likeness of Vayana, which she carved out of a precious piece of rosewood. Even when she tries her hardest not to she always dreams of spending her happily ever after with Vaya and their children, pondering if she ever should confess her love.

One day she set out to forrest to look for materials and inpsiration for her masterpiece in order to finish her apprenticeship and be able to join the carpenters guild as a full-fledged master carpenter. That's the day where she was surprised by that sudden thunderstorm