Iris Smith

Iris’s family had very little growing up. Her father was a miner and in the military part of the time. Her mother died when she was 4, leaving her to raise her 2 little brothers while her father worked. She was too busy growing up to make many friends, therefore she cared little for village gossip or finding a husband even as she got old enough to marry. Her father couldn’t afford a dowry anyways. When her brother’s joined the military, there was more income for the family and Iris began to interact more with the other villagers. She met Alofen when she went to him to make horseshoes for her family’s first horse. It was love at first sight, at least for her. She would make excuses to have him make or repair things for her. She had always had a hard exterior and strong personality but she melted around him and the other villagers started to take notice. She heard the rumors but did not care, only when Alofen was discriminated against would she become angry and often visited the source to give them a piece of her mind herself. She couldn’t have been happier when he proposed. She had felt like him and his daughter were family already and once they were married and their first child came, she was ecstatic.