#genterational trauma

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I here show some more detailing/lore for Arden Ballard, the unfortunate (eventual) paladin.

As you (probably) know Arden is the child of Nathan Fitzgerald and Johnny Ballard; these two (as well as Opal) helped raised Arden as much as they could.... however, they all had to live back at Johnnys homeland/town back when he was pregnant with Arden. They had to do this not only to protect Johnnys relationships and his identity from the city he was living in; but also, Johnny knew that his family would eventually find out about Arden and take them; so, Johnny did what he thought would be best and go when he was pregnant.

Because of this circumstance Arden was raised a lot more by Johnnys family than Johnny thought, which led Arden to be very connected to their culture and to eventually become a high Paladin. That would unfortunately cause a big demise to Arden which would ultimately change their direction in life (I haven't reveled exactly what just yet because I'm going to talk about it later).

Arden's features are very passionate and delightful for people to see, many tradesmen and other travelers (as well as some people residing in the town/enclave) would try to flirt with them or go farther with them when Arden reach their young adult stage (and after the ceremony), Arden would always wave them off as they never really found any sort of spark or relation with them. If it wasn't Arden themself, it would be Nathan (who at Arden's young adult stage was a chimera) chasing them of when he could (and of course Johnny and co. would as well, but they gave Arden more freedoms than Nathan) .... Nathan was very protective over Arden because they were his only ever child and also Arden had some complications that occurred in their early life (I will talk about that later).

Arden has always had a knack for writing and poetry, they would always spend time either of the grand library reading/studying poetry or writing about the little things around them and then twisting their observations to fit what every little story they were writing. When Arden was younger, they would always rush to show off a little piece of poetry/writing they found or one they made to anyone that would look. they absolutely loved it when the high scholar or librarian would post them up on the front board for everyone to see.