Lydia Hayden

Lydia Hayden is from a hunting town in western Aurora before she moved to Fornost to enlist in the Order. She now serves there as a Templar to protect the people from harm.

Childhood
Lydia was born to a happy couple in Fornost, and she lived the first few years of her life there. Her father was a fisherman who traveled to Northport on fishing trips, while her mother helped work in the fields at Fornost. From the time she could stand, her favorite hobby was staring out the window at the knights patrolling the city. Other than staring at people, she usually spent her time helping out with running a small food stall. When bandits started increasing their raids on the Fornost, Lydia went to live with relatives living in a hunter's settlement, far away from the city. Her uncle, not giving up a chance at free labor, put Lydia to work cleaning the catches of their kills. And when she was old enough, he taught her the trade.

Early-Adulthood
Being out in the wilderness you don't get the news very fast, so it took years to finally know that hostilities in Aurora were dying down. By that time Lydia had come of age and was being taught the sword by old mercenaries who she begged to teach her. She had long decided to join the Order When the news came she said goodbye to the woods and started the trek back to Fornost. On the way, she ran into a wounded person being attacked by a skeleton knight. In a combined effort the skeleton fell and she learned the person's name was Shizu. She was looking for a safe place to stay as there were an increasing number of mobs roaming around so Lydia directed her to the settlement. In thanks for saving her life, Shizu gave tools that she "does not have a need for any more" and left for the settlement.

On arriving at Fornost, she took a few days to get reconnected with her family whom she had not seen in years. After hearing that the Order was sending out Recruitment ads she went to their office to enlist.