Emmylou

Seeming: Wizened

Kith: Woodwalker

Emmylou is not what one would expect of a Summer courtier, let alone a Monarch. She has a shorter stature, with some muscle that holds to her body in deceptively feminine curves. She has dark, ruddy brown hair kept messily short, never more than a few inches. It's obvious that she likely cuts her own hair, likely with a blade more suited for combat. Her manner of dress is wild at it's most casual and barbaric when in battle. Paint, blood, or charcoal usually marks her face and body with symbols, often animalistic. It is often unclear what markings are her own doing and what are from her mien.

When Emmylou's business takes her into the human world, she does actually clean up nice. Hardly ever reaching "formal," the Summer Queen will wear civilian clothes, preferring more practical clothes, like shorts or loose-fitting pants, combat boots, and thermals - clothes she can move in if she needs to.

While she seems very bestial and wild, Emmylou is usually very calm and has a profound respect and love for nature. Her love of nature doesn't stop at a hedge gate though, she cares for the local hedge as if it were her own garden. She gets very territorial if people make unnecessary doors or paths without her approving (which, if it's unnecessary, she won't). No one, especially her courtiers, can deny the burning passion and deep rage that glows in her amber brown eyes, but even more frightening than the wrath there, is how calculating she is. When she spars with her courtiers (or other guests), she always emphasizes fighting smart instead of just fighting hard.

Emmylou is hardly seen without her spear, which can become smaller and look like a heavy duty walking stick while in the mortal world. Also never far from her side is her large hedge beast companion, Dire, who appears like a gray wolf with singed fur and trailing smoke and charcoal. His mask makes him look like a wolf dog and, though unusual and often frightening, Emmylou has had the foresight to always carry papers for her "companion dog."