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The Palmer family is a family of 4 travelers. They consist of Sivart Palmer, Kathleen Palmer, Jonathan Palmer, and Iyyela Palmer. They live alone, without parents or family to help them, as orphans. Their home is a large and old wagon with 2 massive horses that pull it.

Sivart Palmer
Sivart, or Siv, is the oldest of the 4 siblings, and has cared for his younger siblings for much of their lives. He is the hunter of the family, and is skilled at most long-range and just ranged attacks and defenses. He is blind, for reasons unknown, but says that its no different then having sight. "Why should I feel different? Being blind is normal to me, and sight is different." Sivart is 25 years old.

Weapons Used

 * Longbow- Sivart is skilled in archery, dispite being blind. He uses his ears to sense his prey, and then aims on what he hears. He almost always gets his target. Maximum Range: 300 meters.


 * Kunai- Sivart, like most ninja and warriors, is skilled with kunai. He can, as his youngest sister said, "Hit a birds eye from 200 feet away" though he claims that was an exaggeration. Maximum Rage: 150 feet.


 * Throwing Knives- Sivart is skilled with the use of throwing knives. He can generally use them as well as kunai, even better in some scenarios. Maximum Rage: 100 feet.

Jutsu
Sivart's Jutsu is based on his air type chakra.


 * Concussion- A concussion blast of air that can stun nearby opponents or blow them away, depending on how much energy Sivart puts into it. Can also be used to clear mists/dust that blocks the view, though his blindness means he doesn't need to do that. He can only use this attack 5 times in a day, due to the large amount of chakra needed, and it leaves him dazed for a few moments due to the shockwave hitting him as well.


 * Summonings- Sivart can summon ravens. Known ravens are "Kalir" and "Circe". Circe is a giant raven, comparable in size to Chief Toad or the Shikaku. Kalir is about the size of one of Sai's superbeast birds. Sivart can only summon those two, and if they are defeated he can't summon them again, not enough chakra.


 * Sonic Blast- Sivart's Sonic Blast is basically a powerful blast of sound. It can be used to stun people when retreating, or to stun them when ambushing. Sivart is vulnerable to this attack, and only uses it when he thinks there is no other choice.


 * Other jutsu- like replications, transformations, and other basic ninjutsu and taijutsu. Sivart is no good at Genjutsu.

Appearance
Sivart has not led an easy life, and it shows on his body. His face has several scars on it, one notably going through his left eye. He is also notable for his blank white eyes, which have neither pupils nor irises, just pale white over the entire thing. Sivart has raven black hair that looks as though he cuts it himself with a kunai, because he does. His hair ends at about the middle of his back. Sivart wears it lose. He is about 6ft tall, but is not lanky. Sivart wears at all times a sort of shawl, dull brown in color, that ends at about the elbows. Under that, he wears a leather tunic with a leather vest over it. His pants are leather as well, and a light tan in color. His cloths are for efficiency, not looks. Over the shawl, Sivart carries a quiver and a single longbow. He also has a large tattered brown cloak, but only wears it when he needs to. Sivart's only form of jewelry are a pair of rings, one on each hand, and a single necklace with a heart shaped locket on the end.

Akemi Palmer
Akemi Palmer is the second oldest of the Palmer Family. She helps her older brother care for the younger two, and is twelve years old. She is the chef of the family, she cooks. She can make almost anything edible, with time, and has done so in the past. Kath is skilled in waterstyle jutsu. Akemi is 21 years old.

Weapons Used
Akemi is skilled at all forms of the blade. She can kill with a single knife, or use them to neatly and quickly butcher and clean food for eating. The same techniques that can butcher food can also butcher people.


 * Knives- Akemi is able to kill someone with a single knife to the chest, back, or side. She knows where the weak points are in the human body, as well as in most other bodies. She is also skilled at finding and exploiting weak points in enemy armor.


 * Swords- With swords Akemi can use her "Bladestorm" jutsu, as well as dismember most opponents. She is a swordmaster, and wastes no time killing opponents with "flashy" attacks, she does her killing as quickly as possible.


 * Cleavers- When using cleavers, Akemi generally just chops people in half. She does so by swinging wih her full strength behind the blow.

Jutsu

 * Water Clone(s)- A simple water based clone that can do damage to enemies as well as take a blow that Akemi herself cannot. Of course, it has its weaknesses, it can't use jutsu, and she can only create 3 at the most, her chakra control isn't good enough to create more.


 * Water Blade(s)- Water Blades are basically swords and knives made of water. She uses them to kill opponents because they don't dull, and are easier to replace then metal weapons. These take chakra, she can make a lot of them, but her limit is about 20, and as she makes more she gets more tired.


 * Bladestorm- Akemi's Bladestorm Jutsu is where she uses rotation and water to create a storm of water blades. She shapes the water into blades and then sets herself spinning (like a Hyuuga and their rotation) and then the water blades slice though anything that comes to close. The trick is stopping the rotation, or getting around it. This jutsu also leaves her dizzy and disoriented for a few seconds, and she can't see while using it.


 * Bloodmist Rising- Bloodmist Rising is a form of jutsu that combines Akemi's skill with waterstyle and her skill with the blade perfectly. She slices though her opponents with a vengeance and then uses their own blood to create more swords and do more damage. This jutsu takes a ton of chakra, she can only use it once.
 * Cleaving Blow- Akemi's Cleaving Blow is a powerful single blow from one of her water cleavers. She can use this to completely chop someone in half, but more then not it just fails and the water-cleaver disintegrates, as she isn't to good at this jutsu yet.

Appearance
Akemi hasn't led an easy life any more then Sivart did, but she hasn't been hit as often. She is notable only for a large burn-scar on her right arm and hand. She has shoulder length dark brown hair, with streaks of lighter brown throughout it. Her hair ends at her waist, and she keeps it in a tight braid, better for fighting that way. Akemi is about 5ft tall, but like Sivart she doesn't look like she's to tall or anything. She wears a leather training suit that is similar to what ninja wear when training, but made of leather. On her arms she wears a pair of steel armguards and a pair of soft leather gloves. She also wears earrings with little diamonds in them, dark green in color. Her eyes are a vivid emerald green. Over the leather training suit, Akemi wears a pair of twin blade sheaths with blades, as well as a pair of knife sheaths with knives, and a single large cleaver that sticks up in the middle of her back.

Yuuta Palmer
Yuuta Palmer is a skilled blacksmith, despite being crippled with smaller, weaker legs then normal people. He doesn't think of himself as a cripple, rather he says that his loss of legs has given him extra strong arms. He's just positive like that. Yuuta is 18 years old.

Weapons Used

 * Hammer- With his forge hammer, Yuuta can crush the bones of an enemy. He usually takes out legs and the slams his hammer down on their chest or head, killing them.


 * Mace- Yuuta's strong arms make him an able user of the mace. His is large and has a set of spikes on it to do more damage. He usually uses it to take out peoples legs, then (as they fall over) crush their chest.


 * Fire-Hammer- By making a special hammer with a slot where he can put a ball of fire, Yuuta created his "Fire hammer". When he uses it, he can deal great damage to an opponent, setting them aflame at the same time as he caves in their chest, for example.

Jutsu

 * Shuddering Blow- Yuuta uses his hammer to hit the ground, smashing it and creating a shockwave that can knock over enemies up to 5 feet away. He can't use this jutsu more then 3 times in a single day, and it can send him flying if he hits the ground to hard.


 * Shattering Punch- With his great upper arm strength, Yuuta can cave in an enemies chest with one punch. Of course, he has to get close enough, and then needs to reach the chest, but once he does, look out!


 * Fists of Fire- By combining his punch with his firestyle jutsu, Yuuta can gather fire into his fists, allowing him to punch with a fiery blow. With this he can burn his opponent as well as crush their bones. This jutsu is relatively easy to perform, and doesn't take a ton of chakra, but it burns his hands to do this. Since Yuuta works at a forge often, he can ignore the pain, but only for so long, and he can't heal the damage. His hands still bare scars from previous times he's used this jutsu.

Smith Skills and Weapons Created

 * Kathleen's swords- Yuuta forged Kathleen her swords, making them just for her.


 * Sivart's Arrow tips- Yuuta makes Sivart's arrow tips, which are steel, and does so in a way that makes them perfectly balance the arrow shaft.


 * Iyyena's Needles- Yuuta forges Iyyena's needles whenever she losses one. He makes them so that they can be thrown as well as just be used for sowing.

Appearance
Yuuta is crippled, his legs are shorter and stubbier then a normal persons. Besides that, he looks pretty much normal. His arms are stronger then most, having been gifted with all the strength his legs should have had. WIth his arms, Yuuta can lift his entire body up, off the ground, and run at a full 12 miles and hour with his arms alone. He usually rides on either Sivart or Akemi back. Yuuta has grey hair with black streaks in it from soot staining. He cuts his hair short, to keep it out of his fires. He also has some burns on his hands from working with his forgery. Jon is only 3 ft tall, due to the crippling, but is far stronger then he looks. Yuuta wears a basic leather tunic with a leather vest, similar to Sivart's, over top of it. He always wears a leather skirt to allow him to move with is smaller legs. He sometimes wears chain mail armor. Yuuta does not wear jewelry, but does have a pair of leather and metal gloves he likes to wear, with a set of spikes on them that allow him to do great damage when he punches something.

Iyyena Palmer
Iyyena Palmer is the youngest of the palmer family. She is skilled at lightningstyle jutsu and sowing. She makes cloths and armor. Iyyena is also known for being able to create cloths that are chakra resistant. Iyyena is 16 years old.

Weapons Used

 * Needles- Iyyena can use her needles to pin an enemy down, or to hit their vital organs and kill them that way. She can also cripple using those needles, by hitting critical spots in the body.


 * Small Knives- With her small knives, Iyyena can cut and shape cloth and leather. But she can also use them to block an enemy attack, or to kill an enemy. She usually aims for the eyes and face, causing reflexive retreat or defenses (like lifting you arms up to cover your face) which then allows her to deftly stab you somewhere else, like under the arm or in between the ribs.


 * Wire- Iyyena uses wires to create tangled traps as well as armor. She can also use this wire to cut an enemy apart, it has a very fine edge and when enough pressure is applied... well, it will slice off arms and legs. She can also send electricity though the wires and electrocute people with it.


 * Chain- Iyyena uses chains to take out people feet and to pin them down. She can then use her lightningstyle jutsu to electrocute her enemies.

Jutsu

 * Lightning Bolt- A simple but powerful lightning bolt of energy that Iyyena can direct in a single direction. She can use the 3 times before running out of chacra.


 * Chidori- The Lightning Blade, Iyyena can use chidori to kill opponents. She has 4 shots of it in her before she runs out of chakra.


 * Lightning Chain- By sending lightning though her chains Iyyena can electrocute people. This has 5 shots to it, because the lightning doesn't need to be as strong as with her "Lightning Bolt" jutsu.


 * Electro-Needles- By scattering her needles around her, Iyyena can send powerful blasts of lightning leaping around her. She can also do this with needles stabbed into people, electrocuting them. She can only use this once, and even then she passes out from exhaustion.
 * Summon: Thunderstorm- Iyyena can summon a small thunderstorm that releases lightning bolts down upon her enemies. She needs to open the gate of life in order to do this, and has only done so once before.

Cloths and Armor

 * Wire-imbedded cloth- Iyyena can imbed wire stitchings into the clothes she makes, strengthening them against attack.
 * Basic Cloths- Iyyena can sew basic clothing and cloaks for her siblings to wear.
 * Leather Cloths- Iyyena can make leather cloths using her lightning to heat up water to boil them, or having Jon heat the water for her. She can then make them soft and flexible to absorb the impact of a weapon.

Appearance
Iyyena is 4ft tall, with hair as black as Sivart's. She wears her hair lose, but it is only shoulder length. She has dark blue eyes with a lighter blue around the edges of the iris and a darker blue near the pupil. Iyyen wears a comfortable and effective jumpsuit similar to what Guy and Lee wear, but brown and black in color. She wears an armor chest protector made by Jon, as well as a pair of arm guards, also made by Jon. She wears closed toes shoed because she likes to climb. Iyyena has a single item of jewelry, a small bracelet made of silver. Besides the armor, Iyyena is notable for the single, long scar that wraps around her entire left leg.

Past
The Palmer Family has had a complicated past, and much of it remains hidden. They will not tell you everything thats happened to them in their past, but from what they do tell you can understand its a sad story...
 * Note: I am still expanding this section, coming up with an original past is harder then it looks!

Past of the Palmer Family
This is the past of the current Palmer family, Sivart, Kathleen, Jonathan, and Iyyena. They tell this story, but there are parts of it that they will not tell...

Childhood, as told by Sivart
Childhood was... interesting, to say the least. We often moved, not being safe at any one spot for very long. We lived in all sorts of places, caves, forests, even inside a glacier once. My favorite spot had been a small valley, with a stream flowing though the center. We built a small house on the edge of the stream, and even farmed for a little there. That valley is where Kathleen and Jonathan were born, and were I learned jutsu. Father was a nice person, and so was mother, but they both wanted revenge for what their parents had lost, for what they had lost. Father was a hard task manager, he always had me busy training, how to hunt, how to kill, how to fight. All this would become necessary, in the future, but at the time I though it was a big waste of my valuable, 3 to 7 year old time as a kid. Father and Mother were just as strict with Kathleen and Jonathan, but they put most of their hopes in me. Unfortunately for them, I didn't really want to destroy all opponents I came across, I was always to nice to do that.

We stayed in that little valley for 4 years time, but then we had to move out because a hunting group entered the valley and saw us. Mother and Father were forced to kill the entire party so that they wouldn't kill us, the kids. But now we had to flee again. I was now years old, with Kathleen being 3 and Jon being 1. We fled to a large city, where we could just blend into the background of other homeless people. It was there that Iyyena was to be born, and there that Mother and Father were killed.

In that city we did well. I learned to steal and beg for food and money, while my parents used the jutsu to do the same. We lived in a small hut- more of a shanty. It was 2 roomed, but only because a sheet divided it as such. Jon, Kathleen and I slept together in one room, Mother and Father in the other. It was in that little shanty that Iyyena was conceived, and eventually born. We stayed there until we were found out, about the same time that Iyyena was being born. She was born the day before Mother and Father died, and I was forced to take my siblings and flee. At the time I was 9 years old, we had been in the city for 2 years.

When the strange ninja attacked my family, they targeted my parents. That was what allowed me to escape with Kath, Jon, and Iyyena. We fled into the city, and then out into the winter wilderness. I can only assume the ninja of that city thought we had died there, or that they themselves died trying to follow us.

Caring for Kids, as told by Sivart
Now that I was both the oldest living member of my family, and the only one who knew anything about fleeing an unknown enemy, I was left in the position of caring for my younger siblings. I wanted to give them a childhood that was fun, not sad. I failed in that task, but not as badly as I had feared. They had to learn how to survive, how to hunt and use their special talents to the best they could, and they did. They also learned to kill, far to soon for my liking, but my opinions don't matter to others.

Because of the winter temperatures, we had to find some form of shelter very quickly. I took them with me and as we fled I remembered that little valley, and knew that the hut would still be there. So thats where we headed, just until I could get a better plan. We arrived there to find the hut already occupied, by some nice old couple who wanted to live alone for the rest of their lives. I asked them for help, and they gave it. Those two were such nice people, but I cannot remember their names anymore... We stayed with them for 3 months, until winter ended, then we left, thanking them for their help, and moved on to the next place, a different city. I was now 10 years old, and when we arrived at the city I went looking for a job, right after finding a hiding place for my siblings. I found a job, but not what I had expected. I became a thief, using my ears to my advantage in that I could run full speed in the dark when others couldn't.

As a thief, I spent much of my time stealing food and supplies, but I was never caught. I found my siblings a nice little home in between two large, semi-colapsed houses, in a small crack. It wasn't pleasant at first, but I stole blankets and other things to make it better for Kath and Jon and Iyyena. It was there that I raised them, teaching them how to steal and hide and beg and do all the things orphans without a real home have to do to survive. We found Iro and Yon there, and they stuck with us because we could give them shelter from rain and cold, and we kept them because they offered friendship and a free-mouse/rat removal service. They still do, come to think of it. It was in the city that I perfected my hunting skills, because I had to hunt the cleverest and hardest animals in all the world to hunt: Humans.

It's not what you think. We didn't eat them, but it is easier to steal from an individual then a store or house or shop. So thats what I did, I would sneak up behind them and knock them out and steal everything of value, and even their cloths sometimes. It was not honorable, but honor is for those who can afford it, and I couldn't. -sigh- We lived in that city for another year or so. I was 11 years old when we left that place, and I had the intent to find my own peaceful little valley far away from others, where I could raise my siblings in peace.

When we left, Iro and Yon followed us, which surprised me. They are so loyal to us, I almost think they have the spirits of my Mother and Father in them, or maybe of our Grandparents. But thats just me. We left the city in the dead of night, midsummer, after the thaw. It was about 45 degrees outside, which was warm for the Highlands, so we didn't need to wear all our winter gear. We did bring it along with us though, so that we would have it when we left. Iyyena had only recently learned to walk, so I often carried her when she got tired. She was frighteningly easy to carry, a sign of how bad things were back then. I remember one time, we were walking down to road, and then Kathleen just passed out from exhaustion right in front of me. Suffice to say, we didn't go anywhere for a couple of days after that.

So, after Kathleen recovered, we traveled a little farther and came across a small, steep sided valley, hidden away from the world by a thick forest that no one bothered to enter. Some even said it was haunted by those who had tried to get though it, but I didn't beleive them. Ha, little did I know it was true, there was a person living in there that created all sorts of genjutsu and ninjutsu to keep people out. He called himself "Oron" and was a skilled blacksmith. It was from him that Jonathan learned his smithy skills. Mind you, at this time I was 13 years old, and we had been traveling for 2 years.

Smithy Skills, as told by Yuuta Palmer
So, Siv led us into this dark forest with big, creepy trees and tons of scary looking shadows and whatnot. I was only 6 years old when we entered the forest, and I wasn't a cripple yet, I walked there. So, we walked into this creepy forest, and I see that Siv looks as though he's finally found a safe place, though at the time I couldn't understand how he could think that of such a scary location. He told Akemi to watch me and Iyyena, while he himself looked for places to walk that were safest. We continued like that for... oh, I don't know, maybe a few hours or so. It was about sunset when Siv said it was time to stop. He picked out a nice looking tree, with a decent number of flatter branches for us to sleep on, and we went up there and set up our little tent.

It was later that night that the ghosts started to come out. We were in our little tent, and then out of no where a mysterious figure showed up. This figure was a warrior, but he was missing an arm and half his head. Now, as you can guess, that scared the crap out of us, but it didn't faze Siv. He just looked at it, and said "Now, what have we done to harm you? I am merely seeking shelter for my siblings." and then, to my utter surprise, the figure nodded and disappeared! But that was just the first of many, each night a new one would show up, as we moved farther and farther in toward the center of the forest. And each time Siv would give his reason and the ghosts would disappear, just like the first one.

We finally reached the center, and found nothing of interest there, and continued. Later that day, we saw smoke in the distance, rising above the forest canopy. We headed toward it, and then we met Oron. He turned out to be a pleasant guy, but the first impression wasn't so nice. "Who the hell are you?" were the first words outta his mouth after he saw us coming in through the small clearing that he lived in. "We are just some travelers, in search of a safe place to live for a while." Siv responded. That perplexed the man, he had seemed to think we would be asking for something from him. "What are your names, then?" He asked, probably stalling for time. "Mine's Sivart, this is Akemi, Yuuta, and Iyyena. We are from the Palmer family." "Palmers eh? Well, I have no quarrel with your family, its never done me any harm." Oron took us into his large house, which was made of solid granite that he had 'Drawn' from the mountain. Once inside, he asked us a little about ourselves, and Siv told him a little about us. He then told us his story.

Oron's story was a sad one. He had been in the wars, and had found his power in earthstyle and firestyle to be very useful against enemies, but had turned from that path in order to follow the one he loved. He never did tell us her name, but he most certainty loved her. He would have followed her off a cliff if he had to. Anyway, after leaving his army to follow his love, Oron became a blacksmith, learning from a great master, Perio, who used his chakra to make his weapons stronger. Oron became a blacksmith so he could make an offer to his love's father that wouldn't look like a joke. Unfortunately, by the time he made the offer, his love had already married. He was now a master smith, and then went back to his army to see if he couldn't get a job there as a weapons maker. He got the job, and made many powerful weapons, becoming renowned throughout the Highlands for his skill at metallurgy and forgery. After the war ended, so did the army's need of him, and he went back to his home, only to find that his love had died in one of the many battles, killed by a weapon of his own making. He was distraught, and vowed to never again forge another weapon for use in battle. When war broke out again, he fled to his current location, and had been hiding there ever since, forging many things for fun, and so he wouldn't lose his skills, but never using the weapons. He set up the genjutsu ghosts around his home to scare people away, and it had worked until we showed up.

After telling his story, Oron noted that I seemed to have great might in my arms, and asked if I wanted to become a smith like himself. He claimed he was lonely after being there for so many years (between 10 and 15) and that he wanted to be sure that his knowledge wouldn't die with him. I accepted, and Siv told him that he had to take all of us if he wanted one of us. He agreed, and we moved in. Oron made an addition to his already large house, a set of 4 bedrooms for us, as well as another forge for me to use without risk to his main one. It looked like we would fit right in!

The next day, Oron decided to test me and see what my chakra type was. He used this "paper test" with well, a piece of paper. He told me to send my chakra into the paper, then showed me how to actually do that, as I had never used my chakra before. Oron showed me how to use my chakra, and, after a few weeks learning basic use, I took the test. Turned out my chakra was Firesytle, which Oron said was awesome, because I could create fires far hotter then anything he could produce with his earthstyle. It was then he really started to focus on me, pouring everything he knew into me. He once said to me "I'm forging you. First I must melt you, then I must shape you, then I must cool you off and polish you." By that he meant that first he had to teach me power and fluidity, then he had to teach me control and restraint, and finally, he had to teach me subtleties like how to weave my chakra into a weapon to give it great power or durability. It took us 1 year just to get past the first part, the part about power and fluidity. 1 year to learn how to create the hottest fires, as well as how to strengthen my own chakra so that I could properly use it to shape the fire around the metal.

That took me 1 years time, and I remember it well. Like the day that he first showed me how to create a fire and feed it using only my chakra. Ha, I nearly killed both of us. I had no idea what I was doing, I set off quite the explosion, managed to burn off both my eyebrows AND Oron's eyebrows... ah, those are some good memories. We had plenty of fun, and no one was left completely out. Siv taught Iyyena and Akema how to use various weapons, mainly kunai, as well as how to use some basic jutsu, like clones and paper bombs. Meanwhile, I spent the next 2 years mastering the actual shaping and forging and smithing of weapons. I learned to make the fire dance to my will, to feed it my chakra so that it could grow to higher temps then anything that Oron had ever produced on his own. Finally, I had to learn how to imbue my chakra into a weapon, to give it firestyle powers that would not fade with time. To give it an edge that does not grow brittle or cold, to give it durability beyond what normal weaponry could do. That took another year or so of constant training.

After the 4 years it took to learn all this, Siv was again getting twitchy about staying in the same place. Turns out, his instincts were right, as usual. 5 days after we celebrated Iyyena's 11th birthday our little house with Oron was attacked by a large group of shinobi, who wanted Oron to work for them and create more weapons. When they saw us, they knew us as the last of the Palmers, and attacked with a fury. To everyone's surprise, Oron leaped in the way, deflected the attack, and said "If you lay one finger on these children, I will personally rip you apart." Well, the enemy shinobi didn't really like that, and they outnumbered us 12 to 5. They attacked, thinking that we would be easy prey. They would have been right, only Siv had a weapon with him, the rest of us were weaponless. But then, to everyone's surprise again, Oron went though with his promise. He literally ripped the head ninja apart when he tried to attack me. It was horrifying. "Flee! Run! Get the hell outta here! Move, I will hold them off!" Oron yelled, before turning back and facing the enemy shinobi. Siv gathered up Akemi and Iyyena, and then Akemi pulled me up onto her shoulder, not letting me go. Siv had been prepared, because he was just that paranoid, and all we had to do was run in the house and grab a large number of bags that Siv had lined up on the wall. We could hear the sounds of battle outside, then Oron's memorable victory screech "HEAAAAAAAAAAAA!" as he caved someone's chest in. By this point Siv had us running out the door again, pulling me along because I didn't want to leave Oron, ever. "Good, now go!" Oron yelled at us as we fled. He followed after us, having killed all but one of the enemy shinobi. That one had escaped into the forest, and would come to haunt us later. Oron came with us as we fled, saying "I've come to like you guys, I'm sticking with you. Besides, I haven't shown Yuuta my secret jutsu yet."

We were crossing a large pass on a b-line for a territory outside the Everwinter Highlands when that one escaped shinobi came back, but this time with far more shinobi then before. This time, he had brought a small army, 36 shinobi came at us from behind. They must have really wanted Oron dead or alive, to send that many. They attacked us right as we were nearing the top of the pass. Oron again told us to run, saying "This is my chance to redeem myself before I die. This way, I will be able to rest knowing I did some good in the world before the end came." Siv respected his final wish, but I thought at the time it was selfish. Now though, I think it was the only choice he could have ever made. He stayed behind there, and battled 36 shinobi on his own. I do not know the results of this battle, but I do know that no one ever followed us, so either he killed them all, then died, or he died and they decided we weren't worth it. Either way, Oron gave his life to save us, and I will never forget that. Never. We continued away from the pass, and were almost 300 miles away before Siv let us rest. It was then I remembered that he had never told me his secret jutsu. I broke down into tears, feeling as though all the grief of what had happened was just now hitting me. Akemi asked me what was wrong, and I told them. To my surprise, Siv grinned broadly.

"Oron knew they would be following us, as did I. So he gave me a scroll with his secret jutsu on it, to give to you when we next got a chance." "He what?! You mean he didn't just leave me? He left me his jutsu!?" "Yep." "W-wow." Even in the end he was looking out for me. Siv gave me the scroll, and then after I had finished reading it, he had us up and move again, to another place, many miles away from the Everwinter Highlands, a place called the Land of Forests, as he said it was named. He told us we had a great distance to go, thousands of miles at the least. It was time to move, again, after having been in one place for 4 years.

Journey to the Land of Forests
With Oron dead and our home destroyed, we had to flee again. We were already 300 miles outside of the Everwinter Highlands, but I didn't want to stay there. I decided to head to a place I had seen on a map once, called "The Land of Forests". It was time to travel once more, and I was once again in charge. But this time, I was not the only one who could help us survive. Akemi had proven to be a strong hunter, and Yuuta had proven to be an excellent smith. This time, we would not need to steal in order to survive. With both myself and Akemi hunting, and Yuuta bringing in some money with his smithy skills, we would be able to buy a wagon, and 2 horses as well. We were even able to buy a decent amount of supplies. This journey would still be hard, mostly because of the sheer distance we had to cover.

Past of the Palmer Clan
All of this took place long before Sivart or Kathleen or Jon or Iyyena were ever even born. This is their clan history, not their family history.

The Palmer Clan was once a mighty clan from the Everwinter Highlands (冬の高地), a distant land of mountains and ice, with glaciers that slowly grind down mountains and created clear, beautiful rivers. As a quote taken from a diary of the early years of the clan says "The land is vast, it stretches out from horizon to horizon, lush, beautiful, greens and greys and blues and whites. I love this land, I would do anything to protect it from harm. It is a wilderness, yes, but a beautiful one."

According to the earlier ancestors, this was a land of winter, and they loved it that way. It was world of eternal ice, with no room for war or chaos. Such things do not exist in the freezing darkness of Ice and Snow. Sadly, the Everwinter Highlands would not stay that way. Humans would come in vast numbers in search of riches. Coal and iron and gold and silver, such things could be found all across the highlands. Lumber and furs could be taken, what the highlands lacked in warmth they more then made up for it resources. Soon, the Palmer Clan would have to fight, and kill, to protect their homeland.

The Invasion Begins
The invasion of the highlands began when the Palmer Clan started mining for resources to trade for food and other goods that were in short supply in the highlands. Because they sold so much to the neighboring lands, those lands decided to make their own attempts at controlling the highlands. Many died in their first attempts, but they learned from their mistakes, they came with better weapons and better ways to get warmth. They built mighty settlements, fortresses, within land that had been under the control of the Palmer Clan for hundreds of years. A quote from one of the people of that time describes how they felt "They came, these outsiders, with their ships that belch black clouds of smoke and smog, with their mighty fortresses of stone, that cover the land like an ulcer that just won't heal. They dig their mighty mines and bore deep into the earth, they destroy entire forests for the wood they get from the trees. They are a blight unto the land, and we can do nothing to stop them. They are the stronger of the two, they are stronger then we. But we WILL oppose them, we WILL become strong, we WILL protect our people's homeland."

After many years of "becoming strong" we too used those ships that belched black smoke, we too dug open pit mines and wiped out forests, all in the name of protecting our homeland. We became that which we have vowed to destroy, and in doing so, forgot who we had been. We became another blight unto the land, and we have paid the price for our betrayal. But that has not yet happened, we must tell the story in order.

The Palmer Clan had grown to be just like those they had hated, and were destroying their world. It was no longer "Whites and Greens and Blues and Greys" now it was "Blacks and silvers and reds and greys". The Palmer Clan itself joined a new nation, and moved to that nations capitol, on the edge of Blackcloud Mountain(黒雲山), which would later become known as the city of Ironforge (鉄の炉). The capitol was called "Sky Peak(空のピーク)" though it was far from the peak of the mountain. The mountain itself was a volcano.

Sky Peak City(空のピーク)
Sky Peak was a large city with numerous clans. The Palmer clan was notable for its unique powers in snow and ice style jutsu, but also for its sheer variety. Among the Palmers you could find people with all sorts of talents, everything from Firestyle and Windstyle, to Earthstyle and Healers. The Palmer Clan was known for its diversity, but more so for its ability to survive any kind of weather, no matter how bad.