Winnie was one of the Six Fugitives of Alderwood, a group of teenagers from Riverbend, Saint's Crossing, and the Bartok-Barrow mines who left their homes to join the sylvan troupe of Oberhasil in the heart of Alderwood.[citation needed]
Biography
Winnie was born to Conall and Venetia in Riverbend. She never met her father, a soldier who died on the end of a Nilfgaardian sword before she was born. Her mother, rattled by the death of her husband, and facing the horrible reality of raising a child alone, leaned heavily on her brother Flann and the church of Kreve for support. Even into her early teens, Venetia never let Winnie venture far from her sight, which, like Macklin, served to isolate her socially, with only Macklin as a real friend. She resents her mother for treating her as more of a final connection to Conall than as her daughter. When she learned of her plan to marry her to Macklin in order to keep her close, she knew she had to escape. Curiously, it was then when she received an invitation to join Oberhasil's troupe. After discussing it with Macklin, she knew it was where she was supposed to be.[1]