Fern

Fern is a orphaned war refugee originally from the Southern Countries. She was adopted by Heiter and made a mage apprentice of Frieren after Heiter's death.

Personality
Fern has a mature personality which leads her to usually become the mother of the group. She constantly has to help Frieren wake up due to her being a deep sleeper and acts like Stark's mother, like being angry when he stays up late, even though they are around the same age.

She is a very loyal apprentice to Frieren, like in Chapter 19 where she refused to rat out Frieren's whereabouts even though she was pinned and had a high risk of dying.

When she is angry, she completely ignores the person she is angry with, as seen in Chapter 47.

Backstory
Fern is a orphaned war refugee originally from the southern countries. She was adopted by Heiter at a young age and started learning magic, which she excelled at, being as proficient as an adult at a young age. After Heiter's death, she became Frieren's apprentice, travelling with her in her quest for grimoires.

Appearance
Fern is a young human with Purple hair and eyes. She wears a buttoned white shirt with a black cloak over it. It is also seen that she wears a hair ornament gifted by Frieren in Chapter 4 and a bracelet which was picked by her and Stark together in Chapter 29.

History
This is an arc by arc telling of what happens to Fern.

Beyond Journey's End
Frieren travels to Heiter's House, meeting a young Fern who leads her to Heiter's House. She is surprised to learn that Fern has been adopted by Heiter after she became orphaned from a war in the Southern Countries, where she was originally from. Heiter unsuccessfully tries to make Fern Frieren's apprentice. He then hires Frieren to decipher a book which supposedly contains immortality and resurrections spells instead. Fast forward a few years, Frieren is busy deciphering the book, Heiter collapses. Fern continues her training and completes it before Heiter dies. The book that Frieren was deciphering did not contain the spells, but due to the time it took to decipher, Fern is now worthy of beingFrieren's apprentice. They stay with Heiter until his death and then depart on their journey.

*Heiter
In his last remaining years, he adopted the orphan Fern and raised her. When Frieren came to visit him 20 years after Himmel's death, he asked Frieren to adopt Fern and train her as her apprentice.Heiter was a good father figure to Fern. She became strong so he would not have to worry about her anymore and could pass away in peace, and to this day she still misses him. In his final days, he wished for Fern to be strong enough so that he could pass in peace without regret.