SciFi and Fantasy Art: Emma of the forest

This is another sketch that I am personally working on as a submission for an original character in an upcoming RPG game 'Legends and Fairytales', you can find the information for the game on www.thehobbydragon.com. This is for the book which is yet to be published and the drawings are yet to be accepted :)

This is Emma she has a non-identical twin brother also. I had a very basic story in my head to inspire this drawing and it goes something like this (I am not a writer so pls excuse the bad writing haha :P):-

There was a sage/hermit/keeper of the forest who despaired at the evil spreading from the castle/kingdom and perceived the imminent danger to the forest and his home. He also knew his time was limited and therefore sang to the forests and the gods for a solution for some1 to pass his vast knowledge to. His prayers were answered and one day he came upon 2 children sleeping upon the forest grounds. They remembered nothing of their past and were as if they had just sprung out of the very earth itself. So for long years he taught them and loved them until finally all his knowledge was passed, and he bade them goodbye. Pip and Emma are young and cheerful. Emma’s love was given to the animals and Pip’s to trees and the birds. Some say that the forest, hearing the prayers of the sage created beings in the likeness of humans others say that the children escaped into the forest fleeing from some terrible evil and the forest faeries guided them near the sage and put upon them a spell of forgetfullness.