I’m starting my first ever Dungeons and Dragons game and I need to come up with a character backstory. I’m playing a halfling ranger and my favored terrain is the forest, so please make sure there is an explanation as to why. My character is from a noble origin, but I'd like for her to have spent most of her time in the forest. Her name is Poppy Figglebottom.
Poppy Figglebottom was the firstborn child of the notorious Figglebottom House in the Neverending Forest. When Poppy was just eight years old she ventured into the forest on her own to play and never returned home. The entire city searched the woods for her, but she was nowhere to be seen. After many years of her absence, she was presumed dead.

Over the years citizens would swear they spotted her roaming in the woods, covered in mud and moss hunting and foraging, only to run away when approached. Those sightings were largely considered to be false - hoaxes for attention from the Figglebottom family and a chance to earn some of the reward funds.

Fifteen years after her mysterious disappearance she returned. She'd been hardened by the forest, as she was forced to live on her own and endure living in nature by herself. Poppy was welcomed back into the Figglebottom House with open arms but soon after she returned, her father fell ill. He died just three weeks after her arrival, leaving her in charge of the entire city.

Even though she was back with her family in the home she was born in, she wasn't comfortable there. She yearned to be back in the forest with the creatures that helped her survive all those years. One night, shortly after midnight when everyone in the castle was sound asleep, she left. This time with the knowledge of how to survive and no intention to return. 