Y'Tlanda Meringer

Y'Tlanda Meringer is a human healer and religious leader originally from the Orca Islands. In the late 1440's OCA she traveled to the mainland with a small group of disciples preaching the creed of a little-known, almost completely forgotten god from the Orcas called the Many-Faced Hornet. The philosophy of freedom and salvation the religion professes, along with Y'Tlanda's plainspoken but electrifying speeches, have led to her gathering a few thousand followers for the Hornet across the south over the years.    
==Biography==
Y'Tlanda was born in 1423 OCA in a small village located a short distance west from Friday Harbor. In the Orcan tongue, her name means "she cultivates." While she was raised by her parents in the Orcan tradition, their village often interacted with Corganan merchants from the colony. As a young girl, Y'Tlanda enjoyed running to the side of the path outside the village to watch the carts go by, and often amused the merchants with her thick Orcan accent and rudimentary Common. 
Like many beautiful Orcan girls, Y'Tlanda married at a young age and entered a happy union with her husband, a half-Orcan, half-Corganan man named Thurian Meringer. While he continued to work as a dockhand in the city, Y'Tlanda was content to remain home and mind their modest farm and, eventually, two young children. However, in 1447, at the age of 24, Y'Tlanda claims to have received a divine vision while tending to the crops. In the vision, the Many-Faced Hornet appeared to her and commanded that she spread his gospel, as it was all but forgotten. One year later, Y'Tlanda left for Corgana along with her husband and a dozen disciples to spread the teachings.
Over the ensuing years, Y'Tlanda has campaigned across the entire south, and claims to have visited each member nation of the Southern Alliance at least one time. In the process, the philosophy of the Hornet along with her passionate speech has made her a popular religious figure and gained her thousands of loyal followers. However, many who follow other gods consider her a great nuisance and she has been banned from some major cities, including White City, on grounds of blasphemy. 
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