Helena Farrar

Helena Farrar is the resident surgeon at Blackcliff Academy.
==Character Background==
The daughter of a farrier and a seamstress, Helena came from humble beginnings. She decided from a young age that to escape the poverty that plagued her parents, she would strive to study medicine - citing the well known adage: "Verena for rulers, but Gaelen for riches." (An epithet popular among university students, referring to the fact that while students of the law frequently rise to high station and public office, students of medicine tend to be wealthier.)
Unfortunately for Helena, physicians' guilds are notoriously strict in membership so as to preserve the reputation of the profession. Women, Dwarfs, Halflings and foreigners are all typically prevented from joining, and the demand for university qualifications (which requires at least four years of study at an Imperially recognized medical college) typically excludes all but the very wealthy or noble-born. Military colleges of surgery, however, have no such restriction. Thus, Helena took the only path available to her and became an apprentice under the Imperial College of Surgery of Nuln. 
Following many years of grueling training, Helena proved herself to be a talented surgeon and was assigned the prestigious (and safe) post of Resident Medical Officer at Blackcliff. She immediately took a disliking to The Commandant - their views on the value of life were not reconcilable. However, Helena could not exert any authority on the matter: The Commandant's word is final. As such, over the many long years of witnessing death after death of young children, Helena has grown weary and jaded, keeping all the students at an arms reach such as to not grow too close.
== History ==
24 Erntezeit, 2476: Branded all the children at Blackcliff Academy.
33 Vorhexen 2476: Treated Marcus Jaegen after he was brutally castrated by Remus Hil. 
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