Liadan Atholl

Recent drawing of Liadan

## Basic Information

The woman named Liadan is but another adventurer traveling the continent of Etera, pursuing good deeds in the name of her goddess, along with her companion Lucian Ravensmaw. On her travels she's only visited a small fraction of the expansive land, mostly staying near Grey Hollow to pursue her business, and maintain the acquaintances she's managed to make so far.

## Physical Description

At first glance Liadan's appearance is that of an ordinary human, although her imposing height of 6 foot and 3 inches often makes her stick out among her supposed kind. An onlooker would easily be able to make out her exceptionally well built physique, even through the suit of blued mountain pattern armor that she's usually seen with.

Her stature, body shape, and face stick out as almost uncannily flawless by human standards, given shape by her celestial blood. While her features could be described as "ample" in common dialect, she takes great care to conceal most her physical form, save her head, at all times.

Over the years Liadan has accumulated various scars that couldn't be healed via magical means at the time, and thus left permanent marks on her. She's easily identified by the scar that leads from her right eyebrow down across her right cheek, and another on her right jawbone.

## Early Life

Born as an outsider and marked by her aura, young Liadan had a troubled childhood, unloved by her commoner parents, avoided, and harassed by the rest of the village youth. While she wasn't outright booted out of her home when she was still a small child, she received very little love, and care from her parents, who believed themselves cursed as their first child after decades of trying was born an Aasimar. Liadan had to learn to stand up for herself at a very young age, swiftly growing resentful of most people in the village of Myrefall, a favor which many returned. Things took a turn for the young lass when the village blacksmith, old Aedh, found himself in need of a new apprentice, but without any candidate beyond young Liadan. Gifted with above average strength, and a resistance to harsh words, she earned herself Aedh's respect, learning the craft of the blacksmith reasonably fast for a pre-teen. She continued to learn diligently under the man who eventually came to accept her despite her queer nature, finding solace, and meaning in her craft, as well as her connection to her teacher. Liadan's hard work, and focused ambition brought her talent to shape, and form metal to light, eventually earning her somewhat of a reputation in the surrounding towns and villages. She was well known for her knack with repairing arms and armor by the time she reached her early 20s.

## Personality

She often comes across as blatantly unrefined, and awkward to strangers, as she makes no attempt to hide her thoughts behind flowery words, unless necessity demands it. In reality she's a kind, and gentle soul, but simply has difficulties opening up to new people, due to her lack of a proper socialisation in her younger years. She's usually driven by compassion, and her care for the people in the world around her, determined to use her divine gift in the name of good.

Her demeanor is thus rather blunt, and straight forward, and as she wears her heart on her sleeve, which sometimes causes her to say things commonly considered a faux pas.

Once she's made a friend, or acquaintance she clings to them however, maintaining them with great, genuine care.

## Adventuring and Current Life

It was a fateful encounter with a young traveler in need of weapon maintenance that made for another turn in her life. The young man named Lucian Ravensmaw proclaimed himself a follower of Saranrae, sensing the goddess' blessing within Liadan as well. After initial mistrust the two made a deal, deciding they'd travel together with one another's aid, and thus set off with him, providing a blacksmith's service wherever they'd go, on a journey to discover herself, and uncover the goddess' motif behind granting her the blessing the received at birth.

Until now they have been travelling together for nearly two years, eventually falling for one another, which changed Liadan's entire outlook on life, while making it endlessly more enjoyable to brave the wilderness together with Lucian.

During their travels they have aided those in need as best as they could, granting succor, and protection wherever they went. They recently arrived in Grey Hollow, where both of them managed to make a couple acquaintances, and work.

## Relationships

The only people in Myrefall Liadan still bothers to keep contact with are her mentor old Aedh, and his wife Saibh, whom she sends word via caravan, or courier, when she can't afford to visit them personally. As of recently she's found herself rather busy in, and around the area of Grey Hollow, having made friends with a couple other adventurers, namely Delvar Starbreaker, Zutzia, Karmak, and a couple more enigmatic figures.

### Lucian Ravensmaw

The person Liadan is most closely tied to, and rarely seen without, the young knight of their goddess Saranrae, Lucian Ravensmaw. It was a rather fateful, yet mundane encounter that brought the two of them together, but they soon found a deep spiritual connection with one another, allowing Liadan to finally make certain experiences the young woman had been without until her early adulthood. While she often scolds, and reprimands him during his cheepish moments, Liadan is deeply protective of the young man, always making sure he keeps himself out of trouble when he's without her.

At this point she's no longer making a secret that it is her intention to take him as her husband, once the two of them have found a proper place to call their home, and a sufficiently peaceful occupation that'd allow them to start a family of their own.

## The Tower of Death - Liadan's Efforts

As soon as Liadan heard of the expedition into the Ghostlands she consulted her goddess in prayer for how she should devote herself to this cause. While her spiritual effort to summon her goddess' advise proved fruitless, due to her lack of an ability to commune with Saranrae so far, she found other means to figure out a plan of attack for her efforts for the cause.

She spent some time discussing various possibilities, and opportunities with her partner, and companion Lucian Ravensmaw, considering each of their strengths and weaknesses to hatch a well thought out plan. After a couple evenings of planning during their current adventures the couple finally decided that they'd try to join forces in order to forge, and create as many goods as they could to aid the expedition into the Ghostlands.

Thus the first day of cooperation began, during which Liadan took her beloved to the forge of Grey Hollow, where they were generiously lend space, and tools to work at the Rilovo family forge. While Liadan's aptitude, and experience with working metal facilitated a good amount of progress within just a mere couple hours of work, Lucian's lack there of ended up only slowing things down ultimately. Thus they ended up with a less than optimal yield for Liadan alone, while Lucian hardly had anything to show for his eight hours spent at the forge. On the same even of that day they decided to reconsider their plan, and once again came to a decision. They would divide their plan into different aspects, letting Liadan handle the production of all sorts of metal goods, while Lucian was to ask around local businesses and establishments, to rally support for the cause. The bright eyed knight actually inspired her to send a letter to her black smith mentor, the old Aedh in her home village of Myrefall. She hastily scribbled a heartfelt, pleading letter to him, asking him for his aid in producing goods, and weapons for the troops heading into uncharted territory. Surely a man who was compassionate enough to take an outsider brat into his home would be able to focus his efforts on this dire situation at hand, especially since she knew that he quite well off, and had gained noteworthy reputation in the surrounding lands.

With their plan finalized, and her letter sent, Liadan began to work as hard, and focused as she had ever, forging from dawn til dusk for an entire fortnight to produce, craft, and enchant as many weapons. Among the pieces she created there were countless swords, platemails, patches of chainlink, and numerous utensils, and items necessary to camp out in unknown land. She applied her abundance of knowledge, and experience from her own travels to take great care to enhance certain aspects of all these tools, sacrificing aesthetics for pure usefulness, and reinforcing parts, and spots that she noticed would commonly break on purchased, common goods.

After filling a few crates with plenty of metal goods to aid the exploration of the Ghostlands she reflected upon her work, going through the entirety of her crafted stock to figure out what else she may do to make the lives of the expedition's spearhead personnel easier. It was once again her spirited, charismatic lover that inspired her with another idea, which was to ask their acquaintance, and his numerous "employees" for their aid.

After a brief, emotional goodbye, Liadan parted ways with Lucian for the first time since they had met, albeit only very temporarily. Filled with determination she took a horse and rode to the city of Babel, to consult with her acquaintance, Jerose, lord of his domus. She arrived in the noon of the next day, hurrying to the dome, where she asked for entrance, this time in draconic, as she had managed to pick up the language since their last meeting. While she was eager to get to know the many fairy dragons that she could now exchange words with, she made it clear that it was of importance that she spoke to the lord Jerose, and Ludvig as soon as she could.

While Jerose seemed eager to meet Liadan for "the first time", she explained her business sooner than later, making a sort of business proposal to the dragons. She asked the lord, and the countless fairy dragons he counted among his tenants for help with preparing rations for the troups, remarking that their many hands would make it easy to ready countless meals that would keep for a longer time.

Once their "deal" was struck, and Liadan promised to visit more often for purely social, amicable reasons, and headed off to the markets to procure the required ingredients. She returned with a whole two wagon loads worth of meats, grains, fruits, and preservatives, as well as the many containers that it would take to transport the goods, as well as a fairly handsome pay for the whole ordeal. Once she had provided all the information, and organization required to ensure the safe delivery of the supplies, she left the remaining logistics to lord Jerose, and eventually set off to hurry back to Grey Hollow

She continued to spend the remaining time to craft some more special goods for the expedition, eventually arranging a caravan to have the crates full of crafted goods, and preservable rations delivered to the expedition, adding a few magical remidies from her own personal inventory to it.