Rusty Sideris-Matsouka

### Relatives

Kang Sideris-Matsouka (Father), Kahl Sideris-Matsouka (Father), Feta (Homunculus Servant), Talos (Steel Defender), Link Whirlwind (Friend), Fallon Falconblood (Friend), Willow Sageband (Friend), Dilahan Arrow (Friend), Hannah Snowshard (Friend)

### Affiliation

The Astral Vanguard, Hidden Smoke Grove Guild

## Appearances

### Debut

Session 2

Rusty Sideris-Matsouka is a Shifter Artificer (Level 4), specialising as a Battle Smith. She's the current champion of Azzys the Lifegiver, and is a field operative for the Astral Vanguard.

Stats
 STR
 17
 INT
 18

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Rusty is a 24 year old woman, with a lean frame and rather unusual physical traits, such as a fluffy leopards tail and a bright orange wing on her right shoulder. She has light blue eyes and hair in varying shades of brown and blonde (recently also gaining white streaks from an incident with the Chaos Arcanum), always leaving it tied back and out of the way. Her skin is a lovely tan colour with darker splotches, similar to a leopard. Her clothing is rather practical, wearing muted blues and a long brown trenchcoat. She carries around a chakram, that can be split into two separate blades when necessary. On the back of her neck sits the Mark of Healing.

### **Personality**

She doesn't like people who lack a commitment to hard work or fair play, and will take issue with those who behave unfairly or cruelly to those around her. She believes in generosity, and using the talents she's been given to benefit the world. Whether that's her skill in making prostheses, or her newfound healing abilities, or even just her talents in cooking. She has a mild flaw of being jealous of those who can outshine her handiwork, and will often view herself as surrounded by rivals. She has a habit of coming up with wild and peculiar inventions that serve weird or convenient purposes, depending on which way you look at them.

## **Background**

Rusty was adopted as a baby by Kang and Kahl Sideris-Matsouka, Bugbear and Aarakocra guild artisans who raised her in the Hidden Smoke Grove. The Grove was a place where all races could live in a sort of natural harmony, co-existing as they helped and protected each other. She lived hidden up in the trees, training to protect herself, and learning how to protect and care for innocents.

She grew up to be a guild artisan herself, specialising in making prostheses for badly wounded creatures, and generally being good enough of a person to make her fathers proud. She would sometimes go around with a group of similarly-aged members of the grove, affectionately named 'Rusty's Merry Troop'. At some point in time over these years, she would have gained the Mark of Healing, marking her as the latest champion of Azzys

At around age 24, she started adventuring out to discover more about the city of Ovark, planning to travel to Solarius and look for clues in the Library of the Sun. On the way there she ran into the current group of Elderfey champions, and upon discovering they were also travelling to Solarius decided to join them.

## **Relationships**

### **Feta**

Rusty seems to have a very close bond with her homunculus servant, Feta. She often likes to keep them close, and trusts them to scout things out for her. When Rusty was kidnapped in Session 12, Feta was able to seek out the rest of the party for help on their own, seemingly feeling a significant amount of distress at the absence of their creator.

### **Kang and Kahl Sideris-Matsouka**

Rusty has a strong, loving relationship with both of her dads, Kahl and Kang. They're the ones who taught her to help innocent people when they need it, and it can very easily be assumed that she loves them both dearly.

### **Loramae Cazenave**

Loramae and Rusty are one of the more chaotic friendships in the party, with the two constantly scheming up inventions to make havoc in their daily lives. In the past they've scavenged for materials together, and Rusty seems to go to Loramae with advice on unknown magical objects.

### **Ruby**

Rusty seems to have an almost big-sisterly attachment to Ruby, with the two bonding over their shared love of food. She seems to be extremely protective of the young pig girl, even being able to break through the lycanthrope madness in Iresca's dungeon to protect Ruby, when she was being attacked by a Werebear in Session 12.

### **Talos**

Talos is Rust's steel defender, and works well alongside her in combat carrying out orders directly as required.

## **Trivia**

* Rusty loves to cook, and has gone out on several occasions to collect ingredients to feed her new friends, the Elderfey champions
* She often refers to her godly boon as a 'tramp stamp', despite it being on her neck.
* Both her artificer creatures, Feta and Talos, are named after Greek things
* Rusty is currently a Wereleopard, after catching lycanthropy at the end of Session 11 in the Unseelie Court
* With her Ring of Jumping, Rusty can technically achieve a high jump of around 18 feet vertically upwards.