Rebmaris

Circle of the Land Druid - Halfling Lightfoot

Wisdom, intell, and dex are top tier

I owe my life to the tigress who defended me against the hunter, the one who wants me dead.

I also owe my life to the druid devotee of Ehlonna, named Girah, who found me on the forest boundary after the tigress took me there.

Rebmaris lived in Eerie Forest next to Kneal Village for years,

Yet the villagers know her not,

Her origin remains as mysterious as her scar,

Many secrets concealed within.

Rebmaris was abandoned in the Eerie woods, left alone as a child. It was nature that saved her.

The druids took her in and Rebmaris devoted her life in service to the nature spirits and the deity Ehlonna. She helps with nature rituals and is faithful. However, she went away temporarily (for multiple reasons) to seek enlightenment and follow her own path.

Rebmaris has sunburnt hair (black roots then orange in the middle and yellow as the hair goes downwards). There are blue-silver streaks which reflect like crystals in moonlight. It is believed that these blue-silver strands contain mystical power which animals are connected to. Her hair length is short in a jagged bob which goes just underneath her chin. She has a large lilac-pink scar starting from her right eyebrow down to just underneath her chin. Her birthmark looks somewhat like a butterfly, though some say it resembles a moth. It is a faint sunset pink-orange colour on the side of her left knee.

Kneal Village - Key site of the Roubal resistance forces, not that they know it after an incident involving a mage and some false memories, who knows who was caught in it

Rebmaris was abandoned in the Eerie woods, left alone as a child. It was nature that saved her. A tigress kneeled over her as a baby, looked into her yellow eyes and sensed she was special. The tigress scratched her face, symbolizing an eternal bond with nature. The tigress took her to the druids after saving her from the hunter who wished to claim her life. The tigress has not been seen since.

After the druids took her in, Rebmaris devoted her life in service to the nature spirits and the deity, Ehlonna. She helps with nature rituals and is faithful. Although, Rebmaris suspects that not all in her group are as faithful to nature as they make out. Rebmaris is grateful that the druids took her in but she still feels like there is something missing and so it was decided that she would be sent out into the world when she came of age (present day) to eliminate any doubt. Rebmaris went out into the world to seek enlightenment, find out her origins and grow as a person. Who are her parents? Why did the hunter try to kill her? Did they kill her parents? Was she always meant to be a druid? What does Ehlonna want her to be? Rebmaris has to see what the wider world holds, outside of her beautiful forest. The druids, especially Girah, are not too keen on her leaving - they worry for her safety and whether the world will corrupt her - but only once Rebmaris sees what awaits beyond may she finally be able to reconnect and commit to her group with no suspicions, doubts or privations. She will one day return back to nature and do her duty - protect Eerie Woods and all the nature contained within.

Rebmaris is excellent at blending in, is able to befriend people and is genuine but has the ability to manipulate, rather than be manipulated.

UPDATE (11/04/2020): When Rebmaris died, the deity Ehlonna tells her to join the Underdark Circle rather than the expected Forest one. This may anger those at Eerie Woods. The question is... why was Rebmaris drawn to the Underdark Circle when she had thought she was connected to the Forest. Is there something she wasn't being told? What is Ehlonna trying to tell her? Is it connected to her mysterious origins... or the faith she had been brought up in and had followed blindly for a long time up until now?

ANOTHER UPDATE (15/04/2020): Rebmaris does not know this yet but it turns out the druids at Eerie Woods had lied to her. When Rebmaris was taken in, she was just a child and never knew any other forests other than the one she grew up in. Little did she know, there was serious magic being used to shield the truth that she actually originated from the Underdark. This explains why her background is Underdark but it does not explain why the deception was done? Why had they lied to her? Why had they wanted her to join? What really happened that night she was found and was the tigress involved? Why was Ehlonna telling her to join the Underdark Circle now? She had trusted them so much but that trust seems to have been misplaced... unless she could not have known her destiny until a certain age and they were doing it in some way to protect her. Who was the hunter? Were they justified in attempting to kill her - why? Maybe Ehlonna will reveal more at some point.

## Eerie Walks

The gang got left on the road through the Eerie Woods, and told to just make their way to Whipdif, easy breezy. Rebmaris revealed she was from around these parts, and explained that she left a year ago to find her true calling or whatever. She also elaborated on the massive Lumber Mill the group walked past, that felt very similar to Reach with Halflings doing the manual work and Human ‘managers’. It had been set up before she left but it looked like the operation had really wound up in the last year, indicating increasing human influx into the woods.

They made it relatively safely most of the way to Whipdif, Paddy tried to rouse a sing-along but what’s new, until a random arrow came out of nowhere, hitting a tree a few meters away from them. Turned out it was shot by Flyntran, who came from the same druid clan as Rebmaris. He guilt tripped her into coming to say hi to the family. So the group clattered their way through the undergrowth until they came to a semi-permanent camp of Halfling Forest Druids where they were introduced to Girhah, Rebmaris’ adopted mother. Mordai and Flyntran shared a drink whilst Girhah tried to get Rebmaris to stay, arguing they needed her here to protect them and the forest from the Human logging camp. Shit got tense, a paralyse spell was thrown, but then the truth came out about Rebmaris and just why Girhah wanted her to stay.

Rebmaris had been abandoned in the woods after her village was planar shifted by the Humans, who wanted to change it from a Halfling village to one that obeyed the Humans. It essentially transformed from Kneal Village, the way it had been, to Faroak Village, a village which had been a human outpost for generations. Whilst the exact details are fuzzy, it seems that those caught in the spell fell into this, believing their new reality. Rebmaris’ parents seemed familiar with this magic (maybe because of their Underdark background) and tried to flee, but her Mother got caught in the spell and remains in the village to this day, an ardent supporter of the status quo. Her Father was a shapeshifter who took his tiger form and carried her out of the village to the safety of the Druids before the spell could take hold, before being shot by Moganius, the Human leading the operation.

Ehlonna the Druid’s god told Girhah to protect Rebmaris - Girhah took this to mean keeping her in Eerie Woods because that had worked for generations keeping them safe. Turns out Ehlonna had also spoken to Rebmaris, telling her to find her destiny and that she was actually part of the Underdark Circle.

After agreeing to an alliance with the Arbeit party, and as a result increased protection against the Humans, recognising the group’s end goal would fix everything, Girhah agreed to let Rebmaris go. But only if she wrote, and visited often. Flyntran said he’d walk them to Whipdif and help them find their way to the harbour.