Harris Halynn

*A packages contain the wills and wishes of their sender and receivers and should be handled with care and integrity, for in the letters we take, we carrying peoples hearts.*

### **The Halynns' and the Royal Package and Delivery Service**

The Halynn’s are one of the few Aasimar families to have come out of their deep seclusion in the mountains. Around 40 years ago Harris’s Grandfather (Cyrus Halynn) had a falling out with one of the clan leaders. He rarely talks about the incident though when he has it is clear he feels he was set up for a crime he didn’t commit. After a trail and a subsequent humiliation within the clan, Cyrus moved his family to Vesta, a place he believed safe and away from his old life. He took up work with the Royal Package and Delivery Service's Vesta branch (RPD), at the time a small outpost with only 5 employees. As an Aasimar, he could fly packages to more remote locations and at a faster speed, allowing for expansion into newer postal routes. With six years of work and dedication to the company and a recommendation from the previous manager, the head office of the RPD appointed Cyrus the manager of the Vesta branch. Cyrus began to employ more people including both of his sons and daughters-in-law to continue expansion of trade routes to more remote locations. The early years of his management where rocky, experiencing the problem of expanding too fast and then dealing with a myriad of communication and logistical issues, the branch eventually found even keel dealing heavily with farm trade to get it through the growing pains. Cyrus soon found his stride and secured a wide number of new routes, part of which he attributes to his looking for a wide variety of staff that he felt could handle the journeys. More recently the branch has been working on special services dealing with low weight, high value trade and is overall one of the more successful branches of the RPD. Today the branch employees 25 people.

When Posties work within Vesta's greater area, they work solo on their routes, which can take up to 28 hours to fully complete. Those taking longer deliveries of three or more days are sent in pairs, each pair matched for a vairety of skills that suit the route they are sent on. All of the RPD's Vesta posties carry sending stones, linking back to a main stone in the Branches head office, allowing for communication in case of incident and to affirm recvied packages.

The majority of the posties world wide, follow the goddess Weej, leaving her symbol by Herms (many of which depict the goddess or her symbol the rising sun) as they travel as a sign of good luck and a path safe to travel. Though they will each leave this sign, there are subtle differences in the marks left which indicate which postal service that route belongs to. Paths that are not safe will have a moon symbol on them, with a directional arrow to the path that causes the issue.

### **Harris**

Harris Halynn is part of a very close family unit, consisting of her mother, father, an older brothers, an uncle and aunt, Grandfather and Grandmother and a two cousins.

Like the others of her generation, she was born in the town of Vesta, so she has no real connection with her Aasimar heritage other than what she has from her family. It is not something that bothers her much, but when she come across stories of the reclusiveness of Assimar, it somewhat confuses the outgoing Harris. Growing up was fairly comfortable, and while not from the riches of families, with the growing success of the RPD branch and the ability to easily order in items from far away places, it did allow the Halynn's to have some occasional luxuries. These included a sticky sweet cake from the boarders that Cyrus would order in for his families various birthdays. On her 10th birthday Cyrus gifted Harris a Malachite necklace that had the symbol of Weej on it. It is a necklace that she greatly treasures and keep on always, using it as part of her worship to the goddess. She is close with her grandfather, spending a lot of time playing about in his office when she was young.

She, her brother and cousins would often play with the other children of the town. She got on with most children though could come across as over-confident and along with the rough and tumble games she would often play, would often appear a little tattered, even if the clothes where new that day. At school she was always curious and loved to learn about different places and cultures and spent a long time looking at maps and pictures of far away places. She desired to be a Postie just like the rest of her family when she grew up, meaning she tried learning lots regulations and rights and keeps very tight paperwork. She keeps her own book which is a cross between a dairy and scrapbook which she collects all sorts of maps, tickets, flowers, and importantly postal stamps of the places she has visited and delivered packages too.

As expected, all four grandchildren joined the RPD, each at aged 16, and like all new recruits started on more local routes before graduating to the longer routes if they had the skilled and desire to do so. Harris was more than happy to take on the longer jobs and has been working for the RPD for 6 years now, traveling on many of the longer, but quite safe routes.

About a month before the campaign starts Harris had come back from a longer trip and came back to find her grandfather. Coming into his office she failed to find him, but saw on his desk a number of threatening letters. 3 weeks later, her brother and cousin on a paired trip on one of the more dangerous routes did not call in on their stone to the office. It was assumed they where running late on their delivery as messages were generally sent upon received packages, however a few days have passed and they still have not called in and worry is beginning to build.

### **Interactions with the group**

#### Team 1

Ash

Scarlett

Peter

#### Team 2

Leander: Aurum of Baixa, Centaur, Fighter

Levi

Turie: Eræres Imres, Eladrin Elf, Sorcerer