Háma Glyn

Háma Glyn is the second-in-line half wood elf and half high elf princess of the Vílderfern. Before joining up with any party she was a renowned monster hunter, specializing in werewolves. An original member of Titan's Vow and a temporary member of Yin and the Yangs, she used her ranger skills to assist both of them on different occasions. However, she ended up becoming one of the causes of Titan's Vow's downfall at the hands of Strahd Von Zarovich. Cursed with lycanthropy at an early age, Háma has struggled throughout her entire life with her self-worth and, although she was cured of her curse, the scars still weigh on her.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Háma Glyn, while half high elf, more closely resembles her wood elf half except for the length of her ears, which mimic her high elf mother Lierin's. Her emerald eyes are the same color as her mother Triskai's and her hair is a dark reddish brown, often found tied back in some sort of braid. During her stay with Yin and the Yangs, her sister Norah Glyn bleached the tips of her hair white. The sides of her head are shaved short, while the middle reaches down to her back.

### Clothing

Háma is often dressed in forest colors, to help her hide and assist in her hunting. She wears leather armor, typically embossed with gold leaf-like patterns. She has a singular golden earring in her right ear, the other having been stolen by her cousin, Thia of Noyin. She wears her Klevo Lapas as her cloak pin. The simple quartz necklace she wore around her neck was a birthday gift from her mother Lierin, but she later gifted it to her sister, Norah Glyn.

### Equipment

Háma is rarely found without her favored weapons, her two shortswords and longbow gifted to her by her mother Triskai Glyn. She named her weapons after the old wood elven lullaby Oak & Ash & Thorn. Her shortswords are silvered and named Ažuolas, which means "oak" in Elvish, and Penenai which means "ash," also in Elvish. Her longbow is named Erkestis, or "thorn."

## Childhood

### Early Years

Háma Glyn was born in the capital city of Glyphern, five years after her missing older sister Norah, to Lierin and Triskai Glyn, the Queens of the Vílderfern. Triskai was a mighty warrior, while Lierin was a powerful sorcerer, her skills focused on healing. Háma's childhood, as expected of a princess, was a happy one and she wanted for little. From an early age, Triskai taught her how to dual wield shortswords, fire a longbow, and the mechanics of running a kingdom and Lierin taught her magic, diplomacy, and the finer arts of ruling. In her schooling she also learned Dwarvish and about the culture of Hagelslag.

Háma was raised almost completely in Glyphern, excepting a few trips to Lyianshara to see Lierin's half of the family, and she came to respect, connect with, and love the woods the way most wood elves did. Her magic mirrored this connection, her powers coming from her closeness with the Lifeblood.

Every year on her lost sister Norah's birthday, Háma would climb the tallest tree in the Vílderfern and drop a Cecelia from its branches, hoping that somehow the flower would make its way to her sister. Only one flower ever did, in 36 BCOS.

### Lycanthropy

During Háma's childhood, her mom Triskai often left to go on missions trying to find her lost sister Norah. One such of these missions, when Háma was twelve in 36 BCOS, had Triskai kill a werewolf who was the son of the dire werewolf Bloodshrike. As revenge for his son's death, Bloodshrike tracked Triskai back to Glyphern and, in the middle of the night, broke into Háma's room and bit her on the right leg, cursing her with lycanthropy.

> “A child for a child, my son for your daughter. It’s only what you would have done, Queen Triskai.”
> -- Bloodshrike
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Instead of killing Triskai's daughter as she had his son, Bloodshrike left Háma alive as a punishment. Bloodshrike then fled, Triskai and Lierin unable to do anything to stop him. Lierin used what healing abilities she had to try desperately to cure her daughter, but only managed to close the wound. Bloodshrike's curse, because he was a dire werewolf, could only be cured once he was dead. From then on, Triskai's quests also became focused on hunting down Bloodshrike, as well as finding her lost daughter.

The wound on Háma's leg scarred and she still walks with a slight limp on her right leg, despite Lierin's best healing efforts. From that day on, until she was eventually cured by Ayumi Chen in 0 BCOS, every full moon, Háma would shift into a rabid and bloodthirsty dire werewolf, intent on killing anyone around her.

### Teen Years

Because of her lycanthropy, the residents of Glyphern treated their princess differently after her injury, fearing for their own safety around her. This led Háma to be ostracized and shunned from every day festivities and life. She was almost always able to keep her wolf under control except when during a full moon, but that mattered little to the fearful people of the Vílderfern. She grew to keep her distance from people, preferring the solace of the woods and the escape that weapons training or hunting brought her.

Even during the highly celebrated Autumnal Equinox Festival she wasn't part of the festivities. There was, however, a conflict with Gabrilé Vidas resulting in the interference of her mother Triskai. The incident in question, although never shared with anyone outside the incident itself, was Gabrilé being asked to kiss Háma on a dare by one of her friends, Xane Leohana. After finding out that the kiss was nothing more than a cruel joke, Háma had a rare moment of losing control and clawed Gabrilé. Gabrilé made it seem like the whole thing had been Háma's fault, only casting more shade on the already ostracized princess. The pair have hated each other ever since.

Háma didn't let her parents know about the treatment of the other wood elves towards her, not wanting to be any more of a burden to them than she already feared she was. The Queens could see she was struggling, however, and tried to help her in whatever ways they could, but without Háma telling them the full truth or even accepting their help, their efforts were futile.

### Leaving the Vílderfern

At age 18, in 30 BCOS, Háma left the Vílderfern. Her reasons for leaving were mostly tied to her lycanthropy and ostracization because of it. She feared she was being too much of a burden to her mother Queen Lierin who, already distrusted by the wood elves because she was a high elf, was being accused of abusing her power and keeping a danger to everyone in the city. Queen Triskai was gone often, leaving just Lierin to rule, which Háma also viewed as her fault, because Triskai was at least in part searching for the werewolf that had cursed her daughter.

Not wanting to cause any more pain or burden anyone any more than she already felt like she had, Háma left, leaving a note to Lierin telling her not to follow or contact her. Triskai had been gone six months on a quest at this point and never saw the letter as she'd been captured and petrified by Hythonia in Prismeer and would be until 0 BCOS.

## Adult Life

### Isolationist

After leaving the Vílderfern, Háma Glyn travelled east, as far east as she could, sticking mostly to the forests. That was where she felt at home, having grown up in them, and also knowing that the farther away she stayed from people, the less likely she was to hurt anyone when the full moon rose. She became an isolationist, only travelling into settlements when she desperately needed supplies, or to get news on monsters to hunt. She specialized in killing werewolves, she knew everything about them and felt it was a way to justify her own continued existence. But she also knew that one day she would die fighting these monsters, but when she did, that would just be another monster removed from the world.

### Greymoor

She joined the network of rangers scattered throughout the Continent, taking jobs from them or sending them news through animal messengers. One such job was actually a commission posted by Ivive Melal, the later party member of Titan's vow and Háma's girlfriend, about a manticore in the city of Greymoor, that Ivive couldn't handle herself because she was busy with a nest of giant spiders. Háma took the job, but had to resort to shifting into her wolf form to kill it and save the townspeople of Greymoor.

The people of Greymoor were not welcoming of her lycanthropy whatsoever, even though it saved them, and sentenced Háma to be burned at the stake. Háma managed to escape by shifting into a massive werewolf, despite her silver shackles, but not before becoming injured and gaining a long lasting fear of being burned. Háma, driven by the pain, lost control and massacred all of the village that didn't run. In the surrounding area this became known as the Massacre of Greymoor.

After this, Háma left Greymoor and its surrounding kingdom of Argoloth, never to return. There are, however, accounts of someone surviving the attack and contracting lycanthropy. Tales of unsolved murders in Greymoor abound, most of the bodies ripped apart but what seems like claws or teeth.

## Adventures

### Titan's Vow

Háma Glyn joined Titan's Vow in a tavern in Barovia after the group received a commission. Erika Saraphel, Camille Thornbriar, and Ivive Melal were the other three members of Titan's Vow. Together they made their vow over the dog, Titan, gaining their party name in the process. The party defeated the hags at the Bonegrinder mill before setting out to defeat Strahd. However, the group was thwarted.

Háma was an integral part of their failure, the full moon happening the night of their attack. Due to fear over what the rest of the Titan's Vow would do to her if they found out, Háma didn't share the details of her curse with them. Throughout their time together, the party had killed a few werewolves, and that coupled with the stigma dealt by Erika after Camille became a vampire and the general hatred of untamed lycanthropes led Háma to not tell them of her curse. She went feral during the attack and Titan's Vow was defeated.

Later, with the arrival of Shadow's Bane, Háma fought mainly against Strahd in her lycanthrope form until Pearl Ursa was knocked unconscious by Ivive Melal and almost fell off a cliff. Iris Ursa caught her daughter-to-be and handed her to Háma. It was at that point that Háma lost her mind, becoming controlled by Strahd, and tried to drop Pearl off the cliff. Pearl, through some sheer mental will and perhaps help from her birth mother, Myra Danesleaf, managed to use her Quori spirit Lazul and possess Háma. At the time, three external beings were warring over her consciousness, Strahd, her wolf, and Lazul. Possessed Háma dragged Pearl back up the cliff and ran away with her until the battle was over.

Afterwards, Háma regained her mind and her body and relished in the victory as much as the beaten, battered, and broken members of both parties could.

### Yin and the Yangs

About two and a half weeks after Strahd's defeat, Háma Glyn later received a letter from her mother, Queen Lierin, at Ravenloft. The letter detailed that Háma's other mother, Triskai Glyn, had been missing for the past thirty years, unbeknownst to Háma who had isolated herself in the woods all this time. Háma set out to find her missing mom, the details Lierin had provided leading her into the Feywild realm of Prismeer.

There she met the Yin and the Yangs and ended up temporarily joining up with them. She met her sister, Norah Glyn, who she hadn't even believed was alive. Later, it was revealed that Ivive Melal had followed Háma into the Feywild. Yin and the Yangs eventually found her in the Dark Feywild, where she arrived by one-shotting an attacking giant phase spider. After arriving back in Prismeer, all three of the moons in the sky were full and Háma completely wolfed out, her powers being exponentiated by the light of the three, blazing, full moons. Háma ended up biting her sister and turning her into a werewolf, but was eventually brought down by Aviri Aeolus.

In the aftermath of the battle, Ivive and Háma had a long, gay, conversation until, finally, the pair kissed and began officially dating each other.

Yin and the Yangs ended up facing Skabatha Nightshade, a member of the Hourglass coven and the hag who kidnapped Norah when she was just one year old. Norah ended up almost burning her sister to death with a fire elemental. Afterwards, Norah killed herself and let her hag self which had been trapped in a crystal up until this point take over her body. Háma forgave Norah for the burning, but not wholeheartedly. Nightshade fled temporarily as the group recouped themselves. Ayumi Chen cast Remove Curse on Háma and, because Shadow's Bane had killed Bloodshrike at this point, her curse was lifted. A battle was fought against Háma's wolf inside her mind, with Norah and Farrah defeating it and curing Háma of her curse.

Outside of Háma's body however, Nightshade attacked, and the group was fighting two battles all at the same time. Nightshade was eventually defeated by Norah and the group took a well-deserved rest before setting off to the last of the splinter-realms of Prismeer, Yon. In the crossing, the party was assaulted by Graz'zt, a demon lord who was hunting for Aviri. He shared the information that a war would be started in the Vílderfern was starting because Queen Corinthia, the current queen of the high elves after Queen Danaria had died a few days previously, was in his service. He threatened to escalate the war if they didn't hand over Aviri. They didn't hand him over and the war started shortly afterwards.

There the group ended up finding Triskai Glyn who had been petrified for the past 30 years in the lair of a Gorgon known as Hythonia. They fought the gorgon, Farrah and Ayumi both becoming petrified in the process, before Norah killed her. Sacrificing her magic, Norah managed to heal the petrified party members and also her mother. It turned out, however, that her thirty years in stone had blinded Triskai, making her unable to see her daughters who she had not seen in decades. Because of the escalating war in the Vílderfern, Háma decided to take Triskai back with her, Ivive, and Ayumi.

The long-lost queen and the long-lost princess both returned to the Vílderfern after thirty years of absence, just in time for the most brutal war seen in the Vílderfern in over a thousand years.