Priphea

Priphea has settled into life in Osteria quite contentedly. Now a dancer at the Rabbit's Respite, she is back to doing fairly regular performances for an audience, though she has also done one public show in the town square with the arrival of spring in Osteria, where she used her magic to grow beds of flowers lining the footpaths of the square. She has also been a presence at the Osteria Observe, both writing and delivering the news.

A positive and passionate soul with a love for her art, she finds joy in sharing her dances and music with others. As a plant, she has a unique perspective on the world that humanoids and others lack, and can sometimes seem outwardly detached or disaffected by circumstances, though her emotions run deeply, though she seems to be best able to express them through dance.

With Spring's arrival, Priphea sometimes roots herself to rest in Osteria's town square or park, and sometimes utilizes her room at the Rabbit's Respite. She also occasionally stays at the home of Kalyanna.

## Description

A vibrant and healthy-looking plant, Priphea stands about four feet tall, with verdant flesh and straw-golden hair in a short cut. A large red-colored flower blooms atop her head at a side-slant, and her lithe and willowy body is slight and almost fragile at a glance. Even so, she has a strong personality and a natural warmth and innocence about her.

She frequently wears a set of studded leather armor, updated now to have a look almost like bark and to be less obtrusively bulky. Colorful sashes decorate the armor as well, and she carries a rapier on her hip, as well as a larger sash that holds her tantan, to keep the instrument from making noise with casual motion. She wears an ornate waterskin at her side along with the weapon.

She also has a variety of other outfits stored in a shiftweave, including a number of elegant dancing outfits.

## History

Priphea is a part of another large plant, a carnivorous semi-sentient species known as an Alraune. These unusual plants are clever enough to grow an appealing lure to draw in prey so that they can devour it. Priphea was once the lure of such a creature. When her world faced a form of arcane climate shift, the woodlands she dwelt in were reduced to desert in only a few short years. In this time, she withered along with her host plant, but a powerful, and thus far nameless, lady druid came to her to fully awaken and liberate her from the whole of the plant.

Following the druid's advice and feeling instinctive magic rising up from her bond with nature, Priphea learned to speak to animals, and then to understand humanoid languages. While some reacted with fear to her, she was taken in by a Halfling-owned traveling caravan, and they taught her to speak, and found her a natural at communication in only a few months. She also learned to dance, which brought joy, delight, and an understanding of emotion to her life that she had lacked before. She embraced those emotions, and was not only an eloquent speaker, but one of the loveliest dancers of the caravan.

She had begun to amass a following, fame and attention, when she was rifted to Daelos before a show, casting her from a desert world into the cold of a winter she was unfamiliar with. She took shelter with a local guardswoman, using her warm stable to take root through the winter.

## Daelos

Priphea's first season in Daelos saw her struggling to find a place to lay down roots. She also partook in several quests and spent time delivering and writing for the Osteria Observe. She helped Enna to secure the aid of Xorn for her mining operation, and involved herself in efforts to root out the cause of unnatural plant creatures causing trouble in and around Osteria. She also got herself hired as a dancer for the Rabbit's Respite.