Statue of Saelseris

The **Statue of Saelseris** is dedicated to the local-folk hero named Saelseris who was a half-elf knight from the realm of Riverina. Who's claim to fame would start with the slaying of a whowie. The statue is located in the city of Eyheyh were she grew up.

## Description

The entire statue is made out of a reddish stone, she can be seen standing proudly upon a pedestal. Her hair is tied up in a bun, her right arm is raised up in the air with a nulla-nulla in hand. Her left foot is leaning upon the whowie. She is wearing a light-mail. Her nulla-nulla is richly decorated and painted with the same colours as the whowie. The tip of nulla-nulla is made out of iron.

## History

Saelseris was once a simple half-elf who like many others of Eyheyh relied on fishing to make gold. When she reached adulthood her parents granted her a special nulla-nulla so she could fish and make gold of her own. Saelseris was excited and went out fishing with her father to try out the weapon. Even though Saelseris was already skilled with the nulla-nulla she seemed to be swinging harder and more accurate with her gifted one.

### The Slaying of the Whowie

A couple of years later in life Saelseris was travelling through a small village in Riverina when she heard that the previous night the village had been attacked by a whowie. At first she doubted herself but realised soon that she had her trusty nulla-nulla with her. And she had smacked plenty of fish and a whowie was just a giant frog to her mind, so she might as well give it a shot. Perhaps foolishly but also showing bravery she started asking around the village were a possible nest could be. The townsfolk were to scared to talk and Saelseris decided to stay in the village at night to see if she could spot the vile creature sneaking around. The first night everything remained quite and not because the whowie was silent but because nothing happened. However on the second night Saelseris managed to catch the critter, she had climbed into a tree near the shore line, expecting the beast to emerge from there. As the beast slipped out of the water Saelseris jumped from above giving the creature a wack right on the back of its head. At first it was stunned and Saelseris thought she had just defeated a whowie. But she was wrong and the creature turned around to attack her back, a struggle ensued and soon the whole town was watching. A wack here and a bite there both became tired, the creature came in for a final bite but Saelseris manged to jump out of the way and hit the creature on the head on more time. The whowie had drawn its last breath and lay silently on the ground, at first the townsfolk couldn't believe their eyes, until one kid was brave enough to poke it with a stick. The creature remained still on the ground and after what seemed hours of waiting the townsfolk erupted and cheered Saelseris. They lifted her on her back and held a big celebration.

The next day she travelled to Eyheyh together with a couple of townsfolk to tell the tale of the slaying. Not even a couple of hours later and the story had spread all throughout the city and she had even received an invitation from the local rulers. Here she joined them for a fine evening meal and it was decided she would knighted as is custom the next week.

### Other adventures

Saerselis had proven herself as a knight and after she had died was rewarded with a statue in her birth city. While certainly epic, the statue does not faithfully represent the slaying of the nulla-nulla. For example she was wearing simple clothes at the time and her nulla-nulla was not decorated at all.