Rowena Smith

Official design for Rowena made by @emerald\_artist

Rowena (Row) Smith is the 5th member of the party, joining shortly after running into Eraphina. She is a half-drow born to a drow mother (Caelynn Amakiir) and human father (Henry Smith). They are a war cleric, currently surrving the deity Technoblade, the war god.

## **Description**

### **Personality**

Rowena is a closed off person, even to the ones she knows well. She is quick to violence and seems to have murderist and chaotic intents. They tend to not show off how much power they really have as a means of stratagy.

Because of being alone for most of her developmental years, they don’t really know how to properly act around others. They don’t get many social cues/situations and don't seem to understand social concepts either. However, they are fairly smart in terms of history and more academic things, having read a lot in their solitude from stealing many books from her village’s library over the years.

## **History**

### **Background**

Rowena Smith is from a very small and reclusive village called Cansus (pronounced like Kansas). Everyone in Cansus stays there and never really trades with other towns/villages. Everyone is human and there are no other races within the town. The people of Cansus believe that the human race is superior to all and are definitely super racist to others in the world.

While growing up, Henry often neglected Row and manipulated her into believing that she was basically a burden for him. She grew up with many passive aggressive looks thrown her way as well as many racist remarks towards her. At age 10 she ran away into the nearby wilderness for safety, unknown if something ill would befall her if she stayed in the village anymore.

Before entering her seclusion she stole a few books from the library about living in the wilderness and plant medicine in order to hopefully survive, as she mostly spent her time reading and studying about the world when growing up. For the rest of her life up until joining the party Row has lived in solitude in the forest building her own sanctuary for her to live at peace from her village. Within solitude, they started to learn more about the animals and nature around them. She spent that time studying how to apply plants for medicine.

After becoming a hermit not everything was okay. The unresolved trauma (possibly repressed) definitely has a large impact on her. They tend to have very dark and intrusive thoughts about hurting others or herself (maybe plagued by nightmares or visions).

### **After Rowena Arc**

Rowena still does not view the party as her friends, more as allied acquaintances. Row still sees herself as a monster but is slowly coming to terms with accepting that now she has Iidan, her uncle. Learning about how skilled and great her mother was helps a lot too. Rowena wants to practice a lot more with both archery and becoming a skilled fighter

### **After Stragina Arc**

Rowena doesn't feel like the party respects them. On various occasions, the party have chosen to try other things first before using Row’s abilities (For example, Rowena can undo the effects of possession easily and without fail). This in turn also makes Rowena feels like she is a poor cleric. She wants to better themselves in a way that they are more in line with a “traditional” cleric, even if that means changing themself into someone they don't truly want to be but is convinced that is what her party wants to be.

### **After Esterwall Arc**

Rowena feels betrayed by Odakini and the act of them having sex with their uncle. They are upset over the fact that someone who just came into her life in a positive way was immediately ripped from her (technically speaking he wasn't, he obviously still cares for Row but due to trauma from her father and Lucan, she feels that way).

## **Relationships**

### **Odakini**

Odakini and Rowena have always had an "enemies to lovers" type of relationship. Although they aren't romantically involved in any way, their friendship mimics the troope. Odakini is more bold and outspoken than Rowena, making them opposites of sorts. After the events of Stragina, Rowena was startting to come around to the idea of liking Odakini (platonic) however, after Odakini had sex with their uncle, they feel betrayed by them.