Esther

## Appearance

Esther is a tanned 5'8 half-elf with grey eyes and brown hair that she keeps in a ponytail, often with a braid. She wears simple clothes, often in greens and browns and will often wear a dress even while on the road, although she does wear suitable shoes. It is not uncommon for her clothes to be covered in both ink and grass stains.

Her quarterstaff is just a tree branch with its limbs broken off, although the nubs have become quite smooth and worn from use. She isn't particularly organised and bits of plants and scraps of paper stick out from various pockets of her backpack.

Her familiar is a female least weasel named Paprika.

## Personality

There are two driving forces that make Esther tick: an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a need to help people. She is very curious about anything she is not overly familiar with and one of her favourite things is to listen to people talk about things they are passionate or knowledgeable about (and take notes on the matter.) She can be very trusting and has a tendency to take things she is told at face value. When she is worried, she tends to get caught up in details and miss the bigger picture.

## Biography

Esther's early life was fairly typical for a half-elf. She was conceived between an elven woman and a human trader in Eishi, but was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth. She grew up in an orphanage in Rusel, before moving to the Witches' monastery at the age of 16.

Esther spent 2 years at the witches' monastery. She was very studious during her first year, especially being interested in botany and herbalism. However she became much less so during her second. It wasn't that she lost interest in the subject matter, but more that she was feeling very cramped by monastery life. After much thought, she decided to leave the monastery to learn what she could outside of it, with the intent to return once she felt she was ready to focus again. That was 2 years ago and she doesn't feel close to being ready to go back yet.

After leaving the monastery, she travelled from town to town, trying to pick up what knowledge she could from other sources. Money was always a problem while travelling on her own, with her limited knowledge and skills. She ran out of money in Rusel shortly before the campaign began and started to advertise that she was looking for work. This ended up putting her in touch with a fixer. It seemed to her like the sort of thing to attract interesting people, so she hoped that she could continue learning what she could while also actually being able to afford to eat.

During her time wandering, she did meet Nemo briefly, where she asked him questions about his healing and religion. They didn't know each other very well before the campaign began and meeting at the cafe was unexpected, but they did recognize each other.

## Affiliations

**The Party:** Esther sees the party as both a safety net to cover for her own shortcomings and also as a way to see more interesting things. She is also starting to see them as friends, but that is a secondary thing to her.

**The Witches****:** Esther left the Witches' monastery on good terms 2 years before meeting the party. She considers her time with the party as a chance to gain more practical knowledge, but does intend to eventually return to her proper studies. She cares deeply for those at the monastery and considers it her home and family, despite her time away.

## Notes & Trivia

* Out of character, she was named because Session 0 for Dorust was on Easter for Dragon. This is also the reason for her birthday. Because who needs creativity.