Rhossin

Male Sylvari (Brothers)

Nonbinary Sylvari (Siblings)

## Info

Rhossin is the current Protectrix, the supervisor of the Securitorium, and a loyal guard for the Aerial Observatology Krewe. She serves by maintaining the peace, ensuring the safety of the krewe headquarters from outside threats, and providing healing and basic medical services. She has limited scientific knowledge and experience, but both prefers and is more suited to providing a supporting role to the krewe's activities.

## History

### Sapling

Before emerging from her pod, Rhossin dreamed the Dream like all saplings. Though she remembered little of her experience, especially after the years gone by, there are certain things she can still recall. Included is a Courtier who shared a great likeness to herself, but whose lust for cruelty and pain upon both others and herself led to her downfall. While Rhossin only ever had a handful of visions of this woman, the few she remembered after Awakening have stuck with her for her entire life.

Rhossin’s first few years were largely uneventful, and she was raised and taught within the Grove with a special focus to become another Gardener: those trained to tend to the Grove and the Pale Tree. She became adept at her job, but eventually took an interest in the odd gray creatures that sometimes visited, a curiosity that changed her entire future.

### Maturing

Rhossin quickly found herself attracted to the bustling chaos of Rata Sum, and the vast knowledge to be gained from its populace. She applied herself to this wonderful new world, bringing her focus on care and healing to specialize into supportive roles for krewes more focused on practical application of research, and gained experience in emergency response, medical care, and even branched out into general security operations as needed by the krewes that hired her.

During this time of great personal growth Rhossin found herself finishing her tutelage under a talented and kind mesmer by the name of Liata while working for a krewe studying the mind. Liata’s skills as a therapist and counselor proved invaluable to the krewe, and Rhossin was naturally drawn to her compassionate nature. She learned much about how to console the mind in addition to the body, however as turmoil stirred in Tyria she found herself directed towards a different opportunity: the Durmand Priory.

While Rhossin would still speak highly of the Priory prior to its involvement with the Pact, the truth is that she was little more than a servant to her teacher. While she filled the role of an apprentice, learning what she was scheduled to be taught, she also accompanied the middle-aged man on many of his research expeditions and was taught simple survival skills for the benefit of his relaxation. This included basic combat, defensive staffwork, and a few simple Light spells, and she proved her proficiency in each by saving her mentor’s life from an Inquest raid, though her victory came at the expense of losing all of his sensitive research. She took the fall for this failure and was removed from her apprenticeship, though she was promised one favor by her now-former mentor.

### Pruning

Rhossin returned to krewe work and eventually found herself working on explosives experimentation near the deep Maguuma Jungle with Combustive Studies and Solutions, led by Jexxa, near the time of the dragon’s awakening. This went about as well as could be expected, and she lost her right leg during a misfire caused by her own temporary loss of control and attack on Ballistic Technician Uosso. After she recovered, mentally and physically, and word of Mordremoth reached her krewe they apologized by providing her with a rudimentary mechanical prosthesis. Her new appendage was eventually upgraded by the friends she continued to make during her recovery and resulted in her entire magitech arsenal. The incident opened her eyes to the fact that she was not properly prepared, however, and she eventually cashed in her one favor with her old Priory mentor to more properly study Guardian magic, though she still remained unexposed to the philosophies and techniques of a real Guardian.

### Regrowing

Not long after returning to Rata Sum from her time away with her former mentor, Rhossin landed a job with one Aerial Observatology Krewe headed by a guardian by the name of Sirah. She found herself among a reforming krewe, having been rebuilt after tragedy, where she threw herself into the job and quickly caught Sirah’s eye. Her work for the Securitorium and openness to the Krewe led her to be promoted to the rank of Protectrix, supervisor of the Securitorium, very quickly. In order to better perform her duties, and due in no small part to a fascination of her, Rhos agreed eagerly to study under Sirah to learn the way of the Guardian.