Artemisia Marro

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Artemisia Marro is a cleric and an adherent of the Dray'cossian Pantheon.

## Appearance

Artemisia is tall, even for elves, and her imposing appearance often unsettles people. She has large, black eyes, underscored by deep, dark circles, and warm-toned tan skin. She wears her waist-length, straight black hair tied at the nape of her neck with an uncharacteristically cute red bow when she is in armor, but wears her hair down when she is in plainclothes. Her features are somewhat sunken and her face can seem shadowy. She has a vertical scar from above her left eyebrow down to the top of her cheekbone from a cut that barely missed her eye. She is often mistaken for a man because of her physique and disposition.

She usually wears elven chain mail, but when she doesn't need to wear armor, she wears standard travelers' clothes or elven robes. Finding clothes that fit her is a challenge, so she wears menswear often. On her left hand, she wears her silver wedding ring. She also wears Alithea's Amulet.

## Personality

Artemisia takes manners very seriously for someone who can come across as snobby and aloof, even if she is somewhat more progressive than other high elves. She has little to say and does not care for idle chatter, but softens up to people sometimes. She is patient for the most part, but can accidentally express her ire in strange ways like breaking glasses in her hand when she is annoyed. That people get what they deserve is most important to Artemisia, and she often overpays for services if she thinks someone should be compensated more than they ask to be. Having lived in Eshna Lumin almost her entire life, even if she has seen things in books, Artemisia is often surprised and amused by even mundane things she encounters on her travels, but she doesn't often show it on her face.

## Background

Growing up among high elves, Artemisia was raised to uphold manners befitting of her race and social standing. She married a fellow high elf, Charis, and studied the same things any other high elf would. While Arte was making a vase in her workshop, a priestess named Alithea from the Church of Lumin approached her to commission her to craft an amulet so she could use it in her work as a cleric. Artemisia and Alithea struck an acquaintance while Artemisia worked on the amulet. However, not long after Alithea took the amulet, she was killed while performing her duties as a cleric. During the preparations for Alithea's burial by sea, Artemisia noticed the amulet in the dead priestess' hands and took it. She ran to the hills outside of town and prayed desperately to the Pantheon out of anguish for the loss of a friend and the gods blessed her in the Twilight domain, to fight evil at the edge of light and dark. Her pursuit of the truth and her near-delusional investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding Alithea's murder eventually drove a wedge between her and Charis. Divorce is uncommon among elves, but despite the deviation from tradition and the bonds broken, Artemisia remains on her steady path towards the answers to her questions without regrets.

## Abilities

* As a Twilight Cleric, Artemisia can use Twilight Sanctuary, which allows her to grant temporary HP and help someone recover from certain status ailments.
* Artemisia can fly for up to a minute, three times a day.
* Given her background as a detective, she can blend into a crowd more easily, is less likely to be robbed. Innocent civilians and high ranking servants of the law are more likely to approach her, despite her demeanor.

## Trivia

* Artemisia is left-handed.
* Her favorite food is milk.
* She discovered on the way to Madellow from Starbreeze Port that she enjoys riding horses very fast.
* Alithea's Amulet, crafted by Artemisia herself, is the holy symbol she presents when she uses magic.