Joy Rezbin

Level 11 Human Ranger

### Relationships

Kaska Tanavin (Fiancée), Latricia Evanore (Platonic Lifepartner), Pucky Tanavin (Adopted Daughter)

## Campaign

### First Appearance

Kingmaker Episode 09: Wyrms & Wanderers

*"Uh... you guys **killed a lich.**"*

*-Tanner to the Kingmakers*

 Joy Rezbin, commonly known to her friends as Tanner, is an explorer, adventurer, and the founder of the forest town of Tatzylford.

## Description

Tanner is a stocky woman, muscular and heavyset. She has velvet red hair, a kind face and a loud, booming voice. She's transgender, post-transition, but still happy with her large frame.

## Personality

Tanner is a boisterous person, quick to say what's on her mind, and say it loudly. She wears her heart on her sleeve, and makes sure everyone knows it. If Tanner thinks something, you're sure to find out very soon.

She also struggles with poor impulse control, often making decisions on a whim or based on how impressive the feat sounds. This has lead to many of her most important life choices, including her exploration of the Stolen Lands and the eventual founding of Tatzylford.

## Abilities

Despite her bluster, Tanner is a particularly skilled Ranger. Her ability to subsist in the wild, as well as explore and craft, are very impressive— notably, her work on the building of Tatzylford, where she built the foundations for an entire town with little help in the middle of the Narlmarches woods.

## History

Tanner was born in a rural home in Rostland, Brevoy, in 4688. Sometime between then and 4710, she met Latricia Evanore, a cleric of Sarenrae, and the two became fast friends. In 4710, the two travelled through the Greenbelt, hoping to find a Tatzylwyrm to check a box on Tanner's bucket-list (namely, to wrestle with one). She met the Kingmakers, and befriended them quickly, returning to Oleg's Trading Post for a few weeks before returning to explore the world with Latricia.

In 4711, Tanner and Latricia returned to Kilcela in order to meet up with the Kingmakers once again and to ask for aid in the population of Tatzylford, a village on the site where she first met the Kingmakers. During the building of Tatzylford, she spent more and more time with Kaska Tanavin, whom she took for drinks on multiple occasions. She was one of the people affected by Grigori's soapbox enchantment, sending her into magically induced conflicting opinions over her own friends. She was apologetic when this was uncovered, and made it up to them by spending even more time with Kaska. After the Giant Owlbear attack on St. Gilmorg, Tanner confessed her feelings to Kaska, and the two became an official couple.

In 4712, Tanner was one of the Rulers who helped keep Kilcela orderly during The Kingmaker's investigation into The Varnhold Vanishing. She was introduced to Pucky, the Druid Child Kaska had encountered on her journey and adopted, and was conscripted into helping parent the child and teach her how to coexist with Kilcela. When Kaska was blinded, Tanner took on a protective role, helping her cope with her newfound disability, training with her daily until Kaska was able to fight just as well as anyone else with full vision.

In 4714, Tanner was present in Tatzylford with the Kingmakers when Kisandra Numesti arrived, bringing warning of an invading Barbarian force. While the Kingmakers considered attempting to evacuate the town, Tanner refused to let her town be decimated, and offered to help fight. During the Siege of Tatzylford, Tanner commanded snipers which peppered incoming assailants with arrows. After fighting off hags, barbarians, ogres and trolls, the Siege ended without even a single one entering Tatzylford- something which Tanner was very excited over.

In 4715, Tanner accompanied the Kingmakers in taking part in the Rushlight Festival in Pitax. In the hours after the Midnight Joust, she was among the Kingmaker's companions who were kidnapped and held prisoner by King Castruccio Irovetti, made to shovel coal into the engines of Castle Pitax. She stayed there throughout the month of Arodus, until she was finally rescued by the Kingmakers. Immediately upon being rescued, Tanner proposed to Kaska, who accepted. They returned to Kilcela, and prepared for the Season of Bloom. Tanner supported Kaska throughout the Season, ensuring she did not burn herself out on her long hours of research and preparation.

## Relationships

### Kaska Tanavin

Kaska and Tanner made an immediate connection when they first met, with Kaska instantly finding herself attracted to the Ranger. The two courted each other when Tanner returned to Kilcela, and became romantically involved with one another soon after, eventually ending up engaged. Tanner sees herself as Kaska's rock; when Kaska is pushing herself too hard, she takes it upon herself to ensure that she remembers to take a break and not carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. Meanwhile, Tanner feels she can be herself with Kaska, and loses a lot of her swagger around her.

### Latricia Evanore

Latricia and Tanner are extremely close, to the point where some assume them to be romantically involved when they first meet. Latricia, uninterested entirely in romance, instead sees Tanner as her quasiplatonic partner, and the two intend on staying close forever. Latricia serves as Tanner's impulse control in a lot of situations, one of the only people who can properly hold her back from making ridiculous decisions.

## Trivia

* Tanner was originally based on an NPC from the Kingmaker Campaign- Loy Rezbin, and his wife, Latricia Rezbin, a Cleric of Erastil. This was changed by Derry for Dice Will Roll because "It was just a second Oleg and Svetlana [...] It's better with butches". When Derry revealed this to the players off-mic, Dave was the one who suggested Tanner was trans, and it stuck ever since.