Tarra

## **Tarra, The Archivist**

Formerly an adventurer, Tarra works as a High Archivist in the Main Archive of Satra, directly under The Operator himself. Her fields of expertise are mostly history, archeology and biology, but she is also very adept in healing magic - a skill she rarely has a chance of using in her current job.

After watching most of her friends die and suffering years of harrasment from her late mother tarra suffers from depression and chronic anxiety. Unless she practices before, she is barely able to talk with other people. Despite that, deep inside she is still a caring and friendly person and tries to help others if she can.

## **Story**

The Great Archive of Satra founded 300 years ago exist for one clear purpose - to preserve all the knowledge and history of Greavesoyl. Every scholar dreams of working in this place, but only a fraction of them is ever allowed to. However, Tarra's case was completely opposite. Her parents, who were Archivists themselves, wanted her to follow their career path and never cared that she had her own plans. Instead of learning decades of Greavesoyl history she wanted to go out for adventures, like heroes from books she read as child. She wanted to discover old places and relics by herself, not read about them in dusty towers of Main Archive. She spend her spare time learning healing magic. with a plan to leave New Satra after finishing school and join one of many wandering groups of adventurers which would need healer. Her parents were furious when they discovered that, and after many loud arguments Tarra left home despite her mother's threats.

Just few months later she and her new friends were happily raiding forgotten tombs, abandoned laboratories and lost villages for treasures of past ages. With every quest they learned more than they ever could from Tarra's old teachers, and with every succesfuly recovered relict their confidence grew to the point they pledged to one day find Moris' Frozen Tomb in Nekaru. Sadly, they never managed to fulfill this promise.

Tarra's last adventure took place in an ancient tomb somewhere in Mountains of Gale, where upon reaching a large chamber with a skeleton of long extinct reptile all of them expect Tarra died to traps, or got killed by creatures inhabiting those caverns. Down there, with all of her friends dead, hidden in a fossilized skull the lone healer was sure this was her end. Cornered by spider-like creature she close her eyes and accepted her fate... but then eerie voice told her to *dodge left*. Monster broke her skull and everything went yellow, when voice told her to dodge again, and this time she listened. Tarra died that moment, she *remembered* that she died, but somehow... she was still alive. The voice guided her how to dodge every of monster's attacks and when to strike to kill it.

A creature older than Greavesoyl itself was trapped down there just like she was, for uncountable ages unable to escape his fossiled prison. An ancient alien god offered to help her reach the surface if she takes his soul in her own body, and Tarra agreed without a second thought. Every mistake she made on their way was *erased* by whom hid itself in her head. Every time she died, he made this moment to never happen. After many hours of trial and error Tarra reached surface. All of her friends were dead and after crawling out she barely could stand on her own.

...

Afterwards, she had no other choice but to return home and become an Archivist like her parents demanded. Now, overseeing boring excavations is the closest she can get to a true adventure. Her life is empty, as she works for someone else's goals. She felt joy only twice in the terrible 8 years of her work for the Archive, otherwise full of regret, grief, self-harm and survivor guilt. First was when her mother finally passed away, and second when she met an adventurer aspiring to take down the demon of the Ooran Dungeon. He worked as security on one of many excavation sites Tarra had overseered, and the memories of their fleeting relationship are something the voice in her head can never take away. Yet, all of her problems are nothing when compared to dreadful, eerie voice which never left her body, despite both of them wanting to go their separate ways. The god who once helped her has been getting less and less friendly every day.

Until the point he showed his true colors.

## Trivia

* Tarra and Cane have meet shortly before the events of Deep in Dungeon.
* Tarra has attempted suicide multiple times. She would have succeeded, if not for Neto who would not let his host die.
* Without her glasses, Tarra is practically blind.