Juniper Snowthorne

**Juniper "June" Snowthorne** is a player character in the Rally campaign played by Sam Oliver. She is a half-elf Monk (informally of the Sisterhood of the Sapphire Sun) and was trained by her mother Kataryn Snowthorne. Of the four player characters, June leans hardest into the TTRPG "dead parents" trope, in part because Rally is Sam's first long-term D&D campaign and she "thought it would be fun."

In the wake of her mother's disappearance and her father's untimely death, June sought refuge and solitude in the Western Wealds. As a result, she became the logging town's resident anti-deforestation activist. At the start of the campaign, many of the senior members of Rally devote considerable time to managing her chaotic and sometimes destructive impulses.

## History

### Early Life

Juniper Snowthorne was raised in Rally by her father, Dale, and her mother, Kataryn. In her youth her parents tended to both her physical and academic educations, so that by the events of the game June is equipped both with martial capabilities to rival Harisa and Guard, and is the only player character who is fluent in Old Imperial.

### Death and Disappearance of Her Parents

When June was 15, her mother disappeared, leaving only a cryptic note for her husband, Dale, and a pair of sapphire earrings to be given to June. June would not discover either until years later, long after her father's death. Overwrought by her sudden orphaning, June ran away from Rally for over a year.

This disappearance, in part, prompted her adoptive uncle, Isaac Axedrummer to request security aid from the Empire. In response, the Empire sent Harisa and Guard.

### Return to Rally

After a year in the Western Wealds, June made her way back to Rally, newly armed with a belief in The Geckos and a militant anti-deforestation ideology. By the start of the game, this reticence to support Rally's primary goal leads June to frequently participate in sabotage, resulting in her dismissal from countless jobs within the town.

*Proceed at your own risk if you have not yet listened to Episode 18 and beyond.*

### In the Afterlife

While in the afterlife, June takes on the appearance of a red squirrel, implying that this is the form she's destined to reincarnate into next. During her time at The Bathhouse, she develops a meet-cute crush on Melmanon Lapignon, a young acquaintance of her parents' who has sought out The Bathhouse for mysterious, personal goals.

*Proceed at your own risk if you have not yet listened to Episode 25 and beyond.*

### Her Relationship to the Lord Governor

After the events of the Agravarian invasion of Rally, June learns that the current Lord Governor is Hakota Agra II, her half-brother by her mother and the former Lord Governor Hakota Agra I.

## Studious and Subversive

Despite being frequently characterized as the most naive of the player characters, June is perhaps the best-educated. She frequently seeks out new information, hashing details into her sketchbook and flipping through references to understand more about the world she has so often been set apart from. She also typically puts this knowledge to disruptive use. Throughout the show, June has:

* acquired *What We Know About the Western Wealds* from Oz
* acquired laxative toxins from Oz for the purpose of poisoning Big Paul
* acquired *Plants of the Northern Deserts* from Oz
* painted Guard with a secret "I Fight for the Trees" tramp stamp
* stole several ledgers from Ganbald, The Learner for the purposes of tracking Branvir and her father in the afterlife
* acquired opioid toxins from Oz for the purpose of knocking out Hank's guards
* acquired information on Aurelius and the origins of The Empressar, Undying from the Agravar library
* translated *De Habitus Deorum* ("On the Habits of the Gods") for Harisa in the Agravar archives