<div class="floatright">(http://i40.tinypic.com/2mdkyfr.jpg)</div>Nsia Leece (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=765930)<br/><br/><em>"The Blight, it touches everyone, everything. But does anyone really understand it? I don't think so. I'm closer than most, I've been living in it for years. More years than most of you have lived, will live even. It hasn't consumed me yet, I don't think it ever will. If you want a guide through the worst of it, you will find no one better."</em><br/><br/><em>"Know this before we embark. It is strange and terrific this forest, but we can understand it, master it. It can be beaten: through blade, through flame, through axe. Of this I am sure, it is just a question of if we can beat it before it consumes all."</em><br/><br/>Age          128<br/>Height:     5'2"<br/>Weight:     100 lbs<br/>Skin:        Eerily Fair<br/>Hair:         Red<br/>Eyes:        Red<br/>Style:       Nsia wears an amalgam of armor, clothing, belts, pouches, vials, and blighted-animal parts that tends towards browns and purples. Most of her clothing she made herself in a semblance of the only style she knows, the one of her childhood, that is over a century out of date. The only consistent piece is a well worn bandoleer that she pulls seemingly endless vials out of when they are needed.<br/><br/>Background: Nsia is an old tiefling. Born to a  prosperous city before the invasion began she had time to learn what remained of the magical sciences. Not the amazing power of the ancient mages, but the means of manipulating the magic that exists within all matter. She had a true gift at it, rivaling those decades older than her. She also could see just what this knowledge could do, figure out the Blight and defeat it. Or so she thought.<br/><br/>The alchemist was almost uniquely predisposed to being able to handle the Blight better than most and she knew it. Her experiments made her resistant to toxins and she had a much easier time than most feeding. Though her teachers warned her against this, she journeyed out into the forest to discover its secrets and learn as much as she could.<br/><br/>When she returned, her city was no more. Only smoking ruins remained, sacked by the invaders. Without a home she went back into the wilds. She spent as much time as she could there, sometimes spending months at a time without ever seeing another person. Only when her supplies ran out or she needed a break to work on a new formula would she return, usually never visiting the same place twice and leaving as unexpectedly as she came.<br/><br/>Nsia was always tempted to go further in, surely if she had purer examples to study she would have her break through, but it was too dangerous for a single girl. No matter how good she had gotten at mixing explosives and hiding from the beasts lurking within. To do that would take a team, to interact with people in a way she had not done for so long she could barely remember the last ones.