<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/9qQnWOf.jpg)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Familiar: Croquette</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/vyPKvFe.jpg)</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">carriage</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/rZLCI4b.png?1)</div></div></div><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Groza Kaal</span></span><br/>character sheet (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2353289)<br/><br/>Groza was born in the city of Starmantle, the result of a summer fling between her mother, a proud orc warrior working for the city guard, and her father, a charming and troublesome bard. Their relationship had never been particularly serious, but that changed when her mother discovered she was pregnant. Not planning to settle down anytime soon, her father wasted little time skipping over to the next town, and with her duties tying her down in Starmantle her mother had little choice but to let him go.<br/><br/>While she was distraught at first, Groza's mother was quick to push past it and settle back into her normal life. Groza's childhood was relatively normal and happy. She grew up in the barracks, the other guards often pitching in to watch and help raise her. Her mother instilled in her the importance of both strength and knowledge, her adolescence split between school and training, shaping her to become a guard herself, perhaps even for one of the local nobles. However plans changed when her special talents were discovered, a spark of magic inherited from her father. It was the only gift he had ever given her, but it was a powerful one indeed.<br/><br/>It was rare for an orc, even a half breed, to have any kind of arcane talent, even more so for it to actually be nurtured and trained. Knowing what it would mean for her future, Groza's mother encouraged her to pursue her abilities, and even helped get her enrolled in a prestigious magic academy (an old favor owed by a noble she had saved from a would be assassin). Her time spent there was far from easy, the half-orc having to work twice as hard to make half as much progress as her more magically gifted peers, but after a few years she was well on her way to becoming a proper mage.<br/><br/>Her time at school was cut short, however, when she received news that her mother had fallen ill. Groza dropped out of the academy to stay with her mother, caring for her until she passed a few months later. Originally she intended to return to the academy to finish her schooling, however as she was going through her mother's things she stumbled upon her collection of journals. They detailed years and years of the woman's life, stories and events she had never been told before, thoughts and feelings her mother had never expressed out loud. When she came upon the time she had spent with her father, Groza discovered just how deeply in love she had actually fallen for him. Her hope of a future together, her bitterness at his abandonment, her resolve to never abandon her daughter the way he had. Reading these things deeply touched Groza, instilling within her a new resolve. She decided to postpone her return to the academy, instead traveling the coasts to try and find her father. Her goal was simple; she did not want blood, or money, or even his love, but she would make him acknowledge her, and what he did to her mother. She planned to drag him back to her mother's grave and make him pay his respects to her, to repent his actions and beg her spirit for forgiveness, to give her the closure in death she never received in life.