<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/57/Shepherd4.jpg)<br/>Rhialla Ramkin (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1150720)</div>Thirty years ago, a very young girl was found wandering the hills near Mormouth, playing with the sheep owned by the old widow Harlowe. There was no sign of how she got there, nor could she speak a word of Common. She was an unusual child, judging by the sheep horns adorning her head and the fine layer of wool covering her lower body. Still, the sheep seemed to like her, so Widow Harlowe took her in and trained her to help tend the flock.<br/><br/>The girl became identified as Rhialla, which was one of the words she would often speak in the strange language of hers, and Harlowe gave her the surname Ramkin, after the sheep with which she had such an affinity. When the widow passed away, Rhialla inherited the flock, tending them with her preternatural talent and almost divine patience.<br/><br/>Time passed, and Rhialla grew to be an adult, and one of the most beautiful young women in Mormouth. She spent most of her time tending her flock on the hillside, but she visited the village regularly to trade, socialize, and help her fellow villagers. She soon gained a reputation for being willing to help the other local herders at any time of day or night, in any season, thanks to her ability to see in the dark and her indifference to cold and rain. Many calves, sheep and goats were rescued thanks to her abilities and dedication. Those same abilities have also led to her odd habit of forgetting to wear clothes unless she plans to visit the village, a trait which has earned her no small number of eager visitors to her hillside.<br/><br/>Life was not all idyllic herding for young Rhialla, though. When she was just a child, she was caught in a trap another herder had set to catch a wolf that had been preying on his flock. She survived the experience, but her right foot was mangled by the steel jaws of the trap, an injury that never fully healed. She says that the experience taught her to empathise with the plight of animals hunted by humanoid civilization, and, indeed, that incident coincided with her discovering the ability to cure wounds and summon animals, and the arrival of her strangely intelligent and wise stallion companion, Sunshine.<br/><br/>Rhialla is almost thirty-five years old now, being blessed with an extended youth in the eyes of the humans of Mormouth, and great beauty to go with it. She has never left the vicinity of Mormouth, seeming content to stay with her sheep and her fellow villagers, so she is still naive about the wider world. She still has her youthful energy and enthusiasm, which is typically channelled into helping others. She has enjoyed several pleasant dalliances with the other young people of Mormouth, but has never seen fit to tie herself to any one of them.