<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/1a/de/801adeb5b110d21c9069499d3096b651.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong>Ala Summercloud (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1988967)</strong></span></span><br/><em>Halfling Cleric of Desna</em><br/><br/>Bands of halflings dwell across the breadth of Hrozenzi. Ala hails from the Summerclouds, a nomadic bunch of forest-dwellers on the southern coast. Her young life was that of any other in her tribe, traveling from cliff to shore as the rains came and went, weaving baskets, hiding in the verge of the trees while the adults traded with the Tall Ones. The Summerclouds and other halflings enjoyed the paradise of their homeland, growing plump and happy off the bounty of the forest and seas.<br/><br/>Like any other youngster in the band, Ala had ot undergo a rite of initiation; Bonfur, the shaman of the tribe, mixed a potion of mushrooms and magic charms, and sent her to the Cave of Visions on the sea cliff. Surrounded by the paintings of her ancestors all the way back, she was overcome by visions; fire! Wrath! Fear! A great hero in gleaming armor dissolving into a cloud of butterflies; and where the butterflies touched her, they joined her being. In her vision-induced dreams, she learned the ways of Desna, The Song of the Spheres, and patron of the Summerclouds.<br/><br/>when she awoke, doom had come to Hrozenzi; the dragon and his minions had laid waste, and her people were captives under the reptile's torments and tyranny! She knows Desna chose to bless her so that she might free her people - all the people! from the wyrm, but she can't do it alone; she's going to need help from the Tall Ones.<br/><br/>Ala is an adventurer by necessity, not by trade; her people are nomads, and she is the only one of them not a captive, as far as she knows. She's had rare few dealings with the Tall Folk, and doesn't know their ways - but she will have to, in order to work with them. She's confident that her Goddess has chosen her, and proud of it - but really the whole reality of that is just a little terrifying. She's no shrinking violet though, and is more than happy to dive into a new experience or three. She's just as happy to teach others of her tribe's ways (which are, of course, the<em>proper</em>way to do things - not that she'll judge.)