(Still shopping for an image I like, and need to do gear)<br/><br/><strong>Karyna Wysselgrove (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1957691)</strong><br/><em>Female CN Halfling Shaman (Serendipity Shaman)</em>,<strong>level</strong>1,<strong>Init</strong>+6,<strong>Speed:</strong>20'<br/><br/>Karyna's life started normally enough. She hails from a far-flung village named Ozersk, a community of halflings and gnomes wedged between the Grozni Forest and the mountains. She was a good girl by all accounts, shy and sweet and industrious. As she grew, more than a few eyes fell on her, and her big brother certainly had his hands full (especially when the other boys' sisters were enlisted to distract him.) Things were simple, idyllic. Of course it can't always stay that way. In the spring when she was 17, Ozersk organized its annual festival to honor their gods - Shelyn and Desna and Erastil especially. The festivities lasted for three days over the equinox, and when it was done, Karyna was missing. No sign of her in the fairgrounds, no sight of her around Ozersk, and even the priest of Erastil could find no sign of her. She was presumed lost and though her family mourned, life went on for a full eleven years.<br/><br/>At the end of that eleven years, Karyna returned. The same festival, on the same days. She was even wearing the same dress and appeared wholly unaged! She came out of the forest as if nothing had changed... but of course,<em>much</em>had changed. The shy, blushing girl was now rambunctious and flirtatious, and she seemed somehow hardened. Everyone knew what had happened; she had been taken by the fey. And though she couldn't remember her time with them, it was more than evident in the magic she now bore. Understandably, the people of Ozersk were wary of this woman, and even her own family was uncertain of her! She found a place on the fringes, helping the druids of the land in her own way, though they didn't much appreciate this uninitiated stranger barging in on them.'<br/><br/>when news reached Ozersk of the plan to explore and settle the stolen lands, Karyna found her calling. her people didn't need her anymore. Her family had closed those doors, the folk were wary, and if she left, life would settle back to normal. But these mercenaries, these adventurers... they didn't know it yet, but<em>they</em>needed her! whether they like it or not.