Nathasa Pelleion
Character History
Family Pelleion owns hunting rights throughout the wood and in the foothills of the unexplored mountains to the east, as well as harvesting rights for wild fruit and nuts, import levy rights on any foodstuffs that come across the border, and (recently) a burgeoning market in dwarfen slaves. The family's current geriarch is Pelleion Geeyh, who took the reins after her husband was poisoned (surely by an Iu assassin). Her sons are Jut, Poress, Linnor, Aleath, and Teer. Her only daughter is Nathasa.
When Nathasa was but 20 years old, she began to suffer from horrible visions, mostly in her sleep but occassionally in wakefulness. In these dreams, elves and other demihumans were chased in terror by dark shapes with pointed ears and long, snake-like fingers. The shaman Wepp, feared but respected for years in Yerett, claimed her dreams to be messages from the reptile deities of his horrible pantheon, and petitioned the matriarch Geeyh to place Nathasa in his dominion. Geeyh pulled Nathasa back to safety only two days before Wepp would have had his way: he was discovered to be abusing his charges most horribly. (Wepp's dessicated head hangs now in a plaza in the Urei village in Yerett Wood.) Since early childhood Nathasa showed a great aptitude for magic. Geeyh entered her daughter into the prestigious Reisu Set for training, and Nathasa advanced rapidly. Upon gaining her collar (level 1 ability of magic use) and completing her first jury (level 3 ability), the masters of the Reisu Set ordered her into the wilderness to seek original magics, according to custom. Geeyh intervened, fearing assassins from Iu or Sae-Cee, but she was able only to delay the Reisu Set masters' demands by one jury. Now having completed two juries (level 5 ability), Nathasa must travel alone out of Yerett Wood and into non-elf lands, there to find a supermancy or ejuration not listed in the Reisu Set Compendia Magna.
Shares in the powerful Pelleion cartel await Nathasa upon return, for in Yerett Wood each family distributes its power equally among all its children.
Nathasa favors dark clothes, mostly blues and grays, and keeps herself covered from wrist to throat, and often wears a wide-brimmed hat as well. Any jewelry she wears must be white copper, and she favors necklets and nose-pins. Her skin is quite pale and her eyes very dark, with overly large pupils. Her medium-brown hair she keeps close-shorn, revealing large ears, and, under the left ear, a long, thin scar on her jaw (the reminder of an unsuccessful experiment in Reisu Set).
