Tiennan

In any world with magic, you are going to have fantastic monsters. Where there are fantastic monsters, there is treasure from the people they have preyed upon. Where there is treasure, there are traps and hidey-holes. Where there are traps and hidey-holes of treasure, there are 'dungeons'.

And where there are 'dungeons', there are Those People.

Call them what you will- Ruin Maniacs, Rune Soldiers, Treasure Hunters, Archaeologists.... or just use the most accurate and yet general term- Adventurers.

Tiennan is clearly an adventurer. While not outright dirty, her overall appearance is just a touch on the unkempt side. She walks with the (usually unnecessary) aid of a staff, a huge greatbow is slung over her back, and crosswise to the bow is a massive zweihander sword. Though she apparently lacks a quiver or any arrows, the woman also carries a large leather pack to go with her leather vest and long soft-leather skirt, and her vest is pretty thoroughly covered with pockets. Tough but simple boots protect her feet as well, though they always show heavy signs of the wear and tear caused by an adventuring lifestyle.

Tiennan herself is decently impressive among a group of people who are invariably standouts in one fashion or another. Topping six foot eight, her height would appear to indicate the same sort of warrior as her hefty sword- but she's simply not built enough like a brick wall for that. Her build does not speak of heavy physical conditioning- she is fit, but soft. Her face is rather Nordic-Germanic, with a heavy jaw and a tall nose, though rounded about the edges. Long silver hair hangs in a thick French braid that drapes down one side of her traveling pack, and her eyes are a soft, warm brown color that goes very well with her ubiquitous smile.

Yes, a smiler she is, and it's a soft, pleasant smile, of someone who is completely content with her lot in life.

Most adventurers would find this very odd- few are the ruin-delvers who are genuinely happy most of the time, nevermind all of it. But then, Tiennan is a bit of an oddity anyways- her bow is clearly magical, her sword is probably not, and rumors say that she has been seen adventuring while pregnant.

Of course, rumors also say that that was thirty-some-odd years ago, and the woman clearly isn't a day over thirty to begin with, if she's even that old.

It must have been her mother.

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Those who have a sense for magic: Tiennan is a walking source, though not a super-powerful one, of life/healing magic. Those with a more discening arcane 'eye' can also percieve hints of a more forceful magic there, though what it is is hard to tell thanks to its meshing with her life magic.