Lucia Malachi

Lucia is a druid played by David Jaramillo. She is told by her family that she must make a pilgrimage to The Dreaded Nelanther Isles so that she can prove herself to her family. This is a class that I haven't played before and this is the first time I have given my characters any flaws also. Also, this is the first time I have used a female character. This should be an interesting experience. I have also been looking closely at the druid's handbook for this character.

Description
She is tall for a women and she looks on the tougher side. With a smile she seems harmless, but usually looks focused. She is 5/9 and she has a dirty blonde hair and green eyes. She often wears light leather armor on and carries her weapon with her. She has casual and robes as well, but nothing is very fancy and she has nothing magical. She has a riding dog that looks like an aging wolf. Her riding dog is older and has a scar on her face.

Personality
She is curious impatient person. She has learned moderation by being with druids, but she is still antisocial and would rather be alone most the time. She believes that she can fix the land herself and believes that if she does it by herself that it makes it more of a victory. She is not very mean, but she has a bad habit to talk down to people she does not recognize as her equal.

Family & Relationships
She was born into a small society of nomadic druids. She is an only child of one of the head members. There aren’t very many of these people and the whole group is very tight. Everyone knows each other well and they all believe in spreading the will of Chauntea and to fix the unbalance of Faerune. Her father and mother are still alive and they are the ones that brought her to the island. Her father Halofaster is one of the head members of the group and he is very ambitious. His has several goals of his own, but he is still a caring parent. Her mother Shaunta is a great mediator. She is younger than Halofaster, but she is more knowledgeable than she lets on. She cares greatly for her daughter, but she also knows when certain things need to get done. She is actually the one that convinces Halofaster to let Lucia go to the island after Lucia pled her case. Lucia also has an animal companion by the name of Balia. This animal is a female riding dog. Balia is an aging dog that had had only fought one fight in her life and lost. Near death, Lucia helped save this dog in her weakest moment. She is the only family that Lucia has made on the island, and though she has warmed to the people there, she is not comfortable with them.

Character History
In the southern side of Faerune she was born into a group of nomadic druids. Their goals were to purify the land and create a balance between the intelligent races and nature itself. They are very close followers of Chauntea. The group is a group of around 30 or so people. The elders are all powerful, and they train the young ones to follow along in their footsteps. Lady Lucia’s parents are among the leader of this group and have given her an enjoyable great life. She made friends in the village and her parents took care of her and she lived a regular and socialable life considering her situation. She grew up knowing several people and getting a wide variety of experiences that life has to offer. She was an adult, but she was a child to the village. Since being a druid requires years to be intuned with nature. The village treats even adults as children with regards to their practice as children. Practices of the group show that each person must go on a trial when they have become confident druids to become proficient druids. Her parents primarily her father are very ambitious and look to be acknowledged as the prime followers of Chautea. They do not even know what that means exactly, but they decided that fixing the balance between people and nature would be the best way to express the will of Chauntea. Both of Lucia's parents were hard working and focused to the goal. The only problem is that Lucia lived an easy life with her parents instead of the training. Both of her parents saw her differently from the other children and they just did not treat her as rough as they treated everyone else. Lucia did have some training, but not enough to go on the pilgrimage. Before someone is it be a fulltime actor as part of this group, you are to be abandoned in an island for an extended amount of time. The job is to purify Faerune, and if they can help a small land themselves then they are worthy of the task they must do later. Both of her parents did not believe that she had enough training to be abandoned on the island. Lucia felt as if she was being babied, and though she did get less training than some people, she did get training and thought that her family was afraid was treating her differently. She didn't want be put higher than the other people in the group so she spoke up about being treated differently. Lucia knew that there was no specific lineage in this group and that she had to earn her respect through success. Her father, Halofaster recognized the situation and agreed that letting her go was the best decision.

The Journey
Her parents accepted her fate and teleport her to where she will be staying. They give her training equipment and what she will need to survive. She lands on a hostile island in a place she only barely knows. Her parents look around the land and point her in the direction she must go. She is told that she must fix this island, she must report her success based on the report that her father made on this island before she showed up. They point in the direction of the closest village. There are pirates and other problems in here, and Lucia is supposed to help produce a stable society where people work with nature. Lucia has never done anything like this and does not know where to start or how to approach the people. She is merely told that it is better to work with people, rather than against people.

Before going to this island, she wanted to her lifestyle would lead to change. She got a briefing on the situation and learned that her mission was very broad, but to she is supposed to make sure that she can leave when she has fixed the land. She is supposed to teach the right method of life so that the people can live themselves. "Give a man a fish; he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish; he eats for a lifetime."

At the Island
Being on the island was the most difficult part of living there for her. Lucia first decided that she would live alone and spectate and try to help from the outside. She did not know what helping would entail and she did not know how good she was at looking at people. Lucia was veyr accustomed to living in nature so it was easy to live on the island, but she was not doing anything or accomplishing anything. She realized that she needed to confront people to make the balance occur. Talking to nature was not going to fix the balance by itself.

When she first came to the village, Lucia was very antisocial and judgemental. She thought that everyone was already guilty for the inbalance and kept that in mind when talking to anyone. She did not know how the people felt, but she was not talking to anyone or getting anything done. On a walk through nature she learned that she was approaching this in the wrong way. She needed to work with people and she needs influence over people to get anything done. Sadly, she was not accustomed to meeting new people. She spent her whole life with the same people doing the same things. While having her epiphany, she understood that fixing people did not mean changing the people, but changing the situation. This changed her outlook a great deal on most of the people in the village. Though the though came at an instant, the practice of the new method is a slow process that she has been working on since. Her method for help will be to work her way to be treated as a druid in the village so her words are valued.

She has learned to live at the island. Lucia is not very social, but capable of speaking with the locals. When she first arrived she had a rough time talking with the people in the village, but she calmed down. She wants to help the society and the people, but she prefers not to talk to too many people. She would rather walk around in nature and spend time with her animal companion than talk to anyone, but she still does what she can to educate the people as well as stopping any unbalance she can find. She has been there for around a year, she has made some progress in her mind, but more has to be done. She mainly does work on her own. She believes that if she can do this herself, that it will make her better and make her live up to her family. She only wonders how the other villagers see her. Acing the way she does, it must make the opinions between the people very mixed.

The End
After those guests left, Lucia had become weary of her life here. There was much change to be brought and much that needed to be done. For the first time since she was a child, she was interested in what the world brought. Those mysterious people came and left, and then Cygnus also. She would stay, but see that short comment of companionship as the guide to her growth. With only Jayden and the other locals, she did her best to help that land of its troubles.

Over five years later, Cygnus had returned, and the island was a much better place. It was impossible to rid any land of all of its problems, but she knew that she had accomplished her goal. She had left back from the Nelanther Isles in an attempt to find her family again. All her attempts were in vain and she had realized that she had no way to reach them. It was at this time that she realized that most the people that left the group for the initiation never came back. She learned that their failure to return was not a sign of their failure, but just the fact that her family consisted of nomadic druids.

She would return back to the Nelanther Isles defeated when she had realized that this was her true home. More than ever, she actually made an effort to blend in with the people that lived in these parts. In time she would marry and have a small family. She would die of age teaching her children much of what she was taught during her life.

Deceased: 1430