Sahariel

Sahariel hails from the city of Kelbaza, the eldest of eight of four girls, where her parents worked the outskirts of the city over a modest span of farmland. She grew up expecting to tend her siblings and work on the farm, but she took a job in a nearby tavern to gain her independence and took curiosity in the tales told there by the ruffians that frequented it, a starry-eyed girl of marriable age with no interest in her potential prospects, to her family’s dismay. Raising children and eventually being offered into a profitable marriage was her expected future, but Sahariel was commonly found shirking her responsibilities and spending all her time outdoors, barefoot and wild-eyed and pursing her own interests- such as napping in pools of sunlight and talking to the flora and fauna that she swore could understand her, as well as pocketing all her extra coin from her job to eventually afford passage to a different life. She discovered a cottage in the woods where a spinster lived, and she and the older woman took an immediate likening to one another; young Sahariel took to her teachings like a fish to water. Sahariel abandoned her work and family completely to pursue her interests in Magick and herbalism; she was more at home with her bare feet buried in moist soil, collecting bones and crafting talismans. She let her pale hair grow long and wild, colored her lips with the juice of elderberries, crafting crowns and jewelry from flowers and gemstones. The people who had known her as an obedient loving daughter watched with reserved horror as the changes took her, thus began the murmuring which ultimately led to her being put to the stake for crimes relating to demon worship. Her purity and youth led to her being spared, but cast into Exile.