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Name: Jessica von Sachsen

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Profession: According to her, Violinist. In-game, a wood and/or stonecrafter focusing on instruments, and taking up the crossbow when there’s little expendable material at hand.

Personality: In a word, Jessica could be summed up as “obsessive”. If she discovers something that interests her, she will hunt down every scrap of information on it, often rambling on the subject in question to anybody who will listen, assuming they’re equally fascinated. Her greatest interest is music, the making of it, the physical mechanics behind it, the traditions various races associate with it, and more, though her obsessions have spanned such varying fields as the history of nations both elven and human, Giant Cave Spiders, and the Nothing.
(Apart from that trait, just going to run with whatever the existing personality of the person is. >.>)

History: Born to a duchess in the Empire of the Humble Nations, Jessica saw at a fairly early age that authority seemed to drive people completely mad, but usually in a boring and petty way. When her parents died, she fled before she could be appointed in their place and be driven insane, instead taking her favorite instrument, the violin, and travelling the world as a bard and general storyteller.

She spent a number of years with the elves residing in the Holy Empire of the Ferns of Strategy, studying their histories, stories, and especially their approach to creating instruments. As a result, she is familiar with the customs and languages of both elves and humans. She is less so with dwarves, only barely passable in Dwarvish, and knows little more of goblins and kobolds than the average human.

After the Nothing appeared, she travelled between strongholds, keeping alive the flow of information and trying to study the strange beasts at the same time. Relatively recently, she began to hear tales of a dwarven fortress shared with humans, elves, even goblins and kobolds. What’s more, it had repelled a great number of invaders. Interested, she struck a course for the fortress of Nomekast.


...And I realize the violin wasn't really developed until like the 16th century. But this fort has a Jäger and one characters has mentioned setting up an opera, which wasn't established until even later than the violin. So I feel some anachronism can be forgiven here.