Hello again! This week we will be looking at the first of our five player characters for the Red Stone Alliance. This is the character’s backstory. What they have done and been through before the start of the campaign. With that little aside out of the way meet Greenbriar, the dark elf dreamwalker druid of Three Trees.

Greenbriar is from the small village of Three Trees. A humble farming community that sits in a valley between the mountains in the southern corner of South Syonel. Called Three Trees due to a trio of ancient ash trees that are home to three Dryads who protect the valley and the village.

A villager found Greenbriar nestled in the hollow that served as an altar for the villager’s offerings to the forest spirits. A child with two verdant eyes, midnight blue skin and a head of silver hair. When asked for the child’s name the three spirits whispered Greenbriar and from then on the mysterious elf boy was called Greenbriar, Child of the Sisters.

Greenbriar would serve as a messenger between the villagers and the three Dryads, who he called his mothers. Whether an extraordinary true blooded child of the fey creatures or not the Sisters raised him as their own. Teaching him how to use the resources the natural world provided, but also how to sue the magic that existed in the earth and sky to alter it. As he grew older they taught him how to use a sling and sickle as well so he could become a protector of the valley. Though Greenbriar felt the weight of the role’s responsibility, he spent much of his time fishing, monitoring his apiary, or exploring the caves taht twisted underneath the valley rather than training with weapons or poisons.

As Greenbriar neared his thirteenth birthday tragedy struck the small village. One of his mothers, Brozebough, began to slowly wither. A insidious disease or curse took root in her tree and drove her to madness. In this deranged state she attacked the village and Greenbriar rose to fight his own mother to defend the people… and died doing so…. when Greenbriar’s heart beat next, it was not his own, but, rather, Brozebough’s glowing plant like equivalent. Resurrected by his two other mothers, Silverleaf and Coppercrown, who used Bronzebough’s heart in an obscure ritual to restore life to their adopted child.

In the aftermath the villagers fled the valley and called it cursed. The villagers no longer seeing the dryads as protectors but evil spirits whose fickle moods led to the attack of Bronzebough. The Verdant Valley would become the Cursed Vale and soon an evil spirit would come and attempt to wrestle control away from the two forest spirits that remained. To protect Greenbriar the sisters sent the elf boy away, maybe to someday return with allies and save the valley. Greenbriar traveled east to the Morabasi Coast, north through the Oorakardi Steps, and found himself in the Heartland of Astoria where he found Velicinia. The character we shall learn about next week!