Runatsu

Runatsu is a Dryad.

She was born a scholar on Serenus 2, 285.

Character Portrait

Runatsu, Mistress of the Forest

    Placid, this dryad is still and silent as the mountain. She has unblemished
skin the color of freshly fallen snow. Her thin niveous hair is neck length and
fairly disheveled. She has cold deep-set hooded eyes, silvery rounded eyebrows,
pink-tinged lips, and a kite-shaped face framed in loose tresses and side-swept
bangs. She is tall for a dryad with a willowy, toned build and broad shoulders.

She is a female dryad, 5'5" tall, weighing 110 pounds.
She has midnight blue eyes.
She has snow white hair.
She has pale white skin.
She has a sleeve tattoo of a rainbow snake on her left arm and a sleeve
     tattoo of an undersea forest of coral and seaweed on her right arm.
She has numerous tiny silver stud and hoop earrings on her ears and a
     piercing of a narrow silver hoop off-center on her lower lip.

Guild

Runatsu joined the now defunct Fighters Guild at 15 years old, in the year 300, then admitted into the Rangers Guild in 318.

She's been a Ranger for over 200 years and became Guildmaster of the Rangers Guild in 483.

Leadership and authority does not come naturally to her, but Runatsu hopes to provide guidance and wisdom to a new generation of Rangers.

Religion & Axis

Runatsu was a Mortisian for over a hundred years.

Runatsu is now a Silvanite and has been so for many years now.

Kylamane has had a deep, lifelong appeal to Runatsu, but the former Goddess returned to Set's realm before Runatsu was able to devote herself to the Lady of Winter.

She embraces her love of winter in her worship of the Lord of Nature, Silvanus.

Runatsu's primary Axis is a good morality, with the order harmonic second, though prior to the current axis changes, her ethos was neutral.

She cares little for sophistry of good versus evil, preferring the simplicity and freedom found within nature.

History

Runatsu's first memories were of the Everwood Forest, far to the northeast, of the arctic tree line where the forest abuts the tundra of the Dragonspine Mountains and the icy northern sea. The Everwood pine trees found here were stunted, one-sided, and solitary from the biting cold and constant wind. Life in this harsh demesne was brutal and unrelenting, with long winters, short days, and total isolation. Survival in this land only came through the end of a spear, hunting and fishing for food, furs, and materials.

An unknowable time later, she encountered human travelers and accompanied them to their settlement. There she met and was adopted into a family of humans. Among them, she learned to read and write, studying theology and philosophy, and sparking a strong thirst for knowledge. After a time among them, she departed and wandered south, to the Kingdom of Sable, seeking the learning and expertise of the rangers, and furthering her pursuit of scholarship.

Clan

Runatsu joined many clans over the years, among them are Clan Saradia, the Wayfinder Expedition, and the Enlightened Brotherhood.

She is currently a member of Heroes of Wild Lands - HOWLS.

Home

Runatsu built the Sablean Botanical Garden on Glamis Crossroad 9 (Glamis9) that is open to the public.

The mandate of the garden is conservation and education, seeking to give a place for the common man to experience and commune with nature, raise awareness, and thwart efforts to expand and consume the natural world, maintaining current borders and city boundaries.

The gardens are expansive with a greenhouse, alpinarium, orangery, rockery, arboretum, and several other notable features.

She has a library with books on former religious scripture, legal texts, ancient history, ranger journals, and more.

She sleeps in a treehouse she built within a massive Everwood tree within the garden arboretum.

Autoloads

Snowdrift Mantle

   This long flowing mantle is crafted with radiant snow white gabardine. The
mantle is ankle-length and is secured at the collarbone with a gleaming round
silver brooch with an effigy of a white raven upon it. The wool is silken and
lustrous, and has been waterproofed using lanolin. The mantle has a shearling
sheepskin lining and silver embroidery surrounds the collar in the likeness of
pine leaves. This mantle would certainly bring great comfort in gelid winters.

the shard of solitude, Wintermute

   Translucent and luminous, this massive shard of selenite is eight feet long
from point to end, and has been cut and polished into a longspear. The crystal
spearhead is a foot in length, possessing the keen sharpness of obsidian, while
lacking its inherent brittleness. Swirling hibernal glyphs have been delicately
engraved along the spearhead and the spearhead has two arched wings at the base
where it joins the grip. The cylindrical shaft of selenite is unadorned, save a
intricate etching within the crystal in a bewildering, complex fractal pattern,
evocative of snowflakes. The spear-butt is wider than the shaft with a helicoid
engraving between them, terminating in an oblate semisphere. A faint blue light
or energy, appears to radiate and pulse from the core of the selenite crystal.