PLAYER NAME: Bryanna Koca
CHARACTER NAME – Bea
CLASS– Rogue
RACE– Human
AGE – mid-20s
GENDER – Female
HAIR – Darker blonde with normally some type of blue dye hair.
EYES – Hazel blue
OCCUPATION – Wherever she is needed
RELATIONSHIPS – “Grandmother” – Helga, “Grandfather”- Frode, and Blades of Sol through the Bulwark project.
Bea’s goals and aspirations in life are to have more options, than just a pyre for your internment, she used to listen about other death practices from Frode and would like to bring them back. Other than the internment one, she was raised to just be helpful when she could. She has great appreciation and empathy for those who have been injured and those who have passed and she will take the best care she can with their bodies and loved ones.
Bea, will not remember much from her early childhood, before coming to Mardrun, Helga and Frode would both tell her, she should count it as a blessing with the way they found her in the Faedrim, with blood-covered clothes, but no injuries. Helga would recount Bea’s age to be in her toddler years when they found her. They both felt guilty leaving Bea behind with no other living persons around, just blood trails trailing deeper into the woods. So they took her in, on what they deemed the safest way of living, never staying in one spot for too long. Even in Mardrun, they kept this lifestyle out of fear for their safety, so Bea was introduced to their nomadic lifestyle.
Shortly after they found Bea, they were given passage to come on a boat over to Mardrun. They may have lied about Bea being their Granddaughter to lower suspicion about why an older couple had a toddler with them. They also were concerned about what would happen to her and all the other children who lost their caregivers from the penitent and undead, so they decided to keep Bea and call her their own. They would have called her their daughter, but they felt they were too old to be called parents again. They lost their daughter to some penitent one night, never really healed emotionally from that incident, and would break down from time to time.
The later parts of Bea’s childhood and teen years were spent learning what she could from Helga and Frode. Helga was a healer and surgeon, the main source of coin in the family, and would teach Bea about herbalism, healing, and basic first aid, later on in Bea’s teen years she learned more basic surgeries and would help Helga from time to time. When Helga wasn’t teaching Bea about healing living things and how to take care of life, she would teach her cooking and baking skills and talk around the fire for hours about strange things in the world and symptoms to watch for in life. She was very superstitious about the unknown and it kind of wore off on Bea a little bit.
Frode on the other hand would teach her about basic survival skills. Bea would enjoy the times Frode would take her out hunting and fishing. He would also do the dirty work if Helga lost a life well doing her duty or there was a battlefield nearby, he would always go ahead and collect the dead and clean them up and make sure they went to next of kin before the body looters came for them. He never wanted a corpse to be disgraced with him around as he witnessed back on Faedrun.
Both of them tried teaching Bea what they thought the right way of living was and to respect life, death, and nature.
More recently, the peaceful life was disrupted, as they were traveling between stops, after just helping a village with some sickness afflicting the population, they all fell ill. Bea was better in 3 days, but her Grandparents only got worse.
On the fifth day of the sickness, Bea emerged from her tent and started with the morning routine, letting her “Grandparents” sleep in, after she had made breakfast for them, she walked over to their tent and called out for them, but there was no answer. She waited a few moments more then opened the tent with a dreaded feeling washing over her. They were lying on their sleeping mats looking fast asleep, but the colors in their faces were all gone, almost purplish, worse than they were the day prior. She crawled over to them first feeling Helga’s head, only to find it ice cold. The dreaded feeling turned sickening and cut deeper into her, she threw her head to Helga’s chest to hear nothing, then turned her attention to her Frode and felt he was cold too. With tears forming in her eyes and the realization that they had expired, she cried and screamed about life and she wasn’t ready yet. She knew this day would come, but she never expected it to come this soon.
When Bea finally got a hold of herself a little better, she performed the last care she could give them and marked the end of their journey through life. She marks the spot of the internment location in her book, so hopefully, she can come and visit in the future, but she feels more at peace as she leaves to continue her journey to Lumiria.
Once Bea was in Lumiria, she got the supplies she needed. The whole time in Lumiria, Bea kept seeing posters up for Seymour’s Bulwark Shield Wall projects, it sounds like they need a lot of help and support up there. She didn’t know where she was going to head next after her loss, she thought maybe this was her sign of where to go next. So Bea decided to stock up for her trip and head north to join the project.