Leylanda
Leylanda is a worshipper of Viridia and a member of the Servants of the Moonlit Circle. Humans who pray to the god of nature are rare in the Empire, where most churches belong to Alarath and Amarath, but under certain clergies clerics of Viridia find a place by disguising their beliefs within the ranks of accepting orders. Leylanda is one of them, serving under the clergy of Amarath in the local temple of repentance in the town of Reik’s Gate.1
Leylanda is a pacifist whose purpose is to preserve the balance of nature in and around the crater, and they believe the power of nature to be the main force keeping the crater's evils at bay. They wanted to join one of the crater's mercenary guilds, but those guilds put profit before ethics and saw their pacifism as a flaw. So they journeyed to the grove and asked to join the Servants; they passed all three tests with ease and now await their first mission.2
In a fight Leylanda works to strengthen their allies and keep harm from them, and their stance on violence leads them to magic seldom chosen by clerics of other gods. Their pacifism does not stop them from fighting the undead or any creature that does not belong to the material plane, and they join the battle when things look dire for their allies, though still trying to strike without killing. They favour forest expeditions and non-violent encounters, and they do not kill humanoids.2
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This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 11, 98
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