Smooth Plume

Plume is zealously devout, having thrown herself into The Mother's beliefs while she was struggling for purpose. She took Mother's tenets to heart, embracing every life in the village and committing herself to becoming a Cleric to prevent further suffering. The years she lived there, she was entirely selfless, ignoring her own burdens and pain while caring for her parents and the rest of the colony. Her mother's death caused a ripple of great change in her and jumpstarted her journey to cure herself of Rock Pemphigoid. Plume views her goal as noble, for how can she take care of her people if she falls too ill herself?

Plume adored her mother. She held Silent in the highest regard, and her trust in the tabaxi cannot be overstated. Her grief at having found her mother dead is overwhelming, deafening. Silent was her closest confidant, the person she told her every secret. Even death hadn't broken their bond or the secrets Plume will take with her to the grave. She would have spent the remainder of her life caring for her mother until Rock Pemphigoid rendered it impossible.

When Plume was a child, she and her mother would hunt and fish together while Silent still had all her limbs. Since they resided in an isolated colony of people who had Rock Pemphigoid, they couldn't wander far. They often whispered made-up gossip to each other to pass the time, and entertain themselves while Poem was away. They would create entire lives for each other, passing on knowledge and wisdom between giggles.

Before Lost abandoned Plume and her mother, Silent, they had a close relationship. She told him every new scrap of knowledge that she managed to dig up daily, and together they pondered it, turning it in their minds until they had perfect clarity. They would often sit across a fire and talk about religion, pausing over anecdotes and other pearls of wisdom.

The last words Lost ever said to Plume was, "You're a stronger person than I. I'm not the man you think I am, I don't think I ever was." Tears had dribbled down her cheeks as Plume had watched Lost's retreating back, and she promised herself that she would never trust anyone like her mother had trusted her father, never fall in love because it meant being vulnerable, and getting hurt.

Magravak is a hobgoblin who arrived at Glumeyard thirty-two years ago. He used to serve as the Healer in a large town before he contracted Rock Pemphigoid from a patient dying from it. Due to the disease being easily transmissible, Magravak left the town and made for Glumeyard.

Magravak is Plume's favorite person. He took her under his wing when she was fifteen-years-old and taught her the ways of medicine. It was due to their diligence that she became a Cleric in The Mother's glory. Plume views Magravak as not only a mentor, but a close friend and her first crush. His spoken experiences began Plume's voracious thirst of knowledge and saw her devouring every spare packet of information in sight.

Poem is a fifty-five-year-old tabaxi that grew up in Glumeyard with her parents. Despite her extremely sheltered upbringing, she's never been tempted to leave or strive for more than what she has. She's in a romantic relationship with fellow tabaxi Opal, and has a human child they adopted, named Tharo. She's the village's bard, belting out stories and morals through song. She's creative and smart as a whip, improvising poignant, new melodies on the spot that enrapture everyone around to hear it. Her short-term goal is to provide the necessary entertainment needed to detract from the grief and losses that surround their lives. When one of her paws was amputated, she put away her flute permanently and illustrated her stories with her voice alone.

Opal started life in a clan from the savanna. She was a hunter, having learned to fight at a young age by a legendary warrior. By the time she became an adult, she was a force to be reckoned with herself. After a drunk one night stand in her early twenties, she contracted Rock Pemphigoid. Unsure of what this meant for her, she hid the symptoms, but was eventually found out and dumped half-dead in Glumeyard territory. It was Magravak that found her and nursed her back to health, educating her on the disease when she woke. It took time for her to come to terms with the sudden uprooting of her life, but once she met Poem, decades older than her, it was love at first sight.

Tharo is a young boy who, at nine-years-old, was kidnapped from his family in order to be sold for "parts". One of the men transporting him was ill with Rock Pemphigoid and transmitted it to him via a wound. By the time they docked and the long voyage was over, the webbing between Tharo's fingers was covered in boils that had popped and were oozing. He was dumped not far from the docks, and a kindly merchant found him, providing food and water as he directed him towards Glumeyard for further care.

It took years for Tharo to open up to his new family, his trauma severe enough to give him chronic nightmares that sent him sleepwalking. Plume was often the one to lead him back home, to bed, and she became something of a big sister to Tharo. She taught him how to read, and often read him stories from the books she bought from merchants. He looked up to her with unconditional love and respect, up until the day she abandoned Glumeyard in order to find a cure for her disease.