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Name: Gardenia Rolice
Age: 37 years
Origin: City of Fortiras, on the planet Urkalis
Occupation: Adventurer and holy champion of Mielikki the Unicorn Queen
Faction: Fortiras Adventurers Guild
Character History: In a universe separate from the usual settings of Dungeons and Dragons (Faerun, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, etc.) there is a small planet that has an extremely bloody and colorful history all its own. Upon this planet are many different continents, however only a few of them are currently populated by civilized people, in a city known as Fortiras. It is within this city that Gardenia's story begins, as this is where she was born and raised. As is customary in this culture, Gardenia was trained from a young age in the art of combat, and joined the military at the age of 18 so that she could do her duty to help protect the city from the countless magical threats that besieged it from the outside. During the ten years she served her beloved home, Gardenia learned a lot about herself and the world outside of the great city walls, and just how dangerous it was. The ocean surrounding the continent alone was filled with things such as krakens and malicious seafolk, which is why Fortiras developed airship technology fairly early on.
When it came time to decide whether she wanted to stay in the military or not came, Gardenia made the tough choice to retire and become an adventurer, so that she could travel more and help others in different ways. She first attempted to join a local circle of druids so that she could connect more with nature, but found that these druids were much more concerned with urban development than the trees and forests outside the city. Gardenia then decided that she needed to venture out on her own to find herself and figure out what she was going to do in order to live out her dreams of exploring the world. She spent weeks out in the wilds, meditating and ruminating on her past experiences, until a vision came to her one night in a dream.
She was standing in a field of flowers of all different kinds, many she had never even seen or heard of before, and the night sky was completely devoid of stars or clouds, only the moon shone down on the earth below. In the ethereal silvery moonlight, Gardenia could see a figure standing off in the distance, and began approaching it as it seemed to be waiting for her. Before her, Gardenia was greeted with the sight of a unicorn, tall and graceful, with perfectly white coat and golden mane and tail billowing in a breeze that wasn't there. The unicorn spoke without moving its lips in a language Gardenia had never heard before, but she could somehow understand what it was saying. Visions of ruins flashed in her mind, vast seas being crossed and ancient relics being unearthed as continents sprang up over the horizon. And then, she saw an airship with the insignia of the Fortiras Adventurers Guild on the side, and right then she knew what her calling was.
As Gardenia woke up from the dream, all of the images except one had faded from her memory, the insignia of the guild, and one name stood out with it. 'Mielikki'. Returning home to get ready, Gardenia decided to do some research on this name and found out about a lesser deity that had been brought over to this universe from the Forgotten Realms by one of her worshipers. The few texts she found on the Unicorn Queen's teachings inspired Gardenia to dedicate herself to spreading the light of Mielikki. The very next day she headed over to the Fortiras Adventurers Guild headquarters and signed up, quickly finding a place within a small group of like-minded individuals to set out on their adventures together. The jobs they were given in the beginning were modest and didn't pay a whole lot, but Gardenia was happy to finally be doing something that made her feel like this is where she belonged.
Gardenia's adventures took her across the continents with her comrades, most of which would leave the party while new ones joined, and eventually venturing through other dimensions; the Feywild where she met a society of friendly giant spiders that sold her the silk which she used to make her tunic, the Astral Sea where she saw portals to all kinds of other dimensions, and even inside the corpse of a dead astral whale floating out in the void between the dimensions. All of this was in addition to her normal job of exploring ruined continents, that had been victims of a great magical cataclysm thousands of years ago, to retrieve artifacts and clear them out of any dangerous creatures residing on them so that Fortiras could send people to start rebuilding the cities there.
While out on her latest adventure, Gardenia and her crew found themselves traveling through the Astral Sea once again in order to return home after being sent to the Shadowfell by an angry lich, and accidentally entered the wrong portal. They quickly found that they had not entered the Feywild, which is where they were headed because there were no direct portals to the material plane through the Astral Sea so the Feywild was the closest thing, and attempted to return through the portal they had just gone through. But fate had other plans, and the ship they had been traveling on was suddenly set upon by vicious sky pirates who managed to take them down to the ground below. The ensuing fight was difficult, and most of Gardenia's party fell, until only she stood in the aftermath, surrounded by the corpses of her friends and the marauders that had killed them.
By the time everything was settled, the portal back to the Astral Sea had closed, and Gardenia was trapped in this strange realm on her own as she began trying to find a way home. Eventually, she came upon someone who claimed he could send her back to the material plane. What he didn't specify was
which material plane she would be sent to, probably because he didn't actually knw himself. But Gardenia didn't ask many questions, and agreed to do what it took for her to get back home, and so the spell was cast, and Gardenia left this horrific and unmerciful plane of existence. Where she ended up however, was not the material plane that she called home, but instead a planet that she soon found out was called
Ash.
Canon: Dungeons & Dragons, homebrew setting, original character.
Other Details: She wields a claymore style greatsword named Tsorig and a lance styled in the shape of a unicorn's horn named Alicorn. The armor she wears is made from magical spider silk and reinforced with dark red ironwood plating.