Overview
SPECIES: Half-human, half-giant (frost)
GENDER: Female
AGE: 18
HEIGHT: 6’10”
OCCUPATION: Inventor, adventurer
Background
Born in a human village to a human mother, Ruthana never came into contact with the frost giant side of her family—which was a conscious decision by her mother, who regarded the events that had led up to Ruthana’s birth as a foolish mistake and didn’t want to have anything more to do with giants.
Her human family raised her for the first thirteen years of her life, but the fact that they kept her around made many of their neighbors view them all as eccentric outsiders. Eventually, her family had enough of being ostracized and kicked her out, leaving her to fend for herself.
Ruthana wouldn’t have lasted long, had she not been found and taken in by Ulthor Opalbrow, a dwarven inventor. She soon became intrigued by his craft and asked to become his apprentice, eventually becoming a skilled inventor in her own right. She and Opalbrow grew close during their time together, and she soon came to view him as the father she’d never had.
But Opalbrow as old, and he passed on less than a decade after taking Ruthana in. After his death, Ruthana moved on, eventually making her way to the farming village of Goldstead. Although she knew right away that she wasn’t particularly welcome there, she had nowhere else to go. She settled there, and hopes that someday she can find acceptance.