2021 P : Potioner

 

 

The topic chosen for the letter "P" comes from a character in Imprisoned in Stone. A potion is a liquid with healing, magical, or poisonous properties. The potioner is the man or woman who creates it, and in this case her name is Donnelle.

Donnelle is unprepossessive, with neither riches nor beauty. She is an old woman with straggly gray hair and tattered clothes. Noone knew for sure where she came from, but the story was that as a young woman she lost her husband and child in a ship wreck. Although she survived, she retreated to the farthest distance she could from the water to live in a stone hut on the edge of the Cothrom Desert.

To gather the plants to create her potions, she often took a tent and lived for days in the solitude of the desert, her haunting song drifting over the sands.

Although Donnelle isn't a true mage, she has a special aptitude for plants and capturing their healing abilities in potions. Although capable of killing through her elixirs, she held herself to a higher standard and never traded or bartered anything lethal. Her special ability to determine the purpose of those who requested her assistance made sure she didn't assist assassins -- or the Brethren.

 

To learn her fate when she encounters the Brethren,
read the dark fantasy tale of magic, both good and bad.
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