Yangrit Ratna, Darklands Druid
Jun. 3rd, 2022 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellI came up with this character concept a few months ago, thought it was neat but useless, then realized there was one scenario coming up that it would be perfect for, and now the new multi-table special which is debuting at Gen Con turns out to be a followup to that scenario, so I guess this character may continue to have sporadic adventures with the Pathfinder Society.
First, some lore: Like pretty much any Earth-analogue setting from the D&D tradition, Golarion (the main Pathfinder setting) has a vast network of subterranean caverns, housing entire civilizations that have never felt a need to visit the surface. In this setting it is known as the Darklands.
Also drawing on the D&D tradition, there are four elemental planes. In the ancient past, they were ruled by four good-aligned rulers, but those rulers were overthrown and imprisoned in unknown locations by their evil counterparts. Pathfinder Society season 8 had a storyline that led to the Society freeing Ranginori, the original elemental lord of air.
Yangrit Ratna comes from a dwarven clan that worships Sairazul, the lost queen of the Plane of Earth. She felt more drawn to protecting the unique flora and fauna of the Darklands, and followed her calling to become a druid. However, when word of Ranginori being freed reached her clan, she developed an interest in making connections with the Pathfinder Society in case they get a lead on any of the other elemental lords, in the interest of keeping nature in balance.
Yangrit is a stone order druid, which along with her heritage gives her some useful abilities that only function when she's standing on earth or stone. So there's a rather limited area where she can help, but as long as we keep getting occasional scenarios set in the Darklands I'll keep bringing her to them.
First, some lore: Like pretty much any Earth-analogue setting from the D&D tradition, Golarion (the main Pathfinder setting) has a vast network of subterranean caverns, housing entire civilizations that have never felt a need to visit the surface. In this setting it is known as the Darklands.
Also drawing on the D&D tradition, there are four elemental planes. In the ancient past, they were ruled by four good-aligned rulers, but those rulers were overthrown and imprisoned in unknown locations by their evil counterparts. Pathfinder Society season 8 had a storyline that led to the Society freeing Ranginori, the original elemental lord of air.
Yangrit Ratna comes from a dwarven clan that worships Sairazul, the lost queen of the Plane of Earth. She felt more drawn to protecting the unique flora and fauna of the Darklands, and followed her calling to become a druid. However, when word of Ranginori being freed reached her clan, she developed an interest in making connections with the Pathfinder Society in case they get a lead on any of the other elemental lords, in the interest of keeping nature in balance.
Yangrit is a stone order druid, which along with her heritage gives her some useful abilities that only function when she's standing on earth or stone. So there's a rather limited area where she can help, but as long as we keep getting occasional scenarios set in the Darklands I'll keep bringing her to them.
