Abishag Hael
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CHARACTER NAME: Abishag Hael
LOGIN: St AlbionThere is nothing extraordinary about Abishag’s life. The only daughter of the farmer Golan Hale of Damara, she married at the age of seventeen to a foot soldier in the King’s regiment. Since then she has been widowed four times, each husband a foot soldier in Damara’s army. When each of her husbands served during any military campaign, Abishag was always there behind the lines as cook, launderer, and downer of socks. Stitching up their socks eventually lead to her stitching up wounds, and she later assumed a position as nurse.
Somewhat bigoted, hypocritical, and a bit of a nag, the soldiers would sometimes mock Abishag’s husbands for being henpecked. Abishag never had any children (something she blames each of her late husbands for), and after the death of her fourth husband Abishag never remarried. Instead she remained at her post, cooking, washing and tending to the wounded amongst the king’s troops.
As Abishag grew older, the constant sense of grief she felt whenever she “lost one of her boys” prompted her to consider her own mortality with serious concern. As many folks do when facing their eternal destiny she turned to religion. Abishag was dedicated as an infant to Illmater, but up until her senior years she had paid him no mind. It seemed only right to her that if she were to become serious about her spiritual state that she should begin offering prayers to the one she was dedicated to. Unfortunately for those around her, Abishag’s “repentance” didn’t quite extend all the way into the negative parts of her character. She has a genuine love and concern for those around her, but her self righteousness, hypocrisy and “holier than thou” attitude has put many off side. She is sometimes over protective to the point of annoyance, and insists on “mothering” those around her – especially those she considers “her boys”.
During one campaign in Damara’s “Orc Wars”, the final remaining healer of Abishag’s troop was mortally wounded in combat. As he lay dying, his last act was to ordain Abishag as his replacement, hastily performing the rite appointing her as an acolyte of Illmater. With the end of the war, the troop that Abishag was attached to was disbanded. Some of the soldiers reenlisted into other regiments, but many went back to their civilian life. The commander of her unit, Valmar Daedelus, led a small band of men over the mountains to his home city of Peltarch. When she heard that his goal was to pursue the orcs fleeing the war, none could stop her from coming along. While not being a vindictive person, Abishag has witnessed too many atrocities at the hands of the orcs to have a clear conscience about allowing their deeds to continue.
Abishag is now in her sixty second year, but hardly looks a day over seventy.
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Reviewd, XP pending
