Ilethen. Ilethen ún Ilethiel ún Gillanholm; half elf, half human. Left to the care of her mother with an absentee father, she only knows the elven world from the beginning.
Yosie was brought up by her elvish mother and her mother’s father in the wilderness skirting the forested commune of Gillanholm, her mother’s ancestral home. Her grandfather, being an Elf of medicine educated Yosie in gathering the necessary plants and how to adapt and administer them in healing. Through this she also learned the more sinister aspects in this art and how medicine, just as it heals, can also poison.
Yosie’s mother never spoke about her father save to say he was a human from the north. When Yosie’s grandfather died and there was no longer a patriarch to protect the human child’s right to stay among the Elves, Yosie was separated from her mother and forced out of Gillanholm.
Yosie took the excommunication as an opportunity to find the father she never knew and began her journey. What little knowledge she had acquired throughout her childhood about this man lead her to Neverwinter, to the city’s shadowy underbelly looking for a man of the Urthblood Thieves Guild.
She was befriended by one Mophi (Duhrahd) the Madame of a Brothel who warned Yosie against involving herself with people she had no understanding of. Mophi was willing to take Yosie under her wing if Yosie would work for her keep. And so through her work for the Brothel Yosie furthered her search. It was then she came face to face with something from her past, stories and legends her grandfather would tell her about witches and red wizards as a child began flooding her reality.
Yosie, on the cusp of discovering her father (or his fate) and in over her head, was forced to flee her life once again. Not making it far, she clambered for sanctuary at the Temple of Torm where clergy and sisters of the Girded Healers found her unconscious. Finding a large cache of deadly nightshade on her person they would later take to calling her Sister Hyoscyamus or Yosie for short. (Up to this point she was reticent with the name Ilethen. Few humans know her by this name. Few humans know her by any name).
The sisters convinced Yosie to stay on with them as her knowledge of herbalism and healing were very welcome to their work and Yosie took the invitation as a blessing in disguise as it hid her from those chasing her, but allowed her to remain close to where her search went off track.
Yosie lingered many years with the sisters finding contentment in the quaint, quiet life focusing on her herbalism and tending to the infirmed and the garden at the temple, and at times leaving the grounds to be at one with nature. In this time Yosie became very close to Sister Aloyse, a women 30 years her senior, the only other sister proficient in herbalism. With her mother no longer in her life, Aloyse was a comfort to that loss.
In their years quietly working side by side Sister Aloyse tells a multitude of stories about those witches Yosie recalled her grandfather always telling. Aloyse calls them the Wychlaran and infers involvement with them on more than one occasion in her tellings, but avoids ever directly identifying herself as one of these witches, until the day Yosie discloses the name Mophi.
Though they had never crossed paths in Neverwinter, Aloyse reveals to Yosie, that Mophi, as well as herself, are Wychlaran sisters and that Mophi’s close quarters to her own is telling of the witches movement in circling something in the vicinity. It is likely there are more and they’ve found something or someone they’ve been searching for and now they are waiting.
With the knowledge she gathered through working the brothel and working for Mophi, Yosie wondered if following the witches would bring her closer to discovering what did happen to her father. Are the witches there for the Urthbloods? are they there for something else?
Not long after Aloyse' revelations, Yosie packs her belongings and sets out to return to Neverwinter, to find Mophi. To find what she can of her father.
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