Cleric of Ilmater, soother of wounds and suffering

Rosa wears long red dress-like robes, both to cover herself and the heavy armor she wears underneath. She typically keeps her hood up, obscuring her long auburn hair and friendly lithe face. While her lips are usually curved in a warm and inviting smile, her eyes betray a weary fearfulness from many years of war and gruelling medical work. Her holy symbol of Ilmater is always displayed prominently over her chest, while her military insignia is displayed up and to the right, a bit less prominent and slightly obscured by her shoulder plates. Her right glove is fingerless, allowing her to directly touch without removing it, and is the hand she always uses to cast Ilmater's miracles through.

Rosa is a professional Doctor by trade and served as a medic in the Cormyr army, which she will often refer to as "the old days" despite still actively practicing medicine. Her years as a doctor and soldier have given her a quick mind and even quicker mouth, making it difficult for her to fit in with polite society. She is never one to turn down a drink, becoming all the more more sarcastic, stubborn, and spunky with every swallowed spirit.

Rosa was born in the east in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor, learning how to spar, and patching up people just as often as steel. She completed her medical training and worked in the army as a medic during the war. There she adopted an orphanage of children who lost their parents fighting, which she still funds and visits occasionally to this day. She was a general practitioner in the east for years until, disgusted by the horrors and profiteering of war, she deliberately lost a patient under the knife. The man was a member of the nobility who had been influencing the country's young king to keep the war going so his businesses could profit. While the courts found it accidental, rather than risk reprisal from the noble's family she made her way west. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Doctor for the past few years.

She joined the church to become a doctor, and then became a tent follower with the clergy after the war started. She worked as a medic for a couple years, seeing her fair share of battle and destruction. During a hopeless operation on a young child her prayer to Ilmater was answered, giving her miraculous healing powers. She became a cleric ever since, and was eventually called upon to become a Watcher by the church.



What is something the party doesn’t know about your character?
I'm a sarcastic open book who jokes about being worthless because I am worthless. Without my powers I'm nothing, I didn't even earn them like wizards and druids do, and I can't even fight well like fighters or monks. If I don't take care of people they'll realize how much of a fraud I am and will abandon me.

What is something your character regrets?
I regret losing so many patients before gaining my powers, especially citizens and other innocents. In some ways I regret spending so many years studying medicine if the Gods can heal so effortlessly, so I regret studying instead of praying.

What does your character need most?
I need to please my God and live up to the ideals he sets for others. I must help others as He commands and soothe their pain in all its ways, either through healing or swift death.

What makes your character comfortable?
Good booze, good friends, medical emergencies

What makes them uncomfortable?
Orcs, war

What motivates your character?
I want to rid the world of pain and misery so that my children at the orphanage can live in a better world. I must fight in order to keep them safe. I must please my God in order to fight. I must heal in order to keep fighting.