Alni
Alni is an elderly Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. woman of sixty-four winters who serves as healer and practical advisor in Yara Village Place Yara Village The centre village of the Free Clans on Baramma, a vertical settlement grown into the dense fern forest and the canopy above it: a forest that learned to speak., accompanying Sila Character Sila Sila is a young Bar girl of about twelve winters, daughter of Mara Yara, the chief of Yara Village on the forested island of Baramma, growing up among her people in the forest c... on mapping expeditions and operating as the steadiest presence in a crisis. Clay-brown skinned with iron-gray hair under a red headscarf, healer-triangle tattoos on her brow, and a heavy apothecary bag always at hand, she treats injuries with ruthless efficiency and does not soothe when fixing will do. She is one of the few people whose authority Sila accepts without argument.
Key traits
- Bar, female, sixty-four winters old, 241 cm; clay-brown skin with mottling on face, neck, and forearms, sharp shoulder and upper-arm horn-spikes.
- Iron-gray hair bound under a red headscarf; muddy amber eyes tired but precise; healer-triangle tattoos faded on the brow.
- Village healer and advisor in Yara Village, companion to Sila and trusted counsel to Mara Yara Character Mara Yara Mara Yara is the chief of the Yara clan on the island of Baramma, a towering Bar of fifty-eight winters with iron-gray hair worn loose, a long silvered beard, and the unhurried....
- Wears a long red work-dress and a heavy dark cloak cut with shoulder openings for her horn-spikes; carries a leather apothecary bag, a walking staff, and route-maps.
- Performs competent field triage, herbalism, and medical assessment with flat-affect authority and short declarative orders.
- Politically aware and unsentimental; explains structural problems in structural terms and manages information with careful discretion.