Aruha03

Your character has just arrived in a swampy, dim town. As they look around, their gaze is met with shacks and cabins. It smells of rotted wood and wet moss. They duck and step into a tattered tent, illuminated by a series of candles suspended in the air. At the back of the tent, an old hag raises her head, “What brings you to this dingy town? She begins, then pauses to study your face—”Ah, it’s you. I’ve been expecting you. Sit,” she gestures at a cushion, “Tell me your story.”

((How do you respond?))
**Backstory**
Luca was born a fisherman's son. The eldest of three children, he grew up on the coast, earning calloused hands and hardened eyes at an age younger far younger than most boys. Luca loved the ocean, for it provided life for him, his brothers, father and mother. That love turned to fear the day of his parents 20th anniversary. Cold water and sharp winds devastated his family's oceanside cottage while Luca was away on an extended fishing trip. He returned home a week later, finding his crushed, drowned, family- dead. His youngest brother's left arm was the sole piece of what remained of that sibling, his body likely washed away to sea.
With no home left, and his only skills being the talent he learned to navigate the seas- Luca turned to piracy for the next 3 years, learning to fight, steal, survive. Afraid of the seas, yet they being his sole attachment to the world, Luca soon grew weary, his heart longing for another path. One more righteous than filled with crime. And so he left the sea behind and marched west, hoping to find a way to fill the hole in his soul.

**Interaction**
*Luca bows lowly to her, lifted the hood off his cloak to match her wizened gaze. Their faces both looked of exhaustion, grey headed one, black headed the other. *Luca then slowly kneels onto the ground- holding back moans of pain and weariness.*

"Greetings wise one, I've travelled and travelled, without pause. Rain and snow have beaten my body as the ocean as beaten my soul. I am lost, elder. Why is it that my life has been spared, that I continue to walk the realms, but without the people that made life worth walking?"