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Family: the only child of a comfortable home.
- Oakley, Father (Deceased) ~ Tribe Carpenter/Fletcher
- Lu, Mother (Deceased) ~ Tribe Ranger
Friends: The tribe raises kids partially communally so they were acquainted with all of them.
- Grove, Satyr, Best Friend (Deceased) ~ a small white-furred satyr woman who was training to become a druid.
- Lael, Elf, Friend (Deceased) ~ an elven man who was apprenticing under her father Oakley.
- Sobek, Hobgoblin/Norker, Friend (M.I.A.) ~ A 6' 5" goblinoid Bard and ex-fighter favouring his Hobgoblin heritage except for his tough Norker skin and fangs.
Backstory:
Tru grew up in a close-knit community as the only child of a craftsman and one of the Tribe's Rangers. Of whom held specific status due to them being the only Tribe members to leave the Reaching Woods, primarily for supplies. While primarily educated with the rest of the Tribe's children, Tru also bounced between learning the basics of her parent's professions until the age of 12 when the Tribe's children choose which roll they want to apprentice for.
At the age of 11 she developed a rivalry with Lael. A young elven boy who wanted to apprentice under Tru's father. Prior to this they had a rather cordial relationship due to sharing a best friend, Grove. Who was the child of the Tribe's satyr Druid Elder.
Lael, after learning that Tru did not truly mind which of her parents' professions she ended out apprenticing in, decided to challenge her to a woodworking competition. They would have 3 days to build a hideout/fort and Tru's dad would judge which one was best. The person who built the best one would apprentice for Tru's father Oakley.
In the end, while Tru's detailed work was beautiful, Oakley deemed Lael's to be built better. Tru honoured the competition and officially became her mother Lu's apprentice when she was 12. However, Tru kept up wood carving as a hobby and often challenged Lael to smaller competitions and teased his detailed work from then on.
After the age of 13 Tru began going on ranging with her mother and the other Rangers. Due to this she became slightly isolated from the other children. However, she got to see places outside the Reaching Woods and learn about the greater region. As well as participate in treaty talks between her Tribe and the Goblinoids they shared the woods with.
At one of the talks when she was 14 she made a friend of the son of the Goblinoid's Hobgoblin chief Fighter, Sobek. Sobek was a tall half-Hobgoblin half-Nokar of a rare empathetic disposition. They became such good friends that Sobek chose Tru as his second during his right of passage when he turned 16.
At 15 Tru participated in Sobek's right of passage in which they were expected to bring back trophies of as many dead Gnolls as they could kill starting from sundown one day and ending sundown the day after. Sobek admits early on that he wanted Tru to guide him out of the Reaching Woods. Sobek hoped to become a Bard, did not want to be bound to the Reaching Woods the rest of his life, and had an aversion to the idea of who he would become if he got in the habit of killing.
So Tru agrees to show him the way to the closest village. However, they were almost immediately ambushed by a pack of a dozen Gnolls. It was are hard fight and Sobek ended out losing his right eye and Tru nearly died. Sobek carried True back to the Goblinoid village along with 6 Gnolls heads. The Cleric of the village heals Tru and a talk is called to alert her Tribe of the Gnolls coming extremely close to their village borders. Sobek and Tru both develop a hatred for Gnolls and Sobek decides to stay with their village until the Gnolls are pushed back.
At 18 Tru aids in the Hidden Tribe's and Goblinoids' of the Reaching Woods culling of the Gnolls of the area. They manage to cull the southern half of the forest of Gnolls and Sobek has Tru guide him out soon after. They parted ways in Scornubel with Sobek promising to meet Tru there again once they had established themself.
At the age of 25 Tru was on a solo scouting mission in the Northern area of the woods when they noticed smoke billowing above the tree line in the direction of home. They quickly pack their camp and run home. However, when they get back they are to late to save their Tribe members. She was faced with the sight of the bodies of her Tribesmen being piled in a large pile as what looked to be 50 humans ransacked all the buildings but one. The longhouse was wrapped in blazing fire as 2 human magic users attempted to put it out.
Tru quickly hid herself behind the entrance of the Mausoleum and watched as the magic users were approached by a stout greying man with a large cloak. On the cloak was an embroidered red bird being shot down. She watched as the man berated the magic users for not stopping the fire. She watched as they piled the dead and tore everything apart looking for something.
Tru waits the group out and tries to see if there are any survivors or things worth salvaging after they leave. Tru then checks the dead, seeing her childhood friends and family amongst the bodies.
While sifting through what was left of the longhouse she finds a large chest hidden beneath what once was the hearth. In it was an amulet, some gold and silver, and set of clothes she recognized. The clothes were enchanted to change with their wearers body but look like unordinary robes off of a body. The amulet however looked like a dragons eye set into a gold filagree.
With nothing left for her but grief in the Reaching Woods, Tru decides to go out and gather resources and people to rebuild her Tribe. This goal, by chance, takes her to the town of Greenest.
