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About Gretlin Scherer

See Gretlin's Character sheet

Gretlin was raised by her aunt (Elslinn Kolb-Scherer) and
uncle (Jos Scherer); Nurmathi farmers.

Gretlin's mother, Ursel Kolb, was unmarried. Ursel
practiced witchcraft (as had many of the Kolb daughters),
and as part of her research became intimate on several
occasions with a red-skinned devil with flaming eyes
named Piralaz.

After Gretlin was born, Elsinin refused to give her back to
Ursel's care. This was a point of anger for Ursel, but she
has accepted that no court would give her custody over
Gretlin if it was revealed that Piralaz was a frequent visitor
to her home.

She lets her short hair grow thick to hide them, but there
are a couple bumps on her skull where horns might be.
Gretlin has not aged in over 50 years. She was born
understanding both infernal and abyssal instinctively,
though it was hard for her to pick up Taldane or Varisian
due to poor hearing in both ears.

As a little deaf girl, Gretlin was used to being ignored by
most adults around. To her shame, she sometimes took
advantage of that to "borrow" things from her neighbors
(mostly books).

As Gretlin grew up, her hearing became worse. By age 30
she could no longer hear, and had to rely on lip reading.
Gretlin tried to ignore her mother's example. But while her
mother was alive, Gretlin tried to be on good terms with
hert. She and her mother would each agree to do some
of the things the other wanted; Ursel came and behaved
herself at festivals to Erastil, and Gretlin would in turn talk
in a civil way with her father (and ignore how unnerving
and creepy he is).

Gretlin's attempts to please her mother led to her
developing her inborn arcane talents, and her own
interests led her to develop her divine talents. She is
skilled enough in both sorts of spellcasting that she can
cast any of her spells without words or inexpensive
material components.

Near the end of Ursel's life, knowing that it would make
mom happy, Gretlin joined the Cheliax faction. Even after
mom's death, Gretlin finds it easier to pay lip service and
do small tasks for Cheliax than to risk retribution for
leaving the society.

Gretlin recently purchased a raven named Rabe, that she
made into her familiar. She relies on the empathic link to
let her know if the Taldane-speaking raven has heard
something alarming important or insulting to her to which
she should attend.