Micha was born into the Dragonmarked House Jorasco in Karrnath and lived a privileged life in her early years. Even as a child, Micha experienced the pull of wanderlust that is so prevalent amongst Halflings. She would often slip away from home to go explore the “forest”, which was really just a copse on her family’s estate just behind the manor. She would dream of the day when she could really leave and go travel the world; she so wanted to visit the real forests, oceans, and mountains just like her Aunt Basia.
Micha looked forward to the rare occasions when Aunt Basia would come for a visit with her wolf, Draha. Those visits became even scarcer after her mother, Bia, and her father, Makar were overheard by Micha arguing with Basia over Micha’s future. Micha was able to discern that her mother had agreed that Micha could travel with Basia when she was of age, but now that Micha had manifested a dragonmark, her parents no longer wished for her to go. They felt that it was only appropriate for one bearing the mark to stay where she was needed and be in service to her House. Basia told Bia and Makar that Micha felt the calling, just as she did, and that it didn’t matter what they wanted her to do, one day Micha would go. She said that it would be better for Micha if when that day came, she left with Basia instead of on her own. Her parents refused to believe, Basia, however and instead did their best to raise Micha to be a respectable member of House Jorasco.
This didn’t deter Micha, not in the slightest. She became bolder with her adventures away from home. It became common for her to be absent for days at a time, and on a couple of occasions Micha was gone for several weeks. Her parents would send hired guards and house servants out to find and fetch Micha. She never attempted to evade her search party, and never gave argument until the day one guard attempted to tell Micha that she could not bring the young wolverine she had bonded with home with her. Under strict orders to not in any way harm Micha, not even touch her unless it was a matter of her personal safety, the guards eventually had to settle for forming a ring around Micha as she walked the entire way home, refusing their mounts if it meant leaving Poppy behind. Poppy followed along gleefully, pouncing on Micha’s feet and using her teeth to tug at Micha’s clothing in an attempt to get her to stop and play, the whole way home.
Shortly after Micha’s twentieth birthday, she entered into her mandatory two year service in the Karrnathi army. It was here that she got her first real good look at the evil that her country supported in the form of undead soldiers. She, like all Karrnathi citizen, had heard of the stories of the great undead forces used in Karrnath in the last war, and she knew that Karrnath still employed these forces to a lesser extent in the army but she never knew the size of those forces that remained. Being near the undead Micha became certain that they were unnatural abominations. Their presence made her skin crawl, and their mere existence kept her awake at night.
Very few seemed to share her abhorrence for the undead, and so Micha kept her feelings to herself and did her best to avoid them as much as possible. Since the army took great advantage of the healing powers granted to Micha through her Mark of Healing, she did not have to be in close proximity to the undead too often, for the undead did not need her healing. She was relieved when her service ended and she was able to return home once more. Unfortunately, the nightmares brought on by the undead did not stay behind; they continued to trouble Micha long after she returned to the safety of her home.
A few months later she was ecstatic to see her Aunt Basia and Draha walking down the road that lead to the manor. She rushed out to greet her aunt, Poppy right behind her. Basia greeted her niece with a hug, and after taking in the wolverine sniffing around and growling at Draha, she gave Micha a knowing smile and said only, ”It is time.” Micha walked with her aunt back to the manor to find her parents waiting outside. Micha will never forget the look of sad resignation on her mother’s face any more than she will the look of anger and defiance on her father’s.
Micha hugged her mother before turning to her father, “I’m going,” is all she said. She went into her childhood home, gathered up a few of her belongings and walked back outside. Her father quieted his voice when she came back out, he had been yelling at Basia but Basia stood there in silence allowing him his rant. Micha hugged her mother and kissed her goodbye before doing the same to her father. His demeanor softened enough to return the sign of affection to his daughter, but it was still quite clear that he disapproved of her leaving. Micha left anyway.
For the next several years, Micha traveled with Basia learning what it meant to be a druid. She learned the language of the Druids, to use the divine magic of the Druids, to teach Poppy, and most importantly to Micha she learned how to defend herself against the undead. Basia shared Micha’s distaste for the undead and together they covertly fought against the undead of Karrnath. In time, Basia told Micha of the different sects of druids, namely the Gatekeepers. Basia took Micha to The Eldeen Reaches to study with the Gatekeepers and to be inducted as an initiate. Micha stayed in The Eldeen Reachers for four years. It was a sad day when Micha realized that it was time that she part paths with Basia, but Basia agreed that it was something she must do. With a heavy heart, Micha and Poppy took off on their own.
Since then, Micha has traveled the world, learning just how big it really is and fighting to cleanse the world of aberrations whenever she can.
