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Are we still waiting on Gretchen and Siete to post in Gameplay? I was kinda waiting for everyone to tag in?

Marika is ill at ease, today feels off, like everything is waiting for something bad to happen. She skips between checking the horizon and looking at Aristea, wondering if she can feel anything with her other senses. Was that a thing? Marika never really understood how that worked...

Background is how I'd run it, if the carriage isn't full could also have traded some fresh caught game in lieu of/supplementary to coin?

I'm relatively happy, it's a bit second fiddle to Aristea but that's not a problem for me.

Seems reasonable

Aristea's village could just have been on Siete's route. Maybe she stowed away the first time as Siete delivered some choice contraband to the miners (I'm assuming he had a boat at one point), and managed to convince him not to just dump her in the river and they became... maybe not friends but some kind of respect between them.

Maybe now he's down on his luck (no boat) so took on escorting a couple of young women out of the area to earn some coin, even better that it's someone he kinda gets on with.

I'm not sure how well known Dieter would be, guessing he's a kept secret among the local villages since he can provide a few cures and other things, but if he ever went too far they'd still turn on him because y'know Empire.

Maybe that's why he's getting rid of Aristea, decided having an apprentice is drawing too much attention?

The warhammer Old Word is a place rife with superstition and the colleges of magic are also known for hunting down witch's, so I don't think it'd be unfair that simple fear of discovery could keep you from seeking out the Colleges, especially as someone growing up in a small community - they probably barely distinguish between wizards and witch's anyway.

Maybe once you spend more time in cities and should we spend any time in Altdorf, you could come around and turn yourself in for assessment and training?

I've not given much thought to background's too much so far, but could easily tie to yours.

Marika grew up in a small community of farmers and hunters in the borders of the Empire, she learned her parent's trade, hunting, trapping. Until one day the goblins came down the mountain. Marike had always been good at hiding, and in a panic she fled to the woods and watched her village burn. Her ears still ringing with the sounds of her village's screams she slipped away come dawn when the goblins fell back to the mountains.

A few days later Dieter Hartmann found the dazed girl, half starved and still ranting. For whatever reason he took pity on her and brought her back to some semblance of sanity and health. She repaid him as a servant, using her skills to gather and hunt in the forest and whatever he needed.
Marika was hardly smart and had no magical talent whatsoever, but had reached an understanding with the witch.

When Aristea turned up, with skills Dieter actually had interest in, Marika was at first jealous but formed a friendship with her and when Dieter told Aristea to leave Marika joined her.

Assuming the default more rural-witch upbringing for Aristea Marika could have grown up with Aristea?

Marika sounding off.

Okay Marika is here. Still some polishing to do with background etc.