For centuries, Naen Tesrec's lineage was dedicated to the worship of Aroden; every generation, the majority of the Tesrecs would join the priesthood. Based in Galt, the Tesrec family held nearly as deep a devotion to Cheliax, the empire they believed would one day rule all of Avistan with nobility and wisdom.
Aroden's death shattered the family. Unable to deal with the loss, many of the Tesrecs took their own lives. Others simply went mad. A valiant few weathered the confusion and anguish, and desperately searching for guidance, they came to better know the saint Milani. They prayed to her, hoping she could bolster the staggering empire.
But it seemed that she could not. The House of Thrune rose to power in Cheliax, and with its ascension, any loyalty the few remaining Tesrecs had to the distant nation crumbled. The flames of revolution grew in Galt, and the Tesrec family was right in step with the teachings of the revolutionary, Hosetter.
Alese Tesrec was a young girl when the revolution started, and from the age of twelve, she fought alongside her father and brothers as they spilled the blood of Galtan aristocrats and those that would shelter them. As the years passed, more died, and it wasn't just the nobles. Alese, now the senior member of the Tesrec family following the execution of the last of her brothers, called out to Milani for peace. The Everbloom answered her, and urged her to flee her blood-soaked homeland.
In the year 4690, in the town of Brunderton, Alese Tesrec gave birth to a daughter, Naen. Who the father was, none knew. Those that have known them speak only of the mother and the child. Alese, weary from her costly but futile years of struggle in Galt, finally gave way to sickness five winters past. She never saw her daughter come of age.
Naen is a charming young woman who has lived a life of relative peace. Though in her earlier years she chafed against her mother's insistence that Galt was beyond Milani's help, Naen now understands that she was only following the will of the goddess. Alese's death took a great toll on her daughter, but Naen understands that she is the last Tesrec, and she will honor her mother and her ancestors by carrying on in devotion to the Everbloom.
With little left for Naen in Brunderton, she has recently ventured out into the world to discover what path Milani has set for her. And so it has transpired that on a bustling street in Restov, hanging above a single blooming rose that has emerged from the cracked pavement, Naen finds it. A notice is posted: Rostland needs volunteers, and the Stolen Lands need reclaiming.
