About Valehtja
Character Sheet
Race/Class: (half)-Human Wizard (Enchanter, Thassilonian Specialist if allowed)
Role: Face, Textbook, Magic
Description: Barely five-feet tall—and that includes her frizzy, unkempt hair—Valehtja looks the part of a mousy, rotund bookkeeper, with ink-stained fingers and rumpled clothes that smell of musty parchment. When she needs to leave the backroom and appear presentable—say, to serve a customer—she simply dons a dark hooded cloak that is kept clean and ready for such occasions. Her voice is appropriately timid and quiet in idle conversation, but when something important or urgent arises—oh, but then her earnest words are a torrent of precise staccatos, an unrelenting assault of logic and reason that won’t cease until you are convinced or overwhelmed (or both).
Background: Valehtja grew up as one might expect for a rich merchant’s daughter: pampered, carefree, and directionless. Her natural talent and her father’s wealth earned her a place at the magic Acadamae where she coasted on her intellect for years, taking shortcuts whenever possible, all while feigning the role of a ‘good student’. It’s amazing what you can get away with when you swear ‘by Abadar’ on the holy symbol around your neck.
But everything changed when her father Bolgrin was framed for murder. The injustice sparked a newfound determination and fierce dedication in the young wizard. She immediately forgot her impatient frustrations with his plodding inflexibility—she really does love the old dwarf—and hunted down the lying witness. Ensnaring him with a web of her own falsehoods, she extracted the truth. Alas, the real killer drowned the witness before he could recant, and although the case was dismissed, the stigma remained. Bolgrin’s comfortable trading house in Midland never really recovered, and today he remains depressed and withdrawn at the loss of his reputation.
And yet … in a strange way, this incident might have been the best thing that’s happened to Valehtja. She buckled down and worked hard, leaving the Acadamae to help support her family as a scribe. In her spare time she studied magic on her own—still taking shortcuts and skipping entire fields of study, but at least she’s focused now … focused on righting a wrong, and gathering all the resources she can to do so. Her father, like most dwarves, might not care for Dranngvit, but The Debt Minder has garnered Valehtja’s admiration and respect, giving her a new purpose in life. It’s time for Gaedren Lamm to pay his debts.
