Idanna Halmrast

Appearance
Idanna has long dark brown hair and brown eyes. She usually wears a faded teal dress that looks like maybe at one point it was made from very fine linen, but now just looks old and dirty. The bottom of the dress especially is very tattered. She wears a plain dark grey hooded cloak over it.

She is never without a slightly gnarled wooden quarterstaff with an arcane design seemingly hand carved into it. Affixed to the top of the staff with braided wire is a golden wedding band, and what appears to be a couple perhaps humanoid pinkie bones.

Personality
Prickly and stand-offish, Idanna is not terribly keen to talk about herself, but is more than happy to throw out occasional snarky comments. She makes her general disinterest in people known by never using a person's given name, instead giving them some objectifying and/or mildly offensive nickname. She loves languages and learning them. Really just the written word in general, she's a big bibliophile. She sees magic as a means to an end and not something you just use carelessly or for fun.

Biography
Born under Norread Dynasty rule, Idanna was 14 when the war ended and the the current government came to power. Unknown where exactly in Hellstorm she's from, but at some point she lived in Myrefall and was married to an affluent cloth merchant there, Rohan Halmrast. Based off her not remotely hidden vitriol towards him and his current wife, it ended badly. There is definitely more to her story.... it's just a matter of getting it out of her.

The Bruces
Bruce has become the general term/name for every creature that Idanna animates after Sunny named the first creature. Idanna's horse (left behind in Myrefall) is also named Bruce, but only because in Idanna's mind the horse is a similar subservient creature, and not because it's undead.

So far, Bruces have been the following:


 * Bruce Prime: A very decayed goblin from The Sunless Citadel. Came in clutch when someone needed to smash the orb that had frightened Reed and as a general trap checker/middle finger light wielder, but was generally useless in the battle against the Gulthias. Unbeknownst to Idanna, in the middle of the night Zaphi's patron Volgora temporarily brought Bruce back to life and then returned him to his undead state. Re-re-died after Idanna commanded it to swan dive into a chasm on the way to the exit.
 * Bruce 1 & 2: Two freshly dead, beefy boy cultists in the catacombs. They didn't last long during the battle with the Boneclaws, and it wasn't worth a spell slot to re-re-animate them.
 * Green Skelebruces 1 & 2: Two skeletons covered in an acidic green film found in a ruin we explored in Ocea. Helped distract the constructs, but were generally useless against a dragon. Left at the bottom of the lake in the dragon's lair. Have fun, boys.