I don't want to see you, darling

According to Rosemary: people are either right or wrong, good or evil, and she doesn't waste time pretending there's much of a gray area in between. Bandits, thieves, or anyone looking to harm the helpless get no second chance — she does what needs to be done, fast and brutal. On the other side, she can be surprisingly gentle toward innocents and travelers, though most are too terrified of her claws and teeth to notice.

She moves like something that isn't entirely human(oid) — hunched, cloaked in black with eyes like inky voids and claws that could tear through flesh with ease. Rosemary doesn't hide her cannibalism or other strange behaviors; she is blunt about it and doesn't think anything she does is strange. She knows others see her as a monster, and while she accepts it, it still makes her sad that so many do not want to see past her appearance, even after she helps them.

Rosemary is protective, brutally honest, and unyieldingly loyal once she decides someone is worth it. She doesn't always understand why others don't see the world in the same black and white way she does, but at her core, she is a good girl — just a little twisted, a little odd, and far too used to people calling her a demon to believe she could ever really belong.

Rosemary was a mistake. Her parents, renowned monster hunters, had eventually come across a foe that had eluded them for months. In desperation they sought out the source of the monsters power - drawing from it themselves in hopes of finding some way to track it. They succeeded, but in doing so had tainted themselves with a dangerous occultist magic.

They knew not of the mistake they had made until the birth of their daughter a year later. She was wicked, clawed and fanged and nearly killing her mother in childbirth. Shadows flitted around her like a cloak, her eyes as black as night despite her otherwise Elven appearance. An abomination - one they left for dead in the woods where she was born. She would die, they thought, just as she should before anyone would have to lay their eyes upon her.

She did not die, however. Not long after being abandoned a pair of witches living in secret in the woods found the crying baby. And despite her startling appearance, they could not simply leave the newborn to die - and took her in to raise her as their own.

The witches were uneducated, but they knew how to survive. In their tiny cottage in the dark woods outside of Tusk, Rosemary was taught all she needed to survive in the harsh world around them. They showed her how to hunt, which berries to eat and which to avoid, and they instilled as much of a sense of right in wrong as they could.

Unfortunately, the witches were human and with Rosemary's extended elven lifespan she eventually outlived them. She was alone then in the cottage they shared - and she tended to it as best she could with the knowledge they had instilled in her. She mostly kept to herself unless someone threatened her home - which unfortunately happened more often than she would have liked - or any innocent that tried to travel through the woods.

Not many bandits or thieves lived long enough to tell the tale, but the merchants and families Rosemary assisted did. And their retellings were never flattering. They painted her a monster - The Demon of The Wood they would call her, with her sharp nails and jagged teeth tearing out people's throats. The woods became safer, for whatever that was worth, because no one - bandit or innocent - wished to venture through them in the dark, scared of what might come for them when their back was turned.

NIGHT SIGHT Can see in the dark as if it were daylight, even in the pitch black or magical darkness.

DEATH TOUCHED Cannot be seen by mindless undead unless they are acted upon aggressively.

TERROR RADIUS Rosemary's terrifying appearance causes primal fear in those that look upon her.

VENOMOUS Rosemary's claws and teeth can excrete a venomous substance that causes full body paralysis.

OCCULTISM Rosemary can command shadows, including those belonging to others. She can teleport through them, fade into near invisibility in darkness, and extinguish light sources at will. Her unique tie to the Veil — a realm of death and shadow — allows her see the threads binding a person's spirit to their body. By stepping into the Veil, she can sever those threads to drive a spirit out, or weave them back to pull someone from the brink of death. She can also summon shadowy tendrils to restrain or strike, cloak allies in darkness to conceal them, and briefly tether her own spirit outside her body to evade harm.

SUN SICK Being a creature of death and darkness, Rosemary cannot be in direct sunlight without suffering greatly for it. She becomes weak and vulnerable to mundane and magical attacks while exposed to the sun.

HOLY/HEALING WEAKNESS Holy and light magic deal extra damage to Rosemary. She cannot be healed with healing magicks, and doing so can sometimes cause her harm.