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Name: Toast
Age: 15
Race: Human
Height: 5'2"
City: Arcania
Job: Making toast
Likes: Kelpies, baking
Dislikes: Humans, using magic, traveling

Personality: Aloof, obstinate

History: Not a lot is known about her; she's an enigma to the rare people who chance upon meeting her. She is surrounded by speculation - some people think she is a kelpie turned human, others a sorceress, others a girl held prisoner by the kelpies, others a girl abandoned and raised by them, others a princess in hiding.

In reality, she is nothing so grand. She was the only daughter of a noble family, isolated and pushed to study magic despite her own will not to. When she was 11, she met a kelpie in the river that happened to flow into her family's manor in the city. That kelpie became her only friend (as the kelpie seemed to understand her, and was the only living thing she had met that her parents did not approve of; as a kelpie, it was able to enter through the river sluice gate into the property at will).

Then, at the end of that year, due to a traumatic incident with her family, she left home for good, imploring her kelpie friend to take her to its home. It complied, and she has been living with kelpies ever since.

She despises humans in general, believing them to be worthless scum not worthy her time or effort, and avoids them if they draw near (if she notices them). She threw away her old name; her new name, "Toast," was given to her by the kelpies she lives with. They love toast, and will often come up from the rivers or ponds where they live calling "Toast! Toast!"* to her, wishing her to make it for them. She considers that her major job in her new "family" - taking the ingredients she and the kelpies grow during summer and turning it into bread for toast.

Given her (weak) background in magic, she is able to speak with them (*in keeping with DAF kelpie rules, kelpies DO NOT SPEAK, she used a spell to understand them) - the only talent she ever bothered to cultivate since leaving home. Now, she cannot tell if she uses magic to do it anymore, or if they are just naturally understanding each other.

She is extremely protective of her new family; if anything is hurting them, she will take it upon her to find it and try to solve it. Combined with her distrust of all humans, if a human shows up at the herd's home, she tries to get the kelpies to hide instead of show themselves. If the human is trying to contact them, she tends to go out in their stead, though she hates this particular duty.

Perhaps something of a given, but with her relationship with the kelpies, she is an extremely good swimmer and can hold her breath without aid for slightly over a minute (while swimming). This can be extended if she bothers to remember a spell that would help, but she typically avoids using spells.

Description
NPC for

Name: Toast
Age: 15
Race: Human
Height: 5'2"
City: Arcania
Job: Making toast
Likes: Kelpies, baking
Dislikes: Humans, using magic, traveling

Personality: Aloof, obstinate

History: Not a lot is known about her; she's an enigma to the rare people who chance upon meeting her. She is surrounded by speculation - some people think she is a kelpie turned human, others a sorceress, others a girl held prisoner by the kelpies, others a girl abandoned and raised by them, others a princess in hiding.

In reality, she is nothing so grand. She was the only daughter of a noble family, isolated and pushed to study magic despite her own will not to. When she was 11, she met a kelpie in the river that happened to flow into her family's manor in the city. That kelpie became her only friend (as the kelpie seemed to understand her, and was the only living thing she had met that her parents did not approve of; as a kelpie, it was able to enter through the river sluice gate into the property at will).

Then, at the end of that year, due to a traumatic incident with her family, she left home for good, imploring her kelpie friend to take her to its home. It complied, and she has been living with kelpies ever since.

She despises humans in general, believing them to be worthless scum not worthy her time or effort, and avoids them if they draw near (if she notices them). She threw away her old name; her new name, "Toast," was given to her by the kelpies she lives with. They love toast, and will often come up from the rivers or ponds where they live calling "Toast! Toast!"* to her, wishing her to make it for them. She considers that her major job in her new "family" - taking the ingredients she and the kelpies grow during summer and turning it into bread for toast.

Given her (weak) background in magic, she is able to speak with them (*in keeping with DAF kelpie rules, kelpies DO NOT SPEAK, she used a spell to understand them) - the only talent she ever bothered to cultivate since leaving home. Now, she cannot tell if she uses magic to do it anymore, or if they are just naturally understanding each other.

She is extremely protective of her new family; if anything is hurting them, she will take it upon her to find it and try to solve it. Combined with her distrust of all humans, if a human shows up at the herd's home, she tries to get the kelpies to hide instead of show themselves. If the human is trying to contact them, she tends to go out in their stead, though she hates this particular duty.

Perhaps something of a given, but with her relationship with the kelpies, she is an extremely good swimmer and can hold her breath without aid for slightly over a minute (while swimming). This can be extended if she bothers to remember a spell that would help, but she typically avoids using spells.