Rasha

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A Wanted poster of Rasha in his younger days, origin unknown
Rasha today


Rasha al Quaeda Rasha, an eastern druid, played by User:Johnm.

In the Superheroes campaign, Rasha was a... superhero.

In the Ur campaign (in '06), Faunus McClavie's master-- the party was told that Rasha had been slain after exhausting himself casting weather and wasp spells to repel Branok's army, and subsequently being trampled by a panicked horse (Nightmane Swifthoof).

Background

Born on the Bora-Bora Steppe to a shaman mother and warrior father, Rasha grew up on horse milk, yak, and barley. After his father (and most of his tribe) was wiped out in a meaningless territorial dispute with rivals, his mother dragged young Rasha east. Despite being heavily pregnant with Rasha's soon-to-be sister, they made it to a sect of mystics in the Sung-Tao Mountains.

There, after receiving food and succor, Rasha's mother negotiated away her infant daughter in return for certain empowerments of her son Rasha. Thereafter, she died of exhaustion, and Rasha lived with the mystics for a decade.

Rasha proved to be an able student of the ways of nature, if a bit impulsive and distractible.

Once of manly stature, Rasha took to a life of alternating adventure and repose, spending a year at a time alone in the wilderness.

For a short time, he was the Forest Steward of Druid Grove. After a grievous injury, he retired, allowing Serafin Middleton to assume the post during his recovery.

Then,....