Willow's End - Jera Skyspear
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Jera's father, Uuringar, had a reasonably high profile in the clan hierarchy, at least concerning the management of storms and lightning. He was one of three storm masters, being currently the most active. There was always a venerable predecessor who had effectively retired, then a younger apprentice to follow along behind the active master. Obviously Jera's skills in this arena were inherited and learned from her father. She is well suited to the work, for both consciously magical and physically mystical reasons. It's not everyone who is on comfortable terms with the power of lightning. For her own abilities, she would have been chosen as the apprentice but it seemed imprudent and unfair to ask for two from one family to take such heavy responsibility.

There are always hazards but Jera managed her storm duty quite well. She hasn't practiced much since leaving Raumo Korda but every sound of thunder excites her and reminds her of that home and that life, both long past. Jera was a good study otherwise too, much better than her brother actually. She was respected as a scholar and well-regarded by the others in any temple designate rotation. She was also implicitly trusted with the care of the clan's children.

Jera's slightly younger brother, Dagaz, wanted to be a warrior, was a warrior, at least until he was captured by the dwarf and human enemy at the Fall of Raumo Korda. He was particularly fine at archery. He should have been, Jera often thought, although at times she was convinced that he'd take whole quivers of arrows and just tossed them off the mountain with no real practice at all. She wouldn't have been concerned except that Dagaz and their mother wanted his sigil on every single arrow, tiny as the mark might be. Yes of course Jera did the carving. But, she sometimes used that to occupy the children's naptime in the afternoons. Her main task, besides storm duty, was her own studies AND teaching the smallest of the children about the basics of language and trying to get along with other races, besides all the other things children have to learn.

Kumori, Jera's mother, was gifted in rune lore and even more so in languages, being able to translate them one to the other as easily as reading rune symbols. She was very instrumental in helping set up the arrangements with the dwarves because she could use their common understanding of symbol (runic) communication to make initial contact. Eventually, Kumori spoke fluently in the dwarf tongue, as well as in Common Speech for the humans.

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