Nettleen Barrowsong
Alignment: Neutral Good
Class: Village herbalist and midwife
Race: Firbolg
Role: ally
Voice: Slow, low, and warm. She apologizes reflexively and hums old growing-songs under her breath while she works.
Description
Nettleen Barrowsong is the firbolg herbalist of Coldwater Crossing, a gentle giant who tends the town's fevers, births, and broken bones and rarely asks for coin. Her walled physic garden is the finest for a hundred miles, and that is exactly the problem: something growing in it is killing people. A soft-spoken healer with soil under her nails and a secret she may not even know she keeps, Nettleen is a ready-made mystery hook, a beloved NPC the party will want to protect, and a quiet tragedy wai
Appearance
A towering firbolg with moss-blue skin, a shawl hung with drying herbs, and soil worked deep under broad fingernails. She stoops in low doorways so as not to loom over anyone.
Motives
Ease suffering wherever she finds it in Coldwater Crossing, and keep her garden and its rarer, more dangerous plants safe, understood, and out of the wrong hands.
Personality
Gentle, endlessly patient, and self-effacing. She gives away more remedies than she sells and carries a low, nameless guilt she can't quite explain.