Bergamot

Bergamot is a black-haired elf with large glasses and an even larger green witch hat that helps hide her small presence. She was born to Hyflyn and Potrin, an elf couple that serve a lady of power in Aldercastle as her servants and as anything else she requires. The elf child was seen to have a decent amount of intelligence and no interest in anything beyond books, so she was sent to study with the master of the lady’s library, Kin’wyr Jithaif. He was a master of the arcane and taught her as much as he could, but when her interest in nature and its wild magics started to outweigh her interest in the arcane, she quickly fell out of favour with him and was left to find her own way. She began researching the origins of primal energy and how it interacts with all living creatures while also working in the library as a clerk and junior librarian, her unending hunger for knowledge making it so that she often slept at her desk after going though massive tome after massive tome.

When Bergamot wanted to join the Magus Gamana to further her knowledge of primal magics and energies, she struck a deal with the lady so that she could be given the resources to pursue her research. The Magus Gamana only accepts students of renown and skill, so Bergamot travelled the world, working on her thesis to hopefully be accepted as a student in their illustrious halls. Her studies took her to many wonderous locations. The great mountains that have snow capped peaks that touch the sky, deserts where the world itself seems to be swallowed by sand, deep and dark forest where the strangest of creatures lurk and even the deepest caves where sunlight has never touched. All expanded her knowledge but most importantly they all gave her the skills needed to survive alone. But her biggest life change would happen durring a trip around the islands to study the coral reefs. While traveling across the archipelago she got word from the lady that there was a potential way to get a name for herself by joining the Gallant Horde. So, she headed over to Circle Creek immediately, hoping to find an easy ticket to her life of books and quiet bliss. Instead she found a group of strangers and weirdos that were all too accepting of her odd ways. She now enjoys a simple life of research, chatting with friends and occasionally turning into a bear in order to snap a guy's neck for money. Some jobs get violent but she isn’t going to back down. Not when so much of her future life is on the line.

Bergamot is a strange character to be sure. She doesn’t know many customs, is completely incapable of cooking and never says goodbye when leaving a room. However, she has a quiet and innocent charm around her that makes her hard to hate. She isn’t used to social interaction, so large groups still freak her out. But she’s slowly getting better at it with the help of her new friends. She also has a familiar named Chomps that came to her one day while she was practicing a form of druidic meditation in the forest. He’s grumpy and Bergamot has called him “an old soul” but she loves him and treasures his companionship, even if it means getting bitten when her fingers stray too close. Her favourite form to take is that of a deer and she loves walking through the forest on her days off. She often thinks about her family and mentor back home but doesn’t want to return until her goals have been met. She wants to return a successful scholar in her own right and pay back all that she owes to her benefactor. She is a fan of all life but she focuses mostly on flowers for her studies. She says it’s because they show the effects of change and growth more easily than other beings but it’s also partly because she finds them cute and loves being surrounded by them.