Grow

Grow is a female Fawl and a Wizard of the School of Abjuration, is about 100 years old, 5’8’’ and around 120 lbs. She grew up in a small village of a few hundred Fawl along with her family. The entire village engaged in the cultivation of the Nes plant and production of Burlimba. She had a simple life, helping cultivate Nes and make Burlimba. She thought all her life she had no special abilities. Even when all the Fawl around her could do magic she was not able to channel her powers until much later in her life.

Once a month a group would travel to the largest city and trade with other Fawl along they way and with thote part of the jungle in a

e humans at the city for essential goods that the village needed. The humans in the city always wanted more Nes and Burlimba, but the Fawl would only trade as little as possible and only for essentials. Humans were always greedy and wanted as much as they could get their hands on. They would sometimes try to follow groups of Fawl back into the jungle to find their farms, most of the time they were unsuccessful, but one early morning tragedy struck.

A large group of human soldiers found Grow’s village and proceeded to capture and enslave as many Fawl as they could. The entire crop of the Nes and all produced Burlimba was seized. The village was destroyed and along with it most of her family died, some managed to escape, but not Grow. She was captured by the human soldiers and forced into a life of slavery. The slavers would force Grow into making Burlimba for them whenever any Nes was found, they made her clean, cook and do laundry for them, and they tried to get her to reveal the location of other Fawl villages throughout the jungle. Grow was able to avoid helping them find more villages, by telling them she didn’t know this part of the jungle and when she recognized Fawl tracks she would try and divert the humans away from where the tracks were leading. Sometimes when she knew they were headed into a Fawl village she would pray to

Forseena by the time they would get to the village it would be a lot of times already evacuated. For two years she helped them as little as she could. One day she realized they would never let her go like they had been promising and escaped the first chance she got. Before leaving she freed all of their slaves and horses as well as stole one for herself.

After escaping she found her way back to her home village or rather what was left of it. There was no one there and it looked like everything was either destroyed or stolen. Grow traveled around the jungle visiting nearby Fawl villages and found some of her former village members, but was never able to find any of her remaining family members.

As she was traveling through the jungle she stumbled upon a super old human. At the time little did she know that he was one of the most powerful wizards on the continent. The old wizard knew she was a being capable of magic and took the young Grow under his wing. He trained her how to use magic and even helped her discover her own magical abilities. She finally was able to speak with plants and animals, create a pink magical shield around everyone she chooses that is within sight, and a kiss on the forehead from her healed you right up. This is all normal magic that most Fawl are capable of and the old wizard knew what to expect from Grow. The old wizard never told Grow why he was in the middle of the jungle all by himself before dying. Grow always suspected he originally helped the humans invade this part of the continent, but realizing the error of his ways went into seclusion. Before dying the old wizard taught Grow how to be an Abjuration wizard. He showed her how to reduce damage from weapons and magic, blind and deafen, and many more spells that were meant to give her and her future allies an advantage in battle. He also taught her some offensive spells like fireball and it's weakling castingthe firebolt, shocking grasp, and a few more.

She never held it too much against the humans for taking slaves. She knew that it was how they were raised and they didn't know any better. She doesn't wish death on the slavers unless they are mean and violent, which from her experiences only a small percentage are. Most just want a better life like she and her village members wanted. There is one nasty human she remembers from when she was a slave. A barbarian by the name of Johan. He was always mean and violent to all the Fawl and almost had his way with Grow multiple times if it wasn't for some of the other humans stopping him.

After a proper burial and mourning she set out on a mission to find a group of adventurers to help her in her quest to free as many slaves as possible, help the Fawl resettle the lands and find her family.