Hello hello! I'm Joy or Joys, I'm here with Sister Lashan from the Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, though Lashan is from thousands of years before either Valdemar or its Heralds are a thing. She's a former mercenary turned mage-blacksmith and lay Sister for an odd little religious enclave. It's not hard to tell that she's a bruised idealist who still cares pretty easily. Will she quasi-adopt someone here? Maybe.

She can be a fantastic fighter but only for quite short periods of time or she pays hard. She can also play with lightning a bit but again that can be problems. Tough to do certain things when you're seventy! And she doesn't understand the body well enough to be a good Healer. What Lashan can do is see magic and often dismantle others' spells if she can study them a while, ward against and harm ghosts and demons, some psychic stuff (I'm not gonna have her read minds without discussing it first, but she's got Empathy going and will know how people around her feel unless they're obfuscated in that area), animals to a degree, and crafty stuff.

Lashan's best skill is making magic swords but she's disinclined to do that much here even if given the opportunity just because they're a lot of work. Work that she likes, but she's not supporting her community with sale/gifts of them! She's more likely to make charms that have magic effects. Unlike the reward charms most of them will break after some uses, and her luck charms are of the "I stepped to the side just in time to be missed by the falling spar" type. But she can sell or give you something that will waterproof your clothes and gear! (Your hair can still get soaked.)

She is also afraid of the ocean (and also just the kind of stubborn old coot to set her teeth and glare about it) and has never learned to swim lol. My first goal is to get her to unbend enough to ask someone to teach her.

aaaaah it's a work night and I am on rotation gotta split. I will get to things as I can. I'm on the disco, and you can find me at joysweeper