A towering goliath woman with slate-gray skin, dark blue markings across her face and shoulders, and a broad, powerful frame. Her pale eyes are calm until anger takes hold, when they gleam like winter moonlight. She wears a battered chain shirt beneath a formal crimson cloak, carries an enormous greataxe, and keeps a silver signet ring on a leather cord around her neck.

A is solemn, courteous, and intensely observant. She speaks with the measured precision of someone raised to represent a household, but her patience ends abruptly when she sees bullying, exploitation, or needless cruelty. She is uncomfortable with praise and treats every victory as evidence that she has accepted another responsibility.

A was born into the Frostmantle clan, a goliath family that ruled a remote mountain valley through contests of strength, endurance, and judgment. Though her body was mighty, her ability scores were considered unremarkable by the standards of her people, and she learned early that rank could not protect anyone from failure. Her mother, the clan matriarch, sent her south to serve as an envoy among human nobles, believing that A needed to understand power beyond the summit and the wrestling ring. In the courts, A discovered that nobles fought with smiles, rumors, and carefully chosen words. She became skilled at reading the room, though she never learned to enjoy its games. When a rival house manipulated a border dispute that endangered her clan, A abandoned ceremony and took up the greataxe, personally escorting refugees through a mountain pass during a blizzard. The deed earned her a place among adventurers and a reputation as the noble who would rather stand in the snow than sit at a banquet. She now travels to protect people overlooked by those who claim to rule them, while seeking proof that her family’s enemies are still working against the Frostmantle clan.