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Velta Ozoliņa

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Human-presenting woman with custom Vadātājs heritage, a wayfinding spirit tied to roads, fog, and uncertain transitions · Noncombatant chronicler (custom, level 0)

Velta Ozoliņa

Artist, chronicler, and interpreter of folklore
“You saw three lights. The rest is what we think they mean.”
AC10
HP4/4
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

At the table

“as far as I can tell”
From how they speak

Voice

Her voice is clear but slightly dry, with the faint rasp of someone who has spent long hours speaking over wind and turning pages in dusty rooms. She places consonants carefully, shaped by her Latvian speech, and lets a sentence run on when she is comparing details. When startled, she clips her words short and sounds more like a field interviewer than a scholar.

Velta speaks Latvian with a natural local accent and uses Common carefully, as if checking each word against an internal reference. She tends to give observations in short, concrete sentences, then adds a longer qualification when someone leaps to a conclusion. Her vocabulary grows precise when discussing drawings and strangely hesitant when asked about her own past.

Speech patterns

Separates testimony from interpretation: "You saw three lights. The rest is what we think they mean."
Uses careful qualifiers such as "as far as I can tell" and "that resembles, but does not prove."
When frightened, asks practical questions in quick succession: who is missing, when they were last seen, and which way the wind is going.
Refers to folklore as a map of possibilities, not a catalogue of facts.

How to play them

Velta listens before offering an interpretation, then distinguishes what she witnessed, what another person reported, and what remains a guess. She is more open with people who admit uncertainty. If pressed to confirm a supernatural explanation, she asks what evidence would change their minds. She shares practical sketches freely but guards drawings connected to her own lost memories.

Goal

Keep an honest record of the fellowship's changes and clues, and discover whether her sense for lost travelers can help them find a way home.

Motivation

To make uncertainty survivable: preserve what people know, leave room for what they do not, and help the displaced fellowship make decisions without turning fear into false certainty.

Secret · GM only

Appearance

Fine-boned and striking without looking fragile, Velta has a long, watchful face, a straight nose, and a mouth that seems ready to question whatever it hears. Her local features and Latvian mannerisms belong naturally to the young woman's body she woke in, while her unfamiliar layers of clothing make her seem displaced at a glance. She moves with an economical, slightly angled step, as if leaving room for a road to change its mind. When waiting, she puts her weight on the outside edge of one foot and keeps her sketchbook tucked under her forearm. A battered folding ruler is always visible in her breast pocket, its brass hinge rubbed bright where her thumb worries it.

Clothing

A layered, practical outfit that looks pieced together from different histories: a weathered dark coat with a high collar, a plain wool skirt over sturdy trousers, and boots repaired with mismatched thread. Her cuffs are smudged with graphite and her pockets bulge with paper scraps. The clothes are useful in bad weather but unfamiliar enough in cut and combination to draw attention.

Body language

She tilts her head to listen, but keeps her shoulders turned toward the nearest exit. In conversation, she holds the sketchbook against her ribs and taps its spine with the worn brass hinge of her folding ruler. When uncertain, she looks down at the ground as if checking whether the path has left a mark.

Height
About 5 ft. 5 in. (165 cm).
Build
Lean and lightly built, with a careful, balanced gait rather than an athletic stride.
Eyes
Grey-green, with a steady, assessing gaze.
Hair
Dark brown, usually braided back loosely; short strands escape around her temples when she works.
Skin
Light skin with a cool, weather-flushed cast.
Age
Appears about eighteen. Velta has no certain memory of her age before waking in Latvia.
Gender
Woman
Size
Medium

Distinguishing features

A battered folding ruler is almost always tucked into her breast pocket, with one brass hinge polished bright from repeated thumb-rubbing.
She waits with her weight on the outside edge of one foot, her posture subtly angled toward the nearest route out.
Her unfamiliar, carefully mended clothes stand out against her otherwise natural local features and Latvian accent.

Personality

14 traits and drives

Velta is curious enough to follow a story into uncomfortable territory, yet skeptical enough to mark the boundary between a tale and a fact. With frightened people she becomes brisk and practical; among trusted companions she is dryly funny and unexpectedly sentimental about ordinary routines. When exhausted, she can grow stubbornly analytical, treating a person's grief like a puzzle because puzzles feel safer than helplessness.

Alignment
Neutral; cautious about claims of right and wrong when survival and incomplete knowledge complicate both.

Quirks

She draws a tiny arrow beside every route on a map, even when the direction is obvious.
Before crossing a threshold, she briefly checks which way the door opens.
She tests the sharpness of charcoal on the edge of her thumbnail, then wipes the mark on her cuff.
When a conversation becomes confusing, she arranges scraps of paper into a rough map of who said what.

Habits

After hearing a report, she asks what the witness saw before asking what they think it meant.
When the group is in immediate danger, she puts away her notebook and acts; once safe, she reconstructs the sequence from memory.
She quietly checks crossroads and doorways when a road-pull stirs, then resents herself for doing it.
When someone is grieving, she offers to draw a remembered place rather than press them to talk.

Traits · 4

She delights in comparisons between stories, but resists treating a resemblance as an answer.
She is gentle with frightened witnesses and impatient with people who knowingly embellish.
She can be warm and teasing with friends, then abruptly guarded when asked about her own past.
She values a useful correction more than a flattering compliment.

Flaws · 3

Her caution can frustrate people who need a decision before all the evidence is in.
She sometimes follows a strange pull toward a place despite knowing she may be misreading it.
She can become absorbed in documenting a frightening event and miss an immediate emotional need.

Fears · 3

That the road-pull is steering her toward harm while making the choice feel like her own.
That the fellowship will treat her illustrations as evidence for a comforting but false explanation.
That the memories of her former life will fade before she understands how they relate to the person she has become.

Wants and needs · 4

A safe place to sleep and keep her paper dry.
Time to compare accounts before the fellowship commits to a dangerous explanation.
Someone she trusts enough to discuss her uncertain memories with.
A way to test whether her road-sense is reliable without risking another person's safety.

Combat

AC 10 · HP 4 · 30 ft.

Velta avoids a stand-up fight. She keeps near cover, uses her walking stick to discourage pursuit, and tries to get herself and any vulnerable companion to a clear exit. Her custom wayfinding sense may alert her that someone lost has passed nearby, but it does not identify enemies, reveal hidden routes on demand, or replace ordinary perception.

Velta Ozoliņa

Medium humanoid (human-presenting woman with custom vadātājs heritage, a wayfinding spirit tied to roads, fog, and uncertain transitions), neutral; cautious about claims of right and wrong when survival and incomplete knowledge complicate both.
Armor Class10
Hit Points4
Speed30 ft.
Level0
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
Saving ThrowsDEXINT
SkillsInvestigationHistoryInsightPerceptionSurvival
SensesPassive Perception 11; ordinary human senses. Her custom road-sense is situational and does not grant general tracking or supernatural sight.
Languages
Latvian,
Common,
A little of several languages remembered from her former studies; she cannot reliably speak them
Custom Vadātājs heritage. Velta can feel the faint tug of a trail recently followed by someone who is lost, though the sensation gives neither their identity nor a reliable direction.
Custom Road-Turn. In fog, at crossroads, or near a threshold between destinations, Velta sometimes senses an inexplicable pull toward a place she has no reason to seek.
Folklore interpreter. Velta compares stories, symbols, and testimony, but treats resemblance as a question to investigate rather than proof.
Level 0. Velta is not a trained combatant and has no spellcasting.

Actions

Walking-Stick Jab. Melee Weapon Attack: to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 () bludgeoning damage. Velta uses this only to make space to flee.
Field Sketch. Velta makes a quick charcoal sketch of a creature, landmark, or symbol she can see. The drawing is useful as a record, but is not magically accurate and takes several minutes to finish.

Reactions

Trace of the Lost. Once per encounter, when someone within 30 feet is known to be lost or is desperately searching for a route, Velta may feel a brief, uncertain tug toward their recent path. This custom feature reveals neither their location nor a safe way to reach them and may point only to the trail they followed.

Services they sell

Makes field sketches of landmarks, people, and symbols.
Records interviews and separates direct observation from interpretation.
Compares local accounts with folklore she remembers, while clearly labeling the comparison as tentative.
Helps document routes and significant changes in the fellowship's surroundings.

Rewards they can give

A careful sketch or map of a place the party has visited.
A written record of a witness's account, clearly separating observations from interpretation.
A warning that a route or symbol resembles a known story, without claiming the story is literally true.

Equipment

  • Clothbound sketchbook (tool)Filled with field sketches, interview fragments, uncertain symbols, and maps marked with alternate routes.
  • Folding ruler (tool)A folding brass-and-wood ruler, worn smooth at its hinge from nervous handling.
  • Drawing kit (tool)Charcoal sticks, graphite pencils, a small tin of diluted ink, and paper scraps.
  • Walking stick (weapon)A plain walking stick, useful on rough ground and awkwardly serviceable as a weapon.
  • Travel clothes (clothing)A practical, layered outfit with repaired seams and weathered boots.

Possessions

Clothbound sketchbook
Folding brass-and-wood ruler
Charcoal, pencils, and a small ink tin
Walking stick
A folded scrap bearing an unfamiliar place-name
A bundle of repaired travel clothes

Background

Before waking in Latvia, Velta remembers being a freelance illustrator who filled notebooks with myth, folklore, and the margins of library books. She remembers researching stories, but cannot establish which memories belong to the life she now inhabits and which have been shaped by it. She woke in the body of a young local woman with Latvian features, language, and accent, carrying unfamiliar clothes and a mind full of remembered reading. The displaced survival fellowship called The Seven Marks took her in when she could not explain herself and had no safe place to sleep. Velta began drawing the fellowship's reports: strange tracks, altered dreams, odd encounters, and the symbols people noticed after their arrival. That work made her valuable, but also put her at odds with members who want a clear explanation. A formative night came when she followed a road-pull into fog and found a lost fellow member before the rest of the group did. She still cannot tell whether her heritage led her to them or whether ordinary clues did. Now she is trying to keep the fellowship's record honest while its members grow more frightened and more eager to turn resemblance into certainty.

Role in the story

A living record-keeper and cautious folklore interpreter among The Seven Marks. Velta can connect details the party might overlook, while her uncertainty keeps the group from mistaking familiar stories for guaranteed answers.

“She remembers researching stories, but cannot establish which memories belong to the life she now inhabits and which have been shaped by it.”
From their background
Faction
The Seven Marks, a displaced survival fellowship. Velta is a contributor and chronicler, not its leader.

Known connections

The Seven Marks is the displaced survival fellowship that gave Velta shelter and now depends on her records.
A fellow survivor, Orua, trusts Velta's drawings but wants her to identify which old stories explain their situation.
Velta keeps an unfinished portrait of a woman whose face she recognizes from a memory she cannot place; she has not shown it to anyone.
An older local guide, Tamo, corrects her practical mistakes without demanding that she explain where she came from.
Major secret · GM only
Minor secrets · GM only

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