Jarnsaixa Vargrdoittr
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Steward Jarnsaixa Vargrdoittr (pronounced Yourn-sayk-suh) has served the Sun Throne for many years, including on the Demonwall. She also trained with the Nalfein, studying poisons among other things. She is the first female Imperial Blade in history.
In Lormesta 5123, she was Lady Sayilla Javilerre's bodyguard during their overland trip between River's Rest in Torre to Brisker's Cove in Seareach. She continued to accompany Sayilla as they sailed north to Wehnimer's Landing, and then traveled by land south again back to Vornavis. She took her role as bodyguard seriously, intervening when those hostile to the Empire or the traveling party were present and inspecting anything that others wanted to give to Sayilla beforehand.
Following the death of Lady Kasendra Malwind in Fashanos 5123, Jarnsaixa accompanied Sayilla aboard Captain Kimrella de'Naut's ship Starseeker as they embarked at night from Vornavis to Tamzyrr. While en route, Niatha, posing as the aged healer Grenhal, attacked both Sayillla and Jarnsaixa as they were in the captain's quarters. Sayilla was thrown overboard, but Jarnsaixa managed to stab Niatha before she vanished. As adventurers on deck sought to illuminate the area to find Sayilla, a pirate ship attacked and was eventually repelled, but neither Sayilla nor her attacker were found and both were presumed dead. One of the pirates was captured and brought back to Vornavis for questioning, while Jarnsaixa boarded another ship to continue the search for Sayilla through the night. The next morning, as she sought to turn herself over for failure to uphold her duty to protect Sayilla, she finally realized that her injury also carried a poison.
Since then, her wound has festered, though Magister Odelgarde Brindlestraffe has sought to find a remedy for it, occaisionally updating adventurers on her status. When one showed Mistress Leisette a sample taken from Jarnsaixa, Leisette remarked that the sample seemed very familiar to her. It had also appeared in festering wounds that had covered a man fished out of the ocean along the Imperial coast a bit over a month earlier, coinciding approximately with the attack on Sayilla. While Jarnsaixa's health was reported to be slowly improving, Lady Athalia Malwind shared news that Emperor Aurmont intended to have Jarnsaixa remain in Vornavis under care of an individual designated by the Throne until the matter of Kasendra's death is resolved, and only then would she be turned over to the Sapphire Guard of Ta'Illistim to answer for Sayilla's death.
Several months later, in late summer 5123, Jarnsaixa shared that she was now once again fit to be called Steward, which coincided with the appearance of a mysterious "friend" by her side. In addition, through extended research and help from Odelgarde, librarian Tasytha, and adventurers, her wound from Niatha was starting to recover.
Appearance
You see Jarnsaixa Vargrdoittr the Bodyguard to the Sunthrone of the Turamzzyrian Empire. She appears to be a Giantman of the Grishknel Clan. She is tall and has lean, well-muscled form. She appears to be mature. She has round, slightly hooded and green-tinted hazel eyes and bronze skin. She has waist-length, smooth sun-lightened, chocolate brown hair twisted into a multitude of warbraids, alternating thin and thick as they hug her skull and sporadically banded with gold-wired coils. She has a muscled face, a broken nose and a stern countenance. She is in good shape. She is wearing a decorative gold aventail incised with symbols of rank and office, a knotwork bronze brooch, a gold-banded leather back sheath, a crimson-panel boiled leather bodice over a heavy imperial tartan arisaid with a thick woolen chemise sporting crimson ribbon-gathered sleeves underneath, a dark red suede belt, a sun-embossed dark suede pouch, a faenor-capped brown leather sheath, and a pair of tassetted knee-knigh socks under some sturdy calf-high boots tightly laced in rawhide.