Campaign:Essence Inversion/NPCs

Sagacious Hermit Opossum

Mara's mentor is an elderly Lunar who Exalted late in his life only a few years after the end of the Usurpation. He remembers the terror and wars and destruction that led to the Shogunate, and the horror and atrocity and chaos that led to the founding of the Scarlet Dynasty. Consequently, he quickly grew irritated and disgusted by humans and retreated into the forests that would one day become Halta. He stayed there for decades, emerging only rarely to impart some wisdom he'd meditated on.

Sagacious Hermit Opossum is cantankerous, violent, crabby, irritable, and all around unpleasant to talk to, except when talking to Mara, who he loves as something like a daughter. He permits her to get away with things that no other person, live or dead, has been able to do without a beating following. To everyone else, especially Linowan and Fair Folk, he's almost outright violent, rather than merely surly.

He's small, wizened, and has white hair sticking out in all directions. When he's dressed at all, it's in a heavy burlap sarape.