Appearance

Physical quirks

Prays 5 times/day, but each prayer can be done during a 2-5 hour window, and takes approx. 2 minutes, except for the evening prayer, which takes 52 minutes

Apparel & Accessories

Multicoloured headscarf
Grandmother's medical book
Small holy document with prayers
Carpet for daily prayers

Mentality

Personal history

Raised middle class, Shaushka’s hero is her grandmother, a well known healer who traveled extensively and was the first female author to document female issues such as infertility, menstruation, breast cancer, pregnancy issues, gynecological health and mental health and described procedures and medications to deal with them.
Born in the Near East, in the City of Kussara to Manahunna and Hatiar Pamba, her hometown, Kussara, is near the sea and is known as an ancient city.
Shaushka, like her mother Manahunna and her grandmother before her, Harapsiti, is a healer and mid-wife.
 
Through the years
8 yo - began training with her mother, cleaning tools, bringing water and bathing patients (candy striper duties). Mother also began teaching her Dwarvish and Elven so that she could communicate with patients from several area communities.
10 yo - began hands-on assisting with surgeries and deliveries under watch of mother, and began learning how to mix healing tinctures and medicines
12 yo - delivered first child on her own and performed first surgery (broken bone setting) under careful watch of mother
13 yo - first tooth extraction independently, first invasive surgery involving bloodletting and cauterization, travelled with mother to Dwarven community afflicted with infection and helped administer medicine and do diagnostics, began acting as an apprentice rather than a student to her mother's practice
15 yo - left home and spent 6 months training with local herbalist to mix apothecary cures and identify healing plants, learned about divine method of curing injuries
16 yo - mother declared her basic medical training complete, sent her off on a caravan to practice medicine on her own and establish her own practice. Began studying under priest of Ilmater at Church of Divine Rose (close to game start point) and began studying prayers and divine methods of curing injuries and strengthening peoples constitution to make them less susceptible to ailments.
17 yo - after 18 months of intense study, her priest master sent her out to practice what she has learned and return to complete her training at a later point when she has learned to commune with Ilmater and healed at least a dozen sick on the edge of death to fill health.

Morality & Philosophy

She begins or ends her day with small traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around her.
She has a strong code of honor that others don’t always comprehend.
She feels tremendous empathy for all who suffer.
Logic. Emotions must not cloud our sense of what is right and true, or logical thinking.

Known Languages

Common, Dwarvish, Elvish

Personality

Motivation

I hold no greater cause than my service to my people.
I’m still seeking the enlightenment I pursued in my seclusion, and it still eludes me.

Vices & Personality flaws

Her eternal search in life, enlightenment, is hindered by her endulgences of worldly delights.

Social

Birthplace

City of Kussara

Current Residence

The Hamlet

Contacts & Relations

Parents: Manahunna and Hatiar Pamba

Religious Views

Worshiper of Ilmater
Believes undead are abominations of life, and will destroy and bury/incinerate them
Believes that healers are the guardians of souls and bodies. Dead must be prayed for.