Oshenda III Barantha, Hierophant of Tvor
Ruler of the Hierophancy of Tvor in the Kingdom of Dvin, part of the High Kingdom of Nymera.
Hierophant Oshenda is famoulsy allied with two other powerful Nymeran rulers. Nearby to the east is enigmatic Witch Queen of Astrin, the half elven, half ogre sorcerer Orono IV Mashenda. Farther south is Rosharian Algreyn, feyborn herbalist and Matriarch of Callan in the Nymeran kingdom of Baerwen.
- The Hierophant is elected by a Conclave of archdruids and serves til death or abdication.
- While the Hierophant does not legally need to be an archdruid, they invariably are.
- A Hierophant may be removed by unanimous decree of the Conclave.
- The current Hierophant of Tvor is the 144-year-old Hierophant Oshenda III.
- She looks about 67 in human years.
- She is a 5’7” white sabre-toothe tiger tabaxi. Her large white wings have streaks of black accenting them.
- Her mother was a druidic aristocrat from an old Escatonan family of winged tabaxi. Oshenda's father was a smilodon tabaxi druid from the plains of K'Shanah-Ch'rth.
- She has been Hierophant for 84 years and is widely regarded as one of the wisest people in the world. Her advice and diplomatic skills are sought after by kings and religious leaders from all over.
- Her fame has created a small tourist industry in the out-of-the-way Hierophancy, as well as interest in the wider kingdom of Dvin.
- She is both the youngest elected and longest serving Hierophant in Tvorish history.
- She is known to be close to both the Witch-Queen of Astrin (In the Nymeran kingdom of Baijan ) and the Matriarch of Callan (in the Nymeran kingdom of Baerwen).
