Florozt'a

Florozt'a, who more commonly went by Rozt'a, was a traveling guardswoman that offered her services throughout the Western Heartlands during the mid–14 century DR.

Description
She was a tall and broad-shouldered woman, with unruly blonde hair that was kept short, cut just above her ears.

Personality
"I worry more about incompetence than skill."

- One of Rozt'a's favored sayings.

She was a simple, down-to-earth woman with a strong sense for people. While she recognized the usefulness of magic for people in her walk of life, she did not concern herself much with such complexities. Interestingly enough, Rozt'a was familiar with and regularly exclaimed to the overdeity Ao, the being whose presence was only briefly revealed to the Realms during the Time of Troubles.

While she had strong maternal instincts and was naturally protective of others, Rozt'a had a bad temper and was not shy about openly sharing her thoughts on any given subject. The only real exception to her blunt honesty arose when it regarded her foster son Tiep. While she usually had no problem expressing her anger, Rozt'a would avoid conflict when she experienced true emotionally pain. In the instances she felt truly betrayed, she would rather shun the person than confront them directly about the matter.

Abilities
In addition to her fighting prowess, Rozt'a knew a number of home remedies that helped ease the rigors of life on the road. She would seep Wyndor's herbs for her companions when needed, making a tea that would nearly immobilize a person, but also help them heal from injury.

Possessions
Rozt'z preferred to wear leather armor during her travels and armed herself with her trusted sword. She did also keep a number of knives strapped to her person as well. <

Activities
The stalwart warrior served as her family's protector during journeys across the Heartlands.

Relationships
Rozt'a became infatuated with her traveling companion Druhallen shortly after their meeting, while she simultaneously gained the affections of his foster brother and dearest friend Galimer. While she and Dru enjoyed a relationship for a year or two, along with a year-long engagement that was more-or-less endured, the mage did not love Rozt'a as she did him. Despite this messy history and hard years together on the road, Rozt'a still very much loved her husband Galimer.

While traveling with her family earning a living in the Western Heartlands, Rozt'a very much played the role of mother to the young lad Tiep. She absolutely adored the boy, and as many mothers, made excuses for him when he made mistakes; and, while Tiep struggled to treat her as a mother due to the years he spent as an orphan, in his heart Tiep felt that she was the closest thing he had to a mother.

History
Some time around, Rozt'a began working as a personal bodyguard for a captain of the Zhentilar in Triel, but was forced to defend herself after he made advances on her one too many times. With no possessions beyond her sword and the clothes she was wearing, Rozt'a left the city east along the Dusk Road where she offered her services to two traveling wizards, Druhallen and Galimer.

Rozt'a and Dru stayed together for a few years, until she was blessed with an unexpected pregnancy in the. While staying in some town on their journey home to Scornubel via Berdusk, Rozt'a shared the wonderful news with Druhallen and he reacted poorly. Their argument drew the attention of the local town guard and Druhallen left his two companions and did not return until the following spring a couple months later. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, Rozt'a found consolation with Galimer and he offered her the proposal he wished he could have years earlier. While the two were wed, Rozta's unborn daughter did not make it to childbirth. Rozt'a nearly died herself, but was kept alive by the Berduskan clergy of Chauntea at the city's local temple.

Galimer had lined up work for the pair throughout the rest of Spring and Summer, but with Rozt'a recovering in town and his limited skill with the arcane arts, the couple was in dire need of help. While Druhallen offered to help the young couple earn enough money to start their family in earnest some months later, Galimer informed him the Chauntean priests said that was not possible due to what Rozt'a's body had previously endured. With no other prospects or plans for the future, the trio would set out on the road once again.

Before they left Berdusk however, they met a young urchin boy named Tiep. Seeing as he had no family and not nearly enough food to eat, Rozt'a's maternal instincts led her and Galimer to adopt the lad as their own son.

After years of traveling across the Western Heartlands, in the, Rozt'a and her unconventional family decided they would finally make the trip to Dekanter they had talked about for so many years, so Dru and Galimer could begin to uncover some of the mystery that surrounded the death of their mother. Unfortunately for them, the road through Dekanter had been changed just the year before and their journey was halted before it even began. They were pulled in another direction by a goblin named Sheemzher, a particularly intelligent and well-mannered creature that beckoned their group to Weathercote Wood to meet his mistress, Lady Wyndyfarh.

During the journey through the woods, Tiep broke away from his parents, stole bits of amber from the trees along a path to the Lady's glade, and carelessly killed some of her awakened insect servants. When they appeared at an audience before the mysterious and powerful Lady Wyndyfarh, she accused Tiep of the crimes he had just recently committed, and Galimer challenged her authority on the matter. In the blink of an eye, Wyndyfarh teleported Galimer away, and presented Rozt'a and Dru with an offer: travel to the old mines of Dekanter and recover one of the lost Nether Scrolls, and Galimer would be returned unharmed.

The group braved the perils of the Greypeak Mountains together, traveling across fetid bogs and along treacherous mountainside paths before reaching the entrance to the Dekanter mines. The first couple days of the journey were taxing on the group, causing growing tensions between Rozt'a and Druhallen.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Nether Scroll