This dwarf appears troubled, her eyebrows slightly lowered as if they were a burden too heavy to bear.

You have no doubt about her: she is a warrior. Beyond her appearance, which even among dwarves screams her attraction to the affairs of war, it is her axe, straight from the dwarf forges, that confirms her profession.

What is more unsettling are the words she speaks. Although she seems to share your language, the names of the gods and kingdoms she knows seem completely unfamiliar to you.

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Somewhere, a bard had written in his life's work, ?The Seasons of Golarion,? on page 2126:

"The crusades had ended in numerous failures, and Vibyrn Arkenstorm, baroness of the domain, was enraged to see her armies return in tatters.

She punished her officers who returned with half their men, and condemned to death those who had counted the most survivors.

She waited steadfastly for her daughter, who had not yet returned from the eastern lands. And when she did return... it was with an army larger than when she left, for Bryn Arkenstorm had no intention of letting her mother continue her reign of terror.

Bryn laid siege to Kastelrock for two weeks before her mother was forced to launch an assault outside the walls, for she had no intention of laying down her arms.

The battle lasted two days and two nights. It was in the early morning that Vibryn, sensing her daughter's army gaining the upper hand, used the evil power contained in a scepter she had kept with her. A powerful flash blinded yours truly, and when I regained my sight, I saw carnage. Hundreds of men and women lay dead, surrounding an epicenter of scorched earth where nothing remained. No men, no vegetation, no steel, no evil baroness, no Bryn."