Appearance
Dagna is short and stocky, with a weathered, stone-like face etched with deep wrinkles. Her once red hair is now a stark white, always kept in long, tightly braided strands that reach her waist. Her eyes are a piercing, unsettling gray, with an intensity that unnerves those who meet her gaze. She dresses in dark, tattered robes adorned with grim symbols of death, including a necklace made from tiny carved skulls. Dagna’s hands are heavily calloused, and her voice is rough, like gravel scraping stone.
Personality
Dagna is fanatical, devout in her worship of death, and convinced that the end of days is upon the world. She is grim, serious, and speaks with an almost prophetic authority. She has little patience for the frivolous concerns of daily life, as she believes they are meaningless in the face of the inevitable apocalypse. Her demeanor is intense and unnerving, and she has a tendency to dominate conversations with sermons about death and doom. Despite her unsettling nature, Dagna is surprisingly compassionate towards those who are suffering, believing that death will eventually bring them peace.
Backstory
Dagna hails from an ancient dwarven clan that lived deep within the mountains, where she spent her early years as a simple stoneworker. Her life changed when she experienced what she believes to have been a divine vision of the end times—an apocalyptic event where death consumes the world and the souls of the living are judged. She renounced her old life and devoted herself to worshiping death, becoming a cleric of Death.
Ever since her vision, Dagna has traveled from town to town, preaching the coming end of days and offering her services to those near death. Though most dismiss her as a madwoman, she has gained a small following of those who believe in her prophecies. She sees herself as a herald of the apocalypse, preparing the world for the final reckoning. Dagna believes that death is the ultimate equalizer and that in the end, all things—rich or poor, mighty or weak—will fall before it.
Quirks
- Always carries a scythe, not for combat, but as a symbol of death’s harvest.
- Frequently speaks in cryptic prophecies, often referring to specific omens she believes signal the end times ("The raven's flight at dusk... it has begun.").
- Leaves a single black feather behind at every place she visits, calling it a “marker” for when death comes to claim the souls there.
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