Windemere Crossing gets a healer

After our characters come back from their bone barrow adventure, wounded and tired, they asked about a town healer, or a temple where there may be clerics for healing. Windemere Crossing, as previously mentioned, does not have a temple despite Deputy Newtonson's entreaties to the town leaders. It is a pretty small town based out of an old military outpost, so there is really not the room for that. Though there is a "here is a generic room you may use" at the Nimble Priest's that is often used. The Fair Lady is pretty generous about other gods so having a place set aside is fine.

However, a growing town does need a healer, and one of the recent new people will be that healer. Rolling a die I get an odd number so a male healer. Looking over my pantheon, none of those gods or goddesses really fit. Rolling even I get a goddess (and most healing gods tend to be goddesses, but we'll not delve into the patriarchal and matriarchal western world views here though it could be an interesting discussion until politics inevitably get mixed up in it. I do miss my classes when I was working on a liberal arts degree: fun discussions without people getting stupid. And I DO seem to be getting grumpier lately!). Off to the fantasy name generator for female goddesses and we have Ynja, the Goddess of Healing.

And how would we even pronounce her name? Yin-ja? In-ya? Think I like the in-ya version. And deciding to see what an AI depiction of a fantasy goddess of healing looks like, 2 of the 4 had three arms. 4 I could have dealt with, but 3? The other two I'll post here and decide later which one is most like her.

As for our cleric, Supti Psammenitus has wandered the desert for years, learning from various desert tribes all aspects of healing. He lived for a short time in the Elemental City of Athukthad north of the Kalor Desert where he studied at the Temple Ynja. This temple is both a hospital and a temple, for Ynja, while she can perform miraculous healing as can her clerics, prefers a more holistic approach and natural healing time. Clerics of Ynja focus on the healing spells specifically. 

As he settles into Windemere Crossing, Brother Supti is a 4th level cleric. As such, he does know 2 1st level spells and one 2nd level. His Book of Ynja has Cure Light Wounds and Purify Food and Water. His 2nd level spell is Hold Person: it comes in handy when resetting broken bones or other painful yet necessary steps. The book is not really necessary as he prays each morning for his spells.

OSE does not have skills for first aid or the like. And I think I mixed up The Fantasy Trip's much more brutal 1 point every 2 days vs OSE, where:

Natural: For each full day of complete rest, a character or monster recovers 1d3 hit points. If the rest is interrupted, the character or monster will not heal that day.

I'll not add in any first aid rules, but a medically trained cleric I may do a 1d3 +1 for healing if you are in the temple. After all, you are being cared for with fresh bandaging and purified food and water. And it turns out that I have an entirely undeveloped apothecary in Windermere Crossing. The buildings and such came from Spectacular Settlements, way too long ago for me to remember all of them. But it is apparently of good quality. And as the old sawbones Old John was getting up in years, Brother Supti has been welcome to the town and is proving to be a better healer than old John and his leeches. One of the rooms is being converted to a shrine to Ynja. 

Brother Supti

STR 10 INT 13 WIS 15 DEX 8 CON 10 CHA 8

Divine Spells: Cure Light Wounds, Purify Food and Water, Hold Person

Level 4 Cleric of Ynja the Healing Goddess.

A very quiet man, tall and slender, he tends to say small prayers to Ynja when working in the more mundane aspects of healing. He also hums when nervous. His slender hands are deft when it comes to healing and wrapping, yet he is clumsy otherwise, and continually bumps his head against the smaller door to the back storeroom in the apothecary. While he cannot make healing potions himself, he will buy them from Sharn or the old witch Bellatrix Grimsbane who lives out in the woods far south of Windemere Crossing.

Brother Supti still has chain mail from his years on the road, for not all roads are safe even for a cleric. He carries a large mace as well as a staff. Both have Ynja's butterfly symbol carved into the handles. He has been known to accompany adventurers as well as the occasional caravan to act as a healer. Half of his pay goes to the temple of Yjna in the Elemental City. Every few months a caravan takes the Path of Lost hope connecting the northern Kalor Desert to the south, and he sends gold that way by trusted courier. He is also setting aside coins to create or buy a stronghold dedicated to his goddess. It will be many years before that can happen if he just stays in town to heal those who show up. He is often ready to go on adventures to accumulate enough gold and favors to get his own stronghold.

Two of the images created. Think I'll need to do a post for Ynja soon!