Editing Brahnamin's Characters: Mama (section)

==Backstory==
''Nguyen is a woman of middle age, but she goes about in the guise of a frail old lady more often than any other face she might wear. Hailing from Acalon, the 'palm' of the Sheltered Hand, she spent much of her formative years as a journeywoman of the Merchant's Guild, a member in good standing, and a mistress of languages.''

''At least, that was her life until her caravan camped beneath the Eldar Tree on the plains of An'la on a trade mission to the Anlat. She learned later from the nomads of the plains that no such tree was known in their land, but that day it had been real; and that night only she, of the entire caravan, had seen the tree limned in silver under a moonless sky. Its branches reached and grasped like tentacles, and a thousand eyes blinked along the trunk and another thousand on every twig and branch.''

''Its unspeakable name was seared into the front of her brain like the unseen glyph in a golem's brow that bound it to service and could undo it if marred or removed.''

''Nguyen served.''

''Some days as Lady Nguyen. Some - few - in her natural form of Journeyman Nguyen. Some days she played the faceless urchin child. Some days a bearded artisan or guard. Some days she was an exotic Sindanre or a stout and taciturn Tarat or a grizzled Yryc.''

''But most days she wore the weathered ancient face of Mama Nguyen, wandering elder and so called wise woman of the Sheltered Hand.''

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