Helga

Helga
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Details
Race	Frogfolk
Birthplace	Near Three Tree City, Bloomburrow

Helga is a frogfolk from Bloomburrow, and a member of Mabel’s party.

Description

Helga is a smallish frogfolk with pale green skin tinged with gray, amber eyes with dark pupils, and a perpetual nervous smile. She has trouble focusing on things that don't interest her, implying that she may have ADHD. Helga occasionally experiences visions, which others dismiss as an overactive imagination.

Helga is a minor weaver, with knowledge of some cantrips from her time learning under King Glarb. She carries an etched copper orb from her grandmother and a wand from her grandfather to enhance her magic. She wears her grandfather's wide-brimmed hat.

Helga is an artist. Her journal, which she often brings with her, includes abstract art, depictions of what she has seen, and depictions of her visions, which sometimes include Calamity Beasts. One of her drawings depicts the Sun Hawk.

History

Helga was born in a pond near Three Tree City. When the pond dried up one summer, her family moved to the Willow. Her father's parents found the city too crowded and chose to move to Pondside. She followed them and was raised by her grandparents in the village, where she inherited their home after their passing.

Helga briefly studied magic in Fountainport under King Glarb, but it ended poorly due to her absentmindedness. Nonetheless, she still knows some cantrips.

Helga escaped Pondside when it was attacked by Maha around 4564 AR. She traveled up Pond Creek and made it to Goodhill, where she warned Mabel and the assembled townsfolk about the coming of the Calamity Beasts.

When Mabel ventured to Pondside to investigate, Helga volunteered to accompany her because she wanted to see what happened to her homeland. Finneas, Gev, Hugs, and Zoraline also joined the party.

When they arrived at Pondside, Helga was dismayed to find that it was utterly destroyed. Hugs, Mabel, and Zoraline said that the survivors probably headed south to Haymeadow.

When the party encountered two squirrelfolk necromancers, Helga used one of her cantrips to make a staircase of water droplets so that Mabel could attack skeletal birdfolk. She lost her concentration, ending the spell, but luckily Mabel was agile skilled enough not to get hurt.

When Mabel’s party came to Three Tree City in pursuit of the squirrelfolk, Helga encountered Ral Zarek, who was turned into an otterfolk by the plane’s magic. Ral was asking if anyone had seen Jace Beleren, who he presumed was on Bloomburrow in the shape of a fox. Helga revealed that she recognized his description from one of her visions, and that Jace was with a lizardfolk with green and black scales, along with a small unidentified creature. Ral believed her, and in Helga’s mind he was the first to do so other than Mabel.

Gallery

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  Mabel and her Companions facing Maha

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Bloomburrow Episode 1: Calamity Comes to Valley	Valerie Valdes	2024-07-01	Bloomburrow	Bloomburrow, Ravnica, Kamigawa, Thunder Junction	Helga, Nerys, Maha, Mabel, Rosalyn, Foggy, Pip, Clem, Oliver, Ral Zarek, Tomik Vrona, The Wanderer
Bloomburrow Episode 2: An Expected Party	Valerie Valdes	2024-07-02	Bloomburrow	Bloomburrow	Helga, Mabel, Clem, Oliver, Iris, Finneas, Gev, Hugs, Zoraline, Rosalyn, Foggy, Pip
Bloomburrow Episode 3: The Lost and the Found	Valerie Valdes	2024-07-03	Bloomburrow	Bloomburrow	Helga, Mabel, Zoraline, Finneas, Hugs, Gev, Kiki, Cruelclaw, Hood, Robe, Ral Zarek
Bloomburrow Episode 4: Soothsaying and Stormcalling	Valerie Valdes	2024-07-05	Bloomburrow	Bloomburrow	Helga, Mabel, Zoraline, Finneas, Hugs, Gev, Ral Zarek, Coffey, Tucker