Rosheen Meanderer
| Rosheen Meanderer | |
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| Species | Giant |
| Job | Shaman |
| Birth, Life & Death | |
| Birthplace | Lorwyn-Shadowmoor |
| Lifetime | Rift Era-Mending Era, c. 4520 AR |
| Born | Before Colfenor |
| Family | |
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Brion Stoutarm (brother) Kiel (brother) Bre (niece) |
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| Morningtide, Shadowmoor | |
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Rosheen Meanderer was an ancient giant shaman from Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, renowned for her constant babbling and her accurate prophecies. She was one of the few individuals whose personality, memories, and appearance was left intact despite exposure to the Great Aurora.[1]
Description
Rosheen was the sister of Brion Stoutarm and Kiel, who collected new stories to feed her growing understanding of the plane and expand the scope of her prophecies.[2] She was as tall as Kiel and as wide as Brion, and had tangles of jet black hair that reached down to her ankles. So long were Rosheen’s frequent periods of sleep that the earth had begun to grow around her as she slept. Like an ancient ecosystem, her body had been partially claimed by blankets of moss and sod. Small colonies of squirrels and other wildlife scurried about her legs, dragonflies darted to and fro above her stomach, and birds had built a nest near the buckle of her belt.[3]
History
Rosheen was born many centuries ago during a Great Aurora, the celestial convergence that marked the plane’s transformation between its two halves every 300 years. This had profound Phenomenological ramifications on Rosheen, granting her deep knowledge of the plane’s vast histories and uncertain futures, all while leaving her unaffected by each Great Aurora’s otherwise sweeping changes. She began speaking with her very first breath, but no one understood her unintelligible babbling for many years. Rosheen herself was unaware of the truth behind the Great Aurora, merely looking forward to it as her own “special birthday” when things changed. Over time, the different peoples of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor alike began to revere Rosheen, becoming able to periodically discern the oracular truths from her unending, maddening rambles.[3]
The Dream
In 4520 AR, Brion and Kiel traveled across Lorwyn collecting new tales to bring Rosheen for her upcoming birthday. They enlisted the begrudging help of the Gilt-Leaf daen Rhys in their errand, entrusting him with a scroll of accumulated stories to deliver to Rosheen as they stayed behind at Kinsbaile for the annual Festival of Tales to gather more.[2]
Rhys continued his own journey, parting ways with the giants, but rejoined them weeks later and they traveled together to giant country as he sought Rosheen out to deliver the scroll and use her augury to make sense of the momentous, supposed change that was coming to Lorwyn. Rhys and his other travel companions, the mysterious elf Maralen and her two faerie servants of the Vendilion clique, eventually came upon Rosheen, who was in a deep sleep in anticipation of her “special birthday”. As she slept, changelings mindlessly danced and reveled on her, drawn there by the swirling eddies of arcane magic that Rosheen produced.[3]
Rhys and the others were unable to make sense of any of Rosheen’s mumbling, so Maralen devised a plan to pull them all into Rosheen’s sleep. The two Vendilion faeries cast a sleeping spell that covered the area in a heavy blue mist, and the unique coalescence of their magic, the changelings, and Rosheen’s presence transformed the shared dream into an abstracted, physical landscape.[3]
In the phantom dreamscape, the plane was represented in miniature. Landscapes of lush greenery, verdant plains, and sturdy mountains created a map on which a recital of recent events played out: a scornful hedge-woman arose and bequeathed her power to a successor who slowly grew in steadiness and confidence; a blister of oily yellow magic melted a forest into an acrid wasteland; and a red yew captured a flaming horse and was blown apart by its fire and force in an apparent act of self-renewal.[3]
Then the living map suddenly changed: meadows and forests gave way to murky bogs and haunted willows, wildflowers turned into thickets of bramble, and rivers became stale, muddy, and ferocious. The barriers of civility between the different races of Lorwyn degraded, and the world was plunged into darkness and despair. Gravely afraid that Rosheen’s prophecies dictated that the coming transformation was a natural and unstoppable event, Rhys ordered the dream to end. Shortly after, Brion was killed by Gilt-Leaf forces.[3]
Awakened
When Rosheen awoke, her prophecy had already come true: Lorwyn had become Shadowmoor through the influence of the Great Aurora. In her fugue, she searched for her escaped pet cloudgoat, Mr. Choppers, unaware of the destruction this caused for others. Her wayward pursuit led her on a collision course with the kithkin settlement Mistmeadow. Her scroll of stories from Lorwyn had newfound magic in Shadowmoor and was desired by both Oona and Maralen as they vied for control of the plane. In the end, Rosheen's path was rerouted by Mistmeadow Jack with some help from Marlen in exchange for helping her procure Rosheen's scroll.[4]
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References
- ↑ Ken Nagle (May 7, 2008). "I'M IN UR COLUMN, TASTING UR MAGIC". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29.
- ↑ a b Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough (2007), "Lorwyn", Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d e f Cory J. Herndon & Scott McGough (2008) - Morningtide, Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough (2008), "Shadowmoor", Wizards of the Coast.