Name: Gibbet (real name unknown)
Age: Unknown for sure. Looks 17 before crossing over
Occupation: Wanderer, Scholar of Entropy
Description: Slight of build, just shy of 5 feet in height. Remarkably ‘intact’ for one of the Forsaken. Features of note are the stark white hair, a pronounced scar on her neck, and small horns growing from her forehead (side effect of her chosen profession). She seldom speaks but when she does it’s in a soft rasp that looks painful.
Back Story: Gibbet does not know or remember her birth name, or much of what happened before her transition. She occasionally gets bits and pieces – more like feelings – of a past life. It wasn’t pleasant.
Feelings of being hunted and chased, perhaps because of the natural affinity that drew her to her calling. She had hoped hiding in the plague lands would save her. She did not understand that cruelty and tenacity are often close bedfellows.
Capture, and angry shouts calling for her death, often greet her in dreams.
The hanging, however, that she remembered vividly.
Either they were inept, or especially cruel, but they botched it leaving her slowly strangulate without the mercy of a broken neck.
One small bit of satisfaction was being able to see the mob become infected by the plague that still lingered outside of Stratholme as she rasped her final breaths.
She was found by a forsaken patrol still hanging near the Plaguewood. They cut her down thinking they could use the fresh parts but found that she had crossed over into undeath as she started thrashing in the cart.
They tried to talk to her but she was in a perpetual state of shock, clutching at the phantom rope she thought was still around her neck.
Not unusual for the newly awakened; especially under her particular circumstances.
They took her to the Undercity to be examined by the Plague Doctors and perhaps entered into the roles of the Forsaken.
They found her largely listless, often staring at her reflection when the opportunity presented itself touching her hair and rasping (due to damage from the rope) how it had changed.
Since she had no memory of her name or past life they needed a name to enter into the official roles so the clerk chose “Gibbet”, apologizing for the “gallows humor” with a dry chuckle.
She was then taken to Deathknell where she began her journey.
Currently she wanders studying the exquisite mysteries of entropy and decay, drifting here and there. The Shadow Lands have provided an excellent way to study entropy and death.
Personality: Despite her circumstances and chosen path she can be quite outgoing but it takes time as she has a deep initial distrust of strangers. She take’s an engineers delight in the mechanics of entropy and their study.