Poppy Windle - Shrine-Keeper of Haltcross Hamlet
At Haltcross Hamlet's corner shrine, halfling caretaker Poppy Windle tends icons of Thraia, Verda, and a wayward tide-goddess alike -- treating every traveler's faith with exactly the same quiet respect.
Introduction
Tucked into a corner of Haltcross Hamlet's busiest market street sits a shrine unlike any single-faith chapel: icons of Thraia and Verda stand side by side with a driftwood carving of a merfolk tide-goddess, left behind by some long-gone trader who wanted her own gods remembered this far from the sea. Fresh flowers sit in front of all three, without favor. The halfling who keeps them that way has spent years making sure that whoever passes through Haltcross, whatever they pray to, finds a little space that treats their god as seriously as anyone else's.
Profile
Name: Poppy Windle
Race: Halfling
Gender: Female
Alignment: Neutral
Role/Class: Shrine-Keeper of Haltcross Hamlet's Corner Shrine
Challenge Rating: 1/4
"I couldn't tell you which god is the right one. I can tell you every one of them gets fresh flowers here, and that seems like a fair place to start."
Appearance: Poppy is a round-faced halfling woman with curly, graying hair usually tied back with whatever ribbon a grateful traveler last gave her. Her clothes are simple and sun-faded, with soil permanently worked into the creases of her hands from tending the shrine's little flower boxes. She wears a plain wooden pendant with no symbol carved into it at all — a deliberate choice she's happy to explain to anyone who asks. A small, ever-burning oil lantern hangs at her hip, matching the one she keeps lit at the shrine itself.
