Aupti, druid backstory
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Intended circle: Arctic
Aupti (Inuit, "Snow on the Ground", pronouncing it Ahh-p-ti) grew up in a small nameless hamlet southwest of Coldwater. His parents, both alive but wrinkled by age and work, supported the family through hunting, foraging, and trading labor-for-food with the wealthier peasants who farm during the warm seasons.

He was born in the dead of winter, and spent much of his childhood accompanying his parents and siblings in the woods. He wasn't taught magic as such as a child, but there are traditional chants, rules, and rites that are followed... and for him, they worked better, sometimes always.

A traveling priest of the Celestial Court making his circuit through the region saw evidence of this when Aupti was 13. He was quickly scooped up and apprenticed to a druid in the area, an old genasi woman named Yupik who lives along the river near Coldwater. She's taught him the traditions of druidic magic, as well as many useful spells, and managed to get him halfway to literacy. Three years ago, Yupik started preparing him to use his talent with animals, plants, earth, and water in combat. All near Coldwater contribute to the defense, whether interested in fighting or not.

For Aupti, it should be interesting, and he spent a few days getting a crash course in the strange rules and manners of the city-folk. It'll be the farthest he's traveled from home. He's fought before, but only against predatory beasts and one incident with some bandits when he was 15.

Aside from particpating in the defense, he expects to complete his training, and then return to his home village and use his talents in that area to help those who need it, perhaps becoming the hamlet's "priest" equivalent, and get married at some point and raise children much as he was raised.

The only problem is that if the rest of the party's in Coldwater, he won't have much to do with them - unless his plans get changed by the expansion of his world from a few villages and trade fairs to a big city.