Nora Gebhart
An old woman who remembers the land as it was—and insists it remembers her in return.
What People Know
Nora Gebhart is Leda’s grandmother and the mother of Bastian Gebhart. To the town, she is a sharp-eyed elder with soil under her nails and little patience for nonsense. To those who know her better, she is something rarer: a woman who understands the land not as property, but as kin.
Long before Leda learned words like druid or magic, Nora was the one who taught her how to listen.
Reputation
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Respected as stubborn, wise, and quietly formidable
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Known for speaking plainly—even to authority
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Regarded as “old-fashioned,” which suits her just fine
People do not argue with Nora for long. She outlasts them.
Teacher of the Land
Nora taught Leda the rhythms of the natural world:
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How soil feels before rain
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When a forest is angry
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Why certain places should be left alone
She never framed these lessons as power—only responsibility.
Personality
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Dry humor, sharp memory
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Gentle with children, unyielding with fools
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Distrustful of rapid change and easy answers
Nora listens more than she speaks, and speaks only when it matters.
Relationship with Leda
Nora recognizes Leda’s wildness not as rebellion, but inheritance. She encouraged curiosity without fear, grounding Leda’s love of nature in respect rather than indulgence.
Where others tried to shape Leda, Nora gave her roots.
Rumors
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Nora knows places that don’t appear on maps
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She remembers events no one else admits happened
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The land behaves differently when she walks it
Player Notes
Nora Gebhart does not see the world as broken—
she sees it as wounded.
She taught Leda that healing begins by listening,
and that some scars are warnings, not flaws.
If Nora ever says “the land is afraid,”
it’s already too late to pretend nothing is wrong.