Amdia Zotudi

Amdia Zotudi was a human monk that was among the first to explore the frontiers of Eskarya.

Background
Amdia was the oldest child two, with a younger brother, Kumo, who never quite managed to do stay on the straight and narrow, moving from one grand scheme to the next. Unfortunately, her brother made a deal with the wrong person; owing too much gold he didn't have, he fled back home, only to be followed.

When the village refused to hand over Kumo to the tyrant Diero, Diero took the village's riches as partial payment for Kumo's debt, and decreed that the entire village should work to pay off the gold owed. The villagers wanted to revolt, but Diero's forces were stronger, outmatching the simple villagers. Weapons were banned, and curfews applied. Diero squeezed the village firmly.

Every day was torture. Amdia saw a once proud people suffer indignities, all because they would not give one of their own over to this tyrant. She could not watch her village plundered until there was nothing left. Under the cover of darkness, she bolstered the villagers' courage, and under the guise of farming, convinced them that their every day farming tools could, in fact, become weapons to wield.

Eventually, the villagers drove out Diero and his thugs.

Amdia's brother Kumo was still up to his old ways, and fell into debt once more. She agreed to help him, and set out on an expedition to a new world to seek out ways to pay off her brother's debts.