Sovanna Lightpath

Firekeeper Sovanna Lightpath (LN female dwarf grandmaster) is one of the most respected Keepers of the Skyflame. Staunchly conservative in her adherence to dwarven traditions, Sovanna preserves ancient Donguni martial arts developed during the Geb-Nex wars through practicing and teaching them to fellow Keepers. A famous denouncer of firearms, Sovanna’s martial perfection allows her to pluck gunshots from the air, strike with explosive force that eclipses cannon fire, and carve tunnels in stone with her earth-shattering kicks. The Keepers praise Sovanna’s techniques as an example of how true dwarven power can emerge without the devilry and weakening influence of black powder. Sovanna’s other techniques, honed to fight the Geb-Nex wars’ eldritch horrors and undying corpses, are also valuable to contemporary Donguni as similar menaces in the Mana Wastes surface anew. Over the past generation, with tensions between Geb and Nex flaring and monstrous foes becoming more common, Sovanna faces aspirant after aspirant seeking training in her traditional arts. By all accounts, Sovanna should be pleased with this resurgence in popularity for her techniques, but the modest grandmaster is instead vexed by how the Keepers portray her as an invincible warrior-saint and her beloved arts as unbeatable techniques. A sense of self-doubt also gnaws at her, for despite her art’s resurging popularity, few of her new students last through the austerities of her training, and fewer still attain any meaningful progress to martial mastery. However, the old dwarf assiduously teaches on, for such is her craft and purpose.