- Healer
- Empathic and compassionate
- Ernalda
Ustarna Try-Much is the clan’s best healer. Her herb garden is a place of peace and sanctuary where the clan’s women sit and talk in the summer months. Her love for every one of the clan’s children makes her an opponent of conflict and a seeker of other ways. Nearly everyone in the clan owes her for treating some injury or illness.
Ustarna is a clever, compassionate young woman. The clan respects her for her skills as a healer. Ustarna finds good in everyone, even Jarstak Bristle-Beard. She warms to people and expresses genuine interest in them and their dreams and nightmares. This instinctive empathy means that she is a friend with almost everyone.
Ustarna has translated her empathy into concern for her kin. She feels responsible for their happiness. The old clan healer Swena the Upright recognized her instinctive compassion and took her as an apprentice. Some of the other women balked at this, because Ustarna was new to the clan. Swena rapped her staff on the Loom House floor and shouted, “I will choose my apprentice, and I choose Ustarna.” No one regrets the old woman’s wisdom now.
Swena taught her never to be soft, believing in tough love. Ustarna is always caring even when she is scolding or nagging the patients in her care. Few seem to doubt that she has their best interests at heart.