Varisia

Risa Magravi is a frail yet dignified elderly Varisian woman, her once-youthful features softened by deep wrinkles and laugh lines. Her cloudy gray eyes, a sign of her blindness, still seem to hold an air of wisdom, as if she sees beyond the physical world. Her long, silvery hair is braided and adorned with small, colorful beads, reflecting her Varisian heritage. She wears simple but elegant robes in deep purples and blues, embroidered with subtle mystical patterns that hint at her past as a sorceress. Despite her blindness, she moves with quiet grace, often guided by memory rather than sight. Her soft, knowing smile and gentle but confident demeanor make her a beloved figure at Risa’s Place, where she still sits near the hearth, weaving stories of old for those who gather to listen.

Risa Magravi is wise, warm, and enigmatic, possessing a deep connection to Varisian traditions and folklore. She has a gentle but commanding presence, and though her blindness has slowed her physically, it has only sharpened her insight and intuition. She is kind and motherly to the regulars of Risa’s Place, always ready with a comforting word or a well-told tale, but she is also shrewd—she can sense truth and deception in a person’s voice, making it difficult to fool her. Though she is no longer an active sorceress, she still speaks in cryptic wisdom at times, as if seeing glimpses of fate others cannot. While she welcomes locals into her tavern with open arms, she distrusts outsiders, preferring the familiar company of those who respect Sandpoint’s way of life. Despite her soft-spoken nature, her words carry weight, and those who listen to her stories and warnings often find hidden truths within them.

operated her tavern for the first 30 years of Sandpoint’s history, and even now that she’s gone mostly blind in her old age and has left the day-to-day affairs of the job to her three children BESK, LANALEE, and VODGER, the mysterious Varisian sorcerer remains a fixture of the tavern. Known as much for Risa’s tales of ancient legends and myths as for its spiced potatoes and cider, this tavern is a favorite of the locals if only because its out-of-the-way location ensures strangers rarely come by.