Alba Tille

Alba never wanted to go into medicine. In fact, she was far more at home on the battlefield than tending to the wounded afterwards. At a young age she showed great promise with a bow, and when she was given her first crossbow at the age of 13, it was the perfect weapon for her. However her family curse caught up with her when she was 16, and she woke one morning with black hands.

Instantly her life was changed. Her friends that she had known all her life avoided both her and her trainer. Later, Varish Krimoch even dropped her training. The only people she could turn to were her family. Though she still worked with the crossbow, she had to resort to training in private. Her wealthy father added a range in the backyard of their home so that she could still practice with the weapon she loved, and gifted her with a pet Falcon, Strider, to help her cope with the separation. By living with her parents more, she ended up learning quite a bit about the medicine she had tried to avoid most of her life. Though she spent many years with them, she still didn't learn enough to be able to be considered an expert, though she saw some rather horrible wounds and watched many die under their roof.



Alba has long, curly blonde hair, stands around 5'5" tall, and wears a red cloak. The red cloak is a customary garb for medical men and women in Rafia. For the Tilles though it can sometimes be a hindrance, drawing attention to their family and the curse as well. As the curse gets worse, the blackness spreads, and is believed to eventually lead to death. Few of the Tille family haved lived long enough to be able to test this theory though since the mortality rate increases greatly as the blackness spreads across the body. Usually when it reaches the face, if the familly member doesn't go into hiding and obscurity, he or she is hunted down by those who blame the Tilles for family deaths.

Grew up and raised in Rafia.