🐢 GRANDMOTHER TURTLE
Role: Ancient Record Keeper
Gender: Female
Species: Leviathanic Sea Turtle (possibly immortal)
Elemental Affinity: Earth and Water
Location: The Root Grotto (beneath the oldest coral tree in Rubia’s shire)
🌿 Short Bio:
Grandmother Turtle is the living memory of Rubia’s shire. Her great mossy shell holds gardens of glowing herbs, crystalline mosses, and tiny stone tablets etched by time. She has lived so long that even the Oracle defers to her. She remembers Rubia’s first incarnation and whispered to the ocean winds when she returned to this life.
Though she moves slowly, her thoughts are vast and intricate. Many visit her to receive wisdom, healing, or be near her presence. Her eyes are ageless pools—kind, deep, and utterly unshakable.
💫 Abilities & Traits:
- Memory Gardens: Her shell carries sacred herbs and energy plants, some of which only grow in her presence.
- Soul Recognition: She can see the soul lineage of anyone visiting her.
- Shell Glyphs: When she dreams, runes form on her shell. Scribes or the Librarian later reads these.
- Timekeeper: Her heartbeat is said to resonate with Gaia herself.
🐚 Relationship to Rubia:
- Rubia visited her often as a child, curling up beside her mossy shell.
- She told Rubia the ancient lullabies of the Lemurien seas.
- She holds a secret about Rubia’s destiny that she has yet to reveal.
