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The Lady Rhayne Frostbloom is a Half-Elf of considerable artistic talent. She is famous among Half-Elves and Humans for her yeti figurines. She trades with the Dwarves to get stone for her sculptures, but that is the extent of her contact with them. When she is in Waste's Edge, she spends most of her either in trade for raw materials, or gazing at sources of inspiration. As a result, she usually knows nothing about her fellow guests. She prefers it that way, considering most of her fellow travelers too dull-minded to be worth her while. She is much more often found in [[Places:Arynsval]].

Frostbloom does not say much and so her past remains a mystery to most of Waste's Edge. She was a student of the [[Characters:Factions:Keepers of the Yeti Spirit|Order of the Keepers]] and remains a yeti worshipper. Her visits to the Keeper's Monastery are infrequent, but she is well-liked there for the quality of her art. While she does not seem to have gained any unusual abilities from her veneration of the Yetis, this is not the case. She has some skill in ranged combat and in singing the songs of the birds.

Frostbloom is honest to the point of rudeness and requires the same from those who try to talk to her. Brutal honesty about her work, even honest dis-interest in it, will loosen her tongue. Flattery of her person or work will not, since she assumes that most people don't have the yeti's spirit, or the ability to appreciate her work.

Rhayne Frostbloom was born near the ruins of [[Places:Towers of Guard#Dun Velain|Dun Velain]], at the foot of the mountains out of which the Foroduin flows. Her father is a Half-Elvish noble of considerable stature. Her talent for sculpture was noted early in her life and she was sent south to Elgilad so that she could study among the Elves. However, she met with prejudice and never rose far in Elvish circles.

One day, she met Tham while he was still an itinerant Loremaster for the [[Places:Abbey of Shining Mist|Abbey of Shining Mist]]. He noted that she showed great artistic talent. Shocked and gratified that someone - particularly a Human of almost Half-Elvish spirit - had noticed her, she quickly seized upon the idea of studying both sculpture and Yetis with the Monks. She left her life in the city and made her way to the Monastery. She learned everything she could, then returned to the wider world to seek, and sometimes sell, inspiration.